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TH  E-  H I  STORY-  OF-THE 
CENTENNIAL- CELEBRATION 
OF-THE-  INAUGURATION-OF 

GEORGE^WASH  INGTON 

AS-FIRST-  PRE  SI  DENT- OF 
THE- UN  I  TED -STATES 


EDITED-  BY 


CLARENCE-WINTHROP-BOWEN,-  PH.  D. 
SECRETARY-  OFTHE- COMMITTEE 


NEW-Y ORK 
D.  APPLETON-  AND  -  COMPANY 


M  DCCCXCII 


Copyright,  1S92 
By  CORNELIUS  N.  BLISS  and  ABRAM  S.  HEWITT 
Publication  Committee 


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PREFACE. 


The  Memorial  Volume  of  the  Centennial  Celebration  of  the  Inauguration  of  George 
Washington,  as  the  First  President  of  the  United  States,  is  published  by  a  committee  of 
citizens  of  the  city  of  New  York,  whose  active  work  began  on  November  10,  1887.  A 
little  more  than  two  years  ago,  at  the  request  of  the  Plan  and  Scope  Committee,  His 
Honor  Mayor  Hugh  J.  Grant  appointed  a  Publication  Committee,  consisting  of  Cornelius 
N.  Bliss  and  Abram  S.  Hewitt,  under  whose  direction  the  Secretary  of  the  Committee  has 
prepared  a  Memorial  of  the  Celebration.  The  edition  is  limited  to  one  thousand  copies,  of 
which  one  will  be  presented  to  the  United  States,  to  every  State  and  Territory  of  the  United 
States,  to  the  City  of  New  York,  and  to  England,  France,  Spain,  Holland,  and  Sweden,  whose 
diplomatic  agents  were  present  at  Washington's  Inauguration  and  forwarded  accounts  of  the 
event  to  their  respective  home  governments.  To  the  New  York  Historical  Society  have 
been  given  copies  of  unpublished  dispatches  pertaining  to  Washington's  Inauguration  in  the 
state  archives  of  England,  France,  Spain,  Holland,  and  Sweden.  Translations  of  a  portion 
of  these  dispatches  appear  in  Chapter  I.  A  large  part  of  the  cost  of  the  volume  has  been 
spent  in  the  art-work,  and  in  obtaining  negatives  from  portraits  in  this  country  and  in 
Europe.  The  patriotic  zeal  and  indefatigable  work  of  Edward  Bierstadt,  in  reproducing 
the  portraits,  will  always  be  remembered  ;  and  no  less  grateful  will  the  committee  be  to 
William  Kelby,  Assistant  Librarian,  and  his  brother  Robert  H.  Kelby,  of  the  New  York 
Historical  Society.  Hardly  a  day  has  gone  by  during  the  past  four  years  when  these  gen- 
tlemen have  not  rendered  some  special  help  to  the  committee.  As  an  illustration  of  Rob- 
ert H.  Kelby's  valuable  assistance,  attention  is  called  to  the  index  prepared  by  him.  To 
Charles  Henry  Hart,  of  the  Art  Committee,  an  acknowledged  authority  on  historical  por- 
traits, the  Publication  Committee  is  also  indebted.  Much  of  his  time  during  the  past 
two  years  has  been  spent  in  giving  such  information  about  portraits  as  it  was  impossible 
to  obtain  elsewhere.  The  sincere  thanks  and  heartiest  appreciation  of  the  committee,  for 
invaluable  help  rendered  in  the  search  for  portraits  or  in  the  correction  of  proofs,  are  due 
to  Samuel  A.  Green,  Librarian  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society  ;  Frederick  D. 
Stone,  Librarian  of  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania;  Mendes  Cohen,  Corresponding 
Secretary  of  the  Maryland  Historical  Society  ;  William  Wirt  Henry,  President,  and  Robert 


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\.  Brock,  Librarian  of  the  Virginia  Historical  Society;  Justin  Winsor,  Librarian  of  Har- 
vard University;  General  Charles  G.  Loring,  Curator  of  the  Museum  of  Fine  Arts,  Bos- 
ton; Arthur  Mason  Knapp,  of  the  Boston  Public  Library;  Edmund  Mills  Barton,  Li- 
brarian of  the  American  Antiquarian  Society  ;  George  H.  Moore,  Librarian  of  the  Lenox 
Library;  Amos  Perry,  Librarian  of  the  Rhode  Island  Historical  Society;  Frank  B.  Gay, 
Librarian  of  the  Connecticut  Historical  Society;  Charles  J.  Hoadly,  Librarian  of  the 
State  Library  of  Connecticut;  and  to  State  Librarians,  Librarians  of  Historical  Societies, 
and  gentlemen  connected  with  scores  of  other  public  institutions  throughout  the  United 
States.  To  the  United  States  Ministers  at  the  courts  of  England,  France,  Spain,  Holland, 
and  Sweden;  to  Henry  Vignaud,  of  the  United  States  Legation  at  Paris;  and  to  B.  F. 
Stevens,  of  London,  the  thanks  of  the  committee  are  likewise  due.  The  list  is  a  long  one 
of  gentlemen  in  this  country  whose  services  in  connection  with  the  publication  of  the 
Memorial  Volume  can  not  be  forgotten — John  Jay,  John  Bigelow,  Richard  Watson  Gilder, 
Alexander  W.  Drake,  Dr.  Thomas  Addis  Emmet,  Moncure  D.  Conway,  Major-General  George 
W.  Cullum,  and  William  Hayes  Ward,  of  New  York  ;  Robert  C.  Winthrop,  Thomas  Jefferson 
Coolidge,  Judge  Mellen  Chamberlain,  and  Samuel  H.  Russell,  of  Boston;  William  J.  Campbell 
and  Charles  R.  Hildeburn,  of  Philadelphia;  General  William  S.  Stryker,  Adjutant-General  of 
New  Jersey  ;  Charles  C.  Jones,  Jr.,  of  Augusta,  Georgia;  G.  E.  Manigault,  M.  D.,  and  Will- 
iam A.  Courtenay,  of  Charleston,  South  Carolina;  General  John  Meredith  Read,  of  Paris;  also 
the  owners  of  portraits  reproduced  in  this  volume  ;  and  many  others  whose  names  are  found 
in  the  text  or  in  the  foot-notes  where  credit  is  given  for  information  received.  There  are 
others,  however,  whose  names  do  not  appear  in  the  book,  but  whose  advice  has  been 
sought  and  whose  suggestions  have  been  followed,  and  to  them  as  well,  are  expressed  the 
thanks  of  the  committee.  Besides  the  very  acceptable  aid  rendered  the  Memorial  Arch 
Committee  by  Stanford  White,  the  architect,  special  thanks  are  due  to  him  for  the  design 
of  the  title-page.  The  woodcuts  in  the  first  chapter  accompanied  an  article  by  the  editor 
on  Washington's  Inauguration,  which  appeared  in  the  "Century  Magazine"  for  April,  1889, 
and  for  the  use  of  these  cuts  in  this  volume  the  Publication  Committee  thanks  the  con- 
ductors of  the  "Century  Magazine."  The  house  of  D.  Appleton  &  Co.  has  published  the 
Memorial  Volume  at  cost,  and  all  associated  with  the  firm  or  employed  by  it  have  taken 
special  pains  during  the  past  two  years  to  give  as  perfect  work  as  possible.  Paul 
Leicester  Ford's  assistance  has  been  continuous  for  several  years.  Nearly  a  year  was 
spent  by  him  in  preparing  the  second  chapter,  so  difficult  was  it  to  obtain  the  dates  of 
the  births  and  deaths  of  all  the  members  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution. 
A  special  debt  of  gratitude  is  due  Mr.  Ford.  The  services  of  his  father,  the  late  Gordon 
L.  Ford,  a  member  of  the  Art  Committee,  and  interested  in  the  celebration  from  its 
inception,  will  be  remembered  by  his  associates.  His  library,  always  open,  has  been  of 
greal  value  during  the  preparation  of  this  volume.  To  Hamilton  Fish,  to  Elbridge  T. 
Gerry,  to  the  Publication  Committee,  Cornelius  N.  Bliss  and  Abram  S.  Hewitt,  to  the 


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four  associates  of  Mr.  Bliss  and  Mr.  Hewitt  on  the  Plan  and  Scope  Committee — Samuel 
D.  Babcock,  Hugh  J.  Grant,  Frederick  S.  Tallmadge,  and  James  M.  Yamum — to  the 
members  of  the  committee  who  have  written  the  different  chapters  contained  in  this 
Memorial  Volume,  to  the  members  of  the  sub-committees  and  General  Committee,  and  to 
the  Platform,  Aisle,  and  Reception  Committees,  the  editor  desires  to  express  his  heart-felt 
thanks  for  the  substantial  aid  he  has  received  from  them  in  the  preparation  of  this  book. 
The  enthusiasm  and  patriotism  with  which  he  has  always  been  supported  have  made  the 
duties  of  secretary  and  editor  a  labor  of  love  and  a  remembrance  of  delight. 

C.  W.  B. 

Brooklyn,  New  York,  January  2it  1S92. 


CONTENTS. 


CHAPTER  PAGE 

[.  The  Inauguration  of  George  Washington  as  President  of  the  United  States,  i 
By  the  Editor. 

II.  Biographical  Sketches  of  the  Members  of  the  First  Congress  under  the 

Constitution  61 

By  Paul  Leicester  Ford. 

III.  The  Semi-Centennial  of  Washington's  Inauguration  95 

By  the  Editor. 


IV.  The  Preliminary  Work  of  the  Centennial  Celebration  of  the  Inauguration 

of  Washington  100 

By  the  Editor. 

V.  The  Loan  Exhibition  of  Historical  Portraits  and  Relics  131 

By  William  A.  Coffin,  Manager  of  the  Committee  on  Art  and  Exhibition. 

VI.  The  Cincinnati  in  the  Celebration  148 

By  Asa  Bird  Gardiner,  Secretary-General  of  the  Society  of  the  Cincin- 
nati. 

VII.  Preliminary  Work  in  Washington  and  the  Departure  of  the  Presidential 

Party  for  New  York  178 

By  John  A.  King,  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  General  Government. 

VIII.  The  Journey  of  the  Presidential  Party  from  Washington  to  New  York  and 

Return,  and  the  Work  of  the  Transportation  Committee    .      .      .  .184 

By  Orlando  B.  Potter,  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Railroads  and  Trans- 
portation. 

IX.  The  Naval  Parade  and  the  Landing  of  the  President  at  the  Foot  of  Wall 

Street  189 

By  Asa  Bird  Gardiner,  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Navy. 

X.  The  March  up  Wall  Street,  the  Entertainment  at  the  Lawyers'  Club,  and 

the  Public  Reception  at  the  City  Hall  206 

By  William  Gaston  Hamilton,  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  States. 

XL  The  Centennial  Ball  256 

By  William  Jay,  Vice-Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Entertainment. 


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CHAPTER  PAGE 

XII.  The  Services  at  St.  Paul's  Chapel    .  ....  269 

By  the  Editor. 

XI II.  Tin:  Literary  Exercises  at  the  Sub-Treasury  285 

By  the  Editor. 

XIV.  The  Military  Parade  310 

By  S.  Van  Rensselaer  Cruger,  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Akmy. 

XV.  The  Madison  Square  Concert  350 

By  Louis  Windmuller,  Chairman  of  the  Committee  of  Arrangements  of  the 
German-American  Citizens. 

XVI.  The  Fireworks  352 

By  S.  Van  Rensselaer  Cruger,  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Army. 

XVII.  The  Banquet  at  the  Metropolitan  Opera-House  354 

By  the  Editor. 

XVIII.  The  Civic  and  Industrial  Parade  383 

By  S.  Van  Rensselaer  Cruger,  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Army. 

XIX.  The  Finances  of  the  Celebration  398 

By  Brayton  Ives,  Chairman  of  the  Finance  Committee. 

XX.  The  Celebration  throughout  the  United  States  402 

By  the  Editor. 

XXI.  The  Washington  Memorial  Arch  407 

By  Richard  Watson  Gilder,  Secretary  of  the  Committee  on  Art  and  Exhi- 
bition, and  Secretary  of  the  Memorial  Arch  Committee. 

XXII.  Notes  on  Portraits  417 

By  the  Editor. 

INDEX  551 


ILLUSTRATIONS. 


PACK 


Delaware,  Pennsylvania,  New  Jersey,  Georgia,  Connecti- 
cut, Massachusetts,  Maryland,  South  Carolina,  New 
Hampshire,  Virginia,  and  New  York,  represented  as 
Federal  Pillars    ........  2 

Old  City  Hall,  New  York  13,  15 

Federal  Hall,  New  York    ....  13,14,233,396 

Custom-House,  1831,  New  York  15 

Desk  and  writing-table  used  by  Washington,  in  Federal 

Hall  16 

Fac-simile  of  Washington's  letter  of  acceptance  of  the 

Office  of  President  of  the  United  States  .  .  .20 
Preparations  for  Washington's  reception  at  Gray's  Ferry  .  23 
Fac-simile  of  Washington's  letter  to  Congress,  advising 

them  of  the  time  of  his  arrival  at  New  York      .       .  25 
Reception  of  Washington,  at  Trenton,  New  Jersey,  1789.  26 
Fac-simile  of  Washington's  letter  to  the  ladies  of  Tren- 
ton, New  Jersey  27 

Residence  of  Governor  George  Clinton,  New  York  .  .  29 
Residence  of  President  Washington,  New  York  34,  36,  237 
Fac-simile  of   receipt  of  Samuel  Osgood  for    rent  of 

house  occupied  by  Washington,  New  York,  I789~'90  .  35 
The  Macomb  House,  New  York,  residence  of  Washing- 
ton, 1790  36 

Fraunces's  Tavern,  New  York,  1854,  1889  .  .  .41 
Chair  used  by  Washington  at  his  Inauguration,  April  30, 

1789  44 

The  Bible  upon  which  Washington  took  the  oath  as  Presi- 
dent  45 

Fac-simile  of  plan  of  the  city  of  New  York,  1789  .  .  48 
Fac-simile  of  pages  of  the  Bible  upon  which  Washington 

took  the  oath  of  office  53 

Fac-simile  return  of  Colonel  Bauman,  April-October,  1789, 

showing  amount  of  powder  used  April  30,  1789  .      .  55 

St.  Paul's  Chapel,  New  York  56 

Washington  pew,  St.  Paul's  Chapel,  1889.       .       .  -57 
Family  Bible  of  Martha  Washington       .       .       .  .67 

Gold  watch  of  Baron  Steuben    ......  69 

Gold  snuff-box  presented  to  Baron  Steuben  by  the  city  of 

New  York  .       .      •.  71 

Gold  snuff-box  with  miniature  of  Mrs.  Ralph  Izard  .       .  73 
Washington's  snuff-box     .       .       .       .       .       .  -75 

Writing-desk  belonging  to  Alexander  Hamilton  .  77,  79 
The  pencil-case  and  gold  pen  used  by  Washington  during 

the  Revolution  85 

Fac  simile  title-page  of  the  acts  passed  by  the  first  session 
of  Congress,  1789,  presented  to  Washington  by  Con- 
gress *  91 


PAGE 


Washington's  book-plate  .......  91 

Gold  watch  worn  by  John  Jay  ......  97 

Gold  snuff-box  presented  to  John  Jay  by  the  city  of  New 

York  98 

Fac-simile  of  testimonial  of  thanks  to  Benjamin  Harrison, 

President  of  the  United  States  1 1 1 

Fac-simile  of  invitation  to  the  Centennial  of  Washington's 

Inauguration  116 

Fac-simile  of  general  invitation  to  the  celebration     .  119 
Medals  worn  by  the  guests  and  members  of  commit- 
tees .       .       .       .       .       .       .       .       .  .121 

Picture  gallery,  Loan  Exhibition        Facing  129,  131,  133,  134 
Morocco  pocket  case  containing  scale,  dividers,  and  lead- 
pencil  used  by  Washington  before  the  Revolution     .  133 
Fac-simile  of  complimentary  season  ticket  to  Art  Exhibi- 
tion, 1889  134 

Decorative  designs  by  Edward  H.  Blashfield  and  Will  H. 

Low  Facing  136,  138 

Knee-buckles  worn  by  Washington  138 

Obverse  of  centennial  medal      .       .       .       .       .  .140 

Reverse  of  centennial  medal      ......  141 

Fac-simile  of  invitation  to  the  opening  of  the  Art  Exhibi- 
tion    .   .  .142 

Relics,  Loan  Exhibition     .       .       Facing  142,  144,  146,  149 
Bible  of  Mary  Ball  Washington,  showing  date  of  Wash- 
ington's birth   .  146 

Sword  carried  by  John  Jay  in  the  "  Doctor's  Mob,"  New 

York,  1788  152 

Gold  ring  with  hair  of  Washington  .  .  .  .  -155 
Dress  sword  worn  by  Governor  Benjamin  Pierce,  of  New 

Hampshire  1 58 

Gold  ring  with  miniature  of  Washington  .  .  .  .160 
Saber  used  by  General  Jacob  Morton        ....  162 

Field-glass  used  by  Washington  164 

Washington  breastpin       .  166 

Gold- headed  cane  belonging  to  John  Jay  .       .       .  .168 

Gold  snuff-box  belonging  to  Martha  Washington      .  .170 
Camp  trunk  of  Washington      .       .       .       .       .  .182 

The  President  and  Vice-President  of  the  United  States 

embarking  at  Elizabethport,  N.  J.      .       .      Facing  184 
Bible  of  Thomas  Jefferson        .       .       .       .       .  .186 

The  barge  containing  the  President  and  Vice-President  of 

the  United  States  Facing  186 

The  United  States  steamer  Despatch  under  way  with  the 

presidential  party       ....       Facing  186,  189 
A  group   on   board    the    United  States   steamer  De- 
spatch  Facing  190 


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The  Navy  Committee  on  board  the  United  States  steamer  The  people  in  Broad  Street,  New  York,  April  30,  1889     .  294 

Despatch  Facing  190  Rev.  Richard  S.  Storrs,  D.  D.,  reading  the  prayer  at  the 

Fac-simile  of  tickets  for  naval  parade        .       .   190,191,208  Sub-Treasury  Building,  April  30,  1889       .       .  .297 
Line  of  formation  and  route  of  naval  parade     .       .       .192  Chauncey  M.  Depevv  delivering  the  oration  at  the  Sub- 
United  States  steamers  Chicago  and  Essex       .      Facing  193  Treasury  Building,  April  30,  1889      ....  300 
The  President  and  Vice-President  of  the  United  States  Benjamin  Harrison,  President  of  the  United  States,  deliv- 

boarding  the  Despatc  h  193  ering  address  at  Sub-Treasury  Building,  April  30, 

United  States  cruiser  Boston  and  man-of-war  Brook-  1889  307 

lyn  Facing  195     Sword  worn  by  Morgan  Lewis  310 

President  Harrison  and  Admiral  Porter  on  board  the  De-  Tomb  of  Alexander  Hamilton,  Trinity  Churchyard,  April 

spatch  159  30,  1889  312 

United  States  training-ship  Jamestown     ....  196  Carriage  containing  Rutherford  B.  Hayes  and  Grover 

United    States  steamer   Kearsargt   and    cruiser  York-  Cleveland  313 

town   Facing  196  Arch  near  the  grand  stand,  military  parade      .       .       .  314 

United  States  steamer  Brooklyn  197     Fac-simile  of  ticket  to  grand  stand  315 

United  States  steamer  Juniata  198  President  Harrison  reviewing  the  military  parade      .       .  316 

The  President  and  Vice-President  of  the  United  States  Major-General  John  M.  Schofield,  grand-marshal  military 

leaving  the  Despatch  Facing  199  parade  317 

United  States  steamer  Yantic  199  Cadets  of  the  United  States  Military  Academy  .       .  318,  319 

Steam  tugs  saluting  the  presidential  party        .       .       .  200  The  presidential  party  passing  Union  Square    .      Facing  320 

The  President  and  Vice-President  of  the  United  States  United  States  artillery  passing  the  grand  stand  .      Facing  320 

being  rowed  to  foot  of  Wall  Street     .       .      Facing  200  United  States  naval  brigade      ......  322 

United  States  steamer  Despatch  201  Benjamin  T.  Biggs,  Governor  of  Delaware,  and  Brigadier- 

Ship-masters  from  the  Marine  Society  of  New  York  .       .  203  General  R.  Kenny,  Adjutant-General  of  Delaware     .  323 

The  landing  of  the  President  and  Vice-President  of  the  James  A.  Beaver,  Governor  of  Pennsylvania,  and  Briga- 

United  States  at  foot  of  Wall  Street   .       .      Facing  204  dier-General  D.  H.  Hastings,  Adjutant-General  of 

Medal  worn  by  the  Governors  of  States  and  Territories    .  207  Pennsylvania      ........  324 

Fac-simile  of  ticket  to  reception  at  the  Lawyers'  Club,  Robert  S  .  Green,  Governor  of  New  Jersey,  and  Major- 
New  York  209  General  William  S.  Stryker,  Adjutant-General  of  New 

Carriages  containing  the  President  of  the  United  States,  Jersey ..........  327 

Governor  of  New  York,  Mayor  of  the  City  of  New  John  B.  Gordon,  Governor  of  Georgia       ....  328 

York,  President  of  the  Centennial  Committee  and  Plan  Morgan  G.  Bulkeley,  Governor  of  Connecticut,  with  Briga- 

and  Scope  Committee  210,  211  dier-General  Lucius  A.  Barbour,  Adjutant-General  of 

President  Harrison  passing  under  the  arch  in  Wall  Street  .  214  Connecticut,  and  staff  .       ......  328 

The  crowd  in  Wall  Street  .       .       .       .       .       .       .215  Oliver  Ames,  Governor  of  Massachusetts.       .       .       .  329 

Flag  of  the  President  of  the  United  States       .       .       .218  The  Ancient  and  Honorable  Artillery  Company  of  Boston  .  330 

Alexander  S.  Williams,  Inspector  of  Police       .       .       .  220  Edward  W.  Le  Compte,  Secretary  of  State  of  Maryland, 

Equitable  Building,  New  York  .....  222,  237  and  Major-General  James  Howard,  Adjutant-General 

Seal  of  the  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution      .       .  224  of  Maryland  .      .   33 1 

Fac-simile  of  the  invitation  to  the  reception  at  Lawyers'  John  P.  Richardson,  Governor  of  South  Carolina,  and 

Club,  New  York  .       .       .     228.  229,  232,  233,  236,  237  Brigadier-General  M.  S.  Bonham,  Jr.,  Adjutant-Gen- 

Yignette  of  Stuart's  portrait  of  Washington     .       .       .  228  eral  of  South  Carolina        ......  332 

Washington  being  rowed  from  New  Jersey  to  New  York  .  229  Charles  H.  Sawyer,  Governor  of  New  Hampshire,  and 

Vignette  of  Bishop  Provoost      ......  232  Major-General  A.  D.  Ayling,  Adjutant-General  of 

St.  Paul's  Chapel,  New  York,  1789    .....  232  New  Hampshire.       .......  333 

Vignette  of  Chancellor  Livingston  232  Fitz-Hugh  Lee,  Governor  of  Virginia,  and  Brigadier-Gen- 

The  banquet  at  the  Lawyers'  Club,   Equitable  Build-  eral  Charles  J.  Anderson   334 

ing  Facing  234  David  B.  Hill,  Governor  of  New  York,  and  Major-General 

Vignette  of  Mayor  James  Duane,  Governor  George  Clin-  Josiah  Porter,  Adjutant-General  of  New  York    .       .  335 

ton,  President  Harrison,  Governor  David  B.  Hill,  and  Brigadier-General  Louis  Fitzgerald  and  staff,  First  Bri- 

Mayor  Hugh  J.  Grant  236  gade,  New  York  State  troops  336 

Medal  of  the  Seventh  Regiment  Veterans  ....  253     Seventh  Regiment,  New  York  338 

City  Hall,  New  York,  1889  254  Daniel  G.  Fowle,  Governor  of  North  Carolina  .       .  -339 

William  Murray,  Superintendent  of  Police,  New  York  .  255  Royal  C.  Taft,  Governor  of  Rhode  Island,  and  Brigadier- 
Thomas  Byrnes,  Chief  Inspector  of  Police,  New  York      .  255  General  Elisha  Dyer,  Jr.,  Adjutant-General  of  Rhode 

Fan,  with  portrait  of  Washington  256  Island  340 

Fac-simile  of  ticket  to  centennial  ball       ....  260  Fac-simile  of  diagram  showing  location  of  tables  at  the 

Fac-simile  of  press  ticket  to  centennial  ball      .       .       .  264  banquet,  Metropolitan  Opera-House  ....  357 

Fac-simile  of  ticket  to  the  services  at  St.  Paul's  Chapel     .  270     Fac  simile  of  ticket  to  the  banquet  364 

Diagram  of  main  floor,  St.  Paul's  Chapel  ....  272  President  Harrison  viewing  the  civic  and  industrial  parade  384 

President  Harrison  leaving  St.  Paul's  Chapel     .       .       .278  Mayor  Hugh  J.  Grant  delivering  to  President  Harrison  an 

Memorial  tablet  in  St.  Paul's  Chapel  282  address  in  behalf  of  the  civic  and  industrial  organiza- 

Fac-simile  of  ticket  to  literary  exercises     ....  286  tions  of  New  York  385 

Fac-simile  of  invitation  to  literary  exercises      .       .       .  288  Major-General   Daniel  Butterfield,  chief   marshal,  civic 

Sub-Treasury  Building,  New  York,  April  30,  1889    .       .  290  parade  386 


ILL  USTRA  TIONS. 


xiii 


PAGE 

Staff  and  aides  of  Major- General  Daniel  Butterfield  .       .  387 
Students  of  Columbia  College,  New  York  ....  388 

The  old  volunteer  firemen  of  New  York    .       .       .       :  389 
Tammany  Society  of  New  York       .....  390 

The  ship-joiners'  two  floats       ......  391 

The  Swiss  contingent  passing  the  grand  stand,  civic  pa- 
rade  Facing  392 

Students  of  the  College  of  the  City  of  New  York  Facing  392 
The  exhibit  of  the  New  York  World  394 


PACK 

Washington's  farewell  to  his  officers  . 

•  396 

Fac-simile  of  ticket  to  grand  stand,  civic  parade 

•  397 

The  Washington  Memorial  Arch 

407,  410,  415 

Laying  of  the  corner-stone  of  the  Washington 

Memorial 

Arch,  with  portraits    .       .       .       .  . 

■  413 

Fac-simile  of  signature  of  Isaac  Coles 

•  440 

Fac-simile  of  signature  of  George  Mathews 

.  508 

Fac-simile  of  signature  of  Thomas  Sinnickson  . 

•  527 

Fac-simile  of  signature  of  Joseph  Stanton,  Jr.  . 

■  529 

HISTORICAL  PORTRAITS. 

[The  numbers  after  the  artists'  names  refer  to  the  pages  opposite  the  portraits.) 


Adams,  John  :  BIyth,  18;  Copley,  17;  Doyle,  18;  Morse,  17; 
C.  W.  Peale,  18;  Sharpless,  17;  Stuart,  17,  150;  Trum- 
bull, 17  ;  West,  31  ;  Winstanley,  18. 

Adams,  Mrs.  John:  Blyth,  18;  Stuart,  260. 

Ames,  Fisher:  Sharpless,  89;  Stuart,  65,  89;  Trumbull,  89. 

Ashe,  John  Baptista  :  Unknown,  125. 

Ashe,  Mrs.  John  Baptista:  Unknown,  258. 

Baldwin,  Abraham  :  Leutze,  76. 

Bassett,  Richard  :  St.  Memin,  67. 

Beekman,  Mrs.  James  :  Kilbrun,  59. 

Benson,  Egbert:  Stuart,  65.  123;  Trumbull,  65,  123. 

Bleecker,  Leonard:  Pine,  41  ;  Unknown,  41. 

Boudinot,  Elias  :  C.  W.  Peale,  63,  72  ;  St.  Memin,  72 ;  Sully, 
72  ;  Unknown,  63  ;  Waldo  and  Jewett,  65. 

Boudinot,  Mrs.  Elias  :  C.  W.  Peale,  260 ;  Unknown,  262. 

Bourne,  Benjamin:  Unknown,  126. 

Brown,  John  :  Jouett,  St.  Memin,  Sharpless,  Trumbull,  Un- 
known, 1 19. 

Burke,  vEdanus:  Unknown,  100. 

Butler,  Pierce:  Unknown,  100. 

Cadwalader,  Lambert:  C.  W.  Peale,  Stuart,  72. 

Carroll,  Charles  :  Field,  97  ;  Harding,  97  ;  Hubard,  97  ; 
King,  97  ;  C.  W.  Peale,  97  ;  Rembrandt  Peale,  63  ;  Pine, 
99;  Reynolds,  97  ;  St.  Memin,  97  ;  Sully,  97,  99;  Trum- 
bull, 97. 

Carroll,  Mrs.  Charles  :  Pine,  99. 
Carroll,  Daniel  :  Unknown,  437. 
Chew,  Harriet  :  Trumbull,  264. 
Chew,  Sophia  :  Trumbull,  264. 
Chrystie,  James  :  Raeburn,  42. 
Clarkson,  Matthew:  Stuart,  160. 

Clinton,  George  :  Ames,  34;  Ramage,  155  ;  St.  Memin,  34; 

Trumbull,  7;  Unknown,  155;  Wright,  34. 
Clinton,  Mrs.  George:  St.  Memin,  34. 
Clymer,  George:  C.  W.  Peale,  Trumbull,  71. 
Coles,  Isaac  :  James  Peale,  Ramage,  1 1 1 . 
Coles,  Mrs.  Isaac  :  Ramage,  59. 
Contee,  Benjamin  :  Unknown,  99. 

Custis,  Eleanor  Parke:  Sharpless,  256;  Stuart,  256; 

Trumbull,  264. 
Custis,  Martha  :  Woolaston,  262. 
Dalton,  Tristram  :  Blackburn,  Trumbull,  89. 
Dickinson,  Philemon  :  Trumbull,  72. 
Duane,  James  :  Copley,  C.  W.  Peale,  Unknown,  36. 
Duane,  Mrs.  James  :  C.  W.  Peale,  Unknown,  262. 
Duer,  Kitty:  Unknown,  57. 


Duer,  William  :  Unknown,  57. 

Edwards,  Pierrepont  :  Jarvis,  160. 

Ellsworth,  Oliver:  Earle,  Trumbull,  78. 

Ellsworth,  Mrs.  Oliver:  Earle,  78. 

Few,  William  :  Brandt,  Ramage,  76. 

Few,  Mrs.  William  :  Ramage,  59. 

Fish,  Nicholas:  Inman,  Malbone,  Trumbull,  41. 

Floyd,  William:  Earle,  Trumbull,  123. 

Foster,  Abiel  :  Trumbull,  105. 

Foster,  Theodore:  Unknown,  126. 

Franklin,  Benjamin:  Baricolo,  524;  Carmontelle,  484, 
Chamberlain,  444;  Champlain,  444;  Cochin,  484,  544; 
Duplessis,  424,  444,  464,  524  ;  Elmer,  464 ;  Fragonard, 
484 ;  Fulton,  444  ;  Gainsborough,  464 ;  Greuze,  444. 
464;  Janinet,  524;  Leslie,  464  ;  McArdell,  484  ;  Martin, 
424,  444 ;  C.  W.  Peale,  424,  444 ;  Pratt,  484  ;  Thouron, 
484,  544 ;  Trumbull,  424 ;  Unknown,  444,  464,  484, 
524,  544;  West,  31,  484. 

Franklin,  William  Temple:  West,  31. 

Gale,  George  :  Unknown,  99. 

Gardoqui,  Don  Diego  :  Lucientes,  46. 

Gerry,  Elbridge  :  Ramage,  Trumbull,  Vanderlyn,  92. 

Gerry,  Mrs.  Elbridge:  Ramage,  Unknown,  59. 

Giles,  William  B. :  Harding,  Stuart,  Unknown,  112. 

Gilman,  Nicholas  :  Unknown,  105. 

Goodhue,  Benjamin:  Wright,  91. 

Griffin,  Cyrus:  L.  Sully,  156. 

Griffin,  Samuel:  Stuart,  Unknown,  in. 

Grout,  Jonathan  :  Unknown,  91. 

Hamilton,  Alexander:  Fairman,  25;  James  Peale,  25; 

C.  W.  Peale,  26;  Sharpless,  26,  168;  Trumbull,  5.  25, 

26 ;  Unknown.  25. 
Hamilton,  Mrs.  Alexander:  Earle,  Inman,  Martin,  57. 
Hawkins,  Benjamin:  Trumbull,  125. 
Hazard,  Ebenezer:  Duvivier,  Unknown,  156. 
Hazard,  Mrs.  Ebenezer:  Duvivier,  51. 
Henry,  Patrick:  Sully,  Unknown,  166. 
Hiester,  Daniel  :  Unknown,  69. 
Huger,  Daniel:  Unknown,  102. 

Humphreys,  David:  Rembrandt  Peale,  155;  Stuart,  33; 
Trumbull,  158. 

Huntington,  Benjamin  :  Huntington,  Unknown,  80. 

Izard,  Ralph:  Copley,  180;  Meyer,  477;  Trumbull,  100; 
West,  180;  Zoffany,  100. 

Izard,  Mrs.  Ralph:  Copley,  180;  Gainsborough,  59;  Mal- 
bone, 262  ;  Unknown,  73. 


THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


Jackson,  James:  Maier,  St.  Memin,  76. 

Jackson.  William  :  C.  W.  Peale,  Trumbull,  42. 

[ACKSON,  Mrs.  William:  Stuart,  262. 

Jay,  John  :  Du  Simitiere,  172  ;  C.  W.  Peak-,  155  ;  Stuart,  31, 
155,  156;  Trumbull,  31;  Unknown,  152;  West,  31; 
Wright,  31. 

JAY,  Mks.  John:  Huntington,  Pine,  158. 

Jefferson,  Thomas:  Birch,  106;  Boucher,  25  ;  Brown,  21 ; 
Kosciuszko,  25  ;  Otis,  21  ;  C.  W.  Peale,  21  ;  Rembrandt 
Peale,  21,  152;  St.  Memin,  21;  Savage,  25;  Sharpless, 
21;  Stuart,  21,  23,  25,  150;  Sully,  21,  23;  Trumbull, 
21,  23  ;  Unknown,  23. 

Johnson,  William  S. :  Blackburn,  Jarvis,  Pine,  Stuart,  78. 

Johnston,  Samuel:  James  Peale,  125. 

King,  Rufus  :  C.  W.  Peale,  Stuart,  Trumbull,  121. 

King.  Mrs.  Rufus  :  Trumbull,  260. 

Knox,  Henry    C.  W.  Peale,  28;  Savage,  168;  Stuart,  28; 

Trumbull,  28,  156;  Unknown,  28,  168. 
Lafayette,  Marquis  de:  Morse,  160. 
L.ANGDON,  JOHN  :  Savage,  Sharpless,  Trumbull,  105. 
Laurance,  John:  Trumbull,  123;  Unknown,  65. 
Laurens,  Henry:  West,  31. 
Lear,  Tobias:  Unknown,  63. 

Lee,  Arthur:  C.  W.  Peale,  155,  156;  Trumbull,  156. 

Lee,  Richard  Bland:  Unknown,  112. 

Lee,  Richard  Henry:  C.  W.  Peale,  111  ;  Trumbull,  n  1  ; 

Unknown,  65. 
Leonard,  George:  Unknown,  91. 
Lewis,  Fielding:  Woolaston,  256. 
Lewis,  Mrs.  Fielding  :  Woolaston,  256,  262. 
Lewis,  Mrs.  Lawrence:  Sharpless,  Stuart,  256. 
Lewis.  Morgan  :  Burlin,  Herring,  Inman,  Trumbull,  39. 
Linn,  Rev.  William:  Unknown,  45. 

Livermore,  Samuel:  Sharpless,  65,  105;  Trumbull,  65, 
105. 

Livingston,  John  R.:  Unknown,  168;  Vanderlyn,  41. 
Livingston,  Margaret  B. :  Stuart,  172,  256;  Unknown, 
256. 

Livingston,  Chancellor  Robert  R.  :  St.  Memin,  Sharp- 
less, Stuart,  Trumbull,  Vanderlyn,  45. 

Livingston,  Judge  Robert  R. :  Unknown,  256. 

Livingston,  Walter  :  Mrs.  Robert  Fulton,  Unknown, 
156. 

Maclay,  William  :  Unknown,  69. 

Macomb,  Alexander:  Ramage,  St.  Memin,  Waldo,  51. 

Macomb,  Mrs.  Alexander:  Ramage,  St.  Memin,  51. 

Madison,  James:  Catlin,  116;  Durand,  115;  Harding,  63; 
Liebbers,  63;  St.  Memin,  116;  Stuart,  63,  115,  150; 
Sully,  63;  Unknown,  63,  116;  Vanderlyn,  115. 

Madison,  Mrs.  James:  Liebbers,  262;  James  Peale,  258; 
Rembrandt  Peale,  258;  Sharpless,  258;  Stuart,  258; 
Unknown,  63. 

Madison,  William:  St.  Memin,  116. 

Malcom.  William  :  Malbone,  42. 

Maxwell.  Jamjs  Homer:  Unknown,  51. 

Maxwell,  Mrs.  James  Homer:  Unknown,  51. 

Mifflin,  Thomas:  C.  W.  Peale,  Stuart,  Trumbull,  33. 

Monroe,  James:  Morse,  63;  Paradise,  108;  Sene,  108; 
Sharpless,  108;  Stuart,  106,  150;  Sully,  65,  106;  Trum- 
bull, 108;  Unknown,  108;  Vanderlyn,  106,  108. 

Monroe,  Mrs.  James:  Sene,  West,  258. 

Moore,  Andrew:  C.  W.  Peale,  in. 

Morris,  Gouverneur:  Sully,  160. 

Morris,  Robert:  C.  W.  Peale,  Pine,  Stuart,  Trumbull,  69. 
Morris,  Mrs.  Robert:  C.  W.  Peale,  Stuart,  Trumbull,  59. 
Morton,  Jacob:  Jarvis,  42  ;  Morton,  155. 


Moustikr,  Comte  DE:  Danloux,  46. 
Muhlenberg,  Frederick  A. :  Wright,  71. 
Muhlenberg,  John  Peter  G. :  C.  W.  Peale,  Trumbull, 

Unknown,  71. 
Nicholson,  James  :  Unknown,  42. 
OSGOOD,  Samuel:  Trumbull,  156. 
Osgood,  Mrs.  Samuel:  Trumbull,  51. 
O  ris,  Samuel  Alleyne  :  Stuart,  45. 
Otis,  Mrs.  Samuel  Alleyne:  Copley,  172. 
Page,  John  :  C.  VV.  Peale,  West,  1 1 1. 
Parker,  Josiah  :  St  Memin,  Trumbull,  112. 
Partridge,  George;  Hathaway,  Trumbull,  Unknown,  91. 
Paterson,  William  :  Unknown,  72. 

Provoost,  Rt.  Rev.  Samuel:  Duche,  45  ;  Unknown,  168. 
Quincy,  Mrs.  Josiah  :  Harding,  262  ;  St.  Memin,  260  ;  Stu- 
art, 260. 

Randolph.  Edmund:  Unknown,  28,  168. 
Randolph,  John  :  Harding,  Jarvis,  Stuart,  160. 
Read.  George:  Pine,  Sully,  Trumbull,  Unknown,  67. 
St.  Clair,  Arthur  :  C.  W.  Peale,  33. 
Schureman,  James  :  Unknown,  72. 
Schuyler,  Cornelia  :  Trumbull,  264. 
Schuyler,  Philip:  Trumbull,  121. 
Schuyler,  Mrs.  Philip:  Unknown,  260. 
Sedgwick,  Catharine  M. :  Earle,  258. 
Sedgwick,  Theodore:  St.  Memin,  Stuart,  Trumbull,  92. 
Sedgwick,  Mrs.  Theodore  :  Earle,  258. 
Seney,  Joshua  :  Unknown,  99. 
Sevier,  John:  C  W.  Peale,  Unknown,  125. 
Seymour,  Mary  Julia  :  Trumbull,  266. 
Sherman,  Roger:  Earle,  Trumbull,  Unknown,  80. 
Silvester,  Peter:  St.  Memin,  123. 
Smith,  William  :  C.  W.  Peale,  99. 
Smith,  William  Loughton  :  Stuart,  Trumbull,  102. 
Smith,  William  Stephens  :  Brown,  18;  Stuart,  41  ;  Trum- 
bull, 41 . 

Smith,  Mrs.  William  Stephens  :  Brown,  Copley,  260. 
Steele,  John  :  James  Peale,  125. 

Steuben,  Baron:  Du  Simitiere,  172;  Earle,  166;  C.  W. 

Peale,  166;  Trumbull,  166. 
Stirling,  Lady:  West,  Unknown,  57. 
Stirling,  Lord  :  West,  57. 
Strong,  Caleb  :  Doyle,  Marston,  Stuart,  89. 
Stuart,  Gilbert:  Sarah  Goodridge,  99. 
Sumter,  Thomas  :  Mitchell,  C.  W.  Peale,  Sully,  102. 
Temple,  Grenville:  Trumbull,  46. 
Temple,  Sir  John  :  Copley,  Stuart,  Trumbull,  46. 
Temple,  Lady  :  Copley,  Stuart,  Trumbull,  46. 
Thacher,  George:  Williams,  91. 

Thomson,  Charles:  Du  Simitiere,  172;  C.  W.  Peale,  33; 

Trumbull,  33. 
Toppan,  Christopher:  Unknown,  550 
Trumbull,  Faith  :  Trumbull.  82,  266. 
Trumbull,  Jonathan  :  A.  Robertson,  Sully,  Trumbull,  82. 
Trumbull,  Mrs.  Jonathan:  Trumbull,  82,  266. 
TuckerTThomas  Tudor:  St.  Memin,  100. 
United  States  Commissioners,  1782:  West,  31. 
Van  Cortlandt,  Pierre  :  Jarvis,  166. 
Van  Horne,  David:  Dunlap,  42. 

Varick,  Richard:  Earle,  36;  Inman,  36,  168;  Unknown, 
36. 

Vining,  John  :  Unknown,  67. 
Vining,  Mrs.  John  :  Unknown,  258. 
Wadsworth,  Catharine:  Trumbull,  266. 
Wadsworth,  Daniel:  Trumbull,  80. 
Wadsworth,  Harriet:  Trumbull,  266. 


ILLUSTRATIONS. 


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Wadsworth,  Jeremiah  :  Sharpless,  80;  Trumbull,  80;  Un- 
known. 155. 

Wadsworth,  Mrs.  Jeremiah:  Sully,  262. 

Washington',  George:  C.  W.  Peale,  Frontispiece,  6,  9,  10, 
184:  James  Peale,  9,  ic,  81;  Pine,  9;  Ramage,  178; 
A.  Robertson,  65  ;  W.  Robertson,  10;  St.  Memin,  160; 
Savage,  9,  14;  Stuart,  4,  12,  150;  Trumbull,  2,  10;  W. 
V.,  10;  Wright,  IO,  14. 

Washington,  Martha:  James  Peale,  10;  A.  Robertson. 


65;  Savage,  14;  Stuart,  12;  Trumbull,  264;  Woolas- 

ton,  262  ;  Wright,  14. 
Watts,  Mary  :  Unknown,  57. 
Webb,  Samuel  B. :  C.  W.  Peale,  41. 
West,  Benjamin,  of  New  Hampshire:  Unknown,  105. 
Williams,  Robert  S.  :  C.  W.  Peale,  99. 
Williamson,  Hugh:  Trumbull.  125. 
Wynkoop,  Henry:  Rembrandt  Peale,  69. 


SCULPTURE. 


Clinton,  George  :  Ceracchi,  206. 

Franklin,  Benjamin:  Ceracchi,  524;  Houdon,  61,  524; 

Mini,  484,  544  ;  Unknown.  484,  524. 
Hamilton,  Alexander:  Ceracchi,  95. 
Jay,  John  :  Ceracchi,  100. 
Jefferson,  Thomas:  Houdon,  131. 


Lafayette,  Marquis  de  :  Houdon,  189. 
Madison,  James  :  Ceracchi,  354. 
Scriba,  George  L.  C. :  Unknown,  42. 
Washington,  George:  Ceracchi,  417;  Houdon,  1,  149; 
St.  Gaudens,  140;  Unknown,  166;  Ward,  207. 


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Foster's  Life  of  Theodore  Foster. 
France,  Archives  of. 
Franklin's  Philosophical  Papers. 
Freeman's  Journal. 
Freeman's  Oracle. 

Fulcher's  Life  of  Thomas  Gainsborough. 


Gaine's  Almanac. 

Gales's  Annals  of  Congress. 

Gallery  of  Portraits. 

Gay's  Life  of  James  Madison. 

General  Evening  Post. 

Gibson's  York  County,  Pa. 

Oilman's  Genealogy. 

Oilman's  Life  of  James  Monroe. 

Gilmore's  Life  of  John  Sevier. 

Gilmore's  Rear-Guard  of  the  Revolution. 

Granite  Monthly. 

Grigsby's  Virginia  Federal  Convention. 
Griswold's  Republican  Court. 

Hale's  Franklin  in  France. 

Hamilton's  Life  of  Alexander  Hamilton. 

Hamilton's  Writings  of  Alexander  Hamilton. 

Hampshire  Chronicle. 

Hampshire  Gazette. 

Hanson's  Old  Kent,  Md. 

Harper's  Magazine. 

Harris's  Lancaster  County,  Pa. 

Harrison's  Memoir  of  William  Hindman. 

Hartford  Courant. 

Hatfield's  Elizabeth,  N.  J. 

Herald  of  Freedom. 

Herring's  Portrait  Gallery. 

Higginson's  United  States. 

Hildreth's  United  States. 

Hilliard's  Address  on  Charles  Carroll. 

Hinman's  Puritans. 

Historical  Magazine. 

Hollister's  Connecticut. 

Holland,  Aichives  of. 

Hone's  Diary. 

Hosack's  Memoir  of  Hugh  Williamson. 
Huntington's  Genealogy. 

Independent  Chronicle. 
Independent  Gazetteer. 
Inman's  Catalogue, 
living's  Life  of  Washington. 
Izard's  Correspondence. 

Jay's  Life  of  John  Jay. 

Jenkins's  Governors  of  New  York. 

Jefferson's  Diary. 

Jefferson's  Works. 

Johnson's  Portraits  of  Washington. 

Jones's  Sketch  of  James  Gunn. 

Journal  de  Politique. 


xviii      77//:   CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


Kent's  Discourse  on  George  Partridge. 
Kirkland's  Sketch  of  Fisher  Ames. 
Knapp's  Biographical  Sketches. 

Lamb's  New  York. 

I. cake's  Life  of  John  Lamb. 

Lear's  Journal. 

Lee's  Life  of  Richard  Henry  Lee. 
Lloyd's  Congressional  Register. 
Lodge's  Works  of  Alexander  Hamilton. 
London  Evening  Post. 
Long  Island  Historical  Society  Memoirs. 
Lossing's  Eminent  Americans. 
Lossing's  Field-Book  of  the  Revolution. 
Lossing's  Life  of  Philip  Schuyler. 
Lossing's  Life  of  Washington. 
Loubat's  Medallic  History. 

McMaster's  People  of  the  United  States. 
McMaster  and    Stone's  Pennsylvania  ana 

the  Federal  Constitution. 
McRee's  Life  of  James  Iredell. 
Maclays  of  Lurgan. 
Maclay's  Journal. 
Madison  Papers. 
Magazine  of  American  History. 
Marshall's  Life  of  Washington. 
Maryland  Historical  Society  Publications. 
Maryland  Journal. 
Mason's  Life  of  Gdbert  Stuart. 
Mason's  Memoir  of  Jeremiah  Mason. 
Massachusetts  Centinel. 

Massachusetts  Historical  Society  Proceed- 
ings. 

Massachusetts  Magazine. 
Massachusetts  Spy. 
May's  Ohio. 

Miller's  Supreme  Court. 
Morris's  Life  of  Robert  Morris. 
Morse's  Puritans. 

Muhlenberg's  Life  of  Peter  Muhlenberg. 
Murray's  War  in  America. 

Nevv-Englander. 

New  Hampshire  Gazette. 

New  Hampshire  Spy. 

New  Jersey  Journal. 

New  York  City  Records. 

New  York  Daily  Gazette. 

New  York  Genealogical  Register. 

New  York  Historical  Society  Proceedings. 

New  York  Journal. 

New  York  Mirror. 


New  York  Museum. 
New  York  Packet. 
New  York  Spectator. 
Norwich  Packet. 

O'Callaghan's  New  York. 

O'Ncall's  Bench  and  Bar  of  South  Carolina. 

Osgood's  Salem,  Mass. 

Page  Genealogy. 
Peale  Manuscript. 
Pellew's  Life  of  John  Jay. 
Perm's  Journal. 
Pennsylvania  Gazette. 

Pennsylvania  Historical  Society  Collections. 
Pennsylvania  Magazine  of  History  and  Biog- 
raphy. 
Pennsylvania  Packet. 
Perkins's  Life  of  John  Singleton  Copley. 
Polyanthus,  The. 
Port  Folio. 

Prime's  Life  of  Samuel  F.  B.  Morse. 
Prime's  Temple  Family. 

Quincy's  Memoir  of  Eliza  S.  M.  Quincy. 

Randolph's  Life  of  Jefferson. 
Read's  Life  of  George  Read. 
Read's  Memoirs. 

Rhode  Island  Historical  Society  Collections. 
Rider's  Portraits  of  Roger  Williams. 
Rives's  Life  of  James  Madison. 
Rowland's  Eulogy  on  Oliver  Ellsworth. 

St.  Clair  Papers. 

St.  Germain's  Peinture  la  France. 
Sabin's  Dictionary  of  American  Books. 
Sabine's  Loyalists  of  the  American  Revolu- 
tion. 

Salem  Institute  Collections. 
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Schenck's  Fairfield,  Conn. 
Schuyler's  Society  of  the  Cincinnati. 
Sedgwick's  Life  and  Letters. 
Sergeant's  Eulogy  on  Charles  Carroll. 
Shourd's  Fenwick  Colony. 
Simpson's  Eminent  Philadelphians. 


Siret's  Paintsrs. 

Smith's  Society  of  the  Cincinnati. 
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Smith's  New  York  in  1789. 
Spain,  Archives  of. 
Sparks's  Works  of  Franklin. 
Sparks's  Writings  of  Washington. 
Spooner's  Painters. 
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Stevens's  Georgia. 
Stirling's  Artists  of  Spain. 
Stone's  New  York. 

Stryker's  Washington's  Reception  in  New 
Jersey. 

Stuart's  Life  of  Jonathan  Trumbull. 
Sully's  Diary. 
Sumner  Manuscript. 
Sweden  Archives. 

Thompson's  Long  Island. 
Tilton's  Tyrant  of  Delaware. 
Trumbull's  Hartford  County,  Conn. 
Trumbull's  Reminiscences. 
Tuckerman's  Artists. 

United  States  Chronicle. 

Upham's  Life  of  Timothy  Pickering. 

Van  Rensselaer's  Sketch  of  Jeremiah  Van 

Rensselaer. 
Van  Santvoord's  Chief-Justices. 
Vinton's  Delaware. 
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Virginia  Historical  Society  Collections. 

Waddell's  Augusta  County,  Va. 
Watson's  Annals  of  Philadelphia. 
Watson's  Annals  of  New  York. 
Webb's  Reminiscences. 
Westminster  Magazine. 
Wheeler's  North  Carolina. 
White's  Georgia. 

White's  Sketch  of  Chester  Harding. 
Wide  Awake  Magazine. 
Wilson's  Episcopal  Church. 
Wingate  Genealogy. 
Winsoi's  Boston,  Mass. 
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Winsor's  America. 
Winthrop's  Addresses. 
Worcester  Magazine. 

York  County  (Pa.)  Centennial  History. 


THE  CENTENNIAL 
OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


CHAPTER  I. 


GEORGE  WASHINGTON, 

BY  HOUDON. 
In  the  possession  of  Hamilton  Fish,  New  York. 


THE  INAUGURATION  OF 
GEORGE  WASHINGTON  AS  PRESIDENT 
OF  THE  UNITED  STATES. 

The  convention  that  formed  the 
Constitution  of  the  United  States 
terminated  in  Philadelphia  on  the 
17th  of  September,  1787.  Three 
days  later  a  copy  of  the  Constitu- 
tion was  laid  before  the  Continental 
Congress,  with  the  request  that  it 
should  be  submitted  for  ratification 
to  the  several  States,  and  that, 
when  it  had  received  the  approval 
of  nine  States,  Congress  should 
name  a  day  on  which  presidential 
electors  should  be  chosen  by  the 
States,  and  a  day  when  the  electors 
should  meet  to  vote  for  President. 
Thus  the  formation  of  the  Consti- 
tution was  not  the  final  act  in  the 
struggle  for  independence  and  con- 
stitutional government.  A  contest, 
at  times  bitter  and  uncompromis- 
ing, yet  remained  to  be  fought  out 
before  the  Constitution  could  be 
adopted  and  the  first  President  of 
the  United  States  inaugurated. 


The  battle  began  at  once  in  Congress,  where  Richard  Henry  Lee  and  William  Grayson, 
Virginia,  Nathan  Dane,  of  Massachusetts,  and  a  majority  of  the  delegation  from  New  York 


THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


endeavored  to  "essentially  alter"1  the  Constitution;  but  they  were  outvoted,  and,  after  an 
animated  discussion  of  eight  days,  Congress  voted  to  submit  the  Constitution  to  the  States. 
The  people  were  now  divided  into  Federalists  and  anti-Federalists,  according  to  their 
approval  or  disapproval  of  the  Constitution.  In  December,  1787,  Delaware,  Pennsylvania, 
and  New  Jersey  adopted  the  Constitution,  and  Georgia  and  Connecticut  followed  the  next 


Eighth    Federal    PILLAR  reared. 


From  the  Independent  Chronicle  and  Universal  Advertiser,  Boston,  Thursday  June  12,  1788. 
Lent  by  Gordon  L.  Ford,  Brooklyn,  New  York. 

month.  The  anti-Federalists  in  Massachusetts  were  most  numerous.  In  the  State  Con- 
vention, presided  over  by  Governor  John  Hancock,  sat  Samuel  Adams,  of  town-meeting 
fame,  and  three  of  the  representatives  of  Massachusetts  at  the  late  convention  in  Philadelphia 


The  Ninth  PILLAR  erected  ! 

"  The  Ratification  of  the  Conventions  of  nine  States,  (hall  be  fufficient  forthe  elrabliih- 
ment  of  this  Conftitution,  between  the  States  fo  ratifying  the  fame"  Art.  vs.. 

INCIPIENT  MAGNI  PROCEDERE  MENSES. 


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From  the  Independent  Chronicle  and  Universal  Advertiser,  Boston,  Thursday  June  26,  1788. 
Lent  by  Gordon  L.  Ford,  Brooklyn,  New  York. 


— Nathaniel  Gorham,  Rufus  King,  and  Caleb  Strong.  But,  by  a  vote  of  one  hundred  and 
eighty-seven  to  one  hundred  and  sixty-eight,  Massachusetts  ratified  the  Constitution,  with  the 
suggestion  that  certain  amendments  be  added.  Henceforth  the  name  Federal  Street  was 
given  to  Long  Lane,  where  stood  the  meeting-house  in  Boston  occupied  by  the  convention.2 
The  seventh  and  eighth  States  to  enter  the  Union  under  the  Constitution  were  Maryland 
and  South  Carolina,  and  the  glory  of  being  the  ninth  belongs  to  New  Hampshire.  But, 
jubilant  as  were  the  Federalists,  it  seemed  impossible  to  form  the  new  Government  without 
the  aid  of  the  great  states  of  Virginia  and  New  York.    When  the  State  Convention  met 


1  Carrington  to  Madison,  September  23,  1787  CMS.  Madison  Papers,  in  State  Department  Archives,  Washington). 
'"The  Critical  Period  of  American  History,"  by  John  Fiske,  chap.  vii. 


GEORGE  WASHINGTON 


Artist,  John  Trumbull.  Owner,  Edmund  Law  Rogers,  Baltimore,  Mi>. 

(20x30  inches.    Original  of  the  Life -Size  Portrait  in  the  City  Hall,  N.  Y.) 
(Loan  Exhibition  No.  38.) 


THE  INAUGURATION. 


3 


in  the  "  Old  Dominion,"  Patrick  Henry  stood  at  the  head  of  the  opposition.  He  preferred 
a  confederacy  of  states  to  a  monarchy  toward  which  he  thought  the  new  government  would 
lean.  He  "saw  poison"1  under  the  wings  of  the  Constitution.  He  was  supported  in  his 
opposition  by  James  Monroe,  afterward  President  of  the  United  States,  and  by  John  Tyler, 
the  father  of  one  President,  and  Benjamin  Harrison,  the  ancestor  of  two  Presidents  of  the 
United  States.  But  the  following  of  James  Madison,  John  Marshall,  and  Edmund  Pendle- 
ton was  too  strong  to  be  overcome,  and  Virginia  ratified  the  Constitution  by  a  vote  of 
eighty-nine  to  seventy-nine.  All  eyes  were  now  turned  toward  New  York.  The  bitterest 
opponent  of  the  Constitution  was  George  Clinton,  the  powerful  Governor,  and,  when  the 
State  Convention  met  at  Poughkeepsie,  his  supporters  were  largely  in  the  majority,  and  they 
were  determined  to  move  heaven  and  earth  to  keep  New  York  out  of  the  new  Government ; 
but  mere  numbers  were  nothing  against  the  devoted  patriotism  of  John  Jay  and  the  match- 
less genius  of  Alexander  Hamilton.  Moreover,  the  great  Federal  demonstration  in  New 
York  city,  on  the  23d  of  July,  1788,  had  much  to  do  with  the  adoption,  three  days  later,  at 
Poughkeepsie,  of  the  Constitution  by  the  State  of  New  York.2  New  York  was  brought 
into  the  Union  by  so  close  a  vote  as  thirty  to  twenty-seven.  The  victory  of  Federalism  over 
anti-Federalism  belonged,  next  to  Washington,  to  Hamilton,  Madison,  and  Jay,  the  authors 
of  The  Federalist. 

Meanwhile,  the  requisite  number  of  States  having  adopted  the  Constitution,  Congress 
reported  a  resolution  for  putting  the  new  Government  into  operation.3  It  was  decided  that 
presidential  electors  should  be  chosen  on  the  first  Wednesday  in  January  of  1789,  that  the 
electors  should  choose  a  President  on  the  first  Wednesday  in  February,  and  that  the  two 
Houses  of  Congress  should  assemble  in  New  York  on  the  first  Wednesday  in  March.  The 
last  days  of  the  old  Congress  were  now  numbered.  It  had  been  kept  barely  alive  during  the 
winter  of  1788-89,  sometimes  less  than  half  a  dozen  members  being  in  the  city.4  In  fact,  the 
last  real  meeting  had  taken  place  October  10,  1788. 5  It  was  indeed  a  Rump  Congress. 
After  the  1st  of  January  there  was  never  a  quorum  present.  From  a  letter6  written  from 
New  York  on  the  2d  of  March,  by  the  Postmaster-General,  Ebenezer  Hazard,  to  the  "Hon- 
orable Major-General  Gates  at  Traveler's  Rest,"7  are  taken  these  words:  "There  has  been 
no  Congress  since  the  commencement  of  the  present  Federal  year  ;  but  it  is  expected  that 
a  sufficient  number  to  form  an  House  will  meet  to-day  :  as  the  new  Constitution  will  take 

'Cooke's  "Virginia"  (American  Commonwealth  Series),  pp.  475,  476. 

2  "  History  of  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati  in  New  York  State,"  by  John  Schuyler,  p.  274. 

3  September  13,  1788  ;  "  History  of  the  Life  and  Times  of  James  Madison,"  by  William  C.  Rives,  vol.  ii,  pp.  633-637. 

4  Griswold's  "  Republican  Court,"  p.  113. 

6  "  Narrative  and  Critical  History  of  America,"  edited  by  Justin  Winsor,  LL.  D.,  vol.  vii,  p.  267. 
6  Original  owned  by  Dr.  Thomas  Addis  Emmet,  of  New  York. 

'  The  country-seat  of  General  Gates  in  Berkeley  County,  Virginia.  His  New  York  residence  was  at  Rose  Hill,  about  East 
Twenty-eighth  Street  and  East  River,  the  name  of  the  upper  of  the  three  Stuyvesant  farms.  Before  the  Revolution  the  farm 
passed  to  the  De  Lancevs  while  the  head  of  that  family  was  Chief-Justice.  A  church  on  East  Twenty-eighth  Street  is  to-day 
called  the  Rose  Hill  Methodist  Church. 


4 


THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 


place  on  Wednesday,  they  will  have  hut  two  days  to  sit."  There  was  certainly  one  man 
ready  to  sit  in  the  old  Congress,  on  Monday  and  Tuesday,  the  2d  and  3d  of  March.  His 
name  was  John  Gardiner,  of  Rhode  Island,  a  State  which,  with  North  Carolina,  refused  to 
ratify  the  Constitution.  On  Wednesday,  March  4th,  Gardiner  "found  himself  the  only 
living  member  of  a  departed  body  and  returned  to  Newport,  a  delegate  to  a  power  that  was 
no  longer  known."1  Yet  the  old  Congress  died  hard.  Fisher  Ames,  sitting  in  the  new 
Congress,  did  not  know  "  whether  the  old  government  was  dead  or  the  new  one  alive. 
God  deliver  us  speedily,"  he  wrote,2  "from  this  puzzling  state,  or  prepare  my  will,  if  it  sub- 
sists much  longer,  for  I  am  in  a  fever  to  think  of  it  ! "  But  the  "  know  ye  "  and  "  paper- 
money  gentry"  of  infatuated  Rhode  Island  continued  to  worship  the  ghost  of  anti-Federal- 
ism, by  choosing  delegates  to  the  old  Congress  as  late  as  May  of  1 789. 8  Said  a  newspaper 
correspondent  of  the  day  : 4 

"  The  analogy  between  the  fate  of  the  old  Continental  money  and  that  of  the  old  Congress  who  made 
it,  is  striking.  The  former  began  and  completed  the  Revolution,  so  did  the  latter ;  and  if  the  former  some- 
what depreciated,  did  not  the  latter  also  ?  As  the  former  had  no  funds  or  internal  strength  in  its  Constitu- 
tion to  support  itself  in  a  day  of  trial,  so  the  bane  of  the  latter  was  of  a  similar  nature.  The  former  lived 
to  see  itself  neglected  by  those  it  had  served,  so  did  the  latter.  Alike  in  their  lives,  they  were  not  dissimi- 
lar in  their  deaths.  As  the  former  had  a  calm  and  easy  exit,  so  the  latter  expired  without  a  groan  ; 
and  as  the  latter  died  without  hope  of  resuscitation,  so  may  the  old  Continental  be  set  down  among  lost 
cases."5 

At  sunset,  on  the  evening  of  March  3d,  the  old  Confederation  was  fired  out  by  thir- 
teen guns  from  the  fort  opposite  Bowling  Green  in  New  York  ;  and  on  Wednesday,  the 
4th,  the  new  era  was  ushered  in  by  the  firing  of  eleven  guns  in  honor  of  the  eleven  States 
that  had  adopted  the  Constitution.6  The  States  of  Rhode  Island  and  North  Carolina 
were  now  severed  from  the  American  Union,  and  were  as  independent  of  each  other 
as  England  and  France.  "  All  sea-captains,"  said  a  Providence  newspaper,7  "  belonging 
to  this  State,  will  sail  under  the  sole  protection  of  the  State  of  Rhode  Island,  having  no 
claim  to  the  flag  of  the  United  States,  for  the  eleven  confederate  States  are,  in  fact,  the 
United  States."8 


1  Herald  of  Freedom,  February  10  and  March  17,  1789,  and  Massachusetts  Spy,  March  19,  1789. 
'  Letter  of  March  25,  1789,  to  George  Richard  Minot,  of  Boston. 
3  Herald  of  Freedom,  May  12,  1789. 

'  New  Jersey  Journal  and  Political  Intelligencer,  April  22,  1789. 

6  A  quotation  from  a  Boston  paper  of  March  7,  1789,  may  also  be  given  : 

"  The  copartnership  of  Anarchy  and  Antifederalism  being  on  the  4th  inst.  dissolved  by  the  death  of  the  concerned,  the 
firm  ceases  to  be.  The  stock  in  trade,  consisting  of  subterfuges,  scarecrows,  calumny,  &c,  will  be  disposed  of  at  Public  Auction 
to  Arnold,  Galloway,  Deane,  or  their  agents — and  anything  will  be  received  in  payment  except  Rhode  Island  paper  money." 

"Massachusetts  Centinel,  March  14;  also  Maryland  Journal  and  Baltimore  Advertiser,  March  13,  1789. 

1  The  United  States  Chronicle,  March  5,  1789. 

8  "  At  the  first  convention  in  North  Carolina  the  Constitution  was  not  ratified ;  but  at  a  second  convention,  held  in  Novem- 
ber, 1789,  it  was  adopted  by  a  majority  more  than  two  to  one,  the  vote  being  one  hundred  and  ninety-three  in  the  affirmative 
and  seventy-five  in  the  negative.  [The  official  journal  gives  the  vote  194  to  77.]  The  Legislature  of  Rhode  Island,  during  the 
session  in  September,  had  sent  an  address  to  '  The  President,  the  Senate,  and  the  House  of  Representatives  of  the  Eleven 
United  States  of  America  in  Congress  assembled,'  in  which  were  contained  explanations  of  the  course  pursued  by  the  State  in 
not  adopting  the  Constitution." — (Sparks's  Washington,  vol.  x,  p.  67.) 


THE  INAUGURATION. 


5 


Not  only  were   guns   fired   and  bells 
noon   and  at  sunset   eleven    more   guns  were   fired  and 
hour.1     The  citizens  of  New  York   were   happy.  The 


rung  on  the  morning  of  March 


4th,  but  at 
the  bells  were  rung  for  an 
new  Constitution  was  consid- 


ered a  "sheet-anchor  of  commerce  and  prop  of  freedom."2  And  it  was  thought  "Con- 
gress would  again  thrive,  the 
farmer  meet  immediately  a  ready 
market  for  his  produce,  manu- 
factures flourish,  and  peace  and 
prosperity  adorn  our  land." 3 
"  After  a  long  night  of  political 
apprehension,  the  dawn  of  na- 
tional happiness  " 4  was  at  length 
seen. 

But  where  was  the  expected 
quorum?  Only  eight  Senators 
and  thirteen  Representatives  put 
in  an  appearance  at  twelve 
o'clock,  the  hour  of  meeting. 
The  Senators  from  New  Hamp- 
shire were  John  Langdon  and 
Paine  Wingate.  Langdon  was 
forty-eight  years  old,  and  was 
made  President  of  the  Senate 
till  the  arrival  of  John  Adams. 5 
He  had  been  a  member  of  the 
Continental  Congress  and  of 
the  Constitutional  Convention, 
and  a  Governor  of  New  Hamp- 
shire. A  Revolutionary  patriot,  he  had  pledged  his  plate  and  the  proceeds  of  seventy 
hogsheads  of  tobacco  to  render  possible  General  Stark's  victory  at  Bennington.  Paine 
Wingate  was  forty-nine,  a  graduate  of  Harvard,  a  Congregational  minister,  and  a  member 


ALEXANDER  HAMILTON. 
From  a  painting  by  John  Trumbull,  1792  ;  owned  by  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  N.  Y. 
Loan  Exhibition,  New  York,  1889,  No.  105. 


1  Massachusetts  Centinel.  March  14,  1789. 

2  New  York  Packet,  March  6.  1789. 

3  Daily  Advertiser,  March  5,  1789. 

4  Columbian  Magazine,  May,  1789.    De  Moustier,  the  French  minister  in  New  York  in  1789,  echoed  a  different  feeling: 

"A  few  sparks  of  the  former  fervor  can  be  found  in  this  new  Congress  which  appeared  for  a  time  in  the  United  States, 
but,  of  which,  I  have  not  been  able  to  find  traces  in  this  odd  Congress,  from  which  I  at  least  had  reason  to  expect  some  consid- 
eration, since  it  had  no  mission  to  go  further,  but  where  I  found  with  very  little  exception  only  the  stupid  vanity  of  obscure  and 
ignorant  men,  or  young  students  who  came  to  play  a  role,  the  value  of  which  they  could  not  comprehend." — (Dispatch  of  De 
Moustier  to  the  French  Minister  of  Foreign  Affairs,  dated  New  York,  April  7,  1789.  Translated  from  original  in  French 
archives.) 

0  He  "presided  with  great  dignity  and  propriety." — (Salem  Mercury,  April  14,  1789.) 


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of  the  old  Congress.  His  letters  from  New  York  to  his  brother-in-law,  Timothy  Pick- 
ering, show  him  to  have  been  a  patriotic  statesman.  He  survived  all  of  the  United  States 
Senators  of  1 789. 1  Langdon  left  Portsmouth  on  the  16th  of  February,  and  after  being 
escorted  out  of  town  several  miles  where  a  collation  was  served,  he  proceeded  on  his 
journey  to  New  York.2 

Four  days  later  he  and  Wingate  passed  through  Worcester.  The  only  Senator  from 
Massachusetts  present  at  the  opening  of  Congress,  was  Caleb  Strong,  forty  four-years  old, 
graduate  of  Harvard  College,  lawyer,  member  of  the  Massachusetts  Legislature  during  the 
Revolution,  member  of  the  great  Convention  of  1787,  afterward  eight  years  United  States 
Senator,  and  ten  years  Governor  of  the  old  Commonwealth.  When  he  left  his  home  at 
Northampton,  to  go  to  New  York,  his  neighbors  appeared  before  his  door  at  sunrise  and 
escorted  him  in  sleighs  to  Springfield. 3  Tristram  Dalton,  the  other  Senator  from  Massa- 
chusetts, was  also  a  Harvard  graduate,  fifty-one  years  of  age,  and  a  lawyer.  He  was  pre- 
vented by  illness  from  leaving  home  until  early  in  April,  1789. 4  He  represented  Massa- 
chusetts in  the  Senate  for  nearly  two  years,  and  was  succeeded  in  1791  by  George  Cabot. 

Connecticut's  two  Senators,  William  Samuel  Johnson  and  Oliver  Ellsworth,  were  both 
present  at  the  opening  of  Congress.  Johnson  was  sixty-one,  a  graduate  of  Yale,  and  a 
brilliant  scholar,  lawyer,  and  orator.  As  a  representative  of  Connecticut  in  the  Congress 
of  the  Colonies  in  New  York  in  1765,  he  wrote  most  of  the  Remonstrance  against  the 
Parliament  of  Great  Britain. 5  In  1766  he  represented  Connecticut  in  England,  where  he 
received  from  the  University  of  Oxford  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws.  While  a  member 
of  the  Constitutional  Convention  in  Philadelphia,  he  first  proposed  the  organization  of  the 


1  Paine  Wingate  was  born  at  Amesbury,  Mass.,  May  14,  1739.  Hon.  Robert  C.  Winthrop,  of  Boston,  visited  Wingate  in 
1836  at  his  home  in  Stratham,  near  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  and  spoke  as  follows  concerning  him  (Mass.  Hist.  Soc,  February,  1889) : 

"On  my  alluding  to  the  fact  that  he  was  a  member  of  the  first  Senate  of  the  United  States,  he  told  his  wife  to  bring  him  the 
old  original  printed  journals  of  that  Congress — the  copies  which  he  had  received  as  a  member,  at  New  York,  in  1789.  He  then 
asked  me  to  read  over  to  him  the  names  of  his  colleagues  in  that  memorable  body.  I  read  them  to  him  accordingly — Rufus 
King  and  Robert  Morris,  Richard  Henry  Lee  and  Caleb  Strong,  Oliver  Ellsworth  and  Ralph  Izard,  and  all  the  rest,  not  forget- 
ting John  Langdon,  the  colleague  of  Paine  Wingate,  who  was  the  President  pro  tempore  of  the  first  Senate  until  John  Adams 
was  installed  as  Vice-President  of  the  United  States.  There  were  but  twenty-two  Senators  in  all,  from  only  eleven  States — 
North  Carolina  and  Rhode  Island  having  no  Senators  as  yet.  I  went  though  the  whole  list,  and  at  the  end  of  each  name  the 
old  man  repeated  the  name  in  a  clear,  ringing  tone,  and  asked  most  eagerly,  '  Where  is  he?  '  On  my  saying  that  he  was  dead, 
he  exclaimed  :  '  Is  he  dead  ?  '  '  And  is  he  dead  ?  '  '  And  is  he  dead,  too  ? ' 

"  It  had  escaped  his  enfeebled  memory  that  he  himself  had  long  been  the  last  survivor  of  that  first  Senate  of  the  United 
States ;  and  I  can  remember  but  few  things  in  my  life  more  impressive  than  the  hollow  and  sepulchral  tones  of  Paine  Wingate's 
voice  as  he  repeated:  'Is  he  dead?'  'And  is  he  dead?'  'And  is  he  dead,  too?'  after  each  name  of  his  old  colleagues. 
They  were  as  pathetic  and  as  dramatic  as  the  exclamations  of  Philoctetes,  on  being  told  successively  of  the  deaths  of  Achilles 
and  Ajax  and  Patroclus,  in  the  great  tragedy  of  Sophocles.  .  .  . 

"  There  was  one  thing,  however,  which  Paine  Wingate  remembered,  and  only  one  of  any  interest,  and  that  was  that  he 
dined  with  Washington  on  the  day  of  his  first  inauguration  as  President  of  the  United  States,  on  the  30th  of  April,  1789 — the  day 
which  is  about  to  be  commemorated  so  worthily  in  New  York.  But  he  only  remembered  the  fact,  and  could  recall  none  of  the 
incidents  of  the  occasion. 

"  Paine  Wingate  had  entered  his  ninety-ninth  year  when  I  saw  him,  and  there  was  great  hope  that  he  might  complete 
his  century;  but  he  died  in  March,  1838,  before  he  had  entered  his  hundredth  year.  His  wife,  who  was  a  sister  of  Colonel 
Timothy  Pickering,  lived  eight  months  and  eight  days  over  her  hundred  years,  and  received  company  on  her  hundredth 
birthday  in  her  wedding-dress.  She  was  in  her  ninety-fifth  year  when  I  made  this  visit  to  Stratham,  and  was  moving  about 
with  great  activity,  showing  off  her  husband  as  a  wonder,  and  seemingly  unconscious  that  she  was  really  the  greater  wonder 
of  the  two." 

1  Herald  of  Freedom,  March  3,  1789. 

3  Boston  Gazette,  March  9,  1789. 

*  Hampshire  Chronicle,  April  15,  1789. 

*  Hollister's  "  History  of  Connecticut,"  vol.  ii,  pp.  440  443. 


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Senate  as  a  distinct  body.1  While  Senator  of  the  United  States,  he  held  the  position  of 
President  of  Columbia  College,  and  presided  at  the  annual  commencement  of  the  college 


GOVERNOR  GEORGE  CLINTON  OF  NEW  YORK. 
Painted  by  Trumbull,  1791  ;  in  the  Governor's  Room,  City  Hall,  New  York. 
Loan  Exhibition,  1S89,  No.  78. 

in  St.  Paul's  Chapel,  a  week  after  the  inauguration  of  Washington.  '  Oliver  Ellsworth,  a 
student  at  Vale  and  a  graduate  of  Princeton,  a  lawyer  of  forty-three,  a  member  of  the 


1  Beardsley's  "  Life  and  Times  of  William  Samuel  Johnson,"  p.  127. 
a  New  York  Journal  and  Weekly  Register,  May  7,  1789. 


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Continental  Congress,  one  of  the  framers  of  the  Constitution,  and  later  Chief-Justice  of  the 
United  States,  was  a  gentleman  remarkable  for  his  intellectual  gifts  and  absolute  purity  of 
character.  John  Adams  called  him  the  firmest  pillar  of  Washington's  whole  administration. 1 
He  organized  the  judiciary  of  the  United  States.3 

The  sixth  Senator  present  was  Robert  Morris,  of  Pennsylvania,  fifty-six  years  old,  a 
signer  of  the  Declaration  and  a  framer  of  the  Constitution.  During  the  Revolution  and 
the  years  immediately  succeeding  it  his  services  in  rendering  financial  aid  to  the  Govern- 
ment were  invaluable.  "  I  want  money,"  said  Morris,  during  the  war,  to  a  Quaker  friend, 
"for  the  use  of  the  army."  "What  security  can  thee  give  ?"  asked  the  lender.  "My  note 
and  my  honor,"  responded  Morris.  "Robert,  thee  shall  have  it,"  was  the  prompt  reply. 3 
Morris's  colleague  in  the  Senate  was  William  Maclay.  He  was  fifty-two,  was  born  in  the 
north  of  Ireland,  and  had  married  a  daughter  of  John  Harris,  the  founder  of  Harrisburg. 
He  was  a  lawyer,  and  held  various  offices  of  trust  in  the  State  of  Pennsylvania.  But  he  is 
best  known  for  his  Journal,4  one  of  the  few  books  that  give  an  insight  into  the  character 
of  the  Congress  of  1 789.  The  only  Southern  State  represented  in  the  Senate  at  the  open- 
ing of  Congress  was  Georgia,  in  the  person  of  William  Few,  a  man  of  forty-one,  a  Revo- 
lutionary officer,  a  delegate  to  the  Continental  Congress,  and  a  member  of  the  Federal 
Convention. 

Of  the  thirteen  members  of  the  House  present,  the  delegations  from  Massachusetts 
and  Connecticut  were  the  most  distinguished :  George  Thacher,  Fisher  Ames,  George 
Leonard,  Elbridge  Gerry,  Benjamin  Huntington,  Jonathan  Trumbull,  and  Jeremiah  Wads- 
worth.  5 

George  Thacher,  a  Harvard  man  of  thirty-five,  had  been  a  member  of  the  old  Con- 
gress. Fisher  Ames  entered  Harvard  College  when  twelve  years  old,  and  the  first  Congress 
under  the  Constitution  at  thirty-one.  He  was  a  brilliant  orator  and  leader  in  debate.6 
George  Leonard  was  a  graduate  of  Harvard,  and  was  sixty  years  old.  Elbridge  Gerry,  a 
Harvard  graduate,  forty-five  years  old,  a  signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Constitutional  Convention,  later  an  ambassador  to  France,  Governor  of  Massachu- 
setts, and  Vice-President  of  the  United  States,  was  listened  to  with  the  utmost  confidence  in 
the  Congress  of  1789,  when  he  spoke  on  the  great  financial  questions  of  the  day.7  Benjamin 
Huntington  was  a  Yale  man  of  fifty-three,  and  a  member  of  the  old  Congress.  Jeremiah 


1  Adams's  Works,  vol.  x,  pp.  108-112. 

'  Van  Santvoord's  "  Chief-Justices,"  pp.  234-236. 

3  "  Eminent  Americans,"  Lossing,  p.  91. 

4  "Journal  of  William  Maclay,"  edited  by  Edgar  S.  Maclay,  A.  M. 

*  The  first  four  represented  Massachusetts ;  the  others,  Connecticut. 

'  "  The  members  all  appear  to  be  very  able  men,  particularly  a  Mr.  Ames,  of  Massachusetts,  who,  notwithstanding  he  is 
a  very  young  man,  delivers  his  sentiments  with  the  greatest  ease  and  propriety,  and  in  the  most  elegant  language  of  any 
man  in  the  House."— (Letter  of  T.  Lowther  to  Iredell,  New  York,  May  9,  1789,  in  McRee's  "Life  of  James  Iredell,"  vol.  li, 

pp.  258-259.) 

'  Sanderson's  *'  Signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence,"  revised  edition,  p.  162. 


PORTRAITS  OF  GEORGE  WASHINGTON. 


THE  IN  A  UG  URA  TION. 


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Wadsworth  had  also  been  a  member  of  the  Continental  Congress.  Jonathan  Trumbull 
was  a  graduate  of  Harvard  College,  was  forty-nine  years  old,  had  a  good  record  in  the 
Revolution,  was  the  son  of  the  old  war  Governor,  "  Brother  Jonathan,"  and  became  Speaker 
of  the  House,  United  States  Senator,  and  Governor  of  his  native  State.  Of  Pennsylvania's 
four  Representatives  present,  Frederick  Augustus  Muhlenberg,  State  Treasurer,  and  Presi- 
dent of  the  State  Convention  of  Pennsylvania  which  ratified  the  Constitution,  was  thirty- 
nine,  and  was  soon  to  be  elected  the  first  Speaker.  His  brother,  John  Peter  Gabriel 
Muhlenberg,  was  forty-three,  was  ordained  in  England  by  the  Bishop  of  London,  and  at 
the  end  of  the  Revolution  was  a  major-general.1  Thomas  Hartley,2  of  Pennsylvania,  colo- 
nel in  the  Revolution,  and  a  lawyer;  Daniel  Hiester,  of  Pennsylvania;  Alexander  White, 
of  Virginia,  a  member  of  the  Continental  Congress ;  and  Thomas  Tudor  Tucker,  of  South 
Carolina,  likewise  a  delegate  to  the  old  Congress,  completed  the  list  of  representatives  in 
their  seats  at  the  opening  of  Congress. 

The  Senate  waited  from  day  to  day  for  more  members  to  appear,  and  on  the  nth 
of  March  addressed  a  circular  letter  to  the  absentees,  urging  their  immediate  presence  in 
New  York.  A  similar  summons  was  sent  out  a  week  later. 3  The  first  Senator  to  respond 
was  William  Paterson,  of  New  Jersey,  forty-four  years  old,  a  graduate  of  Princeton  Col- 
lege, a  lawyer,  Governor  of  his  State  for  three  years,  and  afterward  for  thirteen  years  one 


1  Both  brothers  had  been  sent  abroad  to  be  educated  at  the  University  of  Halle,  but  returned  to  America  just  before  the 
breaking  out  of  the  Revolutionary  War.  Having  taken  orders  in  both  the  Lutheran  and  English  Churches,  Peter  Muhlenberg 
had  charge  of  the  so-called  "  Valley  Churches  "  of  the  Blue  Ridge,  Virginia,  and  was  personally  acquainted  with  Washington 
and  Patrick  Henry.  It  is  related  that  one  Sabbath  morning  Peter  entered  his  pulpit  arrayed  in  full  military  costume  over  which 
his  ministerial  gown  was  thrown,  and,  having  told  his  congregation  that  the  time  to  preach  had  passed  and  the  time  to  fight  had 
come,  he  threw  off  his  gown,  ordered  the  drums  at  the  church  door  to  beat,  and  at  once  assumed  command  of  three  hundred 
men  from  the  frontier  churches  of  Virginia.  The  Muhlenberg  brothers  were  the  sons  of  the  "  blessed  and  venerable  Henry 
Melchior  Muhlenberg,"  the  founder  of  the  Lutheran  Church  in  America. — ("  Life  and  Work  of  William  A.  Muhlenberg,  D.  D.," 
by  Anne  Ayres,  pp.  i-6.) 

2  The  Independent  Gazetteer,  or  the  Chronicle  of  Freedom,  Monday,  March  2,  1789,  says: 

"York,  Feburary  25th. 

"  On  Monday  last,  the  Honorable  Thomas  Hartley,  Esquire,  took  his  departure  from  this  town,  for  the  city  of  New  York, 
there  to  take  his  seat  in  the  Congress  of  the  United  States,  which  are  to  meet  on  the  4th  of  March  next,  agreeably  to  the  Reso- 
lution of  the  late  Congress.  .  .  . 

"  Colonel  Hartley  was  accompanied  to  the  river  by  a  numerous  and  respectable  company  from  Yorktown,  and  its  neigh- 
borhood, and  was  met  there  by  a  number  of  gentlemen,  from  the  very  verge  of  the  county,  and  from  Lancaster. 

"  An  elegant  dinner  was  provided,  of  which  about  forty-eight  persons  partook.  The  following  toasts  (prepared  at  the 
moment)  were  drunk  on  the  occasion:  1.  His  Excellency  General  Washington,  President  of  the  United  States.  2.  The  Honor- 
able John  Adams,  Vice-President  of  the  L'nited  States.  3.  The  Honorable  the  Senate  of  the  United  States.  4.  The  Honorable 
the  House  of  Representatives  of  the  United  States.  5.  The  friends  of  liberty  and  good  government  throughout  the  world. 
6.  General  Mifflin  and  the  State  of  Pennsylvania.  7.  The  Vice-President  of  the  State  of  Pennsylvania.  8.  The  King  of  France 
and  our  friendly  allies.  9.  James  Wilson,  Esquire.  10.  Governor  St.  Clair,  and  the  Western  Territories,  n.  May  Yorktown 
or  Lancaster  be  the  permanent  residence  of  Congress.  1 2.  The  House  of  York  and  Lancaster,  and  may  they  be  ever  united  ! 
13.  May  the  States  of  North  Carolina  and  Rhode  Island  soon  consider  their  true  interests  and  be  united  to  the  combined 
States,  or  sink  into  naught. 

"  After  which,  Colonel  Hartley,  having  taken  leave  of  his  friends,  proceeded  to  Lancaster,  and  the  company  dispersed." 

3  Congressmen  in  New  York  were  much  annoyed  at  the  absence  of  so  many  Senators  and  Representatives ;  vide  Hazard 
to  Belknap  (Massachusetts  Historical  Society  Collections,  vol.  iii,  fifth  series,  Belknap  Papers,  Part  II,  p.  112);  Beardsley's 
"Life  and  Times  of  William  S.  Johnson,"  p.  134;  Upham's  "  Life  of  Timothy  Pickering,"  vol.  ii,  pp.  447-449;  letter  of  Ben- 
jamin Goodhue  to  Elias  H.  Derby,  April  5,  1789  (Essex  Institute  Historical  Collections,  vol.  i,  second  series,  p.  ill).  Washing- 
ton was  also  annoyed:  vide  letter  of  April  10,  1789,  to  General  Knox  (Sparks,  vol.  ix,  pp.  486,  487)  ;  also  letter  of  Charles 
Thomson  to  Senator  George  Read,  dated  Philadelphia,  March  21,  1789  ("  Life  and  Correspondence  of  George  Read,"  of  Dela- 
ware, by  his  Grandson,  William  T.  Read). 

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of  the  Associate  Justices  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States.  In  the  Constitutional 
Convention,  in  Philadelphia,  he  was  the  mover  of  the  New  Jersey  plan  for  the  preserva- 
tion of  the  sovereignty  of  the  States  in  the  new  Government.  On  the  21st  of  March,  or 
two  days  after  Paterson's  arrival,  Richard  Bassett,  of  Delaware,  took  his  seat  in  the  Sen- 
ate. A  member  of  the  Continental  Congress,  of  the  Annapolis  Convention,  of  the  Consti- 
tutional Convention,  he  afterward  became  Chief-Justice  of  the  Common  Pleas  and  Governor 
of  his  native  State.  He  was  the  great-grandfather  of  Thomas  F.  Bayard.1  Jonathan  Elmer, 
of  New  Jersey,  forty-four  years  old,  and  an  eminent  physician,  was  prevented  by  illness2 
from  taking  his  seat  in  the  Senate  until  the  28th  of  March.  Before  leaving  home,  a  ban- 
quet was  giving  him  by  the  gentlemen  of  his  county.  After  the  toasts  had  been  drunk, 
an  address  was  presented,  from  which  a  single  sentence  is  taken  : 

"Your  literary  acquirements,  the  early  and  active  part  you  took  in  the  cause  of  liberty  and  your  country 
in  the  late  Revolution,  your  knowledge  and  experience  in  the  science  of  government  and  in  the  affairs  of  the 
United  States,  and  the  many  public  characters  which  you  have  sustained  with  honor  and  reputation  for  a  series 
of  years,  have  procured  you  the  esteem  and  confidence  of  your  fellow-citizens,  and  are  evidences  of  your  integ- 
rity and  abilities  to  serve  your  country  in  the  high  and  important  station  in  which  you  are  now  placed."3 

Though  Richard  Henry  Lee,  of  Virginia,  left  Baltimore  March  2d,4  he  did  not  arrive 
in  New  York  until  Sunday,  April  5th,5  so  difficult  was  the  traveling.  In  fact,  the  great 
quantity  of  ice  in  the  rivers  to  the  southward  of  New  York  made  the  passage  of  boats 
across  them  dangerous,  and  was  one  of  the  reasons  for  the  tardiness  of  gentlemen  from  the 
South.  Indeed,  a  Congressman  was  obliged  to  go  nearly  a  hundred  miles  up  one  of  the 
rivers  before  he  could  cross  on  the  ice. 6  Lee's  arrival  in  Congress  was  notable  for  two 
things :  because  he  was  the  twelfth  Senator,  enough  to  make  a  quorum  ;  and  because  he 
was  a  man  of  the  greatest  distinction.  He  was  fifty-seven  years  old.  He  received  a  classi- 
cal education  in  England.  As  a  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  he  made  a  brilliant 
speech  opposing  the  institution  of  slavery.  He  became  famous  in  1 766  under  the  leadership 
of  Patrick  Henry.  He  was  a  delegate  to  the  Continental  Congress  in  Philadelphia  in  1774. 
In  1775,  as  chairman  of  the  committee,  he  drew  up  the  commission  and  instructions  to 
George  Washington  as  commander-in-chief.  In  1776  he  moved  the  great  Resolution  of 
Independence.  He  afterward  signed  the  Articles  of  Confederation.  He  was  president  of 
one  of  the  Continental  Congresses,  and  served  on  many  of  the  important  committees  in 
most  of  the  other  Congresses  under  the  Confederation.  He  was  elected  a  member  of  the 
Convention  in  Philadelphia  in  1787,  but  refused  to  attend,  and  he  was  opposed  to  the 
Constitution  of  the  United  States  for  reasons  given  in  his  famous  "  Letters  of  a  Federal 
Farmer."    He  had  been  elected  Senator  with  his  colleague  Grayson,  by  the  dictum  of 


1  Secretary  of  State  under  President  Cleveland. 
a  Massachusetts  Centinel,  April  4,  1789. 
1  Pennsylvania  Gazette,  April  I,  1789. 


4  Rives 's  "  Madison,"  vol.  ii,  p.  452. 

•  New  York  Packet,  April  7th. 

8  Osborne's  New  Hampshire  Spy,  March  21,  1789. 


MiNlATIRE  BY  C.  W.  PEALE.  1785.     OwNEK.  M«S.  JoHN 

P.  C.  Fostek.  New  Haven,  Conn. 

(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  10.) 


Artist,  Joseph  Wricht.  Owner,  G  L.  McKean. 
Chicago.  III. 

(Loan  Exhibition,  No  43.) 


Mini ati  re  bv  James  Peale,  1782.  Owner, 

Dt'  K  ANT  DA  PONTE,  NEW  ORLEANS.  La. 

(Loan  Exhibition.  No.  48a) 


Artist,  John  Trumbull, 


Owner,  Yale  University. 


Miniature  "  W.  V. 
Mamaroneck.  Nt.  Y 

(Loan  Exhibition,  No,  42, 


Owner.  John  C.  Jay,  M.  D., 


M INIATURB  BV  Walter  Robertson,  1794. 
Edward  Law  Rogers,  Baltimore,  Md. 

(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  24.) 


Owner. 


Miniati  re  bv  James  Peale,  1782.  Owner, 

DCRANT  DA  PONTE,  New  ORLEANS,  La. 

(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  16.) 


Artist,  John  Tri  mbi  ll.    Owner,  Yale  University. 


Artist.  C.  W,  Peale,  1795.  Owner,  N.  Y.  His 
torical  Society*. 


Portraits  of  George  Washington  and  Portrait  of  Martha  Washington. 


THE  INAUGURATION. 


1 1 


Patrick  Henry,  for  the  special  purpose  of  securing  amendments  to  the  Constitution,  but 
was  dissatisfied  with  those  ultimately  adopted.1 

Meanwhile,  the  House  of  Representatives  had  likewise  formed  a  quorum.  Of  the  fifty- 
nine  members,  seventeen  were  needed  besides  the  thirteen  present  on  the  first  day  to  make 
the  required  quorum  of  thirty.    Let  us  look  at  these  seventeen. 

On  the  day  after  the  opening,  Nicholas  Gilman,  of  New  Hampshire;  Benjamin  Good- 
hue, of  Massachusetts;  Roger  Sherman  and  Jonathan  Sturges,  of  Connecticut;  and  Henry 
Wynkoop,  of  Pennsylvania,  made  their  appearance.  Gilman  had  been  in  the  old  Congress 
the  two  previous  years,  and  was  thirty-four.  Goodhue,  a  Harvard  man  of  forty-one,  repre- 
sented the  Essex  District,  and  was  afterward  United  States  Senator.  Roger  Sherman,  of 
New  Haven,  began  life  as  a  shoemaker,  and  was  sixty-eight  years  old.  He  was  the  only 
man  who  had  signed  the  four  great  state  papers  of  his  day — the  Articles  of  Association 
of  the  Congress  of  1774,  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  the  Articles  of  Confederation, 
and  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States.  Wynkoop  and  Sturges,  the  latter  a  Yale  man 
of  forty-nine,  had  both  been  in  the  old  Congress. 

On  Saturday,  March  14th,  three  Virginians — James  Madison,  John  Page,  and  Richard 
Bland  Lee — took  their  seats  in  the  House.  The  most  notable  of  them  all — in  fact,  the  leader 
of  the  House — was  James  Madison,  a  Princeton  graduate,  of  thirty-eight.  The  services  he 
rendered  in  the  formation  of  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States  can  never  be  forgotten. 
Patrick  Henry  had  kept  him  out  of  the  Senate,  but  he  was  of  more  value  to  the  country 
where  he  now  was.  A  week  after  the  organization  of  the  House,  he  introduced  a  resolu- 
tion regarding  the  revenue,  in  order  to  rescue  "  the  trade  of  the  country  in  some  degree," 
as  he  said,  "from  its  present  anarchy."3 

Following  Madison,  came  straggling  into  the  House,  through  the  remainder  of  the 
month,  other  members  in  the  following  order:  Andrew  Moore,  of  Virginia;  Elias  Boudi- 
not,  of  New  Jersey;  William  Smith,  of  Maryland;  Josiah  Parker,  of  Virginia;  George  Gale, 
of  Maryland;  Theodoric  Bland, 3  of  Virginia;  James  Schureman,  of  New  Jersey;  and  Thomas 
Scott,  of  Pennsylvania.  The  most  distinguished  of  them  all  was  Elias  Boudinot,  forty-nine 
years  old,  commissary-general  of  the  prisoners  during  the  Revolution,  one  of  the  presidents 
of  the  old  Congress,  and  widely  known  at  the  beginning  of  the  present  century  as  a 
philanthropist  and  President  of  the  American  Bible  Society. 4 


1  Letter  of  Lee  and  Grayson  to  the  Governor  of  Virginia,  inclosing  amendments  to  the  Constitution. — MSS.  in  the  Virginia 
State  Archives. 

2  Rives's  "  Madison,"  vol.  iii,  pp.  12,  13. 

'  A  colonel  of  a  regiment  of  dragoons  in  the  Revolution  and  member  of  the  old  Congress.  He  was  buried  June  2,  1790,  in 
Trinity  church-yard,  New  York,  and  his  funeral  was  attended  by  the  two  Houses  of  Congress  and  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati. 
(Burlington  Advertiser,  June  15,  1790.) 

*  Elias  Boudinot's  public  career  began  when  as  a  young  man  he  served  as  aide  on  Governor  Livingston's  staff  and  was 
Chairman  of  the  Committee  of  Safety  of  New  Jersey.  In  1777  he  was  appointed  by  Congress  commissary-general  of  prisoners, 
and  was  the  same  year  elected  member  of  Congress.    In  1782  he  became  president  of  that  body,  and  as  such  signed  the  peace 


THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 


On  Wednesday,  the  ist  of  April,  the  House  of  Representatives  formed  a  quorum  and 
immediately  proceeded  to  the  transaction  of  business — the  most  important  of  which  was 
the  counting  of  the  electoral  votes  for  President  and  Vice-President  of  the  United  States.1 
George  Washington,  of  Virginia,  was  the  unanimous  choice  for  President,  having  received 
sixty-nine,  or  the  total  number  of  votes  cast.  The  next  highest  number,  or  thirty-four 
votes,  were  cast  for  John  Adams,  of  Massachusetts,  and  he  was  declared  elected  Vice- 
President  of  the  United  States. 3  The  electoral  votes  of  ten  States  only  were  cast  for  the 
first  President  and  Vice-President.  North  Carolina  and  Rhode  Island,  as  has  been  before 
stated,  would  not  ratify  the  Constitution.  New  York,  owing  chiefly  to  Governor  Clinton's 
anti-Federalism,  had  neglected  to  appoint  Federal  electors. 3  None  of  New  York's  repre- 
sentatives were  in  the  House  at  the  counting  of  the  electoral  votes,  nor  were  her  Sena- 
tors in  their  seats  at  the  time  of  the  inauguration.  The  State  Senate  of  New  York 
appointed,  in  January,  General  Philip  Schuyler  and  Robert  Y ates  as  Senators,  but  the 


with  Great  Britain  ;  serving-  again,  after  the  adoption  of  the  Constitution,  from  1789  to  1795,  during  which  time  he  was  conspicu- 
ous in  all  the  debates  for  his  wisdom,  patriotism,  and  eloquence.  Educated  at  Princeton  College,  and  learned  in  the  law,  he  was 
one  of  New  Jersey's  foremost  jurists.  He  was  the  founder  of  the  American  Bible  Society,  which  he  endowed.  President 
Washington  appointed  him  Superintendent  of  the  Mint  in  1796,  which  office  he  held  until  1805,  when  he  retired  to  private 
life,  and  published  his  "  Star  in  the  West "  and  other  works,  chiefly  relating  to  the  Indians,  for  whose  welfare  and  protection 
he  earnestly  worked. 

1  April  6th,  "at  twelve  o'clock,  the  Senate  gave  notice  to  the  House  that  they  had  assembled  and  that  they  were  ready  to 
open  the  votes  for  President  and  Vice-President  in  the  presence  of  the  House.  .  .  .  About  half-past  one,  the  House  attended  to 
the  Senate-chamber  and  the  votes  were  counted." — (Salem  Mercury,  April  14,  1789.) 

2  The  Comte  de  Moustier  gives  an  account  of  the  first  presidential  election  in  his  dispatch  dated  New  York,  April  7,  1789, 

and  indorsed  as  having  been  received  in  Paris,  August  23d,  by  the  Count  de  Montmorin,  Minister  of  Foreign  Affairs.  He 

speaks  as  follows  of  John  Adams  (translated  from  the  original  dispatch  in  the  French  archives) : 

"  As  to  the  other  candidates,  Mr.  John  Adams  gathered  thirty-four  votes,  which  form  a  great  majority  over  the  others, 
of  which  none  obtained  more  than  nine  votes,  which  was  the  number  given  to  Mr.  Jay.  One  can  also  be  as  certain  of  the  in- 
action preserved  by  General  Washington,  as  of  the  particular  activity  of  Mr.  Adams  and  his  partisans  to  secure  votes  for  them- 
selves. 

"  What  particularly  favored  the  latter  was  the  fortunate  fact  of  his  being  a  citizen  of  the  State  the  inhabitants  of  which  are 
the  most  active  and  best  combined  men,  when  interest  and  influence  are  concerned,  of  all  those  composing  the  American  Union. 
The  State  of  Massachusetts,  which  could  not  boast  of  giving  a  chief  to  the  Federal  Republic  (as  General  Washington  could  have 
no  competitors,  although  it  is  said  he  had  many  secret  rivals),  wished  at  least  that  the  second  magistrate  could  be  chosen  from 
among  its  citizens.  Governor  Hancock,  aged  and  infirm,  was  too  ancient  an  idol  not  to  be  somewhat  enfeebled  in  popularity. 
He  was  nevertheless  the  most  ostensible  person  in  his  own  State.  Mr.  Adams  having  failed  in  a  negotiation  of  a  Commercial 
Treaty  with  England,  which  was  one  of  his  cherished  dreams,  and  not  being  able  to  stay  conveniently  in  a  country  where,  in 
spite  of  the  praise  of  England  in  his  writings,  he  only  experienced  failures,  arrived  some  months  before  the  final  arrangements  of 
the  new  Government.  This  man,  proclaimed  in  advance,  without  being  wholly  able  to  determine  his  success,  drew  the  attention 
of  his  fellow-citizens,  who  by  his  mere  word  believed  him  as  great  a  politician  as  General  Washington  was  a  soldier.  And  think- 
ing that  a  profound  politician  is  to-day  more  necessary  in  the  United  States  than  an  able  general,  they  looked  upon  him  as  the 
first  personage  of  the  United  States,  and  therefore  of  the  earth." 

In  the  state  archives  at  The  Hague  the  following  dispatch  is  translated  from  Old  Dutch,  written  by  Rudolph  Van  Dorsten, 

Secretary  of  Legation  at  New  York  from  the  States-General  of  the  United  Netherlands : 

"  To  the  Recorder  of  the  States-General:  "  New  York-  April  7-  ^ 

"Your  Right  Noble  Worship:  Yesterday  there  was  a  session  of  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  of 
America.  They  canvassed  the  votes  of  the  several  States,  where  the  election  of  President  and  Vice-President  took  place  when 
General  Washington  was  unanimously  elected  President  and  John  Adams,  Esquire,  of  Boston  (the  same  who  had  been  Minister 
Plenipotentiary)  Vice-President,  receiving  thirty-four  of  the  sixty-nine  votes.  As  soon  as  both  these  personages  have  arrived 
here  and  taken  possession  of  their  respective  offices,  the  new  Government  of  America  will  be  enabled  to  assume  its  functions. 
The  States  which  elected  the  President  and  Vice-President  were :  New  Hampshire,  Massachusetts,  Connecticut,  New  Jersey, 
Pennsylvania,  Delaware,  Maryland,  Virginia,  South  Carolina,  and  Georgia.  New  York  did  not  participate,  owing  to  differences 
between  its  upper  and  lower  House,  they  being  unable  to  agree  as  to  the  manner  in  which  the  presidential  election  as  well  as 
the  election  of  the  Senators  should  be  conducted.    Rhode  Island  and  North  Carolina  did  not  vote  at  this  election." 

3  Salem  Mercury,  January  27th,  1789.  Vermont,  however,  was  willing  to  be  represented.  The  Hampshire  Gazette,  of 
March  4,  1789,  said  : 

"  The  State  of  Vermont  have  appointed  the  Hon.  Jonathan  Arnold,  Esq.,  the  Hon.  Judge  Robinson,  and  Isaac  Tichnor, 
Esq.,  as  agents  on  the  part  of  Vermont,  to  repair  to  the  place  of  the  session  of  the  new  Congress  and  treat  with  that  honorable 
body  on  such  matters  interesting  to  said  State  as  may  be  proposed  to  them  by  the  Congress." 


MARTHA  WASHINGTON. 

Artist.  Gilbert  Stuart,  1796.  Owned  by  Boston  Atheneum, 

AND  DEPOSITED  WITH  MUSEUM  OF  FlNE  ARTS,  BoSTON. 


GEORGE  WASHINGTON. 

Artist,  Gilbekt  Stuart,  1796.  Owned  by  Boston  Atheneum, 

and  deposited  with  mlseum  of  flne  arts,  boston. 


GEORGE  WASHINGTON. 


GEORGE  WASHINGTON. 


Artist,  Gilbert  Stuart.  1795.       Owner.  Mrs.  Josei  h  Harrison.  Philadelphia,  Pa.         Artist,  Gilbert  Stuart.  Owner,  Dr.  W.  F.  Channing,  Providence,  R.  I. 

(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  30.)  (Loan  Exhibition,  No.  31.) 

The  Atheneum  Heads  of  George  and  Martha  Washington, 

AND  THE  VAUGHAN  PORTRAIT  AND  GIBBS  -  CHANNING  PORTRAIT  OF  WASHINGTON. 


THE  INAUGURATION. 


13 


Assembly  would  not  agree;1  and  in  July  James  Duane  was  substituted  for  Yates. 
Finally,'2  Philip  Schuyler  and  Rufus  King  were  elected  to  represent  the  State  of  New 
York  in  the  Senate.3 

Only  one  man  was  thought  of  to  carry  the  notice  of  election  to  Mount  Yernon,  and 
he  was  Charles  Thomson.    Several  messengers4  were  suggested  to  go  to  Braintree,  Massa- 
chusetts, the  home  of  the  Yice-President ;  but 
the  question  was  left  to  the  Senate,  which 
selected    Sylvanus   Bourne,  "  a  young  man  of 
handsome  abilities."5 

While  these  gentlemen  are  on  their  way, 
let  us  glance  at  the  new  Federal  Hall,  occu- 
pied by  Congress.  The  building  stood  on 
historic  ground.  The  Common  Council  of 
New  York  presented  a  petition  to  the  provin- 
cial authorities  in  1699,  asking  that  the  old 
fortifications  on  Wall  Street,  and  the  bastions 
which  had  been  erected  upon  them,  might 
be  torn  down  in  order  that  a  new  City  Hall  could  be  speedily  built.  The  stones  from 
the  bastions  were  immediately  appropriated  in  building  the  second  City  Hall  of  New 

York.6  On  Broad  Street,  nearly  opposite,  stood 
the  whipping-post,  cage,  and  pillory.  Up  to  the 
end  of  the  last  century  the  old  City  Hall  was  the 
center  of  political  life.  The  building  served  as  the 
municipal  and  colonial  court-house,  the  debtors'  and 
county  jail,  and  the  Capitol  of  the  province.  It 
also  contained  a  library.  Here,  in  1735,  at  the  trial 
of  John  Zenger,  was  established  the  freedom  of  the 
American  press. 7  The  protest  against  the  Stamp  Act 
was  made  here  in  1765,  and  on  the  same  spot  the 
view  of  the  federal  edifice  in      Declaration  of  Independence  was  read  to  the  people 

NEW  YORK. 

(From  the  Massachusetts  Magazine,  May,  1789.)       of  New  York,  in  1 776.     The  Continental  Congress 


OLD  CITY  HALL,  WALL  STREET,  CORNER  OF 
NASSAU  STREET,  1776. 
(From  "  Valentine's  Manual.") 


1  Independent  Chronicle,  January  8th  and  22d,  1789;  Massachusetts  Centinel,  March  1 8th,  1789. 

2  July  16,  1789. 

3  They  took  their  seats  July  27th  and  25th,  respectively.  Lewis  Morris  and  Ezra  L'Hommedieu  were  also  candidates  for 
the  Senate. 

4  Massachusetts  Centinel,  April  4th,  1789;  Paine  Wingate  to  Timothy  Pickering  (Upham's  "Pickering,"  vol.  ii,  pp. 
447-449)- 

6  Pennsylvania  Packet,  April  20,  1789. 

"  Valentine's  "  Manual  of  the  Common  Council  of  New  York,"  1866,  p.  546. 
'  George  William  Curtis's  oration,  November  26,  1883. 


THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


sat  here,  and  in  the  last  years  of  the  old  Congress  the  Rev.  Manasseh  Cutler,  LL.  D.( 
visited  the  building,  and  wrote  a  description  worth  quoting:1 

"Congress  Chamber  is  an  apartment  in  the  second  story  of  the  City  Hall.  This  Hall  is  a  magnificent 
pile  of  buildings  in  Wall  street,  at  the  head  of  Broad  street,  near  the  centre  of  the  city.  It  is  more  than 
twice  the  width  of  the  State-House  in  Boston,  but  1  think  not  so  long.  The  lower  story  is  a  walk;  at  each 
corner  are  rooms  appropriated  to  the  Mayor  and  Aldermen  of  the  City,  and  the  City  Guards.  Between  the 
corner  rooms,  on  each  side  and  at  the  ends,  it  is  open  for  a  considerable  space,  supported  by  pillars.  In 
front  is  a  flight  of  steps  from  the  street,  over  which  is  a  two-story  piazza,  with  a  spacious  walk,  which  com- 
municates with  Congress  Chamber  at  the  east  end,  and  with  the  Chamber  where  the  Mayor  and  Aldermen 
hold  their  courts  at  the  west  end." 

Colonel  John  May,  who  visited  the  old  City  Hall  in  1788,  wrote: 

"  The  greatest  curiosities  in  the  Congress  Chamber  were  pictures  of  their  Majesties  the  King  and  Queen 
of  France;2  their  appearance  was  truly  elegant  and  noble.  No  painting  can  excel  these.  The  frames 
that  contain  the  pictures  are  magnificent — twelve  feet  high  by  about  six  wide — superbly  grand.  But  the 
Hall  is  not  high  enough  to  receive  their  crowns  (perhaps  a  presage  of  their  doom)." 

After  the  city 
of  New  York  had 
been  selected 3  by 
the  old  Congress 
for  the  meeting  of 
the  new  Congress, 
it  was  at  once  de- 
termined to  trans- 
form the  old  City 
Hall  into  the  new 
Federal  Hall. 4  A 
number  of  wealthy 
gentlemen  advanced 
the  thirty-two  thou- 
sand dollars,  a  suffi- 
cient sum,  it  was  thought,  for  repairs,  and  the  architect  chosen  was  a  French  officer  of 
Engineers,  Major  Pierre  Charles  L'Enfant,5  the  architect  of  St.  Paul's  Chapel,  and  designer 


VIEW  OF  FEDERAL  HALL,  1797. 
(From  a  print  in  the  possession  of  Dr.  Thomas  Addis  Emmet,  of  New  York.) 


1  Cutler's  "  Life,  Journals  and  Correspondence,"  vol.  i,  p.  237. 

5  Presented  to  Congress  by  Louis  XVI  in  1784.— (Colonel  May's  "Journeys  to  the  Ohio  Country,"  p.  21).  The  old  City 
Hall  also  contained  portraits  of  George  Washington,  Christopher  Columbus,  and  military  heroes  of  the  Revolution.  Columbus's 
portrait  was  removed  to  the  Capitol  at  Albany  in  1827. —(Smith's  "  New  York  in  1789,"  p.  44.) 

3  September  13,  1788. 

4  Work  was  begun  October  6,  1788. — (New  York  Packet,  March  6,  1789.) 

6  Member  of  the  Cincinnati  Society,  and  designer  of  the  badge  of  the  society.    L'Enfant  was  born  in  France  in  1755,  and 

died  in  Maryland,  January  14,  1825. 

"On  October  12,  1789,  the  Common  Council  resolved  that  he  should  be  presented  with  the  thanks  of  the  Corporation,  the 
freedom  of  the  city,  and  ten  acres  of  the  Common  Lands  for  his  services  in  erecting  Federal  Hall.  .  .  .  Major  L'Enfant  declined 


MARTHA  WASHINGTON. 

Artist,  Joseph  Wright.         Owner.  Clarence  Winthrop  Bowen,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  53.1 


GEORGE  WASHINGTON. 


Artist,  Joseph  Wright.      Owner,  Clarence  Winthrop  Bowen,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  44.) 


THE  INAUGURATION. 


15 


of  the  original  plan  of  the  city  of  Washington. 1  The  jail  prisoners  were  removed  to  the 
"New  Jail  in  the  Park.'"-  The  transformation  of  the  building  was  eagerly  watched  and 
its  progress  duly  recorded  in  the 
newspapers  of  the  day.  When 
thrown  open  for  the  inspection 
of  the  public,  a  short  time  before 
the  inauguration,  it  was  seen  to 


be  an  imposing  structure.  The 
arched  basement  on  Wall  and 
Nassau  Streets  formed  a  prom- 
enade for  the  citizens. 3  There 
were  seven  openings  to  the 
basement  in  Wall  Street.  The 
four  heavy  Tuscan  columns  in 
the  center  extended  to  the  sec- 
ond story  or  grand  balcony, 
where  the  inauguration  oath  was 

administered.  These  columns  supported  four  high  Doric  pillars,  over  which,  in  the  pedi- 
ment, were  ornamental  figures  and  a  great  American  eagle,  carrying  thirteen  arrows  and 
the  arms  of  the  United  States.     Within  the  building  were  the  Representatives'  room,  the 

Senate-chamber,  the  committee-rooms,  audience-room, 
and  antechambers,  a  library,  and  a  marble-paved  hall- 
way, extending  from  the  bottom  to  the  top  of  the 
building  and  roofed  by  a  glass  cupola,  so  that  a  strong 
light  might  be  thrown  down  upon  the  lobby  adjoining 
the  Senate-chamber.  The  Senate-chamber  was  forty 
by  thirty  feet,  and  fifteen  feet  high,  with  fireplaces  of 
American  marble,  of  "  as  fine  a  grain  as  any  from 
Europe."4     On  the  ceiling  were  a  sun  and  thirteen 


"A  PERSPECTIVE  VIEW  OF  THE  CITV  HALL  IN  NEW  YORK, 
TAKEN  FROM  WALL  STREET." 
(From  a  print  in  the  possession  of  the  New  York  Historical  Society.) 


CUSTOM-HOUSE,  WALL  STREET. 

BUILT  ON  THE  SITE  OF  FEDERAL  HALL  IN  1831. 

("  Valentine's  Manual.") 


the  gift  of  land,  and  in  1801  petitioned  for  a  sum  of  money  in  its  stead,  but  again  declined  the  sum  of  seven  hundred  and  fifty 
dollars  which  was  offered  him.  ...  In  1812  he  declined  the  professorship  of  Engineering  at  West  Point." — (Smith's  "New 
York  in  1789,"  p.  47.) 

1  These  alterations  were  carried  out  by  and  under  the  supervision  of  five  commissioners :  Robert  Watts,  Alexander  Ma- 
comb, William  Maxwell,  James  Nicholson,  and  Major  L'Enfant.  Instead  of  thirty-two  thousand  dollars  more  than  sixty-five 
thousand  dollars  were  spent  in  making  the  alterations,  one  half  of  which  sum  was  raised  by  tax  and  the  other  half  by  a  lottery 
authorized  by  the  State  in  1790.  Advertisements  of  the  lottery  to  pay  for  Federal  Hall  appeared  in  the  New  York  Journal  from 
March,  1790,  to  June,  1791.— (Thomas  E.  V.  Smith's  "  New  York  in  1789,"  pp.  42,  43  ;  Proceedings  of  Common  Council,  June 
10,  1789,  and  January,  1790;  New  York  Laws,  1790.) 

a  Watson's  "  Annals  of  New  York  City  and  State,"  pp.  351,  352. 

3  New  York  Daily  Gazette,  March  26,  1789;  Massachusetts  Magazine,  vol.  i,  pp.  331-333  (May,  1789). 

4  Massachusetts  Centinel,  March  18,  1789. 


1 6         THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 


DESK  IN  FEDERAL  HALL  USED  BY  WASHINGTON 
AS  PRESIDENT  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES. 

NOW  IN  THE  GOVERNOR'S  ROOM,  CITY  HALL,  NEW  YORK. 


stars.  The  Representatives'  room,  or  Federal  Hall  proper,  was  sixty-one  feet  deep,  fifty- 
eight  feet  wide,  and  thirty-six  high,  and  contained  four  fireplaces.    On  the  Broad  or  Nassau 

Street  side  were  two  galleries  for  specta- 
tors, and  at  the  north  end  was  the  Speak- 
er's chair ;  and  arranged  in  circular  form 
in  the  room  were  seats  for  the  fifty-nine 
Representatives.  The  most  elegant  and 
most  talked-of  ornament  to  the  building 
was  the  eagle  on  the  outside.  The  day1 
it  was  reared  a  troop  of  horse,  a  company 
of  grenadiers,  and  a  company  of  light  in- 
fantry attended,  so  memorable  was  the 
occasion.2  It  was  a  disappointment  that 
the  eagle  could  not  be  seen  on  March 
4th,  when  Federal  Hall  and  other  build- 
ings in  the  city  were  decorated  with 
flags.  It  continued  to  be  a  source  of  annoyance  that  as  late  as  the  5th  of  April,  the 
scaffolding  was  up  in  front  of  the  building  and  "  the  eagle  with  its  accompaniments  not 
displayed  consequently." 3  On  the  226.  of 
April,  news  was  sent  from  New  York  to  the 
Salem  Mercury  as  follows:  "The  eagle  in 
front  of  the  Federal  State-House  is  displayed. 
The  general  appearance  of  this  front  is  truly 
august."4  After  Congress  had  begun  the 
transaction  of  business,  the  building  was  crowd- 
ed with  visitors,  so  eager  were  all  to  inspect 
this  wonderful  structure.  It  might  be  added 
that,  after  Congress  moved  to  Philadelphia, 
Federal  Hall  once  more  became  the  City  Hall, 

and  was  altered  to  receive  the  courts  and  the  State  Assembly,  and  was  taken  down  in 
18 1 2-13, 5  to  make  way  for  buildings  which  in  turn  were  replaced  by  the  old  Custom- 
I louse  and  the  United  States  Sub-Treasury  Building  of  to-day. 

On    Tuesday    afternoon,6   the    day    after    the    counting    of    the    votes,  Sylvanus 


WASHINGTON'S  WRITING-TABLE,  USED  IN 
FEDERAL  HALL. 

NOW  IN  THE  GOVERNOR'S  ROOM,   CITY  HALL,  NEW  YORK. 


1  February  17,  1789. 

'  Herald  of  Freedom,  February  17,  1789. 
8  Massachusetts  Centinel,  April  11,  1789. 
4  Salem  Mercury,  April  28,  1789. 

6  Federal  Hall  building  was  sold  at  auction  May  15,  181 2,  for  four  hundred  and  twenty-five  dollars. 
0  April  7,  1789. 


\n  i  sh\isiiei>  i  ortkait  nv  Gilbert  Stuart,  r8iti  On.  Miniature  by  J,  Trumbull,  1793.   Owned  dy  Artist,  Gilbert  Stuart,  1823.    Owned  by  John 

Owned  by  William  C.  Johnson,  Great  and  also  Yale  University.  Ouincy  Adams,  Great  Grandson,  Boston,  Mass. 

Great  Great  Grandson,  Newiiurvpokt,  Mass. 


Portraits  of  John  Adams,  Vice-President  of  the  United  States  in  1789. 


THE  INAUGURATION. 


17 


Bourne,1  "set  out  in  a  packet-boat,  with  a  fair  wind  and  a  brisk  gale,  for  Boston,"2 
bearing  official  notification  of  election  to  Jobn  Adams  and  letters  and  dispatches  to 
gentlemen  and  newspapers  in  Massachusetts.3  Late  on  Wednesday  evening  the  packet, 
under  command  of  Captain  Fairbanks,  arrived  at  Warwick  Neck  in  Rhode  Island  ; ' 
and,  by  traveling  overland  the  rest  of  the  journey,  Sylvanus  Bourne  was  able  to  reach 
Braintree  at  six  o'clock  on  Thursday  evening, 6  making  the  journey  from  New  York 
in  fifty  hours,0  express  time  indeed  one  hundred  years  ago.  The  following  Monday 
morning,  at  ten  o'clock,  Mr.  Adams  started  for  New  York,  not  forgetting  to  take 
with  him  an  elegant  suit  of  broadcloth,  manufactured  at  Hartford,  in  which  to  make  his 
appearance  as  Vice-President  of  the  United  States. 7  A  troop  of  horse  came  out  from 
Boston  to  serve  as  escort ;  and  in  returning  through  Dorchester  with  Mr.  Adams,  the 
party  was  saluted  with  a  "  Federal  discharge  of  artillery."  On  the  arrival  of  the  proces- 
sion at  the  fortification  gates  of  Boston,  the  bells  began  to  ring,  and  a  large  body  of 
gentlemen  on  horseback  met  Mr.  Adams  and  accompanied  him  to  the  residence  of 
Governor  Hancock,  where  a  collation  was  served.  Here  there  was  another  discharge  of 
artillery,  and  the  citizens  "with  loud  huzzas"  testified  their  appreciation  of  "the  great 
republican  virtues"8  of  John  Adams.  At  half-past  one  the  Vice-President  entered  his 
carnage  and  continued  his  journey  under  military  escort.  The  procession  was  indeed 
imposing  and  included  an  advanced  corps  of  uniformed  horse,  a  hundred  and  fifty  gen- 
tlemen on  horseback,  the  Middlesex  Horse,  the  Roxbury  Blues,  forty  carriages  containing 
the  Governor,  the  French  and  Dutch  consuls,  the  President  of  Harvard  College,  and  other 
gentlemen  of  distinction.  At  Charlestown  he  was  welcomed  with  another  "  Federal  dis- 
charge "  of  cannon,  and  in  passing  through  Cambridge,  Watertown,  Sudbury,  and  other 
towns  he  received  proofs  of  the  highest  consideration.  Though  a  part  of  the  proces- 
sion that  started  at  Boston  dropped  off  at  Cambridge,  and  other  parts  at  points  beyond, 
the  military  escort  with  frequent  changes  accompanied  Mr.  Adams,  under  orders  of  the 
Governor,  through  the  counties  of  Middlesex  and  Worcester.  The  next  day,  Tuesday,9 
Mr.  Adams  passed  through  Worcester,  where  he  received  the  customary  salute  of  eleven 
guns,  and  dined  at  the  United  States  Arms. 10    On  Wednesday  he  left  Springfield  behind 


1  Harvard  College,  1779,  and  a  citizen  of  Roxbury,  Massachusetts.  He  was  allowed  one  hundred  dollars  for  the  expenses 
of  his  trip. 

5  Letter  of  Alexander  White,  of  Virginia,  dated  New  York,  April  8,  1789.  Original  owned  by  Dr.  Thomas  Addis 
Emmet,  of  New  York. 

s  Salem  Mercury,  April  14,  1789. 

4  United  States  Chronicle,  April  19,  1789. 

6  Salem  Mercury,  April  14,  1789. 

*  New  York  Packet,  April  14,  1789. 

1  Boston  Gazette,  March  30,  1789  ;  extract  from  a  letter  from  a  gentleman  of  Braintree,  dated  March  24,  1789. 

s  Boston  Independent  Chronicle,  April  1 6th  ;  Gazette  of  the  United  States,  April  22d  ;  Pennsylvania  Packet,  April  20,  1789. 

'  April  14,  1789. 

10  Salem  Mercury,  April  21,  1789. 
4 


1 8       THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


him,1  and  on  Thursday  reached  Hartford,  where  "an  escort  of  the  principal  gentlemen  in 
town,  the  ringing  of  hells,  and  the  attention  of  the  mayor  and  aldermen  of  the  corporation, 
marked  the  Federalism  of  the  citizens,  and  their  high  respect  for  the  distinguished  patriot 
and  statesman."3  At  six  o'clock,  Friday  morning,  President  Stiles  and  the  professors  and 
tutors  of  Vale  College,  the  clergymen,  and  a  large  body  of  the  citizens  of  New  Haven, 
assembled  at  the  State-House  steps  and  went  up  the  Hartford  road  six  miles  to  meet  Mr. 
Adams  and  escort  him  into  town  amid  the  firing  of  cannon  and  the  ringing  of  bells- 
Though  Mr.  Adams  tarried  but  a  short  time  in  New  Haven,  he  was  presented  at  the  City 
Tavern  with  the  "  diplomatic  freedom  "  of  the  city  by  Pierrepont  Edwards,  who,  at  a  meet- 
ing of  citizens  the  previous  day,  had  been  especially  commissioned  to  prepare  the  diploma 
The  same  escort  accompanied  the  Vice-President  three  miles  out  of  New  Haven. 3  He  was 
attended  by  the  Light  Horse  of  Westchester  County  from  the  Connecticut  line  to  King's 
Bridge,  and  here  he  was  met  by  more  troops,  many  members  of  Congress,  and  citizens  in 
carriages  and  on  horseback,  who,  amid  the  firing  of  salutes,  escorted  him  to  the  house  of 
the  Hon.  John  Jay  on  Broadway,  near  the  corner  of  Exchange  Place,  where  he  arrived 
about  four  o'clock  on  the  afternoon  of  Monday,  April  20th. 4  But  John  Adams's  per- 
manent residence  in  New  York  was  the  celebrated  mansion  located  on  Richmond  Hill, 5 
afterward  the  residence  of  Aaron  Burr  at  the  time  he  killed  Alexander  Hamilton,  and 
subsequently  bought  by  John  Jacob  Astor.  The  mayor  and  corporation  called  to  con- 
gratulate the  Vice-President  on  the  morning  succeeding  his  arrival  in  town. 6  He  was  next 
waited  on  by  Caleb  Strong,  of  Massachusetts,  and  Ralph  Izard,  of  South  Carolina,  who, 
in  behalf  of  the  Senate,  escorted  him  to  the  Senate-chamber.  "  I  was  in  New  York,"  said 
John  Randolph,  of  Virginia,  forty  years  afterward,  "  when  John  Adams  took  his  seat  as 
Vice-President.  I  recollect  I  was  a  schoolboy  at  the  time,  attending  the  lobby  of  Con- 
gress, when  I  ought  to  have  been  at  school.  I  remember  the  manner  in  which  my  brother 
was  spurned  by  the  coachman  of  the  then  Vice-President  for  coming  too  near  the  arms 
emblazoned  on  the  scutcheon  of  the  vice-regal  carriage."7  Senator  Langdon,  of  New 
Hampshire,  the  President  pro  tempore  of  the  Senate,  met  the  Vice-President  on  the  floor 
of  the  Senate,  and,  after  congratulating  him,  conducted  him  to  the  chair,  where  the  Vice- 
President  delivered  his  inaugural  address. 8 

Meanwhile  Charles  Thomson  had  been  executing  a  commission  vastly  more  impor- 
tant than  that  performed  by  Sylvanus    Bourne.     A  native  of  Ireland,  a  school  teacher 


1  The  Hampshire  Chronicle,  April  22,  1789. 
'  Hartford  Courant,  April  20,  1789. 

3  Connecticut  Journal,  April  23,  1789. 

4  Gazette  of  the  United  States,  April  22.  1789. 

6  Near  Lispenard's  Meadows,  comer  of  Varick  and  Van  Dam  Streets. — (Dr.  Francis's  "Old  New  York,"  pp.  16-28.) 
"  New  York  Packet,  April  24,  1789. 

7  "John  Randolph,"  by  Henry  Adams  (American  Statesman  Series),  p.  19. 

'  The  Vice-President  did  not  take  the  oath  of  office  until  the  3d  of  June,  1789. 


THE  IXAUGL'RATIOX. 


19 


in  Philadelphia,  a  friend  of  Benjamin  Franklin,  Charles  Thomson  was  now  living  the 
fifty-ninth  year  of  his  ninety-four  years.  In  1774,  when  he  was  elected  Secretary  of 
the  Continental  Congress  —  which  office  he  held  for  fifteen  consecutive  years  —  he  had 
just  married  a  young  woman  of  fortune.1  He  left  New  York  Tuesday  morning,  April 
7th, -  and  on  Thursday  evening  he  was  in  Philadelphia.3  Friday  morning4  he  continued 
his  journey,  passing  through  Wilmington  the  same  day,5  and  reaching  Baltimore  Sunday 
evening.6  Monday  morning,  April  13th,  he  left  Baltimore  and  arrived  at  Mount  Vernon 
at  half-past  twelve  o'clock,  Tuesday  afternoon,  being  more  than  a  week  in  making  the 
journey  from  New  York.  After  Mr.  Thomson  had  presented  to  the  President-elect  the 
certificate  of  election,  which  the  President  of  the  Senate  had  given  him,  and  had  made  a 
formal  address,  stating  the  purpose  of  his  visit,  Washington  at  once  replied,  accepting  the 
appointment,  and  said  : 

"  I  am  so  much  affected  by  this  fresh  proof  of  my  country's  esteem  and  confidence,  that  silence  can 
best  explain  my  gratitude.  While  I  realize  the  arduous  nature  of  the  task  which  is  imposed  upon  me,  and 
feel  my  own  inability  to  perform  it,  I  wish  that  there  may  not  be  reason  for  regretting  the  choice  ;  for, 
indeed,  all  I  can  promise  is  only  to  accomplish  that  which  can  be  done  by  an  honest  zeal. 

"  Upon  considering  how  long  time  some  of  the  gentlemen  of  both  Houses  of  Congress  have  been  at  New 
York,  how  anxiously  desirous  they  must  be  to  proceed  to  business,  and  how  deeply  the  public  mind  appears 
to  be  impressed  with  the  necessity  of  doing  it  speedily,  I  can  not  find  myself  at  liberty  to  delay  my  jour- 
ney. I  shall,  therefore,  be  in  readiness  to  set  out  the  day  after  to-morrow,  and  shall  be  happy  in  the  pleasure 
of  your  company;  for  you  will  permit  me  to  say  that  it  is  a  peculiar  gratification  to  have  received  this 
communication  from  you."7 

Washington  at  once  sent  to  Congress  his  formal  letter  of  acceptance.8  And  yet 
Washington's  correspondence,  during  the  fall  and  winter  preceding  his  inauguration, 
shows  how  reluctant  he  was  to  accept  the  presidency.  To  Benjamin  Lincoln  he  wrote:9 
"  I  most  heartily  wish  the  choice  to  which  you  allude,  may  not  fall  upon  me.  ...  If  I 
should  conceive  myself  in  a  manner  constrained  to  accept,  I  call  Heaven  to  witness 
that  this  very  act  would  be  the  greatest  sacrifice  of  my  personal  feelings  and  wishes  that 


1  Hannah  Harrison  by  name,  a  daughter  of  Richard  Harrison,  of  Lower  Merion,  Montgomery  County,  Pennsylvania,  after 
whom  Thomson's  place,  "  Hariton,"  was  named.  After  their  marriage,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Thomson  drove  to  "  Hariton."  On 
alighting  from  the  carriage,  Thomson  was  informed  by  a  messenger  that  the  President  of  Congress  desired  to  see  him  imme- 
diately. He  went,  and  was  told  that  Congress  wished  him  to  take  their  minutes.  For  the  first  part  of  his  service  as  Secretary- 
he  received  no  compensation,  and  so  "  Congress  presented  him  with  a  silver  urn  as  their  gift  and  as  a  compliment  to  his  lady 
for  having  so  unexpectedly  deprived  her  of  the  attentions  of  her  husband  the  morning  after  their  marriage." — (Collections  of  the 
Pennsylvania  Historical  Society,  vol.  i,  pp.  90,  91  ;  G.  W!  P.  Custis,  "  Recollections  of  Washington,"  p.  382.) 

1  Letter  of  Alexander  White,  of  Virginia,  dated  New  York,  April  8,  1789.    (Original  owned  by  Dr.  Emmet.) 

■  Norwich  Packet  and  County  Journal,  April  24,  1789. 

4  Pennsylvania  Packet,  April  11,  1789. 

6  Pennsylvania  Packet,  April  14,  1789. 

6  Maryland  Journal  and  Baltimore  Advertiser,  April  14,  1789. 

7  Sparks's  "  Washington,"  vol.  x,  pp.  460,  461. 

6  Original  exhibited  in  the  "Loan  Exhibition  of  Historical  Portraits  and  Relics"  in  New  York  in  1889  (No.  326),  and  now 
owned  by  John  Langdon's  great-grandson,  John  Erving,  of  New  York. 

"  Mount  Vernon,  October  26,  1788.    (Sparks's  "Washington,"  vol.  ix,  pp.  440,  441) 


20 


THE  C EX  TEN XI A  L  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


ever  I  have  been  called  upon  to  make."1  To  Samuel  Hanson  he  said,-  "The  first  wish 
of  my  soul  is  to  spend  the  evening  of  my  days  as  a  private  citizen  on  my  farm."  To 
Lafayette  he  said,3  "  I  shall  assume  the  task  with  a  most  unfeigned  reluctance  and  with 


CU2-  CL&~<^ts  <2_  <2/  <st<^\ 


fui^Z.  t^Ty^-  p^^r  a^f 

A 


a 


(Fac-simile  of  Washington's  letter  to  Congress  accepting  the  Presidency.) 


1  Washington  used  almost  the  same  language  to  Governor  Trumbull  in  letter  dated  Mount  Vernon,  December  4,  1788. 

(Sparks,  vol.  ix,  p.  452.) 

5  January  18,  1789.    (Sparks,  vol.  ix,  p.  460.) 

a  January  29,  1789.    (Sparks,  vol.  ix,  pp.  463,  464.) 


Originai  Sketch  made  by  J.  Trumbull,  in  Paris,  1787 
i..k  "Dm  vkmi.'V  1.1  Indfifndfnck"  Painting,  am. 
owned  by  Mrs.  John  W.  Burke,  Great  Granddaugh- 
trr,  Alex  uidri  v  Va. 


Artist,  Mather  Brown,  1786. 
Adams,  Boston,  Mass. 

(Loan  Exhibition 


Owner,  John  * 

No  127.1 


Artist,  C.  W.  Peals,  1791.  Owned  by  the  City  of 
Philadelphia  and  deposited  in  Independence  Hall. 


7 


Artist.  GlLBERl  Stuart,  1800.    Owned  by  Miss  Sarah 

N.  Randolph  and  Mrs.  Wm.  B.  Harrison.  Great  York  Historical  Society 
Granddaughters,   "Edge  Hill,"  Keswick  P.  O. 


Artist    Rembrandt  Peale,  1803.    Owned   BY   New        Art  ist  .  James  SharplesS.    Owned  by  City  of  Phila- 

DEI  I  III  \  AND  DEPOSITED  IN  NATIONAL  MUSEUM. 


- 

1 

i 

Ak  iist,  Bass  Oi  ls,  1816. 

Philadelphia, 


Owned  r.*  Wm.  J.  CAMPBELL, 


Original  Crayon  Drawini;  by  St.  Memin,  1805 
Owned  by  John  C.  Bancroft,  Boston,  Mass 


Original  Study  iiy  Thos.  Sully,  1821.  Owned  by 
Amf.rk  vs  Piiii.osoi'Hicai  Society,  Philadelphia. 


Portraits  of  Thomas  Jefferson,  Secretary  of  State  under  Washington. 


THE  INAUGURATION. 


a  real  diffidence,  for  which  I  shall  probably  receive  no  credit  from  the  world."  To  Benjamin 
Harrison  he  wrote:1  "  Heaven  knows  that  no  event  can  be  less  desired  by  me,  and  that  no 
earthly  consideration  short  of  so  general  a  call,  together  with  a  desire  to  reconcile  con- 
tending parties  as  far  as  in  me  lies,  could  again  bring  me  into  public  life."  "  My  move- 
ments to  the  chair  of  government,"  he  wrote,  finally,  to  Henry  Knox,2  "will  be  accompa- 
nied by  feelings  not  unlike  those  of  a  culprit  who  is  going  to  the  place  of  his  execution. 
.  .  .  Integrity  and  firmness  are  all  I  can  promise.  These,  be  the  voyage  long  or  short, 
shall  never  forsake  me,  although  I  may  be  deserted  by  all  men  ;  for,  of  the  consolations 
which  are  to  be  derived  from  these,  under  any  circumstances,  the  world  can  not  de- 
prive me." 

The  correspondence  was  brought  to  a  close  by  Hamilton,  who  insisted  that  Washing- 
ton's acceptance  was  indispensable,  and  that  circumstances  left  no  option. 3  Having  paid  a 
visit  of  farewell,  as  "the  last  act  of  personal  duty,"4  to  his  aged  mother,  at  Fredericks- 
burg, and  having  borrowed  five  hundred  pounds  of  a  gentleman  at  Alexandria  to  discharge 
all  his  personal  debts,  and  another  hundred  pounds  to  help  defray  "  the  expenses  of  his 
journey  to  New  York,"3  Washington  was  ready  to  leave  his  home  on  the  Potomac  on 
Thursday,  the  1 6th  of  April.  "About  ten  o'clock,"  as  he  wrote  in  his  diary,  "I  bade 
adieu  to  Mount  Vernon,  to  private  life,  and  domestic  felicity;  and  with  a  mind  oppressed 
with  more  anxious  and  painful  sensations  than  I  have  words  to  express,  set  out  for  New 
York,  in  company  with  Mr.  Thomson  and  Colonel  Humphreys,  with  the  best  disposition 
to  render  service  to  my  country,  in  obedience  to  its  call,  but  with  less  hope  of  answering 
its  expectations." 6  Washington  had  scarcely  left  his  home  before  he  was  met  by  his  neigh- 
bors and  friends  of  Alexandria,  who  escorted  him  into  town  and  gave  him  an  early  dinner 
at  Mr.  Wise's  Tavern.  The  thirteen  toasts  that  were  drunk  at  the  dinner  seemed  to  tell 
the  history  of  the  times.  "  The  King  of  France,"  "  The  Federal  Constitution — may  it  be 
fairly  tried!"  "The  memory  of  those  martyrs  who  fell  in  vindicating  the  rights  of  Amer- 
ica," "  American  manufacturers,"  "  American  Ladies — may  their  manners  accord  with  the 
spirit  of  the  present  Government!"  were  a  few  of  the  sentiments  expressed. 7  "Farewell," 


1  March  9,  1789. 

"  April  1st,  1789.    (Sparks,  vol.  ix,  pp.  488,  489.) 
s  Marshall's  "  Life  of  Washington,"  vol.  v,  p.  125. 

4  Letter  of  March  6,  1789,  from  Washington  to  Captain  Richard  Conway. — (Bancroft's  "  History  of  the  Constitution,' 
vol.  ii,  p.  491.) 

5  Letters  of  March  4  and  6,  1789,  from  Washington  to  Captain  Richard  Conway.— (Bancroft's  "  History  of  the  Constitu- 
tion," vol.  ii,  p.  491.) 

8  Martha  Washington  left  Mount  Vernon,  May  19th,  with  her  two  children.  At  Baltimore  she  was  met  by  a  body  of  citi- 
zens on  horseback,  and  in  the  evening  she  was  serenaded  and  fireworks  were  discharged  in  her  honor.  Seven  miles  from  Phila- 
delphia she  was  met  by  ladies  in  carriages,  and  a  collation  was  served  at  Gray's  Ferry.  Amid  the  ringing  of  bells  and  the 
firing  of  cannon  she  was  escorted  into  Philadelphia  in  the  same  carriage  with  Mrs.  Robert  Morris,  whose  guest  she  was  while 
in  Philadelphia.  The  President  met  Mrs.  Washington  at  Elizabethport,  N.  J.,  in  the  same  barge  that  was  used  by  him  on  April 
23d.    As  the  party  approached  New  York,  they  were  saluted  with  a  discharge  of  thirteen  cannon. 

7  Pennsylvania  Packet,  April  23,  1789. 


2  2 


THE  Cli\  I'/iXNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


said  the  mayor,  in  behalf  of  the  people  of  Alexandria  ;  "go  and  make  a  grateful  people  happy 
— a  people  who  will  he  doubly  grateful  when  they  contemplate  this  recent  sacrifice  for  their 
interests."  Washington's  emotions  could  with  difficulty  be  concealed.  "  Unutterable  sensa- 
tions," said  he  in  closing  his  reply,  "  must,  then,  be  left  to  more  expressive  silence,  while 
from  an  aching  heart  I  bid  you  all,  my  affectionate  friends  and  kind  neighbors,  farewell.'' 
From  Alexandria  to  Georgetown  the  President  was  attended  by  his  neighbors  and  friends, 
and  even  by  children,  a  company  that  did  "more  honor  to  a  man,"  so  read  a  letter1  of 
the  day  from  Georgetown,  "  than  all  the  triumphs  that  Rome  ever  beheld ;  and  the  person 
honored  is  more  illustrious  than  any  monarch  on  the  globe."  The  gentlemen  of  George- 
town met  Washington  on  the  banks  of  the  Potomac  and  accompanied  him  north  until 
they  met  the  gentlemen  from  Baltimore.  Some  miles  out  of  Baltimore  the  next  day 2  a 
large  body  of  citizens  on  horseback  met  the  presidential  party,  and  "  under  a  discharge  of 
cannon"  Washington  was  conducted,  "through  crowds  of  admiring  spectators,"  to  Mr. 
Grant's  Tavern.  At  six  o'clock  he  received  an  address  of  welcome,  and  was  accorded  a 
public  reception.  Instead  of  a  dinner,  for  which  it  was  impossible  to  arrange  on  such  short 
notice,  an  invitation  to  supper  was  accepted.  He  retired  at  a  little  after  ten  o'clock  ;  and 
at  half-past  five  the  next  morning,  Saturday,  he  left  Baltimore,  as  he  had  entered  it,  amid 
the  firing  of  artillery.  After  being  conducted  seven  miles  north,  he  alighted  from  his  car- 
riage and  insisted  that  his  mounted  escort  should  return  home.  He  was  met  on  the  borders  of 
Delaware  on  Sunday  by  a  company  from  Wilmington,  where,  instead  of  illuminating  the 
houses,  as  some  wished,  even  if  it  was  Sunday  evening,  "  the  decoration  of  a  vessel  on  the 
Delaware,  opposite  to  Market  Street,  was  substituted."  3  Before  leaving  Wilmington  the  next 
morning,  Washington  received  an  address  from  the  Burgesses  and  Common  Council  of  the 
borough. 4  Delaware  saw  its  guest  to  the  Pennsylvania  line. 5  Philadelphia  had  been  prepar- 
ing a  royal  welcome.  The  State  authorities  had  appropriated  a  thousand  dollars  to  defray  the 
expenses  of  a  military  escort. 6  Thomas  Mifflin,  the  President  of  the  Supreme  Executive 
Council  of  the  State  ;  Richard  Peters,  the  Speaker  of  the  Legislature  ;  and  the  old  City 
Troop  of  Horse  of  Philadelphia,  proceeded  as  far  as  the  Delaware  line.  Other  troops 
followed,  and  early  Monday  morning,  when  Washington  was  met,  he  received  the  custom- 
ary salutes  and  congratulations  and  was  escorted  into  Chester,  where  all  breakfasted  and 
rested  two  hours.7  On  leaving  Chester,  Washington  ordered  his  carriage  to  the  rear  of 
the  line,  and  mounted  a  beautiful  white  horse.  Charles  Thomson  and  Colonel  Humphreys, 
also  on  horseback,  were  near  him.    As  the  procession  advanced,  it  received  large  acces- 


1  Letter  published  in  Pennsylvania  Packet,  April  21,  1789. 

2  Friday,  April  17,  1789. 

3  The  Delaware  Gazette,  April  25,  1789. 

4  New  York  Packet,  March  5,  1789. 

6  Pennsylvania  Packet,  April  28,  1789. 

'  Norwich  Packet,  April  24;  Maryland  Journal,  Baltimore  Advertiser,  March  20,  1789. 
T  Extract  from  letter  in  the  New  York  Packet,  April  22.  1789. 


From  a  portrait  owned  hv  Mks.  V.  A.  Marc  h, 
(uokn  Mildred  Stone  Conway),  Easton.  Pa. 
(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  129.) 


I\  "  Declaration  ok  Independence  "  PAINTING  BY 
J.  Trumbull.    Owned  by  Vale  University. 


Artist.  Gilbert  Stuart,  i8o5. 


Owned  by  Bowdoin  COLLEGE. 


Artist,  GILBERT  Stuart,  1804.  Owned  by  Thomas  JefferSON 
Coolidgs,  Grea  t  Grandson,  Boston.  Mass. 


Artist,  Thomas  Sully  1830.  Owned  by  Officers  of  the  Corps  o 
Engineers, U.  S.  A.  and  deposited  in  U.  S.  Military  Academy,  Wes 
Point,  N.  V. 


Artist,  Thomas  Sully.  Formerly  owned  by 
President  Monroe  and  now  by  the  Jefferson 
Society  in  University  of  Virginia. 


Portraits  of  Thomas  Jefferson,  Secretary  of  State  under  Washington. 

t 


THE  INAUGURATION.  23 


sions,  including  a  body  of  Philadelphia  citizens,  at  whose  head  was  the  patriot  and  soldier, 
General  Arthur  St.  Clair,  Governor  of  the  Northwest  Territory.  At  Gray's  Bridge,  on  the 
Schuylkill,  the  point  next  reached,  the  scene  was  indeed  imposing.  The  most  elaborate 
preparations  had  been  made.  Triumphal  arches  decorated  with  laurel  and  other  evergreens ; 
on  one  side  eleven  flags,  with  the  names  of  the  eleven  States  that  had  adopted  the  Con- 
stitution ;  other 
flags,  with  mottoes 
like  "  The  Rising 
Empire,"  "  The  New 
Era,"  "  Don't  tread 
on  Me  !  "  "  May 
Commerce  flour- 
ish " ;  boats  in  the 
river  gayly  trimmed 
with  flags,  the 
cheering  of  the  as- 
sembled thousands, 
as  the  illustrious 
Washington  came 
down  the  hill  about 

noon  to  the  ferry — all  made  the  scene  a  memorable  one.  When  Washington  passed  under 
one  of  the  arches,  a  wreath  of  laurel  was  lowered  upon  his  brow  by  Angelica  Peale,  the 
young  daughter  of  the  artist  of  the  Revolution,  Charles  Willson  Peale. 1  At  least  twenty 
thousand  people  lined  the  road  from  Gray's  Ferry  to  Philadelphia,  and  everywhere  the 
President  was  saluted  with  "  Long  live  George  Washington  ! "  "  Long  live  the  Father  of 
his  People  ! "  The  procession  swelled  as  he  approached  the  city.  There  were  three  regu- 
lar discharges  of  thirteen  rounds  each  from  the  artillery.  Salutes  were  also  fired  from  the 
beautifully  decorated  ship  Alliance,  and  a  Spanish  merchant  ship  moored  on  the  river. 
As  the  procession  moved  down  Market  Street,  the  bells  of  Christ  Church  were  rung. 
Amid  unbounded  joy,  Washington  was  conducted  to  the  historic  City  Tavern,  on  Sec- 
ond above  Walnut  Street,  where  a  banquet  was  given  him.  To  the  tavern,  where 
were  gathered  in  1774  the  members  of  the  first  Continental  Congress,  now  came,  be- 
sides distinguished  citizens,  "all  the  clergy  and  respectable  strangers  in  the  city,"3  to 
honor  the  man  they  loved.  Two  hundred  and  fifty  guests  sat  down  at  three  o'clock 
in  the  afternoon  to  this  "  elegant  entertainment."    "  A  band  of  music  played  during  the 


PREPARATIONS  FOR  WASHINGTON'S  RECEPTION  AT  GRAY'S  FERRY, 

APRIL  20,  1789. 
(From  Columbian  Magazine,  May,  1789.) 


1  Related  in  1858  to  Benson  J.  Lossing,  by  Miss  Peale's  brother,  Rembrandt  Peale. 
'  Independent  Gazetteer,  April  21,  1789. 
3  Freeman's  Journal,  April  29,  1789. 


THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


whole  time  of  the  dinner,"  says  one  of  the  newspaper  accounts.  Three  of  the  fourteen 
toasts  were  to  "His  Most  Christian  Majesty  our  great  and  good  ally,"1  "His  Catholic 
Majesty,"2  and  "The  United  Netherlands."3  A  discharge  of  artillery  followed  the  an- 
nouncement of  every  toast. 4  Nearly  every  institution  in  the  city  presented  Washington 
with  an  address  before  he  left  town  at  ten  o'clock  the  next  morning. 5  Before  leaving 
Philadelphia  Washington  wrote  to  John  Langdon  the  letter  given  in  fac-simile  on  the 
opposite  page.6 

The  city  troops  intended  to  escort  him  to  Trenton ;  but,  as  the  morning  was  rainy, 
Washington  insisted  upon  declining  that  honor,  for  he  would  not  drive  in  his  carriage  while 
the  troops  on  horseback  were  exposed  to  the  rain. 7  The  clouds,  however,  broke  about 
noon,8  and  at  two  o'clock  the  party  were  taken  across  the  Delaware  River  at  Colvin's  Ferry.9 
At  the  Trenton  landing  he  was  met  by  a  distinguished  party  of  citizens,  a  troop  of  horse 
and  a  company  of  infantry,  and  was  escorted  amid  the  booming  of  cannon  and  the  huzzas  of 
the  people  into  Trenton  village.  Horses  were  provided  for  Washington  and  his  suite.  A 
memorable  sight  greeted  the  procession  at  the  bridge  at  Assumpink  Creek,  over  which 
Washington  crossed  during  the  Revolutionary  War,  to  fall  on  the  British  forces  at  Prince- 
ton. A  triumphal  arch, 10  twenty  feet  wide  and  supported  by  thirteen  columns,  all  entwined 
with  evergreens,  was  raised  over  the  bridge,  upon  which  was  inscribed  in  large  gilt  let- 
ters :  "  The  Defender  of  the  Mothers  will  also  Protect  their  Daughters."  Over  this  in- 
scription, on  a  square  ornamented  with  evergreens  and  flowers,  were  these  historic  dates : 
"December  26,  1776 — January  2,  1777";  and  on  the  summit  was  a  large  sunflower,  de- 
signed to  express  the  motto  "  To  you  alone." 11     The  evening  before  the  ball  that  had 


1  Louis  XVI,  King  of  France. 

2  Charles  IV,  King  of  Spain. 

3  Pennsylvania  Packet,  April  22,  1789. 

4  The  General  Evening  Post,  London,  June  4-6,  1789. 

6  Tuesday,  April  21,  1789.  Washington  spent  Monday  night  with  Robert  Morris  in  the  same  house,  on  the  south  side  of 
High  (Market)  Street  between  Fifth  and  Sixth  Streets,  which  he  afterward  occupied  as  President ;  and  offered  Morris  the 
Treasury  portfolio  in  the  new  Government.  But  Morris  declined,  and  recommended  Hamilton. — (Custis's  "  Recollections,"  pp. 
349.  35°  )  Phineas  Bond,  a  loyalist  during  the  Revolution,  was  at  this  time  British  consul  in  Philadelphia.  In  his  dispatch  to 
England  only  the  fact  was  mentioned  in  a  sentence  or  two  that  Washington  had  passed  through  Philadelphia  on  his  way  to  be 
inaugurated  President  of  the  United  States,  and  that  John  Adams  had  made  the  journey  from  New  England  to  New  York  to 
act  as  Vice-President.- — (Dispatches  of  Phineas  Bond,  Public  Record  Office,  London.)  Mr.  Bond  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  July 
15,  1749,  and  was  the  eldest  child  of  Dr.  Phineas  Bond,  and  was  appointed  British  consul  in  1786,  remained  in  office  many  years, 
and  died  in  England,  December  29,  1815. — ("Loyalists  of  the  American  Revolution,"  vol.  i,  p.  236,  and  catalogue,  Loan  Exhibi- 
tion of  Historical  Portraits  in  Philadelphia,  1887,  p.  43.) 

"Original  letter  exhibited  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  in  New  York  in  1889  (No.  326),  and  owned  by  John  Langdon's  great- 
grandson,  John  Erving,  of  New  York. 

7  Gazette  of  the  United  States,  April  22,  1789. 

9  Lossing's  "  Washington,"  vol.  iii,  p.  87. 

"  Now  Morrisville. — ("  Washington's  Reception  by  the  people  of  New  Jersey  in  1789,"  by  General  William  S.  Stryker,  pri- 
vately printed.) 

10  Pennsylvania  Packet,  May  1,  1789. 

11  This  same  arch  was  placed  in  front  of  the  State-house  when  Lafayette  visited  Trenton  in  1824,  and  part  of  the  arch  is 
still  preserved.— (Barber  and  Howe's  "  Historical  Collections  of  New  Jersey,"  pp.  301,  302.) 


THOMAS  JEFFERSON. 

Crayon  bv  Auguste  Gaspard  Louis  Boucher.  Karon 
DsSNOVBRS,  1801.    Owned  bv  John  L.  Moffat.  M.  D., 
Kkooklvn.  N.  Y. 


THOMAS  JEFFERSON 

From  an  ENGRAVING  bv  Edward  Savage  owned  by  THK 
Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania. 


THOMAS  JEFFERSON. 

Artist,  Gilbert  Stuart.  Owned  bv  Edward  Coles, 
Philadelphia. 


ALEXANDER  HAMILTON,  Age  32. 

Miniature  BV  James  Peale,  1780- 
Owned  bv  Clarence  Winthrop 
Rovven.  Brooklyn.  N.  Y. 

(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  1  10.) 


THOMAS  JEFFERSON 

From  contemporary  COLORED 
engraving  of  lost  crayon 
by  Tadeusz  Koscuiszko. 
Owned  by  William  J. 
Campbell,  Philadelphia. 


ALEXANDER  HAMILTON. 

The  so-called  "Talleyrand  Miniature. 
Owned  bv  Mrs,  Alexander  H  amilton 
Irvington-on-Hudson,  N.  Y. 


(A  SUPPOSED  PORTRAIT.) 

ALEXANDER  HAMILTON,  Age  22 

Artist,  James  Peale,  1779. 
Owned  by  John  B.  Wil- 
kinson, Philadelphia. 


ALEXANDER  HAMILTON. 

From  a  miniature  owned  by  Mrs.  Alexander  Hamilton, 


ALEXANDER  HAMILTON. 

From  a  pencil  drawing  by  Gideon  Fair- 
man.  Owned  bv  R.  M.  Harison,  New  York. 
(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  102.) 


ALEXANDER  HAMILTON. 

Prom  a  portrait  ownkd  hvthr  Misses  Hamilton.  Grand- 
DAI  '.ii  i  i  ns.  New  York.  iLoan  Exhibition,  No.  109.) 


ALEXANDER  HAMILTON. 

From  I'uhtrait  owned  by  Mai. -Gen.  Schuyler 
Hamilton.  Grandson.  New  York. 


ALEXANDER  HAMILTON. 

Artist.  John  Trumbull.  Owned  by  Mrs.  Alexander 
Hamilton.  Irvington-on-Hudson,  N.  Y. 


PORTRAITS  OF  THOMAS  JEFFERSON   AND  ALEXANDER  HAMILTON. 


THE  INAUGURATION. 


25 


^h^l/U jzo^^Z^  <A 
^^z^^  J!^J^^^.^^^r^-- 


(Fac-simile  of  the  letter  written  by  Washington  to  Congress,  stating  the  time  of  the  arrival  of  the  President-elect  in  New  York.) 


26         THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 


just  been  given  at  Princeton,  the  ladies — among  whom  was  Mrs.  Annis  Stockton,  widow1 
of  one  of  the  signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  and  sister  of  Elias  Boudinot 

— had  determined 


RECEPTION  OF  WASHINGTON  AT  TRENTON,  NEW  JERSEY,  APRIL  21,  1789. 

From  Columbian  Magazine,  May,  1789. 


to  greet  President 
Washington  in  a 
beautiful  and  affec- 
tionate manner. 
They  stood  at  the 
end  of  the  bridge 
which  Washington 
first  approached,  and 
in  front  of  them 
were  their  daugh- 
ters, in  white  dress- 
es decorated  with 
leaves  and  chaplets 
of  flowers.     Six  of 


them  held  baskets  of  flowers  in  their  hands.2 
sang  the  following  ode  : 

"  Welcome,  mighty  chief,  once  more, 
Welcome  to  this  grateful  shore  ! 
Now  no  mercenary  foe 
Aims  again  the  fatal  blow — 
Aims  at  thee  the  fatal  blow. 


When  the  President  was  near,  the  ladies 


"  Virgins  fair  and  matrons  grave, 
Those  thy  conquering  arms  did  save, 
Build  for  thee  triumphal  bowers  ! 
Strew,  ye  fair,  his  way  with  flowers — 
Strew  your  hero's  way  with  flowers."3 


During  the  singing  of  the  last  two  lines,  the  ground  in  front  of  the  President  was 
strewn  with  flowers  by  the  young  ladies.  Washington  stopped  his  horse.  The  scene  was 
beautiful,  and  many  were  affected  to  tears. 4 

Washington  dined  at  Samuel  Henry's  City  Tavern  in  Trenton,  and  drove  to  Prince- 
ton late  in  the  afternoon  to  spend  the  night,  it  is  supposed,  with  the  retired  President 


1  Custis's  "  Recollections  of  Washington,"  p.  393. 

a  Their  names  were  Misses  Sarah  Airy,  Jemima  Broadhurst,  Sarah  Collins,  Sarah  How,  Sarah  B.  Howell,  and  Elizabeth 
Milnor.  The  names  of  the  other  young  ladies  above  referred  to  were  Misses  Eleanor  Armstrong,  Elizabeth  Borden,  Elizabeth 
Cadwalader,  Catherine  Calhoun,  Esther  Cox,  Mary  Cox,  Mary  Dickinson,  Maria  Furman,  Mary  C.  Kean,  Mary  Lowrey,  Maria 
Meredith,  Sarah  Moore,  and  Margaret  Tate. 

3  The  author  of  this  ode  was  Colonel  Richard  Howell,  an  own  cousin  of  Senator  George  Read,  of  Delaware.  He  was 
"born  in  Delaware  in  1753,  was  one  of  the  young  men  who  were  persecuted  for  being  concerned  in  the  burning  of  the  cargo 
of  tea  at  Greenwich,  New  Jersey,  on  the  22d  of  November,  1774;  and  he  afterward  distinguished  himself  in  the  campaign 
against  Quebec  and  at  the  battle  of  Monmouth.  He  was  appointed  Judge  Advocate  of  the  Army  in  1782,  but  declined.  He 
was  Governor  and  Chancellor  of  New  Jersey  for  seven  successive  years,  and  an  original  member  of  the  Society  of  the  Cincin- 
nati."— (Unpublished  Memoirs  of  General  John  Meredith  Read.) 

*  Pennsylvania  Packet,  May  f,  1789. 


r 


Aktist.  C.  W.  Pealf.  Owned  by  City  of  Phil- 
adelphia AND   DEPOSITED   IN   THE  NATIONAL 

Museum,  (Old  State  House.) 


In  Painting  :  *'Subkendek  of  Coxnwallis,"  by 
J.  Tkumbull.    Owned  by  Yale  University. 


1 


Am  1st,  J  Trumbull.   Owned  bv  John  Jay,  New  York. 
(Loan  Exhibition,  No  106.) 


i 


Artist.  James  Sharpless.  Owned  by  Allan  McLane 
Hamilton.  M.  D..  Grandson.  New  York. 

(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  104.) 


Artist,  C.  W.  Peale.  Owned  by  the 
New  York  Historical  Society. 


From  \  Portrait  in  the  possession  <>k 
the  New  York  Historicai  Society. 


Artist.  John  Trumbull.  1804.  Owned  by  the  City  ok  New  York  and  de- 
posited in  the  Governor's  Room.  City  Hall. 


Artist,  J.  Trumbull,  1792.  Owned  by  Chamber  of  Commerce  New  York. 
(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  105.1 


Portraits  of  Alexander  Hamilton.  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  under  Washington. 


THE  INAUGURATION. 


27 


of  the  College,  the  Rev.  Dr.  John  Witherspoon,  who  lived  about  a  mile  from  the  town- 
not  forgetting  to  write  the  following  note  of  thanks  to  the  young  ladies  of  Trenton  : 1 

AT^Cc^ti  -Z&tl'a-J}  <£&>^t-   /^Jy^^A^  X^f^ 

At  eleven  o'clock  on  Wednesday  morning,  April  2 2d,  Washington  left  Princeton,  under 
military  escort,'  and  took  the  old  road  to  Brunswick,3  where  he  was  met  by  the  war 
Governor,  William  Livingston,  who  drove  with  him  to  Woodbridge,  where  Wednesday 
night  was  passed.  Thursday,  April  23d,  was  an  eventful  day  to  Washington.  At  Bridge- 
town4 his  military  escort  was  augmented,  and  as  he  approached  Elizabethtown,  between 
eight  and  nine  o'clock  in  the  morning,  he  received  "  a  Federal  salute  from  the  cannon," 
and  stopped  at  the  public-house  of  Samuel  Smith,  where  he  received  the  congratulations 


1  Original  owned  by  Mis.  Caleb  S.  Green,  of  Trenton,  N.  J. 
'  Pennsylvania  Packet,  April  13  and  May  5,  1789. 

s  Washington  had  intended  to  spend  Tuesday  night  at  Trenton  and  Wednesday  night  at  Brunswick. 
*  Now  called  Lower  Rahway,  a  part  of  the  city  of  Rah  way. 


28         THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


of  the  town  and  the  Committee  of  Congress.  Here  he  breakfasted,  and  then  waited  upon  the 
congressional  committee  at  the  residence  of  Elias  Boudinot,  the  chairman  of  the  commit- 
tee. From  Dr.  Boudinot's  house  he  proceeded  to  Elizabethtown  Point  under  a  large  civic 
and  military  escort,  which  included  companies  from  Newark  and  vicinity.1  At  Eliza- 
bethtown Point  Washington  stepped  aboard  a  magnificent  barge  which  had  been  espe- 
cially built  to  convey  him  up  the  bay  to  New  York,  and  had  been  launched  two  days 
before.  The  boat  was  between  forty  and  fifty  feet  long,  and  cost  from  two  to  three  hun- 
dred pounds,2  and  was  rowed  by  thirteen  masters  of  vessels,  dressed  in  white  uniforms  and 
black  caps  ornamented  with  fringes. 3  Commodore  James  Nicholson  was  the  command- 
er, and  Thomas  Randall  acted  as  coxswain.  In  the  President's  barge,  and  the  six 4  others 
accompanying,  were  the  congressional  committee :  John  Langdon,  Charles  Carroll,  and 
William  Samuel  Johnson,  of  the  Senate ;  Elias  Boudinot,  Theodoric  Bland,  Thomas  Tudor 
Tucker,  Egbert  Benson,  and  John  Laurance,  of  the  House;  Chancellor  Livingston;  John 
Jay,  Secretary  for  Foreign  Affairs ;  Samuel  Osgood,  Arthur  Lee,  and  Walter  Livingston, 
Commissioners  of  the  Treasury  ;  General  Henry  Knox,  Secretary  of  War ;  Ebenezer  Haz- 
ard, Postmaster-General  ;  Colonel  Nicholas  Fish,  the  adjutant-general  of  the  forces  of  New 
York  State;  Richard  Varick,5  the  recorder  of  the  city,  and  other  dignitaries.6  A  discharge 
of  artillery  was  given  on  the  embarkation  of  the  President  at  twelve  o'clock. 7  But,  better 
than  the  accounts  given  in  the  newspapers,  is  the  letter  descriptive  of  the  sail  up  New  York 
Harbor  to  the  foot  of  Wall  Street,  written  the  next  day  by  Elias  Boudinot  to  his  wife:8 

"  New  York  Apiil  24  iy8g 

"  My  dearest  Wife 

"  If  it  was  in  my  Power,  I  could  wish  to  give  you  an  adiquate  Account  of  the  Proceedings,  of  the  Citizens 
of  this  Metropolis,  on  the  approach,  and  at  the  reception  of  our  President,  when  he  arrived  here  Yesterday.  I 
can  not  do  it  Justice,  &  therefore  should  not  attempt  it,  had  I  not  so  much  vanity  as  to  think  that  you  will  be 
something  gratified  by  its  coming  thro'  this  Channel,  however  imperfect. — 

"  You  must  have  observed,  with  what  a  propitious  Gale  we  left  my  beloved  Shore  (it  contained  the  wife 
of  my  Bosom — cntre  nous)  and  glided  with  steady  Motion  across  the  Newark  Bay,  the  very  waters  seeming  to 
rejoice,  in  bearing  the  precious  Burthen  over  its  placid  Bosom.  The  Appearance  of  the  Troops  we  had  left 
behind  and  their  regular  firings  added  much  to  our  Pleasure. — 


1  Letter  from  Elizabethtown  in  Pennsylvania  Packet,  May  5.  1789. 

3  Letter  of  Fisher  Ames  to  George  A,  Minot,  New  York,  March  25,  1789.    (Works  of  Fisher  Ames.) 
3  The  New  Hampshire  Gazette,  April  29,  1789;  Pennsylvania  Packet,  April  13,  1789. 

"The  names  of  the  branch  pilots  in  1789  from  among  whom  these  thirteen  were  chosen  were,  Zachariah  Rusler,  David 
Morris,  William  Van  Drill,  John  Callahan,  Robert  Eaton,  Edward  Wilkie,  John  Funk,  Nathaniel  Funk,  Charles  Penny,  Peter 
Parks,  Isaac  Simonson,  Charles  Swan,  Matthew  Daniel,  and  Thomas  Gray." — (Thomas  E.  V.  Smith's  "  New  York  in  1789," 
p.  219.) 

When  Washington  removed  to  Philadelphia  he  returned  the  barge  to  those  who  gave  it  to  him.  It  is  said  that  portions  of 
the  Federal  ship  Hamilton  were  used  in  the  construction  of  the  barge. — (Massachusetts  Centinel,  February  4,  1789.) 

*  Freeman's  Oracle,  or  New  Hampshire  Advertiser,  May  5,  1789. 

6  Mayor  of  New  York,  from  September  1789  to  1801. 

*  Griswold's  *'  Republican  Court,"  p.  120. 

7  Daily  Advertiser,  April  20th  ;  Pennsylvania  Packet,  April  24th  ;  Freeman's  Oracle,  May  5th;  Gazette  of  the  United  States, 
April  21,  1789. 

"  Copied  from  original  letter  in  possession  of  grand-nephew  E.  Boudinot  Colt,  of  Short  Hills,  New  Jersey. 


THE  INAUGURATION. 


29 


"When  we  drew  near  to  the  Mouth  of  the  Kills;  a  number  of  Boats  with  various  Flags  came  up  with 
us  &  dropped  in  our  wake.  Soon  after  we  opened  the  Bay,  General  Knox  &  several  Gen'l.  in  a  large  Barge, 
presented  themselves  with  their  splendid  Colours.  Boat  after  Boat  &  Sloop  after  Sloop  added  to  our  Train 
gaily  dressed  in  all  their  naval  Ornaments  made  a  most  Splendid  Appearance.  Before  we  got  to  Bedler's 
Island,  a  large  Sloop,  came  with  full  sail  on  our  Starboard  How  when  there  stood  up  about  20  Gentlemen  &: 
Ladies  &  with  most  excellent  Voices  sung  an  elegant  Ode  prepared  for  the  Purpose  to  the  Tune  of  God 
Save  the  King,1  welcoming  their  great  Chief  to  the  Seat  of  Government.  On  the  conclusion,  we  gave  them 
our  Hats,  and  then  they  with  the  Surrounding 
Boats  gave  us  three  Cheers.  Soon  after  anoth- 
er Boat,  came  under  our  Stern  &  presented  us 
with  a  number  of  Copies  of  another  Ode,  and 
immediately  about  a  dozen  Gent',  began  to  sing 
it  in  parts  as  we  passed  along.  Our  worthy 
President  was  greatly  affected  with  these  tokens 
of  profound  respect.  As  we  approached  the 
Harbour,  our  Train  Increased  &  the  Huzzaing 
and  Shouts  of  Joy  seemed  to  add  Life  to  this 
lively  Scene.  At  this  Moment  a  number  of  Por- 
poises came  playing  amongst  us,  as  if  they  had 
risen  up  to  know  what  was  the  Cause  of  all  this 
Joy.  We  now  discovered  the  Shores  crowded 
with  thousands  of  People — Men  Women  &:  Chil- 
dren— Nay,  I  may  venture  to  say  Tens  of  Thou- 
sands; from  the  Fort  to  the  Place  of  Landing 
altho'  near  half  a  Mile,  you  could  see  little  else 
along  the  Shores — in  the  Streets  and  on  Board 
every  Vessel,  but  Heads  standing  as  thick  as 
Ears  of  Corn  before  the  Harvest. — The  Vessels  in  the  Harbour  made  a  most  superb  appearance  indeed, 
dressed  in  all  the  Pomp  of  Attire.  The  Spanish  Packett 2  in  a  moment,  on  a  Signal  Given  discovered  27 
or  28  different  Colors  of  all  Nations,  on  every  part  of  the  Rigging  and  paid  us  the  Compliment  of  13  Guns 
— with  her  yards  all  Manned — as  did  another  Vessel  in  the  Harbour, 3  displaying  Colors  in  the  same  man- 
ner.4 I  have  omitted  the  like  Compliment  from  the  Battery  of  18  Pounders. — We  soon  arrived  at  the  Ferry 
Stairs,  where  there  were  many  Thousands  of  the  Citizens,  waiting  with  all  the  eagerness  of  Expectation  to 
welcome  our  Excellent  Patriot  to  that  Shore,  which  he  had  regained  from  a  Powerful  Enemy  by  his  Valour 
&  good  Conduct. — We  found  the  Stairs  covered  with  Carpeting  &  the  Rails  hung  with  Crimson. — The  President 
being  preceded  by  the  Committee  was  received  by  the  Governor  &  the  Citizens  in  the  most  brilliant  Man- 


'  New  York  Packet,  May  1,  1789:  "Ode  sung  on  the  arrival  of  the  President  of  the  United  States.  Tune,  'God  save,' 
etc.,  composed  by  Mr.  Low : 

'  Far  be  the  din  of  arms, 
Henceforth  the  olive's  charms 

Shall  war  preclude  ; 
These  shores  a  Head  shall  own, 
Unsullied  by  a  throne — 
Our  much-loved  Washington, 
The  Great,  the  Good. '  " 

The  New  York  Packet  said,  regarding  the  singing:  "The  voices  of  the  ladies  were  as  much  superior  to  the  flutes  that 
played  with  the  stroke  of  the  oars  in  Cleopatra's  silken-corded  barge  as  the  very  superior  and  glorious  water-scene  of  New- 
York  Bay  exceeds  the  silvery  Cydnus  in  all  its  pride."  Samuel  Low,  the  author  of  the  ode,  was  born  December  12,  1765,  and 
in  1789  was  clerk  in  the  Bank  of  New  York.    Two  volumes  of  his  verses  were  published  in  1800. 

5  The  Galveston. 

3  The  North  Carolina. 

4  At  the  same  time  "  the  schooner  Columbia,  just  arrived  from  Charleston,  Philip  Freneau  captain,  sailed  up  the  bay 
with  her  colors  flying." — (Smith's  "New  York  City  in  1789,"  p.  220.) 


RESIDENCE  OF  GOVERNOR  GEORGE  CLINTON, 
in  pearl  street,  opposite  cedar  street. 
Washington's  quarters  on  assuming  command  of  the  armv 
in  new  york. 
("  Valentine's  Manual.") 


30 


THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 


ner. —  Here  he  was  met  on  the  wharf  by  many  of  his  old  &  faithful  Officers  and  fellow  Patriots  who  had  borne 
the  Heat  &  Burthen  of  the  Day  with  him,  and  who  like  him  had  experienced  every  reverse  of  Fortune  with 
fortitude  &  Patience,  and  who  now  joined  the  universal  Chorus  of  welcoming  their  great  deliverer  (under 
Providence)  from  all  their  Fears. — 

"  It  was  with  difficulty  a  Passage  could  be  made  by  the  Troops  thro  the  pressing  Crowds,  who  seemed 
to  be  incapable  of  being  Satisfied  by  Gazing  at  this  Man  of  the  People. — You  will  see  the  particulars  of  the 
Procession  from  the  Wharf  to  the  House  appointed  for  his  residence  in  the  News  Papers. — The  Streets  were 
lined  with  the  Inhabitants  as  thick  as  the  People  could  stand,  and  it  required  all  the  Exertions  of  a  nu- 
merous Train  of  City  Officers,  with  their  Staves,  to  make  a  Passage  for  the  Company. — The  Houses  were  filled 
with  Gentlemen  &  Ladies  the  whole  distance,  being  about  half  a  Mile,  and  the  windows  to  the  highest  Sto- 
ries, were  illuminated  by  the  sparkling  Eyes  of  innumerable  Companies  of  Ladies,  who  seemed  to  vie  with  each 
other  to  shew  their  Joy  on  this  great  Occasion. 

"  It  was  half  an  hour  before  we  could  finish  our  Commission  and  convey  the  President  to  the  house  pre- 
pared for  his  residence.  As  soon  as  this  was  done,  notwithstanding  his  great  Fatigue  of  both  Body  &  Mind,  he 
had  to  receive  all  the  Gentlemen  &  Officers  to  a  very  large  amount,  who  wished  to  show  their  Respect  in  the 
most  affectionate  manner. — When  this  was  finished  &  the  People  dispersed,  we  went  undressed,  and  dined 
with  his  Excellency  Governor  Clinton,  who  had  provided  an  elegant  Dinner  for  the  Purpose. — Thus  Ended  our 
Commission.  The  Evening,  tho'  very  wet  was  spent  by  all  ranks  in  visiting  the  City  Street  after  Street,  being 
illuminated  in  a  superb  Manner. — I  cannot  help  stating  now  how  highly  we  were  favoured,  in  the  weather,  the 
whole  Procession  having  been  completely  finished  &  we  had  repaired  to  the  Governor's  before  it  began  to 
rain. — When  the  President  was  on  the  wharf,  an  officer  came  up  &  addressing  the  President  said,  he  had  the 
honor  to  command  his  Guard,  and  it  was  ready  to  obey  his  orders.  The  President  answered  that  as  to  the 
present  Arrangement,  he  should  proceed,  as  was  directed  but,  that  after  that  was  over,  he  hoped  he  would  give 
himself  no  farther  Trouble,  as  the  Affections  of  his  fellow  Citizens  (turning  to  the  crowd)  was  all  the  Guard  he 
wanted. — Good  Night,  may  God  bless  you. 

"Yours  aff'ly,  E.  B." 

Another  spectator  of  the  landing  of  Washington,  and  of  the  events  of  April  23d,  was  Dr. 
James  Lloyd  Cogswell,  who  wrote  as  follows  : 

"  I  think  you  may  esteem  it  a  mark  of  no  small  consideration  that  I  should  sit  down  between  six  and  seven 
o'clock,  amid  the  hurry  and  bustle  of  the  joy  that  pervades  every  breast  upon  the  arrival  of  the  puissant  Gen- 
eral and  illustrious  President  Washington,  to  write  to  you  and  give  you  some  account  (and  you  must  expect 
but  a  very  faint  one)  of  what  took  place  upon  his  arrival.  I  informed  you  last  night  he  was  to  embark  at 
Elizabeth  Town  at  twelve  o'clock,  this  day.  The  time  he  embarked  was  announced  by  the  discharge  of  cannon 
at  Elizabeth  Town.  The  Spanish  packet  fell  down  below  the  Battery.  About  half-past  three,  the  General's 
barge,  rowed  by  thirteen  men  in  uniform,  passed  the  packet.  As  soon  as  they  had  passed,  the  packet  fired  and 
displayed  her  colors.  The  Genl's  barge  had  an  awning  hung  around  with  red  moreen  curtains,  festooned.  It 
was  attended  with  the  New  Haven  and  Rhode  Island  packets,  and  a  number  of  boats  and  barges  decorated  in 
the  most  beautiful  manner.  From  the  Battery  to  the  Coffee  House,  where  the  Gen'l  landed,  the  ships,  docks, 
and  houses  were  crowded  with  people  as  thick  as  they  could  stand.  The  guns  of  the  Battery  were  fired  as  soon 
as  the  General  passed,  and  all  the  people  upon  the  battery  gave  three  huzzas.  The  cheers  were  continued  along 
from  the  battery  unto  the  place  of  landing,  as  the  barge  passed.  I  was  on  board  Captain  Woolsey's  ship,  which 
lies  in  the  slip  by  the  Coffee  House,  and  had  a  very  fine  prospect.  The  successive  motion  of  the  hats,  from  the 
Battery  to  the  Coffee  House,  was  like  the  rolling  motion  of  the  sea,  or  a  field  of  grain  waving  with  the  wind 
when  the  sun  is  frequently  intercepted  with  a  cloud. 

"  A  pair  of  elegant  stairs,  with  the  sides  covered  and  carpeted,  were  erected  to  land  the  General  safe  on 
the  dock. 

"  Immediately  upon  his  landing,  thirteen  guns  were  fired  from  the  dock,  and  the  whole  city  rung  with 
repeated  huzzas.  As  soon  as  he  had  landed  I  hastened  home,  where  I  had  left  Mrs.  Broome  and  her  flock.  The 
procession  immediately  formed  and  proceeded  from  the  Coffee  House  into  Queen-street,  and  thence  to  the  Presi- 


Artist. 
Joseph  Wright.  1786. 


JOHN  JAY. 

On.  Miniature  by  John  T  RUM  BULL,  17^3.  Owned 
^    by  Vale  Universit\. 


John    Jay.  william  temple  franklin. 

John   adams.  benj.  franklin.         henry  laurens. 

'THE  UNITED  STATES  COMMISSIONERS  IN  1  782  to  Sign  the  Treaty  of  Independence." 
From  an  unfinished  pain  ting  by  Benj.  West,  in  possession  of  the  Rt,  Hon.  George 
Belper,  Baronet.  KINGSTON  Hall,  near  Dekuy,  England. 


g  1 


JOHN  JAY. 

Arrurr,  Gilbert  STtlAET.    Owned  iiy  Augustus  Jay.  Great  GRANDSON,  Paris. 
Franck,  and  DEPOSITED  in  Metropolitan  Museum  OK  Aki.  New  York. 
iLoan  Exhibition.  No  120.) 


JOHN  JAY. 

Artist,  John  Trumbull,  i8o4.  Owned  bv  City  ok  Nhw  York,  and  Deposit 
in  Governor's  I<<><>m.  City  Hall. 


Portraits  of  John  Jay.  Chief  Justice  of  the  United  States  under  Washington, 
also  Portraits  of  Jay.  Adams,  Franklin  and  Laurens. 


THE  IN  A  UGURA  TION. 


3i 


dent's  house.  The  Light  Infantry,  Grenadiers  (I  should  have  mentioned  the  light-horse  first),  and  train  of 
artillery,  led  on  the  procession.  The  officers  in  uniform,  not  on  duty,  followed.  The  General  walked  after 
them,  at  the  right  hand  of  Governor  Clinton.  Then  followed  the  principal  officers  of  state,  members  of  Congress, 
clergy,  and  citizens.  The  General  was  dressed  in  blue,  with  buff-colored  underclothes.  The  procession  moved 
very  slow  and  with  great  solemnity.  The  windows,  stoops,  and  streets  were  crowded;  the  latter  so  closely  you 
might  have  walked  on  people's  heads  for  a  great  distance.  Notwithstanding  all  the  exertion  of  the  guard  to  keep 
the  crowd  off,  they  were  so  wedged  in  by  Embree's  corner1  that  they  could  not  move  for  some  time.  The 
General  was  obliged  to  wipe  his  eyes  several  times  before  he  got  into  Queen  Street.  After  they  had  tarried 
some  time  at  the  President's  house,  he  returned  and  dined  with  Governor  Clinton. 

"  It  is  now  half  after  nine  o'clock.  Since  I  began  this  letter  I  had  a  call  to  visit  a  sick  person  in  Beaver- 
street.  I  walked  up  Queen  and  Wall  Streets  and  round  by  the  new  buildings  back  through  Hanover  Square. 
Every  house  is  illuminated  except  those  of  the  Quakers.  The  appearance  is  brilliant  beyond  description.  Sir 
Jno's2  house  makes  a  grand  appearance. 

"  The  houses  in  Wall  Street  look  very  well,  City  Hall  in  particular.  The  new  buildings  of  McComb  &  Edgar 
exceed  any.  Notwithstanding  the  rain,  the  streets  were  filled  with  men,  women,  and  children.  A  great  variety 
of  taste  has  been  displayed  in  the  arrangement  of  candles ;  some  are  in  the  form  of  a  pyramid — some  in  one 
shape,  and  some  in  another.  A  great  number  of  figures  and  curious  mottoes  are  to  be  seen.  Among  the  rest, 
one  at  Mr.  Scriba's  large  brick  house,  at  the  corner  of  the  Fly  Market,3  took  my  attention ;  in  one  window  was 


1  On  Pearl  Street. 

2  Sir  John  Temple,  eighth  baronet,  the  British  consul-general  in  New  York,  1785-1798,  lived  at  188  Queen  (Pearl)  Street. 
He  was  born  at  Noddle's  Island,  Boston  Harbor,  in  1732,  and  married,  in  1767,  Elizabeth,  only  daughter  of  James  Bowdoin, 
Governor  of  Massachusetts.  He  was  Surveyor-General  of  the  Customs  (1 761— '67)  of  the  Northern  District  of  America,  and 
Lieutenant-Governor  of  New  Hampshire  (1761-1774).  He  succeeded  to  the  baronetcy  November  15,  1786.  Rev.  Dr.  Manas- 
seh  Cutler,  on  his  way  to  the  Ohio  country  in  1787,  dined  with  Sir  John  Temple  in  this  Queen  Street  house,  and  wrote  in 
his  journal  as  follows  ("  Life  of  Manasseh  Cutler,"  vol.  i,  pp.  234,  235)  : 

"  Sir  John  Temple  is  the  complete  gentleman,  but  his  deafness  renders  it  painful  to  converse  with  him.  Lady  Temple  is 
certainly  the  greatest  beauty,  notwithstanding  her  age,  I  ever  saw.  To  a  well-proportioned  form,  a  perfectly  fair  skin,  and 
completely  adjusted  features,  is  added  a  soft  but  majestic  air,  an  easy  and  pleasant  sociability,  a  vein  of  fine  sense,  which 
commands  admiration  and  infuses  delight.  Her  smile,  for  she  rarely  laughs,  could  not  fail  of  producing  the  softest  sensibility  in 
the  fiercest  savage.  Her  dress  is  exceedingly  neat  and  becoming  but  not  gay.  She  is  now  a  grandmother,  but  I  should  not 
suppose  her  more  than  twenty-two.    Her  real  age  is  forty-four.  .  .  . 

"  Our  dinner  was  in  the  English  style — plain  but  plentiful  ;  the  wines  excellent — which  is  a  greater  object  with  Sir  John 
than  his  roast  beef  and  poultry.  You  can  not  please  him  more  than  by  praising  his  Madeira,  and  frequently  begging  the  honor 
of  a  glass  with  him.  The  servants  were  all  in  livery.  The  parlor,  drawing-room,  and  dining-hall  are  in  the  second  story,  spa- 
cious and  richly  furnished.  The  paintings  are  principally  historic  and  executed  by  the  greatest  masters  of  Europe.  The  parlor 
is  chiefly  ornamented  with  medals  and  small  busts  of  the  principal  characters  now  living  in  Europe,  made  of  plaster-of-Paris  or 
white  wax.    He  dines  at  two  on  Sundays." 

Sir  John  Temple  was  buried  in  St.  Paul's  Churchyard,  New  York.  The  inscription  on  the  tablet  in  the  chancel  of  St. 
Paul's  Chapel  erected  to  his  memory  is — 

"  Sacred  to  the  memory  of 
Sir  John  Temple,  Bart., 
Consul-General 
To  the  United  States  of  America, 

From  his  Britannic  Majesty, 
The  first  appointed  to  this  Country 
After  its  Independence. 
Died  in  the  City  of  New  York, 
November  the  17th,  1798, 
Aged  67." 

The  daughter  of  Sir  John  and  Lady  Temple  married  Lieut.-Gov.  Thomas  L.  Winthrop,  of  Massachusetts,  and  became  the 
mother  of  Hon.  Robert  C.  Winthrop,  LL.  D.— ("  Some  Account  of  the  Temple  Family,"  by  Temple  Prime,  New  York,  1887, 
privately  printed.)  There  may  be  seen  in  the  London  Public  Record  Office  the  dispatches  written  by  Sir  John  Temple  from 
New  York  in  1789,  and  only  the  fact  of  Washington's  inauguration  is  mentioned,  without  description  or  particulars,  such  as 
were  written  by  the  diplomatic  representatives  in  New  York  of  France  and  Spain  and  the  United  Netherlands.  Extract  from 
Sir  John  Temple's  letter,  No.  44,  dated  New  York,  May  17,  1789,  in  the  British  Archives  :  "  Mr.  Washington,  the  President,  has 
been  inaugurated  into  the  office  of  First  Magistrate,  with  much  popular  parade ;  and  Mr.  Adams,  the  Vice-President  has,  with 
great  form,  taken  his  seat  in  the  Senate." 

3  Or  17  Queen  Street,  the  store  of  George  Scriba,  the  head  of  the  well-known  German-Dutch  commercial  house,  who  was 
born  at  Vahl,  Germany,  April  27,  1753,  and  died  at  Constantia,  New  York,  August  14,  1836.    He  was  a  prominent  merchant 


32 


THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 


a  building,  supported  by  beautiful  columns,  with  the  names  of  the  respective  States  upon  them,  supporting  it; 
on  a  window  on  the  right  was  wrote  in  an  oval,  neatly  decorated,  '  Vivat  our  illustrious  President  George  Wash- 
ington'; on  the  left — 

The  diplomatic  representatives  of  France "' and  Spain3  were  also  witnesses  of  the  historic 


and  banker,  and,  in  1784,  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Bank  of  New  York.  He  lived  at  16  Broadway,  and  afterward  at  40 
Wall  Street,  which,  in  October,  1799,  he  sold  to  the  Bank  of  the  Manhattan  Company,  which  now  owns  the  property.  In 
1783  Scriba  organized  and  equipped  a  company  of  German  Grenadiers,  whom  he  commanded,  and  who  paraded  at  Wash- 
ington's inauguration.  In  1790  he  purchased  twenty-four  townships  in  Oneida  and  Oswego  Counties,  New  York,  com- 
prising 540,000  acres, 

1  The  remainder  of  the  letter  has  been  lost. — ("  Historical  Magazine,"  vol.  iv,  p.  244,  August,  i860.) 

:  The  French  minister,  Eleonor-Francois-Elie,  Comte  de  Moustier,  was  born  in  Paris,  May  15,  1 75 1  •  After  leaving  the 
College  of  the  Jesuits  at  Heidelberg,  he  entered  the  army,  and  at  seventeen  became  a  lieutenant.  Having  filled  diplomatic 
positions  in  Lisbon  and  Naples,  he  went  to  London,  after  the  Treaty  of  Peace  of  1783,  with  the  title  of  minister  plenipotentiary. 
He  succeeded  the  Chevalier  de  la  Luzerne  in  the  United  States  in  1787,  and  returned  to  France  in  October  of  1789.  In  1790  he 
became  ambassador  to  Prussia.  He  was  recalled  to  Paris  in  1 791 ,  and  was  twice  asked  by  Louis  XVI  to  become  Minister  of 
Foreign  Affairs.  He  was  afterward  named  as  ambassador  to  Constantinople.  Later,  owing  to  the  progress  of  the  French 
Revolution,  he  was  forced  to  seek  an  asylum  in  England.  He  took  the  title  of  Marquis  de  Moustier  after  the  death  of  his 
brother  in  1801.  During  the  ascendency  of  Napoleon  he  remained  faithful  to  the  Bourbons  and  occupied  an  exalted  posi- 
tion in  France  until  his  death  in  1817.  The  French  Archives  contain  many  documents  on  American  affairs,  written  by  this 
able  diplomat.  Jefferson  wrote  to  Mrs.  John  Adams,  from  Paris,  August  30,  1787  (Jefferson  MSS.,  Department  of  State)  : 
"  The  Count  de  Moustier  is  of  a  character  well  assorted  to  this.  Nothing  niggardly,  yet  orderly  in  his  affairs  ;  genteel,  but 
plain,  loving  society  upon  an  easy,  not  a  splendid  tone  ;  unreserved,  honest,  and  speaking  our  language  like  a  native,  he  goes 
with  excellent  notions  and  dispositions,  and  is  as  likely  to  give  satisfaction  as  any  man  that  could  have  been  chosen  in 
France.    He  is  much  a  Whig  in  the  politics  of  his  own  country." 

De  Moustier  was  penurious,  though  he  had  a  liberal  fortune,  and  was  fond  of  display.  No  diplomat  in  New  York  enter- 
tained more  frequently.  He  told  Cyrus  Griffin,  the  former  President  of  Congress,  that  he  (De  Moustier)  was  but  a  taz'ern- 
keepcr,  and  "  the  Americans  had  the  complaisance  not  to  demand  his  recall."— (Griswold's  "  Republican  Court,"  p.  83.)  The 
day  after  the  arrival  of  Mrs.  Washington  in  New  York,  in  May  of  1789.  the  President  gave  a  dinner  in  her  honor,  at  which  the 
Count  de  Moustier,  Gardoqui,  and  others  were  present.  Madame  de  Brehan,  the  sister-in-law  of  the  French  minister,  and  the 
wife  of  the  Marquis  de  Brehan,  a  general  in  the  French  army,  designed  the  illuminated  pieces  which  were  displayed  in  front  of 
De  Moustier's  house  on  the  night  of  Washington's  inauguration. 

James  Madison  wrote  from  New  York,  May  23,  1789,  to  Thomas  Jefferson  at  Paris  :  "  It  is  with  much  pleasure  I  inform 
you  that  Moustier  begins  to  make  himself  acceptable ;  and  with  still  more,  that  Madame  Brehan  begins  to  be  viewed  in  the 
light  which  I  hope  she  merits,  and  which  was  so  little  the  case  when  I  wrote  by  Master  Morris." — ("  Writings  of  James 
Madison,"  vol.  i,  p.  471.) 

3  Don  Diego  de  Gardoqui,  the  diplomatic  representative  from  Spain,  arrived  in  Philadelphia  in  July  of  1785.  He  had 
been  Minister  of  Finances  in  Spain,  and  John  Adams,  while  traveling  in  that  country,  records  in  his  journal  the  attentions 
shown  him  by  Gardoqui.  John  Jay  also  met  Gardoqui  in  Madrid.  John  Quincy  Adams  writes  July  20,  1785  (Griswold's 
"  Republican  Court,"  p.  79) :  "  At  tea  this  afternoon  at  Mr.  Ramsay's  [the  historian  and  member  of  Congress  from  South 
Carolina]  I  met  Mr.  Gardoqui.  His  complexion  and  his  looks  show  sufficiently  from  what  country  he  is.  How  happens 
it  that  rroenge  stares  through  the  eyes  of  every  Spaniard  ?  Mr.  Gardoqui  was  very  polite,  and  inquired  much  after  my 
father." 

Rev.  Dr.  Manasseh  Cutler,  while  in  New  York  in  1787,  called  with  Generals  St.  Clair  and  Knox  on  Gardoqui,  and 
records  in  his  journal  ("  Life  of  Manasseh  Cutler,"  vol.  i,  pp.  300,  301) :  "  We  made  our  next  visit  to  Don  Diego  de  Gardoqui, 
plenipotentiary,  '  Encargados  de  Negocios  '  from  the  court  of  Spain.  He  seemed  to  be  more  on  the  reserve  than  Mons.  Otto, 
but  was  very  complaisant.  General  Knox  is  his  oracle  and  confidant.  To  me  he  appeared  to  be  a  genuine  Spaniard.  He 
lives  in  an  elegant  style,  and  has  taken  a  large  house  in  Hanover  Square."  Mrs.  William  S.  Smith,  writing  from  New  York,  May 
20,  1788,  to  her  mother,  Mrs.  John  Adams,  says :  "  Yesterday  we  dined  at  Mr.  Jay's  in  company  with  the  whole  corps  diplo- 
matique. .  .  .  Mr.  Gardoqui  was  as  chatty  and  sociable  as  his  countryman,  Del  Campo,  Lady  Temple  civil,  and  Sir  John  more 
of  the  gentleman  than  I  ever  saw  him.  The  French  minister  is  a  handsome  and  apparently  polite  man."  Gardoqui  made  an 
overture  to  James  Madison  in  1788  that  "if  the  people  of  Kentucky  would  erect  themselves  into  an  independent  state  and 
appoint  a  proper  person  to  negotiate  with  him,  he  had  authority  for  that  purpose,  and  would  enter  into  an  arrangement  with 


THOMAS  MIFFLIN. 

Oil  Miniature  by  J.  Trumbull,  1791.  Owned 
by  Yale  University. 


CHARLES  THOMSON 

Artist.  C.  W.  Peai.e.  Owned  by  City  of 
Philadelphia  and  deposited  in  Indepen- 
dence Hall. 


CHARLES  THOMSON. 

In  painting  :  "  Declaration  of  Independence" 
by  J.  Trumbull,    Owned  by  Yale  University. 


ARTHUR  ST.  CLAIR. 
Artist.  C.  W.  Peale.    Owned  by  City  of  Philadelphia 

AND  DEPOSITED  IN  INDEPENDENCE  HaI.L. 


THOMAS  MIFFLIN. 
Artist,  C.  W.  Peale.    Owned  by  City  of  Philadelphi 

AND  DEPOSITED  IN  INDEPENDENCE  HaLL. 


THOMAS  MIFFLIN. 

Artist,  Gilbert  Stuart.  Owned  by  Alex.  ].  Dallas 
Dixon,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 


DAVID  HUMPHREYS. 
Artist,  Gilbert  Stuart.       Owned  by  Yale  University. 


PORTRAITS  OF  CHARLES  THOMSON  AND  DAVID  HUMPHREYS  WHO    ACCOMPANIED  WASHINGTON  FROM  MT.  VERNON  TO 
NEW  YORK  IN  APRIL.  1789;  GEN.  ARTHUR  ST.  CLAIR.  THE  GOVERNOR  OF  THE  NORTH-WEST  TERRITORY  IN  1789, 
AND  GEN.  THOMAS  MIFFLIN,  THE  PRESIDENT  OF  THE  EXECUTIVE  COUNCIL  OF  PENNSYLVANIA  IN  1789. 


THE  IN  A  UGURA  TION. 


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events  of  April  23d,  and  sent  descriptive  dispatches  to  their  home  governments.  His 
Excellency  Don  Diego  de  Gardoqui  wrote  as  follows:1 

"  In  consequence  of  the  reports  received  beforehand,  the  illustrious  George  Washington,  President  of 
the  United  States,  arrived  yesterday  in  Elizabethtown,  having  been  received  in  all  the  cities  and  ham- 
lets through  which  he  passed  with  the  greatest  acclamations  and  signs  of  joy,  which  have  plainly  shown  the 
universal  affection  reigning  supreme  in  the  hearts  of  the  citizens  of  the  United  States  for  so  worthy  a 
hero. 

"  He  was  received  at  Elizabethtown  by  deputations  of  three  Senators  and  five  Representatives  of  the  Con 
gress  of  the  United  States,  elected  by  both  Chambers  for  the  purpose,  and  also  the  Chancellor  and  two  deputies 
of  this  State  and  city,  with  whom  he  went  aboard  a  graceful  barge  (purposely  constructed  that  his  Excellency 
might  cross  the  bay),  manned  by  Thomas  Randall,  coxswain,  former  ship-captain,  and  thirteen  pilots  of  the  port, 
in  white  uniforms,  at  the  oars. 

"  In  another  barge  were  the  Ministers  of  State,  War,  and  the  Treasury ;  and  in  others  various  citizens  of 
prominence,  who  expressed  a  wish  for  the  honor  of  belonging  to  the  committee,  forming  altogether  a  flotilla 
adorned  with  a  variety  of  flags,  and  animated  with  repeated  huzzas  and  sonatas,  which  presented  a  sight  agree- 
able in  the  extreme,  and  a  no  less  melodious  sound. 

"  When  his  Excellency  found  himself  at  a  proper  distance  from  his  Catholic  Majesty's  man-of-war,  the 
Galveston,  commanded  by  the  Lieutenant  of  the  Navy  Don  Adrian  Troncoso,  who  had  taken  his  station  at  the 
confluence  of  the  North  and  East  Rivers,  where  he  [General  Washington]  had  to  pass,  the  above-mentioned 
officer  saluted  him  with  fifteen  cannon-shots,  five  vivas  for  the  king,  and  other  honors — the  first  shot  being  so 
powerful  in  its  detonation  that  it  surprised  the  immense  pageant  by  land  and  sea,  meriting  not  only  the  general 
applause  and  hand-clapping  of  all,  but  also  five  more  cheers  instead  of  the  customary  three  cheers.  The  per- 
sonal remarks  of  the  President  on  that  and  other  occasions  expressed  his  great  satisfaction ;  and  he  confessed  as 
much  to  his  Majesty's  minister,  Don  Diego  de  Gardoqui,  and  to  the  commander  referred  to,  at  the  time  they 
paid  their  visit  of  compliment  at  his  residence. 

"The  Battery  saluted  his  Excellency  with  thirteen  guns  and  three  huzzas  on  his  passage;  the  same  being 
done  by  different  merchant-vessels  at  anchor  in  the  bay,  which  were  also  adorned  with  flags. 

"On  the  arrival  of  his  Excellency  on  the  wharf,  where  a  raised  and  ornamented  staircaise  was  put  up  for 
his  debarkation,  he  was  received  and  complimented  by  the  Government  and  principal  dignitaries  of  this  State 
and  city,  with  whom,  and  with  those  already  with  him,  he  proceeded  on  foot  to  the  mansion  designated  for 
his  residence,  side  by  side  with  the  Governor,  and  the  ministers  of  France  and  Spain,  through  the  drawn-up 
lines  of  State  troops,  who  presented  arms  and  lowered  the  standards  as  he  passed  them. 

"  After  reaching  the  house  a  levee  was  held.  When  this  terminated,  the  Governor  ordered  a  company  of 
infantry  with  its  officers  to  guard  the  house;  the  moment  General  Washington  noticed  them,  he  begged  them  to 
retire,  being  in  need  of  no  other  guard  than  his  own  fellow-citizens. 

"  From  his  residence  his  Excellency  passed  to  the  house  of  the  before-mentioned  Governor,  where  he  dined 
in  the  same  style. 

"  On  that  night  the  citizens  had  proposed  to  illuminate  their  houses  with  fire-works,  but  the  heavy  rain  which 
began  toward  evening  and  lasted  all  night  disappointed  their  intentions,  as  also  the  magnificent  illuminations 
projected  by  the  ministers  of  Spain  and  France." 


them  for  the  exportation  of  their  produce  to  New  Orleans." — ("Writings  of  James  Madison,"  vol.  iv,  p.  365.)    The  Spanish 

Charge  d' Affaires,  however,  would  not  consent  to  any  treaty  implying  the  right  of  the  United  States  to  the  free  navigation  of 

the  Mississippi  River  (Butler's  "History  of  Kentucky,"  p.  157,  and  Pellew's  "John  Jay,"  p.  233),  and  left  the  country,  October 

io,  1789 — his  mission  a  failure.    He  died  November  12,  1798. 

1  The  letter  is  dated  New  York,  April  24,  1789,  and  is  translated  from  the  original  dispatch  in  the  Spanish  Archives. 

The  dispatch  was  written  to  Count  Florida  Blanca,  the  Spanish  Minister  of  State.    Gardoqui  wrote  the  Minister  of  State, 

under  date  of  April  20,  1789,  stating  that  Vice-President  Adams  would  arrive  in  New  York  that  evening,  and  that  bonfires, 

salutes,  and  illuminations  were  being  prepared  for  the  day  of  the  arrival  of  General  Washington. 
6 


54         THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 
The  French  minister,  Comte  de  Moustier,  wrote  : 1 

"On  his  approach  he  [General  Washington]  was  saluted  by  the  cannon  of  the  fortification,  which  was 
thronged  in  all  the  parts  that  could  be  seen  by  an  immense  crowd.  The  streets  were  thronged  with  all 
grades  of  people;  troops  preceded  and  followed  the  presidential  procession,  which  marched  on  foot,  in  the 
wake  of  the  deputation  of  Congress,  escorted  by  the  State  Governor  and  followed  by  the  magistrates  and  the 
city's  principal  citizens.  No  one  had  thought  to  acquaint  me  with  any  of  the  arrangements  made  for  the 
entry  of  the  President.  I  formed  mine  according  to  the  circumstances,  which  demanded  no  ceremonial  on  my 
part,  and  left  me  free  in  all  my  movements.  I  proceeded  in  a  coach  toward  the  place  where  the  President  had 
landed,  in  order  to  follow  the  route  he  had  taken,  and  thus  to  show  the  people  that  my  enthusiasm  equaled 
theirs.    Not  being  able  to  distinguish  anything  in  the  crowd  surrounding  my  carriage,  for  no  particular  costume 

distinguished  the  spectators,  I  arrived 
near  to  General  Washington,  whom  I 
recognized  only  by  his  gestures  of  satis- 
faction at  seeing  me ;  and,  what  was  un- 
doubtedly a  greater  compliment,  I  was 
summoned  at  that  moment.  I  descend- 
ed from  the  carriage  and  accompanied 
him  up  to  the  humble  house  which  had 
been  provided  as  his  residence.  There 
he  received  homage  from  those  who 
had  escorted  him,  and  from  a  great 
number  of  other  people  who  had  come 
to  the  house  which  must  be  called  his 
palace.  Each  shook  his  hand,  accord- 
ing to  the  general  habit,  which  begins 
to  die  out  among  the  people  of  higher 
rank,  and  from  which  the  President  in- 
sensibly excuses  himself,  so  that  now 
he  only  shakes  hands  with  those  who  offer  theirs,  instead  of  advancing  his  as  he  has  always  done  before. 
There  was  also  a  great  provision  of  wine  and  punch,  which  the  President  himself  offered  to  me ;  but  I  reminded 
him  how  I  had  objected,  in  Mount  Vernon,  to  that  usage." 

As  the  barge  drew  up  to  Murray  Wharf,  near  the  Coffee  House,  about  three  o'clock, 
Thursday  afternoon, 3  cannons  were  again  fired,  the  bells  of  the  city  began  to  ring,  and 
continued  for  half  an  hour. 4  Washington  was  seen  to  be  dressed  in  a  plain  suit,  consist- 
ing of  a  blue  coat,  buff  waistcoat  and  breeches. 5  A  venerable  gentleman,  who  saw  him 
walk  up  the  carpeted  ferry  stairs,  said  of  him  :  "  I  have  beheld  him  when  he  com- 
manded the  American  army ;  I  saw  him  at  the  conclusion  of  peace,  retiring  to  his  pri- 
meval habitation  ;  and  now  I  behold  him  returning  to  take  the  chair  of  presidency.  I 


1  The  dispatch  quoted  is  a  translation  of  the  original  in  the  French  Archives,  and  is  dated  New  York,  June  5,  1789,  and  is 
directed  to  the  Count  de  Montmorin,  Minister  of  Foreign  Affairs;  it  is  indorsed  as  having  been  received  by  Montmorin  at 
the  Foreign  Office  in  Paris,  August  23d. 

5  Comte  de  Moustier  and  Madame  de  Brehan  left  New  York  October  21,  1788,  to  visit  Washington  at  Mount  Vernon. — 
("Writings  of  James  Madison,"  vol.  i.,  p.  429.) 

3  April  23d. 

4  "Records  of  Common  Council,"  City  Hall,  New  York,  April  and  May,  1789. 
8  Freeman's  Oracle,  May  5,  1789. 


THE  RESIDENCE  OF  PRESIDENT  WASHINGTON  IN  NEW  YORK 
IN  1789,  FRANKLIN  SQUARE. 
(From  a  picture  made  in  1856.) 


THE  INAUGURATION. 


35 


have  not  now  another  wish  but  that  he  may  die  as  he  lived,  the  beloved  of  his 
country."  1 

Miss  Eliza  Morton,  afterward  Mrs.  Josiah  Ouincy,  looking  out  of  a  window  in  a  store 
on  the  wharf,  wrote  : 2 

"Carpets  were  spread  to  the  carriage  prepared  for  him;  but  he  preferred  walking  through  the  crowded 
streets,  and  was  attended  by  Governor  Clinton  and  many  officers  and  gentlemen.  He  frequently  bowed  to  the 
multitude,  and  took  off  his  hat  to  the  ladies  at  the  windows,  who  waved  their  handkerchiefs,  and  threw  flowers 
before  him,  and  shed  tears  of  joy  and  congratulation.  The  whole  city  was  one  scene  of  triumphal  rejoicing. 
His  name,  in  every  form  of  decoration,  appeared  on  the  fronts  of  the  houses;3  and  the  streets  which  he  passed 
through  to  the  Governor's  mansion  were  ornamented  with  flags,  silk  banners  of  various  colors,  wreaths  of  flow- 
ers, and  branches  of  evergreen.  Never  did  any  one  enjoy  such  a  triumph  as  Washington,  who  indeed  '  read  his 
history  in  a  nation's  eyes.'  " 

The  procession,  headed  by  Colonel  Morgan  Lewis,  consisted  of  music,  a  troop  of  horse, 
artillery-officers  off  duty,  the  grenadiers  that  served  as  a  guard  of  honor  to  the  President, 
General  Malcom,4 


the  Governor  and 
officers  of  State  and 
the  congressional 
committee,  James 
Duane,  the  Mayor, 
and  the  corporation 
of  the  city,  the 
clergy,  the  French 
and  Spanish  diplo- 
matic representa- 
tives,  and  citizens. 


y  . ,  .,5? 


RECEIPT  GIVEN  BY  OWNER  OF  HOUSE  OCCUPIED  BY  WASHINGTON,  1789-90. 

NOW  IN  POSSESSION  OF   DR.  THOMAS  ADDIS  EMMET,  OF  NEW  YORK. 


The    whole  passed 

through  Queen  Street,5  by  Governor  Clinton's  house  at  the  foot  of  Cedar  Street, 
and  stopped  at  the  Franklin   House,  which  had  been  fitted  up  as  a  house  for  Wash- 


1  Pennsylvania  Packet,  April  27,  1789. 

3  "  Memoir  of  the  Life  of  Eliza  S.  M.  Ouincy."  p  50  ("privately  printed).  Mrs.  Quincy,  born  September  20,  1773,  and  died 
September  7,  1850,  was  the  daughter  of  John  Morton  (called  the  rebel  banker  by  the  British  on  account  of  the  large  sums  he 
advanced  the  Continental  Congress),  and  the  sister  of  Major  Jacob  Morton.  She  was  married  in  June,  1797,  at  the  Ludlow- 
Morton  home,  9  State  Street,  New  York,  to  Josiah  Ouincy,  afterward  President  of  Harvard  University. — (Magazine  of  Ameri- 
can History,  March,  1889.)  Mrs.  Ouincy  was  fifteen  years  old  in  1789,  and  wrote  her  recollections,  with  the  assistance  of 
her  mother,  in  1821.    This  diary  was  edited  in  1861  by  her  daughter,  Eliza  Susan  Quincy. 

3  "  God  bless  your  reign,"  etc. 

*  William  Malcom,  native  of  Scotland,  member  Chamber  of  Commerce,  State  Assembly,  Marine  Society,  Deputy  Grand 
Master  of  Masonic  Order,  Brigadier-General  of  the  Militia  of  the  City  and  County  of  New  York  and  of  Richmond  County 
in  1789. — John  Austin  Stevens. 

•  Now  Pearl  Street — a  street,  in  1789,  a  mile  and  a  half  in  length,  with  buildings  from  four  to  six  stories  high.  It  was  con- 
sidered a  remarkable  fact  at  that  time,  as  the  Rev.  Dr.  Manasseh  Cutler  wrote,  that  the  sides  of  Queen  Street  within  the  posts 
were  "  laid  principally  with  freestone,  sufficiently  wide  for  three  persons  to  walk  abreast." — (Cutler's  "Life,"  vol.  i,  p.  306.) 


77//;"  CHNTliNNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 


inston.1  After  a  brief  reception,  the  President-elect  drove  to  Governor  Clinton's  house  for 
an  afternoon  dinner.    From  seven  till  nine  o'clock  in  the  evening  the  city  was  brilliantly 

illuminated.  The  day  had  indeed 
been  a  glorious  one.  On  all  sides 
was  heard  the  expression,  "  Well, 
he  deserves  it  all ! "  and  many 
who  were  in  the  crowd  said  that 
•'  they  should  now  die  contented, 
nothing  being  wanted  to  com- 
plete their  happiness,  previous  to 
this  auspicious  period,  but  the 
sight  of  the  Saviour  of  his  Coun- 
try." 2  It  had  been  "a  day  of 
extravagant  joy." 

Of  the  23d  of  April,  Wash- 
ington wrote  in  his  diary  :  "  The 
display  of  boats  which  attended 
and  joined  us  on  this  occasion, 
some  with  vocal  and  some  with  instrumental  music  on  board  ;  the  decorations  of  the  ships, 
the  roar  of  cannon,  and  the  loud  acclamations  of  the  people,  which  rent  the  skies,  as  I 
walked  along  the  streets,  filled  my  mind  with  sensations  as  painful  (considering  the  reverse 
of  this  scene,  which  may  be  the  case  after  all  my  labors  to  do  good)  as  they  are  pleasing." 

In  turning  for  a  moment  to  the  two  Houses  of  Congress,  it  should  be  said  that,  after 
counting  the  electoral  votes  on  the  6th  of  April,  they  at  once  plunged  into  the  business 
of  preparing  rules  and  orders  for  themselves,  in  discussing  the  tariff,  in  making  a  begin- 


1  This  house  was  owned  by  Samuel  Osgood,  one  of  the  Treasury  Commissioners,  and  was,  until  1856,  when  the  building 
was  taken  down,  at  the  junction  of  Cherry  and  Pearl  Streets,  on  Franklin  Square.  The  Franklin  House  had  been  occupied  by 
the  President  of  the  old  Congress,  but  had  been  fitted  up  by  order  of  the  new  Congress  for  Washington.  Samuel  Osgood 
was  born  in  Andover,  Massachusetts,  and  was  graduated  from  Harvard  College  in  1770.  In  1780  he  was  a  delegate  to  Con- 
gress, and  was  appointed  one  of  the  Treasury  Board  in  1785.  He  was  Postmaster-General  (I789-'9I),  a  member  of  the  New 
York  Legislature,  and,  from  1803  until  his  death  in  1813,  Naval-Officer  of  the  Port  of  New  York.  (For  further  particulars 
regarding  Osgood,  see  "  History  of  the  City  of  New  York,"  by  Mrs.  Martha  J.  Lamb,  vol.  ii,  p.  330.)  Washington  occupied  in 
1790,  a  house  on  Broadway,  near  Bowling  Green,  which  had  been  used  by  the  French  minister  and  his  secretary,  Mr.  Otto, 
and  was  called  the  Macomb  House  and  subsequently  the  Mansion  House  and  Bunker's  Hotel.  Washington's  "  Diary," 
February  I,  1790:  "Agreed  on  Saturday  last  to  take  Mr.  McComb's  house,  lately  occupied  by  the  minister  of  France,  for  one 
year  from  and  after  the  first  of  May  next ;  and  would  go  into  it  immediately,  if  Mr.  Otto,  the  present  possessor,  could  be 
accommodated  ;  and  this  day  sent  my  secretary  to  examine  the  rooms  to  see  how  my  furniture  could  be  adapted  to  the 
respective  apartments."  Colonel  John  May's  journal,  April  22,  1788:  "Went  to  see  a  file  of  new  buildings,  nearly  com- 
pleted, belonging  to  a  Mr.  McComb,  by  far  the  finest  buildings  my  eyes  ever  beheld,  and  I  believe  they  excel  any  on  the  con- 
tinent. In  one  of  the  entries  I  traveled  up  five  flights  of  stairs — the  rail  continuous  from  top  to  bottom.  I  still  left  one  flight 
unexplored."  John  Jay  had  written  to  Mount  Vernon,  asking  Washington  to  become  his  guest  on  his  arrival  in  New  York. 
Governor  Clinton  sent  a  like  invitation. 

J  Gazette  of  the  United  States,  April  25,  1789. 


THE  MACOMB  HOUSE  ON  BROADWAY. 

RESIDENCE  OF  PRESIDENT  WASHINGTON  IN  I79O. 

("Valentine's  Manual.") 


THE  INAUGURATION. 


37 


ning  toward  organizing  the  judiciary,  in  arranging  for  a  house  for  the  President,  and  in 
preparations  to  receive  him  and  the  Vice-President  in  New  York.  Each  day  brought  new 
members  into  Federal  Hall.  From  the  2d  day  of  April,  the  day  after  a  quorum  had  been 
formed,  until  the  last  day  of  the  month,  the  House  of  Representatives  received  nineteen 
new  members,  ten  of  whom  it  is  necessary  to  mention  by  name  only  :  Lambert  Cadwalader,1 
of  New  Jersey  ;  Isaac  Coles,2  of  Virginia  ;  Joshua  Seney3  and  Benjamin  Contee,4  of  Mary- 
land; /Edanus  Burke,5  Daniel  Huger,u  and  William  L.  Smith,7  of  South  Carolina;  Peter  Sil- 
vester8 and  John  Hathorn,9  of  New  York;  and  Jonathan  Grout,10  of  Massachusetts.  Of 
the  other  nine,  however,  something  more  should  be  said.  Two  were  noted  Pennsylvanians : 
George  Clymer, 11  fifty  years  old,  a  signer  of  the  Declaration  and  a  framer  of  the  Constitution 
of  the  United  States;  and  Thomas  Fitzsimons, 13  born  in  Ireland,  forty-eight  years  old,  and  a 
member  of  the  old  Congress  and  of  the  Constitutional  Convention.  One  of  the  most 
distinguished  men  from  the  South  was  Abraham  Baldwin,13  of  Georgia,  thirty-five  years  old, 
graduate  of  and  tutor  in  Yale  College,  chaplain  in  the  Revolution,  lawyer,  founder  and 
President  of  the  University  of  Georgia,  member  of  the  Continental  Congress  and  Constitu- 
tional Convention,  and  afterward  United  States  Senator.  The  remainder  in  the  list  of 
Representatives,  who  were  present  at  the  inauguration  of  Washington,  were  George  Par- 
tridge,14 of  Massachusetts,  forty-nine  years  old,  graduate  of  Harvard,  delegate  to  the  Con- 
tinental Congress  ;  John  Laurance, 13  of  New  York,  born  in  England  thirty-nine  years  before, 
lawyer,  soldier  during  the  entire  Revolution,  member  of  the  old  Congress  ;  Egbert  Benson,16 
of  New  York,  forty-two,  a  graduate  of  Columbia  College,  member  of  the  Continental  Con- 
gress, and  first  President  of  the  New  York  Historical  Society  ;  Thomas  Sinnickson,17  of 
N  ew  Jersey,  a  man  of  classical  education,  and  a  captain  in  the  battles  of  Trenton  and 
Princeton  ;  James  Jackson,18  of  Georgia,  native  of  England,  thirty-one  years  old,  Revolution- 
ary soldier,  lawyer,  and  afterward  United  States  Senator ;  and  William  Floyd,18  of  New 
York,  fifty-five  years  old,  a  member  of  the  old  Congress  for  nine  years,  and  one  of  the  im- 
mortal band  of  signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence. 

Six  Senators  made  their  appearance  in  the  Senate-chamber  in  the  interval  between  the 


1  Took  his  seat  April  2d.  3  Took  his  seat  April  13th. 

2  Took  his  seat  April  9th.  4  Took  his  seat  April  17th. 

6  Took  his  seat  April  13th.  Burke  was  born  in  Ireland  in  1743,  and  was  widely  known  on  account  of  a  pamphlet  he  wrote 
against  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati. 

■  Took  his  seat  April  13th  ;  member  of  the  Continental  Congress. 

'  Took  his  seat  April  13th.  10  Took  his  seat  April  30th. 

8  Took  his  seat  April  22d.  "  Took  his  seat  April  3d. 

9  Took  his  seat  April  23d.  12  Took  his  seat  April  8th. 

13  Took  his  seat  April  20th.    In  1781  he  declined  the  chair  of  Professor  of  Divinity  and  College  Pastor  at  Yale. 

14  Took  his  seat  April  4th.    He  represented  the  Plymouth  district,  and  was  a  classmate  of  Elbridge  Gerry. 
16  Took  his  seat  April  8th.  18  Took  his  seat  April  20th. 

16  Took  his  seat  April  9th.  19  Took  his  seat  April  13th. 

17  Took  his  seat  April  13th. 


38       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 


formal  organization  and  the  inauguration  of  Washington  :  Ralph  Izard,1  of  South  Carolina; 
Charles  Carroll8  and  John  Henry,3  of  Maryland;  George  Read,4  of  Delaware;  Tristram 
Dalton,5  of  Massachusetts  ;  and  James  Gunn,8  of  Georgia.  Of  these  it  should  be  said  that 
Henry  was  a  Princeton  graduate,  member  of  the  old  Congress,  and  Governor  of  Maryland ; 
and  Read  was  a  lawyer  of  fifty-five,  who  enjoyed  the  distinction  of  having  signed,  as  a  dele- 
gate of  the  Congress  of  1774,  the  petition  to  George  III  ;  as  a  member  of  the  Congress  of 
1776,  the  Declaration  ;  and  as  a  member  of  the  Federal  Convention  of  1787,  the  Constitution. 
Izard,  educated  at  Christ  College,  Cambridge,  was  forty-seven.  While  in  England,  he 
endeavored,  without  success,  to  impress  upon  the  British  ministry  the  folly  of  the  policy 
toward  the  American  colonies.  He  always  refused  the  honor  of  a  presentation  at  court, 
because  he  would  have  been  obliged  to  bow  the  knee — which  he  never  would  do,  he  said,  to 
mortal  man.  While  in  Europe,  he  was  appointed  by  the  Continental  Congress  commis- 
sioner to  the  court  of  the  Grand  Duke  of  Tuscany.  When  the  agent  of  South  Carolina  was 
sent  abroad  to  purchase  ships  of  war,  Ralph  Izard  pledged  the  whole  of  his  ample  fortune  as 
security  for  payment.7  It  was  a  proud  distinction  of  the  first  Congress  under  the  Constitu- 
tion that  one  of  its  members  was  Charles  Carroll,  of  Carrollton,  fifty-two  years  old,  educated 
at  several  universities  in  Europe,  the  great  advocate  of  liberty,  and  the  survivor  of  all  the 
signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence. 8 

On  the  very  day  that  Washington  arrived  in  New  York,  a  discussion  took  place  in  the 
Senate  regarding  the  manner  of  receiving  the  President.  Thereupon,  John  Adams  asked 
what  title  should  be  used  in  addressing  the  Chief  Magistrate — "  Mr.  Washington,"  "  Mr. 
President,"  "  Sir,"  or  "May  it  please  your  Excellency."9  A  committee  was  appointed 
to  confer  with  the  House  on  the  subject,  and  also  on  the  subject  of  the  inauguration  cere- 
monies, and  the  joint  committee  decided  that  the  title  should  simply  be,  "  The  President 
of  the  United  States."  The  Senate  disagreed,  and  the  new  committee  reported  in  favor  of 
the  title,  "  His  Highness  the  President  of  the  United  States  and  Protector  of  their  Lib- 
erties." The  Senate  accepted  the  report  and  the  House  rejected  it.  The  conference 
committee  never  made  a  final  report,  but  the  title  first  agreed  upon  gradually  came  into 
use. 10    The  arrangements  for  the  inauguration  proceeded  rapidly.    In  the  preliminary  report 


'Took  his  seat  April  13th.  4  Took  his  seat  April  13th. 

2  Took  his  seat  April  13th.  6  Took  his  seat  April  14th. 

3  Took  his  seat  April  20th.  °  Took  his  seat  April  20th. 

'  Izard  married  in  1767  the  beautiful  Alice  De  Lancey,  niece  of  the  Lieutenant-Governor  of  the  Province  of  New 
York,  and  while  in  America  was  in  the  habit  of  spending  his  winters  in  South  Carolina  and  his  summers  in  New 
York. — ("Correspondence  of  Mr.  Ralph  Izard,  of  South  Carolina,  from  the  Year  1774  to  1804,  with  a  Short  Memoir," 
pp.  v-xix.) 

6  He  died  in  1832,  aged  ninety-five.    No  mention  is  made  of  members  of  Congress  arriving  in  New  York  after  April  30, 
1789.    Biographical  notices  of  all  the  members  of  the  First  Congress  are  given  in  the  next  chapter. 
""James  Madison,"  by  Gay  (American  Statesman  Series),  pp.  129-134. 

10  The  question  of  titles,  however,  as  Madison  wrote  to  Jefferson  "became  a  serious  one  in  the  two  Houses.  J  Adams 
espoused  the  cause  of  titles  with  great  earnestness.  His  friend  R.  H.  Lee,  although  elected  as  a  republican  enemy  to  an  aristo- 
cratic Constitution,  was  a  most  zealous  second.  .  .  .  Had  the  project  succeeded,  it  would  have  subjected  the  President  to  a 


Morgan  Lewis,  Grand  Marshall  at  Washington's  Inauguration. 


THE  INAUGURATION. 


39 


of  the  congressional  committee  of  arrangements,  offered  on  Saturday,  the  25th  of  April,  it 
was  declared  that  the  President  should  be  formally  received  by  both  Houses  in  the  Senate- 
chamber  on  Thursday,  the  30th  of  April,  and  that  both  Houses  should  then  move  into  the 
Representatives'  chamber,  where  the  oath  was  to  be  administered  by  the  Chancellor  of  the 
State  of  New  York.  Two  days  later,  the  place  for  taking  the  oath  was  changed  to  the 
"  outer  gallery  adjoining  the  Senate-chamber " ;  and  it  was  decided  that  the  President  and 
Y ice-President  and  both  Houses  should  proceed  after  the  ceremony  to  St.  Paul's  Chapel 
to  hear  divine  service.1  The  idea  of  holding  services  in  St.  Paul's  created  considerable 
discussion.  Senator  William  Maclay,  of  Pennsylvania,  said  in  his  Journal  on  the  Monday 
before  the  inauguration  : 2 

"  A  new  arrangement  was  reported  from  the  joint  committee  of  ceremonies.  This  is  an  endless  business. 
Lee  offered  a  motion  to  the  Chair  that,  after  the  President  was  sworn  (which  now  is  to  be  in  the  gallery  opposite 
the  Senate-chamber),  the  Congress  should  accompany  him  to  St.  Paul's  Church  and  attend  divine  service.  This 
had  been  agitated  in  the  joint  committee.  But  Lee  said  expressly  that  they  would  not  agree  to  it.  I  opposed  it 
as  an  improper  business,  after  it  had  been  in  the  hands  of  the  joint  committee  and  rejected,  as  I  thought  this  a 
certain  method  of  creating  a  dissension  between  the  Houses." 

The  question  of  holding  services  on  the  day  of  the  inauguration  had  been  agitated  by 
the  clergymen  of  the  city.3    When  Bishop  Provoost  was  applied  to  on  the  subject,  he  replied, 


serious  dilemma  and  given  a  deep  wound  to  our  infant  government."  And  Senator  William  Grayson,  of  Virginia,  wrote  to 
Patrick  Henry  (New  York,  June  12,  1789,  vide  Lyon  G.  Tyler's  "  Letters  and  Times  of  the  Tylers,"  vol.  i,  p.  169) :  "  Is  it  no 
still  stranger  that  John  Adams,  the  son  of  a  tinker,  and  the  creature  of  the  people,  should  be  for  titles  and  dignities  and  pre- 
eminences, and  should  despise  the  herd  and  the  ill-born  ?  It  is  said  he  was  printum  tiobile  in  the  Senate  for  the  titles  for  the 
President,  in  hopes  that,  in  the  scramble,  he  might  get  a  slice  for  himself."  A  letter  by  John  Armstrong  to  General  Gates, 
dated  New  York,  April  7,  1789  (Griswold's  "  Republican  Court,"  pp.  122-3),  says:  "All  the  world  here  are  busy  in  collecting 
flowers  and  sweets  of  every  kind  to  amuse  and  delight  the  President  in  his  approach  and  on  his  arrival.  Even  Roger  Sherman 
has  set  his  head  at  work  to  devise  some  style  of  address  more  novel  and  dignified  than  '  Excellency.'  Yet  in  the  midst  of  this 
admiration  there  are  skeptics  who  doubt  its  propriety,  and  wits  who  amuse  themselves  at  its  extravagance.  The  first  will 
grumble  and  the  last  will  laugh,  and  the  President  should  be  prepared  to  meet  the  attacks  of  both  with  firmness  and  good- 
nature. A  caricature  has  already  appeared,  called  '  The  Entry,'  full  of  very  disloyal  and  profane  allusions.  It  represents  the 
General  mounted  on  an  ass,  and  in  the  arms  of  his  man  Billy — Humphreys  [Colonel  David  Humphreys,  aide-de-camp,  who 
accompanied  Washington  from  Mount  Vernon  to  New  York],  leading  the  Jack,  and  chanting  hosannas  and  birthday  odes. 
The  following  couplet  proceeds  from  the  mouth  of  the  devil  : 

'  The  glorious  time  has  come  to  pass 
When  David  shall  conduct  an  ass  ! '  " 

1  The  Senate  agreed  to  the  St.  Paul's  service  April  27th,  and  the  House  April  29th. 
5  "Journal  of  William  Maclay,"  edited  by  Edgar  S.  Maclay,  A.  M.,  p.  4. 

3  Griswold's  "  Republican  Court,"  p.  138  :  "  The  list  of  clergymen,  for  the  city,  in  1789,  comprised  only  fourteen  names,  as 
follows:  Presbyterian  Church,  Rev.  Dr.  John  Rodgers  ;  Scotch  Presbvterian  Church,  Rev.  Dr.  John  Mason  ;  Episcopal  Church, 
Rev.  Dr.  Samuel  Provoost,  bishop,  and  Rev.  Mr.  Beach,  and  Rev.  Benjamin  Moore  ;  United  Lutheran  Church,  Rev.  Dr.  John 
Christopher  Kunzie  ;  Methodist  Church,  Rev.  Mr.  Morrill  and  Rev.  Mr.  Cloud  ;  Reformed  Dutch  Church,  Rev.  Dr.  John  H. 
Livingston  and  Rev.  Dr.  William  Linn  ;  German  Church,  Rev,  Mr.  Gross  ;  Baptist  Church,  Rev.  Mr.  Foster  ;  Jewish  Syna- 
gogue, Rev.  Gershom  Seixas." 

Rev.  Dr.  Samuel  Provoost,  Episcopal  bishop,  and  Rev.  Dr.  William  Linn,  Presbyterian  and  afterward  Reformed  Dutch,  were 
made  Chaplains  of  Congress.  Dr.  Provoost  was  born  in  New  York,  February  26,  1742,  graduated  at  King's  (Columbia)  Col- 
lege, 1758,  Bishop  of  New  York  from  1787  to  1801,  Chaplain  of  the  Senate  in  1789,  and  reappointed  in  1790.  Dr.  Linn,  born 
February  7,  1752,  first  officiated  as  Chaplain  of  the  House  of  Representatives  May  5,  1789.  He  received  a  salary  of  five  hundred 
dollars,  and  was  elected  by  twenty-seven  votes  against  nineteen  cast  for  Dr.  John  Rodgers,  the  celebrated  Presbyterian  divine, 


THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


so  Ebenczer  Hazard  wrote,1  that  the  Church  of  England  "had  always  been  used  to  look  up 
to  government  upon  such  occasions,  and  he  thought  it  prudent  not  to  do  anything  till  they 
knew  what  government  would  direct.  If  the  good  bishop  never  prays  without  an  order  from 
government,"  added  Hazard,  "  it  is  not  probable  that  the  kingdom  of  heaven  will  suffer 
much  from  his  violence."  It  must  have  been  a  relief  to  Bishop  Provoost,  therefore,  when 
Congress  agreed  to  the  services  in  St.  Paul's  Chapel. 

Meanwhile,  Washington  had  been  waited  upon  by  the  two  Houses  of  Congress,  who 
offered  him  their  congratulations.2  Similar  congratulatory  calls  were  made  by  other  bodies, 
including  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  whose  members  met  at  the  Coffee  House  at  half-past 
eleven  o'clock  one  morning3  and  proceeded  to  the  presidential  mansion,  where  they  were 
introduced  by  John  Broome,  the  President  of  the  Chamber. 4 

The  long-expected  day  was  now  at  hand.  The  copestone  was  about  to  be  placed  on  the 
structure  the  foundations  of  which  had  been  laid  thirteen  years  before.5  It  was  the  30th  of 
April,  1 789,  and  the  first  President  of  the  United  States  was  to  take  the  oath  of  fidelity 
to  the  new  Constitution.     Crowds  were  pouring  into  New  York.     "  For  nearly  a  fort- 


who  had  received  in  1768,  at  the  suggestion  of  Whitefield  and  Franklin,  the  degree  of  D.  D.  from  Edinburgh  University.  Dr. 
Linn  was  reappointed  Chaplain  of  the  House  in  1790.  Ebenezer  Hazard,  the  Postmaster-General,  wrote  to  Jeremy  Belknap 
under  date  of  May  16,  1789  (Massachusetts  Historical  Collections,  vol.  iii,  fifth  series,  Belknap  Papers,  Part  II,  p.  129),  as  fol- 
lows regarding  Dr.  Linn  : 

"  Mr.  (now  Dr.)  Linn  is  an  excellent  preacher.  He  was  formerly  a  Presbyterian  minister,  and  settled  at  Elizabeth-Town, 
where  the  people  were  very  kind  to  him.  While  he  was  there,  the  Low  Dutch  Church  wanted  an  assistant  for  Dr.  Livingston 
(of  this  city),  and  in  an  underhanded  way  tampered  with  him.  He  listened  to  them,  and  agreed  to  accept  their  offer  ;  and  the 
first  notice  his  congregation  had  of  his  design  to  move  was  given  by  himself,  from  the  pulpit.  He  was  pretty  severely  handled 
for  it  by  the  presbytery  when  he  applied  for  his  dismission.  It  is  supposed  his  wife  liked  New  York  best,  and  tempted  him. 
When  Congress  wanted  chaplains,  his  friends  were  indefatigable  in  making  interest  for  him  ;  and  it  is  said  (and  I  believe  with 
truth)  that  he  personally  applied  to  the  members." 

1  To  Jeremy  Belknap,  New  York,  May  2,  1789  (Massachusetts  Historical  Collections,  vol.  iii,  fifth  series,  Belknap  Papers, 
Part  II,  pp.  120,  121). 

2  New  York  Packet,  April  27th,  1789;  also  Senator  William  Maclay's  Journal,  edited  by  Edgar  S.  Maclay,  A.M.,  p.  I  : 
"  I  understood  that  it  was  agreed  among  the  Senators  yesterday  that  they  would  meet  at  the  Hall  this  morning,  and  go  in  a 
body  to  pay  their  respects  to  General  Washington.  I  went  about  ten  o'clock  to  the  Hall,  accordingly.  There  was,  however, 
no  person  there.  After  staying  some  time,  Ellsworth  came  in.  I  suspected  how  it  was.  I  repeated  the  conversation  of  last 
night,  and  asked  him  whether  he  had  been  to  wait  on  the  General.  Yes,  he  had  been,  and  a  number  more  with  him  ;  some 
went  last  flight,  and  some  this  morning.  ...  I  however  whipped  down-stairs,  and  joined  the  Speaker  and  a  number  more  of 
the  Pennsylvanians,  who  were  collecting  for  that  purpose,  went,  paid  my  respects,"  etc.  Maclay  also  describes  a  visit  made  him 
by  Washington  on  the  morning  of  the  inauguration-day  :  "  I  had  dressed  and  was  about  to  set  out,  when  General  Washington, 
the  greatest  man  in  the  world,  paid  me  a  visit.  I  met  him  at  the  foot  of  the  stairs.  Mr.  Wynkoop  just  came  in.  We  asked 
him  to  take  a  seat.  He  excused  himself  on  account  of  the  number  of  his  visits.  We  accompanied  him  to  the  door.  He  made 
us  complacent  bows — one  before  he  mounted,  and  the  other  as  he  went  away  on  horseback."  Washington's  diary  in  New  York 
shows  that  he  frequently  "exercised  on  horseback."  He  often  "exercised  in  the  coach  with  Mrs.  Washington  "  A  favorite 
drive  was  "the  fourteen  miles  round."  This  route  "was  by  the  old  King's  Bridge  Road  which  passed  over  Murray  Hill  where 
Lexington  Avenue  now  does  to  McGowan's  Pass  at  about  One  Hundred  and  Eighth  Street ;  then  across  on  a  line  with  the 
Harlem  River  to  Bloomingdale,  and  so  on  down  on  the  westerly  side  of  the  island." — (Lossing's  "  Diary  of  Washington,"  p.  60.) 

3  Saturday,  April  25th. — (New  York  Packet,  April  27,  1789.) 

4  Elected  President  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  in  April.  1789. — (MS.  Records  of  Chamber  of  Commerce.)  Broome  was 
defeated  for  Congress  by  Laurance  (New  York  Packet,  April  10th,  1789).  John  L.  Broome,  of  Brooklyn,  the  grandson  of  John 
Broome,  writes :  "  My  grandfather,  John  Broome,  was  for  nine  years  President  of  the  New  York  Chamber  of  Commerce,  and 
was  president  at  the  time  of  the  inauguration  in  1789.  He  was  quite  intimate  with  General  Washington,  and  by  his  special 
request  stood  by  his  side  at  the  time  he  took  his  oath  of  office  as  President  of  the  United  States." 

6  Alexander  Hamilton  considered  the  4th  of  July  and  the  30th  of  April  the  two  great  national  holidays.  In  writing  to  Wash- 
ington, May  5,  1789,  regarding  formal  receptions  to  be  given  by  the  President  twice  or  four  times  a  year,  he  said,  "  If  twice, 
the  day  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  and  that  of  the  inauguration  of  the  President,  which  completed  the  organization  of 
the  Constitution  ought  to  be  preferred." — Hamilton  MSS.  belonging  to  the  Misses  Hamilton,  granddaughters  of  Alexander 
Hamilton,  New  York. 


GEN.  SAMUEL  B.  WEBB 
Miniature  by  C.  W.  Pkale.  Ownkd  by  Mks.  Jank  YVkhh  1 
I.AID LEY,  GRANDDAUGHTER,  ELIZABETH,  N.  J. 

(Loan  Exhibition  No.  207). 


MAJOR  LEONARD  BLEECKER. 

Artist,  R.  E.  Pine.  Owned  by  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Blhrckek 
Warfiei.d,  Great  Granddaughter.  Nkvv  York. 


JOHN  R.  LIVINGSTON,  Brother  of  Chancellor  Livingston. 
Artist.  John  Vanderlyn.    Owned  by  Charles  O.  Living- 
ston. Grandson,  Kingston-on-H  udson.  N.  Y. 


MAJOR  LEONARD  BLEECKER. 
From  miniature  owned  BY  GREAT  GRANDDAUGHTER.  Mk 
Elizabeth  Bleecker  Wahkif.i.d.  New  York, 


LT.  COL.  NICHOLAS  FISH. 
Miniature  by  Edward  G.  Malbone.     Owned   BY  Mrs. 
Daniel  Le  Roy,  Dai  ghter,  Newport,  R.  I. 


COL   WM.  STEPHENS  SMITH 

In  painting:  "Capture  or-  the  Hessians"  by 
John  Trumbull.  Owned  by  Yale  Universit  y 


COL.  WM.  STEPHENS  SMITH. 

Artist.  John  Trumbull.  1784.  Owned  by  Mrs.  Gabriel 
Fi  rman,  Granddaughter.  East  Orange,  N.  J. 


LT.  COL.  NICHOLAS  FISH. 


LT.  COL.  NICHOLAS  FISH. 
In  tainting:  "Surrender  OF  Cornwai.lis"  bv 
John  Trumbull.    Owned  hv  Yale  UNIVERSITY. 


Artist.  Henry  Inman,  1823.  Owned  kv  Hon.  Hamilton 
Kish,  Son,  New  York. 

(Loan  Exhibition  No.  93). 


COL.  WM.  STEPHENS  SMITH 

Artist.  On  rekt  Stuart.  Owned  BY  Mrs.  M.  A.  B.  Smi  th, 
Niece,  PHILADSLPHIA, 


The  Masters  of  Ceremony  ("Assistants")  at  Washington's  Inauguration 


THE  INAUGURATION. 


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FRAUNCES'S  TAVERN  IN  1854. 


night,"  writes  Griswold, 1  "  the  taverns  and  boarding-houses  in  the  city  had  been  thronged 
with  visitors,  and  now  every  private  house  was  filled  with  guests  from  all  parts  of  the 
Union,  assembled  to  witness  the 
imposing  ceremonial  which  was 
to  complete  the  organization  of 
the  government.  '  We  shall  re- 
main here,  even  if  we  have  to 
sleep  in  tents,  as  so  many  will 
have  to  do,'  wrote  Miss  Bertha 
Ingersoll  to  Miss  McKean;  'Mr. 
Williamson  had  promised  to  en- 
gage us  rooms  at  Fraunces's,2 
but  that  was  jammed  long  ago, 
as  was  every  other  public-house  ; 
and  now,  while  we  were  waiting 
at  Mrs.  Vandervoort's  in  Maiden  Lane,  till  after  dinner,  two  of  our  beaus  are  running  about 
town  determined  to  obtain  the  best  places  for  us  to  stay  at,  which  can  be  opened  for  love, 

money,  or  the  most  persuasive 
speeches.' "  With  a  discharge  of 
artillery  at  sunrise  from  old  Fort 
George,  near  Bowling  Green,  be- 
gan the  ceremonies  of  the  day. 
At  nine  the  bells  of  the  churches 
rang  for  half  an  hour,  and  the 
congregations  gathered  in  their 
respective  places  of  worship  "  to 
implore  the  blessings  of  Heaven 
upon  their  new  government,  its 
favor  and  protection  to  the 
President  and  success  and  ac- 
ceptance to  his  administration."  3 
The  military  were  meanwhile  pre- 
paring to  parade,  and  at  twelve 
fraunces's  tavern  in  i88q.  o'clock  marched  before  the  Presi- 


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1  "Republican  Court,"  pp.  137,  138. 

*  Fraunces's  Tavern,  built  in  1710.  In  this  house  was  instituted  in  1768  the  New  York  Chamber  of  Commerce,  with  John 
Cruger  as  president,  and  the  same  place  was  Washington's  headquarters  in  1783.  Here,  too,  Washington  bade  farewell  to  his 
officers,  December  4,  1783.    The  building  is  still  standing  at  101  Broad  Street,  corner  of  Pearl  Street. 

'Gazette  of  the  United  States,  May  2,  1789. 
7 


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dent's  house  in  Cherry  Street.  A  part  of  the  procession  came  direct  from  Federal  Hall. 
Following  Captain  Stakes  with  his  troop  of  horse  were  the  "  assistants  " :  General  Samuel 
Blatchley  Webb,1  Colonel  William  S.  Smith,2  Lieutenant-Colonel  Nicholas  Fish,3  Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel Franks,  Major  Leonard  Bleecker, 4  and  Mr.  John  R.  Livingston.5  Following 
the  "  assistants  " u  were  Egbert  Benson,  Fisher  Ames,  and  Daniel  Carroll,  the  committee  of 
the  House  of  Representatives ;  Richard  Henry  Lee,  Ralph  Izard,  and  Tristram  Dalton, 
the  committee  of  the  Senate;  John  Jay,  General  Henry  Knox,  Samuel  Osgood,  Arthur 
Lee,  Walter  Livingston,  the  heads  of  the  three  great  departments  ;  and  gentlemen  in  car- 
riages and  citizens  on  foot.  The  full  procession  left  the  presidential  mansion  at  half-past 
twelve  o'clock  and  proceeded  to  Federal  Hall  via  Queen  (Pearl),  Great  Dock,  and  Broad 
Streets.  Colonel  Morgan  Lewis7  as  grand  marshal,  and  attended  by  Majors  Van  Home 
and  Jacob  Morton  as  aides-de-camp,  led  the  way.     Then  followed  the  troop  of  horse,  the 


1  Aide-de-camp  to  Generals  Putman  and  Washington,  colonel  Third  Connecticut  Regiment,  and  one  of  the  founders  of  the 
Society  of  the  Cincinnati.  After  the  Revolutionary  War,  General  Webb  settled  in  New  York  and  lived  at  25  Broadway,  and 
"  was  a  leader  of  fashion  and  one  of  the  most  elegant  men  of  the  day."  David  S.  Jones  told  the  late  James  Watson  Webb 
that  "  one  of  his  amusements  as  a  boy  was  regularly  and  daily  to  watch  Gouverneur  Morris  and  General  Samuel  Webb  make 
their  appearance  about  midday  from  the  fashionable  barber-shop  of  the  city,  near  Courtlandt  Street,  and  with  powdered  hair  and 
hats  in  hands  commence  their  daily  walk  on  the  fashionable  lounge,  which  extended  from  Courtland  Street  to  Morris  Street,  on 
the  west  side  of  Broadway,  the  front  of  old  Trinity  being  the  point  of  attraction  where  the  loungers  most  lingered." — ("  Remi- 
niscences of  General  Samuel  B.  Webb,"  by  his  son,  J.  Watson  Webb — privately  printed.) 

2  A  graduate  of  Princeton  College,  lieutenant-colonel  in  the  campaign  against  Yorktown,  one  of  the  commissioners  to 
arrange  for  the  evacuation  of  New  York,  November  25,  1783,  and  son-in-law  of  John  Adams. 

3  He  was,  during  the  Revolution,  major  and  brigade  inspector  of  the  Second  New  York  Regiment,  and  "  possessed  to  a  high 
degree  the  confidence  of  Washington,  Schuyler,  Lafayette,  and  Hamilton  ;  and  with  the  army  the  character  of  an  excellent  dis- 
ciplinarian and  a  gallant  soldier." — (John  Schuyler's  "  The  Society  of  the  Cincinnati  of  New  York,"  p.  202.)  Colonel  Fish  was 
present  at  the  battle  of  Saratoga,  where  he  was  wounded,  and  took  part  in  the  successful  assault  on  Yorktown,  and  was  with  the 
army  at  the  close  of  the  war  at  Newburgh. 

Colonel  Fish,  who  at  the  time  of  the  inauguration  boarded  at  1 5  Wall  Street,  was  the  father  of  Hon.  Hamilton  Fish.  The 
inscription  on  the  tablet  to  his  memory  in  St.  Mark's  Church,  New  York  city,  is  : 

"  Nicholas  Fish, 
Lieutenant-Colonel  of  the  Army  of  the  American  Revolution, 
Born  August  28,  1758;  died  June  20,  1833. 
The  Faithful  Soldier  of  Christ  and  of  his  Country." 

4  Leonard  Bleecker  was  born  in  New  Rochelle,  New  York,  December  21.  1755.  On  June  21,  1775,  he  was  appointed 
second  lieutenant  in  Captain  Willett's  Company,  New  York  Regiment,  commanded  by  Colonel  McDougal.  In  August,  1777, 
he  was  promoted  to  captain,  under  General  Montgomery,  at  Albany.  In  the  campaign  of  1780  he  served  under  General  La- 
fayette, and  in  the  same  year  was  brigade-major  in  General  Hazen's  brigade  at  Yorktown.  In  1781  he  was  present  at  the 
surrender  of  Cornwallis.  He  was  a  personal  friend  of  Washington,  and  was  among  the  officers  who  entered  New  York  when 
evacuated  by  the  British.  He  was  Vice-President  of  the  American  Tract  Society,  President  of  the  New  York  Bible  Society, 
life-member  of  the  New  York  Marine  Society,  Treasurer  of  the  New  York  State  Society  of  the  Cincinnati  for  eighteen 
years,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  for  fifty  years.  He  died  at  Newtown,  Long  Island,  March 
9,  1844. 

"  A  New  York  merchant,  brother  of  Chancellor  Livingston,  born  1754  and  died  in  1 851 . 
"  Major  L'Fnfant  was  also  appointed  an  "  assistant,"  but  declined. 

7  Born  October  16,  1754,  died  April  7,  1844;  a  graduate  of  Princeton,  student  in  the  law-office  of  John  Jay,  Revolutionary 
patriot  and  afterward  Governor  of  New  York.  He  married  Gertrude,  sister  of  Chancellor  and  of  Mr.  John  R.  Livingston.  He 
was  present  at  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  Washington's  inauguration  in  1839. — ("  Lives  of  the  Governors  of  the  State  of  New 
York,"  by  John  S.  Jenkins.) 


MAJOR  WILLIAM  JACKSON. 

Miniature  »v  C.  W.  Praia.  Owned  by  City  "i 
philadelphia  and  deposited  in  national 
Museum  (Old  State  House.) 


MAJOR  WILLIAM  JACKSON 

Oil    MINI  ATI'  RE    HV    J.    T  RUM  BULL,  OttSKD 

Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania. 


GENERAL  WILLIAM  MALCOM. 

Miniature  BY  Rdward  G.  M a i, hone.  Owned  by 
Miss  Matilda  Cruger  Snowden,  Granddaughter, 
Sow  Sing,  N.  Y. 


COVIMDOD^  JAVIES  NICHOLSON. 
Prom    miniature  ownbd    by   Miss  Josephine 
Si  evens,  (»reat  Granddaughter.  New  Vokk. 


MAJOR  JAMES  CHRYSTIE. 
Ariisi.  Sik  Henry  Rveburn,  R.  A.    Owned  by  Wil- 
liam Few  Chrystir.  Grandson,  Hastings-on-Hudson 
N.  Y. 


CAPTAIN  GEORGE  LUOWIG  CHRISTIAN  SCRlBA. 
From  a  medallion  owned  by  A.  M.  SCRIBA,  Grand- 
Nephew,  MoNTROSE-ON-HuDSON,  N.  Y. 


major  David  van  horne. 

Artist,  William  Dun  lap.  Owned  bv  Charles  [sham. 
New  York. 


MAJOR  JACOB  MORTON. 
Artist,  John  W.  Jarvis.    Owned  bv  City  of  New  York 
and  deposited  in  G  ivbrnor*s  Room,  Citv  Hall. 

(Loan  Exmbition,  No.  170.) 


PORTRAITS  OF  MAJOR  JACKSON.  SECRETARY  TO  PRESIDENT  WASHINGTON:  OF  COMMODORE  NICHOLS  IN  W  JO  CO  MMANDED  THE  BARGE 
WHICH  LANDED  WASHINGTON  AT  THE  FOOT  OF  WALL  STREET.  APRIL  23.  ,78,:  AND  PORTRAITS  OF  MILITARY 
OFFICERS  WHO  TOOK  PART  IN  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


THE  INAUGURATION. 


43 


artillery,  the  two  companies  of  grenadiers,  a  company  of  light-infantry,  and  the  battalion 
men  led  by  Major  Bicker  and  Major  Chrystie  ;  a  company  in  the  full  uniform  of  Scotch 
Highlanders,  with  the  national  music  of  the  bagpipe ; 1  the  sheriff,  Robert  Boyd,  on 
horseback,  and  the  Senate  committee ;  the  President  in  a  state  coach,  drawn  by  four 
horses,  and  attended  by  the  "  assistants "  and  civil  officers  ;  Colonel  Humphreys  and 
Tobias  Lear,2  in  the  President's  own  carriage ;  the  committee  of  the  House ;  also  Mr. 
Jay,  General  Knox,  Chancellor  Livingston ;  his  Excellency  the  French  Minister,  Comte 
de  Moustier;  and  his  Excellency  the  Spanish  Charge  cT Affaires,  Don  Diego  Gardoqui ; 
other  gentlemen  of  distinction,  and  a  multitude  of  citizens.  The  two  companies  of 
grenadiers  attracted  much  attention.  One,  led  by  the  "  big  and  magnificent "  Captain 
Harsin,  and  composed  of  the  tallest  young  men  in  the  city,  were  dressed  "  in  blue  with 
red  facings  and  gold-laced  ornaments,  cocked  hats,  with  white  feathers,  with  waistcoats 
and  breeches  and  white  gaiters  or  spatterdashes,  close  buttoned  from  the  shoe  to  the 
knee  and  covering  the  shoe-buckle."  The  second  or  "  German  company,"  under  command 
of  Captain  Scriba,  "  wore  blue  coats  with  yellow  waistcoats  and  breeches,  black  gaiters, 
similar  to  those  already  described,  and  towering  caps,  cone-shaped,  and  faced  with  black 
bear-skin."  3 

When  the  military,  which  amounted  to  "  not  more  than  five  hundred  men,"  and  whose 
"appearance  was  quite  pretty,"4  arrived  within  two  hundred  yards  of  Federal  Hall,  at  one 
o'clock,  they  were  drawn  up  on  either  side,  and  Washington  and  the  assistants  and  the  gen- 
tlemen especially  invited  passed  through  the  lines  and  proceeded  to  the  Senate-chamber  of 
the  "Federal  State-House."  The  building  had  been  crowded  since  ten  o'clock;  and  when 
the  Senate  met  at  half-past  eleven,  all  was  excitement.  The  minutest  details  were  con- 
sidered matters  of  gravest  moment.  In  the  most  solemn  manner  John  Adams  said  : 
"  Gentlemen,  I  wish  for  the  direction  of  the  Senate.  The  President  will,  I  suppose,  address 
the  Congress.  How  shall  I  behave  ?  How  shall  we  receive  it  ?  Shall  it  be  standing  or 
sitting?"5  Then  began  a  long  discussion.  Richard  Henry  Lee  had  been  in  the  House 
of  Commons  and  in  the  House  of  Lords  and  before  the  king,  and  the  result  of  his  in- 
formation was  that  "  the  Lords  sat  and  the  Commons  stood  on  the  delivery  of  the  king's 
speech."  Then  Ralph  Izard,  who  had  also  visited  Parliament,  made  this  "  sagacious  dis- 
covery, that  the  Commons  stood  because  they  had  no  seats  to  sit  on,  being  arrived  at  the 
House  of  Lords."  John  Adams  replied  that  he  had  been  in  Parliament,  too  ;  but  "  there 
always  was  such  a  crowd  and  ladies  along,  that  for  his  part  he  could  not  say  how  it  was." 
Then  the  Senate  drifted  off  into  a  discussion  as  to  the  manner  of  receiving  the  Clerk  of 


1  New  York  Spectator,  May  2,  1839. 

a  Lear's  diary,  Sparks's  "  Writings  of  Washington,"  vol.  x,  p.  463. 

3  William  L.  Stone's  "  History  of  New  York  City,"  pp.  301-303. 

4  Colonel  May's  "Journeys  to  the  Ohio  Country,"  pp.  122-125. 

5  "Journal  of  William  Maclay,"  edited  by  Edgar  S.  Maclay,  A.  M„  p.  7. 


THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 


the  House  of  Representatives;  and  during  the  discussion  the  Speaker  of  the  House  ar- 
rived at  the  Senate  door.  Confusion  reigned.  Members  left  their  seats.  When  Lee  rose 
to  speak  again,  he  could  not  be  heard.  At  last  the  lower  House  entered  the  Senate- 
chamber  and  there  the  two  Houses  sat  for  an  hour  and  ten  minutes.     The  delay  was 

owing  to  the  Senate  committee,  "  Lee,  Izard,  and  Dal- 
ton,  who,"  said  Senator  Maclay,  "  had  stayed  with  us 
while  the  Speaker  came  in  instead  of  going  to  attend 
the  President."  At  last  the  joint  committee  of  the 
two  Houses,  preceded  by  their  chairman,1  introduced 
Washington,  who  advanced  between  the  Senators  and 
Representatives,  bowing  to  each.  He  was  at  once 
conducted  to  the  chair  by  John  Adams.  On  the  right 
were  the  Vice-President  and  Senate ;  and,  on  Wash- 
ington's left,  the  Speaker  and  the  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives. The  Vice-President  then  said  that  "  the 
Senate  and  the  House  of  Representatives  of  the 
United  States  were  ready  to  attend  him  to  take  the 
oath  required  by  the  Constitution,  and  that  it  would 
be  administered  by  the  Chancellor  of  the  State  of 
New  York."'2  The  President  replied  that  he  was  ready  to  proceed,  and  he  was  immedi- 
ately conducted  to  the  open  gallery  in  front  of  the  Senate-chamber,  which  looked  out 
upon  Broad  Street.  This  gallery  or  balcony  had  a  canopy  on  it,  from  which  hung  cur- 
tains of  "red  interstreaked  with  white."3 

Eliza  Morton  wrote  :4 

"  I  was  on  the  roof  of  the  first  house  in  Broad  Street,  which  belonged  to  Captain  Prince,  the  father  of  one 
of  my  schoolmates,  and  so  near  Washington  that  I  could  almost  hear  him  speak.  The  windows  and  roofs  of  the 
houses  were  crowded ;  and  in  the  streets  the  throng  was  so  dense  that  it  seemed  as  if  one  might  literally  walk  on 
the  heads  of  the  people.  The  balcony  of  the  Hall  was  in  full  view  of  this  assembled  multitude.  In  the  center  of 
it  was  placed  a  table,  with  a  rich  covering  of  red  velvet ;  and  upon  this  was  a  crimson  velvet  cushion,  on  which 
lay  a  large  and  elegant  Bible.  This  was  all  the  paraphernalia  for  this  august  scene.  All  eyes  were  fixed  upon  the 
balcony,  where,  at  the  appointed  hour,  Washington  entered,  accompanied  by  the  Chancellor  of  the  State  of  New 
York,  who  was  to  administer  the  oath  ;  by  John  Adams,  Vice-President ;  Governor  Clinton  ;  and  many  other  dis- 
tinguished men.  To  the  great  body  of  the  people  he  had  probably  never  been  seen  except  as  a  military  hero. 
The  first  in  war  was  now  to  be  the  first  in  peace.  His  entrance  on  the  balcony  was  announced  by  universal 
shouts  of  joy  and  welcome.  He  was  dressed  in  a  suit  of  black  velvet,  and  his  appearance  was  most  dignified  and 
solemn.  Advancing  to  the  front  of  the  balcony,  he  laid  his  hand  on  his  heart  and  bowed  several  times,  and 
then  retreated  to  an  arm-chair  near  the  table.    The  populace  appeared  to  understand  that  the  scene  had  over- 


CHAIR  USED  BY  WASHINGTON  AT 
HIS  INAUGURATION,  APRIL  30,  1789. 

(COPYRIGHT,    1889,  BY  E.   B.  SOUTHWICK.) 


1  Senator  Ralph  Izard. 

'  "  Annals  of  Congress,"  edited  by  Joseph  Gales,  vol.  i,  p.  25. 

*  New  York  Packet,  May  i,  1789. 

*  "Memoir  of  the  Life  of  Eliza  S.  M.  Quincy  "  (privately  printed),  chapter  v,  pp.  50-52 


chancellor  livingston. 
From  Painting:  "  Declaration  of  Independence' 
by  J.  Trumbull. 


Owned  by  Vale  University. 


WILLIAM  LINN.  D.  D. 

From  a  i'i)K i kait  owned  by  the  Reformed  Pk 
testa n*i  Ditch  Church  of  New  York. 

iLoan  Exhibition.  No.  147.) 


SAMUEL  ALLEYNE  OTIS. 

Art  ist.  Gilbert  Stuart,  1800.  Owned  by  Harrison 
(inn  Oils,  Great  Great'Grandson,  Boston,  Mass. 


CHANCELLOR  LIVINGSTON 

From  an  Enraving  BY  St.  Memin.  1796.  Owned  by 
1 111  Corcoran  Gallery  of  Art,  Washington.  D.  C. 


CHANCELLOR  LIVINGSTON. 
Art  1st.  J  AMES  Sharpless.     Owned  by  City  of  Philadelphia 
and  deposited  in  the  National  Muskum  (Old  State  House), 


The  Rt.  Rev.  SAMUEL  PROVOOST,  D.  D.,  Bishop  of  New  York. 
Artist,  Thos.  S.  Duche.    Owned  by  the  New  York 
Historical  Society. 


Artist, 

Historical  Socte 


CHANCELLOR  LIVINGSTON 

John  VanDERLYN,  1804.     Owned  by  New  York 


CHANCELLOR  LIVINGSTON. 

Artist,  Gilbert  Stuart,  1795.  Owned  by  Clermont 
I.i\ iNGsioN,  Grandson,  '"Clermont,"  Tivoli-on-Hudson, 
N.  Y. 

(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  151.) 


PORTRAITS  OF  CHANCELLOR  ROBERT  R    LIVINGSTON  :  OF  SAMUEL  A.  OTIS.  SECRETARY  OF  THE  SENATE;  AND  OF 
BISHOP  PROVOOST  AND  REV.  DR.  WILLI  \M  I. INN.  CHAPLAINS  OF  CONGRESS  IN  1-789. 


THE  INAUGURATION. 


45 


come  him,  and  were  at  once  hushed  into  profound  silence.  After  a  few  moments  the  General  arose  and  came 
forward.  Chancellor  Livingston  read  the  form  of  oath  prescribed  by  the  Constitution  ;  Washington  repeated  it, 
resting  his  hand  upon  the  table.  The  Chancellor  took  the  Bible  to  raise  it  to  the  lips  of  Washington;  he 
stooped  and  kissed  the  book.  At  this  moment  a  signal  was  given,  raising  a  flag  upon  the  steeple  of  the  Hall 
for  a  ge  neral  discharge  of  the  artillery  of  the  Battery.  All  the  bells  in  the  city  rang  out  a  peal  of  joy,  and  the 
multitude  before  us  sent  forth  such  a  shout 
as  seemed  to  rend  the  skies.  The  President 
bowed  again  to  the  people,  and  then  retired 
from  a  scene  such  as  the  proudest  monarch 
could  never  have  enjoyed — the  delight  not 
only  of  his  own  nation  and  people,  but  of  all 
mankind." 

Another  spectator  of  the  inaugu- 
ration ceremonies  was  R — —  R  , 

a  Philadelphia  gentleman,  who,  in  a 
letter  to  his  wife,  dated  New  York, 
May  i,  1 789,  said  : 

"I  was  just  in  time  to  see  the  inaugu- 
ration of  the  President-General,  which  affect- 
ing solemnity  was  performed  yesterday  at 
one  o'clock,  in  the  front  gallery  of  the  State- 
House,  in  view  of  thousands  of  admiring 
spectators.  After  he  was  sworn  in,  he  was 
declared  from  the  gallery,  by  Chancellor  Liv- 
ingston, President  of  the  United  States,  upon  which  the  admiring  crowd  gave  three  cheers,  which  the  President 
returned  with  a  most  gracious  bow.  He  then  retired  into  the  Senate-chamber,  and  delivered  to  the  Senate  and 
House  of  Representatives  an  elegant  speech,  for  which  I  refer  you  to  the  newspapers.  He  then  proceeded  to 
St.  Paul's  Church,  where  divine  service  was  performed  by  the  bishop,  in  his pontificalibus,  to  a  very  crowded  con- 
gregation. But  I  must  not  forget  to  tell  you  that,  on  his  way  to  the  church,  through  a  numerous  collection 
of  spectators,  I  caught  his  eye  and  had  the  honor  of  a  very  gracious  bow  from  him :  this,  from  so  great  a  man 
in  so  high  a  station,  I  thought  myself  highly  honored  by.  In  the  evening  we  had  fire-works,  transparent 
scenery,  and  illuminations.  I  intend  to  wait  on  his  Highness  this  morning,  for  there  was  no  doing  so  yes- 
terday. I  esteem  myself  very  fortunate  in  having  arrived  in  time  to  see  this  novel  ceremony  performed.  I 
only  wish  that  it  had  been  in  Philadelphia,  that  you  and  our  children  might  have  seen  it,  and  for  a  few 
other  selfish  reasons."  1 

The  taking  of  the  oath  by  Washington  is  thus  described  by  an  eye-witness  : 

"  It  would  seem  extraordinary  that  the  administration  of  an  oath — a  ceremony  so  very  common  and  familiar 
— should  in  so  great  a  degree  excite  the  public  curiosity.  But  the  circumstances  of  his  election,  the  impression 
of  his  past  circumstances,  the  concourse  of  spectators,  the  devout  fervency  with  which  he  repeated  the  oath, 


1  "Historical  Magazine,"  vol.  iii,  p.  184  (June,  1859).  Still  another  spectator  of  the  inauguration  was  Dr.  W.  W.  Buchanan, 
a  godson  of  Washington  and  the  friend  of  Washington  Irving,  who  wrote :  "  In  those  days  the  corner  house  of  Wall  and  Broad 
Streets  (southwest  corner)  was  entered  from  Broad  Street,  and  was  a  police-office  and  watch-house.  From  its  stoop  I  witnessed 
the  oath  of  office  administered  by  Chancellor  Livingston  to  George  Washington." — ("  Historical  Magazine,"  vol.  iv,  p.  138,  May, 
i860.) 


THE  BIBLE  UPON  WHICH  WASHINGTON  TOOK  THE 
OATH  AS  PRESIDENT. 

(COPYRIGHT,   1889,  BY  ST.  JOHN'S  LODGE,  NO.  I,  NEW  YORK  CITY.) 


46        THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 


and  the  reverential  manner  in  which  he  bowed  down  and  kissed  the  sacred  volume — all  these  conspired  to  ren- 
der it  one  of  the  most  august  and  interesting  spectacles  ever  exhibited  on  this  globe.  It  seemed,  from  the 
number  of  witnesses,  to  be  a  solemn  appeal  to  heaven  and  earth  at  once. 

"  Upon  the  subject  of  this  great  and  good  man,  I  may  perhaps,  be  an  enthusiast,  but  I  confess  I  was  under 
an  awful  and  religious  persuasion  that  the  Gracious  Ruler  of  the  universe  was  looking  down  at  that  moment  with 
peculiar  complacency  on  an  act  which  to  a  part  of  his  creatures  was  very  important.  Under  this  impression, 
when  the  Chancellor  pronounced,  in  a  very  feeling  manner,  '  Long  live  George  Washington ! '  my  sensibility  was 
wound  up  to  such  a  pitch  that  I  could  do  no  more  than  wave  my  hat  with  the  rest,  without  the  power  of  joining 
in  the  repeated  acclamations  which  rent  the  air."  1 

A  most  distinguished  spectator  of  Inauguration-day  was  Don  Diego  de  Gardoqui,  the 
Spanish  CJiarge"  a"  Affaires,  who  wrote  as  follows:2 

"  In  accordance  with  the  resolution  of  both  Chambers  of  Congress,  the  illustrious  George  Washington  was 
proclaimed  President  of  the  United  States  in  the  following  manner: 

"  At  noon  the  State  troops  began  their  march  to  the  residence  of  his  Excellency,  and,  on  finding  him, 
marched  before  him  to  the  court-house. 

"  These  were  followed  by  the  high  constable,  on  horseback,  and,  in  carriages,  the  deputies  of  the  Senate,  the 
President  in  the  state  coach  drawn  by  four  horses,  his  escort  consisting  of  the  members  of  the  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives, the  Ministers  of  War  and  Exchequer  and  State,  the  State  Treasurer  and  other  distinguished  gen- 
tlemen. 

"  On  the  arrival  of  the  troops  at  the  court-house,  they  were  drawn  up  in  two  files  ;  and  then  all  the  distin- 
guished personages  descended  from  the  carriages,  and,  in  the  same  order  that  they  came,  passed  on  foot,  hat  in 
hand,  between  the  files  of  troops — the  troops  presenting  arms  and  lowering  the  flags  to  the  President. 

"  On  the  arrival  of  the  President,  he  was  introduced  by  the  two  committees  of  Congress  in  the  Senate-cham- 
ber, and  was  received  by  the  Vice-President,  standing  in  front  of  his  chair,  which  was  placed  to  the  right  of  the 
President's  seat.  He  was  also  received  by  the  Senators  who  occupied  one  of  two  rows  of  chairs  next  to  the 
one  of  the  Vice-President ;  the  other  row  was  occupied  by  the  Ministers  of  Spain  and  France,  the  late  President 
of  Congress,  the  Ministers  of  State,  War,  and  Exchequer,  the  chaplains  of  Congress,  the  escort  of  the  President, 
the  Governor  and  Lieutenant-Governor  of  the  State,  the  Chancellor,  Chief-Justice  and  other  judges  of  the  Su- 
preme Court,  and  the  mayor.  The  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Representatives  sat  on  another  chair  by  the  side 
of  the  President,  and  the  Representatives  obtained  places  on  the  same  side. 

"To  the  above  mentioned,  prior  notice  had  been  given  the  day  before,  by  the  masters  of  ceremonies  (for 
which  purpose  and  in  order  to  give  the  necessary  information  the  two  committees  had  appointed  six  gentlemen 
of  distinction),  that  seats  had  been  provided  without  preference,  in  the  Senate-chamber,  in  order  that  they  could 
assist  at  the  ceremony. 

"  Shortly  after  the  President  had  taken  his  seat,  all  those  present  arose,  and  the  President,  escorted  by  the 
Vice-President,  and  followed  by  the  Chancellor  of  the  State,  and  others  that  chose  to  follow,  proceeded  to  the 
gallery  which  opened  on  the  street,  where  the  Chancellor  gave  the  oath  to  the  President  in  the  presence  of  the 
people,  after  which  he  proclaimed,  in  a  loud  voice,  '  Long  live  George  Washington,  the  President  of  the  United 
States  !  ' 

"The  people  immediately  answered  with  loud  huzzas  and  acclamations.  The  city  saluted  with  thirteen 
guns,  and  the  Galveston  (ship-of-war  of  his  Catholic  Majesty,  and  commanded  by  the  ship's  captain,  Don  Adrian 
Troncoso)  with  fifteen  guns;  and  in  imitation  other  merchant-vessels  which  were  in  the  harbor  followed.  The 
company  on  the  balcony  then  bowed  to  the  people,  and  retired  to  the  Senate-chamber.  When  they  had 
resumed  their  seats,  the  President  made  an  eloquent  and  appropriate  address,  upon  the  real  condition  of  the 
Government  and  other  matters. 


1  "  American  Museum,"  vol.  v,  p.  505  (May,  1789). 

8  Translated  from  the  original  in  the  Spanish  Archives.  The  letter  was  dated  New  York,  May  1,  1789,  and  was  sent,  as  the 
letter  already  quoted,  to  the.  Minister  of  State,  Count  Florida  Blanca. 


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THE  INAUGURATION. 


47 


"At  the  end  of  this  ceremony,  as  the  two  Houses  had  decided  to  escort  the  President,  and  give  thanks  to 
the  Almighty,  all  present  started  on  foot,  in  form  of  a  procession,  preceded  by  the  State  troops,  for  the  Episco- 
pal Church,  where  all  took  the  seats  which  had  been  assigned  to  them,  and  where  the  very  reverend  Anglican 
bishop  officiated.  At  the  termination  of  the  services,  all  returned  in  the  same  order,  till  they  left  the  President 
at  his  own  residence. 

"  In  order  that  the  night  should  be  a  fitting  conclusion  to  this  day  of  joy  in  the  hearts  of  the  citizens,  the 
front  of  the  court-house  and  theatre  had  a  display  of  decorations,  consisting  of  allegorical  cartoons  and  a  variety 
of  fire-works. 

"  The  Comte  de  Moustier,  plenipotentiary  to  his  Most  Christian  Majesty,  illuminated  the  front  of  his  house 
in  grand  style,  and  also  displayed  some  cartoons  illustrative  of  the  victory  of  the  Americans. 

"  The  colonel  of  artillery,  Mr.  Bauman,  who  entertained  the  people  with  a  great  variety  of  fire-works,  which 
went  off  with  great  splendor,  meriting  much  praise,  presented  in  front  of  the  fort  a  life-size  portrait  of  the  Presi- 
dent, under  the  emblem  of  Fortitude,  with  a  figure  of  Justice  on  the  right,  representing  the  Senate,  and  on  the 
left  Wisdom,  representing  the  House  of  Representatives ;  the  arms  of  the  United  States,  and  other  adornments 
— all  in  transparency. 

"  Don  Diego  de  Gardoqui,  plenipotentiary  to  his  Catholic  Majesty,  whose  house  is  situated  next  to  the  fort, 
where  the  fire-works  took  place,  and  on  the  front  of  whose  house  many  people  had  been  seen  laboring  for  some 
days  apparently  only  with  a  great  many  boards  and  lanterns,  on  the  evening  of  this  day  surprised  the  people 
(who  did  not  guess  what  was  going  on)  with  two  magnificent  transparent  gardens,  adorned  with  statues,  natural 
size,  imitating  marble,  representing  the  most  peculiar  attributes  of  Spain,  viz.,  Justice,  Integrity,  Wisdom,  Sobriety, 
Friendship,  and  Generosity.  There  were  also  various  flower-pots,  different  arches  with  foliage  and  columns  of 
imitation  marble,  and  on  the  sky  of  these  gardens  were  placed  thirteen  stars,  representing  the  United  States  of 
America — two  of  which  stars  showed  opaque,  to  designate  the  two  States  which  had  not  adopted  the  Constitution. 

"  Above  them  all  the  sun  could  be  seen,  which  gave  them  light ;  and,  to  cap  it  all,  in  the  clouds  could  be 
seen  a  figure  of  Fame,  with  the  clarion  in  one  hand  and  the  royal  standard  of  Spain  in  the  other. 

"  Above  the  principal  doors  could  be  seen  the  arms  of  Castile  and  Leon,  and  at  the  foot  the  Spanish  and 
American  flags  enlaced  with  the  motto  '■Natural  Union,'  with  decorations  of  branches,  fruits,  etc.,  all  in  great 
taste. 

"  A  number  of  the  most  prominent  ladies  called  at  the  fete  of  the  afore-mentioned  minister  of  Spain,  and 
also  the  Vice-President,  the  Governors,  Ministers  of  State,  War,  and  the  Exchequer,  several  Senators  and  Rep- 
resentatives, the  Chancellor,  and  other  lights  of  the  States,  officials  and  other  gentlemen  of  distinction,  native 
and  foreign. 

"  All  were  served  with  abundant  and  choice  refreshments ;  and,  when  the  festivities  ended,  they  departed, 
giving  the  greatest  proofs  of  their  contentment  and  gratitude,  on  account  of  the  liberality  and  good  taste  shown 
by  the  before-mentioned  Senor  Gardoqui  in  entertaining  the  Americans  on  so  joyous  an  occasion — the  voices  of 
the  people  confirming  this. 

"  To  prevent  all  manner  of  crushing,  and  keep  open  field  in  front  of  the  residence  of  the  said  minister,  the 
Governor  courteously  stationed  sentinels  at  his  gate  and  stairs." 

The  French  minister's  account  of  Inauguration-day  is  also  given  : 1 

"The  30th  of  April,  1789,  is  remarkable  for  the  most  solemn  and  imposing  ceremony  that  has  ever  taken 
place  in  the  United  States.  The  Senate  and  the  House  of  Representatives  had  appointed  that  day  for  the 
reception  of  the  chief  of  that  vast  republic,  who,  under  the  modest  style  of  President,  will  enjoy  several  royal 
prerogatives. 

"  Congress  had  appointed  two  committees  and  seven  masters  of  ceremony  to  make  the  necessary  arrange- 
ments and  to  form  the  President's  escort.    At  midday  the  two  Houses  assembled,  the  Senate-chamber  serving 


1  This  account  of  the  events  of  April  30th  is  entitled  "  Report  of  the  ceremony  observed  at  the  installation  of  the  President 
of  the  United  States,"  and  was  forwarded  by  De  Moustier  to  the  Minister  of  Foreign  Affairs,  Comte  de  Montmorin,  with  the  dis- 
patch of  June  5,  1789,  already  quoted.    The  report  is  translated  from  the  original  in  the  French  Archives. 


48 


THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 


for  the  reception  of  the  chief  of  the  republic.  The  Representatives  marched  there  in  procession,  preceded  by 
their  respective  clerks  and  other  officials. 

"  They  were  received  by  the  Vice-President,  standing,  and  the  Senators.  The  latter  sat  on  the  right  side  of 
the  chair  destined  for  the  President,  and  the  Representatives  on  the  left. 

"  The  two  committees  proceeded  then  in  coaches  to  the  President's  residence,  preceded  by  several  corps  of 
infantry  and  horse  militia.  After  informing  the  President  that  the  Congress  was  ready  to  receive  him,  they 
formed  the  following  procession  : 

A  company  of  cavalry. 
Three  companies  of  infantry. 
The  Sheriff  of  the  State  of  New  York,  on  horseback. 
Carriages. 

The  Committee  of  the  House  of  Representatives. 
The  Committee  of  the  Senate. 
Three  masters  The  President  in  a  carriage  Three  masters 

of  ceremony  drawn  by  four  horses,  of  ceremony 

on  horseback.  attended  by  three  lackeys.  on  horseback. 

Two  Secretaries  of  the  President. 
Two  Commissioners  of  the  Treasury. 
The  third  Commissioner  of  the  Treasury. 
The  Chancellor  of  the  State  of  New  York. 
"The  procession  passed  by  the  principal  streets  till  it  reached  the  one  facing  the  Congress  palace. 
The  troops  ranged  themselves  in  files,  and  all  having  descended  from  their  carriages  and  horses  walked 
slowly  to  the  palace.     The  President,  holding  his  hat  in  hand,  bowed  to  the  public  right  and  left ;  and, 
although  there  was  an  innumerable  mass  of  people,  everybody  was  uncovered  and  preserved  a  respectful 
silence. 

"  At  his  entry  into  the  Senate-chamber  the  Vice-President  and  all  the  members  rose  to  receive  him,  the  Vice- 
President  leading  him  to  the  chair  provided  for  him.  After  every  one  had  taken  his  seat,  the  Vice-President  rose 
to  announce  to  the  President  that  the  members  of  both  Houses  were  ready  to  escort  him  to  witness  the  oath  he 
was  going  to  take  in  conformity  with  the  Constitution.  A  balcony  adjoined  the  Senate-chamber,  permitting  all 
classes  of  people  to  witness  the  ceremony  in  greater  number.  Three  doors  communicating  with  this  balcony 
were  opened.  The  President  passed  by  the  middle  one,  followed  by  the  Vice-President  and  the  Chancellor  of 
the  State  of  New  York,  who  was  to  administer  the  oath.  The  Senators  went  out  by  the  right,  and  the  Repre- 
sentatives by  the  left.  On  an  embroidered  cushion  a  Bible  was  brought,  upon  which  the  President  placed  his 
hand  and  repeated  the  following  words  after  the  Chancellor:  'I  solemnly  swear  to  discharge  with  fidelity  the 
functions  of  President  of  the  United  States,  and  to  do  all  in  my  power  to  preserve,  protect,  and  defend  the 
Constitution  of  the  United  States  of  America.'  Thereupon  the  Chancellor,  making  a  sign  with  his  hat  to  the 
people,  exclaimed,  ' Long  live  George  Washington,  President  of  the  United  States  !  '  Three  hurrahs,  the  customary 
acclamation  of  the  people,  followed ;  the  President  saluted  the  public  profoundly,  and  re-entered  with  the  Sen- 
ators and  Representatives. 

"  7 "he  most  zealous  Federalists  proposed  to  choose  that  moment  to  give  their  idol  a  title  which  would 
approach  still  nearer  to  a  real  sovereign.  The  one  of  '  Most  Serene  Highness'  appeared  to  them  the  most 
appropriate.  The  enthusiasm  of  the  public  was  pushed  to  such  a  point  that  it  would  have  been  easy  to  give 
him  even  the  one  of  'Majesty.'  But  they  feared  to  offend  the  man  who  was  the  object,  and  to  enfeeble  from 
the  start  a  Government  which  is  founded  on  confidence.  Besides,  the  people  of  New  York  did  not  possess, 
as  in  Rome,  the  right  to  dispose  of  the  fate  of  the  republic.  The  other  parties  to  the  confederation  would 
have  protested  against  an  abuse  which  the  first  effervescence  of  the  Federal  zeal  would  have  rendered 
excusable,  but  which  without  the  general  consent  could  not  be  lasting.  A  German  merchant  named  Scriba 
raised  at  his  own  expense  a  corps  to  serve  as  guards  to  the  President.  This  project  had  no  more  success 
than  the  first.  The  zealous  republicans  perceived  in  this  a  something  too  monarchic,  remarking  that  the 
President's  best  body-guard  was  the  affection  of  the  people. 

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and  pronounced  a  very  pathetic  speech  on  the  political  situation,  and  on  the  position  in  which  he  personally 
found  himself.  .  .  . 

"  The  remembrances  of  that  great  man's  past  services,  his  actual  elevation,  his  modesty,  all  contributed  to 
diffuse  added  interest  to  his  speech.  All  left  the  Hall  in  procession,  in  order  to  go  on  foot  to  St.  Paul's  Church, 
where  the  Anglican  bishop,  Chaplain  of  the  Senate,  recited  prayers  suitable  to  the  occasion.  From  there  the 
same  procession  escorted  the  President  back  to  his  residence. 

••  Everybody  appeared  to  be  equally  imbued  with  respect  and  veneration  for  the  illustrious  chief  of  the 
republic,  and  no  one  perceived  that  the  city  was  without  police.  The  simplest  citizen  seemed  to  be  filled  with 
pride  for  the  virtues  of  the  man  who  was  to  govern  them.  Tears  of  joy  were  seen  to  flow  in  the  Senate-chamber, 
at  church,  and  even  in  the  streets,  and  never  has  sovereign  reigned  more  completely  in  the  hearts  of  his  subjects 
than  did  Washington  in  those  of  his  fellow-citizens.  Nature,  that  has  conferred  on  him  the  art  of  governing, 
seems  to  have  endowed  his  figure,  which  has  nothing  in  common  with  the  other  Americans.  He  has  the  soul, 
look,  and  figure  of  a  hero  united  in  him.  Born  to  command,  he  never  seems  embarrassed  with  the  homage 
rendered  him,  and  he  has  the  advantage  of  mingling  great  dignity  with  great  simplicity  of  manner. 

"  After  having  taken  upon  himself  the  robes  of  office  of  the  first  magistrate  of  a  great  republic,  he  betook 
himself  on  foot  and  without  escort  to  the  Chancellor's  house  to  witness  the  fire-works  which  had  been  in  process 
of  preparation  for  several  weeks.  He  halted  before  the  residence  of  the  Comte  de  Moustier,  minister  plenipo- 
tentiary of  France,  which  was  illuminated  and  decorated  with  several  transparencies  relative  to  the  victories 
and  virtues  of  General  Washington.  He  seemed  pleased  with  the  one  representing  eleven  bees  emerging  from 
their  hives,  headed  by  their  queen,  with  this  epigraph  from  Virgil : 

'  /lie  operum  custos ;  ilium  admirantur  el  omnes 
Circumstant  fremitu  dense' 1 

"  These  verses  are  applicable  to  him  in  every  sense :  he  has  been  the  founder  of  the  republic,  and  only  he 
can  preserve  it  under  the  new  form  that  it  has  been  given. 

"On  the  following  day  he  received  at  his  residence  the  felicitations  and  the  homage  of  all  grades  of  citizens 
and  of  distinguished  foreigners." 

As  a  further  illustration  of  the  landing  of  Washington  in  New  York,  and  his  inaugura- 
tion  as  President,  may  be  quoted  the  dispatch  in  the  state  Archives  of  the  United  Nether- 
lands, written  by  Rudolph  Van  Dorsten-  to  the  Recorder  of  the  States-General: 

'•  New  York,  May  4,  17 8g. 

"Yocr  Right  Noble  Worship:  Since  I  wrote  to  you,  on  April  7th,  both  the  President  and  Vice-President 
arrived  here  and  took  charge  of  their  respective  offices.  Mr.  Vice-President  John  Adams  entered  this  city  on 
the  20th  of  April,  and  was  received  fifteen  miles  from  the  city  by  Brigadier-General  Malcom  and  the  officers 
of  the  brigade,  besides  a  company  of  uniformed  citizens  on  horseback,  and  sundry  notable  personages  in 
coaches,  as  well  as  gentlemen  of  Congress  and  residents  of  New  York.  They  accompanied  his  Excellency  to 
the  residence  of  Mr.  Jay,  where  he  alighted.  When  passing  the  Battery,  thirteen  shots  were  fired  as  a  salute. 
Immediately  after  his  Excellency  received  the  congratulations  of  the  gentlemen  of  the  committee  of  Congress  on 
nis  safe  arrival.  The  next  day,  April  21st,  the  gentlemen  of  the  committee  of  Congress  escorted  his  Excellency 
to  the  Senate-chamber,  and,  after  being  seated  in  the  presidential  chair,  his  Excellency  delivered  a  speech,  of 
which  I  inclose  a  copy.    President  George  Washington  made  his  entry  into  New  York  on  Thursday,  April  23d. 


'Virgil's  Georgics,  IV:  215.  216:  "He  is  the  guardian  of  their  toils;  they  all  admire  and  stand  around  him  in  a  noisy 
crowd." 

'  Van  Dorsten  represented  the  Netherlands  as  secretary  of  legation,  succeeding  the  minister  plenipotentiary  Peter  John 
Van  Berckel,  who  presented  his  credentials  October  31,  1783,  and  was  recalled  August  25,  1788.  On  May  10,  1789.  Francis 
Peter  Van  Berckel,  a  new  minister  resident,  arrived  in  New  York,  after  a  long  and  most  disagreeable  voyage  of  sixty-three 
days  from  Falmouth.  He  presented  his  credentials  to  President  Washington  without  ceremony.  May  1 5th,  and  his  services 
terminated  in  September,  1789.  On  May  19,  Van  Berckel,  "gaudy  as  a  peacock,"  according  to  Maclay,  attended  the  President's 
levee. 

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THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


On  the  previous  day  a  barge  left  this  city.  This  barge  was  built  expressly  by  the  citizens  of  New  York,  and  was 
rowed  by  thirteen  pilots,  all  dressed  in  white.  A  committee  of  three  Senators  and  five  Representatives  on  behalf 
of  Congress,  and  three  of  the  first  officers  on  behalf  of  New  York,  went  to  Elizabethtown  in  New  Jersey,  to  wel- 
come the  President,  and  to  await  his  arrival  there.  His  Excellency  was  also  accompanied  by  some  well-equipped 
sloops  and  by  a  multitude  of  small  craft  with  citizens  of  New  Jersey  and  New  York  on  board.  A  Spanish  royal 
packet-boat,  happening  to  be  anchored  at  the  entrance  of  the  harbor,  at  sight  of  the  barge,  on  board  of  which  was 
the  President,  fired  a  signal-shot,  whereupon  that  vessel  was  dressed  at  once  with  the  flags  of  all  nations.  When 
the  presidential  barge  passed,  the  Spanish  vessel  saluted  his  Excellency  by  firing  thirteen  guns,  which  was 
repeated  by  the  Battery,  and  again  thirteen  guns  were  fired  from  the  fort  when  the  President  landed.  His 
Excellency  was  received  by  Governor  George  Clinton,  the  mayor  of  the  city  and  other  officers,  and,  after  a  pro- 
cession had  formed,  consisting  of  some  companies  of  uniformed  citizens  and  the  merchants  and  other  citizens 
of  the  city,  the  President  walked  with  his  escort,  and  Governor  Clinton  at  his  side,  to  the  house  prepared  by  Con- 
gress for  his  use.  Shortly  afterward  his  Excellency  was  called  for  in  a  coach  by  Governor  Clinton,  without  any 
ceremony.  At  Governor  Clinton's  residence  he  took  a  midday  meal,  though  a  magnificent  dinner  had  been  pre- 
pared for  his  Excellency  at  his  own  residence.  Both  these  personages  were  on  that  day  dressed  very  plainly  in 
civilian  clothes,  without  any  display. 

"  The  rush  of  the  people  to  see  their  beloved  General  Washington  was  amazing,  and  their  delight  and  joy 
were  truly  universal  and  cordial.  At  night  the  whole  city  was  illuminated.  No  accident  occurred,  and  every- 
thing passed  off  well  and  quietly. 

"On  Thursday,  April  30th,  General  Washington  was  inaugurated  President  of  the  United  States.  New 
York  was  represented  by  the  same  companies  of  citizens  under  arms  as  on  his  arrival.  I  have  the  honor  to 
send  herewith  a  copy  of  the  programme  made  for  that  occasion  by  Congress.  After  the  President,  pursuant  to 
the  new  Constitution,  had  publicly  taken  the  oath  of  office,  in  presence  of  an  innumerable  crowd  of  people,  his 
Excellency  was  led  into  the  Senate-chamber  and  there  delivered  an  oration,  of  which  I  inclose  a  copy.  By  this 
address  this  admirable  man  made  himself  all  the  more  beloved.  The  coaches,  in  which  were  seated  gentlemen 
of  Congress,  were  drawn  by  two  horses  and  the  presidential  coach  by  four.  His  Excellency  was  dressed  in 
plain  brown  clothes,  which  had  been  presented  to  him  by  the  mill  at  Hartford,  Connecticut.  At  night  there  was 
a  display  of  fire-works  at  the  State-House.  Moreover,  the  houses  of  the  Comte  de  Moustier,  the  minister  of 
France,  and  of  Sefior  de  Gardoqui,  of  Spain,  were  illuminated.  The  next  day  the  President  received  congratula- 
tions. The  President  adopts  no  other  title  than  simply  President  of  the  United  States.  He  receives  visits 
twice  a  week,  Tuesdays  and  Fridays,  from  two  to  three  o'clock,  and  not  at  other  times.  It  is  further  stated 
that  his  Excellency  returns  no  visits,  nor  will  he  accept  invitations  to  attend  banquets  or  other  entertainments, 
for  the  reason  that  his  Excellency,  as  head  of  the  Executive  Department  of  the  new  Government,  has  his  time 
fully  occupied.  This  gentleman  alone,  by  his  courteous  and  friendly  demeanor  and  still  more  so  by  his  frugal 
and  simple  mode  of  living,  is  able  to  unite  the  parties  in  America  and  to  make  the  new  Government  effective 
and  regular  in  execution,  if  such  be  possible." 

The  Swedish  consul  in  New  York,  Richard  Sonderstrom,  wrote  in  this  brief  way:1 

"  The  new  Congress  has  met  now  for  two  months  and  sits  here,  but  nothing  important  has  yet  taken  place, 
except  that  they  have  received  and  acknowledged  General  Washington  for  their  President,  and  it  looks  as  if  his 
power  would  be  as  great  as  any  king's  in  Europe." 

Besides  Adams,  Clinton,  and  Livingston,  who  stood  near  Washington,  on  the  balcony 
of  Federal  Hall,  during  the  inauguration  ceremony,  were  Roger  Sherman  and  Richard 
Henry  Lee,  Generals  Henry  Knox  and  Arthur  St.  Clair,  Baron  Steuben,2  and  Samuel  A. 


1  Dispatch  dated  New  York,  May  20,  1789.  Translated  from  the  original  in  the  Swedish  Archives,  Stockholm. 
J  President  of  the  preliminary  meeting  and  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati. 


MRS.  ALEXANDER  MACOMB  (born  Janet  Marshall). 
From  Engraving  on  copper  b\  St.  Memin,  1797.  Owned 
rv Corcoran  Gallery  of  Art,  Washington,  D.  C. 


ALEXANDER  MACOMB. 

From  a  Miniature  BY  John  R.amage.  Owned  by 
Charles  E.  Flanorau,  Grandson,  St.  Pall,  Minn. 


ALEXANDER  MACOMB. 
From  crayon  drawing  by  St.  Memin.  1797-  Owned  hy 
Miss  Julia  S.  Dinsmork,  GranddauGHI  er.  Gram, 
Boone  Co.,  Ky. 


MRS.  JAMES  HOMER  MAXWELL 

'born  Catharine  Van  Zandt).    From  Si  lhoi'F.ttk 

OWNED  HY  MAXWFI  I  VAN  ZAND1  WoriDHULl. 
GrRAT  Grandson.  Washington  D.  C. 


ALEXANDER  MACOMB. 
Artist.  Samuel  L.  Waldo.  1830.      Owned  hy  Thomas  M. 
Flandrau.  Grandson.  Romk.  N .  Y. 


JAMES  HOMER  MAXWELL. 

From  a  portrait  ow  ned  hn  Rohert  A.  Chesehrough. 
Great  Grandson,  New  York, 


MRS,  ALEXANDER  MACOMB  (born  Catharine  Navarre). 
From  Miniaturk  h\   John  R amagk.      Owned  in  Mrs 
Danikl  I-  Tkumivull.  Granddai  c;h  i  hr.  Norw  ich,  Conn. 


MRS.  SAMUEL  OSGOOD,  (born  Maria  Bownel. 
Am  1 1ST,  J.  Tr jm bull.  Owned  h\  Gkdhi.k  Clinton  Gkn*  1 . 
Grandson.  New  YrkK. 

(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  175.) 


MRS    EBENEZER  HAZARD  (born  Abigail  Arthur). 

Artist,  Duvivibk,  1796.  Ownro  ky  Rrv.  Thomas  E 
V 1-  km  1 1. \  e .  O.  D..  Son  -  is- law.  Nkw  York. 


PORTRAITS  OF  ALEXANDER  MACOMB  WHOSE  HOUSE  ON  I.ROaDWAN  WASHINGTON  OCCUPIED  IN  1790. p  36);  PORTRAITS  OF 
ALEXANDER  MACOMB'S  TWO  WIVES.  AND  OF  THE  WIVES  OF  THE  POST  MASTER  GENERAL  (Mrs.  Hazard)  AND  ONE  OF 
THE  COMMISSIONERS  OF  THE  TREASURY  (*Mks,  Oscio-idI  IV  1789;  AMD  PORTRAITS  OF  MR.  AND  MRS  MAXWELL. 
WITH  THE  LAST  OF  WHOM  WASHIN(  TON  DANCED  AT  THE  HALL.  MAY  7,  1789  (p.  59). 


THE  IN  A  UGURA  TION. 


5' 


Otis,1  the  Secretary  of  the  Senate,  and  in  the  rear  Senators  and  Representatives  and  other 
distinguished  officials.  Alexander  Hamilton  viewed  the  ceremony  from  his  residence,  near 
by,  in  Wall  Street.2 

Washington  was  dressed  in  a  full  suit  of  dark-brown  cloth  manufactured  at  Hartford,  with 
metal  buttons  with  an  eagle  on  them,3  and  "  with  a  steel-hilted  dress-sword,  white  stockings, 
and  plain  silver  shoe-buckles.  His  hair  was  dressed  and  powdered  in  the  fashion  of  the 
day,  and  worn  in  a  bag  and  solitaire."4  Chancellor  Robert  R.  Livingston,  one  of  the  com- 
mittee of  five  to  draft  the  Declaration  of  Independence  thirteen  years  before,  was  dressed  in 
a  full  suit  of  black  cloth  and  wore  the  robe  of  office.3  Just  before  the  oath  was  to  be 
administered,  it  was  discovered  that  no  Bible  was  in  Federal  Hall.  Happily,  Living- 
ston, Grand  Master  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Free  and  Accepted  Masons  of  the  State  of 
New  York,  knew  that  a  Bible  was  at  St.  John's  Lodge  No.  2,  in  the  City  Assembly 
Rooms  near  by,6  and  a  messenger7  was  dispatched  to  borrow  the  Bible,  which  is  to-day 


1  Otis  was  Secretary  of  the  Senate  for  twenty-five  years,  or  until  his  death  in  1 814.  John  Livingston  and  Major  William 
Jackson,  Secretary  of  the  Federal  Convention,  were  unsuccessful  candidates  for  the  secretaryship  of  the  Senate. — ("  Life  and 
Correspondence  of  George  Read,  of  Delaware,"  by  his  Grandson,  William  T.  Read,  pp.  467,  468,  473.) 

*  Griswold's  "Republican  Court,"  p,  173. 
s  Maclay. 

4  Irving's  "  Life  of  Washington,"  vol.  iv,  p.  474.  Irving  told  Dr.  Francis  and  Rufus  W.  Griswold  that  he  remembered,  as  a 
boy  of  six,  looking  from  the  corner  of  New  and  Wall  Streets  upon  the  inauguration  scene. — (Griswold's  "  Republican  Court,"  p. 
142.)  John  Randolph,  of  Virginia,  as  a  boy  of  sixteen,  was  also  present,  and  afterward  wrote:  "I  saw  the  coronation  (such  in 
fact  it  was)  of  General  Washington  in  1789."  William  Dunlap's  "History  of  New  York  for  Schools,"  vol.  ii,  p.  263:  "In 
1789  I  saw  him  (divested  of  the  garb  of  war)  place  his  hand  on  the  Bible,  and  swear  to  support  that  Constitution  under  which  I 
have  since  lived  happily  for  half  a  century."  Also,  Dunlap's  "  History  of  the  Arts  of  Design,"  vol.  i,  p.  338 :  "  A  ceremony 
which  I  witnessed,  and  which  for  its  simplicity,  the  persons  concerned  in  it,  the  effect  produced  upon  my  country  and  the  world, 
in  giving  stability  to  the  Federal  Constitution  by  calling  George  Washington  to  administer  its  blessings,  remains  on  my  mind 
unrivaled  by  any  scene  witnessed,  through  a  long  life,  either  in  Europe  or  America."  Regarding  the  clothes  of  the  President, 
the  following  is  taken  from  the  New  York  Journal  and  Weekly  Advertiser  of  May  7,  1789  :  "  The  President  on  the  day  of  his 
inauguration  appeared  dressed  in  a  complete  suit  of  homespun  clothes,  but  the  cloth  was  of  so  fine  a  fabric  and  so  handsomely 
finished  that  it  was  universally  mistaken  for  a  foreign  manufactured  superfine  cloth." 

e  The  ancestor  of  the  Livingstons  in  this  country  was  John  Livingston,  a  preacher  of  the  Reformed  Church  of  Scotland, 
who  was  banished  in  1663  for  non-conformity  with  prelatical  rule.  He  died  at  Rotterdam  in  1672.  A  son  named  Robert  emi- 
grated from  Holland,  settled  in  Albany  in  1675,  and  became  lord  of  Livingston  Manor.  A  grandson  of  the  last  named  was 
Robert  R.  Livingston,  a  member  of  the  Stamp  Act  Congress  in  1765.  Robert  R.  Livingston's  eldest  son  was  Chancellor  Living- 
ston, a  graduate  of  King's  (Columbia)  College,  a  law  partner  of  John  Jay,  under  the  crown  Recorder  of  New  York  city,  a  delegate 
to  Congress  in  1776,  Chancellor  of  the  State  of  New  York  from  1777  to  1 801,  Secretary  of  Foreign  Affairs  under  the  Confederation 
from  1 78 1  to  1783,  minister  plenipotentiary  to  France  at  the  time  of  the  cession  of  Louisiana  by  France  to  the  United  States  in 
1803,  and  the  originator  with  Fulton  of  steam  navigation,  which  resulted  in  the  launching  of  the  "  Clermont  "  on  the  Hudson  in 
1807.  Livingston  was  called  by  Franklin  "  the  Cicero  of  America."  He  died  February  26,  1813.  The  two  statues,  which  the 
State  of  New  York  is  entitled  by  Congress  to  have  in  the  Capitol  at  Washington,  are  those  of  Governor  George  Clinton  and 
Chancellor  Livingston.  (See  "  Biographical  Sketch  of  Robert  R.  Livingston,"  read  before  the  New  York  Historical  Society, 
October  3,  1876,  by  the  president,  Frederick  de  Peyster.) 

'  On  the  east  side  of  Broadway  a  little  above  Wall  Street.  At  a  meeting  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  in  the  Coffee  Rooms,  June  3, 
1789,  it  was  voted  that  St.  John's  Lodge  No.  2  be  considered  "  as  the  oldest  lodge  in  the  city,  and  take  rank  as  the  first."  The 
lodge  has  since  been  known  as  St.  John's  Lodge  No.  1. — ("Early  History  and  Proceedings  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  the  State  of 
New  York,"  vol.  i,  pp.  82,  83.) 

*  This  messenger  was  the  Right  Worshipful  Brother  Major  Jacob  Morton,  the  Grand  Secretary  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  the 
Masonic  Fraternity  of  New  York  State,  and  also,  as  above  stated,  aide-de-camp  to  the  grand  marshal,  Colonel  Morgan  Lewis. 


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the  property  of  St.  John's  Lodge  N  o.  i,  one  of  the  oldest  Masonic  lodges  in  the  United 
States. 1 

Secretary  Otis,  of  the  Senate,  held  before  him  a  red  velvet  cushion,  upon  which  rested 
the  open  Bible  of  St.  John's  Lodge.  "You  do  solemnly  swear,"  said  Livingston,  "that  you 
will  faithfully  execute  the  office  of  President  of  the  United  States,  and  will,  to  the  best  of  your 
ability,  preserve,  protect,  and  defend  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States  ?  "  "  I  do  solemnly 
swear,"  replied  Washington,  "  that  I  will  faithfully  execute  the  office  of  President  of  the 
United  States,  and  will,  to  the  best  of  my  ability,  preserve,  protect,  and  defend  the  Consti- 
tution of  the  United  States."  He  now  bowed  his  head  and  kissed  the  sacred  book,  and  with 
the  deepest  feeling  uttered  the  words,  "  So  help  me  God  ! "  The  Chancellor  then  proclaimed: 
"  Long  live  George  Washington,  President  of  the  United  States ! "  The  instant  dis- 
charge of  thirteen  cannon  followed,2  and  with  loud  repeated  shouts  and  huzzas  the  people 


— (Statement  of  Colonel  Edward  M.  L.  Ehlers,  Grand  Secretary  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Free  and  Accepted  Masons  of  the  State 
of  New  York,  1889.) 

1  The  Bible  is  bound  in  red  morocco,  with  gilt  ornamentation  and  edges  and  silver  clasps,  and  is  eleven  inches  long,  nine 
wide,  and  three  and  a  half  thick.  On  the  front  and  back  covers  are  two  inscriptions.  On  the  front  cover  are  omitted 
the  words  :  "  Burnt  down  the  8th  of  March,  5770  "  ;  otherwise,  the  two  inscriptions  are  exactly  alike.  (See  illustration, 
P-  450 

The  binding  may  be  by  Roger  Payne.  The  Bible  was  published  in  London,  by  Mark  Baskett,  in  1767,  and  contains  a  large 
picture  of  George  II,  besides  being  handsomely  illustrated  with  biblical  scenes.  The  page  of  the  Bible  which  Washington 
kissed  is  also  indicated  by  the  leaf  being  turned  down.  A  copper-plate  engraving,  explanatory  of  the  forty-ninth  chapter  of 
Genesis,  is  on  the  opposite  page.  On  one  of  the  fly-leaves  is  the  following  description  of  what  was  done  on  April  30,  1789^ 
written  so  indistinctly  that  it  is  almost  impossible  to  photograph  it : 


On 
Sacred 


An  Engraving 
of 
Stuart's 
Washington. 


This 
Volume, 


On  the  30th  day  of  April,  A.  M.,  5789, 
In  the  City  of  New  York, 
was  administered  to 
GEORGE  WASHINGTON, 
The  first  President  of  the  United  States  of  America, 
The  Oath  ! 

To  support  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States. 
This  important  ceremony  was 
Performed  by  the  Most  Worshipful  Grand  Master  of 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons 
Of  the  State  of  New  York, 
The  Honorable 
ROBERT  R.  LIVINGSTON 
Chancellor  of  the  State. 

Fame  stretched  her  wings  and  with  her  trumpet  blew  : 
"  Great  Washington  is  near — what  praise  is  due  ? 
What  title  shall  he  have  ?  "    She  paused,  and  said  : 
"  Not  one — his  name  alone  strikes  every  title  dead  !  " 

2  Captain  Van  Dyck  was  stationed  in  Broadway,  at  the  head  of  Wall  Street,  with  orders  to  fire  the  salute  as  soon  as  the 

waving  of  the  signal-flag  from  Federal  Hall  indicated  that  the  oath  had  been  administered.    At  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of 

Washington's  inauguration  Captain  Van  Dyck  was  living,  and  gave  the  following  account  of  the  firing  of  the  salute  to  the  editor 

of  the  New  York  Spectator,  who  said,  in  his  issue  of  April  30,  1839  : 

"  Captain  Van  Dyck  still  survives,  and  we  had  the  pleasure  of  a  call  from  the  veteran  on  Saturday.  He  is  now  in  his 
eighty-fifth  year,  and  has  been  an  officer  in  the  Custom-House  twenty-five  years,  the  duties  of  which  he  yet  discharges.  He 
mentioned  to  us  that,  when  Colonel  Lewis  gave  him  the  order  for  the  salute,  he  inquired,  '  But  who  is  to  pay  for  the  glass  I 
shall  break  ?  '  '  I  will,'  replied  the  colonel.  At  the  discharge  of  every  gun,  the  captain  says  he  could  hear  the  jingle  of  the 
glass  from  the  shattered  windows.    At  the  corner  of  the  streets  (Broadway  and  Wall)  was  a  silversmith's  shop,  owned  by  a  Mr. 


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cried:  "God  bless  our  Washington!  Long  live  our  beloved  President!"  The  President 
bowed  to  the  people,  and  the  air  again  rang  with  acclamations.  Washington,  followed  by 
the  company  on  the  balcony,  now  returned  to  the  Senate-chamber,  where  he  took  his 
seat,  and  the  Senators  and  Representatives  resumed  their  seats.  It  was  now  about  two 
o'clock  in  the  afternoon.  When  Washington  arose  to  speak,  all  stood,  and  listened  "  with 
eager  and  marked  attention."  1 

Said  Senator  Maclay,  who  heard  the  inaugural  address:2 

"  This  great  man  was  agitated  and  embarrassed  more  than  ever  he  was  by  the  leveled  cannon  or  pointed 
musket.  He  trembled,  and  several  times  could  scarce  make  out  to  read,  though  it  must  be  supposed  he  had 
often  read  it  before.  He  put  part  of  the  fingers  of  his  left  hand  into  the  side  of  what  I  think  the  tailors  call 
the  fall  of  the  breeches,  changing  the  paper  into  his  left  [right]  hand.  After  some  time  he  then  did  the  same 
with  some  of  the  fingers  of  his  right  hand.  When  he  came  to  the  words  all  the  world,  he  made  a  flourish 
with  his  right  hand,  which  left  rather  an  ungainly  impression.  I  sincerely,  for  my  part,  wished  all  set  cere- 
mony in  the  hands  of  the  dancing-masters,  and  that  this  first  of  men  had  read  off  his  address  in  the 
plainest  manner,  without  ever  taking  his  eyes  from  the  paper,  for  I  felt  hurt  that  he  was  not  first  in  every- 
thing." 

Fisher  Ames,  who  also  heard  Washington's  address,  wrote:3 

"It  was  a  very  touching  scene,  and  quite  of  the  solemn  kind.  His  aspect  grave,  almost  to  sadness;  his 
modesty,  actually  shaking;  his  voice  deep,  a  little  tremulous,  and  so  low  as  to  call  for  close  attention — added  to 
the  series  of  objects  presented  to  the  mind,  and  overwhelming  it,  produced  emotions  of  the  most  affecting  kind 
upon  the  members.  I,  Pilgarlic,  sat  entranced.  It  seemed  to  me  an  allegory  in  which  Virtue  was  personified, 
and  addressing  those  whom  she  would  make  her  votaries.  Her  power  over  the  heart  was  never  greater,  and  the 
illustration  of  her  doctrine  by  her  own  example  was  never  more  perfect." 

After  delivering  his  address,  the  President,  accompanied  by  the  Vice-President,  the 
Speaker,  the  two  Houses  of  Congress,  and  all  who  attended  the  inauguration  ceremony, 
proceeded  on  foot  to  St.  Paul's  Chapel.  The  same  order  was  preserved  as  in  the  procession 
from  the  President's  house  to  Federal  Hall.  The  military  "  made  a  good  figure"  as  they  lined 
the  street  near  the  church.4  The  services  in  the  church  were  conducted  by  the  Chap- 
lain of  the  Senate,  the  Right  Rev.  Dr.  Samuel  Provoost,  Bishop  of  the  Episcopal 
Church  of  New  York. 

Said  Fisher  Ames,  in  the  letter  already  quoted : 


Forbes,  having  large  bow-windows.  From  these  the  panes  jingled  merrily.  Mr.  Forbes  ran  into  the  street  and  implored  the 
captain  to  desist  firing,  but,  of  course,  to  no  purpose.  The  captain  gave  him  a  rebuke  which  sent  him  back  to  his  shop. 
'  Who,'  he  demanded,  'would  refuse  a  salvo  of  artillery,  on  such  an  occasion,  for  a  few  paltry  squares  of  window-glass?  '  and 
from  that  day  afterward,  the  captain  says,  he  heard  no  more  of  the  broken  glass." 

Twenty-one  pounds  of  powder  were  used  in  the  salute  above  referred  to,  as  is  seen  by  the  original  of  the  paper  in 

the  handwriting  of  Colonel  Sebastian  Bauman,  which  is  now  owned  by  his  great-grandson,  Charles  Bauman  Marsh,  of 

New  York. 

1  Madison  helped  Washington  prepare  his  inaugural  speech,  and  the  reply  to  that  speech  by  the  House  was  also  drawn  by 
Madison.— (Rives's  "  Madison,"  and  Washington's  letter  to  Madison,  dated  May  5,  1789.) 
'  "Journal  of  William  Maclay,"  p.  9. 

*  Letter  from  New  York  to  George  Richard  Minot.— ("  Works  of  Fisher  Ames,"  edited  by  Seth  Ames,  vol.  i,  p.  34.) 
4  Maclay. 


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55 


,:  I  was  present  in  the  pew  with  the  President,  and  must  assure  you  that,  after  making  all  deductions 
for  the  delusion  of  one's  fancy  in  regard  to  characters,  I  still  think  of  him  with  more  veneration  than  for 


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any  other  person.  Time  has  made  havoc  upon  his  face.  That,  and  many  other  circumstances  not  to  be 
reasoned  about,  conspired  to  keep  up  the  awe  I  brought  with  me." 


5 6        THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


After  prayers  had  been  read  and  the  Te  Deiim  sung,1  Washington  entered  the  state 
coach  and  was  escorted  home. 

That  evening  there  was  a  most  gorgeous  display  of  fire-works,  provided  through  private 
subscriptions.'    There  were  illuminations  of  private  residences  and  transparencies  in  front  of 


ST.  PAUL'S  CHAPEL,  NEW  YORK,  FROM  CHURCH  STREET. 


the  theatre  in  John  Street,  and  at  the  Fly  Market,  at  the  foot  of  Maiden  Lane.  The  ship 
Carolina,  in  the  harbor,  which  at  sunset  had  discharged  thirteen  cannon,  formed  a  beautiful 
pyramid  of  stars.    But  the  largest  crowds  were  gathered  in  the  lower  part  of  Broadway,  where 


1  Colonel  John  May's  letter  to  his  wife,  dated  New  York,  May  t,  1789.— (Colonel  May's  "Journeys  to  the  Ohio  Country,"  p. 
123.) 

'  Herald  of  Freedom,  April  3,  1789. 


LADY  KITTY  DUER. 

MlNIATURK.    Ownek,  Miss.  Frances  Di  er  Robinson, 
Great  Great  Granddaughter,  New  York. 


COL.  WILLIAM  DUER. 
MINIATURE.    Owner,  Miss  Catherine  Alexander  DuBR. 
Granddaughter,  Staten  Island,  N.  Y. 


LADY  MARY  WATTS. 

On.  Painting.    Owner,  Robert  Watts,  M.  D. 
Great  Grandson,  New  York. 


LADY  STIRLING 

Oil  Painting.   Owner,  Miss  Henrietta  Livingston, 
Great Grandniece,  New  York. 


COL.  WILLIAM  DUER. 

Miniature.   Owner,  James  G.  King  Dcer, 
Great  Grandson,  New  York. 


LADY  STIRLING. 
ARTIST,  Benjamin  West  (?)  Owner,  Robert  Watts,  M.  D. 
Great  Great  Grandson,  New  York. 


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57 


were  the  residences  of  Senator  Izard,  Chancellor  Livingston,  and  the  French  and  Spanish 
diplomatic  agents.  From  Livingston's  house  the  fire-works  were  watched  by  Washington, 
who  had  gone  there  with  Colonel  Humphreys  and  Secretary  Lear.  Colonel  Sebastian  Bau- 
man, 1  who,  as  commander  of  the  State  regiment  of  artillery,  had  been  busy  through  the  day, 
superintended  the  fire-works  from  Fort  George,  opposite  Bowling  Green.    With  a  flight  of 


WASHINGTON'S  PEW  IN  ST.  PAUL'S  CHAPEL,  AS  IT  WAS  IN  1889. 


thirteen  rockets  and  the  discharge  of  thirteen  cannon,  the  fire-works  began  and  ended.  In 
the  two  hours'  interval  was  a  display  of  fire-trees,  tourbillions,  Chinese  fountains  of  fire, 
crackers,  serpents,  paper  shells,  cascades,  Italian  candles,  and  fire-letters,  in  celebration  of  the 
day.  But  listen  to  Colonel  John  May,  whose  letter  to  his  wife  describes  the  illuminations 
of  the  evening  : 8 

"The  Spanish  ambassador's  house  was  illuminated  so  as  to  represent  Wisdom,  Justice,  Fortitude,  Sun, 
Moon,  Stars,  and  Spanish  Arms,  etc.  The  French  ambassador  also  illuminated  handsomely.  Federal  Hall  also 
presented  a  fine  appearance.  The  likeness  of  our  Hero,  illuminated,  was  presented  in  a  window  of  a  house  at  a 
little  distance.3  The  best  likeness  I  have  vet  seen  of  him,  so  much  like  him  that  one  could  hardly  distinguish  it 
from  life,  excepting  for  the  situation,  over  a  beer-house,  a  place  he  never  frequents.    The  best  thing  of  all  was  a 


1  He  was  at  West  Point  at  the  time  of  Arnold's  treason,  at  the  siege  of  Yorktown,  and  was  Postmaster  of  New  York  from 
1790  to  1803. — (Custis's  "Recollections,"  pp.  400,401.) 

a  Colonel  May's  "Journeys  to  the  Ohio  Country,"  pp.  123,  124. 
*  In  Broad  Street. — (New  York  Journal  and  Weekly  Register,  May  7,  1789.) 
9 


58        THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


picture1  of  the  United  States;  the  President  at  full  length  the  central  figure;  on  his  right,  Justice ; 2  over  his 
head,  Fortitude;  on  his  left,  Wisdom;3  high  over  his  head  were  two  female  figures  in  gay  colors  and  support- 
ing on  their  arms  the  American  eagle.    The  fire-works  were  brilliant,  and  greeted  with  tumultuous  applause." 

At  ten  o'clock  Washington  returned  home  on  foot — "  the  throng  of  people  being  so  great 
as  not  to  permit  a  carriage  to  pass  through  it."4 

On  the  morning  after  the  inauguration  the  President  received  calls  from  Vice-President 
Adams,  Governor  Clinton,  John  Jay,  General  Henry  Knox,  Ebenezer  Hazard,  Samuel 
Osgood,  Arthur  Lee,  the  French  and  Spanish  diplomatic  representatives,  "  and  a  great  many 
other  persons  of  distinction."5  But  Tuesday  and  Friday  afternoons,  between  the  hours  of 
two  and  three  o'clock,  were  appointed  by  the  President  for  receiving  formal  visits.6  He 
discouraged  complimentary  calls  on  other  days,  and  particularly  on  Sunday.7  The  ball,  which 
it  was  intended  to  give  on  the  evening  of  Inauguration-day,  was  postponed,  that  the  wife  of 
the  President  might  attend  ;  but,  when  it  was  learned  that  she  would  not  arrive  in  New  York 
until  the  last  of  May,  it  was  decided  to  give  the  ball  on  the  evening  of  Thursday,  May  7th.8 
It  was  a  brilliant  assembly.  Besides  the  President,  Vice-President,  many  members  of  Con- 
gress, Governor  and  Mrs.  Clinton,  and  the  foreign  ministers,  there  were  present  Chancellor 
Livingston,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  Jay,  General  and  Mrs.  Knox,  Chief-Justice  Yates,  of  New 
York  State,  James  DuaneG  (the  Mayor)  and  his  wife  Mary  Livingston  Duane,  Baron  Steu- 


1  This  picture  was  "  before  the  fort  at  the  bottom  of  Broadway." 
a  Representing  the  Senate. 

3  Representing  the  House  of  Representatives. 

4  Lear's  Journal. 

6  Gazette  of  the  United  States,  May  2,  1789. 

'  The  hour  of  public  receptions  was  subsequently  changed  to  three  o'clock,  and  Mrs.  Washington  received  company  every 
Friday  evening  from  eight  until  ten  o'clock.  The  following  excerpt  from  Jefferson's  Ana  ("  Works,"  vol.  ix,  p.  132)  may  be 
added  : 

"February  the  16/k,  iygj. — E.  Randolph  tells  J.  Madison  and  myself  a  curious  fact  which  he  had  from  Lear.  When 
the  President  went  to  New  York,  he  resisted  for  three  weeks  the  efforts  to  introduce  levees.  At  length  he  yielded,  and  left  it 
to  Humphreys  and  some  others  to  settle  the  forms.  Accordingly,  an  antechamber  and  presence-room  were  provided,  and 
when  those  who  were  to  pay  their  court  were  assembled,  the  President  set  out,  preceded  by  Humphreys.  After  passing 
through  the  antechamber,  the  door  of  the  inner  room  was  thrown  open,  and  Humphreys  entered  first,  calling  out  with  a  loud 
voice,  '  The  President  of  the  United  States  !  '  The  President  was  so  much  disconcerted  with  it  that  he  did  not  recover  from 
it  the  whole  time  of  the  levie,  and,  when  the  company  was  gone,  he  said  to  Humphreys,  '  Well,  you  have  taken  me  in  once, 
but,  by  God,  you  shall  never  take  me  in  a  second  time  ! '  " 

The  visit  of  a  company  of  gentlemen  at  Washington's  house  during  the  first  year  of  his  presidency  is  told  by  Dr.  W.  W. 

Buchanan,  a  playmate  in  1789  of  G.  W.  P.  Custis  ("Historical  Magazine,"  vol.  iv,  p.  138,  May,  i860): 

"  The  General's  coach,  with  cream-colored  horses  with  white  manes,  was  sent  on  as  usual  on  a  Saturday  for  me  to  dine. 
The  President  then  resided  in  the  Franklin  or  Osgood  house,  at  the  head  of  Cherry  Street,  nearly  opposite  Dover  Street  I 
found  him  and  lady  in  the  back  dining-room,  and  after  a  time  he  disappeared,  shortly  thereafter  making  his  appearance  in  full 
dress,  black  silk-velvet  chapeau  and  elegant  steel-hilted  sword.  A  servant  soon  approached  him,  and  the  General  followed  him 
to  the  stoop,  with  sloping  steps  both  up  and  down  Cherry  Street,  and  an  iron  ornamental  railing  in  front  before  which  were  con- 
gregated a  number  of  gentlemen  to  whom  Washington  in  return  addressed  a  few  words.  Custis  took  the  right  side  of  the 
General,  while  I,  captivated  by  the  glitter  of  the  steel,  entangled  my  feet  in  the  ornamental  work  of  the  iron  railing,  and 
employed  my  fingers  in  discussing  the  ornaments  of  the  sword-hilt.  The  General  mildly  but  firmly  placed  his  left  hand  on  my 
shoulder  and  repressed  my  encroachments.  I  was  abashed  and  retired.  The  company  then  came  into  the  house  and  was 
served  with  cakes  and  wine.  On  their  departure  the  General  again  retired  and  came  down  to  dinner  in  his  usual  costume  of 
pepper-and-salt-colored  clothes." 

'  New  York  Journal  and  Weekly  Advertiser,  May  7,  1789. 

8  Lossing's  "  Life  of  Washington,"  vol.  iii,  pp.  109-111.  The  ball  was  probably  given  in  the  City  Assembly  Rooms,  which 
were  on  the  east  side  of  Broadway,  a  little  above  Wall  Street. 

0  James  Duane  was  born  in  New  York,  February  6,  1732.  He  studied  law  in  the  office  of  James  Alexander,  the  father 
of  Lord  Stirling,  and  married,  October  21,  1759,  Mary,  daughter  of  Robert  Livingston,  third  and  last  Lord  of  Livingston 


mrs  william  few. 

Miniature  by  John  Ramage,  1787. 
Owned   by  Wm.   Few  Chrystje, 
Grandson,  Hastings-on-Hudson.  N.  Y 


MRS.  ROBERT  MORRIS. 

Miniature  by  C.  W.  Peale.  Owned 
BY  I.  C.  Van  Den  Heuvel,  Great 
.Grandson,  New  York. 


MRS.  RALPH  IZARD,  (born  Alice  de  Lancey). 
Artist.  Thomas  Gainsborough,  R.  A. 
Owned  by  Mrs.  Henky  Fulton,  Great 
Granddaughter,  New  York. 


MRS.  ROBERT  MORRIS. 

Oil.  MINIATURE  BY  J.  TRUMBULL,  1790.     O W NED  BY  Mrs. 

"L  Ambler.  GhanddaughT-BR.  Hume.  Fauquier  Co.,Va. 
'Loan  Exhibition.  No.  168. 1 


MRS.  ROBERT  MORRIS. 
Artist.  Gilbert  Stuart.    Owned  by  Lbnox 
New  York. 


MRS.  ELBRIDGE  GERRY,  iborn  Ann  Thompson!. 
Miniature  by  John  Ramage.    Owned  by  Mrs.  John  W. 
Clay.  (Catherine  Thompson  Clay}  Grand  Niece.  Marvs- 
vii. i.e.  Campbell  Co.,  Va. 


MRS.  ROBERT  MORRIS. 
Artist,  C-  \V.  Peale.     Owned  by  City  of  Philadei 
AND  DEPOSITED  i\  NATIONAL  MUSEUM  (0X0  STATE  Hoi' 


MRS.  ISAAC  COLES,  (born  Catherine  Thompson). 
Sister  of  Mrs.  Elbridge  Gerry. 
Miniature  by  John  Ramage.  Owned  by  Miss  Maky  Coles 
whittle,  Granddaughter,  Chatham,  Pittsylvania  Co..  Va. 


MRS  ELBRIDGE  GERRY,  (born  Ann  Thompson). 

From  a  PANEL  portrait  owned  by  Gen.  K.  D.  Townsend, 
Grandson,  Washington,  D.  C. 


MRS.  ELBRIDGE  GERRY,  (born  Ann  Thompson). 

Miniature  by  John  R \mage.  Owned  by  Elbridge  T. 
Gerry,  Grandson,  New  York. 


MRS  JAMES  BEEKMAN,  (bom  Jane  Ketaltas). 
Artist,  Lawrence  Kilbrun,  1761.    Owned  by  Gerard 
Bbekman.  Great  Grandson,  New  York. 


PORTRAITS   OF    WIVES   OF    MEMBERS   OF   THE    FIRST   CONGRESS    UNDER    THE   CONSTITUTION.  AND 
PORTRAIT  OF  MRS.  JAMES  BEEKMAN  WHO  ATTENDED  THE  BALL  IN  NEW  YORK  MAY  7.  1789. 


THE  INAUGURATION. 


59 


ben,  Colonel  Alexander  Hamilton  and  Mrs.  Hamilton,  Senator  and  Mrs.  Langdon,  Mrs. 
Peter  Van  Brugh  Livingston  (sister  of  Lord  Stirling),  Mrs.  Livingston  of  Clermont  and 
her  daughter-in-law  Mrs.  Chancellor  Livingston,  Mrs.  James  Homer  Maxwell,  Mrs.  James 
Thompson  and  her  daughter  Mrs.  Elbridge  Gerry,  Mrs.  Montgomery,  widow  of  General 
Montgomery,  Mrs.  Edgar,  Mrs.  Beekman,  Sir  John  and  Lady  Temple,  Mrs.  Macomb,  Mrs. 
Lynch,  Senator  and  Mrs.  Dalton,  Madame  de  Brehan,1  Colonel  and  Mrs.  William  S.  Smith, 
Lady  Stirling  and  her  two  daughters,  Lady  Mary  Watts  and  Lady  Kitty  Duer,a  Madame 
de  la  Forest,  Lady  Christiana  Griffin,3  Mrs.  Houston,  Mrs.  Provoost,  Mrs.  Dominick  Lynch, 
Mrs.  Robinson,  the  Misses  Livingston,  and  the  Misses  Bayard.  About  three  hundred  were 
present.  It  is  related  that  the  President,  who  had  danced  repeatedly  while  commander-in- 
chief,  danced  in  the  cotillion  and  minuet  at  this  ball.4  "The  company  retired  about  two 
o'clock,  after  having  spent  a  most  agreeable  evening.  Joy,  satisfaction,  and  vivacity  was 
expressed  in  every  countenance,  and  every  pleasure  seemed  to  be  heightened  by  the  pres- 
ence of  a  Washington?  5 

Washington's  correspondence,  at  the  beginning  of  his  presidency,  shows  how  strong  was 


Manor.  Duane  was  a  member  of  the  Continental  Congress  and  of  the  New  York  State  Senate,  and  was  District  Judge  of  the 
District  of  New  York.  He  was  warden  of  Trinity  Church,  New  York,  from  1784  to  1794.  In  1794  he  removed  to  Duanes- 
burgh,  New  York,  where  he  built  an  Episcopal  church,  consecrated  by  Bishop  Provoost  in  1795,  and  where  he  died  in  1797. 

1  Sister-in-law  of  Comte  de  Moustier,  the  French  minister,  who  was  now  living  in  the  Macomb  house,  in  Broadway,  where 
the  week  following  (May  14th),  a  ball  was  given  in  honor  of  Washington. 

a  The  husband  of  Lady  Kitty  Duer,  Colonel  William  Duer,  was  born  in  England  in  1747,  and  served  as  aide  to  Lord  Clive 
in  India.  In  1768  he  came  to  New  York,  and  married  in  1779.  He  was  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  Board  when  Robert  Morris 
resigned  as  Superintendent  of  Finance.  After  the  adoption  of  the  Constitution,  Colonel  Duer  rendered  valuable  aid  to  Alex- 
ander Hamilton.  "  The  office  of  Assistant  Secretary  was  created  expressly  for  him."  He  died  in  1799. — (Rev.  Dr.  Manasseh 
Cutler's  "Life,"  vol.  i,  p.  241.) 

3  Wife  of  Cyrus  Griffin,  the  last  President  of  the  Continental  Congress.  She  was  Lady  Christiana  Stewart,  daughter  of 
John  Stewart,  sixth  Earl  of  Traquair,  Peebleshire,  Scotland.  The  earldom  become  extinct  on  the  death  of  the  eighth  earl, 
August  2,  1 861 . 

4  "  The  President  danced  during  the  evening  in  the  cotillion  with  Mrs.  Peter  Van  Brugh  Livingston  and  Mrs.  Maxwell,  and 
in  a  minuet  with  Mrs.  Maxwell's  sister,  Miss  Van  Zandt.  With  Mrs.  Maxwell  he  had  repeatedly  danced  before  her  marriage 
when  the  headquarters  of  the  army  were  at  Morristown." — (Griswold's  "  Republican  Court,"  p.  156.)  Mrs.  Maxwell  {nee  Cath- 
erine Van  Zandt)  was  the  daughter  of  Jacobus  Van  Zandt,  member  of  the  Committee  of  One  Hundred  appointed  in  New  York 
in  1775,  chairman  of  the  war  committee  of  Congress,  and  who  also  served  under  Washington  in  the  campaign  in  the  Jerseys. 
Mrs.  Maxwell  was  married  May  22,  1787.  She  and  her  husband,  James  Homer  Maxwell,  are  buried  in  Trinity  churchyard. 
Washington  is  said  also  to  have  danced  at  the  ball  with  Mrs.  Alexander  Hamilton,  and  to  have  opened  the  ball  with  the  wife 
of  the  Mayor,  Mrs.  James  Duane.  Though  Mis.  Washington  did  not  attend  the  ball,  the  following  version,  as  given  in 
Jefferson's  Ana  ("  Works,"  vol.  ix,  p.  147),  is  added  : 

"June  the  10th,  f/pj- — Mr.  Brown  gives  me  the  following  specimen  of  the  frenzy  which  prevailed  at  New  York  on  the 
opening  of  the  new  Government :  The  first  public  ball  which  took  place  after  the  President's  arrival  there,  Colonel  Humph- 
reys, Colonel  W.  S.  Smith,  and  Mrs.  Knox  were  to  arrange  the  ceremonials.  These  arrangements  were  as  follows :  A  sofa  at 
the  head  of  the  room,  raised  on  several  steps,  whereon  the  President  and  Mrs.  Washington  were  to  be  seated.  The  gentle- 
men were  to  dance  in  swords.  Each  one  when  going  to  dance  was  to  lead  his  partner  to  the  foot  of  the  sofa,  make  a  low 
obeisance  to  the  President  and  his  lady,  then  go  and  dance,  and,  when  done,  bring  his  partner  again  to  the  foot  of  the 
sofa  for  new  obeisances  and  then  to  retire  to  their  chairs.  It  was  to  be  understood,  too,  that  gentlemen  should  be  dressed 
in  bags.  Mrs.  Knox  contrived  to  come  with  the  President,  and  to  follow  him  and  Mrs.  Washington  to  their  destination,  and 
she  had  the  design  of  forcing  an  invitation  from  the  President  to  a  seat  on  the  sofa.  She  mounted  up  the  steps  after  them 
unbidden  ;  but,  unfortunately,  the  wicked  sofa  was  so  short  that,  when  the  President  and  Mrs.  Washington  were  seated,  there 
was  no  room  for  a  third  person.  She  was  obliged,  therefore,  to  descend  in  the  face  of  the  company,  and  to  sit  where  she 
could.  In  other  respects  the  ceremony  was  conducted  rigorously  according  to  the  arrangements,  and  the  President  made  to 
pass  an  evening  which  his  good  sense  rendered  a  very  miserable  one  to  him." 

6  New  York  Packet,  May  8,  1789. 


6o        THE  CEXTENXIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 


his  conviction  of  duty,  and  how  great  were  the  difficulties  surrounding  him.1  But  modesty, 
fidelity,  and  patriotism  were  virtues  too  strong  to  be  resisted.  The  nobility  of  his  character 
overcame  all  obstacles.  "  The  cares  and  labors  of  the  President,"  said  Fisher  Ames,  "  were 
incessant  ;  his  exhortations,  example,  and  authority  were  employed  to  excite  zeal  and  activity 
for  the  public  service  ;  able  officers  were  selected  only  for  their  merits  ;  and  some  of  them 
remarkably  distinguished  themselves  by  their  successful  management  of  the  public  business. 
Government  was  administered  with  such  integrity,  without  mystery,  and  in  so  prosperous  a 
course,  that  it  seemed  to  be  wholly  employed  in  acts  of  beneficence.  Though  it  has  made 
many  thousand  malcontents,  it  has  never,  by  its  rigor  or  injustice,  made  one  man  wretched."2 


1  See  letters  to  Edward  Rutledge,  Generals  Wayne  and  Schuyler,  Chancellor  Livingston,  and  others.  Dr.  Arthur  Lee,  a 
member  of  the  old  Congress  from  Virginia  and  a  member  of  the  Treasury  Board  at  the  time  the  new  Constitution  went  into 
effect,  wrote  as  follows  from  New  York  May  8,  1789,  to  his  kinsman  Charles  Lee  at  Alexandria  :  "  The  address  of  your  city  to 
the  President  is  pathetic,  and  must,  I  think,  have  given  him  a  most  heart-felt  satisfaction.  The  joy  on  receiving  him  here  was  at 
least  as  great  as  your  regret  in  parting  with  him.  It  was  universal.  I  do  not  know  that  it  is  possible  for  any  human  happiness 
to  be  greater  than  his  must  be  in  feeling  the  genuine,  heart-felt  affection  of  all  men,  and  the  good  opinion  that  is  universally 
entertained  of  him.  But,  as  there  is  no  human  happiness  without  its  alloy,  his,  I  am  afraid,  will  not  be  exempted.  The  expec- 
tations raised  of  the  benefits  of  the  new  Constitution  are  most  unreasonable,  and  therefore  can  not  be  satisfied.  Its  addi- 
tional weight  upon  the  people  has  not  been  considered,  yet  must  be  felt,  and,  though  its  benefits  should  be  more  than  proportion- 
ate, yet  we  know  how  much  a  small  burden  outweighs  a  great  benefit  ;  and  therefore  how  probable  it  is  that  dissatisfactions 
with  the  new  Government  should  succeed  the  present  extravagant  expectations  from  it.  This  will  certainly  give  a  mind  like  the 
President's  great  anxiety.  Another  and  more  immediate  source  of  discontent  to  many  and  uneasiness  to  him  is  the  immense 
number  of  applicants  for  place ;  nineteen  in  twenty  of  these  must  go  away  unsatisfied,  and  many  of  them  dissatisfied.  I  am 
persuaded,  however,  that  the  real  goodness  of  his  intentions,  and  the  steadiness  of  his  conduct  will  restrain  these  discontents  as 
much  as  possible." 

2  "  Works  of  Fisher  Ames,"  edited  by  Seth  Ames,  vol.  ii,  pp.  77,  78. 


CHAPTER  II. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  OF  THE   MEMBERS  OF  THE   FIRST  CONGRESS. 


By  Paul  Leicester  Ford. 


The  first  Congress  which  as- 
sembled under  our  national  Con- 
stitution was  the  most  distinguished 
and  experienced  legislative  body 
ever  gathered  in  this  country,  if  we 
measure  the  members  by  the  serv- 
ices they  had  rendered  and  the 
offices  they  had  held.  The  lack  of 
educational  advantages  during  the 
Colonial  and  Revolutionary  periods 
had  tended  to  limit  the  number 
of  men  capable  of  filling  offices, 
and  as  a  natural  consequence  these 
had  had  wide  experience  in  legis- 
lative and  executive  positions.  Of 
the  ninety-six  members  who  con- 
stituted this  body,  forty-four  had 
served  in  the  Continental  or  State 
lines  during  the  Revolution ;  over 
thirty  had  been  members  of  the 
Revolutionary  Committees  of  Safe- 
ty or  Correspondence  ;  fifty-eight 
had  been  members  of  their  State 
Legislatures  ;  sixteen  had  held 
judgeships ;  five  had  been  Govern- 
ors of  their  States,  and  three  had 
been  Attorneys-General.  In  the 
national  Government  which  pre- 
ceded that  now  organized,  forty-nine  had  served  in  the  Continental  Congress ;  nine  had 
held  positions  on  executive  boards,  and  two  had  held  diplomatic  appointments.     In  the 


BENJAMIN  FRANKLIN. 

FROM  A  LIFE-SIZE  MARBLE  BUST  BY  HOUDON,  EXECUTED  FOR  DE  WITT  CLINTON. 
Owner,  Abram  S.  Hewitt,  New  York. 
(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  306.) 


62         THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 


framing  of  the  new  Government,  six  had  attended  the  Annapolis  Convention,  and  had 
there  discussed  and  studied  the  defects  in  the  Articles  of  Confederation  ;  nineteen  had  seen 
the  new  Constitution  framed,  clause  by  clause,  in  the  Federal  Convention  ;  thirty-one  had 
discussed  and  considered  it  in  the  State  Conventions.  It  was  by  no  means  a  "  Feder- 
alist "  body.  One  had  refused  to  sign  the  Constitution  in  the  Federal  Convention  ;  eleven 
had  voted  against  its  ratification  in  the  State  Conventions.  In  a  number  of  the  states 
the  adoption  of  the  new  Government  had  been  followed  by  a  revulsion  of  public  senti- 
ment, which  had  threatened  to  test  the  "Government  by  putting  it  into  the  hands  of  its 
enemies";  while  even  its  supporters  —  united  in  its  ratification — were  now  of  differing 
opinions  concerning  its  merits  and  defects. 

Of  these  ninety-six  members,  thirty-eight  were  lawyers,  fourteen  merchants,  eight  farmers, 
five  teachers,  five  doctors,  four  ministers,  one  surveyor,  and  one  sailor,  though  the  majority 
had  held  political  office  with  hardly  an  intermission  for  many  years.  At  least  fifty-eight  were 
graduates  of  colleges.  It  was  called  a  "young"  Congress,  and,  so  far  as  the  figures  are  accessi- 
ble (and  the  few  lacking  could  change  this  but  little),  the  average  age  was  a  trifle  over  forty- 
five.  The  oldest  man  was  Roger  Sherman,  who  was  sixty-eight,  and  the  youngest  John  Steele, 
who  was  twenty-five.  The  oldest  delegation  was  from  Connecticut,  with  an  average  age  of 
over  fifty-three  ;  the  youngest  was  from  New  York,  with  an  average  of  a  trifle  over  forty-one. 

The  largest  delegation  was  from  Virginia,  which,  with  the  changes  made  during  the  term 
of  this  Congress,  was  represented  by  fifteen  men  ;  the  smallest  were  from  Delaware  and 
Rhode  Island,  which  were  each  represented  in  the  House  of  Representatives  by  a  single 
member.  Ten  of  the  whole  were  foreign-born — four  being  from  England,  four  from  Ireland, 
one  from  Scotland,  and  one  from  Bermuda.  Of  the  Delaware  delegation,  two  of  the  three 
were  born  in  the  State,  and  she  supplied  one  delegate  to  another  State.  Pennsylvania  had 
eight  of  native  birth,  and  two  born  outside  her  borders,  while  she  furnished  three  delegates  to 
her  sister  states.  Four  of  the  New  Jersey  delegation  were  born  at  home,  and  the  remaining 
three  elsewhere.  Connecticut  had  six  representatives  she  could  claim  as  her  own,  and  owed 
the  seventh  to  Massachusetts.  Massachusetts'  ten  members  were  all  state-born  but  one,  and 
five  of  the  delegates  from  other  states  were  born  on  her  soil.  The  majority  of  the  South  Caro- 
lina delegation  was  taken  from  outside  of  her  limits,  but  three  out  of  her  seven  being  native 
to  her  soil.  Two  of  Maryland's  eight  were  from  other  states,  but  she  supplied  four  delegates 
to  them.  Only  two  of  New  Hampshire's  six  delegates  were  natives.  From  Virginia  came  a 
solid  delegation  born  within  her  borders,  and  four  delegates  from  other  states  could  make  the 
same  claim.  New  York's  delegation  was  evenly  divided,  four  being  of  native  birth  and  four 
from  other  states  and  countries.  Five  of  the  North  Carolina  delegates  were  born  on  her 
soil ;  two  elsewhere.  Rhode  Island's  delegation  of  three  was  entirely  of  native  origin.  Thus 
Virginia  had  nineteen  native-born  men  among  the  delegates,  Massachusetts  fourteen,  Penn- 
sylvania eleven,  Maryland  nine,  Connecticut  eight,  and  Rhode  Island  three,  all  the  remaining 
having  less  number  than  their  own  delegation  in  Congress  of  men  born  within  their  respective 


JAMES  MADISON  of  Virginia. 

Artist.  Chester  Harding.  Owned  by  the  Washington 
and  Lee  University.  Lexington,  Va. 


JAMES  MADISON  of  Virginia. 
Artist,  Thomas  Sully.  1S08.  Ownhd  by  the  Corcoran 
Gallery  OF  Art.  Washington.  D.  C. 


JAMES  MADISON  of  Virginia. 
Artist,  Gilbert  Stuart.      Owned  by  Edward  Coles, 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 


JAMES  MADISON  of  Virginia. 
From  miniature  owned  nv  Mrs.  John  Kunkel,  (bom 
MaryCarvello  Causten),  Washington.  D.  C. 


ELIAS  BOUOINOT  of  New  Jersey. 
Artist,  C.W.  Pkai.e.  Owned  by  the  City  of  Philadelphia 

\ND  DEPOSITED  IN  INDEPENDENCE  HALL  (OLD  STATE  HoL'SE.) 


ELIAS  BOUDINOT  of.  New  Jersey. 

FKOM  MINIATURE  OWNED  BY  MlSS  J.  J.  BoUDINOT,  GRAND 

Niece,  Bernardsvillf,  N.  J. 


MRS.  JAMES  MADISON,  iDorn  Dorothy  Payne.) 

Prom  miniature  owned  by  Mrs.  John  Kunkel.  (born 
Mary  Caivello  Causten),  Gkand  Niece,  WASHINGTON,  D.  C. 


CHARLES  CARROLL  of  Maryland.  JAMES  MADISON  of  Virginia.  JAMES  MONROE  of  Virginia. 

"  1  Rembrandt  PeALE,  Own  id  by  the  Boston  Museum.    From  crayon  drawing  by  T.  C.  Liebbers.  Owned  nv  Mrs     Artist.  Samuel  F.  B.  Morse.  1818.  Owned  by  the  City  or 

James  D.  McGuire,  Grand  Niece.  Ellicott  City,  Mo.  Charleston.  S.  C.  and  deposited  in  the  City  Hall. 


Portraits  of  members  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution. 

and  portrait  of  Mrs.  James  Madison. 


MEMBERS  OF  THE  FIRST  CONGRESS. 


63 


states.    Of  the  men  elected  from  states  other  than  their  native  one,  seven  came  from  New 
England,  seven  from  the  Middle  states,  and  four  from  the  Southern.    Every  New  England 
delegate  was  born  in  that   region,  while 
seven  delegates  of  the  Middle  states,  and 
the  same  number  from  the  Southern  states, 
were  born  outside  of  those  divisions.1 

DELAWARE. 

Bassett,  Richard,  son  of  Michael  Bas- 
sett,  was  born  in  Delaware  in  September, 
1735.  He  was  educated  to  the  bar,  and 
served  as  a  captain  in  the  Revolution.  In 
1786  he  was  a  delegate  to  the  Annapolis 
Convention,  and  a  year  later  to  the  Fed- 
eral Convention.  He  was  elected  Senator 
to  the  First  Congress,  but  resigned  in 
March,  1793,  before  completing  his  term, 
to  take  the  chief-justiceship  of  the  Court 
of  Common  Pleas  of  Delaware.  In  1797 
he  was  presidential  elector,  and  from  1  798 
to  1 80 1  was  Governor  of  Delaware.  Pres- 
ident Adams  appointed  him  a  Judge  of 
the  United  States  Circuit  Court  in  1801, 
but  the  repeal  of  the  judiciary  act  in  1802 
ended  the  office.  For  many  years  he 
was  United  States  Attorney  for  Delaware, 

but  resigned  it  during  Monroe's  presidency.    He  died  in  Delaware,  September 


TOBIAS  LEAR, 

PRIVATE  SECRETARY  TO  WASHINGTON. 

(From  an  original  miniature  belonging  to  Mrs.  Susan  Eyre  Lear, 
granddaughter,  Philadelphia.) 
(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  141.) 


15.  I8l5.2 


Read,  George,  son  of  John  Read,  was  born  in  Cecil  County,  Maryland,  September  18, 
1733,  and  was  educated  at  Chester  and  New  London,  Pennsylvania.    He  was  admitted  to 


1  The  Journals  of  the  House  and  Senate  are  the  only  official  sources  of  information  concerning  the  proceedings  of  the  First 
Congress.  These  were  originally  issued  in  daily  parts,  and  were  reissued  at  the  end  of  each  session  in  folio  volumes,  which 
were  reprinted  in  octavo  in  181  5.  This  excluded  the  executive  or  secret  part  of  the  Senate,  which  was  first  printed  in  1828. 
T:  Lloyd  reported  and  printed  the  House  debates  in  his  "Congressional  Register,"  which  was  issued  in  parts,  and  from  these 
reports  the  account  in  the  "Annals  of  Congress  "  was  taken.  In  "  Fenno's  Gazette,"  however,  some  speeches  are  printed  from 
copies  evidently  supplied  by  the  members,  which  vary  from  or  are  not  included  in  Lloyd's  reports.  The  debates  in  the  Senate 
were  not  printed  at  the  time,  the  public  being  excluded  ;  and  the  first  printed  were  some  loose  notes  taken  by  John  Adams, 
which  are  printed  in  his  "Works"  (vol.  iii,  p.  407).  In  1880  a  diary  of  William  Maclay,  which  contained  many  notes  of  the 
debates,  was  misedited  and  misprinted  at  Harrisburg,  but  it  has  since  been  satisfactorily  printed  in  New  York. 

2  I  am  indebted  to  the  Hon.  Thomas  F.  Bayard,  his  great-grandson,  for  some  of  these  facts.  Fuller  details  in  Carson's 
"  History  of  the  Celebration  of  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States." 


64 


THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


the  bar  in  1753,  and  ten  years  later  was  made  Attorney-General  of  Delaware.  He  was 
elected  to  the  Continental  Congress  in  1774,  and  signed  the  Declaration  of  Independence. 
In  1777  he  was  President  of  the  Delaware  Convention,  and  was  chosen  Governor.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Annapolis  and  Federal  Conventions,  and  was  chosen  Senator  to  the 
First  Congress.    He  died  at  New  Castle,  Delaware,  September  21,  1798.1 

V 1  ning,  John  Middleton,2  son  of  John  Vining,  was  born  at  Dover,  Delaware,  December 
23,  1758.  He  studied  law  with  George  Read,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  New  Castle 
County,  February  21,  1782.  In  1784  he  was  elected  to  the  Continental  Congress,  serving 
till  1 786.  He  was  the  sole  representative  of  Delaware  to  the  First  Congress,  and  was  once 
re-elected,  being  then  chosen  to  the  United  States  Senate,  where  he  served  till  March  6,  1  798, 
when  he  resigned.    He  died  at  Dover,  in  February,  i8o2.3 

PENNSYLVANIA. 

Clymer,  George,  son  of  Christopher  Clymer,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  June  1,  1739. 
He  was  educated  at  the  College  of  Philadelphia,  and  entered  the  counting-house  of  his  uncle, 
William  Coleman.  In  1775  he  was  chosen  one  of  the  treasurers  of  the  Continental  Congress, 
and  was  a  member  of  the  Committee  of  Safety,  and  of  the  Pennsylvania  Constitutional  Con- 
vention of  1776.  He  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Continental  Congress  in  this  same  year, 
and  signed  the  Declaration  of  Independence.  He  was  also  re-elected  to  this  body  in  1778, 
1780,  and  1781.  In  1787  he  was  chosen  a  delegate  to  the  Federal  Convention,  and  was 
elected  to  the  First  Congress.    He  died  at  Morrisville,  Bucks  County,  June  24,  1813.4 

Fitzsimons,  Thomas,  was  born  in  Ireland,  October  14,  1 741 ,  and  came  to  this  country 
about  1  763,  settling  in  Philadelphia.  He  served  as  an  officer  in  some  of  the  campaigns  of 
the  Revolution,  and  also  on  the  Committee  of  Safety,  and  the  Navy  Board.  In  1782  he  was 
elected  to  the  Continental  Congress,  and  in  1787  to  the  Federal  Convention.  He  was  elected 
to  the  First  Congress,  in  which  he  continued  till  1795.    He  died  August  26,  1811.5 

Hartley,  Thomas,  son  of  George  Hartley,  was  born  in  Colebrookdale  Township,  Berks 
County,  Pennsylvania,  on  September  7,  1748.    He  was  educated  at  Reading,  and  studied 


1  See  Read's  "Life  of  George  Read,"  Philadelphia,  1870;  Sanderson's  "  Biography  of  the  Signers,"  vol.  iv,  p.  21  ;  Tilton's 
"  History  of  Dionysius,  Tyrant  of  Delaware,"  1788  ;  T.  F.  Bayard's  "  Oration  on  Caesar  Rodney." 
■  He  was  so  christened,  but  never  used  this  middle  name. 

3  Partly  from  facts  courteously  furnished  by  Mrs.  Charles  J.  Du  Pont,  of  Wilmington,  Del.  See  Vinton's  "  History  of 
Delaware." 

4  A  fuller  sketch,  written  by  B.  Wain,  is  contained  in  Sanderson's  "Biography  of  the  Signers,"  vol.  iv,  p.  173.  See  Maga- 
zine of  American  History,  vol.  v,  p.  196;  Simpson's  "Lives  of  Eminent  Philadelphians  " ;  McMaster's  and  Stone's  "Pennsyl- 
vania and  the  Federal  Constitution." 

6  A  sketch  of  him  is  given  in  the  "Records  of  American  Catholic  Historical  Society,"  vol.  ii,  p.  45.  January,  1888.  See 
Carson's  "  History  of  the  Celebration  of  the  United  States  Constitution  "  ;  "  Pennsylvania  Magazine  of  History  and  Biography  "  ; 
McMaster's  and  Stone's  "  Pennsylvania  and  the  Federal  Constitution  " ;  Simpson's  "  Lives  of  Eminent  Philadelphians." 


f 


EGBERT  BENSON  of  New  York. 
Oil  Miniature  by  John  Trumbull.   Owned  by 
Hon.  John  Jay,  "Bedford  House."  Katonah.  N.  Y. 


EGBERT  BENSON  of  New  York. 
Artist,  Gilbert  Stuart.    0\yned  by  Lon(;  Island 
Historical  Society. 


ELIAS  BOUDINOT  of  New  Jersey. 
Artists.  Waldo  and  Tewett,   Owned  by  HEIRS  in 
New  York  of  Grand  Nifcf.  Mrs.  Ormes  R.  Keii  h 
(born  Julia  Boudinot.) 


JAMES  MONROE  of  Virginia, 

Artist,  Thomas  Sully,  1829.  Owned  by  Mrs.  John 
S.  Richardson  Jr.  (born  Elizabeth  Kortright 
Hardesty).  Great  Great  Granddaughter, 
Bel  Air,  Md. 


JOHN  LAURANCE  of  New  York. 
From  a  panel  portrait  owned  by  George  C.  Mc  Whortek, 
Grandson.  Oswego.  N.  Y. 


RICHARD  HENRY  LEE  of  Virginia. 
From  a  Portrait  owned  by  Cassius  F.  Leb  Jr., 
Great  Grandson,  Alexandria,  Va. 


SAMUEL  LIVERMORE  of  New  Hampshire. 

On.  Miniature  by  J.  Trumbull,  1791.  Owned  B\ 
Yale  University. 


FISHER  AMES  of  Massachusetts. 
Artist,  Gilbert  Stuart.  Owned  by  Harvard  University 


SAMUEL  LIVERMORE  of  New  Hampshire. 
ARTIST,  James  SharplbSS.    Owned  by  THK  City  ok 
PHILADELPHIA  and  deposited  in  National  Museum 
(Old  State  House.) 


Portraits  of  Members  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution. 


MEMBERS  OF  THE  FIRST  CONGRESS. 


65 


law  at  York,  being  admitted  to  the  bar  July  25,  1769.  In  1774 --'75  he  was  Vice-President 
of  the  Revolutionary  "  Committee  of  Observation "  for  York  County,  and  in  the  same 
years  was  a  delegate  to  the  "  Provincial  Conference "  and  the  Provincial  Convention  of 
Pennsylvania,  as  well  as  an  officer  in  a  regiment  of  "  Associators."    In  January,  1776,  he 


GEORGE  WASHINGTON.  MARTHA  WASHINGTON. 

(From  miniatures  by  Archibald  Robertson,  I7gl-'g2  ;  owned  by  granddaughters  of  the  artist,  Mrs.  S.  M.  Mygatt,  Brooklyn, 

and  Mrs.  C.  W.  Darling,  Utica,  New  York.) 
(Loan  Exhibition,  Nos.  23  and  51.) 

was  appointed  lieutenant-colonel  in  the  Pennsylvania  line,  being  later  made  colonel ;  re- 
signed in  January,  1779,  having  been  chosen  to  the  General  Assembly;  was  a  member 
of  the  Council  of  Censors,  1  783-84,  of  the  Pennsylvania  Convention  to  ratify  the  United 
States  Constitution  ;  and  was  elected  to  the  First  Congress,  in  which  he  continued  till  his 
death,  December  21,  1800. 1 

Hiester,  Daniel,  son  of  John  Daniel  Hiester,  was  born  in  Berks  County,  Pennsyl- 
vania, on  June  25,  1747.  He  served  as  colonel  and  brigadier-general  in  the  militia  during 
the  Revolutionary  War,  till  he  was  chosen  to  the  Supreme  Executive  Council  of  Penn- 
sylvania. In  1784  he  was  elected  one  of  the  commissioners  of  that  State  for  settling  the 
disputes  with  the  Connecticut  claimants.  He  was  elected  by  Pennsylvania  to  the  First 
Congress,  and  was  re-elected  to  the  three  successive  ones,  when  he  resigned  and  removed 
to  Hagerstown,  Maryland,  by  which  State  he  was  elected  to  the  Seventh  and  Eighth  Con- 
gresses, serving  till  his  death  at  Washington,  March  7,  1804. 2 

Maclav,  William,  son  of  Charles  Maclay,  was  born  in  New  Garden  Township,  Ches- 
ter County,  Pennsylvania,  July  20,  1737.    He  studied  at  Rev.  John  Blair's  Classical  School, 


1  Fuller  details  in  Gibson's  "  History  of  York  County  "  and  McMaster's  and  Stone's  "  Pennsylvania  and  the  Federal  Con 
vention." 

'  I  am  indebted  for  some  of  these  facts  to  the  courtesy  of  Mr.  Samuel  P.  Hiester,  of  Philadelphia.    Cf.  McMaster's  and 

Stone's  "  Pennsylvania  and  the  Federal  Constitution." 
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66         77//:'  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


and  in  1760  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  but  followed  the  profession  of  surveying.  He 
served  in  the  French  and  Indian  War,  and  in  1781  was  elected  to  the  Pennsylvania 
Assembly.  In  [788  he  was  chosen  Senator  to  the  First  Congress,  as  a  concession  to  the 
"  country  interest,"  and  to  him  we  are  indebted  for  the  only  report  we  have  of  that  body's 
debates.  He  was  elected  to  the  State  House  of  Representatives  in  1795,  and  again  in  1803; 
and  in  1796  and  1800  was  presidential  elector.     He  died  at  Harrisburg,  April  16,  1804.1 

Morris,  Robert,  natural  son  of  Robert  Morris,  was  born  in  Liverpool,  January  31, 
1734.  Early  in  life  he  came  with  his  father  to  Oxford  County,  Maryland,  and  then  en- 
tered the  counting-house  of  Charles  Willing,  in  Philadelphia,  in  which  he  became  a  part- 
ner. Fie  opposed  the  Stamp  Act,  and  was  one  of  the  Committee  of  Safety  in  1775.  He 
was  elected  to  the  Continental  Congress,  in  which  he  opposed,  but  signed,  the  Declaration 
of  Independence.  In  1780  he  organized  the  Bank  of  Philadelphia  to  supply  the  army,  and 
in  the  next  year  was  made  Superintendent  of  Finances,  but  resigned  in  three  years.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Federal  Convention,  and  was  chosen  Senator  to  the  First  Congress. 
By  over-speculation  in  unimproved  lands  he  lost  his  fortune,  and  was  imprisoned  for  debt. 
He  died  May  7,  1806. 2 

Muhlenberg,  Frederick  Augustus,  son  of  Rev.  Henry  Melchior  Muhlenberg,  was 
born  at  Trappe,  Montgomery  County,  Pennsylvania,  January  1,  1750.  He  was  educated 
at  the  University  of  Halle  in  Germany,  and  ordained  after  his  return.  From  1773  till 
1779  he  filled  various  pulpits,  but,  on  his  election  to  the  General  Assembly  in  1779,  he 
laid  aside  his  gown.  He  was  Speaker  of  that  body  in  178 1,  a  member  of  the  Council  of 
Censors,  Justice  and  Register  of  his  native  county,  President  of  the  Pennsylvania  Con- 
vention to  adopt  the  Constitution,  and  was  elected  to  the  First  Congress,  in  which  he  was 
chosen  Speaker;  and  was  also  a  member  of  the  three  succeeding  ones.  He  died  at  Lan- 
caster, January  8,  1800. 3 

Muhlenberg,  John  Peter  Gabriel,  son  of  Rev.  Henry  Melchior  Muhlenberg,  was 
born  in  Trappe,  Montgomery  County,  Pennsylvania,  October  1,  1746;  educated  at  Halle 
University,  Germany,  and  was  pastor  of  Lutheran  Churches  in  New  Germantown  (Penn- 
sylvania), Bedminster  (New  Jersey),  and  Woodstock  (Virginia).    Ordained  to  the  Episco- 


1  Fuller  details  are  given  in  Maclay's  "Sketches  of  the  Debates  in  the  First  Senate,"  Harrisburg,  1880;  Maclay's  "  Maclays 
of  Lurgan,"  Brooklyn,  1889;  and  "Journal  of  William  Maclay,"  New  York,  1 891. 

5  See  "  Life  of  Robert  Morris,"  Philadelphia,  1841  ;  Duyckinck's  "  National  Portrait  Gallery";  Sanderson's  "  Biography  of 
the  Signers  "  ;  Delaplaine's  "  Repository  "  ;  "  Pennsylvania  Magazine  of  History  and  Biography,"  vol.  i,  p.  333  ;  Boogher's  "  Re- 
pository "  ;  Herring's  "  National  Portrait  Gallery'';  Sumner's  (forthcoming)  "  Life  of  Robert  Morris  "  ;  McMaster's  and  Stone's 
"  Pennsylvania  and  the  Federal  Constitution." 

3  See  "  Proceedings  of  the  House  of  Representatives  on  Occasion  of  the  Presentation  of  the  Portrait  of  F.  A.  Muhlenberg," 
Washington,  1881  ;  McMaster's  and  Stone's  "  Pennsylvania  and  the  Federal  Constitution  "  ;  Harris's  "  Biographical  History  of 
Lancaster  County,  Pennsylvania,"  p.  402. 


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pal  Church  in  1774.  Appointed  colonel  in  1775,  and  served  through  the  Revolutionary 
War,  being  made  a  major-general.  Filled  various  public  offices  in  Pennsylvania,  1784-88, 
and  was  elected  to  the  First  Congress,  being  re-elected  to  the  two  succeeding  ones,  as  well 
as  to  a  senatorship  in  1801.  In  1802  he  was  appointed  collector  of  the  port  of  Philadelphia. 
Died  near  Philadelphia,  October  1,  1807.' 

Scott,  Thomas,  son  of  Alexander  Scott,  was  born,  February  28,  1739,  in  Donegal  Town- 
ship, Lancaster  County,  Pennsylvania,  removing  in  1770  to  Dunlap's  Creek  in  the  western 
part  of  the  State.  Was  a  justice  in  1774,  and  in  1776  was  elected  to  the  General  Assembly. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Council  of  Safety  in  1777,  and  in  the  same  year  was  elected  to  the 
Supreme  Executive  Council,  serving  three  years  ;  was  a  delegate  to  the  Pennsylvania  Con- 
vention to  consider  the  United  States  Constitution,  in  which  he  voted  to  ratify  ;  and  was 
elected  to  the  First  Congress.  He  declined  to  be  a  candidate  for  re-election,  but  was  re- 
chosen  soon  after.    He  died  March  2,  1796.* 

Wvnkoop,  Henry,  son  of  Nicholas  Wynkoop,  was  born  in  Northampton  Township, 
Bucks  County,  Pennsylvania,  March  2  (old  style),  1737.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Bucks 
County  Committee  of  Observation  in  1774,  a  member  of  the  Provincial  Conferences  in 
1774  and  1775,  and  one  of  the  General  Committee  of  Safety  during  1776-77.  He  also 
served  as  an  officer  in  the  Associators,  and  was  a  commissioner  for  settling  accounts  in  1778. 
In  1779  he  was  elected  to  the  Continental  Congress,  in  which  he  continued  three  years.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Pennsylvania  Convention  to  consider  the  United  States  Constitution  ; 
and  was  elected  to  the  First  Congress.  He  was  also  Associate  Judge  of  Bucks  County.  He 
died  March  25,  18 16. 3 

NEW  JERSEY. 

Boudinot,  Elias,  son  of  Elias  Boudinot,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  May  2,  1740.  He 
graduated  from  New  Jersey  College  and  studied  law.  From  1776-79  he  was  commissary- 
general  of  prisoners,  and  in  1777  was  elected  a  delegate  to  the  Continental  Congress,  being 
made  president  of  that  body  in  1782.  He  was  elected  to  the  First  Congress,  in  which  he  con- 
tinued till  1795,  when  he  was  made  Director  of  the  Mint.  He  died  at  Burlington,  New 
Jersey,  October  21,  182 1. 4 

Cadwalader,  Lambert,  son  of  Thomas  Cadawalader,  was  born  in  Trenton,  New 
Jersey,  in  1742,  and  received  a  classical  education  in  Philadelphia.    He  was  a  member  of 


1  Full  details  given  in  Muhlenberg's  "Life  of  Peter  Muhlenberg,"  Philadelphia,  1849. 
'  See  McMaster's  and  Stone's  "  Pennsylvania  and  the  Federal  Constitution." 

3  Partly  from  facts  courteously  furnished  by  Mr.  Richard  Wynkoop,  of  Brooklyn.  See  McMaster's  and  Stone's  "Pennsyl- 
vania and  the  Federal  Convention."    In  this  the  date  of  his  death  is  given  October  24,  1814. 

*  Fuller  details  in  Hatfield's  "  History  of  Elizabeth,  New  Jersey,"  New  York,  1868,  p.  588;  Elmer's  "Constitution  and 
Government  of  New  Jersey";  Sabin's  "Dictionary  of  Books  relating  to  America." 


WILLIAM  MACLAY. 

Prom  a  Miniature  owned  by  Miss  Julia  Anna 

■WoniiHl'I.I.    DfWj  I  I  ,   (iu-FAT    (iliAN  IIDAI  (.H  I  KK, 

Carlisle,  Pa, 


^4 


ROBERT  MORRIS. 

On  Mimatcke  hy  John  Trumbull,  1790.  Owned  h\ 
.Mies.  Sisw  M.  Amim.kk.  Granddaughter,  Hume, 

F  U'l.U  IKK  Co.,  Va. 

(  Loan  Exhibition,  No.  167.)  


daniel  hiester 

From  a  portrait  owned  bv  Mrs,  Annk  Mi 
Clymsr  Ml  Kim.  Birdsboro,  Pa. 


ROBERT  MORRIS 

Miniature  b^  C  W.  Pbale.  Owned  bi 
I)k\  Heuvbl,  Great  Grandson,  New  V 


I.  C.  Van 


ROBERT  MORRIS 
Artist,  R.  K.  Pine,  1785.    Owned  hi  Gouverneur 

MoK-KIS.  YoNKKKS,  N.  Y. 

lLoan  Exhibition   No.  166. 1 


HENRY  WYNKOOP. 
Artist,  Rembrandt  Pkai.e,  1815.  Owned  by  Mrs.  Isabei.i 

M.  BaU.EY.  (il;\MHi  \ I  I  in  I  EK.  TrENTON,  N.  J. 

1  Loan  Exhibition   No.  210.) 


ROBERT  MORRIS. 

Ah  1  ist.  GILBERT  Stuart.  1795.  Owned  by  C.  F.  M.Stark. 
Great  Grandson,  Winchester,  Mass. 


ROBERT  MORRIS. 

Artist,  C.  W.  Pkai.e,  1705.  Owned  bv  Pennsylvania 
Academy  oe  i  nk  Pine  Arts,  Pnn.ADKi.niiA.  Pa. 


PORTRAITS  OF  ROBERT  MORRIS  AM)  WILLIAM  MACLAY,  SENATORS;  AND  DANIEL  HIESTER  AND  HENRY  WYNKOOP,  REPRESENTATIVES 

FROM  PENNSYLVANIA  IN  THE  EIRST  CONGRESS  UNDER  THE  CONSTITUTION. 


MEMBERS  OF  THE  FIRST  CONGRESS. 


69 


the  Pennsylvania  Conventions  of  1774  and  1775,  and  in  the  latter  year  was  chosen  cap- 
tain in  the  Associators.  He  served  with  distinction  in  the  Revolution,  and  was  for  some 
time  a  prisoner.  In  1784  he  was  elected 
to  the  Continental  Congress  from  New 
Jersey,  being  twice  re-elected,  and  was 
chosen  to  the  First  and  Third  Congresses. 
He  died  at  "  Greenwood,"  near  Trenton, 
New  Jersey,  September  13,  1823. 1 

Dickinson,  Philemon,  son  of  Samuel 
D.  Dickinson,  was  born  at  "  Crosiadore," 
Talbot  County,  Maryland,  April  5,  1739, 
and  after  graduating  from  the  College  of 
Philadelphia,  in  1757,  tended  his  estate  of 
"  Belleville,"  near  Trenton,  New  Jersey. 
He  was  colonel  of  a  battalion  of  militia 
in  1775,  and  was  made  brigadier-general 
in  the  same  year,  and  major-general  in 
1777.  In  1776  he  was  a  delegate  to  the 
Provincial  Congress,  and  in  1782-83  rep- 
resented Delaware  in  the  Continental  Con- 
gress. In  1783  he  was  Vice-President  of 
the  New  Jersey  Council,  and  on  the  res- 
ignation of  Paterson,  he  was  chosen  in 
1790  United  States  Senator  to  the  First 
Congress.  He  died  at  the  Hermitage, 
near  Trenton,  February  4,  1809.2 


GOLD  WATCH  OF  BARON  STEUBEN. 
Owned  by  Mrs.  F.  B.  Austin,  New  York. 
(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  653.) 


Elmer,  Jonathan,  son  of  Daniel  El- 
mer, was  born  in  Fairfield,  Cumberland 
County,  New  Jersey,  November  25,  1745. 
He  was  one  of  the  first  graduates  in  medicine  from  the  College  of  Philadelphia,  which 
he  practiced  till  the  breaking  out  of  the  Revolutionary  War.  He  was  on  the  Commit- 
tee of  Vigilance  from  its  organization,  and  in  1776  was  elected  to  the  Provincial  Con- 
gress. He  was  a  member  of  the  Continental  Congress  during  1776-78,  1781-84,  and 
1787-88;  and  was  medical  inspector  of  the  army,  as  well  as  filling  many  State  offices. 


1  Further  facts  are  contained  in  the  "  Pennsylvania  Magazine  of  History  and  Biography,"  vol.  x,  p.  I. 
3  Partly  from  facts  courteously  furnished  by  Mr.  S.  Meredith  Dickinson,  of  Trenton,  N.  J.    Fuller  details  in  "  Magazine 
of  American  History,"  vol.  vii,  p.  419;  Elmer's  "Constitution  and  Government  of  New  Jersey." 


THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


In  1789  he  was  chosen  Senator  in  the  First  Congress,  serving  till  1791,  when  he  resigned. 
He  died  in  Burlington,  New  Jersey,  September  3,  181 7. 

Paterson,  William,  son  of  Richard  Paterson,  was  born  in  Ireland  (Drake  says  "at  sea") 
in  1  745,  and  came  with  his  parents  to  this  country  two  years  later,  settling  in  New  Jersey. 
He  graduated  from  Princeton  in  1763,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1 769.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  State  Convention  of  1776,  and  Attorney-General  from  that  year  till  1786.  In 
1787  he  was  a  delegate  to  the  Federal  Convention,  in  which  he  took  a  leading  part.  He 
was  elected  Senator  to  the  First  Congress,  but  resigned  in  1 790,  before  completing  his  term, 
in  order  to  accept  the  governorship.  In  1794  he  was  made  a  Judge  of  the  United  States 
Supreme  Court,  which  he  held  till  his  death,  at  Albany,  New  York,  September  9,  1806.1 

Schureman,  James,  son  of  John  Schureman,  was  born  at  New  Brunswick,  New  Jersey, 
February  12,  1756.  He  graduated  from  Queen's  College  in  1775,  and  served  during  the 
Revolutionary  War  as  an  officer  of  the  militia.  In  1786  he  was  elected  to  the  Provincial 
Council  of  New  Jersey,  and  to  the  Annapolis  Convention,  and  from  1786-88  was  a  delegate 
from  that  State  in  the  Continental  Congress.  He  was  elected  to  the  First  Congress,  and 
again  to  the  Fifth,  when  he  was  chosen  to  the  Senate,  but  resigned  after  two  years,  in 
1801.  Subsequently  he  was  Mayor  of  New  Brunswick,  and  again  in  Congress,  1 813— '15. 
He  died  January  22,  1824. 2 

Sinnickson,  Thomas,  son  of  Andrew  Sinnickson  (third),  was  born  in  Salem  County, 
New  Jersey,  December  21,  1745.  He  graduated  from  college,  and  became  a  merchant.  For 
many  years  he  was  a  member  of  the  Provincial  Council,  and  later  of  the  Provincial  Congress ; 
and  for  a  short  time  captain  in  the  State  troops  during  the  Revolution,  but  soon  was  made 
naval  officer  for  the  western  district  of  the  State.  For  many  years  he  was  a  Judge  of  the 
Court  of  Common  Pleas.  In  1789  he  was  chosen  to  the  First  Congress,  and  again  elected 
in  1796,  serving  till  1799.    He  died  at  Salem,  May  19,  1817.3 

GEORGIA. 

Baldwin,  Abraham,  son  of  Michael  Baldwin,  was  born  in  North  Guilford,  Connecticut, 
November  22,  1754.  He  graduated  from  Yale  College  in  1772,  and  became  a  tutor  in  it 
three  years  later.  He  served  for  a  short  time  during  the  Revolution  as  chaplain,  and  sub- 
sequently opened  a  school.    In  1784  he  emigrated  to  Georgia,  and  practiced  law.    He  served 


'Fuller  details  given  in  Elmer's  "Constitution  and  Government  of  New  Jersey,"  Newark,  1872,  p.  76;  J.  Clarke's 
"Funeral  Sermon,"  New  Brunswick,  1806;  "Pennsylvania  Magazine  of  History  and  Biography";  Barber's  and  Howe's  "His- 
torical Collections  of  New  Jersey  "  ;  Miller's  "  Supreme  Court "  ;  Bancroft's  "  History  of  the  Constitution." 

2  Partly  from  information  courteously  furnished  by  Mr.  Richard  Wynkoop,  of  Brooklyn.  Fuller  details  are  given  in  Wyn- 
koop's  "Schureman  Genealogy." 

3  Fuller  details  are  given  in  Shoud's  "History  and  Genealogy  of  Fenwick's  Colony,"  p.  191. 


PETER  MUHLENBERG 

Artist.  C.  W.  Peale.  Owned  rv  Cin  OF  PHILA- 
DELPHIA AND  DEPOSITED  IN  IndSPBNDBNCB  H  m  i  . 
(Old  Statu  House  I. 


PETER  MUHLENBERG. 

Ku".M  A  PORTRAIT  OWNED   BY  Mks.  MARY   Ann  CiiIsolm, 

Great  Ghandnibcb,  College  Point.  Long  Island,  K.  V. 


PETER  MUHLENBERG 

Miniature  owned  rv  Isaac  Hibster,  Ghea  i 
Grandson,  Reading,  Pa. 


peter  muhlenberg. 

In  Painting  :  "  Surrender  of  Corn- 
wai.i.is"  by  J.  Trumbull,  Ownbi 

u\  V  ale  University. 


GEORGE  CLYMER 

In  Painting  :  "  Declaration  of  Independence1 
by  J.  Trumbull,    Owned  n\  Yale  University. 


FREDERICK  A.  MUHLENBERG 
\i      i   J OSBPH  Wright.  1790,    Owned  by  Mrs.  Edward 
Tullidge,  Great  Granddaughter.  Philadelphia,  Pa. 


GEORGE  CLYMER 

Artist,  C  W.  Pbalb.  Owned  by  Mrs.  Ge< 
of  Grandson,  Washington,  D.  C. 

(Loan  Exhibition,  No  82  l 


Cl.YMBR,  WIDOW 


The  Pennsylvania  Delegation  in  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution. 


MEMBERS  OE  THE  FIRST  CONGRESS. 


7i 


in  the  State  Legislature  and  in  the  Continental  Congress,  and  was  a  delegate  to  the  Federal 
Convention.  In  1789  he  was  chosen  to  the  First  Congress,  and  re-elected  till  1799,  when 
he  was  elected  to  the  Senate,  holding  this  office  till  his  death,  March  4,  1807. 1 

Few,  William,  was  born  in  Baltimore  County,  Maryland,  June  8,  1748.  Ten  years  later 
he  went  with  his  parents  to  North  Carolina,  and  aided  his  father  on  his  farm  In  1776 
he  went  to  Georgia,  and  was  soon  chosen  to  the  Executive  Council.  He  served  during 
the  Revolutionary  War  as  an  officer,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Legislature  from  1778  to 
1780.  He  was  elected  to  the  Continental  Congress  in  the  latter  year,  and  again  in  1786; 
and  was  a  delegate  to  the  Federal  Convention.  He  was  chosen  to  the  First  Congress, 
and  continued  till  1793.  In  1799  he  removed  to  New  York  city,  and  served  in  the  Legis- 
lature, 1801-4.    He  died  at  Fishkill,  July  16,  1828. 2 

Guxx,  James,  was  born  in  Virginia,  in  1 739,  and  received  a  common-school  educa- 
tion. He  studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Georgia,  whither  he  removed.  He 
served  as  an  officer  during  the  Revolution,  and  in  1 786  was  a  colonel  in  the  expedition 
against  the  Indians,  rising  eventually  to  the  rank  of  general  of  the  militia.  In  1789  he 
was  elected  United  States  Senator,  and 
was  re-elected  in  1  795  for  a  second  term. 
He  was  concerned  in  the  Yazoo  specu- 
lations, and  used  his  office  to  promote 
the  advantage  of  that  disgraceful  trans- 
action. He  died  at  Louisville,  Georgia, 
July  30,  1 801. 3 

Jackson,  James,  son  of  James  Jack- 
son, was  born  in  Devonshire,  England, 
September  21,  1757.  In  1772  he  came 
to  Savannah,  Georgia,  and  studied  law, 
but  served  as  an  officer  durinp-  the  Rev- 

O 

olution,  becoming  a  colonel,  and  after  the 
peace  successively  a  brigadier  and  major- 
general  of  the  militia.     In  1788  he  was  elected   Governor  of  Georgia,  but,  declining  to 
serve,  was  chosen  to  the  First  Congress.     From  1 793-95  he  was  Senator,  and  from  1  798- 


GOLD  SXUFF-BOX, 
Presented  by  the  City  of  XTew  York  "  with  the  freedom  of  the  city," 
to  Baron  Steuben, 
and  by  him  given  to  his  aide-de-cam p ,  Major  William  Xorth, 
whose  great-granddaughter,  Mrs.  F.  B.  Austin,  now  owns  the  same. 
(Loan  Exhibition,  Xo.  652  ) 


1  There  is  a  sketch  of  him  in  Herring's  "  National  Portrait  Gallery,"  vol.  iv ;  cf.  Carson's  "  History  of  the  Celebration  of 
the  United  States  Constitution." 

3  His  autobiography  is  printed  in  the  "  Magazine  of  American  History."  vol.  vii.  p.  340;  cf.  vol.  vii,  p.  343;  and  White's 
"  Historical  Collections  of  Georgia." 

3  Partly  from  a  sketch  courteously  furnished  by  Colonel  Charles  C.  Jones,  Jr.,  of  Augusta.  Georgia  ;  cf.  White's  "  Historical 
Collections  of  Georgia  "  ;  Stevens's  "  History  of  Georgia." 


7  2 


THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


i8oi  he  was  Governor.  He  took  a  leading  part  in  framing  the  Constitution  of  Georgia 
in  1798.    lie  died  at  Washington,  March  19,  1806. 1 

Mathews,  George,  was  born  in  Augusta  County,  Virginia,  in  1739,  and  early  distin- 
guished himself  in  Indian  warfare.  He  served  as  a  colonel  during  the  Revolution,  and 
was  for  some  time  a  prisoner  in  the  prison-ship  in  New  York.  In  1785  he  removed  to 
Georgia,  and  was  chosen  Governor  in  1786,  and  again  in  1793.  He  was  elected  to  the  First 
Congress,  and  was  later  a  brigadier-general  of  the  militia,  and  as  such,  in  181 1,  was  author- 
ized by  the  President  to  take  possession  of  West  Florida.  He  died  at  Augusta,  Georgia, 
August  30,  1812.2 

CONNECTICUT. 

Ellsworth,  Oliver,  son  of  David  Ellsworth,  was  born  in  Windsor,  Connecticut,  April 
29,  1 745,  graduated  from  Princeton  College  in  1 766,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1771, 
practicing  at  Hartford.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Assembly  for  several  years  during  the 
Revolution,  and  was  elected  to  the  Continental  Congress  in  1777.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Council  in  1780,  and  four  years  later  was  made  Judge  of  the  Superior  Court.  In  1787  he 
was  a  delegate  to  the  Federal  Convention,  and  was  Senator  in  the  First  Congress  from  1 789 
to  1795.  In  1796  he  was  made  Chief-Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court,  and  in  1799  was  one 
of  the  three  envoys  to  France.    He  died  November  26,  i8o7.:! 

Huntington,  Benjamin,  son  of  Daniel  Huntington,  was  born  in  Norwich,  Connecticut, 
April  19,  1736,  and  graduated  at  Yale  College  in  1761.  He  studied  law  and  practiced  it 
for  some  years  in  his  native  town.  In  1775  he  was  on  the  Committee  of  Safety,  and  in 
1 778  was  a  delegate  to  the  New  Haven  Convention.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Continental 
Congress  from  1780  to  1784,  and  again  in  1787-88.  From  1781  to  1793  he  was  almost 
continuously  a  member  of  the  Legislature,  and  was  for  many  years  Mayor  of  Norwich.  In 
1789  he  was  elected  to  the  First  Congress.    He  died  at  Norwich,  August  9,  1801.4 

Johnson,  William  Samuel,  son  of  Samuel  Johnson,  was  born  at  Stratford,  Connecticut, 
October  27,  1727.  In  1744  he  graduated  from  Yale  College,  studied  law,  and  was  called  to 
the  bar.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Stamp- Act  Congress  in  1  765,  and  from  1766  to  1771 
was  Colony  Agent  in  England.  From  1772  to  1774  he  was  Judge  of  the  Supreme  Court 
of  Connecticut,  and  from   1784  to  1787  he  was  a  delegate  in  the  Continental  Congress. 


1  A  satirical  reply  to  a  speech  of  his  on  the  slavery  question  is  printed  in  Bigelow's  "Writings  of  Franklin,"  vol.  x.  A  sketch 
of  him  is  contained  in  Herring's  "  National  Portrait  Gallery,"  vol.  iii. 

1  See  White's  "Historical  Collections  of  Georgia";  Adams's  "History  of  the  United  States,"  vol.  vi. 

3  Fuller  details  are  given  in  Flander's  "Lives  of  the  Chief-Justices,"  Philadelphia,  1855;  Analytical  Magazine,  vol.  iii, 
p.  382;  Uuyckinck's  "National  Portrait  Gallery";  Miller's  "Supreme  Court";  Rowland's  "  Eulogy  on  Ellsworth,"  Hartford, 
1808;  Herring's  "National  Portrait  Gallery,"  vol.  iv ;  The  Portfolio,  vol.  xxxiv,  p.  185;  Chicago  Law  Review,  vol.  ii,  p.  109. 
4  Fuller  details  in  Huntington's  "Genealogical  Memoir  of  the  Huntington  Family,"  Stamford,  1863,  p.  88. 


JAMES  SCHURERMAN 

mOM  A  PORTRAIT  PAINTED  IN  1806.     OWNKI.  11%  RlCHARO 

WvKKnor,  Grandson.  Brooklyn  N.  V. 

I  Loan  Exhibition.  No  187  i 


PHILEMON  DICKINSON 
Is  painting  :  "  Capti'kk  of  the  Hessians"  b 
J.  Trumbvll.  Owned  m  Yale  University. 


ELIAS  BOUDINOT. 

Fkum  Steel  Engraving  by  St.  Mkmin.  171*8.  Owned 

BV  CORCORAN  GALLERY  IIP  ART,    WaSMI.nc.Tii>.    D.  C. 


LAMBERT  CADWALADER. 
Arii-t.  Gilbert  Swart.  Owneu  bv  John  L.  Cahwu- 
\mi-k.  Grandson.  New  York. 

(Loan  Exhibition.  No.  75.1 


WILLIAM  PATERSON 

From  a  portrait. owned  ba  Mrs  J.  Lawrence  B  .■ 

Granddaughter,  Perth  Ambov.  N.  J. 

1  Loan  Exhibition   No  176.1 


ELIAS  BOUDINOT 

Artist.  C.  W.  Peale.  Owneo  bi  Miss  J. 
dinot.  Gramimece.  BeRNAEDSVILLE.  N.  J. 
(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  68.) 


LAMBERT  CADWALADER. 
Artist,  C.  W.  Peale,  1770.    Owned  uy  Dr.  Charles  E.  Cadwalader, 
Great  Grandnephew,  Philadelphia. 


ELIAS  BOUDINOT. 
Artist,  Thomas  Sn.LV,  1817.   Owned  by  American  Bible  Society, 
New  York. 

(Loan  Exhibition  No.  66.) 


The  New  Jersey  Delegation  in  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution. 


MEMBERS  OE  THE  FIRST  CONGRESS.  73 

He  was  also  a  delegate  to  the  Federal  Convention,  and  was  ehosen  Senator  to  the  First 
Congress.  From  178910  1800  he  was  President  of  Columbia  College.  He  died  November 
14,  1 8 1 9. 1 

Sherman,  Roger,  son  of  William  Sherman,  was  born  at  Newton,  Massachusetts,  April  19, 
1 72 1,  and  was  by  trade  a  shoemaker.    When  twenty-three  years  old  he  removed  to  New 
Milford,  Connecticut,  where  he  kept  a  store.    He  studied  both  surveying  and  law,  and  prac- 
ticed both  professions.    He  was  several 
times  elected  to  the  Assembly,  and  in 
1759  was  made  Judge  of  the  Court  of 
Common  Pleas.    He  removed  to  New 
Haven  in  1761,  and  in  1774  was  chosen 
member  of  the  Continental  Congress,  to 
which  he  was  several  times  rechosen. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Federal  Con- 
vention, and  was  elected  to  the  First 
Congress.     He  died  at   New  Haven, 
Connecticut,  July  23,  1793. 3 

Sturges,  Jonathan,  son  of  Captain 
Samuel  Sturges,  was  born  at  Fairfield,  *?rs.  ralph  izard  (born  alice  de  lancey). 

Gold  snuff-box,  with  enamel  miniature,  made  in  Geneva  in  1774. 
Connecticut,  AugUSt  23,  I  74O,  and  grad-  Owned  by  G.  E.  Manigault,  M.  D.,  great-grandson,  Charleston,  S.  C. 

(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  118.) 

uated  from  Yale  College  in  1759,  enter- 
ing the  profession  of  the  law,  which  he  practiced  in  his  native  town.  In  1774  he  was  one  of 
the  committee  to  receive  subscriptions  for  Boston,  and  in  1775  was  elected  to  the  Continental 
Congress,  and  was  re-elected  in  1785,  1786,  1787,  and  1788.  From  1786  to  1789  he  was  also 
an  "Assistant"  to  the  General  Assembly.  In  1789  he  was  elected  to  the  First  Congress, 
and  re-elected  in  1791  ;  and  from  1793  till  1805  was  Judge  of  the  State  Supreme  Court.  He 
was  presidential  elector  in  1797  and  1805.    He  died  at  Fairfield,  October  4,  1 8 1 9. 3 

Trumbull,  Jonathan,  son  of  Jonathan  Trumbull,  was  born  at  Lebanon,  Connecticut, 
March  26,  1740,  and  graduated  from  Harvard  College  in  1759.  For  a  number  of  years  he 
pursued  a  mercantile  business,  serving  also  in  the  Assembly,  in  which  he  was  for  a  time 
Speaker.    From  1775  to  1778  he  was  Paymaster  of  the  Northern  Army,  and  in  1779  was 


1  A  full  account  of  him  is  given  in  Beardsley  s  "Life  of  W.  S.  Johnson,"  New  York,  1876. 

'Fuller  details  are  given  in  Sanderson's  "  Biography  of  the  Signers,"  vol.  iii,  p.  199.  See  Duyckinck's  "National  Por- 
trait Gallery";  "Harper's  Magazine,"  vol.  iii,  p.  156;  "Worcester  Magazine,"  vol.  i,  p.  164;  "  New-Englander,"  vol.  iv,  p.  1; 
Sabin's  "  Dictionary  of  Books  relating  to  America." 

3  Some  of  these  facts  were  courteously  furnished  by  Mr.  Rowland  B.  Lacy,  of  Bridgeport,  Conn.  See  "  History  of  Fair- 
field, Connecticut." 


THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


secretary  and  first  aide  of  Washington.  In  1789  he  was  eleeted  to  the  First  Congress,  and 
re-elected  for  a  second  term,  during  which  he  was  Speaker;  and  in  1795  was  chosen  Senator, 
but  resigned  a  year  later  to  take  the  lieutenant-governorship  of  his  State.  In  1798  he  was 
elected  Governor,  in  which  office  he  continued  till  his  death,  August  7,  1809. 1 

Wadsworth,  Jeremiah,  son  of  Rev.  Daniel  Wadsworth,  was  born  in  Hartford,  Con- 
necticut, July  21,  1743.  While  still  young  he  entered  the  business  of  his  uncle,  but,  on  his 
health  failing,  shipped  before  the  mast,  and  went  to  sea.  In  this  calling  he  eventually  became 
master,  but  quitted  it  in  1773,  and  settled  at  Hartford.  In  the  Revolutionary  War  he  was 
first  Deputy  and  finally  Commissary-General  of  the  Continental  Army.  In  1787  he  was  a 
member  of  the  Continental  Congress,  and  of  the  State  Convention  to  consider  the  United 
States  Constitution  ;  and  was  elected  to  the  First  and  two  succeeding  Congresses.  From 
1795  to  1800  he  was  on  the  State  Council.    He  died  April  30,  1804. 2 

MASSACHUSETTS. 

Ames,  Fisher,  son  of  Nathaniel  Ames,  was  born  in  Dedham,  Massachusetts,  April  9,  1758, 
and  graduated  from  Harvard  College  in  1774.  He  taught  school  till  1 781,  when  he  began 
the  practice  of  the  law.  He  was  a  member  of  the  State  Convention  to  consider  the  United 
States  Constitution,  and  served  in  the  Legislature.  In  1789  he  was  elected  to  the  First 
Congress,  and  was  re-elected  for  several  terms.    He  died  at  Dedham,  July  4,  1808. 3 

Dalton,  Tristram,  son  of  Michael  Dalton,  was  born  in  Newburyport,  Massachusetts,  May 
28,  1738,  and  graduated  from  Harvard  College  in  1755.  He  studied  law,  but  engaged  in 
commercial  pursuits.  Fie  was  successively  Representative  to  the  Legislature  (of  which  for  a 
time  he  was  Speaker)  and  a  member  of  the  State  Senate.  In  1789  he  was  elected  Senator 
to  the  First  Congress.  He  removed  to  Washington  with  the  Congress,  and  by  rash  specu- 
lations in  real  estate  there  lost  his  fortune,  when  he  returned  to  Massachusetts.  He  was 
Surveyor  of  the  Port  of  Boston  from  181 5  till  his  death  in  Boston,  May  30,  181 7. 4 

Gerry,  Elbridge,  son  of  Thomas  Gerry,  was  born  at  Marblehead,  Massachusetts,  July  17, 
1744,  and  graduated  from  Harvard  College  in  1762.  He  was  elected  to  the  Legislature  in 
1772,  and  to  the  Continental  Congress  in  1776,  in  which  he  signed  the  Declaration  of  Inde- 
pendence, and  continued,  with  only  a  short  intermission,  till  1785.  In  1787  he  was  a  delegate 
to  the  Federal  Convention,  and  was  elected  to  Congress  from  1 789  to  1 793.    He  was  one 


1  Fuller  details  in  Ely's  "  Discourse  at  the  Funeral  of  Jonathan  Trumbull,"  Hartford,  1809.  Cf.  Washington's  "  Writings  "  ; 
Lossing's  "Field-Book  of  the  Revolution";  "Connecticut  State  Manual." 

''  Fuller  details  in  Trumbull's  "Memorial  History  of  Hartford  County,"  vol.  i,  p.  656.  Cf.  Hamilton's  "Writings  of  Alex- 
ander Hamilton."    He  contributed  to  "  Fenno's  Gazette"  a  series  of  articles,  signed  "  Observator,"  on  the  currency  in  1790. 

'J  A  sketch  of  him,  by  J.  T.  Kirklancl,  is  prefixed  to  the  "  Works  of  Fisher  Ames,"  Boston,  1854. 

4  Fuller  details  in  Smith's  "History  of  Newburyport."  Newburyport,  1854,  p.  354. 


MEMBERS  OF  THE  FIRST  CONGRESS. 


75 


of  the  three  commissioners  to  France  in  1799.  He  several  times  ran  for  Governor,  but  was 
defeated  until  18 10,  when  he  served  two  terms.  In  181 2  he  was  elected  Vice-President  of  the 
United  States.    He  died  at  Washington,  November  23,  1814. 1 

Goodhue,  Benjamin,  son  of  Benjamin  Goodhue,  was  born  in  Salem,  Massachusetts, 
October  1,  1748,  and  graduated  from  Harvard  in  1766,  engaging  in  commerce.  He  was 
elected  in  1 784,  and  continued  for  several  years  State  Senator  to  the  Legislature  from  Essex 
County;  and  in  1786  was  appointed  a  delegate  to  the  Annapolis  Convention,  but  did  not 
attend.  In  1789  he  was  elected  to  the  First  Congress,  continuing  to  serve  till  1796,  when  he 
was  chosen  United  States  Senator,  which  office  he  held  for  four  years,  and  then  resigned. 
He  died  at  Salem,  July  28,  18 14. 2 


Grout,  Jonathan,  son  of  John  Grout,  was  born  in  Lunenburg,  Worcester  County, 
Massachusetts,  July  23,  1732.  He  served  as  an  officer  in  the  French  and  Indian  War, 
1 757-1 760;  and  then  studied  law,  practicing  at  Petersham,  Massachusetts,  whither  he  re- 
moved. He  took  a  prominent  part  in  his  county  during  the  Revolution,  and  served  for  a 
short  time  in  the  army.  He  was  for  a  num- 
ber of  years  in  the  House  of  Represent- 
atives in  Massachusetts,  and  in  1788  was 
elected  State  Senator  for  his  county.  He 
was  elected  to  the  First  Congress,  serving 
till  1 79 1,  after  which  he  devoted  himself  to 
his  profession.  He  died  in  Dover,  New 
Hampshire,  September  8,  1807. 3 

Leonard,  George,  son  of  George  Leon- 
ard, was  born  in  Norton,  Bristol  County, 
Massachusetts,  July  4,  1729,  and  graduated 
from  Harvard  College  in  1748.     He  was 
admitted  to  the  bar,  but  practiced  little,  be- 
ing appointed  successively  Register,  Judge  of  Probate,  and  of  the  Court  of  Common 
Pleas.     He  was  also  chosen  Representative  and  Senator  to  the  State  Legislature,  and  in 
1789  was  elected  to  the  First  Congress;  and  was  four  times  re-elected.     He  died  at  Nor- 
ton, Massachusetts,  July  26,  1 8 1 9. 4 


SNUFF-BOX,  INLAID  WITH    SILVER  AND  PEARLS, 
belonging  to  George  Washington, 
and  given  to  Bushrod  Washington. 
Presented  by  the  widow  of  Lewis  Washington 
to  Mrs.  Roger  A.  Pryor,  New  York. 
(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  423.) 


1  See  Austin's  "  Life  of  Elbridge  Gerry,"  Boston,  1828  ;  Sanderson's  "  Biography  of  the  Signers,"  vol.  viii,  p.  7.  His  papers 
are  in  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society. 

s  See  Osgood's  "  Historical  Sketches  of  Salem  " ;  and  "  Historical  Collections  of  the  Salem  Institute,"  vol.  xv,  p.  305. 
3  See  "  Grout  Genealogy,"  pp.  42,  46. 

*  I  am  indebted  for  some  of  these  facts  to  the  courtesy  of  Mr.  George  F.  Clarke,  of  West  Acton,  Massachusetts.  Fuller 
details  are  given  in  Knapp's  "  Biographical  Sketches,"  p.  321. 


;6        THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


Partridge,  George,  son  of  George  Partridge,  was  born  in  Duxbury,  Massachusetts, 
February  8,  1740,  and  graduated  from  Harvard  in  1762.  He  studied  for  the  ministry, 
but  taught  a  school  at  Kingston.  In  1774  he  was  a  delegate  to  the  General  Court, 
and  in  1775  to  the  Provincial  Congress,  and  afterward  a  member  of  the  Massachusetts 
House  of  Representatives  till  1779,  when  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Continental 
Congress,  in  which  he  continued,  with  a  short  interruption,  till  1785.  He  was  elected  to 
the  First  Congress,  but  resigned  before  completing  his  term.  He  died  at  Duxbury,  July 
7,  1828.1 

Sedgwick,  Theodore,  son  of  Benjamin  Sedgwick,  was  born  at  Hartford,  Connecti- 
cut, in  May,  1746,  and  entered  Yale  College  in  1765,  but  did  not  graduate.  He  studied 
law  and  began  practicing  at  Great  Barrington,  and  afterward  at  Sheffield.  He  served  dur- 
ing the  Revolutionary  War,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Legislature.  In  1785  he  was 
elected  to  the  Continental  Congress,  and  again  in  1788.  He  was  a  member  of  the  State 
Convention  to  consider  the  United  States  Constitution,  and  was  elected  to  the  First  Con- 
gress. In  1796  he  was  chosen  Senator,  and  for  many  years  was  Judge  of  the  Massachu- 
setts Supreme  Court.    He  died  at  Boston,  January  24,  181 3. 8 

Strong,  Caleb,  son  of  Caleb  Strong,  was  born  at  Northampton,  Massachusetts,  January 
9,  1  745,  and  graduated  from  Harvard  College  in  1  764,  entering  the  profession  of  the  law  in 
1772.  In  1775  he  was  on  the  Committee  of  Safety,  and  in  1 776-80  was  a  member  of  the 
Legislature.  He  was  a  member  of  the  convention  which  framed  the  State  Constitution  in 
1779,  as  also  of  the  Federal  Convention,  and  of  the  Massachusetts  State  Convention  to  con- 
sider the  United  States  Constitution.  From  1789  to  1797  he  was  United  States  Senator, 
and  was  Governor  of  Massachusetts  from  1800  to  1807  and  from  181 2  to  18 16.  He  died 
at  Northampton,  November  7,  1819.3 

Thacher,  George,  son  of  Peter  Thacher,  was  born  in  Yarmouth,  Massachusetts,  April 
12,  1754,  and  graduated  from  Harvard  College  in  1776.  He  studied  law  and  began  prac- 
tice at  Biddeford,  Maine,  in  1782.  In  1787  he  was  elected  to  the  Continental  Congress, 
and  was  chosen  to  the  First  Congress,  in  which  he  continued  to  serve  till  1801,  when  he 
resigned.  Pie  was  made  a  District  Judge  in  1792,  and  in  1800  he  was  chosen  Judge  of 
the  Massachusetts  Supreme  Court,  which  office  he  continued  to  hold  till  1824,  when  he 


1  Partly  from  information  courteously  furnished  by  Mr.  Parker  C.  Richardson,  of  New  York.  See  Winsor's  "  History  of 
Duxbury,"  p.  152;  B.  Kent's  "Funeral  Sermon,"  July  9,  1828. 

2  Fuller  details  are  given  in  "  Life  and  Letters  of  Catherine  M.  Sedgwick,"  New  York,  1 87 1  ;  "History  of  Pittsfield  "  ;  and 
Field's  "  History  of  Berkshire  County,"  p.  272. 

3  See  "  Life  of  Caleb  Strong."  by  Alden  Bradford,  Boston,  1820;  J.Lyman's  "Funeral  Sermon";  "  Congregational  Quar- 
terly," vol,  ii,  p.  [61  ;  "  Polyanthus,"  vol.  ii,  p.  225  ;  "  Who  shall  be  Governor?  "  1808  ;  Carson's  "  History  of  the  Celebration  of 
the  United  States  Constitution." 


WILLIAM  FEW. 
From  miniature  bi  John  Ramace,  i7go.     Owned  BY  Wil- 
liam FewChrystif..  Grandson.  Hastings-on-Hcdson,  NY 


i 


JAMES  JACKSON. 
From  a  Portrait  painted  by  John  Maier  in  1859  after  the  St.  Memin 
Engraving.    Owned  by  the  State  of  Georgia  and  deposited  in  the 
Capitol  at  Atlanta. 


WILLIAM  FEW 

Copied  by  C.  L.  Brandt  from  original  portrait  bv  John 
Paradise.  Owned  by  New  York  Eye  and  Bar 'INFIRMARY. 


The  Georgia  Delegation  in  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution. 


MEMBERS  OE  THE  FIRST  CONGRESS, 


77 


resigned.  In  1819  he  was  one  of  the  convention  for  framing  a  Constitution  for  Maine. 
He  died  at  Biddeford,  April  6,  1824. 1 

MARYLAND. 

Carroll,  Charles,  "  of  Carrollton,"  son  of  Charles  Carroll,  was  born  in  Annapolis, 
Maryland,  September  20,  1737,  and  was  educated  in  France  at  the  College  of  St.  Omer, 
and  studied  law  at  the  Middle  Temple,  London.  He  was  prominent  in  local  politics, 
filling  many  offices,  and  in  1776  was  elected  to  the  Continental  Congress,  in   which  he 


I 


WRITING  DESK  BELONGING  TO  ALEXANDER  HAMILTON. 
Now  owned  by  grandson,  Allan  McLane  Hamilton,  New  York. 
(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  557.) 

signed  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  and  otherwise  took  a  leading  part.  In  1788  he 
was  elected  Senator  to  the  First  Congress.    He  died  in  Baltimore,  November  14,  1832.  3 

Carroll,  Daniel,  "  of  Duddington,"  son  of  Daniel  Carroll,  was  born  in  Prince  George 
County,  Maryland,  in  1756.  He  received  a  classical  education,  and  was  a  planter  on  his 
estate  of  Duddington,  on  the  site  of  the  city  of  Washington.    In  1  779  he  was  a  member 


'Further  details  in  "History  of  Old  Yarmouth." 

5  Full  details  are  given  in  Sanderson's  "  Biography  of  the  Signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence."  Cf.  Hilliard's 
'  Address  on  Carroll";  Sergeant's  "  Eulogy  on  Carroll." 


7 8        THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 


of  the  Governor's  Council.  From  1 780  to  1784  he  was  a  delegate  to  the  Continental 
Congress,  and  as  such  signed  the  Articles  of  Confederation.  In  the  latter  year  he  was 
elected  President  of  the  State  Senate.  He  was  a  delegate  to  the  Federal  Convention,  and 
was  elected  to  the  First  Congress.  He  was  one  of  the  signers  of  the  Roman  Catholic 
address  to  Washington,  and  was  appointed  a  commissioner  for  laying  out  the  city  of 
Washington,  being  instrumental  in  securing  the  removal  of  Major  L'Enfant  as  supervising 
surveyor,  for  the  hitter's  unauthorized  destruction  of  Carroll's  own  house  in  that  city.  He 
died  in  Washington  in  1849. 1 

Contee,  Benjamin,  was  born  in  Prince  George  County,  Maryland,  in  1755.  He  was 
commissioned  second  lieutenant  in  1776,  and  served  during  the  Revolutionary  War.  At 
its  close  he  spent  some  time  traveling  in  Europe,  being  interested  there  in  a  tobacco 
speculation.  After  his  return  he  was  made  Judge  of  the  Orphans'  Court  of  Charles 
County,  Maryland,  and  in  1787  was  elected  to  the  Continental  Congress.  He  was  chosen 
a  member  of  the  First  Congress  in  1789.  In  1803  he  was  ordained  a  clergyman  in  the 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  and  given  the  parish  of  William  and  Mary  in  Charles 
County,  to  which  two  others  were  subsequently  added.  In  18 14  he  came  within  a  few 
votes  of  being  elected  Bishop  of  Maryland.    He  died  in  1 8 1 6. 2 

Gale,  George,  son  of  Levin  Gale,  was  born  in  Somerset  County,  Maryland,  June  3, 
1756.  He  became  a  resident  of  Baltimore  and  was  a  member  of  the  Legislature  in  1786. 
In  1788  he  was  elected  to  the  State  Convention  to  consider  the  United  States  Constitution, 
in  which  he  voted  in  favor  of  ratification.  He  was  elected  to  the  First  Congress  in  1789. 
In  1792  he  was  President  of  the  Baltimore  branch  of  the  Bank  of  the  United  States,  but 
shortly  after  this  removed  to  Cecil  County,  where  he  died,  December  31,  18 14. 3 

Henry,  John,  son  of  Colonel  John  Henry,  was  born  at  "Weston,"  Dorchester  County, 
Maryland,  in  November,  1749.  He  studied  for  college  at  West  Nottingham  Academy  and 
graduated  from  Princeton  College  in  1  769.  He  studied  law  in  his  native  town,  and  spent 
over  two  years  at  the  Middle  Temple  in  England  in  the  same  pursuit.  Shortly  after  his 
return  he  was  elected  to  the  Legislature,  and  in  1778  he  was  elected  to  the  Continental  Con- 
gress, in  which  he  continued  till  1 78 1 ,  serving  again  in  1784-87.  His  home  was  destroyed 
by  the  British  troops  during  the  Revolution,  when  he  narrowly  escaped  being  taken  pris- 
oner.   He  was  elected  Senator  to  the  First  Congress,  continuing  to  serve  till  1797,  when 


1  Further  particulars  in  Sharf's  "  Western  Maryland  ";  cf.  Hanson's  "Old  Kent  "  ;  Sharf's  "  History  of  Maryland  "  ;  Car- 
son's "  History  of  the  Celebration  of  the  Constitution  "  ;  "  American  State  Papers  "  ;  Jefferson  and  Miscellaneous  MSS.,  Depart- 
ment of  State. 

*  See  "  Biographical  Encyclopaedia  of  Maryland  and  the  District  of  Columbia,"  Jefferson  MSS.,  Department  of  State. 
8  Partly  from  facts  courteously  furnished  by  Mr.  Samuel  L.  Chamberlain,  of  Aiken  Post-Office,  Maryland,  and  Mr.  George 
A.  Murphy,  of  Baltimore,  Maryland. 


MEMBERS  OE  THE  FIRST  COXGRESS 


79 


he  was  elected  Governor  of  Maryland,  but  died  December  16,  1798,  before  completing 
his  term.1 

Seney,  Joshua,  son  of  John  Seney,  was  born  in  Queen  Anne  County,  Maryland,  March 
4,  1745,  and,  after  an  ordinary  school  education,  studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar. 
After  filling  some  offices  in  his  county  he  was  elected  in  1787  to  the  Continental  Con- 


WRITING  DESK  BELONGING  TO  ALEXANDER  HAMILTON. 
Now  owned  by  Allan  McLane  Hamilton,  grandson,  New  York. 
(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  557.) 


gress.  In  1789  he  was  elected  to  the  First  Congress,  polling  the  largest  vote  of  any  can- 
didate in  the  State.  He  was  appointed  Chief-Justice  of  the  Town  Court  of  Baltimore  in 
1794,  and  in  1798  was  re-elected  to  Congress,  but  died  before  taking  his  seat.'- 

Smith,  William,  was  born  in  Donegal,  Lancaster  County,  Pennsylvania,  April  12,  1  728,  but 
removed  to  Baltimore,  Maryland,  in  1 761,  and  became  a  leading  merchant  there.  He  filled 
several  offices  in  that  place,  and  in  1774  was  one  of  the  Committee  of  Correspondence  and  of 
the  Committee  of  Observation.  In  1 777-7%  he  was  a  member  of  the  Continental  Congress  and 
of  the  Continental  Navy  Board.  He  was  a  signer  of  the  addresses  of  Baltimore  to  Washing- 
ton, Greene,  and  Rochambeau.  He  was  elected  to  the  First  Congress,  and  was  a  presi- 
dential elector  in  1792.  Washington  appointed  him  Auditor  of  the  Treasury,  July  16,  1 791, 
but  he  only  served  till  November  of  the  same  year.    He  died  in  Baltimore,  March  27,  18 14. 3 


1  Chiefly  from  a  sketch  kindly  furnished  by  Mr.  R.  S.  Henry,  of  Cambridge,  Maryland. 

2  Partly  from  a  biographical  sketch  by  Mr.  John  Brown,  courteously  furnished  by  Mr.  George  C.  Stokes.  Cf.  S.  A.  Harri- 
son's "  Memoir  of  Hon.  William  Hindman,"'  Baltimore,  1880,  p.  23  ;  Sharf's  "  History  of  Maryland,"  vol.  ii,  p.  98. 

3  See  Sharf's  "Annals  of  Baltimore." 


8o        THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


Stone,  Michael  Jenifer,  son  of  David  Stone,  was  born  at  "  Equality,"  in  Charles 
County,  Maryland,  in  1747.  He  received  a  classical  education  and  entered  the  profession 
of  the  law.  In  1788  he  was  a  member  of  the  State  Convention  to  discuss  the  United 
States  Constitution,  and  was  elected  to  the  First  Congress,  serving  till  1 791.  He  was  Chief- 
Justice  of  the  First  Judicial  District  of  Maryland  for  many  years,  serving  till  1802.  He 
was  appointed  in  1 791  a  Judge  of  the  General  Court  of  Maryland.  He  died  in  Mary- 
land, in  1805. 1 

SOUTH  CAROLINA. 

Burke,  ^Edanus,  was  born  in  Galway,  Ireland,  June  16,  1743,  and  was  educated  at  St. 
Omers  as  a  priest.  He  first  went  to  the  West  Indies  and  then  to  Charleston,  South  Carolina, 
where,  on  the  breaking  out  of  the  Revolution,  he  entered  the  army.  In  1778  he  was  made 
Chief-Justice  of  South  Carolina,  and  in  1 789  was  elected  to  the  First  Congress.  For  many 
years  he  was  a  member  of  the  State  Legislature,  and  shortly  before  his  death  was  made 
Chancellor  of  the  State.    He  died  at  Charleston,  March  30,  1802. 2 

Butler,  Pierce,  son  of  Sir  Richard  Butler,  was  born  in  Ireland,  July  11,  1744.  For 
some  years  he  was  an  officer  in  the  English  army,  but  resigned  in  1773,  and  settled  in 
Charleston,  South  Carolina.  In  1787  he  was  a  delegate  to  the  Continental  Congress,  and  to 
the  Federal  Convention.  He  was  chosen  Senator  to  the  First  Congress,  and  again  in  1802, 
but  resigned  before  completing  his  term.  He  was  a  director  in  the  Bank  of  the  United 
States,  which  occasioned  his  removal  to  Philadelphia,  where  he  died,  February  15,  182 2. 3 

Huger,  Daniel,  son  of  Daniel  Huger,  was  born  at  Limerick  Plantation,  Cooper  River, 
near  Charleston,  South  Carolina,  February  20,  1744,  and  was  educated  in  a  university  in 
Europe.  He  served  in  the  militia  for  a  short  time  during  the  Revolutionary  War,  and  from 
1786  to  1788  was  a  delegate  from  his  State  to  the  Continental  Congress.  In  1789  he  was 
elected  to  the  First  Congress,  and  re-elected  for  a  second  term  in  1 79 1.  He  died  at 
Charleston,  South  Carolina,  July  1,  1 79 1. 

Izard,  Ralph,  son  of  Henry  Izard,  was  born  in  St.  James  Parish,  South  Carolina,  Janu- 
ary 23,  1742.  He  was  educated  in  England,  graduating  at  Christ  College,  Cambridge,  and 
then  made  the  "grand  tour."  On  the  establishment  of  relations  with  foreign  countries, 
after  the  breaking  out  of  the  Revolution,  he  was  made  commissioner  to  Tuscany,  but,  being 


'See  Hanson's  "Old  Kent";  Sharf's  "History  of  Maryland,"  vol.  ii,  p.  573. 

3  Fuller  details  are  given  in  O'Neall's  "Bench  and  Bar  of  South  Carolina,"  Charleston,  1859.  Cf.  Smith's  "Bibliography 
of  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati  "  ;  Leake's  "  Life  of  John  Lamb." 

a  Largely  from  a  sketch  furnished  by  Dr.  G.  E.  Manigault,  of  Charleston,  S.  C.  Fuller  details  in  Carson's  "  History  of 
the  Celebration  of  the  One  Hundredth  Anniversary  of  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States,"  vol.  i,  p.  203.  Cf.  McMaster's 
"  History  of  the  People  of  the  United  States." 


■ 


ROGER  SHERMAN. 
In  Painting  :  "  Declaration  of  Indepen- 
dence" by  J.  Trumbull.       Owned  hy 
Yale  University. 


BENJAMIN  HUNTINGTON. 
From  Miniature  owned  by  Mrs.  Edward  Hun- 
tington, widow  of  Grandson.  Rome.  N.  Y. 


ROGER  SHERMAN. 

Artist.  Ralph  Eari.e.  Owned  hy  Roger  Sherman 
White.  Gre.vi  Grandson,  New  Haven,  Conn. 


JEREMIAH  WADSWORTH. 

Artist.  J.  Sharpless.  Owned  by  Charles  A. 
Brinley.  Great  Grandson.  Philadelphia,  Pa. 


BENJAMIN  HUNTINGTON. 
Artist,  Daniel  Huntington  (after  Miniature). 
Daniel  Huntington,  Grandson.  New  York. 

(  Loan  Exhibition,  No.  1 14.) 


Owned  by 


JEREMIAH  WADSWORTH  AND  SON  DANIEL. 
Artist.  John  Trumbull,  1784.    Owned  by  Mrs.  B.  F.  D.  Adams, 
Great  Granddaughter,  Colorado  Springs,  Colo. 


The  Connecticut  Delegation  in  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution. 


MEMBERS  OF  THE  FIRST  CONGRESS. 


81 


concerned  in  the  Deane-Lee  imbroglio,  was  recalled.  In  1781  he  was  a  delegate  to  the 
Continental  Congress,  and  was  elected  Senator  to  the  First  Congress.  He  died  on  May 
30,  1804.1 

Smith,  William  Loughton,  son  of  Benjamin  Smith,  was  born  in  Charleston,  South 
Carolina,  in  1758,  and  in  1770  went  to  England,  where  he  was  educated,  and  later  studied  in 
Switzerland.    He  returned  to  London  and  studied  law  in  the  Middle  Temple,  returning  to 
this   country    in    1 783.      He   was  soon 
elected   to  the    Legislature   and  to  the 
Governor's  Council.     He  was  chosen  to 
the  First  Congress,  but  his  election  was 
disputed  by  his  opponent,  David  Ramsay, 
which  occasioned  the  first  contested  elec- 
tion case  under  the  new  Government ;  but 
it  was  decided  in  his  favor.    In  1797  he 
was  made   Charge*  to   Portugal,  and  in 
1800  was  transferred  to  Spain.    He  died 
at  Charleston  in  181 2. 2 


GEORGE  WASHINGTON. 
Miniature  by  James  Peale,  1788.    Owned  by  Artillery  Corps, 
Washington  Grays,  Philadelphia. 
(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  15.) 


Tucker,  Thomas  Tudor,  son  of  Hen- 
ry Tucker,  was  born  at  Port  Royal,  Ber- 
muda, in  1745,  and  studied  medicine.  He 

emigrated  to  Virginia  in  1772,  but  removed  to  South  Carolina  before  the  Revolution,  in 
which  he  made  himself  prominent  on  the  patriot  side.  He  was  for  several  years  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Legislature,  and  was  elected  a  delegate  to  the  Continental  Congress  in  1787. 
In  1789  he  was  chosen  to  the  First  Congress,  and  re-elected  for  another  term  in  1 791. 
In  1  794  he  was  made  by  Washington  United  States  Treasurer,  which  office  he  held  till  his 
death  at  Washington,  May  2,  1828.3 

Sumter,  Thomas,  son  of  Thomas  Sumter,  was  born  in  Hanover  County,  Virginia,  July  14, 
1736,  and  first  attained  prominence  in  the  French  and  Indian  War.  In  1762  he  accompanied 
some  Indian  chiefs  to  England,  and  in  1765  removed  to  South  Carolina,  where  he  was  a  planter. 
He  was  made  in  1  776  a  lieutenant-colonel  in  the  South  Carolina  militia,  and  served  with  distinc- 
tion through  the  war.  He  was  a  member  of  the  South  Carolina  Convention  to  consider  the 
United  States  Constitution,  and  was  elected  a  member  of  the  First  Congress ;  and  again  re- 


1  Fuller  details  are  given  in  the  "Memoir,"  prefixed  to  "  Correspondence  of  Ralph  Izard,"  New  York,  1844;  and  "Maga- 
zine of  American  History  "  for  January,  1890. 

1  From  a  sketch  kindly  furnished  by  Dr.  G.  E.  Manigault,  of  Charleston,  S.  C.    A  diary  of  his,  during  1790  and  1791,  was 

published  in  1890  in  a  Rhode  Island  newspaper.    Cf.  Jefferson's  "Ana"  (Works,  vol.  ix),  and  Hamilton's  "  Writings." 

'  Partly  from  material  furnished  by  Mr.  J.  R.  Tucker,  of  Lexington,  Va. 
12 


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elected  in  1 79 1 ,  and  from  1  797  to  1802.  From  1801  to  1809  he  was  United  States  Senator,  but 
resigned,  owing  to  the  trouble  caused  by  an  old  wound.  He  died  at  South  Mount,  near  Camden, 
South  Carolina,  June  1,  1832. 1 

NEW  HAMPSHIRE. 

Foster,  Abiel,  son  of  Captain  Asa  Foster,  was  born  at  Andover,  Massachusetts,  August 
8,  1735,  and  graduated  from  Harvard  College  in  1756.  He  studied  for  the  ministry,  and  was 
ordained  at  Canterbury,  January  21,  1761,  where  he  continued  till  1779,  when  he  was  dis- 
missed by  his  congregation.  He  served  in  the  Legislature  as  Representative  or  Senator  for 
some  years,  and  in  1 783  was  elected  to  the  Continental  Congress,  as  well  as  serving  as  Judge 
of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  for  Rockingham  County,  and  for  a  short  time  as  special  Judge 
of  the  Superior  Court.  He  was  elected  to  the  First  Congress,  and  also  served  from  1795 
to  1803.     He  died  at  Canterbury,  New  Hampshire,  February  6,  1806. 2 

Gilman,  Nicholas,  son  of  Nicholas  Gilman,  was  born  at  Exeter,  New  Hampshire, 
August  3,  1755,  and  entered  Scammell's  New  Hampshire  Regiment  as  adjutant,  when  only 
twenty-one,  serving  to  the  end  of  the  war.  In  1786  he  was  elected  a  delegate  to  the  Con- 
tinental Congress,  in  which  he  continued  till  1 788.  He  was  also  a  delegate  to  the  Federal 
Convention,  and  was  chosen  to  the  First  Congress,  and  rechosen  till  1797.  In  1805  he  was 
elected  to  the  Senate,  in  which  he  continued  till  his  death,  May  2,  18 14. 3 

Langdon,  John,  son  of  John  Langdon,  was  born  at  Portsmouth,  New  Hampshire,  June 
25,  1 741.  He  was  one  of  the  party  which  seized  Fort  William  and  Mary  at  New  Castle  in 
1774,  and  was  a  delegate  to  the  Continental  Congress  in  1775-76  and  again  in  1783.  In  the 
latter  year  he  was  elected  Representative  to  the  Legislature,  of  which  he  was  chosen  Speaker. 
He  was  Judge  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas,  and  Continental  agent  for  his  State  for 
building  public  ships.  In  1 784— '85  he  was  a  member  of  the  New  Hampshire  Senate,  and  in 
the  latter  year  was  chosen  President  of  the  State.  He  was  elected  a  Senator  to  the  First 
Congress,  acting  as  president  pro  tern,  therein,  and  continued  so  for  two  terms ;  and  was  three 
times  chosen  Governor.    He  died  September  r8,  18 19. 

Livermore,  Samuel,  son  of  Samuel  Livermore,  was  born  at  Waltham,  Massachusetts, 
May  25,  1732,  and  graduated  at  Princeton  College  in  1754.  In  1756  he  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  at  Waltham  and  taught  school  there,  but  in  1757  removed  to  Portsmouth,  New  Hamp- 
shire, and  served  for  a  number  of  years  as  judge-advocate  of  the  (royal)  admiralty  courts, 


1  Partly  from  facts  courteously  furnished  by  Miss  Susan  P.  Brownfield,  of  Summerville,  S.  C.  Fuller  details  are  given  in 
Herring's  "National  Portrait  Gallery,"  vol.  iv ;  cf.  Washington's  "Opinion"  in  "Magazine  of  American  History,"  vol.  iii,  p.  81. 

2  Partly  from  material  kindly  furnished  by  Hon.  A.  S.  Ratchellor,  of  Littleton,  N.  H.  Cf.  "Pedigree  and  Descendants  of 
Jacob  Foster,"  and  Bailey's  "  History  of  Andover,  Massachusetts." 

3  Fuller  details  in  A.  Gilman 's  "Gilman  Genealogy,"  p.  108. 


Portraits  of  Jonathan  Trumbull,  member  from  Connecticut  of  the  First  Congress 

under  the  constitution. 


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being  in  1769  made  King's  Attorney-General  for  the  State.  He  removed  to  Holderness, 
Grafton  County,  New  Hampshire,  in  1 760,  and  was  chosen  by  that  town  to  the  Leg- 
islature. He  continued  Attorney-General  during  the  Revolution  and  was  one  of  the 
commissioners  on  the  New  Hampshire  Grants,  as  well  as  a  member  of  the  Continental 
Congress,  i78o-'82.  From  1782  to  1790  he  was  Chief-Justice  of  New  Hampshire,  and 
was  elected  to  the  First  Congress,  and  at  the  expiration  of  his  second  term  was  chosen  to  the 
Senate.    He  died  at  Holderness,  in  May,  1803.' 

West,  Benjamin,  son  of  Rev.  Thomas  West,  was  born  at  Rochester,  Massachusetts,  April 
8,  1746.  He  entered  Princeton  College,  but  at  the  end  of  a  year  transferred  his  studies  to 
Harvard,  where  he  graduated  in  1 768.  He  taught  school  for  a  short  time,  studying  divinity 
meanwhile,  and  was  ordained  at  Wrentham,  Massachusetts,  but  only  preached  for  eight  Sun- 
davs,  when  he  left  the  calling.  He  then  studied  law  and  practiced  in  Charlestown,  New 
Hampshire,  in  1773.  On  the  breaking  out  of  the  Revolutionary  War  he  went  to  South  Caro- 
lina, where  he  was  a  tutor  and  did  some  service  in  a  volunteer  corps  of  cavalry.  In  1 779  he  re- 
turned to  Charlestown  and  practiced  law.  He  was  named  a  delegate  to  the  Federal  Conven- 
tion of  1787,  but  too  late  to  attend  the  meeting  of  that  body,  and  was  a  member  of  the  State 
Convention  which  ratified  the  United  States  Constitution.  He  was  elected  to  the  First 
Congress,  but  never  took  his  seat.  In  his  native  county  he  filled  for  many  years  the  positions 
of  Attorney-General  and  Judge  of  Probate,  and  in  1814  he  was  chosen  by  a  local  convention 
a  delegate  to  the  Hartford  Convention.    He  died  July  27,  1 8 1  7.  ~ 

Wingate,  Paine,  son  of  Rev.  Paine  Wingate,  was  born  in  Amesbuiy,  Massachusetts, 
May  14,  1739,  and  graduated  from  Harvard  College  in  1759.  He  was  ordained  minister  of 
the  Congregational  Church  at  Hampton  Falls,  New  Hampshire,  December  14,  1763,  but  was 
dismissed  in  1776,  after  which  he  became  a  farmer  at  Stratham,  New  Hampshire.  For  sev- 
eral years  he  was  a  member  of  the  Legislature,  and  in  1787  was  elected  a  delegate  to  the  Con- 
tinental Congress.  He  was  elected  Senator  to  the  First  Congress,  serving  till  1793,  and  was 
Judge  of  the  State  Superior  Court  from  1798  to  1809.  He  died  at  Stratham,  New  Hamp- 
shire, March  7,  1838,  being  the  last  survivor  of  the  First  Senate. 3 

VIRGINIA. 

Bland,  Theodorick,  son  of  Theodorick  Bland,  was  born  in  Prince  George  County,  Vir- 
ginia, March  21,  1741,  and  was  educated  at  the  College  of  William  and  Mary  (class  of  1754), 

1  Fuller  details  are  given  in  Alexander's  "  Princeton  College  in  the  Eighteenth  Century,"  New  York,  1872,  and  in  C.  R. 
Coming's  "  Samuel  Livermore,"  Concord,  1888. 

a  See  Sanderson's  "  History  of  Charlestown,  New  Hampshire,"  p.  596;  and  "Memoir  of  Jeremiah  Mason,"  p.  28. 

■  Fuller  details  given  in  the  "  Granite  Monthly,"  vol.  vi,  p.  280  ;  and  in  Wingate,  "  History  of  the  Wingate  Family,"  Exeter, 
1886,  p  63. 


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and  in  medicine  at  Edinburgh,  returning  to  America,  about  1 764.  He  was  one  of  the 
opposition  to  Lord  Dunmore,  and  was  an  officer  during  the  Revolution.  In  1780  he  was 
a  member  of  the  Continental  Congress,  and  was  subsequently  in  the  Legislature.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  State  Convention  to  consider  the  United  States  Constitution,  and  was 
elected  to  the  First  Congress,  but  died  before  completing  his  term,  at  New  York,  June 
1,  1790.' 

Brown,  John,  son  of  Rev.  John  Brown,  was  born  at  Staunton,  Virginia,  September  12, 
1757,  and  was  educated  at  Princeton  and  William  and  Mary  Colleges.  He  served  for  a 
short  time  in  the  militia  during  the  Revolution.  He  studied  law  under  Thomas  Jefferson 
and  began  to  practice  about  1782  in  what  is  now  Kentucky.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Vir- 
ginia Legislature  and  in  1787  was  a  delegate  to  the  Continental  Congress.  In  1789  he  was 
elected  to  the  First  Congress  and  re-elected  in  1 791,  being  the  first  Congressman  from  west 
of  the  Alleghanies.  After  the  separation  of  Kentucky  he  was  three  times  elected  United 
States  Senator.  He  was  the  last  surviving  member  of  the  First  Congress,  with  one  excep- 
tion, dying  at  Frankfort,  August  29,  1837.2 

Coles,  Isaac,  son  of  John  Coles,  was  born  in  Albemarle  County,  Virginia,  March  2, 
1747.  He  entered  the  class  of  1768  at  the  College  of  William  and  Mary.  He  was  a 
landholder  and  planter  of  great  wealth,  owning  extensive  lands  in  Halifax,  Pittsylvania, 
and  Brunswick  Counties,  and  exercised  a  powerful  influence  in  local  politics,  He  was 
elected  a  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  some  time  before  1769,  and  served  during 
the  Revolutionary  War  in  the  State  militia,  being  eventually  promoted  to  the  rank  of  colonel, 
and  was  for  some  time  a  member  of  the  State  Senate.  In  1788  he  was  a  delegate  to  the 
State  Convention  to  consider  the  United  States  Constitution,  in  which  his  influence  and 
vote  were  thrown  against  its  ratification.  He  was  elected  to  the  First  Congress,  and  was 
again  elected  in  1793,  serving  till  1797,  but  on  his  removal  in  this  year  to  Pittsylvania 
County,  failed  of  re-election.  He  was  an  earnest  supporter  and  friend  of  Thomas  Jefferson 
and  the  politics  he  represented.    He  died  June  2,  181 3. 3 

Giles,  William  Branch,  son  of  William  Giles,  was  born  in  Amelia  County,  Virginia, 
August  12,  1762,  and  graduated  from  New  Jersey  College  in  1781.  He  was  admitted  to  the 
bar,  practicing  in  Petersburg,  and  was  elected  to  the  First  Congress,  and  continued  in  that 
body,  with  the  exception  of  1  799-1 800  till  1802.  He  was  prominent  in  the  Virginia  Legis- 
lature against  the  alien  and  sedition  laws,  having  resigned  from  Congress  especially  for  that 


'  A  memoir  of  him  is  prefixed  to  "The  Bland  Papers,"  Petersburg,  Va.,  1840.  This  states  that  he  went  to  England  about 
1753,  to  attend  a  school  at  Wakefield  ;  but  he  is  entered  at  the  College  of  William  and  Mary  in  1754. 

*  Fuller  details  are  given  in  Collins's  "  Historical  Sketches  of  Kentucky,"  p.  308  ;  and  in  "  Harper's  Magazine  "  for  June,  1888. 

s  Chiefly  derived  from  information  courteously  furnished  by  his  descendants,  Miss  Helen  C.  Coles  and  Miss  Agnes  Coles,  of 
Pittsylvania  Co.,  Va. 


MEMBERS  OF  THE  FIRST  CONGRESS. 


85 


purpose.  From  1804  to  1815  he  was  United  States  Senator,  and  was  in  1827  elected  Gov- 
ernor,   tie  died  at  the  "Wigwam,"  Amelia  County,  December  4,  1830.1 

Grayson,  William,  son  of  Benjamin  Grayson,  was  born  in  Prince  William  County, 
Virginia,  in  1 736,  and  was  educated  at  Oxford  University,  England,  studying  law  at  the 
Middle  Temple.  He  returned  to  America  about  1765,  and  took  a  leading  part  in  pre-Revo- 
lutionary  politics,  being  elected  to  the  Convention  of  1775.    He  entered  the  army  on  the 


THE  PENCIL  CASE  AND  GOLD  PEN  USED  BY  WASHINGTON  DURING  THE  REVOLUTIONARY  WAR. 

Now  owned  by  Miss  Anita  E.  Evans,  New  Rochelle,  New  York. 
(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  414.) 

breaking  out  of  the  war,  and  in  1776  was  made  one  of  Washington's  aides.  He  served  with 
distinction  through  the  war,  and  in  1784  was  elected  to  the  Continental  Congress.  In  1788 
he  was  a  member  of  the  State  Convention  to  consider  the  United  States  Constitution,  and 
was  elected  Senator  to  the  First  Congress,  but  did  not  live  to  complete  his  term,  dying  at 
Dumfries,  Virginia,  March  12,  1790.2 

Griffin,  Samuel,  son  of  Leroy  Griffin,  was  born  at  "Zion  House,"  Lancaster  County, 
Virginia,  in  1750.  He  received  but  little  education.  At  the  beginning  of  the  Revolution  he 
entered  the  army  as  captain,  and  in  1775  was  appointed  on  General  Charles  Lee's  staff.  He 
served  during  the  campaign  of  1776  in  the  Jerseys  as  colonel,  but  resigned  on  account  of 
ill-health,  and  to  engage  in  a  profitable  commercial  venture.  For  a  number  of  years  he  was 
Sheriff  of  James  City  County,  served  as  Mayor  of  Williamsburg,  and  was  one  of  the  Visitors 
of  William  and  Mary  College.  In  1789  he  was  elected  to  Congress,  serving  till  1793,  and  was 
consulted  by  Washington  concerning  candidates  for  the  judiciary.    He  was,  for  a  number  of 


1  Partly  from  facts  courteously  furnished  by  Mrs.  Frances  G.  Townes,  of  Richmond,  Ya.  Cf.  McMaster's  "History  of  the 
People  of  the  United  States  " ;  Adams's  "  History  of  the  United  States." 

2  Fuller  details  are  given  in  Grigsby's  "History  of  the  Virginia  Federal  Convention  of  1788,"  p.  194. 


86         THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


years,  judge  of  some  court,  which  position  he  held  at  the  time  of  his  death,  in  New  York, 
November  10,  1810.1 

Lee,  Richard  Bland,  son  of  Henry  Lee,  was  born  in  Virginia,  January  20,  1761.  He 
entered  the  College  of  William  and  Mary.  In  1776  he  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Phi 
Beta  Kappa  Society  which  figured  so  prominently  in  the  Revolutionary  struggle  in  that 
State,  and  he  served  as  an  officer  during  a  portion  of  the  war.  He  was  elected  to  the  Con- 
tinental Congress  and  in  1 789  to  the  First  Congress,  and  twice  re-elected,  but  lost  his  seat 
on  the  rise  of  the  Republican  party  in  Virginia.  He  removed  to  Washington,  and  was  a 
Judge  of  the  Orphans'  Court  there  for  many  years.  In  181 1  he  delivered  an  address  before 
the  Washington  Benevolent  Society,  and  in  1819  one  before  the  House  of  Representa- 
tives. In  1 8 16  he  was  one  of  the  commissioners  for  claims  arising  out  of  the  War  of 
181 2.    He  died  in  Washington,  March  12,  1827. 

Lee,  Richard  Henry,  son  of  Thomas  Lee,  was  born  at  Stratford,  Virginia,  January  20, 
1732,  and  was  educated  in  England.  In  1757  he  was  elected  to  the  House  of  Burgesses, 
where  he  made  himself  prominent,  as  well  as  on  the  pre-Revolutionary  committees.  In  1774 
he  was  elected  to  the  Continental  Congress,  in  which  he  took  a  leading  part,  and  was  fre- 
quently re-elected,  and  for  a  time  was  president.  He  was  elected  a  delegate  to  the  Federal 
Convention,  but  declined  to  serve.  He  was  elected  Senator  to  the  First  Congress,  but  re- 
tired from  public  life  in  1792  on  account  of  ill-health.  He  died  at  Chantilly,  Virginia,  June 
19,  1794.2 

Madison,  James,  son  of  Colonel  James  Madison,  was  born  at  Port  Conway,  King  George 
County,  Virginia,  March  16,  i75i,and  graduated  from  New  Jersey  College  in  1 7 7 1 .  He 
studied  law,  and  in  1776  was  elected  to  the  House  of  Burgesses  and  three  years  later  to  the 
Council.  In  1779  he  was  a  delegate  to  the  Continental  Congress,  being  several  times  re- 
elected, and  was  a  member  of  the  Federal  and  Virginia  State  Conventions  of  1787-88- 
From  1789  to  1798  he  was  a  member  of  Congress,  and  from  1801  to  1809  was  Secretary  of 
State,  being  then  elected  President,  and  re-elected  in  181 2.  He  died  at  Montpelier,  June 
28,  1 836. 3 

Monroe,  James,  son  of  Spencer  Monroe,  was  born  in  Westmoreland  County,  Virginia, 
April  28,  1759,  and  graduated  from  William  and  Mary  College  in  1776.  He  served  as  an 
officer  during  the  Revolution,  and  at  its  close  was  elected  to  the  Assembly.  In  1783  he  was 
elected  to  the  Continental  Congress,  and  in  1  788  was  a  delegate  to  the  State  Convention  to 


1  Partly  from  facts  courteously  furnished  by  Mr.  Charles  Henry  Hart,  of  Philadelphia  ;  Dr.  F.  Campbell  Stewart ;  and  Mr. 
Sevellon  A.  Brown,  of  the  Department  of  State. 

*  See  R.  H.  Lee's  "Life  of  Richard  Henry  Lee,"  Boston,  1825. 

"The  fullest  life  of  him  is  Rives's  "Life  and  Times  of  James  Madison,"  Boston,  1859. 


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consider  the  United  States  Constitution.  From  1 790  to  1 794  he  was  United  States  Senator, 
and  then  was  minister  to  France,  but  was  recalled  in  1796.  He  was  Governor  of  Virginia 
from  1799  to  1802,  when  he  was  again  envoy  to  France,  and  in  1803  minister  to  England. 
He  was  again  Governor  of  Virginia  in  18 10,  but  resigned,  and  became  Secretary  of  State, 
which  office  he  held  till  1 81 7,  when  he  was  elected  President,  and  re-elected  in  1821.  He 
died  in  New  York  city,  July  4,  1 83 1 . 1 

Moore,  Andrew,  son  of  David  Moore,  was  born  at  "  Cannicello,"  Augusta  (now  Rock- 
bridge) County,  Virginia,  in  1752.  He  studied  law,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1774. 
In  1776  he  raised  a  company  of  men  and  was  commissioned  lieutenant,  serving  for  three 
years.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Legislature  from  1 780  to  1 789,  and  was  a  delegate  to  the 
State  Convention  to  consider  the  United  States  Constitution.  He  was  elected  to  the  First 
Congress  from  Rockbridge  District,  serving  till  1797.  From  1798  to  1803  he  was  a  member 
of  the  Legislature,  and  was  again  Congressman  in  1804.  From  that  date  till  1809  he  was 
United  States  Senator.  In  1810  Jefferson  made  him  United  States  Marshal  of  Virginia, 
which  office  he  continued  to  hold  till  his  death,  near  Lexington,  Virginia,  April  14,  i82i.2 

Page,  John,  son  of  John  Page,  was  born  at  Rosewell,  Gloucester  County,  Virginia,  April 
1 7,  1 743  (old  style),  and  graduated  from  William  and  Mary  College  in  1 763.  He  was  elected 
by  his  alma  mater  to  the  House  of  Burgesses,  and  later  was  appointed  to  the  Council.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  State  Convention  of  1776,  and  was  chosen  to  the  new  Council  and 
made  Lieutenant-Governor,  and  served  in  the  field  during  the  Revolution.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  First  Congress,  as  well  as  of  the  three  succeeding  ones,  and  was  for  many  years  Com- 
missioner of  Loans  for  Virginia.  From  1802  to  1805  he  was  Governor  of  Virginia.  He  died 
at  Richmond,  October  11,  1808. 3 

Parker,  Josiah,  son  of  Nicholas  Parker,  was  born  at  Smithfield,  Isle  of  Wight,  Virginia, 
May  11,  1 751.  He  was  engaged  in  an  extensive  commerce,  both  before  and  during  the 
Revolution.  He  was  an  officer  of  the  militia  during  that  war,  eventually  rising  to  the  rank 
of  commanding  colonel  of  the  Norfolk  District  in  1 781,  serving  without  pay.  In  1781  he 
planned  to  go  to  Europe,  but  was  prevented  by  the  invasion  of  Virginia.  He  was  appointed 
Judge  of  Criminal  Cases  in  his  county  in  1782,  and  served  as  Naval  Officer  and  Collector  of 
Norfolk  from  1786  to  1789.  In  the  latter  year  he  was  elected  to  the  First  Congress,  and  con- 
tinued to  be  re-elected  till  1801.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati.  He 
died  on  March  18,  1810.4 


1  See  Gilman's  "  Life  of  James  Monroe,"  Boston,  1884. 

*  There  is  a  sketch  of  him  in  Waddell's  "Annals  of  Augusta  County,"  Richmond,  1886,  p.  143,  and  in  "  Historical  Papers, 
No.  11,  Washington  and  Lee  University,"  p.  56. 

8  His  autobiography  is  printed  in  the  "  Virginia  Historical  Register,"  vol.  iii,  p.  145. 

4  Partly  from  information  courteously  furnished  by  his  descendant,  Mr.  G.  D.  Parker,  of  Berkley,  Va. 


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Walker,  John,  son  of  Dr.  Thomas  Walker,  was  born  in  Fredericksville  Parish,  Virginia, 
February  13,  1744.  He  entered  the  army  at  the  breaking  out  of  the  Revolution,  and  in  1777 
was  sent  by  the  Governor  of  Virginia  to  the  army  under  Washington  to  report  on  its  con- 
dition, which  occasioned  the  latter  to  appoint  him  an  extra  aide-de-camp.  In  1778  he  was 
made  one  of  the  Western  Commissioners.  He  was  elected  to  the  Continental  Congress,  and 
served  for  some  time  in  the  State  Legislature.  In  1787  he  was  a  lay  delegate  to  the  Prot- 
estant Episcopal  Convention.  On  the  death  of  William  Grayson,  in  1 790,  he  was  selected  by 
the  Governor  to  fill  the  vacant  senatorship,  but  only  held  it  from  March  till  December,  when 
the  Legislature  elected  his  successor,  Monroe.  He  died  at  Madison's  Mills,  Orange  County, 
Virginia,  December  2,  1809.1 

White,  Alexander,  son  of  Dr.  Robert  White,  was  born  in  Frederick  County,  Virginia, 
in  1  738,  and  was  educated  at  the  University  of  Edinburgh,  and  studied  law  at  the  Middle 
Temple  in  London.  He  returned  to  Winchester,  Virginia,  where  he  was  admitted  to  the 
bar.  He  was  for  several  years  Deputy  King's  Attorney,  and  during  the  Revolutionary 
War  acted  as  counsel  for  the  Pennsylvania  Quakers,  sent  under  surveillance  to  Virginia  by 
the  Continental  Congress.  He  was  a  delegate  to  the  House  of  Burgesses  in  1  783,  and  to 
the  Continental  Congress  from  1 786  to  1 788  ;  and  in  the  latter  year  was  a  member  of  the 
Virginia  Convention,  in  which  he  voted  in  favor  of  ratifying  the  United  States  Constitu- 
tion. In  1789  he  was  elected  to  the  First  Congress,  and  was  re-elected  in  1791  for  a  second 
term  ;  and  his  was  one  of  the  two  votes  which  were  given  through  the  influence  of  Jeffer- 
son in  favor  of  assuming  the  State  debts,  on  condition  that  the  capital  should  be  located  at 
Washington.    He  died  at  Woodville,  Virginia,  in  November,  1804. 2 

NEW  YORK. 

Benson,  Egbert,  son  of  Robert  Benson,  was  born  in  New  York  city,  June  21,  1746,  and 
graduated  from  King's  (Columbia)  College  in  1765.  He  studied  law,  and  settled  at  Red 
Hook,  Dutchess  County,  in  1772.  He  was  prominent  on  the  various  Revolutionary  com- 
mittees and  Congresses  of  his  State,  and  in  1777  was  made  Attorney-General,  as  well  as  a 
member  of  the  Legislature.  He  was  a  delegate  to  the  Continental  Congress  from  1 784  to 
1788,  and  was  chosen  to  the  First  Congress;  and  again  in  18 13.  From  178910  1802  he 
was  a  Regent  of  the  University,  and  from  1794  to  1801  was  a  Judge  of  the  State  Supreme 
Court ;  and  in  1801  was  appointed  a  United  States  Circuit  Judge.  He  died  at  Jamaica,  New 
York,  August  24,  1833. 3 


1  Sec  "  Page  Family  in  Virginia,"  pp.  202,  203.    Cf.  Brymner's  "  Report  on  Canadian  Archives,"  1890,  p.  160. 

3  Chiefly  from  information  courteously  furnished  by  Hon.W.  W.  Henry  and  Mr.  William  M.  Atkinson.  Cf.  Grigsby's  "Vir- 
ginia Convention  of  1788,"  vol.  ii. 

3  See  "Collections  of  the  New  York  Historical  Society,"  second  series,  vol.  ii,  p.  80;  and  Thompson's  "History  of  Long 
Island,"  vol.  ii,  p.  487. 


TRISTRAM  DALTON 

Oil  MlNIATURB  BV  J.  Trumbull,  1792.  Owned  by  Yai.k 
University. 


TRISTRAM  DALTON. 

Artist,  Jonathan  B.  Blackburn.  Owned  bv  Mrs.  Anna 
Leonard  George,  Great  Granddaughter,  Haverhill, 
Mass. 


CALEB  STRONG 

Artist,  Gilbert  Stuart.  Owned  by  Rev.  Auoi  stui 
0  Thompson,  P.  D.,  Boston,  Mass. 


The  Massachusetts  Delegation  in  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution. 


MEMBERS  OF  THE  FIRST  CONGRESS. 


89 


Floyd,  William,  son  of  Nichol  Floyd,  was  born  at  Setauket,  Suffolk  County,  New  York, 
December  1  7,  1  734.  He  became  prominent  at  the  beginning  of  the  Revolution,  and  was  one 
of  the  Committee  of  Correspondence.  In  1774  he  was  elected  to  the  Continental  Congress, 
in  which  he  continued  till  1777,  thus  signing  the  Declaration  of  Independence.  From  1777 
to  1788  he  was  a  member  of  the  State  Senate,  and  was  an  officer  in  the  militia  during  the 
Revolution.  He  was  elected  to  the  First  Congress.  In  1803  he  removed  to  the  western  part 
of  the  State,  settling  in  Oneida  County,  where  he  died,  August  4,  1821.1 

Hathorn,  John,  was  born  in  Wilmington,  Delaware,  January  9,  1 749.  He  removed 
about  1770  to  Warwick,  Orange  County,  New  York,  and  taught  a  school  and  surveyed.  In 
1775  he  was  the  assessor  of  Warwick  in  that  county,  and  in  the  same  year  was  on  the  Com- 
mittee of  Safety  and  captain  in  the  militia.  He  commanded,  with  rank  of  colonel,  at  the 
battle  of  Minisink,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Assembly  from  1777  to  1787,  being  Speaker  in 
1784,  and  of  the  State  Senate  in  1789-90,  and  again  in  1801-03.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Continental  Congress  in  1 788.  In  1 789  he  was  elected  to  the  First  Congress,  and  was  again 
chosen  in  1795.  In  1822,  at  the  age  of  eighty,  he  took  part  in  the  dedication  of  a  monument 
to  those  who  fell  at  Minisink.    He  died  February  19,  1825. 2 

King,  Rufus,  son  of  Richard  King,  was  born  at  Scarborough,  Maine,  March  24,  1755,  and 
graduated  from  Harvard  College  in  1777.  He  served  as  an  aide  for  some  time  during  the 
Revolution,  and  in  1780  began  the  practice  of  the  law.  In  1782  he  was  elected  to  the  Legis- 
lature, and  to  the  Continental  Congress  in  1 784.  He  was  a  delegate  to  both  the  Federal  and 
Massachusetts  State  Conventions  on  our  Constitution,  in  which  he  was  its  earnest  support- 
er. In  1788  he  removed  to  New  York,  and  was  elected  Senator  to  the  First  Congress  from 
that  State,  continuing  in  that  body  till  1795.  From  1796  to  1804  he  was  minister  to  Eng- 
land, and  in  1813  and  1 8 19  he  was  again  elected  to  the  Senate.3 

Laurance,  John,  was  born  in  Cornwall,  England,  in  1750,  and  came  to  New  York  city  in 
1767.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1772,  and  was  an  officer  in  the  First  New  York  Regi- 
ment and  an  aide  to  McDougal  and  Washington  during  the  Revolution.  He  was  the  judge- 
advocate  in  Andre's  trial.  At  the  close  of  the  war  he  resumed  his  profession,  and  was 
elected  to  the  Continental  Congress  in  1 785  and  to  the  State  Senate  in  1 789,  and  was  a 
Regent  of  the  University  from  1784  to  1787,  and  was  elected  to  the  First  Congress,  serving 
till  1793.  In  1794  he  was  made  Judge  of  the  United  States  District  Court,  and  from  1796  to 
1 800  was  United  States  Senator,  being  chosen  president  of  that  body  in  1798.  He  died  in 
New  York  city,  in  November,  18 10. 4 


1  Fuller  details  in  "  Magazine  of  American  History,"  vol.  i,  p.  429;  and  in  Sanderson's  "  Biography  of  the  Signers." 
5  Fuller  details  are  given  in  the  "  New  York  Genealogical  and  Biographical  Register,"  vol.  xx,  p.  169. 
s  A  full  sketch  of  him  is  given  in  Delaplaine's  "  Repository,"  vol.  iii. 
4  See  Schuyler's  "  Society  of  the  Cincinnati,"  p.  242. 
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Schuyler,  Philip,  son  of  John  Schuyler,  was  born  in  Albany,  New  York,  November 
22,  1733.  He  served  as  an  officer  in  the  French  and  Indian  War,  and  soon  after  was  elected 
to  the  Assembly.  He  was  elected  to  the  Continental  Congress  in  1775,  and  in  the  same  year 
was  made  a  major-general  and  given  the  command  of  the  Northern  army.  He  resigned  his 
rank  in  1779  and  served  in  the  Continental  Congress  in  1778-81.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
State  Convention  to  consider  the  United  States  Constitution,  and  was  elected  Senator  to  the 
First  Congress  and  again  in  1797.    He  died  in  Albany,  November  18,  1804.1 

Silvester,  Peter,  was  probably  born  on  Long  Island  in  1  734.  He  was  admitted  to  the 
bar,  and  in  1756  he  was  a  lawyer  in  Albany,  New  York.  He  represented  that  town  in  the 
Common  Council  in  1772  and  in  the  Provincial  Congresses  of  1775-76,  but  in  1777  removed 
to  Kinderhook,  Columbia  County,  New  York.  In  1786  he  was  appointed  Judge  of  the 
County  Court,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Assembly  from  Columbia  County  in  1 788  and  again 
from  1803  to  1806.  He  was  elected  to  the  First  Congress,  and  re-elected  for  a  second  term 
in  1 791.  From  1797  to  1801  he  was  a  member  of  the  State  Senate,  and  was  an  Assemblyman 
in  1803,  I^°5>  and  1806.  From  1787  till  1808  he  was  a  Regent  of  the  University.  He  died 
at  Kinderhook,  October  15,  1808. 

Van  Rensselaer,  Jeremiah,  son  of  Hendrick  Van  Rensselaer,  was  born  at  Claverack, 
July  15,  1740,  and  graduated  from  Princeton  College  in  1758.  He  afterward  studied  law. 
He  served  as  an  ensign  and  lieutenant  during  the  Revolution,  and  from  t  788  to  1  789  was  a 
member  of  the  Legislature  from  Albany.  In  1788  he  opposed  the  adoption  of  the  Constitu- 
tion, but  in  1789  he  was  elected  to  the  First  Congress.  From  1799  to  1806  he  filled  the  office 
of  President  of  the  Albany  Bank.  He  was  presidential  elector  in  1800,  voting  for  Jefferson, 
and  from  1801  to  1804  he  was  Lieutenant-Governor  of  New  York.  He  died  at  Albany,  Feb- 
ruary 19,  1 8 10. 2 

NORTH  CAROLINA. 

Ashe,  John  Baptista,  son  of  Samuel  Ashe,  was  born  at  Rocky  Point,  North  Carolina,  in 
1748.  He  entered  the  army  on  the  breaking  out  of  the  Revolutionary  War,  and  in  1776  was 
made  captain,  in  1777  a  major,  and  in  1778  a  lieutenant-colonel  in  the  Continental  line. 
From  1784  to  1786  he  was  a  member  of  the  North  Carolina  "  House  of  Commons,"  and  was 
Speaker  of  that  body.  In  1787  he  was  elected  to  the  Continental  Congress,  and  a  year 
later  was  a  member  of  the  North  Carolina  Convention  which  ratified  the  United  States 
Constitution,  being  chairman  of  the  Committee  of  the  Whole.  He  was  elected  to  the 
First  Congress,  and  re-elected  for  a  second  term.     In   1795  he  was  elected  to  the  State 


'See  Lossing's  "Life  and  Times  of  Philip  Schuyler,"  New  York,  i860. 

'  Chiefly  from  an  unpublished  sketch  by  Gratz  Van  Rensselaer,  courteously  furnished  by  Mr.  Cortlandt  S.  Van  Rensselaer 
of  New  York.    See  Schuyler's  "Society  of  the  Cincinnati,"  p.  325. 


1 


GEORGE  PARTRIDGE 

Artist,  Dk.  Rufus  Hathaway.  1793.  Owned  bv  Par- 
tridge C.  Richardson,  Grand-Nepnsw,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y 


JONATHAN  GROUT. 

From  Silhouette  in  Rev.  Abnek  Morse's 
''Genealogy  of  Descendents  OP  Several 
Ancient  Puritans." 


GEORGE  PARTRIDGE. 

In  Painting  :"  Washington  Resigning  his  Commission  " 
bv  J.  Trumbull.   Owned  bv  Yale  University. 


GEORGE  PARTRIDGE. 
From  a  Cabinet  Portrait  owned  BV  Partridge  C. 
Richardson,  Grand-Nephew,  Brooklyn  N.  Y. 


GEORGE  LEONARD. 

From  Lithograph  in  Rev.  George  F.  Clark's  "History 

of  Norton." 


BENJAMIN  GOODHUE. 
Artist,  Joseph  Wright,  imo.   Owned  by  Mrs.  Percy  R.  Kin.,  (born 
sarah  LrOODHUE),  Great  Granddatgh  i  ek,  New  York. 


GEORGE  THACHER. 

Artist,  Henry  Williams.   Owned  by  Cape  Cod  Association,  BosTOH 
(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  201.) 


Massachusetts  Delegation  in  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution. 


MEMBERS  OE  THE  FIRST 


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Legislature,  and  in  1802  was  chosen  Governor,  but  died  before  he  took  office,  November 

27,  1802. 

Bloodwortii,  Timothy,  was  born  in  1736  in  extreme  poverty  and  was  by  turns 
preacher,  blacksmith,  farmer,  and  doctor,  finally  settling  in  New  Hanover  County,  North 
Carolina,  and  turned  politician.  He  was  chosen  to  the  State  "  House  of  Commons"  in  1779, 
and  was  nine  times  re-elected,  the  last  time  being  in  1801.  During  1786-87  he  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Continental  Congress,  and  in  1 788  and  1 789  he  was  elected  to  the  State  Senate. 
He  was  a  prominent  leader  of  the  anti-Federalists  in  both  the  State  Conventions  to  consider 
the  United  States  Constitution,  and  was  elected  to  the  First  Congress.  In  1795  he  was 
elected  United  States  Senator,  and  for  several  years  after  the  expiration  of  his  term  was  col- 
lector of  customs  at  Wilmington,  North  Carolina.    He  died  August  14,  1 8 1 4. 1 

Hawkins,  Benjamin,  son  of  Philemon  Hawkins,  was  born  in  Bute  (now  Warren) 
County,  North  Carolina,  August  15,  1754,  and  graduated  from  Princeton  College.  He  en- 
tered the  army  on  the  breaking  out  of  the  Revolution,  and  served  for  several  years  as  an  aide 
to  Washington.  In  1780  he  was  made  commercial  agent  for  his  State,  and  two  years  later 
was  elected  to  the  Continental  Congress,  to  which  he  was  again  elected  in  1783  and  1787.  In 
1789  he  was  elected  Senator  to  the  First  Congress  and  served  till  1795,  when  he  was  Superin- 
tendent for  the  Indians  in  the  Southern  Department,  which  office  he  held  till  his  death, 
June  6,  1 8 16. ~ 

Johnston,  Samuel,  son  of  John  Johnston,  was  born  in  Dundee,  Scotland,  December  15, 
1733,  but  came  to  North  Carolina  with  his  father  in  1736.  He  studied  law,  and  acted  as 
Clerk  of  the  Superior  Court  of  Chowan  from  1767  to  1772,  and  was  also  naval  officer  under 
the  crown.  In  1774  he  was  elected  to  the  Assembly,  and  in  1775  was  a  member  of  the  "  Gen- 
eral Meeting"  to  New  Berne.  He  aided  in  the  framing  of  the  State  Constitution,  and  held 
several  important  State  offices  during  and  after  the  war.  In  1789  he  was  elected  to  the  Con- 
tinental Congress,  and  in  1787  was  chosen  Governor  of  the  State.  He  was  President  of  the 
State  Convention  to  consider  the  United  States  Constitution,  and  was  elected  United  States 
Senator  to  the  First  Congress.    He  died  at  Shervvarkey,  August  18,  1 8 1 6. 3 

Sevier,  John,  son  of  Valentine  Sevier,  was  born  in  Rockingham  County,  Virginia,  Sep- 
tember 23,  1745,  and  educated  at  the  academy  in  Fredericksburg.  For  many  years  he  was 
celebrated  as  an  Indian  fighter.  By  the  annexation  of  his  settlement  of  New  Market  to 
North  Carolina,  he  became  a  citizen  of  that  State,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Convention  of 


1  Partly  from  information  courteously  furnished  by  Dr.  Stephen  B.  Weeks,  of  Baltimore,  Md. 

'Fuller  details  are  given  in  Wheeler's  "History  of  North  Carolina,"  vol.  ii,  p.  426.  Cf.  "American  State  Papers," 
"  Indian  Affairs,"  vol,  i. 

3  Fuller  details  in  McRee's  "  Life  of  James  Iredell,"  vol.  i,  p.  37. 


THEODORE  SEDGWICK. 

Fkom  Crayon  drawing  by  St.  Memin,  1801.  Owned  BY 
Henry  D.  Sedgwick,  Grandson,  Stockbridge,  Mass. 


THEODORE  SEDGWICK. 

Oil  Miniature  by  J.  Trimbi  ll,  1791.  Owned  by  Yale 
University. 


^^^^^^^ 


THEODORE  SEDGWICK 

Artist,  Gilbert  Sti/art.  Owned  by  Miss  Grace  Stanley 
Parker,  Great  Granddaughter,  Stockbridge,  Mass. 


Miniature  by  John  Ramage,  1789 
T,  Gerky,  Grandson,  New  York. 


ELBRIDGE  GERRY. 

Owned  by  Elbridge 


ELBRIDGE  GERRY 

From  Painting:  *"  Declaration  of  Independence  "  by 
J.  Trumbull.    Owned  by  Yale  University. 


ELBRIDGE  GERRY 

Fk<>m  Crayon  by  John  Vanderlvn,  Paris,  1798. 
Miss  Gerry,  Daughter.  New  Haven,  Conn. 


Owned  BY 


The  Massachusetts  Delegation  in  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution. 


MEMBERS  OE  THE  FIRST  CONGRESS. 


93 


1776,  as  well  as  a  delegate  to  the  Legislature.  He  was  prominent  in  the  Indian  and  border 
wars  of  the  Revolution,  and  in  the  attempts  of  Tennessee  to  secede  and  set  up  an  independ- 
ent government,  and  in  1 784  was  elected  Governor  of  that  Territory,  but  was  taken  prisoner 
and  forced  to  yield.  He  was  elected  to  the  First  Congress,  and  was  subsequently  Governor 
of  Tennessee.    He  died  near  Fort  Decatur,  Georgia,  September  24,  1815.1 

Steele,  John,  son  of  William  Steele,  was  born  in  Salisbury,  North  Carolina,  Novem- 
ber 1,  1764.  He  was  educated  in  that  place  and  became  a  merchant,  and  later  a  farmer. 
In  1787  he  was  elected  to  the  State  Legislature,  and  was  a  member  of  the  State  Con- 
vention to  consider  the  United  States  Constitution,  of  which  he  was  a  strong  advocate. 
He  was  elected  to  the  First  Congress,  serving  two  terms,  and  was  frequently  elected  to 
the  Legislature,  of  which  he  was  Speaker  for  a  time.  For  several  years  he  was  Comp- 
troller of  the  Treasury,  being  appointed  by  Washington.    He  died  August  15,  181 5-2 

Williamson,  Hugh,  son  of  John  Williamson,  was  born  at  WTest  Nottingham,  Penn- 
sylvania, December  5,  1735.  He  studied  theology,  and  was  a  professor  in  the  College  of 
Philadelphia,  1760-63.  He  was  for  a  number  of  years  in  England,  and  then  engaged  in 
commerce  in  South  Carolina,  after  which  he  practiced  medicine  at  Edentown,  North  Caro- 
lina. Here  he  was  elected  to  the  State  Legislature,  and  was  twice  (1782,  1787)  elected 
to  the  Continental  Congress.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Federal  Convention  and  also  of 
the  State  Convention  to  consider  the  United  States  Constitution,  and  was  elected  to  the 
First  Congress.    He  removed  to  New  York,  where  he  died,  May  22,  18 19. 3 

RHODE  ISLAND. 

Bourne,  Benjamin,  son  of  Shearjashut  Bourne,  was  born  in  Bristol,  Rhode  Island,  Sep- 
tember 9,  1755.  He  was  educated  at  Harvard,  and  entered  the  law,  practicing  at  Providence. 
In  1776  he  was  an  ensign  in  the  Second  Rhode  Island  Regiment,  and  was  shortly  after  made 
Quartermaster-General  for  the  State.  From  1 780  till  1 789  he  was  a  deputy  to  the  Legisla- 
ture, and  was  one  of  the  signers  of  the  protest  against  his  State's  refusal  to  send  delegates  to 
the  Federal  Convention.  He  was  elected  to  the  First  Congress,  and  was  re-elected  to  the 
three  successive  ones,  but  resigned  in  1796.  In  1801  he  was  appointed  United  States  District 
Judge.    He  died  September  17,  1808. 

Foster,  Theodore,  son  of  Jedediah  Foster,  was  born  in  Brookfield,  Massachusetts,  April 
29,  1752,  and  graduated  from  Rhode  Island  (now  Brown)  College  in  1770.    He  studied  law, 


'See  Gilmore's  "Rear-Guard  of  the  Revolution,"  New  York,  1886;  and  Gilmore's  "John  Sevier,"  New  York,  1887. 

3  Fuller  details  are  given  in  Wheeler's  "  History  of  North  Carolina,"  vol.  ii,  p.  382. 

'More  concerning  him  will  be  found  in  Hosack's  "Life  of  Hugh  Williamson,"  New  York,  1820. 


THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


and  in  1773  was  made  a  justice  of  the  peace;  and  two  years  later  Town  Clerk  of  Providence, 
and  in  1777  sheriff  of  that  county.  He  was  a  deputy  to  the  General  Assembly  from  1776  to 
1  781,  and  during  the  same  period  was  Secretary  of  the  Rhode  Island  Council  of  War.  He 
was  appointed  Naval  Officer  for  Providence,  but  resigned  on  being  chosen  United  States 
Senator  in  1790.  In  this  office  he  continued  till  1803,  when  he  resigned,  and  retired  into 
private  life.    He  died  at  Foster,  Rhode  Island,  June  13,  1828. 1 

Stanton,  Joseph,  son  of  Joseph  Stanton,  was  born  at  Charlestown,  Rhode  Island,  July 
19,  1739.  He  served  as  second  lieutenant  in  a  Rhode  Island  "train-band"  during  the  French 
and  Indian  War,  and  from  1768  till  1  790  was  almost  continuously  a  member  of  the  General 
Assembly.  In  1775  he  was  one  of  the  Committee  of  Safety,  and  during  the  Revolution 
served  as  captain  and  colonel  of  a  Rhode  Island  regiment,  and  in  1779  was  made  a  brigadier- 
general.  In  1790  he  was  a  delegate  to  the  convention  which  ratified  the  United  States  Con- 
stitution, in  which,  however,  he  opposed  its  adoption.  In  this  same  year  he  was  elected 
United  States  Senator,  serving  till  1793,  when  he  was  defeated  in  his  re-election,  by  his  oppo- 
sition to  the  Federal  policy.  From  1793  till  1801  he  was  almost  constantly  a  delegate  to  the 
General  Assembly,  and  from  1801  till  1807  he  was  a  Representative  in  Congress.  He  died 
December  15,  1821.8 


1  Fuller  facts  are  given  in  W.  E.  Foster's  "Life  of  Theodore  Foster,"  in  "Collections  of  the  Rhode  Island  Historical 
Society,"  vol.  vii,  p.  III. 

2  Some  of  these  facts  were  kindly  furnished  by  Mr.  Richard  A.  Wheeler.  See  "  Biographical  Encyclopaedia  of  Rhode 
Island." 


CHAPTER  III. 


THE  SEMI-CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON  S  INAUGURATION. 


The  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the 
inauguration  of  George  Washing- 
ton, as  President  of  the  United 
States,  was  celebrated  in  New 
York  on  April  30,  1839.  The  ar- 
rangements for  the  celebration  were 
made  under  the  direction  of  the 
New  York  Historical  Society.  The 
Committee  of  Arrangements,  ap- 
pointed by  the  society,  invited  John 
Quincy  Adams  to  deliver  the  ora- 
tion, and,  in  selecting  the  building 
where  the  oration  should  be  de- 
livered, naturally  turned  to  St.  Paul's 
Chapel.  In  a  letter  addressed  by 
the  committee  "  to  the  Rector,  War- 
dens, and  Vestrymen  of  Trinity 
Church,"  it  is  stated  that  "  it  ap- 
pears that  on  the  day  of  the  inaug- 
uration of  General  Washington  the 
officers  of  the  Government,  both 
Houses  of  Congress,  and  the  for- 
eign ministers,  went  in  procession 
to  St.  Paul's  to  hear  divine  service 
and  a  discourse  suitable  to  the  occa- 
sion. In  celebrating  that  event, 
after  the  lapse  of  fifty  years,  during 
which  the  nation,  under  guidance 
of  Presidents,  has  realized  beyond 
all  expectation  the  joys  anticipated  from  the  formation  of  our  Government,  the  committee 
are  strongly  impressed  with  the  propriety  of  assembling  in  the  venerable  edifice  where  half  a 


ALEXANDER  HAMILTON. 
From  the  bust  modeled  from  life  in  1794  by  Guiseppe  Ccracchi, 
and  in  the  possession  of  Mrs.  Alexander  Hamilton,  widow  of  grandson, 
Irvington-on-Hudson,  New  York. 


96        THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


century  since  our  pious  ancestors  invoked  a  divine  blessing  upon  their  solemn  undertaking. 
With  that  view  the  undersigned  would  respectfully  ask  the  use  of  the  church  on  the  30th 
instant,  for  the  performance  of  public  service,  and  the  delivery  of  the  address  by  the  late 
President  of  the  United  States."  The  letter,  dated  April  8,  1839,  vvas  signed  by  the  chair- 
man, John  Blunt,  and  by  Samuel  R.  Betts,  William  B.  Lawrence,  and  William  L.  Campbell. 

But  the  Vestry  of  Trinity  Church  declined  the  application  of  the  Committee  of  the  New 
York  Historical  Society  for  the  use  of  St.  Paul's  Chapel,  and  application  was  therefore  made 
to  the  Consistory  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church,  for  the  use  of  the  Middle  Dutch  Church 
in  Cedar  Street,  where  the  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company  building  now  stands,  and  the 
Consistory  unanimously  resolved  to  grant  the  request  of  the  New  York  Historical  Society. 

Many  gentlemen  of  distinction  throughout  the  country  were  invited  to  attend  the  cele- 
bration, and  among  those  who  accepted  the  invitation  were  Governor  William  Wolcott 
Ellsworth,  of  Connecticut ;  Governor  Pennington,  of  New  Jersey ;  Chancellor  Walworth, 
Chief-Justice  Taney,  Associate-Justice  Story,  Colonel  John  Trumbull,  and  Jared  Sparks. 

Fifty  years  ago  the  30th  of  April  occurred  on  the  same  day  of  the  week,  Tuesday,  as  it 
did  in  the  year  1889  ;  and  John  Ouincy  Adams  arrived  in  New  York  on  Monday,  April  29th, 
the  same  day  of  the  week  and  month  in  which  President  Harrison  arrived  in  New  York 
in  1889. 

Peter  Gerard  Stuyvesant,  the  President  of  the  New  York  Historical  Society,  entertained 
on  Monday  evening  ex-President  Adams,  and  a  large  number  of  the  members  of  the  Historical 
Society,  at  the  Society  Rooms,  which  were  then  in  the  Stuyvesant  Institute,  situated  at  659 
Broadway. 

On  Tuesday,  April  30th,  at  eleven  o'clock,  the  members  of  the  Historical  Society  and 
invited  guests  assembled  at  the  City  Hotel,  at  115  Broadway,  where  the  Boreel  building  now 
stands,  and  paid  their  respects  to  the  distinguished  guests,  the  most  illustrious  of  whom  were 
the  Revolutionary  heroes  and  the  venerable  orator,  ex-President  John  Ouincy  Adams. 

Among  the  other  gentlemen  present  were  Colonel  John  Trumbull ;  General  Morgan 
Lewis,  Grand  Marshal  at  Washington's  Inauguration  in  1789;  Mr.  Justice  Thompson,  of 
the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States  ;  his  Excellency,  William  Pennington,  Governor 
of  New  Jersey;  Hon.  Samuel  L.  Southard,  of  the  United  States  Senate;  Major-General 
Winfield  Scott  and  suite,  of  the  United  States  Army ;  Commodore  Alexander  Claxton,  of 
the  United  States  Navy;  Hon.  John  Davis,  Judge  of  the  United  States  District  Court  for 
Massachusetts;  Baron  de  Roenne,  late  Charge"  d Affaires  for  Prussia;  Hon.  William  A. 
Duer,  President  of  Columbia  College  ;  Albert  Smith,  member  of  Congress  from  Maine  ; 
Nathan  Appleton,  late  member  of  Congress  from  Boston  ;  William  S.  Hastings,  member  of 
Congress  from  Massachusetts  ;  Daniel  D.  Barnard,  member  of  Congress  from  Albany;  Elisha 
Whittlesey,  member  of  Congress  from  Ohio  ;  John  Howland,  President  of  the  Rhode  Island 
Historical  Society;  William  Willis,  of  the  Maine  Historical  Society;  and  Jacob  B.  Moore, 
of  the  New  Hampshire  Historical  Society. 


Autist,  Sir  Joshua  Reynolds.  R.  A.  Owned  by  Charles 
Carkoll  Mactavish,  Great  Great  Grandson  and  Vir- 
ginia Scott  Mactavisii.  Great  Great  Granddaughter. 
Baltimore,  Md.,  and  deposited  in  the  Maryland  His- 
torical Society. 


Artist,  Chester  Harding,  i8b8.  Owned  b\  Charles 
Carroll  Mactavish.  Great  Great  Grandson  and 
Virginia  Su.ir  Mxliaximi.  Great  Great  Grand- 
daughi  BR,  Bali  imorb.  M  d. 


Artist,  Thomas  Si  lly.  1827  (Original  Study) 
Owned  by  Massachusetts  Historical  Society, 


From  Crayon  drawing  by  St.  Memin.  1804.  Owned  h 
Miss  Emily  L.  Harper,  Granddaughter,  B\i  riMORS  Mi 


Artist,  C.  W.  Peale.  Oxyned  by  City  of  Phila- 
delphia and  deposited  in  Independence  Hall 
(  Old  State  Holm-  I, 


Artist,  R.  Field.  Owned  my  Charles  Carroll 
Mactavish.  Greai  Great  Grandson,  and  Vir- 
ginia   Scon    Mactavish,  Great  Greai  Grand- 

DALGHIKE,  BaI.TI.MORK.  Md. 


i 


y 


Artist,  William  J.  Hi  bard.  Owned  BV  Mrs.  Mary  C. 
Acosta,  Great  Granddaughter.  Baltimore,  Md.  and 

DEPOSITED  IN  THE  MARYLAND  HISTORICAL  SOCIETY, 


Artist.  Charles  B.  King.  Owned  by  Gov.  John  Lee 
Carroll,  Great  Grandson,  "Doughoragan  Manor."  Mi< 


Portraits  of  Charles  Carroll  of  Carrollton.  Senator  from  Maryland  of  the 

First  Congress  under  the  Constitution. 


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At  twelve  o'clock  the  company  proceeded  to  the  Middle  Dutch  Church,  in  Cedar 
Street.  Tickets  of  admission  to  the  church  were  required.  A  temporary  stage  was 
erected  in  front  of  the  pulpit  for  the  convenience  of  invited  guests,  and  on  the  stage 
was  placed  the  same  chair  which  George  Washington  occupied  at  Federal  Hall  on  the 
day  of  his  inauguration.  This  very  chair  President  Harrison  occupied  during  the  lit- 
erary exercises  on  the  steps  of  the  sub-Treasury  on  April  30,  1889,  and  Mr.  Adams 
sat  in  the  same  chair  in  1839.  Or*  the  right  sat  Peter  Gerard  Stuyvesant,  the  President 
of  the  New  York  Historical  Society,  and  on  the  left  Philip  Hone,  one  of  the  vice-presi- 
dents of  the  society. 

The  exercises  were  opened  with  prayer  by  the  Rev.  John  Knox,  D.  D.,  one  of  the 
Associate  Pastors  of  the  Dutch  Collegiate  Church.  The  following  ode,  written  for  the 
occasion  by  William  Cullen  Bryant,  was  then  : 
the  entire  audience,  to  the  tune  of  Old  Hundrec 

"  Great  were  the  hearts  and  strong  the  minds 
Of  those  who  framed  in  high  debate 
The  immortal  league  of  love  that  binds 
Our  fair  broad  empire  State  with  State. 

"  And  ever  hallowed  be  the  hour 

When,  as  the  auspicious  task  was  done, 
A  nation's  gift,  the  sword  of  power, 
Was  given  to  glory's  unspoiled  son. 

"That  noble  race  is  gone;  the  suns 
Of  fifty  years  have  risen  and  set ; 
The  holy  links  those  mighty  ones 

Had  forged  and  knit,  are  brighter  yet. 

"  Wide — as  our  own  free  race  increase — 
Wide  shall  it  stretch  th'  elastic  chain, 
And  bind,  in  everlasting  peace, 
State  after  State,  a  mighty  train." 

Mr.  Adams  occupied  about  two  hours  in  the  delivery  of  his  oration,  in  the  course  of 
which  he  said : 

"  And  on  that  day  of  which  you  now  commemorate  the  fiftieth  anniversary,  on  that  30th  day  of  April, 
1789,  was  this  mighty  revolution,  not  only  in  the  affairs  of  our  country,  but  in  the  principles  of  government  over 
civilized  man,  accomplished.  The  Revolution  itself  was  the  work  of  thirteen  years,  and  had  never  been  com- 
pleted until  that  day.  The  Declaration  of  Independence  and  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States  are  parts  of 
one  consistent  whole,  founded  upon  one  and  the  same  theory  of  government." 

The  exercises  were  brought  to  a  close  with  prayer  and  the  benediction  by  the  Rev. 

J.  M.  Wainwright,  D.  D.,  of  Trinity  Church. 

The  banquet  in  the  evening  was  held  at  the  City  Hotel,  and  was  attended  by  more 

than  two  hundred  gentlemen.    The  cross-table  at  the  upper  end  of  the  dining  hall  was 
14 


GOLD  WATCH  WORN  BY  JOHN  JAY. 
Owned  by  his  grandson,  John  Jay  of 
New  York. 
(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  570.) 


98 


THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 


GOLD  SNUFF-BOX  PRESENTED  BY  THE  CORPORATION 
OF  THE  CITY  OF  NEW  YORK  TO  JOHN  JAY. 
Owned  by  his  grandson,  John  C.  Jay,  Rye,  New  York. 
(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  569). 


occupied  by  twenty  invited  guests,  and  the  three  tables  that  extended  down  the  length 
of  the   room   each    contained   sixty-two   covers.     The   company    included    all   the  city 

judges,  many  eminent  lawyers,  and  dis- 
tinguished clergymen.  "  A  strong  choir, 
consisting  of  Mr.  Charles  E.  Horn,  his 
son,  Mr.  Sinclair,  and  Mr.  Kyle,  sang 
fine  old  glees  and  occasionally  a  solo ; 
and  performed  Non  nobis,  Domine,  with 
great  solemnity,  immediately  after  Dr. 
Wainwright's  eloquent  benediction.  An 
ode  was  also  recited  by  Mr.  Mellen, 
which  was  written  by  him  for  the  occa- 
sion. The  hall  was  decorated  by  Stuart's 
five  portraits  of  the  first  five  Presidents, 
the  property  of  Colonel  George  Gibbs  ; 
and  in  front  of  the  orchestra  was  suspended  Pine's  original  portrait  of  Washington,  belong- 
ing to  Mr.  Brevoort." 1 

In  response  to  a  toast,  Mr.  Adams,  in  the  course  of  his  remarks,  in  comparing  the 
year  1839  with  the  year  1 789,  said: 

"Our  days  of  enjoyment  are  better  than  theirs,  but  our  days  of  enjoyment  are  the  fruits  of  their  days  of 
toil,  of  danger,  of  suffering,  of  lofty  and  generous  exertion ;  and  can  I  choose  but  be  reminded  of  them  when  I 
see  at  your  side  "  (General  Morgan  Lewis  was  seated  next  to  the  president),  "  and  at  mine  "  (Colonel  John 
Trumbull),  "  relics  of  those  trying  times,  conspicuous  as  actors  in  the  drama  of  those  days,  and  still  worthy 
representatives  of  them  ?  " 

Other  toasts  at  the  banquet  were  responded  to  by  Major-General  Scott,  and  President 
Duer,  of  Columbia  College.  General  Morgan  Lewis,  the  marshal,  as  before  stated,  on  the 
30th  of  April,  1 789,  and  who  had  since  filled  many  important  offices,  including  that  of 
Governor  of  the  State  of  New  York,  was  also  called  upon  to  respond  to  a  toast,  and  in 
acknowledgment  gave  the  following  sentiment : 

"  Our  country — her  progressive  prosperity  from  the  epoch  we  this  day  celebrate-  affords  the  best  comment 
on  her  form  of  government  and  its  general  administration." 

William  Willis,  of  Portland,  a  delegate  from  the  Maine  Historical  Society,  in  closing 
his  speech  proposed  the  following  sentiment,  referring  to  the  celebration  of  the  one  hun- 
dredth anniversary  of  the  inauguration  of  Washington  : 

"  The  next  fifty  years'  jubilee  of  the  New  York  Historical  Society  :  May  it  find  our  national  banner  con- 
tinuing to  float  over  an  undivided  republic,  and  our  motto  still  be,  '  One  country,  one  Constitution,  one  destiny.' " 


'"Diary  of  Philip  Hone,"  vol.  i,  p.  358. 


THE  SEMI-CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION.  99 

Philip  Hone,  one  of  the  Committee  of  Arrangements,  gives  in  his  diary  a  description 
of  the  celebration,  closing  as  follows : 

"  After  the  regular  toasts,  the  president  called  upon  me  for  a  volunteer.  I  made  a  speech  in  allusion  to 
the  great  events  which  occurred  on  the  day  we  were  celebrating  within  the  gallery  of  the  old  Federal  Hall,  the 
view  of  which  was  directly  in  front  of  me,  and  read 
some  extracts  from  an  account  of  the  proceedings  and 
from  the  speech  which  was  then  pronounced  by  Wash- 
ington, all  of  which  I  had  previously  obtained  from  the 
New  York  Gazette  of  May  i,  1789.  I  also  took  occa- 
sion to  pass  a  compliment  upon  the  veteran  Governor 
Lewis,  now  present,  who  then,  as  Colonel  Lewis,  com- 
manded the  troops  who  escorted  the  President  from 
his  lodgings  to  the  hall.  I  concluded  my  speech  by  the 
following  toast,  which  was  well  received :  '  The  old 
Federal  Hall :  it  witnessed  the  greatest  contract  ever 
made  in  Wall  Street.  It  is  our  precious  inheritance ; 
let  us  ever  remember  that  we  also  have  a  covenant  to 
perform.'  Thus  ended  brilliantly  the  day  which  I  had 
anticipated  with  painful  misgivings."1 


GILBERT  STUART. 
From  a  miniature  by  Sarali  Goodridge,  set  in  a  bracelet  made  of 
the  hair  of  ( iilbert  Stuart  and  his  wife. 
Owned  by  Samuel  R.  Honey,  Newport,  Rhode  Island. 
(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  198.) 


John  Quincy  Adams  wrote  in  his  diary,  regarding  what  he  did  in  New  York  on  April  30, 
1839: 

"  At  six  this  morning  Charles  came  into  my  chamber  from  Boston.    The  Rev.  Dr.  Francis  Parkman  and 

W.  P.  Lunt,  Nathan  Appleton,  Southworth,  Dawes,  and  from  Oberlin  Seminary,  in  Ohio,  for  subscriptions, 

recommendations,  and  books.  At  11  a.  m.,  meeting  of  the  Historical  Society  at  the  City  Hotel.  At  noon, 
short  procession  to  Middle  Dutch  Church,  corner  of  Nassau  Street.  Prayer  by  the  pastor ;  ode  by  the  choir.  I 
delivered  an  address  of  two  hours;  well  received.  Crowded  church.  Mr.  Duer,  President  of  the  Columbia 
College,  accompanied  me  to  my  lodgings.  I  then  went  with  him  and  Charles  to  the  college;  saw  the  library 
and  portraits  of  presidents  and  professors.  Return  to  my  lodgings;  two  hours'  repose.  At  5  p.  m.,  dinner 
at  the  City  Hotel  of  three  hundred  persons — Judge  Davis,  Morgan  Lewis,  Colonel  Trumbull,  Captain  Galla- 
gher, Samuel  L.  Southard,  General  Scott,  President  Duer,  L.  Hastings,  N.  Appleton,  and  many  others.  Speeches 
at  the  dinner.    Left  the  hall  n  p.  m." 


A  quotation  from  "  The  Jubilee  of  the  Constitution,"  a  book  which  gives  a  full  account  of 
the  semi-Centennial  of  Washington's  Inauguration,  shows  how  April  30,  1839,  ended: 

"In  the  course  of  the  evening,  a  fine  transparency,  representing  old  Federal  Hall,  formerly  standing  on  .the 
corner  of  Wall  and  Nassau  Streets,  the  scene  of  Washington's  inauguration,  was  disclosed  by  the  withdrawal  of 
a  curtain  at  the  upper  end  of  the  hall,  and  produced  a  brilliant  effect.  The  figures  of  Washington  and  Chan- 
cellor Livingston  were  seen  in  the  balcony,  the  one  laying  his  hand  upon  the  book,  while  the  other  administered 
the  oath  of  office  in  the  presence  of  a  vast  concourse  of  people.  The  painting  was  extremely  well  executed, 
and,  taking  the  company  by  surprise,  drew  forth  long  and  loud  applause.  The  hall  was  also  decorated  with 
copies  of  Stuart's  portraits  of  the  first  five  Presidents  of  the  United  States — copies  painted  by  Stuart  himself. 
The  festivities  were  continued  to  a  late  hour,  and  brought  to  a  brilliant  close  the  commemoration  of  a  day  long 
to  be  remembered  in  the  annals  of  our  country's  happiness  and  prosperity." 


1  '*  Diary  of  Philip  Hone,"  vol.  i,  p.  359. 


CHAPTER  IV. 


THE   PRELIMINARY   WORK   OF  THE  CENTENNIAL  CELEBRATION  OF  THE  INAUGURATION  OF 

WASHINGTON. 


I.    ORGANIZATION  AND  WORK 
OF  THE  COMMITTEES. 

In  April,  of  1875,  occurred 
the  centennial  of  the  battle  of 
Lexington.  Afterward  came  the 
Bunker  Hill  celebration  of  June 
17,  1875,  and  the  great  celebra- 
tion of  the  Declaration  of  Inde- 
pendence at  Philadelphia  in  1876. 
Since  then  have  taken  place  the 
Yorktown  centennial  celebration, 
the  Evacuation-day  celebration, 
the  celebration  of  the  adoption  of 
the  Constitution  of  the  United 
States,  and  other  similar  centen- 
nial celebrations.  In  April,  of 
1889,  occurred  the  One  Hun- 
dredth Anniversary  of  the  Inau- 
guration of  George  Washington  as 
President  of  the  United  States. 
The  formation  of  the  Constitution 
was  the  outgrowth  of  the  Decla- 
ration of  Independence,  but  the 
capping  to  the  foundations  that 
were  laid  in  1776  occurred  thirteen 
years  later,  when  the  first  Presi- 
dent of  the  United  States  was  in- 
augurated. This  historic  ceremo- 
ny it  was  that  set  the  wheels  of  government  in  full  motion.  The  United  States  of 
America  then  became  a  reality  in  every  sense  of  the  word. 


JOHN  JAY. 

From  a  life-size  bust  by  Guiseppe  Ceracchi,  belonging  to  his  grand-daughter 
Mrs.  Matthew  Clarkson,  New  York. 


PIERCE  BUTLER. 
From  Miniature  owned  by  Mrs.  Sakah 
Butler  Wistar.  Great  Granddm'ghter, 
Philadelphia. 


PIERCE  BUTLER 

From  Miniature  owned  bv  Mrs.  Sarah 
Butler  Wistar,  Great  Granddaughter, 
Philadelphia. 


RALPH  IZARD,  at  Cambridge  University,  England. 
Artist.  Johan  Zofpanv.   Owned  bv  Lot  is  Mamgault,  Greai  Grandson. 


Charleston,  S.  C. 


RALPH  IZARD. 
From  Oil  Miniature  bv  J.  Trimbi  ll,  1741.  Owned  bv 
Yale  University. 


THOMAS  TUDOR  TUCKER 
From  Engraving  on  copper  bv  St.  Memin,  1805.    Owned  bv 
Corcoran  Gallery  ok  Art,  Washington.  D.  C 


THOMAS  TUDOR  TUCKER. 
From  Crayon  Drawing  bv  St.  Memin,  1805.    Owned  bv 
Mrs.  Cynthia  Beverley  Tucker  Coleman,  Grand  Niece, 
Williams  burgh,  Va. 


AEDANUS  BURKE. 

From  a  portrait  belonging  to  the  Hibernian  Society.  Charleston.  S.  C 


The  South  Carolina  Delegation  in  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution. 


PRELIMINARY  WORK  OF  THE  CELEBRATION. 


101 


It  seemed  fitting,  therefore,  some  years  before  April  30,  1889,  that  an  event  so  august  as 
the  inauguration  of  Washington  should  be  grandly  celebrated ;  and  a  history  of  the  origin  and 
growth  of  the  movement  to  celebrate  this  event  is  certainly  worth  recording. 

On  the  evening  of  March  4,  1884,  at  a  meeting  of  the  New  York  Historical  Society, 
the  following  resolutions  were  unanimously  adopted  : 

'■'■Resolved,  That  the  New  York  Historical  Society  will  celebrate  the  Centennial  Anniversary  of  the  Inaugu- 
ration of  George  Washington  as  President  of  the  United  States  on  the  30th  day  of  April,  1789. 

"  Resolved,  That  it  be  referred  to  the  Executive  Committee  to  take  such  action  as  may  be  necessary  and 
expedient,  and  in  due  time  report  a  plan  to  carry  out  the  purpose  of  the  Society  in  a  manner  suitable  to  the 
occasion — the  commemoration  of  the  most  important  event  in  the  history  of  the  City,  the  State,  and  the 
Nation." 

To  the  New  York  Historical  Society,  therefore,  belongs  the  credit  of  initiating  the  cen- 
tennial as  well  as  the  semi-centennial  celebration  of  Washington's  inauguration. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  New  York  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution,  on  February  21, 
1885,  a  resolution  was  offered  by  William  O.  McDowell  for  the  appointment  of  a  committee 
of  five  on  a  celebration  of  the  centennial  of  Washington's  inauguration  ;  and  at  a  meeting 
of  the  trustees  of  the  society  on  March  3d,  of  the  same  year,  the  following  resolution,  offered 
by  James  M.  Montgomery,  was  adopted  : 

"Resolved,  That  a  committee  of  thirteen,  of  which  the  president  of  this  society  shall  be  chairman,  be 
appointed  to  consider  and  report  a  plan  for  the  centennial  celebration  of  the  inauguration  of  George  Wash- 
ington, in  Federal  Hall,  this  city,  on  the  30th  of  April,  1789,  as  the  first  President  of  the  United  States." 

On  February  4,  1886,  at  the  regular  monthly  meeting  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  of 
New  York,  Nathaniel  Niles,  a  member  of  the  Chamber,  spoke  as  follows  : 

"  Mr.  President  :  It  is  generally  known  that  on  the  30th  day  of  April,  1789,  in  the  city  of  New  York,  the 
first  Congress  of  the  United  States  under  the  Constitution  was  held,  and  the  first  President  was  inaugurated. 
It  was  the  birthday  of  the  Government  of  the  United  States.  The  30th  day  of  April,  1889,  will  be  the  centen- 
nial anniversary  of  those  events  and  all  their  noble  surroundings.  It  would  seem  fit  that  the  day  should  be 
properly  celebrated.    I,  therefore,  beg  to  offer  the  following  resolution  : 

"Whereas,  The  30th  day  of  April,  1889,  will  be  the  centennial  anniversary  of  the  organization  of  the 
constitutional  Government  of  the  United  States,  of  the  first  meeting  of  Congress,  and  of  the  inauguration  of 
General  Washington  in  the  city  of  New  York ;  therefore — 

"Resolved,  That  a  committee  of  five  be  appointed  by  the  Chair  to  consider  and  report  what  action,  if  any, 
should  be  taken  toward  securing  a  proper  celebration  of  the  day  and  of  the  great  events  immediately  sur- 
rounding it." 

The  following  committee,  in  accordance  with  the  above  resolution,  was  appointed  : 
Nathaniel  Niles,  Charles  S.  Smith,  Daniel  C.  Robbins,  Richard  A.  McCurdy,  William  H. 
Robertson. 

In  the  records  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  of  the  meeting  of  the  Chamber  for  April 
1,  1886,  the  following  entry  appears: 

"  Mr.  Nathaniel  Niles,  chairman  of  the  Special  Committee  appointed  on  the  4th  of  February  last  to  consider 
and  report  what  action,  if  any,  should  be  taken  by  the  Chamber  toward  securing  a  proper  celebration  of  the 


io2       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 

Centennial  anniversary  of  the  organization  in  this  city  of  the  constitutional  Government  of  the  United  States 
and  the  inauguration  of  Washington  as  first  President,  submitted  the  following  report : 

"  To  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  :  Your  committee,  appointed  on  February  4th  to  consider  and  report  what 
action,  if  any,  should  be  taken  toward  securing  a  proper  celebration  of  the  centennial  anniversary  of  the 
organization  of  the  constitutional  Government  of  the  United  States,  of  the  first  meeting  of  Congress,  and  of 
the  inauguration  of  General  Washington  as  the  first  President,  in  this  city,  which  will  occur  on  the  30th  day 
of  April,  1889,  respectfully  report  that  they  have  carefully  considered  the  subject,  and  beg  to  offer  the  follow- 
ing preamble  and  resolution : 

"WHEREAS,  The  centennial  anniversary  of  the  organization  of  the  constitutional  Government  of  the  United 
States,  of  the  first  meeting  of  Congress,  and  of  the  inauguration  of  General  Washington  as  President  of  the 
United  States,  in  the  city  of  New  York,  will  occur  on  the  30th  day  of  April,  1889;  and 

"WHEREAS,  It  is  proper  that  the  anniversary  of  these  great  national  events  should  be  properly  observed; 
therefore — 

"Resolved,  That  a  committee  be  appointed  by  this  Chamber  to  prepare  a  bill  to  be  presented  to  Congress 
for  the  purpose  of  securing  the  following  objects: 

"  1.  That  the  day  referred  to  shall  be  made  for  the  purpose  of  this  celebration,  to  wit,  the  30th  day  of 
April,  1889,  a  national  holiday. 

"  2.  That  Congress  shall  be  asked  to  make  a  suitable  appropriation  for  the  purpose  of  carrying  into  effect 
the  proposed  celebration,  and  that  the  President  be  authorized  to  invite  foreign  powers  to  send  representatives 
as  guests  of  the  nation. 

"  3.  That  the  committee  be  requested  to  bring  the  matter  to  the  attention  of  the  Governor  of  this  State, 
and  that  the  Legislature  be  also  requested  to  make  an  appropriation  to  carry  the  same  into  effect. 

"  4.  That  the  committee  be  formally  requested  to  invite  the  co-operation  of  the  Mayor,  Aldermen,  and 
Commonalty  of  the  city  of  New  York. 

''5.  That  an  invitation  be  extended  to  the  Governors  of  the  various  States  and  Territories  of  the  Union  to 
send  delegations  to  take  part  in  the  proposed  celebration,  and  otherwise  aid  the  same  as  may  be  deemed  by 
them  expedient  and  proper. 

"(Signed)  Nathaniel  Niles,  Richard  A.  McCurdy, 

Charles  S.  Smith,  William  H.  Robertson, 

Daniel  C.  Robbins,  Special  Committee. 

"  New  York,  March  2j,  1886. 

"  On  motion  of  Mr.  James  S.  T.  Stranahan,  the  report  was  accepted,  and  the  resolution  unanimously 
adopted." 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  on  May  6,  1886,  the  president  named 
the  following  gentlemen  as  a  Special  Committee  on  the  Celebration  of  the  Centennial 
Anniversary  of  the  Organization  in  this  City  of  the  Constitutional  Government  of  the 
United  States,  and  the  Inauguration  of  Washington  as  the  first  President : 


Levi  P.  Morton, 
Samuel  D.  Babcock, 
Nathaniel  Niles-, 
Richard  A.  McCurdy, 
Daniel  C.  Robbins, 
Franki.ix  Fdson, 
Chauncey  M.  Depew, 


Henry  Hentz, 
A.  Foster  Higgins, 
Francis  B.  Thurber, 
Benjamin  G.  Arnold, 
John  H.  Inman, 
William  H.  Robertson, 
Jackson  S.  Schultz, 


Enoch  L.  Fancher, 
Gustav  Schwab, 
John  Sloane, 
Le  Grand  B.  Cannon, 
Orlando  B.  Potter, 
Cornelius  N.  Bliss, 
William  E.  Dodge, 


William  B.  Dinsmore, 
Erastus  Wiman, 
Charles  Watrous, 
Vernon  H.  Brown. 


James  M.  Brown,  the  President  of  the  Chamber,  was  made  chairman  of  the  com- 
mittee. 


WM   LOUGHTON  SMITH 
From  Oil  Miniature  by  J.  Trumbull,  1792 
Owned  by  Yale  University. 


DANIEL  HUGER 

From  Portrait  belonging  to 
William  E.  Huger.  Great 
Grandson,  Charleston,  S.  C 


WM.  LOUGHTON  SMITH. 
Artist,  J.  Trumbull.  Owned  by  G.  E.  Mamgault.  M.  D. 
Charleston.  S.  C. 

No  192.) 


WM.  LOUGHTON  SMITH 
Artist.  Gilbert  Stuart.     Owned  by  Carolina  Art  Association. 
Charleston,  S.  C. 


THOMAS  SUMTER. 

Artist.  Thos.  Sully.   Owned  by  the  Misses. 
Brownfield,  Great  Granddaughter, 
Summerville,  S.  C. 


THOMAS  SUMTER  at  age  94 
Artist.  Harv  ey  Mitchell.  1830.    Owned  by  the  Misses 
Brownfield.  Great  Granddaughters^ 

SUMMERY! 


THOMAS  SUMTER. 
Artist,  C.  W.  Peale.     Owned  by  City  of  Philadelphia  ami  de- 
posited in  Independence  Hall. 


THE  SOUTH  CAROLINA  DELEGATION  IN  THE  FIRST  CONGRESS  UNDER  THE  CONSTITUTION. 


PRELIMINARY  WORK  OF  THE  CELEBRATION. 


103 


The  action  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  was  confined  to  the  reports  above  indicated. 
The  committee  once  or  twice  made  a  formal  report  of  progress.  But  when  the  move- 
ment to  celebrate  the  centennial  of  Washington's  inauguration  had  taken  form  under  out- 
side auspices,  it  was  thought  best  by  the  Chamber  to  relinquish  all  attempts  at  a  separate 
celebration.  The  Committee  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  was  subsequently  merged  in 
the  Committee  of  Citizens. 

To  Colonel  Jesse  E.  Peyton,  of  Haddonfield,  New  Jersey,  is  due  the  credit  of  initiat- 
ing the  movement  wherebv  the  Committee  of  Citizens  of  New  York  was  organized  to 
make  preparations  for  the  celebration.  Colonel  Peyton  prepared  resolutions  which  were 
introduced  in  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Tennessee,  in  1883. 1 

In  the  fall  of  1887  Colonel  Peyton  visited  New  York,  and  conferred  with  the  late  Algernon 
S.  Sullivan  regarding  the  desirability  of  celebrating  in  1889  the  inauguration  of  1789.  As 
the  result  of  such  conferences,  Colonel  Peyton  drew  up  a  call  for  a  meeting  of  the  citizens  of 
New  York  and  obtained  numerous  signatures  thereto.  The  following  is  the  call,  including 
the  list  of  signatures : 


"  Through  the  press,  and  by  the  action  of  prominent  public  societies,  it  is  understood  that  a  general  desire 
exists  to  celebrate  in  New  York  in  the  year  1889  the  centennial  of  the  inauguration  of  the  United  States 
Government. 

"That  event  took  place  April  30,  1789,  when  the  First  Congress  was  in  session  in  this  city,  and  when  Wash- 
ington took  the  oath  of  office  as  first  President. 

"  The  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Tennessee  has  recently  passed  joint  resolutions  recommending  that 
arrangements  be  made  for  such  a  celebration,  in  which  the  people  of  all  the  States  and  Territories  of  the 
American  Union  shall  take  part,  and  also  requesting  the  Governor  of  Tennessee  to  communicate  the  resolutions 
to  the  President  of  the  United  States  and  to  the  Governors  of  all  the  States  and  Territories,  to  the  end  that 
the  celebration  shall  be  national. 

"  If  the  celebration  is  to  be  of  character  and  proportions  worthy  its  subject  and  worthy  of  New  York, 
it  would  seem  that  no  time  is  to  be  lost  in  organizing  here  the  necessary  agencies  and  plans  among  our 
citizens. 

"  The  undersigned,  therefore,  who  are  in  sympathy  with  the  proposed  celebration,  will  meet  other  citizens 
at  such  time  as  shall  be  designated,  to  consider  the  matter,  and  take  such  action  in  the  premises  as  may  be 
deemed  suitable : 

"Algernon  S.Sullivan,  C.  W.  Starkey,  James  D.  Smith,  Amer.  Bank  Note  Co.,  ) 


New  Vork,  October  10,  1887. 


James  C.  Spencer, 

B.  H.  Bristow, 
Elbridge  T.  Gerry, 
Wilson  G.  Hunt, 
Chas.  Geo.  Wilson, 
Joseph  H.  Choate, 
f.  r.  coudert, 
Jno.  Jay  Knox, 
Henry  Hall, 

Geo.  W.  McLean, 

C.  N.  Jordan, 


F.  P.  Olcott, 
Edwards  Pierrepont, 
Wm.  Allen  Butler, 
Chas.  M.  Fry, 
John  A.  Stewart, 
J.  D.  Yermilye, 
F.  D.  Tappen, 
Horace  Porter, 
Levi  P.  Morton, 
D.  Huntington, 
Chauncey  M.  Depew, 


Geo.  H.  Potts, 
William  Dowd, 
D.  A.  Heald, 
Henry  A.  Oakley, 
B.  S.  Walcott, 
David  Adee, 
Jno.  H.  Washburn, 
Chas.  Lanier, 
J.  A.  Bostwick, 
Norvix  Green, 
Richard  A.  McCurdy, 


Samuel  Carpenter, 
Elliott  F.  Shepard 
Thos.  L.  James, 
Jno.  H.  Flagg, 
L.  J.  N.  Stark, 
William  Jay, 
George  F.  Baker, 
Franklin  Edson, 
Gustav  Schwab, 
James  F.  Wenman, 


1  The  bill  regarding  the  centennial  of  Washington's  inauguration  was  signed  by  William  B.  Bate,  Governor  of  the  State 
of  Tennessee,  on  March  19,  1S83. 


THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


O.  D.  Baldwin, 
Richard  W.  Gilder, 
Henry  E.  Russell, 
Sargent  &  Co., 
A.  C.  Cheney, 
Donald  Mackav, 
Edward  Schell, 
Brayton  Ives, 
George  G.  Williams, 
Wm.  1'.  Clyde, 
A.  D.  Shepakd, 
John  S.  Kennedy, 
Richard  King, 
Wm.  H.  Tillinghast, 

ROBERT  OLYPHANT, 

J.  Pierpont  Morgan, 
Thos.  C.  Acton, 


J.  J.  Astor, 
Edward  S.  Jaffray, 
Wm.  H.  Appleton, 
John  Claflin, 
Lawrence  &  Co., 
Alfred  Ray, 
Walter  H.  Lewis, 
Wm.  C.  Lang  ley, 

A.  I).  JUILLIARD, 
W.  L.  Strong, 
Tefft,  Weller  &  Co., 
Sweetser,Pemhrook  &  Co 
John  F.  Plummer, 
H.  R.  Bishop, 
D.  O.  Mills, 
S.  V.  White, 
H.  W.  Cannon, 


Tiffany  &  Co., 
Cornelius  N.  Bliss, 
Gorham  Mfg.  Co., 
By  Edward  Holbrook, 
The  Singer  Mfg.  Co.,  / 
F.  G.  Bourne,  Sec,  f 
MERIDEN  Brit.  Co.,  j 
John  G.  Bacon,  M'g'r.,  f 
Wm.  Woodward,  Jr., 
C'J.  Canda, 
A.  E.  Bateman, 
Joseph  W.  Harper, 
Daniel  Manning, 
Samuel  D.  Babcock, 
Wm.  P.  Dixon, 
W.  E.  Dodge, 
Edw.  Cooper, 


D.  F.  Appleton, 

John  Newton, 
\  C.  H.  De  Lamater, 
f  G.  H.  Robinson, 

Geo.  S.  Coe, 

Logan  C.  Murray, 

James  Swann, 

A.  R.  Whitney, 

W.  Rockhill  Potts, 

H.  W.  Webb, 

J.  H.  Van  Antwerp, 

John  King, 

Roscoe  Conkling, 

Henry  Villard, 

W.  H.  Starbuck, 

Van  RensselaerKennedy. 


BROOKLYN. 

Richard  S.  Storrs,  John  W.  Hunter,  A.  E.  Orr,  H.  C.  Duval, 

Henry  E.  Pierrepont,      Gordon  L.  Ford,  Chas.  A.  Townsend,  Richard  Major, 

Ripley  Ropes,  A.  A.  Low,  Henry  W.  Maxwell,  Jos.  F.  Knapp." 

In  accordance  with  the  above  call  a  meeting  of  the  citizens  of  New  York  who  favored 

the  proposed  centennial  celebration  was  held  at  the  Fifth  Avenue  Hotel  on  the  evening  of 
November  10,  1887.    Among  those  present  were: 

Abram  S.  Hewitt,            Col.  Elliott  F.  Shepard,  John  Jay  Knox,  Edward  Holbrook, 

James  C.  Spencer,            Orlando  B.  Potter,        O.  D.  Baldwin,  James  McKeen, 

James  C.  Carter,             C.  J.  Canda,                     Alfred  C.  Cheney,  Col.  Jesse  E.  Peyton, 

Richard  Watson  Gilder,  Gordon  L.Ford,             Nathaniel  Niles,  Clarence  W.  Bowen. 
Logan  C.  Murray,           Algernon  S.  Sullivan,     John  A.  King, 

Hampton  L.  Carson,  Secretary  of  the  Constitutional  Centennial  Commission,  was  also  by 
invitation  present. 

Mayor  Abram  S.  Hewitt,  on  being  elected  chairman,  spoke  of  the  purposes  for  which  the 
gentlemen  present  had  gathered,  alluded  to  the  character  and  influence  of  Washington,  and 
hoped  that  the  Centennial  Anniversary  of  Washington's  Inauguration  as  President  of  the 
United  States  would  be  national  in  scope,  and  based  upon  the  loftiest  ideas  and  most  patriotic 
principles. 

Gordon  L.  Ford  and  Clarence  W.  Bowen  were  elected  secretaries,  and  Algernon  S. 
Sullivan  introduced  resolutions  which,  after  being  amended,  read  as  follows  : 

"  Resolved,  That  the  citizens  of  New  York  desire  to  commemorate,  by  a  suitable  centennial  celebration, 
the  notable  event — namely,  that  in  this  city,  on  the  30th  of  April,  a.  d.  1789,  George  Washington,  the  first 
President-elect,  under  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States,  in  the  presence  of  the  First  Congress  and  of  the 
people,  was  inaugurated  by  taking  the  oath  of  his  office,  and  thus  the  organization  of  our  Federal  Government 
was  completed. 

"  Resolved,  That  we  favor  a  celebration  in  which  the  Federal  Government  and  all  the  States  and  Territories 
shall  be  recognized  participants.    And — 


A 


W 


NICHOLAS  GILMAN. 

Prom  a  miniature  owned  uy  Mrs.  Charles 
H.  Bell,  Exeter,  N.  H. 


NICHOLAS  GILMAN. 

From  a  crayon  drawing  owned  hv  Edward  H. 
Gilmah,  Grand  Nethkw,  Rxhter,  N.  H. 


SAMUEL  LIVERMORE. 
Artist  J. Trumbull,  1791.  Owned  ky  Rev.  Arthur 
B.Livrrmors,  Great  Grandson.  Hinsdale,  Ii  l. 


BEMJAM1 N  WEST. 
(Declined  Election  as  Representative.) 
From  PORTRAIT  owned  BV  Mrs.  Charles  H.  West, 
Charlbstown,  N.  H . 


ABIEL  FOSTER. 
In  painting:  "Washington  resigning  his  Commission" 
bv  J.  Trumbull.  Owned  bv  Yale  University, 


At  f 


J 


WW 


NICHOLAS  GILMAN. 
From  a   PANEL  portrait  owned   by  John  G. 
Gil  M  IK,  Grand  Nephew,  Exeter,  N.  H. 


SAMUEL  LIVERMORE 
Artist  J.  Sharpless.  Owned  dy  Charles  G. 
Saunders.  Great  Grandson.  Lawrence,  Mass. 


JOHN  LANGDON. 

Art  181  Edward  Savage.    Owned  hv  Re\.  Alfred 
Langdon  Ei.wvn,  Great  Grandson,  Philadelphia. 
(Loan  Exhibition  No.  137). 


JOHN  LANGOON. 

On.  miniature  by  J.  Trumbull,  179a.  Owned  bv 
Y  ilb  University  . 


JOHN  LANGDON. 
Pastel  h\  J.  Sharpless.  Owned  BV  John  Erving, 
GREAT  Grandson,  N.  Y. 

(Loan  Exhibition  No.  138). 


Portraits  of  Members  from  New  Hampshire  of  the  First  Congress 

under  the  constitution. 


PRELIMINARY  WORK  OF  THE  CELEBRATION. 


"Whereas,  This  meeting  of  the  citizens  has  learned  that  steps  have  been  taken  by  the  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce and  by  the  Historical  Society  to  organize  a  suitable  celebration  of  this  event ;  therefore  be  it 

"  Resolved,  That  these  societies  be  requested  to  confer  with  a  committee  to  be  named  by  the  Mayor,  for  the 
purpose  of  making  arrangements  to  constitute  a  general  committee,  representing  all  classes  of  citizens,  to  take 
charge  of  the  proposed  celebration. 

"  Resolved,  That  this  committee  shall  consist  of  thirteen,  and  that  the  chairman  of  this  meeting  shall  be  the 
chairman  thereof. 

"  Resolved,  That  copies  of  these  resolutions  be  sent  to  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  to  the  New  York  Histori- 
cal Society,  and  the  New  Jersey  Historical  Society." 

Remarks  on  the  resolutions  were  made  by  John  A.  King,  Colonel  Elliott  F.  Shepard, 
James  C.  Spencer,  Hampton  L.  Carson,  James  C.  Carter,  Nathaniel  Niles,  Orlando  B. 
Potter,  Clarence  W.  Bowen,  and  others. 

As  directed  by  the  resolutions,  Mayor  Abram  S.  Hewitt  appointed  the  following  com- 
mittee of  thirteen  citizens  to  co-operate  with  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  the  New 
York  Historical  Society :  Daniel  F.  Tiemann,  Smith  Ely,  Jr.,  Edward  Cooper,  William 
H.  Wickham,  Franklin  Edson,  William  R.  Grace,  Allan  Campbell,  Charles  P.  Daly, 
Stuyvesant  Fish,  Elbridge  T.  Gerry,  William  G.  Hamilton,  Gouverneur  Morris,  Philip 
Schuvler. 

J 

Pursuant  to  the  call  ordered  by  Mayor  Hewitt,  the  above  committee  met  in  the 
Mayor's  office  in  the  City  Hall  on  November  23,  1887,  ar*d  tne  following  gentlemen  of 
the  Committee  of  Thirteen  were  present :  Daniel  F.  Tiemann,  William  H.  Wickham,  Frank- 
lin Edson,  William  R.  Grace,  Edward  Cooper,  Elbridge  T.  Gerry,  and  Philip  Schuyler. 
Mayor  Hewitt  stated  that,  as  he  had  desired  to  appoint  on  the  committee  all  the  living 
ex-Mayors  of  New  York,  he  would  add  the  name  of  ex-Mayor  John  T.  Hoffman.  On 
motion  it  was  resolved  to  invite  committees  from  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  the  New 
York  Historical  Society,  to  meet  the  Committee  of  Citizens  appointed  by  Mayor  Hewitt. 
It  was  also  voted  that  Gordon  L.  Ford  and  Clarence  W.  Bowen  be  continued  as  secre- 
taries until  a  permanent  organization  was  formed. 

On  November  30,  1887,  committees  from  the  New  York  Historical  Society  and  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce  met  the  Citizens'  Committee  in  the  Mayor's  office  in  the  City 
Hall.  Jackson  S.  Schultz  and  Nathaniel  Niles  were  present  from  the  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce. The  Hon.  John  A.  King,  President  of  the  New  York  Historical  Society,  reported 
that  the  following  committee  had  been  appointed  by  the  Historical  Society:  John  A.  King, 
chairman,  Jacob  B.  Moore,  secretary,  Edward  F.  de  Lancey,  John  Jay,  John  D.  Jones, 
John  S.  Kennedy,  Robert  E.  Livingston,  George  H.  Moore,  Robert  B.  Roosevelt,  Charles 
H.  Russell,  Jr.,  Robert  Schell,  Cornelius  Vanderbilt,  Andrew  Warner,  John  A.  Weekes. 

Remarks  were  made  by  Jackson  S.  Schultz,  Nathaniel  Niles,  Edward  F.  de  Lancey, 
John  A.  King,  Elbridge  T.  Gerry,  John  T.  Hoffman,  John  Jay,  Mayor  Hewitt,  and  others, 
suggesting  different  plans  to  start  the  movement  of  celebrating  the  centennial  of  Wash- 
ington's inauguration.    Elbridge  T.  Gerry  moved  that  the  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revo- 

'5 


io6       THE  CEX'TEXAV.IL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 


lution  be  requested  to  send  in  the  names  of  fourteen  gentlemen  who  should  act  upon 
the  General  Committee,  and  this  motion  was  adopted. 

It  was  also  resolved  at  the  meeting  that  no  definite  action  be  taken  until  the  Chamber 
of  Commerce  and  the  New  York  Historical  Society  had  further  instructed  their  respective 
committees,  and  given  them  power  to  act. 

The  third  meeting  of  the  Committee  of  Citizens  was  held  in  the  Mayor's  office  in  the 
City  Hall,  December  7,  1887.    A  Committee  of  Conference  from  the  New  York  Historical 

Society  was  present,  consisting 
of  John  A.  King,  John  A. 
Weekes,  Edward  F.  de  Lancey, 
George  H.  Moore,  and  John  S. 
Kennedy. 

The  following  Committee  of 
Five  was  also  present  from  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce  :  Jack- 
son S.  Schultz,  chairman,  S.  D. 
Babcock,  J.  M.  Fiske,  Orlando 
B.  Potter,  and  Erastus  Wiman. 

A  communication  was  also 
received  from  James  M.  Mont- 
gomery, Secretary  of  the  Soci- 
ety of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolu- 
tion, stating  that  a  committee 
to  attend  the  Centennial  Con- 
stitutional Celebration  in  Phila- 
delphia had  been  appointed 
February  22,  1887,  and  that  the 
same  committee  would  act  as 
a  part  of  the  Committee  on  the 
Centennial  Celebration  of  the 
Inauguration  of  George  Washington  as  President  of  the  United  States.  The  committee 
were  as  follow :  Frederick  S.  Tallmadge,  chairman,  James  Mortimer  Montgomery,  secre- 
tary, John  Austin  Stevens,  James  Duane  Livingston,  George  Clinton  Genet,  Floyd  Clark- 
son,  John  C.  Tomlinson,  Clifford  Stanley  Sims,  William  Waldorf  Astor,  John  Jay  Pierre- 
pont,  Henry  W.  Le  Roy,  Frederick  A.  Benjamin,  Charles  A.  Coe,  Elbridge  T.  Gerry. 

Mayor  Hewitt's  suggestion  was  then  adopted,  that  "  the  organization  of  the  Citizens' 
Committee  should  be  completed  by  embracing  in  such  committee  the  names  of  the  Com- 
mittee of  Fourteen  from  the  New  York  Historical  Society,  and  of  the  same  number  from  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce  and  the  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution."    This  number  would 


THOMAS  JEFFERSON. 
From  an  enamel  portrait  by  W.  Birch,  in  the  possession  of  S.  Weir  Mitchell,  M.  D., 

Philadelphia. 
(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  126.) 


Artist,  Gilbert  Stuart.    Owned  uy  Mrs.  George  B.  Goldsborough,  Artist,  Gilbert  Stuart.  Owned  by  A.  A.  Low,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Great  Granddaughter,  Easton,  Md. 


Artist,  John  Van  deri.yn.   Owned  by  the  City  ok  New  York  and  Artist,  Thomas  Sully.    Owned  by  the  Officers  of  the  Corps  op  Engineers. 

DEPOSITED  IN  THE  CHAMBER  OF  THE  COMMON  COUNCIL,  ClTY  HALL.  U.  S.  ARMY,  AND  DEPOSITED  IN  THE  U.  S.  MILITARY  ACADEMY.  Wf_ST  PoINT.  N.  Y. 

JAMES  MONROE. 


Member  from  Virginia  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution. 


PRELIM IX ARY  WORK  OF  THE  CELEBRATION. 


be  a  nucleus  to  which  other  names  could  be  added.  Mayor  Hewitt  further  suggested  that  the 
Hon.  Hamilton  Fish  would  make  an  excellent  chairman  of  the  General  Committee.  John 
A.  King  moved  that,  when  a  permanent  organization  of  the  committee  was  effected,  the 
name  of  the  Hon.  Hamilton  Fish  should  be  recommended  as  permanent  chairman.  The 
motion  was  carried  unanimously. 

It  was  further  moved  that  the  General  Committee  consist  of  fourteen  citizens,  and  also  of 
the  Committee  of  Fourteen  from  the  Historical  Society,  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  the 
Sons  of  the  Revolution.  James  M.  Yarnum's  name  was  substituted  for  Mr.  Gerry's,  as 
Mr.  Gerry's  name  was  included  in  the  list  from  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution. 

The  names  of  Mayor  Abram  S.  Hewitt  and  Clarence  W.  Bowen  were  also  added  to  the 
General  Committee,  and  it  was  moved  that  Mayor  Hewitt  act  as  chairman  of  the  committee 
in  the  absence  of  the  Hon.  Hamilton  Fish.    The  General  Committee  as  constituted  now 


consisted  of  the  following  fifty-nine  gentlemen 


Hamilton  Fish, 
Mayor  Abram  S.  Hewitt, 
Chauxcev  M.  Depew, 
Richard  A.  McCurdy, 
William  H.  Robertson, 
John  Sloane, 
Jackson  S.  Schultz, 
Erastus  Wiman, 
Daniel  F.  Tiemann, 
Edward  Cooper, 
Franklin  Edson, 
Allan  Campbell, 
Stuyvesant  Fish, 
gouverneur  morris, 
John  T.  Hoffman, 


John  A.  King, 
John  Jay, 
John  S.  Kennedy, 
Robert  E.  Livingston, 
Robert  B.  Roosevelt, 
Robert  Schell, 
Cornelius  Vanderbilt, 
John  A.  YVeekes, 
John  Austin  Stevens, 
George  Clinton  Genet, 
John  C.  Tomlinson, 
William  Waldorf  Astor, 
Henry  W.  Le  Roy, 
Charles  A.  Coe. 
Cornelius  N.  Bliss, 


James  M.  Brown, 
William  E.  Dodge, 
Levi  P.  Morton, 
Gustav  Schwab, 
Samuel  D.  Babcock, 
Orlando  B.  Potter, 
Josiah  M.  Fiske, 
Smith  Ely,  Jr., 
William  H.  Wickham, 
William  R.  Grace, 
Charles  P.  Daly, 
William  G.  Hamilton, 
Philip  Schuyler, 
James  M.  Varnum, 
Jacob  B.  Moore, 


John  D.  Jones, 
Edward  F.  de  Lancey, 
George  H.  Moore, 
Charles  H.  Russell,  Jr., 
James   Mortimer  Mont- 
gomery, 
Andrew  Warner, 
Frederick  S.  Tallmadge, 
James  Duane  Livingston, 
Floyd  Clarkson, 
Clifford  Stanley  Sims, 
John  J.  Pierrepont, 
Frederick  A.  Benjamin, 
Elbridge  T.  Gerry, 
Clarence  W.  Bowen. 


The  fourth  meeting  of  the  committee  as  above  constituted  was  held  in  the  Governor's 
Room,  in  the  City  Hall,  on  Wednesday,  December  14,  1S87. 

The  Hon.  Hamilton  Fish  was  elected  president  of  the  committee,  and  John  A.  King, 
Chauncey  M.  Depew,  and  John  T.  Hoffman  were  appointed  by  Mayor  Hewitt  a  committee 
of  three  to  wait  upon  Mr.  Fish  and  apprise  him  of  his  appointment. 

Mayor  Abram  S.  Hewitt,  not  in  his  official  position,  but  as  a  private  citizen,  was  elected 
permanent  chairman  of  the  committee.  Clarence  W.  Bowen  was  elected  permanent  secre- 
tary of  the  committee,  but  declined.  It  was  then  moved  that  a  committee  of  five  be 
appointed  by  the  Mayor  to  report  additional  names  to  be  added  to  the  General  Committee, 
and  also  to  recommend  the  name  of  some  gentleman  to  act  as  permanent  secretary.  In 
accordance  with  the  above  resolution,  Mayor  Hewitt  appointed  the  following  Committee 
of  Five  :  Elbridge  T.  Gerry,  Philip  Schuyler,  James  M.  Varnum,  Orlando  B.  Potter,  and 
William  E.  Dodge. 

The  fifth  meeting  of  the  committee  was  held  in  the  Governor's  Room,  in  the  City  Hall, 
on  January  11,  1888,  Mayor  Abram  S.  Hewitt  in  the  chair. 


io8      THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


Elbridge  T.  Gerry,  in  behalf  of  the  Committee  of  Five,  recommended  that  the  following- 
named  gentlemen  should  be  added  to  the  committee,  which  was  agreed  to  : 


S.Van  Rensselaer  Crug 
Eugene  Kelly, 
Oswald  Ottendorfer, 
Jesse  Seligman, 
J.  Pierpont  Morgan, 
George  (1.  Haven, 
Asa  Biro  Gardiner, 
I).  Willis  James, 
Frederic  R.  Coudert, 
J.  Hampden  Robb, 
Schuyler  Hamilton, 


er,  Brayton  Ives, 

Richard  W.  Gilder, 
Theodore  Roosevelt, 
Edmund  Hendricks, 
Thomas  Addis  Emmet, 
George  Bliss, 
Charles  W.  Dayton, 
William  E.  D.  Stokes, 
Edward  V.  Loew, 
Seth  Low, 
W.  Bayard  Cutting, 


James  C.  Carter,  Egerton  L.  Winthrop, 

Henry  Bf.ro  h,  H.  H.  Boyesen, 

RutherfurdStuyvesant,  Frederick  D.  Tappen, 
Gordon  L.  Ford,  Lewis  G.  Morris, 

DeLancey  Nicoll,  J.  T.  Van  Rensselaer, 

Robert  Lenox  Belknap,  Lispenard  Stewart, 
John  L.  Cadwalader,      Frederic  Gallatin, 


Locke  W.  Winchester, 
Daniel  Huntington, 
L.  P.  di  Cesnola, 
Louis  Fitzgerald, 


Charles  H.  Adams. 


Mr.  Gerry,  in  behalf  of  the  committee,  further  recommended  that  Clarence  W.  Bowen, 
who  had  reconsidered  his  declination,  be  made  permanent  secretary.  The  recommenda- 
tions of  the  Committee  of  Five  were  unanimously  adopted. 

John  A.  King,  in  behalf  of  the  Committee  of  Three  appointed  to  wait  upon  the  Hon. 
Hamilton  Fish,  stated  that  Mr.  Fish  would  act  as  president  of  the  committee.  The  following 
committee  was  then  appointed  by  Mayor  Hewitt  as  the  Executive  Committee  : 


Elbridge  T.  Gerry,         Seth  Low, 

Chairman.  Cornelius  Vanderbilt 

John  A.  King,  Orlando  B.  Potter, 

Frederick  S.  Tallmadge,  Asa  Bird  Gardiner, 
Abram  S.  Hewitt,  John  Cochrane, 

John  T.  Hoffman,  James  M.  Varnum, 

Cornelius  N.  Bliss,  Rutherfurd  Stuyvesant,  Philip  Schuyler, 

Clarence  W.  Bowen,  Secretary. 


William  G.  Hamilton, 
Charles  W.  Dayton, 
Stuyvesant  Fish, 
George  G.  Haven, 
Louis  Fitzgerald, 
James  M.  Montgomery, 


J.  Talmadge  Van  Rens- 
selaer, 
Brayton  Ives, 
J.  Hampden  Robb, 
Jacob  B.  Moore, 
Theodore  Roosevelt, 
James  C.  Carter. 


The  meeting  then  adjourned,  subject  to  the  call  of  the  Chairman  of  the  Executive 
Committee. 

On  February  3,  1888,  Elbridge  T.  Gerry,  Chairman  of  the  Executive  Committee,  called 
together  Abram  S.  Hewitt,  James  M.  V arnum,  Cornelius  N.  Bliss,  Frederick  S.  Tallmadge, 
and  Samuel  D.  Babcock,  whom  he  had  named  as  the  Plan  and  Scope  Committee,  and 
submitted  to  them  the  following  plan  for  the  celebration  : 

New  York,  February  j,  iSSS. 

To  the  sub-Committee  on  Plan  and  Scope  of  the  Committee  on  the  Centennial  Celebration  of  the  Inauguration  of  George 
Washington  as  President  of  the  United  States  : 

Gentlemen  :  I  submit  for  your  consideration  the  names  of  the  different  sub-committees,  and  also  the 
names  of  gentlemen  to  serve  on  the  different  sub-committees,  and  also  an  outline  of  the  plan  and  scope,  as 
follows : 


No.  1.  Plan  and  Scope. 
"    2.  States. 
"    3.  General  Government. 

"    4.  Army  (including  Committee  on  Industrial 

Parade). 
"    5.  Navy. 


SUB-COMMITTEES. 

No.    6.  Entertainment. 
"     7.  Finance. 


8.  Railroads  and  Transportation. 

9.  Art. 

10.  Exhibitions. 

11.  Literary  Exercises. 


From  a  Miniature  presented  by  Miss 
Maky  CrugbR,  to  the  New  York  His- 
torical Society. 


Artist,  John  Vanderlvn.   Owned  by  Jambs  Monroe 
Heiskell,  Great  Grandson.  Baltimore.  Md. 
(Loan  Exhibition.  No  161.1 


Artist,  John  Vanderlyn,  1816.     Owned  by  Mrs. 
Gol'verneur,  Granddaughter,  Washington,  D.  C. 

(Loan  Exhibition,  No  162.) 


In  painting:  "  Washington  Resigning  his  Commission  ' 
by  John  Trumbull.   Owned  by  Yale  University. 


From  a  Miniature  by  Seme,  Paris.  1794.  Owned  by  Mrs 
Gouvbrnbur,  Gr  andatghter,  Washington  D.  C. 


Artist.  John  Paradise,  1850. 
Stanard.  Washington.  D.  C. 


Owned  by  Mrs.  Martha 


Artist,  James  Shari-less  Owned  by  Citv  of  Philadel- 
phia AND  DEI'OSITED  IN  NATIONAL  MlSELM,  PhILA. 


JAMES  MONROE. 

Member  from  Virginia  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution. 


PRELIMINARY  WORK  OF  THE  CELEBRATION. 


No.  i.— PLAN  AND  SCOPE. 

Abram  S.  Hewitt,  Chairman.  Cornelius  N.  Bliss,  Samuel  D.  Babcock. 

James  M.  Varnum,  Frederick  S.  Tallmadge, 


William  G.  Hamilton,  Chairman. 
James  C.  Carter, 
John  Schuyler, 

J.  Tallmadge  Van  Rensselaer, 


No.  2.— STATES. 

James  W.  Husted, 
Theodore  Roosevelt, 
Jacob  A.  Cantor, 
E.  Ellery  Anderson, 


Floyd  Clarkson, 
Henry  W.  Leroy, 
John  B.  Pine. 

James  M.  Montgomery,  Secretary. 


John  A.  King,  Chairman. 
John  Jay, 
Edward  Cooper, 

No. 

Philip  Schuyler,  Chairman. 
John  Cochrane, 


No.  3.— GENERAL  GOVERNMENT 

William  H.  Wickham, 
William  R.  Grace, 
Frederic  J.  De  Peyster, 

.. — ARMY  (Military  and  Industrial 

Locke  W.  Winchester, 
J.  Hampden  Robb, 
John  C.  Tomlinson,  Secretary. 


William  H.  Robertson, 
Cornelius  Vanderbilt. 
Seth  Low,  Secretary. 

Parade). 

Frederic  Gallatin, 

S.  Van  Rensselaer  Cruger. 


Asa  Bird  Gardiner,  Chairman. 
John  S.  Barnes, 
George  G.  Haven, 


No.  5.— NAVY. 

Jackson  S.  Schultz, 

S.  Nicholas  Kane, 

Robert  E.  Livingston, 

John  Jay  Pierrepont,  Secretary. 


D.  Willis  James, 
Frederic  R.  Coudert, 
Oswald  Ottendorfer. 


Stuyvesant  Fish,  Chairman. 
Levi  P.  Morton, 
William  B.  Beekman, 


No.  6.— ENTERTAINMENT. 

George  Wilson, 
Ward  McAllister, 
Egerton  L.  Winthrop, 
William  E.  D.  Stokes,  Secretary. 


GOUVERNEUR  MORRIS, 

S.  L.  M.  Barlow, 
Stephen  H.  Olin. 


Brayton  Ives,  Chairman. 
Logan  C.  Murray, 
James  M.  Brown, 
John  Claflin, 
John  S.  Kennedy, 


No.  7.— FINANCE. 

Louis  Fitzgerald, 
Allan  Campbell, 
John  Sloane, 
James  D.  Smith, 
Edward  V.  Loew, 


James  H.  Dunham, 

Eugene  Kelly, 

Walter  Stanton, 

De  Lancey  Nicoll,  Secretary. 


No.  8.— RAILROADS  AND  TRANSPORTATION. 

Orlando  B.  Potter,  Chairman.       Erastus  Wiman,  Josiah  M.  Fisk. 

Chauncey  M.  Depew,  Charles  W.  Dayton,  James  Duane  Livingston,  Secretary. 


Henry  G.  Marquand,  Chairman. 
Daniel  Huntington, 
F.  Hopkinson  Smith, 


No.  9.— ART. 

William  E.  Dodge, 
Francis  D.  Millet, 

HjALMAR   H.  BOYESEN, 


Charles  Henry  Hart. 
Richard  W.  Gilder,  Secretary. 


No.  10.— EXHIBITION. 


Gordon  L.  Ford,  Chairman. 
Rutherfurd  Stuyvesant, 


John  L.  Cadwalader, 
Lispenard  Stewart. 


Chas.  H.  Russell,  Jr.,  Secretary. 


Elbridge  T.  Gerry,  Chairman. 


No.  11.— LITERARY  EXERCISES. 
Clarence  W.  Bowen,  Secretary. 


no       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 


ist.  Of  course,  the  Committee  on  Plan  and  Scope  is  the  most  important  committee,  and  the  general  pro- 
gramme of  the  celebration  should  be  discussed  and  approved  by  this  committee.  I  would  respectfully  suggest 
that  the  celebration  be  confined,  if  possible,  to  one  day,  namely,  April  30,  1889.  It  may,  however,  be  necessary 
to  have  the  naval  parade  in  the  harbor  on  the  afternoon  of  the  day  before.  The  naval  parade  will  consist  of 
vessels  belonging  to  the  United  States  and  to  foreign  countries,  such  as  France  and  England  and  Germany, 
which  would  be  especially  interested  in  the  event.  There  should  be  a  grand  military  parade,  and  military 
organizations  from  the  different  cities,  as  well  as  from  New  York  State  and  New  York  city,  should  be  invited 
to  participate.  The  different  trades,  also,  should  be  invited  to  take  part  in  the  parade;  and  some  formal 
exercises  should  take  place  on  the  steps  of  the  sub-Treasury,  where  Washington  was  inaugurated,  and  also  in 
St.  Paul's  Chapel,  where  Washington  attended  service  on  the  day  of  his  inauguration.  Possibly,  in  addition, 
some  further  literary  exercises  should  be  held  in  the  Metropolitan  Opera-House.  It  would  be  desirable, 
I  think,  to  have  an  oration  and  a  poem.  After  the  literary  exercises  were  over  and  the  parade  had  taken 
place,  I  think  it  would  be  a  good  idea  to  have  a  banquet  in  the  evening,  which  the  President  of  the  United 
States  and  other  invited  guests  should  attend. 

It  would  be  an  excellent  idea  if  a  Memorial  Exhibition,  containing  Washington's  relics,  and  also  an  exhi- 
bition of  portraits  of  Washington  and  of  his  Cabinet,  and  of  others  who  assisted  in  the  inauguration,  should  be 
held  in  this  city  during  the  month  of  April,  1889. 

These  ideas,  and  others  that  will  no  doubt  occur  to  you,  are  now  brought  before  you,  the  Committee  on 
Plan  and  Scope,  for  your  approval,  and  to  invite  suggestions  from  you. 

2d.  The  duty  of  the  Committee  on  States  would  be  to  address  a  communication  to  the  Governors  of 
all  States  and  Territories,  telling  them  of  the  celebration,  inviting  their  co-operation,  and  asking  them  to 
bring  before  the  Legislatures  of  their  several  States  the  fact  of  the  celebration,  and  requesting  the  attendance 
of  members  of  the  several  Legislatures,  of  gentlemen  whose  ancestors  took  a  prominent  part  in  the  inaugura- 
tion, and  of  such  citizens  of  the  States  as  would  be  particularly  interested  in  the  historical  event. 

3d.  It  is  proposed,  as  you  know,  to  open  an  exhibition  in  Washington  in  the  spring  of  1889,  and  the  Gen- 
eral Government  has  been  invited  to  assist  in  the  undertaking.  Now,  the  exhibition  in  Washington  will  not 
conflict  in  any  way  with  ours ;  but  it  should  be  the  duty  of  the  Committee  on  General  Government  to  find  out 
just  what  is  being  done  in  Washington,  and  to  consult  with  those  who  are  interested  in  that  celebration,  so  as 
to  avoid  any  difficulties  that  might  otherwise  arise.  We  should  endeavor  to  co-operate  so  that  the  celebration 
in  New  York  will  supplement  and  emphasize  the  Centennial  Celebration  of  the  Inauguration  of  the  Constitu- 
tion in  Washington  in  March  of  1889. 

The  Committee  on  General  Government  should  ask  the  President  of  the  United  States  to  bring  our  cele- 
bration of  April  30th  before  Congress,  and  request  that  body  to  appoint  a  committee  to  co-operate  with  us 
in  our  celebration.  I  think  that  the  celebration  in  New  York  should  have  the  formal  approval  of  the  Gov- 
ernment of  the  United  States ;  for  Washington,  as  you  know,  was  inaugurated  President  of  the  General  Gov- 
ernment, and  it  should  be  under  the  auspices  of  the  General  Government  that  the  celebration  should  take 
place. 

4th.  The  Committee  on  Army  would  arrange  with  military  organizations  in  this  city  and  in  New  York 
State,  and  also  invite  military  organizations  from  other  States  to  take  part  in  the  parade.  The  different  trades, 
too,  should  be  invited  to  join  in  the  parade.  The  representation  of  all  the  leading  industries  of  the  country 
would  thus  form  an  important  and  attractive  feature  of  the  parade. 

5th.  The  duties  of  the  Committee  on  Navy  are  obvious.  Mr.  Coudert  would  represent  the  interests  of 
France  and  Mr.  Ottendorfer  those  of  Germany,  on  the  committee;  for  vessels  from  foreign  countries  would, 
no  doubt,  join  in  the  parade  in  the  harbor. 

6th.  The  duty  of  the  Entertainment  Committee  would  be  to  attend  to  the  invitations  to  the  President  of 
the  United  States,  and  to  other  public  officials  and  gentlemen  of  distinction,  who  would  attend  the  festivities 
and  the  banquet  in  the  evening. 

7th  and  8th.  The  duties  of  the  Committees  on  Finance  and  on  Railroads  and  Transportation  are  obvious, 
and  need  no  explanation. 

9th,  10th,  and  nth.  I  have  spoken  of  the  Committees  on  Art  and  Exhibitions  and  Literary  Exercises,  and  it 
is  unnecessary  to  comment  further  at  this  time  on  their  respective  duties.    The  Committee  on  Art  might  be 


JOHN  PAGE. 

Artist.  Benjamin  Wkst.  1758.  Owned  by  R.  C.  M 
Pack,  M.  D..  New  York. 


JOHN  PAGE. 
Artist,  C.  W.  Peale.    Owned  bv  City  OF  Phila- 
delphia and  deposited  in  Na  tional  Museum  (Old 
Si  ate  House). 


ANDREW  MOORE 

From  Miniature  by  C.  W.  Peale,  1796.  Owned  BY 
John  Harvey  Moore,  Grandson,  Lexington,  Va. 


RICHARD  HENRY  LEE 

From  PAINTING:  "  Declaration  ok  Independence 
John  Trumbull,.    Owned  by  Yale  University. 


RICHARD  HENRY  LEE 

Artist.  C.  W.  Peale.  Owned  by  City  ok  Philadelphia, 
and  DEPOSITED  in  Independence  Hall  (Old  Sta  i  e  Hoi  sk  ) 


ISAAC  COLES. 

From  a  Miniature  by  John  Ramage.  Owned  by 
Mrs.  Mary  Coles  McClelland,  Granddaughter, 
Roanoke,  Va. 


ISAAC  COLES. 
From  a  Miniature  by  James  Peale,  1793.  Owned  By 
Mi«  Helen  C.  Coles,    Granddaughter,  Sonans, 
Pittsylvania,  Co.  Va. 


SAMUEL  GRIFFIN 

From  a  Miniature  owned  by  Or 
Ferdinand  Campbell  Stewart, 
Grandson,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 


SAMUEL  GRIFFIN. 
Artist,   GILBERT  Stuart.     Owned  by  Dr.  Ferdinand 
Campbell  Stewart,  Grandson,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 


The  Virginia  Delegation  in  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution. 


PRELIMINARY  WORK  OF  THE  CELEBRATION. 


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were  sent  to  Governors  of  States,  to  the  Poet,  Orator,  Speakers  at  the  Banquet,  and  others  whose  services  were  especially  appreciated  by 
the  Committee.) 


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THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


able  to  get  portraits  of  Washington  and  other  historical  portraits  from  the  different  public  and  private  art  gal- 
leries of  the  country,  and  the  Committee  on  Exhibitions  might  secure  manuscripts  and  books  and  works  and 
memorials  of  an  historical  character  pertaining  to  George  Washington. 

The  chairman  of  each  of  the  sub-committees  is  a  member  of  the  Executive  Committee.  I  have  put  a 
young  man  on  each  of  the  committees  that  he  might  act  as  secretary. 

The  above  suggestions  are  only  an  outline  of  what  the  celebration  should  be,  and  as  such  I  respectfully 
submit  them  to  you.  Yours  very  truly,  Elbridge  T.  Gerry, 

Chairman  of  the  Executive  Committee. 

The  above  plan  of  celebration  was  approved  by  the  Plan  and  Scope  Committee,  and 
the  different  sub-committees  were  at  once  informed  of  the  work  that  had  been  assigned  to 
them,  and  preparations  for  the  celebration  were  immediately  begun. 

Mr.  Gerry  caused  bills  to  be  introduced  in  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  New  York, 
authorizing  the  State  to  make  an  appropriation  of  money  to  the  celebration,  and  authorizing 
the  Board  of  Estimate  and  Apportionment  of  New  York  City  to  make  an  appropriation,  and 
also  creating  April  30,  1889,  a  legal  holiday. 

The  following  additions  were  made  to  the  different  sub-committees :  To  the  sub- 
Committee  on  Plan  and  Scope — His  Honor  Hugh  J.  Grant,  Mayor  of  New  York ;  to 
the  Committee  on  States — Samuel  Borrowe ;  to  the  Committee  on  General  Government — 
Hon.  William  M.  Evarts,  Hon.  Frank  Hiscock ;  to  the  Committee  on  Army — Frederick 
D.  Tappen ;  to  the  Committee  on  Navy — Alfred  C.  Cheney,  Captain  Henry  Erben,  Loyall 
Farragut,  Buchanan  Winthrop,  Ogden  Goelet ;  to  the  Committee  on  Entertainment — Will- 
iam Waldorf  Astor,  Robert  Goelet,  William  Jay,  William  K.  Vanderbilt ;  to  the  Committee 
on  Finance — Henry  B.  Hyde,  J.  Edward  Simmons,  Darius  O.  Mills,  John  Jay  Knox,  John 
F.  Plummer,  Richard  T.  Wilson ;  to  the  Committee  on  Railroads  and  Transportation — 
Clifford  Stanley  Sims,  Thomas  S.  Moore  ;  to  the  Committee  on  Art  and  Exhibition — Alex- 
ander W.  Drake,  Charles  Parsons,  Oliver  H.  Perry. 

Owing  to  resignations  and  death,  a  few  changes  took  place  in  the  sub-committees  and  in 
the  General  Committee  between  February  of  1888  and  April  of  1889.  So  great  was  the 
pressure  to  join  the  General  Committee,  that  the  number  was  finally  limited  to  two  hundred. 
The  corrected  list  of  the  committees  is  as  follows : 

COMMITTEE  ON  THE  CENTENNIAL  CELEBRATION, 

APRIL  30,  1889, 

OF  THE  INAUGURATION  OF  GEORGE  WASHINGTON  AS.  PRESIDENT  OF  THE 

UNITED  STATES, 

APRIL  30,  1789. 

Hamilton  Fish,  President :    Hugh  J.  Grant,  Chairman  :    Elbridge  T.  Gerry,  Chairman  Executive  Committee  : 

Clarence  W.  Bowen,  Secretary. 

SUB-COMMITTEES. 
No  1.— PLAN  AND  SCOPE. 

Hugh  J.  Grant,  Chairman.  Frederick  S.  Tallmadge, 

Abram  S.  Hewitt,  James  M.  Varnum. 


Samuel  D.  Babcock, 
Cornelius  N.  Bliss, 


RICHARD  BLAND  LEE 
From  a  Miniature  owned  by  Miss  Elizabeth  Lee 
Washington,  Granddaughter,  Washington.  D.  C. 


JOSIAH  PARKER 

Fkcm  tainting  :  "  Capture  of  the  Hessians"  by 
John  Trumbull.    Owned  by  Vale  University. 


JOSIAH  PARKER 

From  crayon  drawing  bv  St.  Memin.    Owned  by 
Anderson    Keith    Parker,    Great  Grandson, 
Portsmouth,  Va. 


WILLIAM  B  GILES 
From  a  Miniature  painted  in  Washington  in  181 
and  owned  BV  Miss  Elizabeth  F.  Towkbs,  Grea 
Granddaughter.  Richmond.  Va. 


WILLIAM  B  GILES. 

Artist.  Chester  Harding.  1820.  Owned  bv  Virginia 
Historical  Society.  Richmond  Va. 


WILLIAM  B  GILES. 
From  Miniature  painted  in  Philadelphia  in  1741  and 
owned    by  Mrs.  William  Overton,  (born  Nannie 
Branch  Giles),  Granddaughter.  "Prospect  Hill." 
Trevii.ian's.  Louisa  Co..  Va 


William  b.  Giles 

Artist,  Gilbert  Stuart.  Owned  by  Clarence  Winthrop  BowEN, 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 


WILLIAM  B.  GILES. 

From  a  portrait  owned  by  Mrs.  Frances  Gwynn  Townes,  Grand- 
daughter, Richmond,  Va. 


The  Virginia  Delegation  in  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution. 


PRELIMINARY  WORK  OF  THE  CELEBRATION. 


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E.  Ellery  Anderson, 
Samuel  Borrowe, 
James  C.  Carter, 
Floyd  Clarkson, 


No.  2.— STATES. 

Jacob  A.  Cantor, 

William  G.  Hamilton,  Chairman. 

James  W.  Husted, 

Henry  W.  LeRoy, 

J.  Tallmadge  Van  Rensselaer. 


James  M.  Montgomery,  Secretary. 
John  B.  Pine, 
Theodore  Roosevelt, 
John  Schuyler, 


Edward  Cooper, 
Frederic  J.  De  Peyster, 
Wm.  M.  Evarts, 
Wm.  R.  Grace, 


No.  3. — GENERAL  GOVERNMENT. 

Frank  Hiscock, 
John  Jay, 

John  A.  King,  Chairman. 
Seth  Low,  Secretary. 


Wm.  H.  Robertson, 
Cornelius  Vanderbilt, 
Wm.  H.  Wickham, 


No.  4. — ARMY  (Industrial  and  Military  Parade). 


S.  Van  Rensselaer  Cruger, 

Chairman. 
John  Cochrane, 


Frederic  Gallatin, 
J.  Hampden  Robb, 


Frederick  D.  Tappen, 
John  C.  Tomlinson,  Secretary. 
Locke  W.  Winchester. 


No 


-NAVY. 


John  S.  Barnes, 
Frederic  R.  Coudert, 
Alfred  C.  Cheney, 
Henry  Erben, 
Loyall  Farragut, 


Asa  Bird  Gardiner,  Chairman. 
Ogden  Goelet, 
George  G.  Haven, 
D.  Willis  James, 


S.  Nicholson  Kane,  Secretary 
John  J.  Pierrepont, 
Jackson  S.  Schultz, 
Buchanan  Winthrop. 


Wm.  Waldorf  Astor, 
Wm.  B.  Beekman, 
S.  L.  M.  Barlow, 
Stuyvesant  Fish,  Chairman. 


No.  6.— ENTERTAINMENT. 

Robert  Goelet, 
Wm.  Jay, 

Gouverneur  Morris,  Secretary. 
Stephen  H.  Olin, 


Wm.  E.  D.  Stokes, 
Wm.  K.  Vanderbilt, 
Egerton  L.  Winthrop. 


James  M.  Brown, 
Allan  Campbell, 
Louis  Fitzgerald, 
Henry  B.  Hyde, 
Brayton  Ives,  Chairman. 
Eugene  Kelly. 


Charles  W.  Dayton, 
Chauncey  M.  Depew, 
Josiah  M.  Fisk, 


No.  7.— FINANCE. 

John  J.  Knox, 

Edward  V.  Loew, 

Darius  O.  Mills, 

De  Lancey  Nicoll,  Secretary. 

John  F.  Plummer, 


J.  Edward  Simmons, 
John  Sloane, 
James  D.  Smith, 
Walter  Stanton, 
Richard  T.  Wilson. 


No.  8.— RAILROADS  AND  TRANSPORTATION. 

James  Duane  Livingston, Secretary.  Clifford  Stanley  Sims, 
Thomas  S.  Moore,  Erastus  Wiman. 

Orlando  B.  Potter,  Chairman. 


Hjalmar  H.  Boyesen, 
John  L.  Cadwalader, 
Wm.  E.  Dodge, 
Alexander  W.  Drake, 
Gordon  L.  Ford, 
Richard  W.  Gilder,  Secretary. 


No.  9.— ART. 

Chas.  Henry  Hart, 

Daniel  Huntington, 

Henry  G.  Marquand,  Chairman. 

Francis  D.  Millet, 

Charles  Parsons. 


Oliver  H.  Perry, 
Chas.  H.  Russell,  Jr., 
F.  Hopkinson  Smith, 
Lispenard  Stewart, 
Rutherfurd  Stuyvesant. 


Clarence  W.  Bowen, 

16 


No.  10.— LITERARY  EXERCISES. 
Elbridge  T.  Gerry. 


ii4       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


Charles  H.  Adams, 
Charles  F.  Allen, 
E.  Ellery  Anderson, 
Chester  Alan  Arthur, 
John  J.  Astor,  Jr., 
Wm.  Waldorf  Astor, 
Richard  T.  Auchmutv, 
Samuel  D.  Babcock, 
Samuel  L.  M.  Barlow, 
John  S.  Barnes, 
Warren  C.  Beach, 
James  W.  Beekman, 
Wm.  B.  Beekman, 
Robert  L.  Belknap, 
Frederick  A.  Benjamin, 
John  H.  Bird, 
William  H.  Bissell, 
Cornelius  N.  Bliss, 
George  Bliss, 
Edwin  Booth, 
Samuel  Borrowe, 
Clarence  W.  Bowen, 
Hjalmar  H.  Boyesen, 
James  M.  Brown, 
James  G.  Burnett, 
John  L.  Cadwalader, 
Allan  Campbell, 
Jacob  A.  Cantor, 
Henry  Guy  Carleton, 
James  C.  Carter, 
Alfred  C.  Cheney, 
John  Claflin, 
Harrison  Clark, 
Banyer  Clarkson, 
Floyd  Clarkson, 
Frederick  Clarkson, 
Alexander  J.  Clinton, 
John  Cochrane, 
Charles  A.  Coe, 
Alfred  R.  Conkling, 
Washington  E.  Connor, 
James  M.  Constable, 
Moncure  D.  Conway, 
Edward  Cooper, 
Frederic  R.  Coudert, 
John  D.  Crimmins, 
William  Henry  Crosby, 
S.  Van  Rensselaer  Cruger, 
Edwin  A.  Cruikshank, 
W.  Bayard  Cutting, 
Charles  P.  Daly, 
Richard  T.  Da  vies, 
Charles  W.  Dayton, 
Edward  F.  de  Lancey 
Chauncey  M.  Depew, 
Frederic  J.  de  Peyster, 
George  G.  De  Witt,  Jr., 


GENERAL  COMMITTEE. 

Harris  C.  Fahnestock, 
Loyall  Farragut, 
Hamilton  Fish, 
Stuyvesant  Fish, 
Josiah  M.  Fiske, 
Louis  Fitzgerald, 
Gordon  L.  Ford, 
Frederic  Gallatin, 
Asa  Bird  Gardiner, 
William  H.  Gedney, 
George  Clinton  Genet, 
Elbridge  T.  Gerry, 
Richard  W.  Gilder, 
Ogden  Goelet, 
Robert  Goelet, 
William  R.  Grace, 
Hugh  J.  Grant, 
Schuyler  Hamilton, 
William  G.  Hamilton, 
Chas.  Henry  Hart, 
Charles  Hauselt, 
George  G.  Haven, 
Edmund  Hendricks, 
Abram  S.  Hewitt, 
Frank  Hiscock, 
Daniel  Huntington, 
James  W.  Husted, 
Henry  B.  Hyde, 
Adrian  Iselin, 
Charles  Isham, 
Brayton  Ives, 
Joseph  C.  Jackson, 
D.  Willis  James, 
John  Jay, 
William  Jay, 
John  D.  Jones, 
S.  Nicholson  Kane, 
William  Linn  Keese, 
Eugene  Kelly, 
John  A.  King, 
Rufus  King, 
Alex.  Knox, 
John  J.  Knox, 
Frank  R.  Lawrence, 
Arthur  Leary, 
Henry  B.  Ledyard, 
Henry  W.  Le  Roy, 
James  D.  Livingston, 
Johnston  Livingston, 
Edward  V.  Loew, 
Seth  Low, 

Henry  G.  Marquand, 
Ward  McAllister, 
Francis  D.  Millet, 
Darius  O.  Mills, 
James  M.  Montgomery, 
Jacob  B.  Moore, 


George  H.  Pendleton, 
Oliver  H.  Perry, 
John  J.  Pierrepont, 
John  B.  Pine, 
John  F.  Plummer, 
William  M.  Polk, 
Orlando  B.  Potter, 
Frederick  W.  Rhinelander, 
J.  Hampden  Robb, 
Wm.  H.  Robertson, 
Robert  B.  Roosevelt, 
Theodore  Roosevelt, 
Chas.  H.  Russell,  Jr., 
Robert  Rutter, 
Edward  Schell, 
Robert  Schell, 
F.  Augustus  Schermerhorn, 
Jackson  S.  Schultz, 
John  Schuyler, 
Philip  Schuyler, 
Jesse  Seligman, 
Clarence  A.  Seward, 
Robt.  H.  Shannon, 
Gardiner  Sherman, 
Clifford  S.  Sims, 
J.  Edward  Simmons, 
John  Sloane, 
William  D.  Sloane, 
Henry  L.  Slote, 

F.  Hopkinson  Smith, 
James  D.  Smith, 
William  C.  Smith, 
Myles  Standish, 
Walter  Stanton, 
William  Steinway, 
John  A.  Stevens, 
Lispenard  Stewart, 
Richard  H.  Stoddard, 
William  E.  D.  Stokes, 
William  L.  Strong, 
Rutherfurd  Stuyvesant, 
Frederick  S.  Tallmadge, 
Frederick  D.  Tappen, 
Daniel  F.  Tiemann, 
John  C.  Tomlinson, 
John  J.  Tucker, 

Travis  C.  Van  Buren, 
James  S.  Van  Cortlandt, 
Cornelius  Vanderbilt, 
Wm.  K.  Vanderbilt, 
J.  Tallmadge  Van  Renssela 
John  Barnes  Varick, 
James  M.  Varnum, 
Andrew  Warner, 
Alexander  S.  Webb, 

G.  Creighton  Webb, 
John  A.  Weekes, 


JAMES  MADISON. 
Member  from  Virginia  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution. 


PRELIMINARY  WORK  OF  THE  CELEBRATION. 


Richard  V.  De  Witt, 
Louis  P.  Di  Cesnola, 
Morgan  Dix, 
William  E.  Dodge, 
Alexander  W.  Drake, 
Franklin  Edson, 
Edw.  M.  L.  Ehlers, 
Thomas  Addis  Emmet, 
Henry  Erbex, 
William  M.  Evarts, 


Thomas  S.  Moore, 
J.  Pierpont  Morgan, 

GOUVERNEUR  MORRIS, 

Lewis  G.  Morris, 
Theodore  W.  Myers, 
Thomas  H.  Newbold, 
De  Lancey  Nicoll, 
Stephen  H.  Olin, 
Oswald  Ottendorfer, 
Charles  Parsons, 


Wm.  H.  Wickham, 
George  Wilson, 
James  Grant  Wilson, 
Richard  T.  Wilson, 
Erastus  Wiman, 
Locke  W.  Winchester, 
Buchanan  Winthrop, 
Egerton  L.  Winthrop, 
Stephen  M.  Wright. 


During  the  spring  of  1888  the  following  memorial  was  presented  to  Grover  Cleveland, 
President  of  the  United  States,  by  John  A.  King,  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  General 
Government  : 

"  New  York,  March  10,  1888. 

"  To  the  President  of  the  United  States  : 

"  The  Centennial  Anniversary  of  the  Organization  of  the  Constitutional  Government  of  the  United  States, 
of  the  First  Meeting  of  Congress,  and  of  the  Inauguration  of  George  Washington  as  President  of  the  United 
States,  in  the  city  of  New  York,  will  occur  on  the  30th  day  of  April,  1889. 

"  It  is  appropriate  that  the  anniversary  of  these  great  events  should  be  properly  celebrated  in  the  same 
city,  and  upon  the  exact  date  and  site  of  their  occurrence,  one  hundred  years  ago. 

"  Moved  by  such  considerations,  the  citizens  of  New  York,  in  conjunction  with  the  Chamber  of  Commerce 
of  the  State  of  New  York,  the  New  York  Historical  Society,  the  Order  of  the  Cincinnati,  and  the  Society  of  the 
Sons  of  the  Revolution,  have  organized  a  grand  Committee  of  Citizens,  '  on  the  Centennial  Celebration  of 
April  30,  1789,'  and  have  appointed  the  undersigned  as  their  chief  officers,  with  instructions  to  make  the 
observance  of  the  occasion  worthy  of  the  city,  of  the  State,  and  of  the  signal  events  to  be  commemorated  ; 
and,  further,  to  respectfully  ask  that  you  will  make  this  determination  the  subject  of  a  communication  to  Con- 
gress, inviting  national  co-operation,  as  it  is  to  be  a  celebration  in  which  the  nation  and  the  States  should  assist 
in  unison  with  the  people  of  New  York. 

"  Remarkable  and  becoming  as,  in  their  respective  localities,  were  the  ceremonies,  in  which  all  sections 
united,  in  recognition  of  1776,  of  Yorktown,  and  of  the  formation  of  the  Federal  Constitution  in  1787,  yet  is 
the  anniversary  of  the  30th  of  April,  1789,  more  noteworthy,  as  being  the  final  and  pre-eminently  the  greatest 
of  the  national  centennials,  the  consummation  of  the  manifold  blessings  attained  by  all  others  preceding,  and 
commemorative  of  the  taking  of  the  oath  of  office  by  George  Washington,  in  the  presence  of  the  Houses  of 
Congress,  whereby  the  wheels  of  a  Republican  Constitutional  Government  were  set  in  motion,  complete  in  its 
executive  and  legislative  branches,  and  fully  equipped  for  its  great  work. 

"  The  precise  spot  upon  which  this  august  ceremony  took  place,  though  now  owned  and  occupied  by  the 
United  States,  was  in  1883  crowned  by  the  citizens  of  New  York  with  a  colossal  figure  in  bronze  of  the  first 
President,  with  an  inscription  upon  the  base,  so  that  it  may  be  marked  and  known  to  future  generations. 

"Around  this  hallowed  spot  the  people  of  New  York  will  gather  in  1889,  and  as  outlined  in  the  Plan  and 
Scope,  which  we  have  the  honor  to  submit  to  you,  invitations  will  be  issued  to  the  President  of  the  United 
States,  the  members  of  his  Cabinet,  the  Federal  Judiciary,  the  Houses  of  Congress,  the  Heads  of  the  Depart- 
ments, the  Governors  and  Legislators  of  the  States  and  Territories,  the  Commissioners  of  the  District  of 
Columbia,  the  resident  representatives  of  the  foreign  governments  having  friendly  relations  with  the  United 
States,  and  representatives  of  various  organizations  and  societies  of  the  Union,  to  unite  with  them  in  appro- 
priate observances  of  the  occasion.  It  is  proposed  to  confine  the  programme  to  the  30th  of  April,  1889; 
that  there  shall  be  a  military  and  naval  parade,  in  which,  under  orders  issued  by  the  President,  the  United 
States  troops  and  the  vessels  of  the  navy  shall  participate,  in  connection  with  the  military  and  industrial 
organizations  from  the  different  cities  and  States,  as  well  as  with  those  of  the  city  and  State  of  New  York  ; 
that  some  formal  exercises  shall  take  place  on  the  steps  of  the  sub-Treasury,  where  Washington  was  inaugu- 
rated; that  there  shall  be  delivered  a  commemorative  oration  and  poem;  and,  finally,  that  there  shall  be  a 
banquet  to  which  the  honored  guests  of  the  city  will  be  duly  invited. 


n6       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


"The  grandeur  of  the  occasion  and  its  appropriate  observance  upon  the  historic  site,  in  the  midst  of  the 
great  metropolis  of  the  Western  Hemisphere,  can  not  fail  to  impress  themselves  upon  your  own  consideration  ; 
and,  therefore,  in  asking  your  full  co-operation  with  us,  your  memorialists  would  respectfully  request  that  you 
may  be  pleased  to  draw  the  attention  of  Congress  to  this  subject  by  a  special  message,  and  thereby  impart  to 
this  great  celebration  the  broad  characteristic  of  nationality  in  which  the  States  and  Territories  should 
fully  join. 

"Hamilton  Fish,  President. 

"  Abram  S.  Hewitt,  Chairman  of  General  Committee. 
"  Elbriuge  T.  Gerry,  Chairman  of  Executive  Committee. 
"  Clarence  W.  Bowen,  Secretary." 

Formal  invitations  to  attend  the  celebration  were  extended  to  the  President  of  the  United 
States,  to  the  members  of  the  Cabinet,  to  the  Chief-Justice  and  Supreme  Court  of  the  United 
States,  and  to  the  two  Houses  of  Congress.  The  invitations,  signed  by  the  officers  of  the 
committee,  were  similar  to  the  following  one  to  the  President : 


A  meeting  was  held  in  Philadelphia,  in  the  Hall  of  the  Carpenters'  Company,  April  28, 
1888,  to  arouse  a  greater  interest  in  the  New  York  celebration,  at  which  meeting  Richard 
Watson  Gilder  and  Colonel  Asa  Bird  Gardiner,  of  the  New  York  Committee,  made  speeches. 
Hampton  L.  Carson,  the  Secretary  of  the  Constitutional  Centennial  Celebration,  and  Colonel 
Jesse  E.  Peyton,  whose  efforts  in  behalf  of  so  many  centennial  celebrations  are  well  known, 
were  most  active  in  arranging  for  this  meeting  in  Philadelphia. 


Artist,  George  Catlin.  Owned  by  Tclane  University 
of  Loiisiana,  New  Orleans. 


Artist,  George  Catlin.  Owned  by  Tllane  University 
of  Loiisiana,  New  Orleans. 


From  a  Miniatire  pre- 
sented by  Miss  Mary 
Crlger  to  the  New 
York  Historical  So- 
ciety. 


Credited  as  a  portrait  of  James  Madison,  but  in  fact  a  portrait  of 
his  Brother.  General  William  Madison. 


Prom  a  Steel  Engraving  by  St.  Memin,  1807. 
Gallery  of  Art.  Washington.  D.  C. 


Owned  by  the  Corcoran 


Artist,  George  Catlin.  Owned  by  the  State  Historical  Society  of 
Wisconsin.  Madison,  Wis. 


JAMES  MADISON. 
Member  from  Virginia  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution. 


PRELIMINARY  WORK  OF  THE  CELEBRATION. 


117 


At  a  meeting  of  the  Plan  and  Scope  Committee,  April  1 6,  1 888,  reports  were  received 
from  Philip  Schuyler,  Chairman  of  the  suh-Committee  on  Army,  asking  for  an  appropriation 
of  $70,000,  and  from  Stuyvesant  Fish,  Chairman  of  the  sub-Committee  on  Entertainment, 
asking  for  an  appropriation  of  $20,000.  The  Entertainment  Committee  also  reported  that 
the  night  of  Monday,  April  29,  1889,  was  selected  for  the  Centennial  Ball,  to  be  given  in 
the  Metropolitan  Opera-House,  and  Tuesday,  April  30,  1889,  was  selected  for  the  banquet 
in  the  same  place. 

During  the  spring  all  the  committees  organized  themselves  and  made  preparations  to 
carry  out  the  work  as  prescribed  in  the  outline  by  Elbridge  T.  Gerry,  to  the  Plan  and  Scope 
Committee.  The  Exhibition  Committee  was  merged  into  the  Art  Committee,  and  chose 
Henry  G.  Marquand,  chairman  ;  Gordon  L.  Ford,  vice-chairman  ;  and  Richard  W.  Gilder, 
secretary;  and  the  ball-room  suite  of  rooms  of  the  Metropolitan  Opera-House  were  engaged 
for  an  art  and  memorial  exhibition  during  the  spring  of  1889.  No  meetings  of  the  Plan 
and  Scope  Committee  were  held  during  the  summer,  but  frequent  conferences  were  held  by 
the  different  members  of  the  committee,  the  work  necessary  to  be  done  was  outlined  by  the 
Chairman  of  the  Executive  Committee,  and  the  secretary  attended  to  the  correspondence, 
which  increased  all  through  the  summer  months.  In  the  fall,  meetings  were  again  held  by 
the  different  sub-committees,  in  order  that  the  work  might  be  pushed  more  vigorously,  and 
reports  from  the  different  committees  were  sent  in  regularly  to  the  Chairman  of  the  Ex- 
ecutive Committee.  The  Finance  Committee  undertook  to  raise  $175,000,  of  which  $75,000 
should  be  asked  of  the  city  of  New  York,  $55,000  from  the  State  of  New  York,  and  of 
which  $45,000  should  be  solicited  in  private  subscriptions.  The  Art  and  Exhibition  Com- 
mittee engaged  William  A.  Coffin,  artist,  as  their  manager,  in  order  that  his  time  might  be 
devoted  exclusively  to  the  work  of  preparing  for  the  art  exhibition.  The  Committee  on 
Navy  arranged  to  meet  the  President  of  the  United  States  at  Elizabethport,  New  Jersey,  on 
Monday,  April  29,  1889,  and  conduct  him  to  the  foot  of  Wall  Street,  in  New  York,  over 
the  same  course  followed  by  Washington  on  his  arrival  in  New  York,  on  April  23,  1789. 
The  Committee  on  Literary  Exercises  recommended  that  brief  religious  services  of  praise 
and  thanksgiving  should  be  held  in  the  different  churches  in  the  city  and  throughout  the 
country,  at  nine  o'clock  on  the  morning  of  April  30,  1889,  the  same  hour  in  which  religious 
services  were  held  on  April  30,  1 789  ;  and  this  committee  also  arranged  for  a  special  service 
to  be  held  in  St.  Paul's  Chapel,  on  April  30,  1889,  to  be  conducted  by  the  Bishop  of  New 
York,  inasmuch  as  services  were  held  in  the  same  church  on  the  day  of  Washington's  In- 
auguration, and  were  conducted  by  the  Bishop  of  New  York  and  the  Chaplain  to  the 
Senate,  the  Right  Rev.  Dr.  Provoost.  It  was  also  agreed  that  the  formal  literary  exercises 
should  take  place  on  the  morning  of  April  30th,  at  the  sub-Treasury  Building,  at  the  corner 
of  Wall  and  Nassau  Streets,  where  stood  Federal  Hall,  the  scene  of  the  inauguration  cere- 
monies ;  and  that  a  prayer  be  offered  by  the  Rev.  Richard  S.  Storrs,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  a  poem 
read  by  John  Greenleaf  Whittier,  and  an  oration  delivered  by  Chauncey  M.  Depew,  followed 


n8       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


by  an  address  by  the  President  of  the  United  States  and  the  benediction  by  Archbishop 
Corrigan.  In  November  of  1888  permanent  headquarters  were  secured  at  the  Stewart  Build- 
ing, 280  Broadway,  a  corps  of  clerks  and  stenographers  were  engaged,  and  the  work  of  the 
committee  was  vigorously  pushed.  The  different  States  began  to  send  in  the  names  of 
the  commissioners  appointed  to  arrange  for  the  representation  of  their  respective  States 
at  the  celebration. 

His  Honor  Mayor  Abram  S.  Hewitt  sent  the  following  letter  to  the  President  of  the 
United  States : 

"  Mayor's  Office,  New  York,  November  jo,  1888. 

"  To  the  President  : 

"  Sir  :  As  chairman  of  the  committee  having  in  charge  the  Centennial  Celebration  of  the  Inauguration  of 
the  First  President  of  the  United  States,  George  Washington,  in  this  city,  and  of  the  establishment  of  the  Con- 
stitution of  the  United  States  on  the  30th  of  April,  1789,  I  am  requested  to  call  your  attention  to  the  propriety 
of  making  a  reference  to  this  great  anniversary  in  your  annual  message  to  Congress.  I  perform  this  duty  with 
great  satisfaction  because  I  believe  that,  of  all  the  centennial  celebrations  which  we  have  witnessed  since  1876, 
this  will  be  the  grandest,  inasmuch  as  it  commemorates  the  fruition  of  the  hopes  and  struggles  of  the  patriots 
of  the  Revolution,  and,  all  things  considered,  the  most  beneficent  political  event  in  the  history  of  mankind. 
"  I  have  the  honor  to  be,  very  respectfully,  your  obedient  servant, 

"  Abram  S.  Hewitt,  Chairman." 

Grover  Cleveland,  as  President  of  the  United  States,  thereupon  called  to  the  attention  of 
the  country  the  importance  of  the  celebration  in  the  following  words  in  his  annual  message 
to  Congress,  in  December  of  1888: 

"  Preparations  for  the  centennial  celebration,  on  April  30,  1889,  of  the  Inauguration  of  George  Washington 
as  President  of  the  United  States,  at  the  city  of  New  York,  have  been  made  by  a  voluntary  organization  of 
the  citizens  of  that  locality ;  and,  believing  that  an  opportunity  should  be  afforded  for  the  expression  of  the 
interest  felt  throughout  the  country  in  this  event,  I  respectfully  recommend  fitting  and  co-operative  action  by 
Congress  on  behalf  of  the  people  of  the  United  States." 

The  original  plans  were  modified  to  some  extent  as  the  interest  in  the  celebration  increased. 
It  was  originally  proposed  to  have  the  reviewing  stand  on  the  steps  of  the  sub-Treasury,  and 
to  have  the  soldiers  pass  after  the  literary  exercises  were  finished ;  but  at  a  meeting  of  the 
commissioners  appointed  by  the  different  States  and  Territories,  which  was  held  in  the  Gov- 
ernor's Room  in  the  City  Hall,  January  8,  1889,  a  discussion  took  place  which  showed  the 
impracticability  of  having  the  reviewing  stand  on  the  steps  of  the  sub-Treasury.  It  was 
determined,  therefore,  to  have  the  stand  on  Madison  Square,  and  it  was  also  determined  to 
have  the  industrial  parade  May  1st,  instead  of  Tuesday,  April  30,  1889,  as  originally  proposed. 

During  the  winter,  Elbridge  T.  Gerry,  Chairman  of  the  Executive  Committee,  made  a 
number  of  visits  to  Albany,  to  attend  to  the  passage  of  bills  of  appropriation  by  the  Legis- 
lature. The  money  finally  obtained  from  the  State  of  New  York  was  $200,000,  of  which 
$125,000  was  for  the  National  Guard,  $20,000  for  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  and 
$55,000  for  the  committee  in  New  York. 

The  Plan  and  Scope  Committee  met  frequently  during  the  winter,  to  approve  of  the  plans 


•JOHN  BROWN. 


Member  from  Virginia  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution 


PRELIMINARY  WORK  OF  THE  CELEBRATION. 


119 


(Fac-simile  of  general  invitation  sent  to  invited  guests.1) 


1  With  the  above  invitation  were  inclosed  two  cards — one,  to  attend  the  Banquet,  of  which  about  five  hundred  were 
sent ;  and  on  the  other  card,  of  which  nearly  three  thousand  were  inclosed,  were  written  the  following  words ; 

"Please  reply  at  once  to  Clarence  W.  Bowen,  Secretary,  280  Broadway,  N.  Y.,  stating  whether  you  will  accept  the 
invitation,  so  that  tickets  for  the  following  may  be  sent  you  : 

"1.  The  Art  and  Memorial  Exhibition,  at  the  Metropolitan  Opera-House,  April  17th  to  May  nth. 

"  2.  The  Naval  Parade,  Monday,  April  29th. 

"  3.  The  Reception,  at  the  Lawyers'  Club,  Monday,  April  29th. 

"  4.  The  Ball,  Monday  evening,  April  29th. 

"  5.  The  Services  at  St.  Paul's  Chapel,  at  9  A.  M.,  Tuesday,  April  30th. 

"  6.  The  Literary  Exercises  at  the  sub-Treasury  Building,  at  10  A.  M.,  Tuesday,  April  30th. 

"  7.  The  Grand  Stand  to  view  the  Military  Parade  on  Tuesday,  April  30th,  and  the  Industrial  Parade  on  Wednesday, 
May  1st." 

Several  thousand  additional  tickets  were  issued  for  the  Grand  Stand  and  other  parts  of  the  celebration. 


120      THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


submitted  by  the  other  committees,  and  to  consent  to  the  appropriations  of  money  asked  by 
the  committees  for  carrying  on  the  work.  During  the  week  before  the  celebration  this 
committee  held  sessions  every  day. 

A  Committee  on  Press  was  appointed,  consisting  of  the  Chairman  and  Secretary  of  the 
Executive  Committee.  Press  headquarters  were  opened  adjoining  the  rooms  of  the  General 
Committee.  Competent  clerks  were  engaged,  and  news  regarding  the  forthcoming  celebration 
was  sent  to  newspapers  throughout  the  country.  Representatives  of  journals  in  all  the  large 
cities  were  given  tickets  to  the  different  parts  of  the  celebration,  and  a  special  steamboat  was 
provided  for  the  press  on  the  occasion  of  the  naval  parade.  The  Chairman  of  the  Execu- 
tive Committee,  with  the  approval  of  the  Plan  and  Scope  Committee,  appointed  a  Plat- 
form Committee  for  the  sub-Treasury  exercises,  an  Aisle  Committee  for  the  services  at  St. 
Paul's  Chapel,  a  Reception  Committee  for  the  Lawyers'  Club  reception,  and  aides  to  the 
chairmen  of  all  the  sub-committees. 

The  gentlemen  appointed  to  act  as  special  aides  were  as  follows : 

To  the  President  of  the  Committee:  Colonel  John  Cropper. 

To  the  Chairman  of  the  Executive  Committee:  John  Jacob  Astor,  Jr.;  Stephen  Peabody  ;  Major 
Edmund  C.  Stanton;  G.  Creighton  Webb. 

To  the  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  States:  Hugh  D.  Auchincloss;  John  Dufais;  Dr.  F.  Stuyvesant 
Morris;  Brigadier-General  J.  Fred.  Pierson. 

To  the  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  General  Government :  Charles  Hecksher  Van  Rensselaer. 

To  the  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Army :  Captain  Stanhope  E.  Blunt,  U.  S.  A.,  chief  aide. 

To  the  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Navy:  Samuel  Carpenter;  Lieutenant  Arthur  P.  Nazro, 
U.  S.  N. ;  Lieutenant  Samuel  Seabury,  U.  S.  N. ;  First  Lieutenant  Millard  F.  Waltz,  Twelfth  Regiment, 
U.  S.  Infantry. 

To  the  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Entertainment:  Elisha  Dyer,  third;  John  C.  Furman  ;  John 
Kean,  Jr.  ;  Frank  S.  Witherbee. 

To  the  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Railroads  and  Transportation:  Walter  Geer  ;  F.  Wolcott 
Jackson;  John  Q.  A.  Johnson;  Francis  Larkin,  Jr.;  Mark  W.  Potter;  Frederick  Potter. 

To  the  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Art  and  Exhibition:  Harold  Godwin;  Henry  Marquand; 
John  B.  Pine;  Myles  Standish. 

The  Army  Committee  engaged  headquarters  at  the  Fifth  Avenue  Hotel  early  in  1889,  and 
did  an  enormous  amount  of  work  in  arranging  the  details  for  the  military  and  industrial 
parade.  To  General  Daniel  Butterfield  was  assigned  the  work  of  arranging  the  industrial 
parade  on  May  1st,  and  separate  headquarters  were  secured  by  him.  The  task  of  the 
Naval  Committee  was  no  light  one  in  making  preparations  for  the  naval  display  in  New 
York  Harbor  on  April  29,  1889.  The  Committee  on  Entertainment  held  frequent  meet- 
ings for  the  discussion  of  plans  and  in  arranging  the  many  details  connected  with  the  ball 
and  banquet  which  it  had  been  decided  to  give  at  the  Metropolitan  Opera-House  on  Mon- 
day and  Tuesday,  April  29  and  30,  1889.  The  Committee  on  Railroads  and  Transportation 
arranged  with  the  different  railroads  of  the  country  for  excursion  rates,  and  provided  a  special 
train  to  conduct  the  presidential  party  from  Washington  to  New  York  and  return  at  the 
time  of  the  celebration.  The  Art  Committee  planned  to  secure  a  most  interesting  collec- 
tion of  portraits  of  Washington  and  of  historical  characters  of  1789,  and  of  relics  of  the 


RUFUS  KING  RUFUS  KING. 

Artist,  J.  Tin  miii  i.i. .  Owned  by  Chaki.es  R.  Kino,  M.  D.  Grand-  Artist,  Gilbert  Stuart.  Owned  by  John  A.  King,  Gkandson, 

son,  Andalusia,  Pa.  Great  Neck,  Lonc;  Island,  N.  Y. 

(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  133.)  (Loan  Exhibition,  No.  132.) 


The  New  York  Delegation  in  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution, 
philip  schuyler  and  rufus  king.  senators. 


PRELIMINARY  WORK  OF  THE  CELEBRATION. 


The  medals  worn  by  the  President  and  Vice-President  of  the  United  States,  the  Governor  of  New  York,  Members  of  the  Legislature 
of  the  State  of  New  York,  the  Aldermen  of  the  City  of  New  York,  State  Commissioners  and  other  guests,  Hon.  Hamilton  Fish,  Mayor 
Grant,  and  Members  of  the  different  Committees. 


122      THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


time  of  Washington,  for  the  art  exhibition.  The  Committee  on  General  Government, 
through  its  chairman,  John  A.  King,  was  in  constant  communication  with  the  authorities  in 
Washington.  The  work  of  the  Committee  on  States  was  exceedingly  arduous,  and  the 
plans  made  to  entertain  the  commissioners  from  the  different  States  and  to  increase  the 
interest  of  the  States  were  such  as  materially  added  to  the  national  character  of  the  celebra- 
tion. Too  much  praise  can  not  be  given  to  William  Gaston  Hamilton  and  James  M. 
Montgomery,  Chairman  and  Secretary  of  the  Committee  on  States,  for  the  work  performed 
by  them  and  their  committee.  To  all  the  chairmen  of  the  different  sub-committees  is  due 
the  greatest  credit  for  the  vast  amount  of  work  done  in  preparing  for  the  Centennial  Cele- 
bration of  Washington's  Inauguration.  The  work  of  addressing  invitations  and  mailing 
tickets  to  invited  guests,  in  all  sections  of  the  country,  was  enormous.  The  demand  on  the 
committee  for  tickets  was  most  urgent.  During  the  month  of  April  the  corps  of  clerks  and 
stenographers,  at  the  headquarters  in  the  Stewart  Building,  were  overwhelmed  with  work 
from  nine  o'clock  in  the  morning  until  twelve  o'clock  at  night.  The  members  of  the  dif- 
ferent sub-committees  did  in  a  most  satisfactory  way  their  share  of  the  labor.  The  great 
interest  manifested  throughout  the  country  in  the  celebration  made  the  committees  more 
eager  to  perform  aright  the  duties  assigned  to  them.  They  worked  intelligently  and  enthu- 
siastically to  make  the  Celebration  of  Washington's  Inauguration  as  First  President  of 
the  United  States  an  event  in  every  way  worthy  of  the  great  city  of  New  York.  It  may 
be  added  that  after  May  i,  1889,  the  committees  at  once  applied  themselves  to  closing  up 
the  affairs  of  the  celebration.  Much  labor  remained  to  be  done.  When  a  sub-committee 
finished  its  work,  it  made  a  final  report,  which  was  approved  by  the  Plan  and  Scope  Com- 
mittee. The  report  of  the  Finance  Committee  was  the  last  to  be  submitted,  and  the  Plan 
and  Scope  Committee  approved  of  the  same,  December  21,  1889.  The  final  meeting  of  the 
Plan  and  Scope  Committee  was  held  in  the  Mayor's  office  in  the  City  Hall,  January  31, 
1890,  at  which  the  secretary  of  the  committee  was  asked  to  prepare,  under  the  direction  of 
a  publication  committee  of  two,  a  memorial  volume  of  the  celebration.  His  Honor  Mayor 
Hugh  J.  Grant,  Chairman  of  the  Plan  and  Scope  Committee,  appointed,  as  members  of  the 
Publication  Committee,  Cornelius  N.  Bliss  and  Abram  S.  Hewitt. 


II.   RELIGIOUS  SERVICES. 

As  early  as  November  8,  1888,  the  Committee  on  Literary  Exercises  recommended 
that  brief  religious  services  of  praise  and  thanksgiving  be  held  in  churches  in  the  city  and 
throughout  the  country  at  nine  o'clock  on  the  morning  of  April  30,  1889,  the  same  hour  in 
which  religious  services  were  held  on  April  30,  1  789. 

"At  nine  o'clock  a.  m.,"  to  quote  from  a  newspaper  description  of  Inauguration-day  a  hun- 
dred years  ago,1  "  the  people  assembled  in  the  several  churches  with  the  clergy  of  the  respect- 


1  "  Gazette  of  the  United  States,"  May  2,  1789. 


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PETER  SILVESTER. 

From  an  Engraving  by  St.  Memin.  Owned  bv 
State  of  New  York  and  deposited  in  the 
State  Library,  Albany. 


EGBERT  BENSON 

Oil  Miniature  bv  J.  Trumbull, 
University. 


1792.    Owned  by  Vale 


JOHN  LAWRANCE 

Miniature  by  J.  Trumbull,  1702.  Owned  by  the 
New  York  Historical  Society. 


egbert  benson 

Stuart.    Owned  i 

(Loan  Exhibition  No.  65.) 


Artist,  Gilbert  Stuart.  Owned  bv  John  Jay,  New 
York. 


EGBERT  BENSON 

Artist,  Gilbert  Stuart,  1807.  Owned  by  the  N 
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ive  denominations  to  implore  the  blessing  of  Heaven  upon  their  new  Government,  its  favor  to 
the  President,  and  success  and  acceptance  to  his  Administration." 

The  clergy  of  New  York  were  invited  to  co-operate  in  arranging  for  such  services.  Let- 
ters were  sent  to  leading  clergymen  in  New  York,  asking  their  opinion  regarding  the  holding 
of  services  of  thanksgiving,  and  also  asking  whether  they  would  approve  of  services  in 
churches  throughout  the  country,  and  replies  were  received  from  the  following : 

Right  Rev.  Henry  C.  Potter,  Protestant  Episcopal  Bishop  of  New  York  ;  Most  Rev.  M.  A.  Corrigan, 
Roman  Catholic  Archbishop  of  New  York  ;  Rev.  George  Alexander,  Presbyterian  ;  Rev.  Thomas  Armi- 
tage,  D.  D.,  Baptist ;  Rev.  Robert  R.  Booth,  D.  D.,  Presbyterian ;  Rev.  C.  De  W.  Bridgman,  D.  D.,  Bap- 
tist;  Rev.  T.  W.  Chambers,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  Reformed;  Rev.  Robert  Collver,  D.  L).,  Unitarian;  Rev. 
Howard  Crosbv,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  Presbyterian  ;  Rev.  Morgan  Dix,  D.  D.,  Protestant  Episcopal ;  Rev.  C. 
H.  Eaton,  Universalist ;  Rev.  Theodore  A.  K.  Gessler,  D.  D.,  Baptist ;  Rev.  A.  W.  Halsey,  Presbyte- 
rian ;  Rev.  C.  S.  Harrower,  D.  D.,  Methodist  Episcopal ;  Rev.  W.  R.  Huntington,  D.D.,  Protestant  Epis- 
copal;  Rev.  Edward  Judson,  D.  D.,  Baptist;  Rev.  G.  F.  Krotel,  D.  D.,  Lutheran;  Rev.  R.  S.  Mac- 
Arthur,  D.  D.,  Baptist;  Rev.  Dr.  Pereira  Mendes,  Hebrew;  Rev.  A.  C.  Morehouse,  Methodist  Episcopal; 
Rev.  R.  Heber  Newton,  D.  D.,  Protestant  Episcopal;  Rev.  A.  J.  Palmer,  D.  D.,  Methodist  Episcopal;  Rev. 
W.  S.  Raixsford,  D.  D.,  Protestant  Episcopal;  Rev.  H.  Y.  Satterlee,  D.  D.,  Protestant  Episcopal;  Rev.  J. 
W.  Shackelford,  Protestant  Episcopal ;  Rev.  Samuel  H.  Virgin,  D.  D.,  Congregational ;  Rev.  E.  Walpole 
Warren,  Protestant  Episcopal ;  Rev.  Theodore  C.  Williams,  Unitarian. 

The  replies  were  so  encouraging  that  a  meeting  of  clergymen  was  called  to  meet  in 
the  Governor's  Room,  in  the  City  Hall,  on  December  6,  1888.  The  following  clergymen 
attended  the  meeting : 

Rev.  J.  C.  Allen,  Hanson  Place  Baptist  Church,  Brooklyn  ;  Rev.  H.  G.  Birchby,  Grace  Memorial  Pres- 
byterian Church;  Rev.  Wellesley  W.  Bowdish,  D.  D.,  Old  John  Street  M.  E.  Church;  Rev.  E.  A.  Bradley, 
D.  D.,  St.  Luke's  Church,  Brooklyn;  Rev.  Charles  De  W.  Bridgman,  D.  D.,  Madison  Avenue  Baptist  Church; 
Rev.  Arthur  Brooks,  Church  of  the  Incarnation;  Rev.  John  J.  Bkouner,  North  Baptist  Church;  Rev. 
Lyman  D.  Calkins,  Trinity  Presbyterian  Church,  Brooklyn  ;  Rev.  William  T.  Carr,  Shiloh  Presbyterian 
Church;  Rev.  Talbot  W.  Chambers,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  Collegiate  Reformed  Church;  Rev.  Dr.  Bernard  Drach- 
man,  Jewish  Theological  Seminary;  Rev.  Joseph  R.  Duryee,  D.  D.,  Grace  Reformed  Church;  Rev.  Charles 
H.  Eaton,  Universalist  Church;  Rev.  Jesse  F.  Forbes,  Adams  Memorial  Presbyterian  Church;  Rev.  Thomas 
Gallaudet,  D.  D.,  St.  Ann's  Church  for  Deaf-Mutes;  Rev.  Theo.  A.  K.  Gessler,  D.  D.,  Grace  Baptist 
Church;  Dr.  Gustav  Gottheil,  Rabbi  Temple  Emanu-El ;  Rev.  A.  W.  Halsey,  Spring  Street  Presbyterian 
Church;  Rev.  Jay  Benson  Hamilton,  Simpson  M.  E.  Church,  Brooklyn;  Rev  P.  Hopkins,  African  Union 
(M.  E.)  Church;  Rev.  H.  Hutchins,  D.  D.,  Bedford  Ave.  Baptist  Church,  Brooklyn;  Rev.  Edward  P.  Inger- 
soll,  Puritan  Congregational  Church,  Brooklyn;  Rev.  Henrv  S.  Jacobs,  Madison  Avenue  Hebrew  Congre- 
gation; Rev.  Kenneth  F.  Junor,  M.  D.,  Collegiate  Reformed  Church;  Rev.  William  V.  Kelley,  D.  D.,  St. 
John's  M.  E.  Church,  Brooklyn;  Rev.  Edward  Kenney,  Rector  of  Church  of  the  Nativity;  Rev.  James  M. 
King,  D.  D.,  St.  Andrew's  M.  E.  Church;  Rev.  G.  F.  Krotel,  D.  D.,  Evangelical  Lutheran  Church  of  the  Holy 
Trinity;  Rev.  Charles  C.  Lasby,  Sumner  Avenue  M.  E.  Church,  Brooklyn;  Rev.  William  A.  Layton, 
Seventh  Street  M.  E.  Church;  Rev.  Dr.  Pereira  Mendes,  Spanish  and  Portuguese  Hebrew  Congregation; 
Rev.  H.  G.  Miller,  Dodge  Memorial  Presbyterian  Church  ;  Rev.  H.  A.  Monroe,  St.  Mark's  M.  E.  Church  ; 
Rev.  Halsey  Moore,  D.  D.,  Lexington  Avenue  Baptist  Church ;  Rev.  A.  C.  Morehouse,  Seventeenth  Street 
M.  E.  Church;  Rev.  D.  Parker  Morgan,  D.  D.,  Church  of  the  Heavenly  Rest;  Rev.  John  H.  Oerter,  D.  D., 
Fourth  German  Reformed  Church;  Rev.  J.  Ferris  Patton,  Ascension  Baptist  Church;  Rev.  J.  B.  Remen- 
snyder,  D.  D.,  St.  James's  Lutheran  Church;  Rev.  O.  H.  Tiffany,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  St.  James's  M.  E.  Church; 
Rev.  Dr.  M.  Tintner,  Beth  Israel  Emanu-El  Congregation;  Rev.  William  Hayes  Ward,  D.  D.,  LL.  D., 
Editor  of  The  Independent;  Rev.  S.  Washington,  Baptist  Church,  Port  Jervis,  N.  Y. 

Mayor  Abram  S.  Hewitt  presided,  and  the  object  of  the  meeting  was  explained  by  the 
two  members  of  the  Committee  on  Literary  Exercises  In  speaking  at  this  meeting  of 
the  celebration  of  Washington's  inauguration,  Rev.  Dr.  Talbot  \V.  Chambers  said  :  "  I  think 


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this  anniversary  is  of  more  importance  even  than  the  anniversary  of  the  4th  of  July,  1776. 
That  day  gave  us  a  country,  but  this  one  gave  us  a  nation."  Resolutions  were  adopted, 
requesting  the  Chairman  of  the  Executive  Committee  to  appoint  a  committee  of  clergy- 
men representing  the  several  denominations,  which  committee  should  be  instructed  to  co- 
operate with  the  Centennial  Committee  in  calling  upon  churches  throughout  the  country 
to  hold  services  at  nine  o'clock  on  the  morning  of  April  30,  1889,  and  also  in  procuring 
a  proclamation  from  the  President  of  the  United  States  on  the  same  subject. 
The  Committee  of  Clergymen  appointed  were  : 

Protestant  Episcopal — Rev.  J.  W.  Brown,  D.  D.,  St.  Thomas's  Church  ;  Rev.  E.  W.  Donald,  D.  D.,  Church 
of  the  Ascension.  Roman  Catholic — Martin  J.  Brophv,  representing  Archbishop  Corrigan.  Reformed — 
Rev.  Talbot  W.  Chambers,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  Senior  Pastor  of  Collegiate  Dutch  Church.  Presbyterian — Rev. 
John  Hall,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  Pastor  of  Fifth  Avenue  Church.  Methodist — Rev.  J.  M.  King,  D.  D.,  Park  Avenue 
Church.  Baptist — Rev.  R.  S.  MacArthur,  D.  D.,  Pastor  of  Calvary  Church.  Congregational — Rev.  Will- 
iam M.  Taylor,  D.  D.,  Pastor  of  Broadway  Tabernacle.  Hebrew — Dr.  Gustav  Gottheil,  Rabbi  of  Temple 
Emanu-El.  Lutheran — Rev.  G.  F.  Krotel,  D.  D.,  Pastor  of  Evangelical  Lutheran  Church. — Rev.  William 
Hayes  Ward,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  the  mover  of  the  resolution. 

Two  addresses  were  issued  by  the  Committee  of  Clergymen — one  addressed  to  the  ministers 
and  churches  of  the  United  States,  and  the  other  to  the  President  of  the  United  States.  The 
address  to  the  President,  which  also  contains  the  address  to  the  churches  and  ministers,  was 
handsomely  engrossed  and  duly  signed  by  the  Committee  of  Clergymen,  and  was  given  to 
President  Harrison  by  Hon.  John  A.  King,  the  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  General  Gov- 
ernment. A  copy  was  engrossed  and  signed,  and  presented  to  the  New  York  Historical 
Society.    The  address  is  as  follows  : 

To  the  President :  New  York  City>  n-  Y->  January 3,  i88g. 

Pursuant  to  a  call  by  the  Executive  Committee  on  the  Centennial  Celebration  of  the  Inauguration  of 
George  Washington  as  President  of  the  United  States,  a  large  number  of  clergymen,  representing  the  various  re- 
ligious denominations  of  New  York  and  Brooklyn,  assembled  in  the  City  Hall,  in  New  York,  on  December  6,  1888. 
His  Honor  Mayor  Abram  S.  Hewitt  presided  at  this  meeting,  and  the  following  resolutions  were  adopted  : 

Resolved,  That  the  scheme  suggested  by  the  Centennial  Executive  Committee  for  religious  services  to  be 
held  simultaneously  at  nine  o'clock  in  the  morning,  on  the  occasion  of  the  one  hundredth  anniversary  of  the 
inauguration  of  George  Washington  as  President  of  the  United  States,  meets  our  approval,  and  that  a  com- 
mittee of  ten  be  appointed  by  the  Chairman  of  the  Executive  Committee  to  bring  the  matter  before  the 
churches  of  the  city  and  country. 

Resolved,  That  a  committee  be  appointed  by  the  Chairman  of  the  Executive  Committee,  in  accordance  with 
the  last  resolution,  and  be  instructed  to  co-operate  with  the  Executive  Committee  in  procuring  a  proclamation 
from  the  President  of  the  United  States,  that  the  day  shall  be  observed  as  a  day  of  National  Thanksgiving,  by 
appropriate  religious  services,  to  be  held  on  the  morning  of  April  30,  1889,  at  nine  o'clock. 

In  compliance  with  this  action,  Mr.  Elbridge  T.  Gerry,  Chairman  of  the  Executive  Committee,  appointed  the 
undersigned  a  committee,  who  drafted  the  following  address  to  "  The  Ministers  and  Churches  of  the  United  States  " : 

"  The  undersigned,  on  behalf  of  a  large  body  of  the  clergymen  of  this  city,  called  together  by  the  Chairman 
of  the  Executive  Committee  on  the  Centennial  Celebration  of  the  Inauguration  of  George  Washington  as 
President  of  the  United  States,  beg  leave  to  submit  to  the  ministers  and  churches  of  the  United  States  the 
following  statement  and  suggestion  in  regard  to  the  religious  observance  appropriate  to  the  one  hundredth 
anniversary  of  the  establishment  of  constitutional  government  in  our  country. 

"The  30th  of  April,  1889,  will  be  the  centenary  of  a  most  important  event — the  beginning  of  the  free  and 
happy  government  under  which  we  live.  That  beginning  was  most  auspicious.  It  was  the  inauguration  of 
George  Washington  as  President  of  the  United  States.    Naturally,  he  who  was  universally  recognized  as  our 


JOHN  BAPTISTA  ASHE. 

From  Ivory  Miniature  OWNED  nv  Mrs.  Marv  Sheppard 
Crawford,  Great  Granddaughter,  Little  Rock,  Ark. 


SAMUEL  JOHNSTON. 
Miniature  iiv  James  Peai.e,  1792.    Owned  nv  Mrs.  Cad- 
wali.ader  Jones,  Grand  Niece,  Rock  Hill,  York  Co.. 
S.  C. 


JOHN  STEELE. 

From  Ivory  Miniature  by  James  Peale,  1797.  Owned  hy 
S.  F.  Lord.  Great  Great  Grandson, Salisbury,  N.  C. 


HUGH  WILLIAMSON. 
From  Painting:  "Washington  Resigning  His 
Commission"  hy  J.  Trumbull.     Owned  by 
Yale  University. 


SAMUEL  JOHNSTON. 
Miniature  by  James  Peale,  1793.    Owned  by 
Mrs.  Margaret  T.  Shitt,  Grand  Niece, 
Raleigh,  N.  C. 


BENJAMIN  HAWKINS. 
From  Painting:  "Washington  Resigning  His  Commission' 
by  J.  Trumbull.    Owned  by  Yale  University. 


JOHN  SEVIER. 

From  a  Miniature  owned  hy  Daniel 
V.  Sevier,  M.  D.,  Grandson. 
Russei.lville,  Ala. 


HUGH  WILLIAMSON 
Artist,  John  TRUMBULL,  Owned  hy  the  Misses  Hamilton, 
Grand  Nieces,  New  York, 

(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  209.) 


JOHN  SEVIER 

ARTIST,  C.  W.  Peale,  1792.     Given  in  1891  BY  Mrs.  Eliza 


Sevier  Donald,  Granddaughter,  to 
Historical  Society,  Nashville.  Tenn. 


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first  soldier  and  first  citizen  was  unanimously  chosen  to  be  the  first  to  hold  the  office  of  Chief  of  State.  He 
and  the  eminent  men  whom  he  drew  around  him  gave  an  impress  to  our  institutions  and  the  proceedings  under 
them,  which  has  never  been  lost. 

"  It  is  difficult  to  estimate  what  we  owe  to  the  first  Administration  of  the  General  Government,  which 
plowed  its  way  through  an  unknown  sea,  and  was  exposed  to  cross-currents  of  every  kind,  yet  held  its  course 
steadily  to  the  end,  and  opened  a  pathway  which  has  been  followed  by  its  successors  through  the  complete 
century.  This  happy  beginning  was  not  an  accident,  but  due  to  causes  which  our  fathers  distinctly  recog- 
nized. 

"When  the  signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence  mutually  pledged  to  each  other  their  lives,  their 
fortunes,  and  their  sacred  honor  in  its  support,  it  was,  as  they  were  careful  to  say,  '  with  a  firm  reliance  upon 
the  protection  of  Divine  Providence.'  In  the  address  which  General  Washington  made  at  his  inauguration, 
after  speaking  of  his  conflict  of  emotions  in  accepting  the  office,  he  said  : 

'"It  would  be  peculiarly  improper  to  omit  in  this  first  official  act  my  fervent  supplication  to  that  Almighty 
Being  who  rules  over  this  universe,  who  presides  in  the  councils  of  nations,  and  whose  providential  aids  can 
supply  every  human  defect,  that  his  benediction  may  consecrate  to  the  liberties  and  happiness  of  the  people  of 
the  United  States  a  Government  instituted  by  themselves  for  these  essential  purposes,  and  may  enable  every 
instrument  employed  in  its  administration  to  execute  with  success  the  functions  allotted  to  his  charge.' 

"But  these  weighty  words  were  not  enough  to  satisfy  the  first  President's  sense  of  our  dependence  upon 
God.    He  renewed  the  subject  in  the  closing  paragraph  : 

" '  Having  thus  imparted  to  you  my  sentiments  as  they  have  been  awakened  by  the  occasion  that  brings  us 
together,  I  shall  take  my  present  leave;  but  not  without  resorting  once  more  to  the  benign  Parent  of  the  human 
race  in  humble  supplication  that  since  he  has  been  pleased  to  favor  the  American  people  with  opportunities 
for  deliberating  in  perfect  tranquillity,  and  disposition  for  deciding  with  unparalleled  unanimity  on  a  form  of 
government  for  the  security  of  their  Union  and  the  advancement  of  their  happiness,  so  his  divine  blessing  may 
be  equally  conspicuous  in  the  enlarged  views,  the  temperate  consultations,  and  the  wise  measures  on  which 
the  success  of  this  Government  must  depend.' 

"  Immediately  after  the  delivery  of  his  Inaugural  Address,  President  Washington,  with  the  eminent  men 
who  had  taken  part  in  the  ceremonies,  proceeded  to  St.  Paul's  Chapel,  in  Broadway,  where  prayers  were  read 
by  one  of  the  Chaplains  of  Congress. 

"  The  prayers  offered  by  the  Father  of  his  Country  at  that  critical  period,  and  re-echoed  by  innumerable 
devout  hearts  among  the  people,  have  been  answered,  as  the  slightest  review  of  the  past  century  shows.  Surely, 
then,  it  is  our  privilege  to  make  due  recognition  of  the  fact  in  a  public  and  formal  manner. 

"On  the  morning  of  April  30,  1789,  the  bells,  at  nine  o'clock,  summoned  the  people  to  the  churches  to 
implore  the  blessings  of  Heaven  on  the  nation  and  its  chosen  President,  so  universal  was  the  religious  sense  of 
the  importance  of  the  occasion.  We  respectfully  and  earnestly  request  our  fellow-citizens  of  every  name  and 
race  and  creed  in  this  city  and  throughout  the  entire  country,  following  the  example  of  our  fathers,  to  meet  in 
their  respective  places  of  worship  at  nine  o'clock  on  the  morning  of  the  30th  of  April,  1889,  and  hold  such 
religious  services  of  thanksgiving  and  praise  as  may  seem  suitable  in  view  of  what  God  has  done  for  us  and 
our  land  during  the  century  which  has  elapsed  since  George  Washington  took  the  chair  of  state. 

"  Religion  and  patriotism  have  been  united  among  us  as  a  people  from  the  very  beginuing.  May  they 
so  continue  forever!" 

Thus  having  performed  our  first  assigned  duty  in  addressing  the  ministers  and  churches,  we  now,  in  co-op- 
eration with  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  Centennial  Celebration  of  the  Inauguration  of  George  Washington 
as  President  of  the  United  States,  respectfully  solicit  you,  our  fellow-citizen,  as  President  of  these  United 
States,  and  the  latest  chosen  successor  of  the  revered  Washington,  to  issue  a  proclamation,  calling  upon  all 
the  citizens  of  the  Republic  to  observe  the  30th  of  April,  1889,  as  a  day  of  National  Thanksgiving,  by  holding 
appropriate  religious  services  at  nine  o'clock  on  the  morning  of  that  day,  in  their  respective  places  of  worship. 

Martin  J.  Brophv,  representing  Archbishop  Corrigan. 

J.  W.  Brown,  Rector  of  St.  Thomas's  Church. 

Talbot  W.  Chambers,  Pastor  of  Collegiate  Dutch  Church. 

E.  W.  Donald,  Rector  of  the  Church  of  the  Ascension. 

Gustav  Gottheil,  Rabbi  of  Temple  Emanu-El. 

John  Hall,  Pastor  of  Fifth  Avenue  Presbyterian  Church. 

J.  M.  King,  Pastor  of  St.  Andrew's  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 

G.  F.  Krotel,  Pastor  of  Evangelical  Lutheran  Church. 

R.  S.  MacArthur,  Pastor  of  Calvary  Baptist  Church. 

Wm.  M.  Taylor,  Pastor  of  Broadway  Tabernacle. 

Wm.  Hayes  Ward,  Editor  of  The  Independent. 


126       THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


The  following  is  the  proclamation  issued  by  Benjamin  Harrison,  President  of  the  United 
States : 

BY  THE  PRESIDENT  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES  OF  AMERICA. 

Proclamation. 

A  hundred  years  have  passed  since  the  Government  which  our  forefathers  founded  was  formally  organized. 
At  noon  on  the  thirtieth  day  of  April,  seventeen  hundred  and  eighty-nine,  in  the  city  of  New  York,  and  in  the 
presence  of  an  assemblage  of  the  heroic  men  whose  patriotic  devotion  had  led  the  Colonies  to  victory  and  inde- 
pendence, George  Washington  took  the  oath  of  office  as  Chief  Magistrate  of  the  new-born  Republic.  This 
impressive  act  was  preceded,  at  nine  o'clock  in  the  morning,  in  all  the  churches  of  the  city,  by  prayer  for  God's 
blessing  on  the  Government  and  its  first  President. 

The  centennial  of  this  illustrious  event  in  our  history  has  been  declared  a  general  holiday  by  Act  of  Con- 
gress, to  the  end  that  the  people  of  the  whole  country  may  join  in  commemorative  exercises  appropriate  to 
the  day. 

In  order  that  the  joy  of  the  occasion  may  be  associated  with  a  deep  thankfulness  in  the  minds  of  the 
people  for  all  our  blessings  in  the  past,  and  a  devout  supplication  to  God  for  their  gracious  continuance  in  the 
future,  the  representatives  of  the  religious  creeds,  both  Christian  and  Hebrew,  have  memorialized  the  Govern- 
ment to  designate  an  hour  for  prayer  and  thanksgiving  on  that  day. 

Now,  therefore,  I,  Benjamin  Harrison,  President  of  the  United  States  of  America,  in  response  to  this  pious 
and  reasonable  request,  do  recommend  that  on  Tuesday,  April  30th,  at  the  hour  of  nine  o'clock  in  the  morning, 
the  people  of  the  entire  country  repair  to  their  respective  places  of  Divine  worship,  to  implore  the  favor  of 
God  that  the  blessings  of  liberty,  prosperity,  and  peace,  may  abide  with  us  as  a  people,  and  that  His  hand  may 
lead  us  in  the  paths  of  righteousness  and  good  deeds. 

///  Witness  whereof,  I  have  hereunto  set  my  hand  and  caused  the  seal  of  the  United  States  of  America  to 
be  affixed. 

Done  in  the  City  of  Washington  this  fourth  day  of  April,  in  the  year  of 
[seal.]  our  Lord  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  eighty-nine,  and  of  the 

Independence  of  the  United  States  the  one  hundred  and  thirteenth. 

BENJ.  HARRISON. 

By  the  President  : 

James  G.  Blaine,  Secretary  of  State. 

III.  THE  PROGRAMME  OF  THE  CELEBRATION. 
The  official  programme  of  the  celebration,  as  finally  arranged,  was  as  follows: 

Wednesday,  April  lytli. 

I.  Formal  opening  of  the  Loan  Exhibition  of  Historical  Portraits  and  Relics  in  the  Assembly  Rooms  of  the 
Metropolitan  Opera-House,  at  8.30  p.  m.  The  Loan  Exhibition  will  be  open  to  the  public  on  Thursday,  April 
18th,  and  remain  open,  Sundays  excepted,  from  10  a.  m.  to  6  p.  At.,  and  from  7  p.  m.  to  10  p.  m.,  until  Wednes- 
day, May  8th.    Admission  fee,  fifty  cents. 

Monday,  April  29th. 

II.  The  Naval  Parade  will  take  place  in  New  York  Harbor,  from  11  a.  m.  to  1  p.  m. 

The  Governors,  Commissioners  of  States,  and  other  guests,  with  ladies  invited  by  the  Committee  on  States 
and  the  members  of  the  General  Committee,  will  embark  at  9.30  a.  m.  on  the  steamer  Erastus  Wiman,  at  ferry 
slip  foot  of  West  Twenty-third  Street,  New  York  City,  to  receive  the  President,  and  to  meet  the  President's 
steamer  off  Elizabethport.    Admittance  by  special  blue  ticket. 

On  the  arrival  of  President  Harrison  and  the  Cabinet  officers,  and  other  officials  of  distinction,  at  Eliza- 


The  Rhode  Island  Delegation  in  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution. 


PRELIMINARY  WORK  OF  THE  CELEBRATIOX. 


bethport,  at  eleven  o'clock  Monday  morning,  the  party  will  at  once  embark  for  New  York  City.  The  President 
and  immediate  suite  will  be  received  by  the  Committee  on  the  Navy,  and  under  their  direction  will  embark  on 
the  President's  steamer  provided  by  that  committee. 

The  steamer  Sirius,  under  the  management  of  the  Committee  on  Navy,  will  receive  at  Elizabethport 
other  guests  and  official  personages  of  the  presidential  party  who  can  not  be  accommodated  on  the  President's 
steamer.  Admission  to  steamer  Sirius  will  be  by  red  ticket.  The  line  of  United  States  ships  of  war,  yachts, 
and  steamboats  will  be  formed  in  the  upper  Bay  under  Admiral  David  D.  Porter,  U.  S.  N.,  as  Chief  Marshal, 
and  will  be  reviewed  by  the  President. 

On  the  arrival  of  the  presidential  party  in  the  East  River,  opposite  Wall  Street,  a  barge  manned  by  a  crew 
of  ship-masters  from  the  Marine  Society  of  the  Port  of  New  York,  with  Captain  Ambrose  Snow,  President  of 
that  Society,  as  coxswain,  will  row  the  President  ashore.  The  crew  of  the  barge  that  rowed  President  Wash- 
ington from  Elizabethport  to  the  foot  of  Wall  Street  were  members  of  the  same  Society.  The  steamers 
Erastus  Wiman  and  Sirius,  prior  to  the  debarkation  of  the  President,  will  land  at  Pier  16,  Wall  Street,  the 
guests  for  the  reception  at  the  Equitable  Building,  and  proceed  with  the  remaining  passengers  to  West  Twenty- 
third  Street  Ferry  and  West  Twenty-second  Street. 

III.  On  arriving  at  the  foot  of  Wall  Street  the  President  of  the  United  States  will  be  received  by  the 
Governor  of  the  State  of  New  York,  the  Mayor  of  the  City  of  New  York,  the  Hon.  Hamilton  Fish,  President  of 
the  Committee,  and  William  G.  Hamilton,  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  States. 

The  President  and  other  guests  will  next  be  escorted  to  the  Equitable  Building,  where  a  reception  and  col- 
lation will  be  tendered  them  by  the  Committee  on  States. 
The  procession  will  be  formed  as  follows : 

Brevet  Lieutenant-Colonel  Floyd  Clarkson,  Marshal. 

Band  Fifth  Regiment,  U.  S.  Artillery. 
Three  foot  batteries  Fifth  Regiment,  U.  S.  Artillery. 
New  York  Commandery  of  the  Loyal  Legion  of  the  United  States. 
Commanders  of  Posts  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic  in  Counties  of  New  York  and  Kings. 

Cappa's  Band. 

Uniformed  Battalion  of  Yeterans  Seventh  Regiment,  N.  G.  S.  N.  Y. 
Uniformed  Yeteran  Militia  Associations  of  New  York  and  Brooklyn. 
Band  of  the  General  Service,  U.  S.  Army. 
Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution. 
The  General  Committee  of  the  Centennial  Celebration. 
The  President  of  the  United  States,  the  Governor  of  the  State  of  New  York,  the  Mayor  of  the  City  of  New 
York,  and  the  Hon.  Hamilton  Fish,  President  of  the  Committee,  flanked  by  the  barge  crew  from  the  Marine 
Society  of  the  Port  of  New  York. 

The  Yice-President  of  the  United  States  and  Lieutenant-Governor  of  the  State  of  New  York. 
The  Secretaries  of  State,  Treasury,  War,  and  Navy  of  the  United  States. 

The  Secretary  of  the  Interior,  the  Postmaster-General,  the  Attorney-General,  and  the  Secretary  of  Agri- 
culture of  the  United  States. 

The  Chief-Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States. 

The  Associate-Justices  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States,  and  Judges  of  other  Federal 
Courts. 

The  Governors  of  States,  taking  precedence  in  the  order  of  admission  of  their  States  into  the  Union. 

The  official  representation  of  the  Senate  of  the  United  States. 

The  official  representation  of  the  House  of  Representatives  of  the  United  States. 

The  Governors  of  Territories  and  President  of  the  Board  of  Commissioners  of  the  District  of  Columbia, 
taking  precedence  in  the  order  of  establishment  of  their  Territorial  Governments. 

The  Admiral  of  the  Navy,  General  Sherman,  the  Major-General  commanding  the  Army,  and  officers  of  the 
Army  and  Navy  who  by  name  have  received  the  thanks  of  Congress. 

The  official  representation  of  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati. 

The  Chief  Judge  and  Judges  of  the  Court  of  Appeals  of  the  State  of  New  York. 


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THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


The  Presiding  Justice  and  Justices  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  State  of  New  York  and  Judges  of  other 
Courts  of  Record  within  the  City  of  New  York. 
The  Legislature  of  the  State  of  New  York. 
The  State  officers  of  the  State  of  New  York. 
Judges  and  Justices  of  other  Courts  in  the  City  of  New  York. 
The  Board  of  Aldermen  of  the  City  of  New  York. 
Heads  of  Departments  in  the  City  of  New  York. 
Mayor  of  the  City  of  Brooklyn. 
The  Board  of  Aldermen  of  the  City  of  Brooklyn. 

The  Foreign  Consuls  at  New  York,  and  officers  of  the  Army  and  Navy  of  the  United  States. 
Invited  guests,  without  special  order  of  precedence. 

The  distance  from  the  landing  at  the  foot  of  Wall  Street  to  the  Equitable  Building  being  but  a  few  blocks, 
the  procession  will  proceed  on  foot  from  the  landing  at  Wall  Street  to  the  Equitable  Building,  carriages  being 
only  provided  for  the  President  and  his  immediate  party.  At  the  reception  in  the  Equitable  Building  the 
President,  with  his  Cabinet,  the  Governors  of  the  States,  the  Governor  of  the  State  of  New  York,  and  the 
Mayor  of  the  City  of  New  York  will  have  presented  to  them  the  guests,  who  will  pass  and  bow  to  the  President 
and  party  without  shaking  hands  (as  was  the  custom  at  the  reception  of  Washington  in  1789).  The  reception 
will  last  from  2  to  3.30  o'clock.    Admission  only  by  buff  ticket. 

IV.  From  4  to  5.30  o'clock  a  public  reception  will  be  given  to  the  President  of  the  United  States  in  the 
Governor's  Room  in  the  City  Hall ;  the  President,  the  Governor  of  the  State  of  New  York,  and  the  Mayor  of 
the  City  of  New  York  proceeding  under  military  escort. 

At  the  steps  of  the  City  Hall  a  representation  of  girls  from  the  Public  Schools  will  assemble  and  welcome 
the  President  of  the  United  States. 

V.  In  the  evening,  at  nine  o'clock,  the  Centennial  Ball  will  be  given  in  the  Metropolitan  Opera-House. 
The  following  is  the  programme : 

The  Mayor  of  the  City  of  New  York,  as  host  and  as  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  the  Centennial  Celebra- 
tion of  the  Inauguration  of  George  Washington  as  President  of  the  United  States,  to  arrive  at  the  Metro- 
politan Opera-House  at  10.15  p-  M->  ar,d  at  10.30  p.  m.  to  receive  the  President  of  the  United  States  and  other 
distinguished  guests. 

The  President  to  be  brought  to  the  ball  by  the  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Entertainment,  accompanied 
by  the  Governor  of  the  State  of  New  York  and  Mrs.  Harrison,  the  Vice-President  and  Mrs.  Morton,  the 
Lieutenant-Governor  and  Mrs.  Jones. 

The  Director  of  the  ball  to  meet  the  President  at  his  carriage  and  conduct  him  into  the  building,  where  the 
formal  reception  by  the  Mayor  will  take  place. 

After  the  reception  the  guests  above  named  will  be  conducted  to  the  floor  in  the  following  order,  escorted 
by  a  guard  of  honor  : 

The  Mayor,  The  President,  The  Governor. 

The  Vice-President  and  Mrs.  Harrison. 
The  Lieutenant-Governor  and  Mrs.  Morton. 
The  President  of  the  General  Committee  and  Mrs.  Jones. 
In  front  of  the  President's  box  the  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Entertainment  will  present  to  the  Presi- 
dent the  Chairman  of  the  Executive  Committee  and  the  members  of  the  Committee  on  Entertainment  and  of 
the  Committee  on  Plan  and  Scope. 

After  the  presentation,  the  opening  quadrille  will  be  formed  by  the  Director  of  the  ball. 
At  midnight,  the  President  and  party  will  be  escorted  in  the  above  order  to  the  supper-room,  which  order 
will  be  observed  on  returning.    The  serving  of  wine  will  cease  at  1  a.  m.,  in  compliance  with  the  law. 

Tuesday,  April  30th. 

VI.  Services  of  thanksgiving,  pursuant  to  proclamation  of  the  President,  will  be  held  in  the  churches  in 
New  York  and  throughout  the  country  at  9  a.  m.,  being  the  hour  at  which  religious  services  were  held  in  New 
York  City  on  April  30,  1789. 


PRELIMINARY  WORK  OF  THE  CELEBRATION. 


VII.  A  special  service  of  thanksgiving  will  be  held  in  St.  Paul's  Chapel  at  nine  o'clock,  which  the  President 
and  other  distinguished  guests  will  attend.  This  service  will  be  conducted  by  the  Right  Rev.  Henry  C.  Potter, 
D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  Bishop  of  New  York,  as  the  service  on  the  day  of  Washington's  inauguration  in  1789  was  con- 
ducted by  the  Bishop  of  New  York,  the  Right  Rev.  Samuel  Provoost.    Admission  only  by  lavender  ticket. 

The  Committee  of  the  Vestry  of  Trinity  Church  will  meet  the  President  at  the  Vesey  Street  gate  and 
escort  him  to  the  west  porch  of  the  chapel,  where  he  will  be  received  by  the  rector  and  the  full  vestry.  The 
President  will  then  be  escorted  to  the  Washington  pew ;  and,  on  his  withdrawal  from  the  chapel,  the  Vestry  will 
escort  him  to  the  west  porch,  where  he  will  be  received  by  the  Committee  on  Literary  Exercises. 

The  services  at  St.  Paul's  Chapel  will  be  as  follows  : 

1.  Processional  Hymn. 

2.  Our  leather,  etc. 

3.  Psalm  lxxxv. 

4.  First  Lesson,  Ecclesiasticus,  xliv. 

5.  Te  Deum. 

6.  Second  Lesson,  St.  John  viii. 

7.  Benedicite. 

8.  Creed  and  Prayers. 

9.  Address  by  the  Right  Rev.  Henry  C.  Potter,  Bishop  of  New  York. 
10.  Recessional  Hymn. 

VIII.  At  the  close  of  the  religious  services,  at  9.45  a.  m.,  the  President  and  party  will  proceed  to  the  sub- 
Treasury  Building,  at  the  Corner  of  Wall  and  Nassau  Streets,  the  scene  of  the  inauguration  ceremony  on  April 
30,  1789,  where  the  Literary  Exercises  will  take  place.  These  exercises  will  begin  at  10  a.  m.,  and  will  consist 
of  an  Invocation  by  the  Rev.  Richard  S.  Storrs,  D.  D.,  LL.  D. ;  a  Poem  by  John  Greenleaf  Whittier;  an  Ora- 
tion by  Chauncey  Mitchell  Depew,  LL.  D. ;  an  Address  by  the  President  of  the  United  States,  and  the  Bene- 
diction by  the  Most  Rev.  Michael  Augustine  Corrigan,  Archbishop  of  New  York. 

IX.  At  the  conclusion  of  the  Literary  Exercises,  the  President  and  members  of  the  Cabinet,  the  Chief-Jus- 
tice and  Associate-Justices  of  the  United  States  will  be  driven  to  the  reviewing  stand  at  Madison  Square  to 
review  the  parade.  Other  guests  will  be  carried  to  the  reviewing  stand  by  a  special  train  on  the  Third  Avenue 
Elevated  Railroad,  which  will  start  at  Hanover  Square  and  run  to  the  Twenty-third  Street  station. 

X.  While  the  Literary  Exercises  are  taking  place  the  military  will  move  from  the  head  of  Wall  Street  and 
Broadway.  The  column,  under  Major-General  John  M.  Schofield,  U.  S.  A.,  as  Chief  Marshal,  will  be  composed 
of  the  Cadets  from  the  Military  Academy  of  West  Point,  the  Naval  Cadets  from  Annapolis,  the  troops  of  the 
Regular  Army  and  Navy,  and  the  National  Guard  of  each  State  in  the  order  in  which  the  States  ratified  the 
Constitution  or  were  admitted  into  the  L'nion.  These  will  be  followed  by  the  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal 
Legion  and  the  posts  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic. 

XL  The  route  of  the  procession  will  be  up  Broadway  to  Waverly  Place,  through  Waverly  Place  to  Fifth 
Avenue,  thence  up  Fifth  Avenue  to  Fourteenth  Street,  through  Fourteenth  Street  to  Union  Square,  around 
Union  Square  and  through  Fifteenth  Street  to  Fifth  Avenue  and  up  Fifth  Avenue  to  Fifty-seventh  Street. 
The  reviewing  stand  will  be  on  the  East  side  of  Fifth  Avenue  on  Madison  Square,  extending  from  Twenty- 
third  to  Twenty-sixth  Streets. 

The  other  stands  will  be  as  follows : 

1.  On  the  west  side  of  Fifth  Avenue  from  Twenty-fourth  to  Twenty-fifth  Streets. 

2.  On  the  west  side  of  Fifth  Avenue  from  Fortieth  to  Forty-second  Streets. 

3.  On  the  north  side  of  Washington  Square. 

4.  On  the  east  side  of  Broadway  at  the  City  Hall  Park. 

XII.  The  Centennial  Banquet  will  take  place  at  the  Metropolitan  Opera-House  at  6.30  p.  u. 

XIII.  At  8  p.  h.  there  will  be,  at  the  reviewing  stand,  Madison  Square,  a  free  open-air  concert  of  vocal  and 
instrumental  music,  under  the  auspices  of  the  German-Americans  of  New  York. 

XIV.  During  the  evening  there  will  be  a  general  illumination  of  the  city  and  display  of  fireworks  in  the 
following  localities : 

Tompkins  Square,  Canal  Street  Park,  Washington  Square,  Union  Square,  Fifty-ninth  Street  and  Eighth 
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Avenue,  Mount  Morris  Park,  East  River  Park  (Eightieth  Street),  Washington  Heights,  and  places  in  the 
Twenty-third  and  Twenty-fourth  Wards. 

Wednesday,  May  ist. 

XV.  The  Industrial  and  Civic  Parade,  under  command  of  Major-General  Daniel  Butterfield,  late  U.  S. 
Volunteers,  Chief  Marshal,  will  take  place.  The  line  of  march  will  be  from  Fifty-seventh  Street  down  Fifth 
Avenue  to  Fifteenth  Street,  through  Fifteenth  Street  to  Union  Square,  around  Union  Square,  through  Four- 
teenth Street  to  Fifth  Avenue,  down  Fifth  Avenue  to  Waverly  Place,  up  Waverly  Place  to  Broadway,  and 
down  Broadway  to  Canal  Street.    The  procession  will  start  at  10  a.  m. 

Wednesday,  May  8th. 

Close  of  the  Loan  Exhibition  of  Historical  Portraits  and  Relics  in  the  Assembly  Rooms  of  the  Metropoli- 
tan Opera-House. 


CHAPTER  V. 


THE  LOAN   EXHIBITION   OF   HISTORICAL   PORTRAITS  AND  RELICS. 


By  William  A.  Coffin, 

Manager  of  the  Committee  on  Art  and  Exhibition. 

I.  THE  ORGANIZATION  AND 
PRELIMINARY  WORK  OF  THE 
COMMITTEE  ON  ART  AND 
EXHIBITION. 

From  the  beginning  of  the 
preparations  to  celebrate  fittingly, 
in  New  York,  the  one  hundredth 
anniversary  of  the  inauguration 
of  George  Washington  as  first 
President  of  the  United  States 
of  America,  it  was  thought  appro- 
priate to  make  a  prominent  feat- 
ure of  an  exhibition  of  portraits 
and  memorials  of  the  founders  of 
our  Government,  and  of  relics  of 
the  inauguration  period.  To  carry 
out  this  general  plan,  two  sub- 
committees were  appointed.  These 
committees  were  known  as  the 
Committee  on  Art  and  the  Com- 
mittee on  Exhibition.  Mr.  Hen- 
ry G.  Marquand  was  made  chair- 
man of  the  first,  and  Mr.  Gordon 
L.  Ford  was  the  presiding  officer 
of  the  second. 

The  first  meeting  of  the  Com- 
mittee on  Art  was  held  in  the  edi- 
torial rooms  of  the  Century  Mag- 
azine, No.  33  East  Seventeenth  Street,  Union  Square,  on  the  afternoon  of  Thursday,  March 
8,  1888.    Messrs.  Daniel  Huntington,  William  E.  Dodge,  Charles  Henry  Hart,  Francis  D. 


THOMAS  JEFFERSON. 
From  a  life-size  bust  by  Jean  Antoine  Houdon,  presented  by  Mrs.  Laura  Wolcott  Gibbs 
to  the  New  York  Historical  Society. 


1 32       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 

Millet,  and  Richard  W.  Gilder  were  present.  Mr.  Huntington  was  elected  chairman  pro  tctn., 
in  the  absence  of  Mr.  Marquand,  who  was  in  California  at  the  time,  and  Mr.  Gilder  acted 
as  secretary.  Mr.  Gilder,  who  had  gone  to  Philadelphia,  at  the  request  of  the  Chairman 
of  the  General  Committee,  to  attend  a  meeting  called  to  encourage  the  celebration  in  New 
York,  and  who  had  been  in  communication  as  Secretary  of  the  Committee  on  Art  with 
the  other  organizers  of  the  celebration  of  the  inauguration  of  Washington,  read  a  letter 
at  this  meeting  from  Mr.  Clarence  W.  Bowen,  Secretary  of  the  General  Committee,  in  which 
the  views  of  the  officers  of  the  General  Committee  as  to  what  such  an  exhibition  as  the  one 
proposed  should  include  were  stated,  and  the  main  lines  of  the  undertaking  were  indicated. 
It  also  communicated  to  the  Committee  on  Art  the  opinion  of  Mr.  Ford,  Chairman  of  the 
Committee  on  Exhibition,  that  the  exhibition  of  portraits,  which  was  to  be  the  work  of  the 
Committee  on  Art,  and  the  exhibition  of  memorials,  which  was  in  charge  of  Mr.  Ford's 
committee,  should  be  held  in  the  same  building  and  at  the  same  time.  At  a  second 
meeting  of  the  Committee  on  Art,  held  at  the  "  Century  "  office  on  March  28th,  Mr.  Ford 
was  present  by  invitation,  and  Messrs.  Marquand,  Huntington,  and  Millet  were  appointed 
a  Committee  on  the  Location  of  the  Exhibition.  At  a  third  meeting,  held  at  the  "  Cent- 
ury "  office  on  April  11th,  a  letter  from  Mr.  Bowen  was  read,  stating  that  the  Metro- 
politan Opera-House  in  Broadway,  corner  of  Thirty-ninth  Street,  could  be  obtained,  either 
wholly  or  in  part,  for  the  use  of  the  Committee  on  Art  and  Exhibition,  and  for  the 
proposed  Centennial  Ball  and  Banquet  to  be  given  by  the  Committee  on  Entertainment. 
The  sub-Committee  on  Location  reported  that  they  had  examined  the  Assembly  Rooms 
of  the  Opera-House,  and  found  them  well  adapted  to  the  purposes  of  the  proposed 
exhibition,  and  recommended  that  this  suite  of  rooms  be  secured.  At  this  meeting  the 
two  following  resolutions  were  adopted  : 

"  Resolved,  That,  in  the  judgment  of  the  Art  Committee  (the  members  present  of  the  Exhibition  Committee 
concurring  therein),  the  rooms  of  the  Metropolitan  Opera-House,  other  than  the  auditorium,  are  entirely  suffi- 
cient for  the  purposes  of  the  joint  exhibition. 

"  Resolved,  That,  in  the  opinion  of  the  Committee  on  Art  (the  members  present  of  the  Committee  on  Ex- 
hibition concurring),  it  would  be  well  to  open  the  joint  exhibition  in  April,  to  continue  three  weeks;  it 
being  suggested  that  the  rooms  would  be  required  from  the  1st  of  April  till  the  middle  of  May,  or  six  weeks 
in  all." 

A  joint  meeting  of  the  three  committees  on  Art,  on  Exhibition,  and  on  Entertainment 
was  held  at  the  "  Century  "  office  on  April  25th,  at  which  Mr.  Marquand  presided,  and  it  was 
recommended  to  the  Committee  on  Plan  and  Scope  that  the  Assembly  Rooms  of  the  Opera- 
House  be  engaged  for  six  weeks  from  April  3,  1889,  and  the  auditorium  with  ball  floor  for 
the  29th  and  30th  of  April. 

On  motion  of  Mr.  Ford,  it  was  resolved  "  that  we  recommend  to  the  Committee  on  Plan 
and  Scope  that  the  Committees  on  Art  and  Exhibition  be  merged,  under  the  title  of  the 
Historical  Memorial  Committee."    Another  meeting  of  the  Committees  on  Art  and  Exhi- 


LOAN  EXHIBITION  OF  HISTORICAL  PORTRAITS  AND  RELICS.  133 


bition  was  held  at  the  "Century"  office,  on  May  16th,  and  the  following  resolutions  of  the 
Committee  on  Plan  and  Scope  were  read  : 

"That  the  Committees  on  Art  and  Exhibition  be  merged  under  that  name,  and  be  at 
liberty  to  appoint  their  own  chairman  and  to  sit  in  future  as  one  committee  ;  but  that,  in  view 
of  the  extensive  publication  of  the  nomenclature  of  the  committees,  it  is  inexpedient 
at  the  present  time  to  change  the  title  of  such  joint  commit- 
tee." 

"That  the  recommendation  of  the  joint  Committees  on  Art, 
Entertainment,  and  Exhibition  that  the  ball-room  suite  (the  As- 
sembly Rooms)  of  the  Metropolitan  Opera- House  be  engaged 
for  six  weeks  from  the  3d  of  April,  1889,  at  $6,000,  and  that  the 
auditorium  with  the  ball  floor  be  engaged  for  the  29th  and  30th 
of  April,  1889,  at  $3,000,  making  $9,000  in  all,  be  and  the  same  is 
hereby  approved." 

On  motion  of  Mr.  Ford,  Mr.  Marquand  was  elected  chairman 
of  the  new  committee.  Mr.  Ford  was  elected  vice-chairman,  and 
Mr.  Gilder  secretary.  Messrs.  Ford,  Huntington,  and  Stuyvesant 
were  appointed  a  sub-committee  to  select  and  engage  a  manager 
of  the  exhibition. 

At  a  subsequent  meeting  of  the  Committee  on  Art  and  Exhi- 
bition, held  at  the  "  Century  "  office,  on  November  16,  1888,  the 
chairman  reported  that  he  had  signed  the  lease  for  the  Assem- 
bly Rooms  of  the  Metropolitan  Opera-House.  Mr.  Ford  reported 
the  engagement  of  Mr.  William  A.  Coffin  as  manager,  and  a  sub- 
committee was  appointed,  consisting  of  Messrs.  Huntington,  Mil- 
let, and  Perry,  with  Messrs.  Marquand,  Ford,  and  Gilder  as  mem- 
bers ex-officio,  to  act  as  a  supervising  committee  in  the  organiza- 
tion of  the  exhibition  and  to  meet  at  the  call  of  the  manager. 
Messrs.  Ford,  Hart,  and  the  manager  were  appointed  a  sub-com- 
mittee to  draw  up  a  circular  letter,  and  the  secretary  was  in- 
structed to  request  the  officers  of  the  General  Committee  to 
send  in  future  all  communications  concerning  the  exhibition 
directly  to  the  manager.  The  organization  of  the  Com- 
mittee for  Work  was  now  complete,  and  the  committee  ad- 
journed, to  meet  at  the  call  of  the  secretary  at  the  headquarters 
of  the  General  Committee,  in  the  Stewart  Building,  No.  280 
Broadway.  The  Committee  on  Art  and  Exhibition,  as  made 
up  by  the  consolidation  of  the  two  original  committees,  stood  as 
follows  : 


RED  MOROCCO  POCKET  CASE. 
Containing  ivory  scale,  pair  of 
dividers  and  lead  pencil,  used  by 
Washington  when  surveying  on  the 
Ohio  River  before  the  Revolution. 
Now  owned  by  Edmund  Law  Rogers, 
Baltimore,  Maryland. 
(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  416.) 


i34       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 

Henry  G.  Marquand,  Chairman;  Gordon  L.  Ford,  Vice-Chairman;  Richard  W.  Gilder,  Secretary; 
Daniel  Huntington,  F.  Hopkinson  Smith,  William  E.  Dodge,  Charles  Parsons,  Alexander  W.  Drake, 
Oliver  H.  Perry,  Francis  D.  Millet,  Hjalmar  H.  Boyesen,  Charles  Henry  Hart,  Rutherfurd  Stuy- 
vesant,  John  L.  Cadwalader,  Lispenard  Stewart,  Charles  H.  Russell,  Jr.;  William  A.  Coffin, 
Manager. 


II.   THE    COLLECTION    OF    OBJECTS    FOR    THE    EXHIBITION  ;— THE  COMMEMORATIVE 

MEDAL  AND  THE  SOUVENIR. 

The  preparation  of  a  circular  letter,  setting  forth  the  object  of  the  committee,  was  under- 
taken by  the  manager  in  consultation  with  Messrs.  Ford  and  Hart,  and  a  draft  of  it  was  sub- 


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Gordon L  Ford,  VtrcC/isirman   WilhamFDodgc,        Francis D.  Millet.  Hohn  L  Cadwalader. 

Richard  W Gilder,  Secretary  Charles  Parsons.  HjalmarH Boyesezi  Lispenard  Stewart. 

Daniel  Huntington,  Alexander  W Drake,  Charles  Hen  ry  Hart ,  Charles  HRusscltJr. 

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C/iatmian  Executive  Com iniftte 


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(Fac-simile  of  complimentary  season  ticket  to  the  Art  Exhibition.) 


mitted  to  the  full  committee  at  a  meeting  held  at  No.  280  Broadway,  on  November  30th.  It 
was  amended  and  adopted,  and  fifteen  hundred  copies  were  ordered  to  be  printed.  It  read  as 
follows : 

LOAN  EXHIBITION  OF  HISTORICAL  PORTRAITS  AND  RELICS, 
TO  BE  HELD  AT  THE  METROPOLITAN  OPERA-HOUSE,  NEW  YORK  CITY. 

As  a  part  of  the  Centennial  Celebration  of  the  Inauguration  of  George  Washington  as  President  of  the 
United  States,  at  New  York  city,  April  30,  1789,  the  Committee  on  Art  and  Exhibition  announces  that  a  Loan 
Exhibition  of  Historical  Portraits  and  Relics  will  be  held  at  the  Metropolitan  Opera-House,  to  be  opened  to 
the  public  on  April  17,  1889,  and  continue  three  weeks. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  committee  held  on  May  16,  1888,  it  was  "Resolved,  That  the  scope  of  the  Exhibition 
of  Portraits  and  Relics  be  confined  to  those  relating  to  Washington,  his  Cabinet,  members  of  the  First  Con- 
gress, members  of  the  Constitutional  Convention,  and  others  connected  with  the  inauguration  of  Washington, 
together  with  pictures  of  scenes  and  localities  pertaining  to  the  period."    It  is  the  purpose  of  the  committee, 


LOAN  EXHIBITION  OF  HISTORICAL  PORTRAITS  AND  RELICS.  135 


therefore,  to  exclude  from  this  Exhibition  such  pictures  or  relics  as  properly  belong  to  the  Revolutionary  period 
only,  in  order  to  avoid  a  repetition  of  certain  features  of  the  exhibitions  held  in  connection  with  the  Centennial 
Celebration  at  Philadelphia  in  1876.  In  the  case  of  individuals  identified  with  both  periods,  their  portraits,  or 
articles  used  by  them  or  belonging  to  them,  or  other  objects  of  interest  connected  with  them,  are  included  in 
the  scope  of  this  Exhibition. 

The  following  names  of  men  who  were  prominent  in  the  making  of  our  history  one  hundred  years  ago  are 
presented  as  among  those  of  whom  the  committee  is  especially  desirous  of  obtaining  portraits  and  relics  for  the 
coming  Exhibition  : 

I. 

George  Washington,  President  of  the  United  States.     John  Adams,  Vice-President. 

And  the  following  members  of  the  first  Cabinet : 
Thomas  Jefferson,  Secretary  of  State.  Major-General  Henry  Knox,  Secretary  of  War  and 

Alexander  Hamilton,  Secretary  of  the  Treasury.  Navy. 
Edmund  Randolph,  Attorney-General. 

Superior  Officers  of  the  Army  of  the  United  States,  as  recognized  and  adopted  by  the  First 

Congress  under  the  Constitution,  1789: 


General-in-Chief,  Josiah  Harmar,  Brevet  Brigadier- 
General  and  Lieutenant-Colonel,  Commandant  First 
United  States  Infantry. 

Paymaster-General,  Joseph  Howell,  Jr. 

Acting  Adjutant-General,  Ebenezer  Denny. 


Acting  Quartermaster-General,  John  Pratt. 
Major-Commandant,  John  Dougherty,  United  States 

Battalion  of  Artillery. 
Majors  John  Wyllis  Palsgrave  and  John  Francis 

Hamtramck,  First  United  States  Infantry. 


A  special  feature  will  be  made  of  pictures  and  relics  of  Washington,  and  the  exhibition  of  original  portraits 
of  him  will  be  made  as  exhaustive  as  possible. 


II. 

Members  of  the  First  Congress — Senators. 


connecticut. 
Oliver  Ellsworth, 
William  S.  Johnson. 

DELAWARE. 

Richard  Bassett, 
George  Read. 

GEORGIA. 

William  Few, 
James  Gunn. 

maryland. 
Charles  Carroll, 
John  Henry. 


MASSACHUSETTS. 

Tristram  Dalton, 
Caleb  Strong. 

NEW  HAMPSHIRE. 

John  Langdon  (President 

of  the  Senate,  pro  tern.), 
Paine  Wingate. 

NEW  JERSEY. 

Jonathan  Elmer, 
William  Paterson, 
Philemon  Dickinson. 


NEW  YORK. 

Philip  Schuyler, 
Rufus  King. 

north  carolina. 

Benjamin  Hawkins, 
Samuel  Johnston. 

pennsylvania. 

William  Maclay, 
Robert  Morris. 


rhode  island. 
Theodore  Foster, 
Joseph  Stanton,  Jr. 

SOUTH  CAROLINA. 

Pierce  Butler, 
Ralph  Izard. 

virginia. 
William  Grayson, 
John  Walker, 
Richard  Henry  Lee, 
James  Monroe. 


Representatives. 


connecticut. 

Benjamin  Huntington, 
Roger  Sherman, 
Jonathan  Sturges, 
Jonathan  Trumbull, 
Jeremiah  Wadsworth. 

DELAWARE. 

John  Vining. 

GEORGIA. 

Abraham  Baldwin, 
James  Jackson, 
George  Mathews. 


maryland. 

Daniel  Carroll, 
Benjamin  Contee, 
George  Gale, 
Joshua  Seney, 
William  Smith, 
Michael  Jenifer  Stone. 

MASSACHUSETTS. 

Fisher  Ames, 
Elbridge  Gerry, 
Benjamin  Goodhue, 
Jonathan  Grout, 
George  Leonard, 


George  Partridge, 
Theodore  Sedgwick, 
George  Thacher. 

new  hampshire. 

Abiel  Foster, 
Nicholas  Gilman, 
Samuel  Livermore, 

new  jersey. 

Elias  Boudinot, 
Lambert  Cadwalader, 
Thomas  Sinnickson, 
James  Schureman. 


NEW  YORK. 

Egbert  Benson, 
William  Floyd, 
John  Hathorn, 
John  Laurance, 
Peter  Silvester, 
Jeremiah  Van  Rensse- 
laer. 

north  carolina. 
John  Baptista  Ashe, 
Timothy  Bloodworth, 
John  Sevier, 
John  Steele, 
Hugh  Williamson. 


136      THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 


PENNSYLVANIA. 

George  Clymer, 
Thomas  FlTZSiMONS, 
Thomas  Hartley, 
Daniel  Hiester, 
Frederick  A.  Muhlen- 
berg (Speaker  of  the 
House), 


Peter  Muhlenberg, 
Thomas  Scott, 
Henry  Wynkoop. 

rhode  island. 
Benjamin  Bourne. 

south  carolina. 
Edanus  Burke, 
Daniel  Huger, 


William  Loughton  Smith 
Thomas  Sumter, 
Thomas  Tudor  Tucker. 

VIRGINIA. 

Theodorick  Bland, 
John  Brown, 
Isaac  Coles, 


, William  B.  Giles, 
Samuel  Griffin, 
Richard  Bland  Lee, 
James  Madison,  Jr., 
Andrew  Moore, 
John  Page, 
Josiah  Parker, 
Alexander  White. 


NEW  HAMPSHIRE. 

John  Langdon,* 
John  Pickering, 
Nicholas  Gilman,* 
Benjamin  West. 

massachusetts. 
Francis  Dana, 
Elbridge  Gerry, 
Nathaniel  Gorham,* 
Rufus  King,* 
Caleb  Strong. 

CONNECTICUT. 

William  Samuel  John- 
son,* 
Roger  Sherman,* 
Oliver  Ellsworth. 

NEW  YORK. 

Robert  Yates, 
Alexander  Hamilton,* 
John  Lansing,  Jr. 

new  jersey. 
David  Brearlv,* 
William  Churchill 
Houston, 


Members  of  the  Fede 

William  Paterson,* 
John  Neilson, 
William  Livingston,* 
Abraham  Clark, 
Jonathan  Dayton.* 

pennsyvania. 
Thomas  Mifflin,* 
Robert  Morris,* 
George  Clymer,* 
Jared  Ingersoll,* 
Thomas  Fitzsimons,* 
James  Wilson,* 
Gouverneur  Morris,* 
Benjamin  Franklin.* 

delaware. 
George  Read,* 
Gunning  Bedford,* 
John  Dickinson,* 
Richard  Bassett,* 
Jacob  Broom.* 

MARYLAND. 

Robert   Hanson  Har- 
rison, 


III. 

al  Convention  of  1787.1 

Charles  Carroll,  of  Car- 

rollton, 
Thomas  Stone, 
James  M'Henry,* 
Thomas  Sim  Lee, 
Gabriel  Duvall, 
Daniel  Jenifer,  of  St. 

Thomas,* 
Daniel  Carroll,* 
James  Francis  Mercer, 
Luther  Martin. 

VIRGINIA. 

George  Washington,* 
Patrick  Henry, 
Edmund  Randolph, 
John  Blair,* 
James  Madison,* 
George  Mason, 
George  Wythe, 
Richard  Henry  Lee, 
Thomas  Nelson, 
James  McClurg. 


north  carolina. 
Richard  Caswell, 
Alexander  Martin, 
William  Richardson 
Davie, 

Richard  Dobbs  Spaight,* 
Willie  Jones, 
William  Blount, 
Hugh  Williamson.* 
south  carolina. 
John  Rutledge,* 
Charles  Cotesworth 

Pinckney,* 
Charles  Pinckney,* 
Pierce  Butler,* 
Henry  Laurens. 

GEORGIA. 

William  Few,* 
Abraham  Baldwin,* 
William  Pierce, 
George  Walton, 
William  Houston, 
Nathaniel  Pendleton. 


John  Jay,  Chief-Justice  of  the  United  States. 

George  Clinton,  Governor  of  New  York. 

Pierre  Van  Cortlandt,  Lieutenant-Governor. 

Chancellor  Robert  R.  Livingston,  who  administered 
the  oath  to  Washington. 

Brevet  Brigadier-General  Samuel  Blatchley  Webb, 
of  the  late  Continental  Army. 

Charles  Thomson,  Secretary  of  the  Continental  Con- 
gress, who  officially  announced  to  Washington  his 
election  as  President. 

Tobias  Lear,  Secretary  to  Washington. 

Lieutenant-Colonel  David  Humphreys,  Robert  Lew- 
is, and  Thomas  Nelson,  Assistant  Secretaries. 

Major  William  Jackson,  Aide-de-Camp. 

Le  Comte  de  Moustier,  Minister  of  France. 


IV. 

Colonel  Morgan  Lewis. 

Brevet-Major  Pierre  Charles  L'Enfant. 

Commissioners  of  the  Treasury,  Walter  Livingston, 

Samuel  Osgood,  and  Arthur  Lee. 
The  Right  Rev.  Samuel  Provoost,  Bishop  of  New 

York. 

James  Duanf:,  Mayor  of  the  City  of  New  York. 
Robert  Boyd,  Sheriff. 
Daniel  Phoenix,  Treasurer. 
Richard  V  a  rick,  Recorder. 

Aldermen  Wool,  Elting,  Lawrence,  Gilbert,  Wyl- 

ley,  Blagge,  and  Bayard. 
Martha  Washington  and  other  prominent  women 

of  the  period  illustrated. 


Pictures  of  scenes  and  incidents  connected  with  the  period,  and  drawings  and  maps  of  the  time  of  localities 
of  historical  interest  are  also  solicited.    Among  these  may  be  mentioned  : 


1  Corrected  list  prepared  by  Paul  Leicester  Ford. 


*  Signed  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States. 


The  decorative  design,  from  a  drawing  by  Edward  Howland  Blashfield,  on  the  third  page 
of  the  Souvenir,  issued  in  April  of  1889,  by  the  Committee  on  Art  and  Exhibition. 


LOAN  EXHIBITION  OF  HISTORICAL  PORTRAITS  AND  RELICS.  137 


Views  in  the  city  of  New  York,  as  Government  buildings,  St.  Paul's  and  other  churches ;  the  Walter 
Franklin  House,  corner  of  Cherry  Street  and  Franklin  Square  (residence  of  Washington) ;  views  of  towns 
through  which  Washington  passed  on  his  way  to  New  York ;  Federal  Hall,  etc. 

Under  the  head  of  Portraits  are  included  original  paintings  in  oil  or  water-color,  drawings  and  minia- 
tures by  artists  of  the  period,  and  contemporary  engravings.  Only  in  cases  where  an  original  portrait  can  not 
be  obtained  of  any  personage  will  a  replica  be  accepted  for  exhibition. 

Under  the  head  of  Pictures  the  productions  of  modern  artists  are  included  when  they  depict  historical 
events  or  scenes  of  the  life  and  manners  of  the  Inauguration  period. 

Under  the  head  of  Relics  are  included  autographs,  various  manuscripts  and  documents,  articles  of 
wearing  apparel,  books,  jewels,  arms,  furniture,  plate,  and  similar  articles ;  also  relics  concerning  the  State 
and  city  of  New  York,  official  documents,  city  directories,  records,  etc. 

The  Metropolitan  Opera-House,  a  fire-proof  building,  has  been  secured  for  this  Exhibition,  and  the 
utmost  care  will  be  taken  in  the  handling,  placing,  guarding,  and  removal  of  all  pictures  and  relics  deposited 
for  the  purpose  of  this  Exhibition.  Collections  will  be  made  in  the  city  of  New  York  below  Seventy-second 
Street,  and  in  Brooklyn  and  Jersey  City,  by  the  carmen  employed  by  the  committee,  and  returned  in  the  same 
way,  if  desired ;  and  in  the  case  of  contributions  from  other  points  the  expenses  will  be  paid  by  the  commit- 
tee. To  this  end,  and  in  order  that  suitable  arrangements  may  be  made,  the  manager  should  be  communicated 
with  as  soon  as  possible,  and  blank  forms  will  be  furnished  to  contributors  on  which  to  make  proper  entry  of 
pictures  or  relics  and  furnish  historical  data. 

It  is  hoped  that  the  public  will  appreciate  the  interest  and  importance  of  this  Exhibition,  and  that  those 
who  are  in  possession  of  pictures  and  relics  of  the  sort  above  mentioned  will  contribute  to  its  success  by 
placing  them  at  the  disposal  of  the  committee  for  the  short  time  necessary  for  holding  the  Exhibition.  The 
committee  is  already  assured  of  valuable  contributions  from  some  of  the  most  prominent  historical  societies 
and  other  bodies  in  the  country,  as  well  as  from  well-known  families  and  individuals. 

History  tells  us  that  when,  in  April,  1789,  Washington  arrived  in  New  York,  where  the  first  Union  Con- 
gress had  just  assembled,  it  was  "  a  day  of  extravagant  joy  "  among  all  citizens.  And  when,  a  few  days 
later,  in  the  presence  of  the  people,  in  Wall  Street,  he  took  the  inauguration  oath  as  the  first  President,  the 
occasion  was  celebrated  by  the  people  as  a  grand  festival.  They  felt  that  the  new  Government  had  an 
auspicious  beginning.  The  lapse  of  a  century  has  not  chilled  the  local  pride  nor  the  national  enthusiasm  of 
New  York. 

By  the  happy  circumstance  that  our  Government  was  inaugurated  in  New  York,  she  is  pledged  to  a  splen- 
did conclusion  here  of  the  series  of  most  interesting  Centennial  Celebrations  commemorating  the  events  of  our 
Independence,  our  Revolutionary  War,  and  the  struggle  to  perfect  our  system  of  federated  constitutional  gov- 
ernment. It  is  hoped,  therefore,  that  this  Exhibition  may  be  worthy  of  the  great  occasion,  as  it  certainly  will 
be  unique  among  loan  exhibitions  held  in  New  York. 

Your  co-operation  is  respectfully  requested. 

All  communications  should  be  addressed  to 

WILLIAM  A.  COFFIN,  Manager, 

Washington  Centennial  Loan  Exhibition, 
280  Broad wav,  New  York. 

Four  hundred  and  sixty-eight  copies  of  this  circular,  accompanied  by  a  signed  letter 
requesting  favorable  notice,  and  stating  the  importance  and  general  interest  of  the  Exhibi- 
tion as  a  national  affair,  were  mailed  to  the  editors  of  the  leading  journals  of  the  country. 
This  number  was  exclusive  of  those  handed  in  person  to  the  editors  of  the  city  newspapers. 
One  hundred  and  twenty-five  copies  were  sent  to  the  members  of  the  General  Committee, 
with  a  letter  requesting  them  to  aid  the  committee  by  sending  in  lists  of  persons  to  whom 
it  might  be  profitable  to  send  circulars,  and  asking  for  information  as  to  the  probable  location 

of  valuable  portraits  and  relics  within  their  knowledge.    The  manager  reported  to  the  Su- 
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pervising  Committee  on  January  2,  1889,  that  he  had  received  a  number  of  replies  to  the 
letters  addressed  to  the  members  of  the  General  Committee,  and  that  he  had  opened  registry- 
books  for  the  entry  of  portraits  and  relics,  and  had  already  a  considerable  number  of  valuable 
exhibits  promised,  or  that  he  would  probably  be  able  to  obtain.  Blank  forms  for  the  entry 
of  portraits  and  relics  were  sent  out,  correspondence  was  started  in  every  direction,  following 
up  suggestions  received  from  members  of  the  committee,  and  the  work  of  locating  and  secur- 
ing exhibits  was  carried  on  actively  throughout  the  winter.    Nearly  twelve  hundred  letters 


KNEE-BUCKLES  WORN  BY  GEORGE  WASHINGTON. 
Owned  by  Bushrod  C.  Washington,  Charlestovvn,  West  Virginia. 
(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  387.) 


were  written  and  sent  out,  and,  as  a  result,  the  registry-books  on  the  ist  of  March  showed  a 
large  number  of  the  most  valuable  portraits  and  relics  in  the  country  promised  for  the  Exhi- 
bition. 

A  proposition  was  received  from  the  Fellowcraft  Club  and  accepted  by  the  committee,  by 
which  a  special  committee  from  the  members  of  the  club,  with  Mr.  William  H.  Patten  as 
chairman,  offered  to  make  a  collection  of  portraits  of  editors  and  journalists,  specimens  of 
newspapers  published,  and  other  matter  pertaining  to  journalism,  during  the  Washington 
Administration. 

A  proposition  from  Mr.  John  H.  Buck,  offering  his  services  to  aid  the  committee  in 
securing  from  owners  a  collection  of  old  gold  and  silver  plate  of  the  time  of  Washington, 
was  also  accepted,  and  a  special  circular  was  prepared  and  sent  out  in  the  name  of  the 
committee,  asking  for  contributions  to  this  department  of  the  Exhibition. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  committee,  on  November  30th,  the  suggestion  was  made  that  it 
would  be  especially  fitting  if  the  stationery  used  by  the  Committee  on  Art  and  Exhibi- 
tion were  marked  by  some  appropriate  and  artistic  device.  Messrs.  Drake  and  Coffin 
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was  made  to  pay  for  it.  This  was  the  origin  of  the  Centennial  Medal ;  for,  the  day  after 
the  meeting,  the  secretary  and  the  manager  addressed  letters  to  each  other,  making  the 
same  suggestion,  namely,  that  as  it  would  be  an  eminently  appropriate  and  excellent  thing 
to  get  up  a  medal  to  commemorate  the  centennial  celebration,  the  best  way  to  proceed 
would  be  to  obtain  a  design  for  a  medal  first  and  use  it  as  a  device  for  the  stationery 
afterward.  At  a  meeting,  held  on  December  28th,  the  idea  was  received  with  enthusiasm 
by  the  other  members  of  the  committee,  and  Mr.  Gilder  was  added  to  the  sub-committee, 
to  which  authority  was  given  to  have  a  design  made  and  proceed  with  its  execution  in 
bronze.  The  choice  of  an  artist  naturally  fell  upon  Mr.  Augustus  St.  Gaudens,  as  a 
sculptor  well  fitted  to  create  such  a  design  as  the  committee  would  find  worthy  of  the 
great  occasion.  Mr.  St.  Gaudens,  when  called  upon,  patriotically  offered  his  services  to 
the  committee,  and  agreed  to  make  a  design  himself,  though  the  many  demands  on  his 
time  prevented  him  from  actually  modeling  the  medal.  This  part  of  the  work  was  in- 
trusted by  him  to  Mr.  Philip  Martiny,  and  the  medal  was  modeled  by  him,  from  Mr.  St. 
Gaudens's  designs,  under  his  supervision.  The  design  was  changed  in  detail  a  number  of 
times,  and  the  first  medals  were  cast  only  a  few  days  before  the  formal  opening  of  the 
Exhibition  on  April  17th.  The  Committee  on  Plan  and  Scope  had  voted  meanwhile 
to  adopt  the  design  of  the  St.  Gaudens  medal  for  the  official  badges,  and  the  Com- 
mittee on  Art  and  Exhibition  endeavored  to  have  a  reduced  copy  of  the  medal  exe- 
cuted at  the  Philadelphia  Mint  for  this  purpose.  This  was  found  impracticable,  for  various 
reasons,  and  the  matter  was  finally  settled  by  placing  plaster  casts  of  the  medal,  in  the 
state  it  was  on  the  1st  of  March,  in  the  hands  of  Messrs.  Tiffany  and  Company,  by  whom 
the  badges  were  made.  While  resembling  the  medal  in  a  general  way,  they  are  different 
in  detail,  notably  in  the  size  of  the  bust  on  the  round  and  in  the  spacing  of  the  inscrip- 
tion on  the  reverse.  The  first  order  given  the  founders  of  the  commemorative  medal  in 
bronze  was  for  two  thousand  copies,  and  these  were  placed  on  sale  at  the  Loan  Exhibi- 
tion, soon  after  the  opening.  It  was  the  desire  of  the  committee  to  put  them  within 
the  reach  of  modest  purses,  and  they  were  sold,  in  neat  paper  boxes  lined  with  blue  plush, 
at  two  dollars  apiece. 

The  medal  is  four  inches  and  a  half  in  diameter  and  about  one  eighth  inch  thick,  with  a 
rim  very  slightly  raised  above  the  surface.  On  the  obverse  is  a  bust  of  Washington,  in  profile 
to  the  left,  in  the  middle  of  the  round.  At  the  right  of  the  bust  is  the  fasces,  the  symbol  of 
strength  in  unity.  The  inscriptions  are  :  "  George  Washington  "  in  quarter-circle  over  the  head, 
and  "  Pater  Patriae,"  "  MDCCLXXXIX,"  in  two  lines  traversing  the  round  horizontally  across 
the  bust  and  fasces.  Around  the  circle  are  set  thirteen  stars  (the  number  of  the  original 
States),  and  under  the  bust  in  small  letters  is  placed  "  Philip  Martiny,  modeller.  Design  and 
copyright  by  Augustus  St.  Gaudens."  The  reverse  shows  a  spread  eagle  in  the  upper  half  of 
the  round ;  a  shield  bearing  the  arms  of  the  city  of  New  York  is  placed  on  the  lower  half  to 
the  left.    There  are  thirty-eight  stars  in  the  border  (the  number  of  States  in  the  Union  on 


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April  30,  1889),  and  the  inscription  is — "To  Commemorate  the  Inauguration  of  George 
Washington  as  First  President  of  the  United  States  of  America,  at  New  York,  April  XXX, 
MDCCLXXXIX.  By  authority  of  the  Committee  on  Celebration,  New  York,  April  XXX, 
MDCCCLXXXIX." 

Copies  in  bronze  were  presented  to  the  four  general  officers  of  the  centennial  celebration, 
and  to  various  libraries  and  institutions.  This  medal  remains  as  an  enduring  memorial  of  the 
celebration,  and  is  in  itself  a  most  beautiful  and  worthy  work  of  art. 


OBVERSE  OF  THE  CENTENNIAL  MEDAL. 


Another  production  to  which  the  Committee  on  Art  and  Exhibition  devoted  a  vast 
amount  of  time  and  labor  was  the  centennial  souvenir,  which,  in  the  form  in  which  it  finally 
appeared,  is  an  eight-page  book,  printed  in  brown  ink  on  Japan  paper  and  bound  with  a 
narrow  ribbon.  The  souvenir  was  the  outcome  of  a  request  made  to  the  committee  by  the 
Committee  on  Entertainment  "to  furnish  designs  for  an  invitation  and  menu  for  the  Cen- 
tennial Ball  and  Banquet."  The  committee  undertook  to  secure  such  designs ;  and  the 
chairman,  who  was  requested  to  choose  the  artists  out  of  four  or  five  suggested  as  among 
those  who  might  be  expected  to  do  the  best  work  of  the  kind,  reported  that  Mr.  Edwin  H. 
Blashfield  and  Mr.  Will  H.  Low,  two  of  the  best  known  of  American  artists,  were  willing  to 


LOAN  EXHIBITION  OF  HISTORICAL  PORTRAITS  AND  RELICS.  141 


make  the  designs,  and  offered  their  services  gratuitously  to  the  committee.  The  committee 
had  infinite  trouble  in  getting  the  designs  reproduced  properly  and  in  making  up  the  letter- 
press of  the  book,  for  it  was  determined  when  the  work  was  under  way  that  it  would  be  on 
all  accounts  better  to  make  a  souvenir  programme  with  the  designs  than  an  invitation  card, 
and  the  work  was  executed  as  rapidly  as  possible  in  consultation  with  the  Committee  on 
Entertainment.  A  large  number  were  sold  at  the  Loan  Exhibition,  and  a  still  greater 
number  were  given  away  to  the  guests  of  the  General  Committee  who  attended  the  vari- 


REVERSE  OF  THE  CENTENNIAL  MEDAL. 


ous  events  in  the  celebration.  The  last  inside  page  of  the  souvenir  bears^  the  following 
"  Note  " :  "  This  souvenir  was  prepared  at  the  request  ot  the  Committee  on  Entertainment 
by  the  Committee  on  Art  and  Exhibition.  The  medal,  of  which  the  obverse  is  shown  on 
the  first  cover  page  and  the  reverse  on  the  last  cover  page,  was  designed  by  Augustus  St. 
Gaudens,  and  modeled  under  his  direct  supervision  by  Philip  Martiny. 

"The  decorative  design  on  the  third  page  is  from  a  drawing  by  Edwin  Howland 
Blashfield. 

"  The  decorative  design  on  pages  six  and  seven  is  from  a  drawing  by  Will  H. 
Low. 


Till:   CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


"  The  lettering  on  the  tablets  and  on  the  cover  was  executed  under  the  supervision  of 
Stanford  White." 

The  designs  were  reproduced  and  the  book  printed  by  the  Boston  Photogravure  Company. 
The  cost  of  the  edition  of  ten  thousand  copies  was  thirty-five  hundred  dollars.  The 
souvenir  forms  an  artistic  and  valuable  memorial  of  the  celebration,  and,  though  not  so 
enduring  as  the  bronze  medal,  the  committee  were  satisfied  with  having  been  the  means  of 
its  production,  and  looked  upon  it  as  one  of  the  most  valuable  results  of  their  winter's 
work. 

III.  THE  EXHIBITION. 


The  formal  opening  of  the  Loan  Exhibition  of  Historical  Portraits  and  Relics  took  place 
in  the  Assembly  Rooms  of  the  Metropolitan  Opera-House  on  the  evening  of  Wednesday, 


(Fac-simile  of  invitation  to  the  formal  opening  of  the  Art  Exhibition.) 


April  17,  1889.  Invitations  had  been  sent  to  the  President  of  the  United  States  and  his 
Cabinet,  to  the  Vice-President  and  other  officers  of  the  national  Government,  to  the  living 
ex-Presidents  of  the  United  States,  to  the  Governor  and  Lieutenant-Governor  and  principal 
officers  of  the  State  of  New  York,  to  the  Governors  of  all  the  States  and  Territories,  the 
Justices  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States,  the  chief  officers  of  the  Army  and  Navy, 
the  diplomatic  corps,  the  Judges  of  the  State  Courts,  the  members  of  the  State  Senate  and 
Assembly,  the  Mayor  of  the  city,  the  Board  of  Aldermen  and  the  city  officials,  the  members 
of  the  General  Committee,  to  all  the  contributors  to  the  Exhibition,  and  to  those  to  whom 


LOAN  EXHIBITION  OF  HISTORICAL  PORTRAITS  AND  RELICS.  143 


the  committee  were  indebted  for  their  co-operation  in  getting  up  the  Exhibition.  The 
rooms  were  filled  with  a  brilliant  company  when  the  Committee  on  Art  and  Exhibition 
and  their  guests  mounted  the  broad  staircase  at  nine  o'clock,  and  took  the  places  reserved 
for  them,  about  the  desk  used  by  Washington  in  Federal  Hall.  The  Chairman,  Mr. 
Clarence  W.  Bowen,  who  officially  represented  the  General  Committee,  and  Mr.  John 
H.  V.  Arnold,  President  of  the  Board  of  Aldermen,  who  represented  the  Mayor  of  New 
York,  occupied  seats  at  the  desk.  Mr.  Marquand  made  a  brief  address  in  opening  the 
Exhibition. 

Addresses  were  also  made  by  Mr.  Bowen,  accepting  the  Exhibition  on  the  part  of 
the  General  Committee,  and  by  Mr.  Arnold,  who  accepted  it  on  the  part  of  the  city, 
and  declared  it  formally  opened.  A  tour  of  inspection  through  the  rooms  was  then  made 
by  the  committee  and  its  guests.  The  Exhibition  was  opened  the  next  day  at  one  o'clock 
to  the  public,  and  remained  open  every  day  and  evening  thereafter,  except  Sundays,  until 
the  closing  on  the  evening  of  May  8th.  On  May  4th  the  Exhibition  was  visited  by  three 
thousand  children  from  the  higher  classes  of  the  public  schools  of  the  city.  Addresses 
were  made  by  Mr.  Marquand,  who  urged  the  children  to  take  the  character  of  Washing- 
ton as  a  model,  and  to  study  the  Exhibition  in  the  spirit  of  our  free  institutions;  and  by 
Bishop  Potter,  who  told  them,  among  other  things,  that  the  lesson  of  the  Exhibition  was 
that  things  are  of  value  in  this  world  not  in  proportion  to  their  commercial  cost,  but  in 
proportion  to  what  has  ennobled  them. 

The  catalogue  of  the  Exhibition  contained  1,374  numbers,  which  in  some  cases  covered 
groups  of  objects,  and  they  were  classified  under  the  following  heads:  1.  Portraits,  alpha- 
betically arranged  under  names  of  subjects;  2.  Engravings;  3.  Illustrations;  4.  Busts;  5. 
Relics ;  6.  Plate ;  7.  Fellowcraft  Club  exhibit  of  newspapers,  etc.  The  Exhibition  was 
exceedingly  rich  in  portraits  and  relics  of  Washington,  and  in  other  portraits  and  relics 
that  had  never  before  been  publicly  exhibited.  Some  of  the  most  important  exhibits  are 
given  herewith  : 


PORTRAITS  OF  GEORGE  WASHINGTON. 


CATALOGUE  NUMBER. 


ARTIST. 


OWNER. 


2.  Miniature. 


R.  Field,  after  G.  Stuart's 


Mrs.  Louise  Lear  Eyre,  Philadelphia. 


3.  Enamel  miniature. 


first  portrait. 
W.  Grimaldi,  1800,  after 


John  A.  King,  Great  Neck,  N.  Y. 


Stuart's  Landsdowne 


II.  Full  length  in  oil. 

13.  Three-quarter  length  in  oil, 

14.  Half  length  in  oil. 


9.  Bust  in  oil. 
10.  Miniature. 


15.  Miniature. 

16.  Miniature. 
18.  Bust  in  oil. 

22.  Miniature. 

23.  Miniature 


6.  Pen-and-ink  sketch. 

7.  Miniature  (oval,  bust). 


Portrait. 
Attributed  to  B.  H.  Latrobe. 
C.  W.  Peale. 
C.  W.  Peale,  1787. 
C  W.  Peale,  1785. 
C.  W.  Peale,  1784. 
C.  W.  Peale. 

C.  P.  Polk,  after  C.  W.  Peale. 
James  Peale,  1788. 
James  Peale,  1782. 
Rembrandt  Peale. 
John  Ramage,  1789. 
Archibald  Robertson, 


Benjamin  S.  Ewell,  Evvell,  Va. 

Metropolitan  Museum,  New  York. 

Mrs.  Joseph  Harrison,  Philadelphia. 

Mrs.  John  P.  C.  Foster,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Trustees  of  Princeton  College. 

Miss  J.  J.  Boudinot,  Bernardsville,  N.  J. 

Albert  Rosenthal,  Philadelphia. 

Artillery  Corps,  Washington  Grays,  Philadelphia. 

Durant  da  Ponte,  New  Orleans,  La. 

Henry  Chauncey,  Garden  City,  L.  I. 

Mrs.  M.  S.  Beach,  Peekskill,  N.  V. 

Mrs.  S.  M.  Mygatt,  New  York,  and  Mrs.  C  W. 


1791-92. 


Darling,  Utica,  N  Y. 


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CATALOGUE  NUMBER. 

ARTIST. 

OWNER. 

24.  Miniature. 

Walter  Robertson,  1794. 

Edmund  Eaw  Rogers,  Baltimore,  Md. 

26.  Bust  in  oil. 

Edward  Savage. 

Mrs.  Gharles  Francis  Adams,  Quincy,  Mass. 

28.  Miniature  on  ivory. 

Mrs.  E.  Sharpless,  after 

Miss  Anita  E.  Evans,  New  Rochelle,  N.  Y 

James  Sharpless. 

29.  Miniature  on  ivory. 

Mrs.  E.  Sharpless,  after 

Edmund  Law  Rogers,  Baltimore,  Md. 

James  Sharpless. 

30.  Bust  in  oil  (the  "  Vaughan  Portrait  "). 

Gilbert  Stuart,  1795. 

Mrs.  Joseph  Harrison,  Philadelphia. 

31.  Bust  in  oil  (the  "  Gibbs-Channing  Portrait"). 

Gilbert  Stuart. 

Samuel  P.  Avery,  New  York. 

32.  Full  length  in  oil. 

Gilbert  Stuart. 

Henry  E.  Pierrepont,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

33.  Bust  in  oil  (replica  Athena-urn  Portrait). 

Gilbert  Stuart. 

William  H.  Aspinwall,  New  York. 

34.  Bust  in  oil  (replica  Athenaeum  Portrait). 

Gilbert  Stuart. 

George  C.  Clark,  New  York. 

35.  Bust  in  oil  (replica  Athenaeum  Portrait). 

Gilbert  Stuart. 

Chauncey  M.  Depew,  New  York. 

36.  Bust  in  oil  (replica  Athenaeum  Portrait). 

Gilbert  Stuart. 

Mrs.  John  V.  L.  Pruyn,  Albany,  N.  Y. 

38.  Full  length  in  oil. 

John  Trumbull. 

Edmund  Law  Rogers,  Baltimore,  Md. 

39.  Full  length  in  oil. 

John  Trumbull,  1790. 

City  of  New  York. 

41.  India-ink  silhouette  in  profile. 

F.  Vallee,  1795. 

Charles  Henry  Hart,  Philadelphia. 

42.  Miniature. 

"  W.  V." 

John  C.  Jay,  M.  D.,  Mamaroneck,  N.  Y. 

43.  Bust  in  oil. 

Joseph  Wright. 

G.  L.  McKean,  Chicago,  111. 

44.  Three-quarter  length  in  oil. 

Joseph  Wright. 

Clarence  Winthrop  Bowen,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

COLLECTION  OF  OTHER  PORTRAITS  OF  DISTINGUISHED  AMERICANS  OF  THE  SAME  PERIOD. 


SUBJECT  OE  PORTRAIT. 

ARTIST. 

OWNER. 

51.  Martha  \\  ashington,  miniature. 

i.- 
Archibald  Robertson, 

Mrs.  b.  M.  JMygatt  ana  Mrs.  L.  \\ .  Darling,  Aew 

1791-92. 

York. 

52.  Martha  Washington  (bust  in  oil). 

Edward  Savage. 

Mrs.  Charles  Francis  Adams,  Quincy,  Mass. 

53-  Martha  Washington  (three-quarter  length  in  oil). 

Joseph  Wright. 

Clarence  W^inthrop  Bowen,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

54*  Martha.  W  ashington  and  her  only  son, 

Unknown. 

Edmund  Law  Rogers,  Baltimore,  Md. 

John  Parke  Custis  (two  miniatures  in  locket). 

55-  Tohft  Adams  (half  length  in  oil). 

0.  r.  rj.  Morse,  Ioio. 

Alexander  M.  White,  Brooklyn,  rs.  \. 

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onuerL  oLu^irL. 

DlOOkS     \<1,11M>.  wUlUCV,  1>1JSS. 

57.  Mrs.  John  Adams  (half  length  in  oil). 

Gilbert  Stuart,  1804. 

Brooks  Adams,  Quincy,  Mass. 

61.  Joel  Barlow  (head  in  oil,  panel). 

Robert  Fulton. 

P.  L.  M.  Barlow,  New  York. 

65.  Egbert  Benson  (bust  in  oil). 

Gilbert  Stuart. 

John  Jay,  New  York. 

66.  Elias  Boudinot  (full  length  in  oil). 

Thomas  Sully. 

American  Bible  Society,  New  York. 

68.  Elias  Boudinot  (half  length  in  oil). 

C.  W.  Peale. 

Miss  J.  J.  Boudinot,  Bernardsville,  N.  J. 

69.  Mrs.  Elias  Boudinot  (half  length  in  oil). 

C.  W.  Peale. 

Miss  J.  J.  Boudinot,  Bernardsville,  N.  J. 

70.  Mrs.  Elias  Boudinot  (miniature). 

Unknown. 

Miss  J.  J.  Boudinot,  Bernardsville,  N.  J. 

71.  Elisha  Boudinot  (bust  in  oil). 

Rembrandt  Peale. 

Miss  J.  J.  Boudinot,  Bernardsville,  N.  J. 

72.  Mrs. William  Bradford  (half  length  in  oil). 

Unknown. 

Miss  J.  J.  Boudinot,  Bernardsville,  N.  J. 

75.  Lambert  Cadwalader  (bust  in  oil). 

Gilbert  Stuart. 

John  L.  Cadwalader,  New  York. 

76.  Cornelia  Tappan  Clinton  (miniature). 

Unknown. 

Mrs.  A.  L.  J.  Mackie,  New  York. 

77.  George  Clinton  (half  length  in  oil). 

Ezra  Ames. 

Alexander  M.  White,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

78.  George  Clinton  (full  length  in  oil). 

John  Trumbull. 

City  of  New  York. 

79.  George  Clinton  (bust  in  oil). 

J.  Wright. 

Gordon  L.  Ford,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

82.  George  Clymer  (bust  in  oil). 

C.  W.  Peale. 

Mrs.  George  Clymer,  Washington,  D.  C. 

83.  General  David  Cobb  (bust  in  oil). 

Gilbert  Stuart. 

George  Cobb  Wilde,  New  York. 

93.  Colonel  Nicholas  Fish  (bust  in  oil). 

Henry  Inman,  1S23. 

Hamilton  Fish,  New  York. 

94.  Mrs.  James  Fairlie  (half  length  in  oil). 

T.  Sully. 

Alfred  Nelson,  Astoria,  L.  I. 

95.  Colonel  William  Few  (after  a  miniature). 

C.  L.  Brandt. 

W.  Few  Chrystie,  Hastings-on-Hudson,  N.  Y. 

96.  Benjamin  Franklin  (half  length,  pastel). 

Duplessis. 

John  Bigelow,  New  York. 

99.  Benjamin  Franklin  (bust  in  oil). 

C.  W.  Peale,  1787. 

Mrs.  Joseph  Harrison,  Philadelphia. 

IOI.  Alexander  Hamilton  (miniature). 

W.  Birch. 

S.  Weir  Mitchell,  M.  D.,  Philadelphia. 

103.  Alexander  Hamilion  (pastel  head). 

J.  Sharpless. 

The  Misses  Hamilton,  New  York. 

104.  Alexander  Hamilton  (head  in  oil). 

J.  Sharpless. 

Allan  McLane  Hamilton,  M.  D.,  New  York. 

105.  Alexander  Hamilton  (full  length  in  oilV 

John  Trumbull,  1792. 

Chamber  of  Commerce,  New  York. 

106.  Alexander  Hamilton  (bust  in  oil). 

John  Trumbull. 

John  Jay,  New  York. 

107.  Alexander  Hamilton  (bust  in  oil). 

John  Trumbull. 

Metropolitan  Museum,  New  York. 

108.  Alexander  Hamilton  (full  length  in  oil). 

Unknown. 

City  of  New  York. 

109.  Alexander  Hamilton  (bust  in  oil). 

Unknown. 

The  Misses  Hamilton,  New  York. 

117.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ralph  Izard  (life-size  group  in  oil). 

John  Singleton  Copley. 

G.  E.  Manigault,  M.  D  ,  Charleston,  S.  C. 

120.  John  Jay  (half  length  in  oil). 

Gilbert  Stuart. 

Augustus  Jay,  Paris,  France. 

121.  John  Jay  (three-quarter  length  in  oil). 

Gilbert  Stuart. 

John  Jay,  New  York. 

124.  Peter  Augustus  Jay  (miniature). 

J.  Wood,  1807. 

John  Jay,  New  York. 

125.  William  Jay  (miniature). 

Unknown,  1809. 

John  Jay,  New  York. 

126.  Thomas  Jefferson  (miniature). 

W.  Birch. 

S.  Weir  Mitchell,  M  D.,  Philadelphia. 

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SUBJECT  OF  PORTRAIT. 

ARTIST. 

OWNER. 

12J.  Thomas  Jefferson  (halt  length  in  oil). 

ivi.  urow  n,  i  you. 

Mrs.  Charles  rrancis  Adams,  Quiiicy,  ^lass. 

129.  Thomas  Jefferson  (bust  in  oil). 

r.  j\.  iMarcn,  x-asion,  i  a. 

132.  Rufus  K.ing  (half  length  in  oil). 

C\W  h*»rr    tit  111  rt 

John  A.  Iving,  Great  i\eck,  ^t.  \f. 

133*  ivUius  iving  ^naii  lciigui  111  uuj. 

Ifinn     1  mm  nil  1 1 

V^lltlllCS   1\.    fVlllg,   l>l.   kJ.y      \  ■  ■  '  '  ■   i   ■  ■  1  ,1,  i  a. 

134*  Mrs.  Rufus  K.ing  (half  length  in  oil). 

juiiii  1  runiuuii. 

iiane>  i\ .  in. in g,  Ai .  Lj.y  . vnoaiusia,  i  a. 

135*  Henry  I\.nox  (bust  in  oil). 

Us"  Jiu  x  ii_i.ui...,.  n.<jbioii,  iuu. 

130.  iMarciuis  uc  L-.(im\  enc  ^iuu  iciigm  m  on'. 

O.    X  •    X>.    1*1UI  5Ci 

\_-lLV   \Jl   iitn     I  UIK, 

137-  Jobn  Langdon  (bust  in  oil). 

1*  r\  w  ct  rrl  ctc* 
JJ>UVVd.lvJ  iiaVatC 

j\c v.  rvn i cu  x_,aiiguon        j  n,  i  ui ia< ie i pn la. 

13S.  John  Langdon  (half  length,  pastel). 

James  Sharpless. 

John  Erving,  New  \  ork. 

139*  John  Langdon  (bust  in  oil). 

After  John  Trumbull. 

State  of  New  Hampshire. 

141.  Tobias  Lear  (miniature). 

Unknown. 

Mrs.  Susan  Eyre  Lear,  Philadelphia. 

142.  Mrs,  Lawrence  Lewis  (Nelly  Custis) 

onoeri  oiuari. 

E.  P.  C.  Lewis,  Berryville,  Clark  County,  Va. 

(half  length  in  oil). 

143-  Mrs.  Lawrence  Lewis  (Nelly  Custis) 

|.  oharpless. 

t\.  t>.  winuer,  m..  d  ,  l5aitimoie,  Ala. 

(bust  in  pastel.) 

144*  Colonel  Fielding  Lewis  (half  length  in  oil). 

J  onn  \ v  ollaston. 

H.  L.  D.  Lewis,  Berryville,  Clark  County,  \a. 

145*  Mrs.  Fielding  Lewis  (half  length  in  oil). 

John  ^  ollaston. 

H.  L.  D.  Lewis,  Berryville,  Clark  County,  Va. 

146.  Robert  Lewis  (miniature). 

Unknown. 

Mrs.  Ella  Bassett  Washington,  Charlestowu,  \V.  Va. 

150.  Robert  R.  Livingston  (bust  in  pastel). 

J.  Sharpless. 

iMrs.  Aiirea  lAeison,  Astona,      1.,  JN.  Y. 

15!'  Robert  R.  Livingston  (half  length  in  oil). 

LiiiDert  oiuari,  1795* 

Clermont  Livingston,  Clermont,  X.  Y. 

154*  Louis  XVI,  Ring  of  France  (miniature). 

oicarai,  1704* 

James  May  Duane,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

I3O.     (dllieS  .*!  dUlbOIl  iiklll  ICllglll  111  out. 

1  onn  Vcinuenyn,  1010. 

ivx ib.  vjuuvcriicixr,  w  d..sii iiiyiuu,  it.  v_,. 

T  f\i~\     t    nici  Tncf'ir'ta  Alircnnll  (rrni?nn   nAorl  1 

j. v^iiiLi-|iisin.c  .*  1  ii i  m  1  (.u  1  ^citiyuii  1 1 t .( ( 1 i. 

^i  t    W  (^m  i  n 
O  L.   1V1  Clllt  11. 

r  1 '  n  r~im  n  c    Alifcnill   •vmitn     T-!  n  1 1 1  in  r\  ATrl 
X  .  ■     j  1 1  l  i.      »*i  cl  1  ^llttll  .iiiii  ii,    JJ  til  1 1 1 HLII  v.  ,  IVlll. 

161.  James  Monroe  (bust  in  oil). 

John  Vanderlyn. 

James  Monroe  Heiskell,  Baltimore,  Md. 

iuj).  uu  u  vciiicur  1*1  urris  1 1 ui 1 1  iciigin  in  un  i. 

T.  Sully. 

\ji .  i .  i 1 1 1  1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1  n  (ji  v_jl>u  Tviucur  xviuixis.  .>i(jrii3aiiia,iA.  x. 

jou.  xxODeri  iMorris  itiaii  lengui  m  011^. 

T?      TT      Pino  TlQf 

xx*  xi..  xine,  1705* 

Gouverneur  Morris,  \  onkers,  N.  Y« 

X  U  /.    IMJUCIl    .*  1  1  >  J  [  1  3  UHlllldllllLL 

juiiii  x  runiuuii,  1  /y*-'' 

i»i  i  r>.  o  luou  w«  miiuicx,  i  ti  iii-i  ii  ie  i  ^_oiiniy,  va. 

ThH      AT  vc     T\T/"\r\£»»~f~    A.T  Arn  c   1  m  in  1  1 1~  1 »  t-*^  1 

xuo.   1*1 1  a.  i\u ijkz ri  i>iurris  ^iiimitiiu rc ). 

j  onn  x  runiuuii,  j  /yu. 

1*1  Is,  Ollau,  11    1*1  ■  iY  1 1 1U1CI,  r  dUUlllcT  v,UUlll  \  ,    V  il. 

ijo.  General  Jacob  Morton  (half  length  in  oil). 

j .  vv ,  j  arvib. 

City  of"  New  Y  ork. 

174-  Colonel  Samuel  Osgood  (half  length  in  oil). 

John  T  rumbull. 

George  Clinton  Genet,  New  A  ork. 

175*  Mrs.  Samuel  Osgood  {half  length  in  oil). 

John  Trumbull. 

George  Clinton  Genet,  New  \  ork. 

T  ^  r\     (n'srl^c  PinrL'npv  1  n-ilr    IpiKTtn   i  ?i  r»il  1 
1  yU.    v>IId.IlCb  XillLKllCV  \  llcU  1    iCIIglll   111  'Mil. 

T  T  ti  L-  n  n \\r  n 

T  1        vv"  T  o  1 1 1"^>  ncp  Pi  n  cw  t\  (*\t     st'jtcnnrrr  t 
iiciiiy  x^tiniciJv-tr  x  1 1  k  . .  i  r  ■■  ,  oid.i3ULllLI,  .j.  Vj>. 

1    D.     1  .  (.1 1 1 1  U  I  M  I  X\.d.IlLlUl  UI1  ^  U  Lib  I  III  (Jill. 

U  ll  K IIU  W  II . 

i-'iiiiuii'i  lAaiit-iui  pn  ivuuiiisuii,  i>  e\v  i  oriv. 

183-  George  Read  (half  length  in  oil). 

is..  XL .  rule. 

\\  llliam  Read  F isher,  F hiladelphia. 

185*  John  Rutledge  (miniature). 

John  Trumbull. 

Miss  \\  ragg,  Charleston,  S.  C. 

189.  General  Philip  Schuyler  (miniature). 

John  Trumbull,  1 79^* 

Philip  Schuyler,  New  \  ork. 

191.  Philip  J.  Schuyler  (half  length  in  oil). 

Gilbert  Stuart,  1805. 

Philip  Schuyler,  New  York. 

i'l-.     VV  U1KIIIL  XjUUglllUIl  olllllu  ^IIllllltlLUrc^. 

J  oh  n  T  ru  mb  nil . 

\j.  Hi.  1*1  a.n igtiiui,  ivi..  vj. ,  \-, naricsLon ,  o. 

196.  Thomas  Stone  (bust  in  oil). 

R.  E.  Pine. 

Mrs.  Mildred  Stone  March,  Easton,  Pa. 

ig7.  Mrs.  Thomas  Stone  (bust  in  oil). 

R.  E.  Pine. 

Mrs.  Mildred  Stone  March,  Easton,  Pa- 

198.  Gilbert  Stuart  (miniature). 

Sarah  Goodridge. 

Samuel  R.  Honey,  Newport,  R.  I. 

203.  Stephen  Van  Rensselaer  (half  length  in  oil). 

Gilbert  Stuart. 

John  Jay,  New  York 

204.  Richard  Varick  (full  length  in  oil). 

Henry  Inman. 

American  Bible  Society,  New  York. 

205.  Richard  Varick  (half  length  in  oil). 

Unknown. 

City  of  New  York. 

207.  General  Samuel  Blatchley  Webb  (miniature). 

C.  W.  Peale. 

Mrs.  Jane  W.  Laidley,  Elizabeth,  N.  J. 

209.  Dr.  Hugh  Williamson  (half  length  in  oil). 

John  Trumbull. 

The  Misses  Hamilton,  New  York. 

Among  the  engravings  were 

those  of  Washington,  by  A.  Doolittle,  Noel  Le  Mire, 

Rembrandt  Peale,  Edward  Savage,  Alexander  Campbell,  J.  Norman,  and  Wooley  ;  Gov- 

ernor and  Mrs.  George  Clinton, 

by  St.  Memin  ;  Eliza  Parke  Custis,  by  St.  Memin  ;  and 

a  collection  of  sixty  etchings  of  portraits  of  the  mem 

bers  of  the  Constitutional  Convention. 

The  busts  included  the  following 

CATALOGUE  NO.  SUBJECT. 

ARTIST. 

OWNER. 

294.  George  Washington  (marble). 

Ceracchi,  1791. 

Estate  of  Gouverneur  Kemble,  Cold  Spring,  N.  Y. 

295.  George  Washington  (marble). 

J.  Eckstein. 

F.  B.  McGuire,  Washington,  D.  C. 

296.  George  Washington  (marble). 

Jean  Antoine  Houdon. 

Abram  S.  Hewitt,  New  York. 

298.  George  Washington  (marble). 

Jean  Antoine  Houdon. 

Hamilton  Fish,  New  York. 

302.  George  Washington  (wax  profile). 

Wright. 

Mrs.  Francis  Livingston  Glover,  New  York. 

303.  George  Washington  (small  Wedgewood  bust). 

J.  R.  Learning,  M.  D.,  New  York. 

305.  Benjamin  Franklin  (porcelain  medallion.) 

Richard  Champion. 

Caspar  Wistar  Hodge,  Princeton,  N.  J. 

307.  Benjamin  Franklin  (marble). 

Jean  Antoine  Houdon. 

Abram  S.  Hewitt,  New  York. 

308.  Alexander  Hamilton  (marble). 

Ceracchi. 

Abram  S.  Hewitt,  New  York. 

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LOAN  EXHIBITION  OF  HISTORICAL  PORTRAITS  AND  RELICS.  147 

It  is  impossible  here  to  give  anything  like  a  list  even  of  the  most  important  objects  cata- 
logued as  "  Relics,"  but  it  may  be  said  that  they  included  everything  connected  with  Washing- 
ton, and  the  men  and  women  of  his  time,  from  many  valuable  autograph  letters  to  chairs, 
desks,  and  camp-services,  from  the  family  Bible  of  Mary  Ball  Washington,  showing  the  entry 
of  George  Washington's  birth  ("born  ye  11th  Day  of  February,  1731-32,  about  10  in  the 
Morning")  to  the  First  President's  spurs,  knee-buckles,  pencil-case,  compass,  pocket-books,  and 
locks  of  hair.  The  Jay,  Morris,  Boudinot,  and  Livingston  relics  and  plate  were  particularly 
rich  and  interesting,  and  in  the  exhibit  made  by  the  Fellowcraft  Club  there  were  one  hun- 
dred and  fifty-two  copies  of  newspapers,  mostly  of  the  period  from  1789  to  1800,  among 
them  The  Independent  Chronicle  and  The  Universal  Advertiser  (Nos.  1,958  to  1,975),  con- 
taining notices  of  the  death  of  Washington  and  accounts  of  the  funeral  services  in  New 
York,  Boston,  and  other  places.  Here,  too,  was  Washington's  own  copy  of  Claypoole's 
American  Daily  Advertiser,  of  July  14,  1798,  which  contains  Washington's  "Farewell 
Address "  to  his  countrymen. 

From  the  1st  of  April  until  the  close  of  the  Exhibition  the  meetings  of  the  committee 
were  held  in  the  office  on  the  ground-floor  of  the  Opera-House,  and  in  this  room  (the  one 
at  the  southwest  corner  of  Broadway  and  Thirty-ninth  Street)  were  held  the  meetings,  the 
first  one  on  May  2d,  at  which  the  suggestion  was  discussed  that  the  Washington  Arch,  of 
wood,  erected  at  the  lower  end  of  Fifth  Avenue,  should  be  made  a  permanent  monument 
of  the  city  by  reproducing  it,  or  a  similar  one  designed  by  the  same  architect,  in  marble. 
In  pursuance  of  this  purpose  the  Washington  Memorial  Arch  Committee  was  organized. 
The  last  meeting  of  the  Committee  on  Art  and  Exhibition  was  held,  as  the  first  one  had 
been  in  the  editorial  rooms  of  the  Century  Magazine  on  May  21st.  The  manager  read 
the  following  report  at  this  meeting : 

New  York,  May  21,  i88g. 

Henry  G.  Marquand,  Esq.,  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Art  and  Exhibition  of  the  Centennial  Celebration  of  the 
Inauguration  of  George  Washington  as  First  President  of  the  United  States  : 

My  dear  Sir  :  I  have  to  report  that  the  Loan  Exhibition  of  Historical  Portraits  and  Relics  having  closed 
on  the  evening  of  May  8,  1889,  at  ten  o'clock,  I  have  returned  the  articles  lent  for  the  Exhibition  to  their 
respective  owners.  In  bringing  together  something  over  fifteen  hundred  objects  of  all  sorts,  most  of  them 
fragile  and  easily  damaged  in  transportation,  we  have  no  injuries  to  report,  and  no  object  whatever  was  either 
lost  or  mislaid.  They  were  covered,  both  in  transit  and  while  on  exhibition,  by  ample  insurance,  but  we  have 
had  no  claim  to  make  on  the  companies.  In  the  return  of  these  articles  I  have  so  far  no  loss  or  damage  to 
report,  and  we  have  now  heard  from  almost  all  of  the  contributors. 

This  Exhibition  has  been  pronounced  on  all  sides  to  be  the  most  complete  and  interesting  collection  of 
portraits  and  memorials  of  Washington  and  the  men  and  women  of  his  time  ever  brought  together.  This 
interest,  it  may  be  pointed  out,  is  due  to  the  fact  that  our  contributions  were  almost  all  obtained  from  private 
owners,  and  not  from  the  collections  in  public  institutions,  so  that  our  collection  comprised  objects  many  of 
which  had  never  been  seen  by  the  public  before,  and  were  certainly  never  before  exhibited  together.  Such  an 
opportunity  for  study  and  comparison  in  this  field  may,  in  all  probability,  never  be  afforded  again.  The  fact, 
too,  that  many  of  our  contributions  came  to  us  from  the  Southern  States  should  be  noted;  and  I  regard  it  as 
one  of  the  most  important  results  of  our  work  that  much  kindly  feeling  has  been  established  with  our  country- 
men of  the  South.    I  can  say,  from  what  I  have  learned  through  the  correspondence  I  have  had  with  the 


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families  of  the  South  and  from  seeing  many  of  the  people  of  that  section  personally  during  the  progress  of  the 
Centennial  Celebration,  that  our  Loan  Exhibition  has  been  a  great  factor  in  reuniting  our  people  by  reminding 
us  that,  one  hundred  years  ago,  our  ancestors,  North  and  South,  were  working  together  for  our  whole  country's 
good.  I  believe  it  will  not  be  invidious,  in  this  connection,  to  state  that  the  thanks  of  this  committee  are 
especially  due  to  Mrs.  Roger  A.  Pryor,  of  this  city,  who  did  much  to  secure  for  us  valuable  contributions  from 
the  families  of  Virginia,  and  to  General  Edmund  Law  Rogers,  of  Baltimore,  whose  own  collection  of  relics 
of  the  Washington  family  was  one  of  the  most  interesting  features  of  the  Exhibition. 

During  the  eighteen  and  a  half  days  that  it  was  open  to  the  public  the  Exhibition  was  visited  by  over 
twenty  thousand  persons,  of  whom  very  many  were  from  out  of  town.  On  the  visitors'  book  are  inscribed  the 
names  of  people  from  almost  every  State  and  Territory  in  the  Union.  The  visit  of  over  three  thousand  pupils 
of  the  upper  classes  of  the  public  schools  on  Saturday,  May  4th,  by  invitation  of  the  committee,  was  a  most 
interesting  event ;  and  the  distribution  of  five  hundred  tickets  among  the  pupils  of  the  schools  of  the  National 
Academy  of  Design,  the  Art  Students'  League,  the  Metropolitan  Museum,  the  Cooper  Union,  and  the  Society 
for  Ethical  Culture,  should  also  be  noted  here  as  a  part  of  the  general  plan  of  the  committee  to  make  the 
Exhibition  productive  of  good  results  among  the  people. 

The  importance  of  the  Exhibition  has  been  fully  appreciated  by  the  press  and  public,  and  it  will  stand,  I 
think,  as  the  best  achievement  of  the  Centennial  Celebration.     I  am  yours  respectfully, 

William  A.  Coffin,  Manager. 

The  following  are  extracts  from  the  secretary's  minutes  of  the  meeting  on  May  21st: 

On  motion  of  Mr.  Ford  :  Resolved,  That  the  chairman,  manager,  and  secretary  be  appointed  a  special 
committee  to  prepare  an  answer  to  the  Committee  on  Plan  and  Scope  as  to  proper  thanks  to  be  returned  for 
special  services  rendered  to  the  committee,  and  that  the  same  committee  be  requested  to  put  into  shape  the 
thanks  of  the  committee  to  certain  persons  for  services  rendered. 

On  motion  of  Mr.  Millet:  Resolved,  That  the  committee  tender  to  Mr.  Marquand  the  assurance  of  their 
full  appreciation  of  his  able  services  as  chairman,  and  ask  him  to  accept  their  hearty  and  grateful  acknowl- 
edgment of  the  uniform  courtesy,  patience,  and  sound  judgment  which  he  has  exercised  during  the  labors 
of  this  committee. 

The  chairman  then  presented  to  the  secretary,  and  to  the  great  surprise  and  pleasure  of  the  said  secretary, 
a  copy,  in  silver,  of  the  Centennial  Medal  designed  by  Mr.  Augustus  St.  Gaudens. 

The  Committee  on  Art  and  Exhibition  has  never  been  disbanded,  and  it  survives  the 
Centennial  Celebration,  subject  to  the  call  of  its  chairman.  It  is  not  without  the  hope  that 
in  some  other  public  enterprise  its  services  may  be  acceptable  in  our  great  city  where,  though 
so  much  has  been  accomplished  for  the  higher  civilization,  much  yet  remains  to  be  done 
for  the  cause  of  art. 


CASE  OF  RELICS. 

Showing  pais  of  Vases  (432)  presented  to  Washington  hy  Lafayettb,  owned  by  the  lath  S.  L.  M.  Baki.ow,  Miniatukes  of-  Sakah  Louisf. 
Jav,  (tvO  dm  c.niivK  01  Chikk  Jcstice  Jav,  and  or  Makia  Banyek  (63),  moth  OWNED  hy  Hon.  John  Jay,  Miniatures  or  Gborcb(x6)  and  Maim  ha 
(48a)  Washington  uy  James  Peai.e,  owned  hy  DORANT  da  Ponte,  and  Locket  (395)  with  Washington's  HAIR,  owned  hy  S.  Wbir  MlTCHBLL,  M.  D. 


(Loan  Exhibition,  Metropolitan  Opera  House,  New  York,  April  17,  to  May  8,  1889  ) 


CHAPTER  VI. 


THE  CINCINNATI   IN   THE  CELEBRATION. 


By  Asa  Bird  Gardiner,  LL.  D., 
Secretary-General  of  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati. 


GEORGE  WASHINGTON. 
From  the  statue  by  Houdon,  in  the  rotunda  of  the  State  Capitol  building  at  Richmond. 
Owned  by  the  State  of  Virginia. 


In  compliance  with  the  desire 
of  many  members  of  the  Society 
of  the  Cincinnati,  an  Executive 
Committee,  consisting  of  the  Sec- 
retary -  General,  Henry  Thayer 
Drowne,  James  M.  Varnum,  John 
Cropper,  and  Charles  Beatty  Alex- 
ander, took  charge  of  the  necessary 
arrangements  for  a  commemorative 
banquet  and  for  religious  services. 

In  response  to  the  invitation 
the  following  members  became 
subscribers  to  the  Commemorative 
Banquet  : 

SOCIETY  OF  THE  CINCINNATI  IN  THE 
STATE  OF  MASSACHUSETTS. 

*Mr.  Edmund  Lincoln  Baylies,  A.  M., 

LL.  B.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
*Mr.  William    Henry   Burbeck,  New 

London,  Conn. 
*Hon.  Samuel  Crocker  Cobb,  Boston, 

Mass., 

President,  Massachusetts  Society  of  Cincinnati. 

*Mr.  David  Greene  Haskins,  Jr.,  A.  M., 
LL.  B.,  Cambridge,  Mass. 

*Surgeon  Edgar  Holden,  M.  D.,  New- 
ark, N.  J. 

*Mr.  Thornton    Kirkland  Lothrop, 

Boston,  Mass. 
*Mr.  Alfred  Ethelbert  Smith,  Bronx- 

ville,  N.  Y. 
*Mr.   Charles  P.  Trumbull,  Beverly, 

Mass. 

*Mr.  Alexander  Williams,  Boston,  Mass. 


*  Present  at  the  Commemorative  Banquet. 


i5o      THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


SOCIETY  OF  THE  CINCINNATI  IN  THE  STATE  OF 

*Mr.  Malcolm  Henry  Angf.ll,  Brooklyn,  N.  V. 
*Mr.  William  BLODGET,  A.  M.,  Boston,  Mass. 
*Mr.  Henry  J  ackson  BRIGHTMAN,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
*Rev.  Henry  Barton  Chapin,  A.  M.,  Ph.  I).,  New- 
York,  N.  Y. 

*Mr.  Hknrv  Thayer  Drowne,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
*Hon.  Asa  Bird  Gardiner,  A.  M.,  LL.  D.,  Garden 
City,  N.  Y., 

Secretary-General,  Society  of  Cincinnati. 

*Rev.  William  Wallace  Greene,  Church  Creek,  Md. 
*Mr.  Henry  Waterman  Holden,  A.  M.,  Hunting- 
ton, N.  Y. 


RHODE  ISLAND  AND  PROVIDENCE  PLANTATIONS. 

*Mr.  Henry  Hutchinson    Hollister,  New  York, 
N.  Y. 

•Right  Rev.  William  Stevens  Perry,  I).  I).,  LL.  I)., 
D.  C.  L.,  Davenport,  Iowa. 
Mr.  Thomas  Arnold  Peirce,  East  Greenwich,  R.  I. 
*Mr.  Sylvanus  Albert  Reed,  A.  M.,  Ph.  I).,  New 
York,  N.  Y. 

*Hon.  James  M.  Varnum,  A.  M.,  LL.  B.,  New  York, 

N.  Y. 

•Surgeon  William  Argyle  Watson,  M.  I).,  New 
York,  N.  Y. 


SOCIETY  OF  THE  CINCINNATI 

*Mr.  William  Addoms,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
*Mr.  Robert  Percy  Alden,  A.  B.,  Cornwall,  Pa. 
*Mr.  Thomas  Mackaness  Ludlow  Chrystie,  M.  D., 
New  York,  N.  Y. 

Mr.  Alexander  James  Clinton,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Hon.  John  Cochrane,  A.  M.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
*Mr.  John  Cropper,  A.  M.,  LL.  B.,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Mr.  Thomas  De  Witt  Cuyler,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Hon.  Hamilton  Fish,  A.  M.,  LL.  I).,  New  York,  N.  Y., 

President-General,  Society  of  Cincinnati. 

*Mr.  William  Ogden  Giles,  Kingsbridge,  N.  Y. 

Hon.  Alexander  Hamilton,  Irvington,  N.  Y. 

Hon.  WiCKHAM  Hoffman,  A.  B.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
*Mr.  Dixon  Gedney  Hughes,  Jersey  City,  N.  J. 
*Mr.  Frederick  Jabez  Huntington,  Norwich,  Conn. 

Mr.  John  De  Courcy  Ireland,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

SOCIETY  OF  THE  CINCINNATI 

*Mr.  William  Wilmot  Ballard,  Elmira,  N.  Y. 
*Mr.  William  Pancoast  Barber,  Elizabeth,  N.  J. 

Mr.  Robert  Wallace  Burnet,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 
*Mr.  Herman  Burgin,  A.  M.,  M.  D.,  Germantown,  Pa., 

Assistant  Treasurer-General,  Society  of  Cincinnati. 

Hon.  John  Lambert  Cadwalader,  A.  M.  LL.  B., 

New  York,  N.  Y. 
Mr.   Edward    Nicoll    Dickerson,   LL.  D.,  New 

York,  N.  Y. 

•Major  William  Miller  Este,  A.  M.,  New  York, 
N.  Y. 

•Hon.  John  Fitch,  A.  M.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Hon.  Robert  Stockton  Green,  A.  M.,  LL.  I).,  Eliz- 
abeth, N.  J., 

Governor  of  New  Jersey. 

Brev.  Brig. -General  Edward  Burd  Grubb,  Edge- 
water,  N.  J. 

*Mr.  Paul  Augustine  Hendry,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
*Mr.  Franklin  Davenport  Howell,  Philadelphia, 
Pa. 


IN  THE  STATE  OF  NEW  YORK. 

*Mr.   Charles    Scott    McKnight,  Poughkeepsie, 

N.  Y. 

•Captain  Arthur  Morris,  U.  S.  Army,  New  York, 
N.  Y. 

*Mr.  Talbot  Olyphant,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
*Mr.  John  Alexander  Rutherfurd,    New  York, 
N.  Y. 

*Mr.  Edward  Wright  Tapp,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
•Mr.  Herbert  Gray  Torrey,  A.  B.,  Sterling,  N.  J. 
*Mr.  James  Stevenson    Van  Cortlandt,  Croton 

Landing,  N.  Y. 
*Mr.  Charles  Henry  Ward,  A.  M.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
*Mr.  William  Greene  Ward,  A.  B.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
*BreYet  Major-General  Alexander  Stewart  Webb, 

LL.  D.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
*Mr.  Robert  Stewart  Webb,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

IN  THE  STATE  OF  NEW  JERSEY. 

*Mr.  Wessel  Ten  Broeck  Stout  Imlay,  Brooklyn, 
N.  Y. 

Mr.  Frederick  Wolcott  Jackson,  Newark,  N.  J. 
*Mr.  Thomas  Talmadge  Kinney,  M.  D.,  Newark,  N.  J. 
*Mr.  George  Tibbits  Lane,  Troy,  N.  Y. 
*Mr.  Flavel  McGee,  Jersey  City,  N.  J. 
*Mr.  James  Mortimer  Montgomery,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
*Hon.  John  Thompson  Nixon,  A.  M.,  LL.  L).  Trenton, 
N.  J., 

United  States  District  Judge. 

*Mr.  William  Case  Osmun,  Finderne,  N.  J. 
*Hon.  Charles  Smith  Scott,  New  Brunswick,  N.  J. 
*Rev.  Samuel  Moore  Shute,   I).  I).,  Washington, 
D.  C. 

Hon.  Clifford  Stanley  Sims,  Mount  Holly,  N.  J., 

President,  New  Jersey  Society  of  Cincinnati. 

*Mr.  William  Chetwood  Spencer,  Elizabeth,  N.  J. 
•Adjt.-Gen.  William  Scudder  Stryker,  A.  M.,  Tren- 
ton, N.  J. 

*Mr.  William  Winans  Thomas,  Elizabeth,  N.  J. 


*  Present  at  the  Commemorative  Banquet. 


THE  CINCINNATI  IN  THE  CELEBRATION. 


SOCIETY  OF  THE  CINCINNATI  IN  THE  STATE  OF  PENNSYLVANIA. 


*Mr.  Charles  Beatty  Alexander,  A.  M.,  LL.  B., 

New  York,  N.  Y. 
Brevet  Lieutenant-Colonel  Charles  Evert  Cad- 

walader,  M.  D.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
*Mr.  William  Macphersox  Horxer,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 


*Mr.  Lewis  Bush  Jackson,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
*Hon.  William  Wayxe,  A.M.,  Paoli,  Pa., 

President,  Pennsylvania  Society  of  Cincinnati. 

*Major  Grant  Weiumax,  A.  M.,  Lebanon,  Pa. 


SOCIETY  OF  THE  CINCINNATI  IN  THE  STATE  OF  MARYLAND. 


*Prof.  Edward  Graham  Daves,  A.M.,  LL.  B.,  Balti- 
more, Md. 

Mr.  Henry  Riemax  Duval,  Islip,  N.  Y. 
*Mr.  John  Sterett  Gittings,  Baltimore,  Md. 
Mr.  Rich  ard  Meredith  McSherry,  Baltimore,  Md., 

Knight  Royal  Order  Charles  III  of  Spain. 
Knight  Royal  Order  Crown  of  Italy. 

*Mr.  Charles  Manigault  Morris,  Baltimore,  Md. 


*Captain  Daniel   Morgan  Taylor,  U.  S.  Army, 

Washington,  D.  C. 
*Commander  Henry   Clay    Taylor,  U.  S.  Navy, 

Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y. 
*Mr.  Oswald  Tilghman,  Easton,  Talbot  County, 

Md. 

*Hon.  William  Benning  Webb,  Washington,  D.  C, 

President,  Commissioners  District  of  Columbia. 


SOCIETY  OF  THE  CINCINNATI  IN  THE  STATE  OF  SOUTH  CAROLINA. 
Rev.  Charles  Cotesworth   Pinckney,  S.  T.  D.,      *Hon.  James  Simons,  A.  M.,  Charleston,  S.  C, 

Charleston,  S.  C.  Speaker  of  the  South  Carolina  House  of  Representatives. 

President,  South  Carolina  Society  of  Cincinnati.  *Mr.  STEPHEN  CALHOUN  SMITH,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Mr.  Thomas  Pinckney,  Richmond,  Va.  *Mr.  Felix  Warley,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Hon.  Alexander  Hamilton,  Vice-President,  New  York  Society  of  Cincinnati,  died  in  Tarrytown,  N.  Y., 
December  30,  1889,  in  the  seventy-fourth  year  of  his  age. 

Mr.  William  Addoms,  of  the  New  York  Society,  died  in  Brooklyn,  New  York,  January  12,  1890,  in  the 
eighty-sixth  year  of  his  age. 

Mr.  Edward  Nicoll  Dickerson,  LL.  D.,  of  the  New  Jersey  Society,  died  in  Far  Rockaway,  Long  Island, 
New  York,  December  12,  1889,  in  the  sixty-fifth  year  of  his  age. 

Hon.  John  Thompson  Nixox,  LL.  D.,  of  the  New  Jersey  Society,  died  in  Stockbridge,  Massachusetts, 
September  28,  1889,  in  the  seventieth  year  of  his  age. 

The  Banquet  was  held  in  the  rooms  of  the  Lawyers'  Club,  in  the  Equitable  Building,  in 
the  city  of  New  York,  on  the  evening  of  Saturday,  April  27,  1889.  The  members  assembled 
in  the  Reception-Room  of  the  club,  with  the  following-named  invited  guests  : 

Brevet  Major-General  the  Hon.  Rutherford  Birchard  Hayes,  LL.  D.,  ex- President  of 
the  United  States  and  Commander-in-Chief  of  the  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion  of  the 
United  States  ;  Hon.  Frederick  Samuel  Tallmadge,  President  of  the  Society  of  the  Sons 
of  the  Revolution  ;  and  Mr.  Clarence  Winthrop  Bowen,  Ph.  D.,  Secretary  of  the  General 
Committee  of  the  Centennial  Celebration. 

In  the  unavoidable  absence,  on  account  of  illness,  of  the  Hon.  Hamilton  Fish,  LL.  D., 
President-General  and  President  of  the  General  Committee  of  the  Centennial  Celebration,  the 
Hon.  Samuel  Crocker  Cobb,  President  of  the  Massachusetts  State  Society  of  the  Cincin- 
nati, by  invitation  of  the  Executive  Committee,  acted  as  chairman  ;  and  a  telegram  of  affec- 
tionate greeting  was  sent,  by  desire  of  the  members  present,  to  their  venerable  and  honored 
President-General  expressive  of  their  regret  that  he  could  not  be  with  them. 


*  Present  at  the  Commemorative  Banquet. 


1 52      THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 


At  the  hour  named,  the  members  and  guests  proceeded  to  the  large  dining-hall  of  the  club, 
where  grace  was  said  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Samuel  Moore  Shute,  one  of  the  Chaplains-General 

of  the  Cincinnati. 

The  table  and  the  hall  were  profusely  and  tastefully  decorated  with 
flowers.    The  menu  and  toast  list  were  as  follows  : 


Menu. 


Saumon  Sauce  Riche. 
Timbales  Lafayette. 


Little  Neck  Clams. 

POTAGES. 

Consomme  Washington.  Bisque  d'Ecrevisses. 

RELEVES. 

Filet  de  bceuf  Rochambeau. 

ENTREES. 

Cotelettes  d'agneau  Viomenil. 

LEGUMES. 

Pommes  de  terre  Duchesse.  Pois  francais.  Haricots  Verts  maitre  d'hotel. 

Asperges.  Sauce  Hollandaise. 

SORBET  CINCINNATI. 
ROTI. 

Becassines  sur  Canape.  Salade  de  laitue. 

Bombe  Hamilton.  Petits  fours,  fruits,  Pieces  montes. 

Cafe. 


SWORD  CARRIED 
BY  JOHN  JAY  IN 
THE  "DOCTOR'S  MOB  " 
IN  NEW  YORK, 
APRIL,  1788. 
Owned  by  Miss  Elizabeth 

Clarkson  Jay,  New  York. 
(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  574). 


Toasts. 

1.  The  United  States  of  America. 

Pennsylvania  State  Society  of  Cincinnati,  4th  July,  1785. 

2.  The  Memory  of  his  Excellency  General  Washington,  our  first  President-General. 

New  York  State  Society  of  Cincinnati,  ^th  July,  1802. 

3.  The  Constitution  of  the  United  States  of  America— may  it  be  perpetual  ! 

Maryland  State  Society  of  Cincinnati,  4th  July,  1798. 

4.  The  Memory  of  Major-General  Nathan ael  Greene,  and  all  who  have  fallen  in  defense  of 

America. 

President-General  Washington's  Toast  in  the  South  Carolina  State  Society  of  Cincinnati,  4th 
May,  1791. 

5.  The  17th  October,  1777,  Saratoga,  and  19th  October,  1781,  Yorktown. 

Rhode  Island  State  Society  of  Cincinnati,  4th  July,  1788. 

6.  All  our  Brethren  who  assisted  either  in  the  Cabinet  or  field  in  the  great  work  of  Independence. 

New  York  State  Society  of  Cincinnati,  22A  February,  1791. 

7.  Our  ancient  and  brave  Ally,  the  Nation  of  France. 

Massachusetts  State  Society  of  Cincinnati,  4th  July,  1796. 

8.  The  Battles  of  Trenton,  Princeton,  Monmouth,  and  Springfield  attested  the  valor  of  the  Con- 

tinental Line. 

New  Jersey  State  Society  of  Cincinnati,  5th  July,  1784. 

9.  The  Army  and  Navy  of  the  United  States. 

Rhode  Island  State  Society  of  Cincinnati,  4th  July,  1798. 

10.  The  Tammany  Society. 

New  York  State  Society  of  Cincinnati,  4th  July,  1793. 

1 1.  The  President-General  and  the  Members  of  the  Cincinnati  throughout  the  World. 

Massachusetts  State  Society  of  Cincinnati,  4th  July,  1787. 

12.  The  original  Society  of  the  Cincinnati — the  forlorn  hope  in  establishing  the  Independence  of 

the  United  States  of  America.     By  their  example  may  their  successors  labor  to  preserve  and 

perpetuate  the  liberties  that  their  patriotism  acquired  ! 

Toast  of  Brevet  Brigadier-General  Henry  Burrkck,  of  the  Continental  Army  of  the  American 
Revolution,  in  the  Massachusetts  State  Society  of  Cincinnati,  4th  July,  1848. 

13.  Perpetual  Peace  and  Happiness  to  the  United  States  of  America. 

General  Washington's  Toast  to  the  Continental  Officers  of  the  American  Revolution,  19th  April, 
1783- 


THE  CINCINNATI  IN  THE  CELEBRATION. 


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The  chairman,  Hon.  Samuel  Crocker  Cobb,  when  the  cloth  had  been  removed,  said  : 

Brothers  of  the  Cincinnati,  and  Fellow-Citizens  :  As  the  representative  for  the  time  being  of  the 
committee  under  whose  auspices  this  reunion  has  been  arranged,  I  have  the  honor  and  the  privilege  to  extend 
to  you,  each  one  and  all,  a  cordial  and  fraternal  welcome  to  the  pleasures  of  this  occasion.  As  successors  of 
the  brave  and  patriotic  men  who  formed  this  brotherhood,  this  meeting  is  both  timely  and  appropriate ;  for 
it  is  not  too  much  to  say — I  am  sure  the  historical  records  will  bear  me  out  in  saying — that  the  founders  of 
this  organization  were  the  foremost  actors  in  the  various  movements  which  culminated  in  that  "  more  perfect 
union  of  the  States,"  secured  by  the  Federal  Constitution  which  went  into  operation  a  hundred  years  ago. 
Very  happily,  therefore,  this  centennial  anniversary  furnishes  the  opportunity  for  a  renewal  and  strengthening 
of  our  vows  of  allegiance  to  the  principles  and  purposes  upon  which  this  institution  was  founded,  so  that  its 
beneficent  work  may  be  perpetuated,  and  its  members  made  worthy  of  a  glorious  heritage.  Most  sincerely  do 
I  unite  with  you  in  regretting  the  absence  of  the  honorable  the  President-General  of  this  Society,  whose 
presence  here  to-night  would  have  added  much  to  the  interest  of  this  occasion.  We  are  greatly  disappointed, 
too,  in  not  having  with  us  the  honorable  the  Vice-President-General,  who  has  served  with  distinction  during 
the  past  four  years  as  the  official  representative  of  the  United  States  to  our  ancient  ally,  the  nation  which  gave 
us  Lafayette,  Rochambeau,  De  Grasse,  D'Estaing,  and  their  compatriots.  Six  years  ago  the  Society  of  the 
Cincinnati  celebrated  its  centennial  birthday  and  drank  its  annual  toast  to  the  "  Memory  of  Washington,"  its 
first  President-General  ;  to-day  its  representatives  have  assembled  in  this  metropolis  to  unite  in  the  ceremonies 
attending  the  centennial  celebration  of  his  inauguration  as  the  First  President  of  the  United  States.  Animated 
and  inspired  by  the  many  precious  associations  which  cluster  around  the  memory  of  the  immortal  Washington, 
let  us  pray  to  God  that  the  celebration  which  is  about  to  be  commemorated  may  speak  to  us  afresh  of  the 
noble  virtues  and  patriotic  fidelity  of  him  whose  example  it  will  be  the  glory  and  salvation  of  our  country  to 
imitate.  But,  gentlemen,  it  is  not  my  purpose  to  detain  you  with  any  extended  remarks.  We  are  honored  by 
the  presence  of  several  distinguished  gentlemen,  to  whose  words  I  shall  now  invite  your  attention.  It  is  now 
my  privilege  to  announce  the  first  regular  toast,  and  to  call  upon  the  Hon.  Rutherford  B.  Hayes,  ex-President 
of  the  United  States,  to  respond. 

The  band  having  played  "  Hail  Columbia,"  General  Hayes  rose  to  respond,  and  was  re- 
ceived with  cheers.    He  spoke  as  follows  : 

First  Toast — "  The  United  States  of  America." 

Responded  to  by  Hon.  Rutherford  B.  Hayes,  LL.  D.,  ex-President  of  the  United  States. 

Mr.  President  and  Gentlemen  :  The  same  thoughtful  courtesy  which  has  given  me  the  opportunity 
to  enjoy  with  you  this  delightful  occasion  would,  it  is  likely,  excuse  me  if  I  should  attempt,  without  care- 
ful preparation,  to  discuss  the  large  and  attractive  sentiment  which  has  been  read.  But  I  could  not  excuse 
myself  if  I  were  to  make  such  a  return  for  your  kindness.  When  informed  this  afternoon  that  it  was  expected 
that  I  should  respond  to  this  important  toast,  it  occurred  to  me  that  it  would  be  speech  enough,  under  the  cir- 
cumstances, to  ask  a  single  question,  and  to  give  to  it  a  categorical  reply.  Before  doing  this,  I  wish  to  thank 
the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati  for  the  privilege  of  meeting  this  distinguished  company — the  successors  and 
descendants  of  the  immortal  band  of  patriots  who  stood  shoulder  to  shoulder  with  Washington  and  Knox  and 
Hamilton,  with  Lafayette  and  Steuben  and  Wayne,  in  the  long,  hard  contest  for  independence.  Your  society 
was  formed  when  the  officers  of  the  Continental  Army  were  about  to  part,  perhaps  forever,  from  each  other, 
and  from  their  beloved  and  revered  commander.  It  was  instituted  to  be  a  memorial  of  that  seven-years'  con- 
flict, and  to  perpetuate  the  friendships  formed  in  that  "  divine  and  stainless  war."  What  noble  and  inspiring 
recollections  and  associations  cling  in  adamant  around  the  names  and  deeds  of  those  great  years !  They  were 
indeed  our  country's  heroic  age !  The  question  I  wish  to  ask  and  to  answer  is,  What  are  the  fruits  of  the 
achievements  of  those  days  ?    What  was  gained  by  the  War  of  Independence  ?    The  answer — the  all-sufficient 

answer — is,  Those  days  gave  to  us,  to  the  world,  to  the  future  of  all  mankind — the  United  States  of  America! 
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Second  Toast — "The  Memory  of  His  Excellency  General  Washington, 

our  First  President-General." 

This  toast,  in  accordance  with  the  custom  of  eighty-nine  years,  was  acknowledged  stand- 
ing and  in  silence. 

Third  Toast — "  The  Constitution  of  the  United  States  of  America — 

may  it  be  perpetual!" 

Responded  to  by  Hon.  Asa  Bird  Gardiner,  LL.  D.,  Secretary-General  of  the  Cincinnati. 

Mr.  Chairman:  Although  the  cares  and  duties  incident  to  this  particular  commemoration,  and  to  those 
of  a  later  day  in  this  centennial  celebration,  have  left  no  time  for  preparation  for  the  toast  to  which  I  have 
the  honor  to  respond,  nevertheless  no  student  of  American  history  present  here  this  evening,  and  surrounded 
by  those  whose  names  recall  the  illustrious  services  of  their  ancestors  to  our  country,  could,  if  called  upon,  fail 
to  say  something  suitable  to  the  occasion. 

I  trust  I  may  be  pardoned  for  digressing  a  little  to  become  personal,  and  to  allude  to  some  of  those  I  see 
near  me  at  this  board,  whose  names  bring  vividly  before  me  events  connected  with  the  "  times  that  tried 
men's  souls." 

On  my  right  is  our  chaplain1  for  the  evening,  the  grand-nephew,  representative,  and  namesake  of  Brevet 
Captain  Samuel  Moore  Shute,  of  the  Second  Regiment  New  Jersey  Continental  Infantry  of  the  Revolution,  in 
that  Jersey  Brigade  whose  services  were  conspicuous  for  gallantry  in  all  the  general  actions  in  which  the  main 
Continental  Army  fought. 

You,8  sir,  come  next  in  line,  and  recall,  in  the  services  of  your  grandfather,  Lieutenant-Colonel  David 
Cobb,  aide-de-camp  to  Washington,  those  great  events  which  terminated  in  that  memorable  resignation  by 
the  Commander-in-Chief  of  his  commission  at  Annapolis  on  December  23,  1783. 

Our  honored  guest3  on  your  right  recalls  the  services  of  the  New  York  militia  in  the  Revolution,  in  which  his 
grandfather,,  Rutherford  Hayes,  served  as  an  ensign.  The  Right  Rev.  Bishop  of  Iowa,4  second  on  your  right, 
reminds  me  that  his  grandfather  served  as  a  lieutenant  at  the  siege  of  Boston,  and  his  great-grandfather  and 
namesake,  Captain  William  Stevens,  Second  Regiment  Continental  Corps  of  Artillery,  displayed  at  the  siege  of 
Yorktown  such  ability  in  the  precision  of  fire  of  his  battery  as  to  evoke  the  admiration  of  the  French  officers. 

Our  honored  guest,6  next  on  the  right,  the  grandson  of  Major  and  Brevet  Lieutenant-Colonel  Benjamin 
Tallmadge,  Second  Regiment  Continental  Light  Dragoons,  recalls  the  gallant  services  of  his  grandfather  as 
commanding  officer  at  the  capture  of  Fort  George — services  which  received  the  thanks  of  Congress  and  of 
Washington.  The  later  important  services  of  Major  Tallmadge,  under  the  direct  personal  orders  of  the  Com- 
mander-in-Chief in  the  "  neutral  ground  "  of  Westchester  County,  was  the  occasion  of  his  being  made  the 
prototype  of  the  historic  character  "Major  Dunwoodie  "  in  J.  Fenimore  Cooper's  novel  of  "The  Spy." 

At  the  right  of  the  President  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution  sits  one  of  our  Maryland  members,6  wearing 
the  very  eagle  of  our  order  presented  to  his  grandfather  by  the  immortal  Washington,  whose  aide-de-camp 
he  was  to  the  close  of  the  Revolution.  His  next  neighbor,7  the  President  of  the  Commissioners  of  the  Dis- 
trict of  Columbia,  also  of  the  Maryland  Cincinnati,  recalls  the  fact  that  his  grandfather,  Captain  John  Webb, 
of  the  Second  Regiment  Continental  Light  Dragoons,  was  aide-de-camp  to  Major-General  Robert  Howe,  and 
a  most  popular  officer.     I  might  continue,  sir,  these  illustrations  to  all  here  present ;  but,  before  I  pass  to 


1  The  Rev.  Samuel  Moore  Shute,  D.  D.,  Professor  of  English  Language  and  Literature,  Columbian  University. 
'  Hon.  Samuel  Crocker  Cobb. 

3  Hon.  Rutherford  B.  Hayes,  LL.  D. 

4  The  Right  Rev.  William  Stevens  Perry,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  D.  C  L. 
6  Hon.  Frederick  Samuel  Tallmadge. 

•  Mr.  Oswald  Tilghman. 

'  Hon.  William  Benning  Webb. 


ARTHUR  LEE. 
Artist,  C.  W.  Peale.    Owned  by  the 
Virginia  Historical  Society. 


DAVID  HUMPHREYS 
Artist,  Rembrandt  Peai.e.  Owned 
by  the  Boston  Museum. 


JOHN  JAY 

Artists:  Head,  by  Gilbert  Stuart:  body,  bv  John  Trum- 
bull. Owned  by  the  late  John  Clarkson  Jay.  M.  I)  . 
Grandson^  R\e.  N.  Y. 


GOVERNOR  GEORGE  CLINTON. 

M  in i at  ure  by  John  Ramage. 
Owned  by  James  S.  Van  Cort- 
landt.  Manor  House,  Croton- 

ON-Hl'DSON,  N.  Y. 


JOHN  JAY. 

Aiu'isr,  Gilhkkt  Stuart.    Ownei>  iiv  Mrs.  C.  Van  Rkns- 

NKLAKR  THAVKR.  BOSTON.  MASS. 


GOVERNOR  GEORGE  CLINTON. 

From  A  PORTRAIT  OWNED  BY  THE  STATE  OF  Now  YoRK.  AND 
DEPOSITED  IN  THE  State  LIBRARY,  Al.HANY. 


Portraits  of  John-Jay,  Arthur  Lee,  David  Humphreys,  Jacob  Morton, 
Jeremiah  Wadsworth  and  George  Clinton. 


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the  consideration  of  the  toast,  I  can  not  but  allude  to  the  member1  to  the  right  of  the  President  of  the  Com- 
missioners for  the  District  of  Columbia,  great-grandson  and  namesake  of  Brigadier-General  Daniel  Morgan, 
whose  services  at  the  assault  on  Quebec,  and  at  the  battles  of  Stillwater  and  Saratoga,  and  as  commanding 
general  in  the  great  victory  of  the  "Cowpens,"  are  still  gratefully  remembered  by  the  American  people. 

Nor  can  I  fail  to  allude  to  my  dear  friend 2  here  on  my  left,  the  Presi- 
dent of  the  Cincinnati  of  Pennsylvania,  grandson  of  that  gallant  and  intrepid 
soldier,  Brigadier  and  Brevet  Major-General  Anthony  Wayne,  who  became 
eventually  General-in-Chief  of  the  United  States  Army,  and  whose  brilliant 
services  in  every  action  in  which  he  was  engaged,  including  the  storming  of  GOLD  RING  WITH  HAIR 

Stony  Point  in  1779  and  the  action  of  Jamestown  Ford  in  1781,  caused  the  OF  WASHINGTON. 

soldiers  to  give  him  the  affectionate  soubriquet  of  "Mad  Anthonv,"  and  has       Given  by  him  to  Mrs.  James  Madison, 
0  3  -  '  and  by  her,  in  1847, 

ever  made  his  name  a  favorite  one  with  students  of  American  history.  to  Rev.  George  Duffield. 

Facing  me  are  two  members,  one3  whose  grandfather,  Colonel  and  Owned  by 

Brevet  Brigadier-General  Samuel  Blachley  Webb,  served  as  an  aide-de-camp       Mrs'  Edwards  PierrePont-  New  York. 

,  •  „  ,  .  _  (Loan  Exhibition,  No.  38J.) 

to  Washington  at  Boston,  and  later  as  colonel  of  the  Third  Regiment  Con- 
necticut Continental  Infantry  to  the  peace  of  1783;  and  the  other,4  whose  grandfather,  Captain  and  Brevet 
Major  John  Carroway  Smith,  First  Regiment  South  Carolina  Continental  Infantry,  served  under  Major-Gen- 
eral Benjamin  Lincoln  in  the  bloody  trenches  of  Savannah,  and  later  at  the  capitulation  of  Charleston,  S.  C. 

The  sentiments,  sir,  of  the  original  Cincinnati  were  fully  expressed,  as  to  the  Constitution  of  the  United 
States,  in  the  toast  to  which  I  will  now  try  to  respond.  No  class  of  citizens  were  as  keenly  sensible  of 
the  imbecility  and  inefficiency  of  the  Articles  of  Confederation,  under  which  the  War  of  the  Revolution 
closed,  as  were  the  Continental  officers.  The  State  governments  had  sufficient  executive  powers  to  enable 
them  to  levy  taxes  and  properly  support  and  pay  their  functionaries. 

The  United  States  Government  had,  however,  no  power  to  levy  taxes.  It  had  practically  but  two  classes 
of  officials,  viz. :  the  extremely  limited  number  of  civil  functionaries  at  the  Capitol,  in  Philadelphia;  and  the 
Continental  Army,  on  which  the  hopes  of  the  nation  depended  for  independence. 

The  Continental  Navy  had  long  since  practically  disappeared.  The  citizen,  at  home,  having  his  local 
rights  reasonably  protected  by  his  State,  and  the  theatre  of  war  removed  to  a  distance,  saw  but  dimly,  if 
at  all,  the  fatally  defective  character  of  the  Articles  of  Confederation. 

The  Continental  officers,  however,  had  starved  at  Valley  Forge,  in  the  highlands  of  the  Hudson,  in  the 
Northern  Department,  and  in  the  Jerseys,  and  their  men  had  often  been  days  together  without  proper  sub- 
sistence and  almost  always  without  suitable  clothing  or  camp  and  garrison  equipage.  They  had  seen  the 
solemn  and  repeated  promises  of  Congress  as  to  pay,  clothing,  allowances,  and  pensions  broken — all  because 
of  the  absolute  inability  of  Congress  to  enforce  its  requirements  by  taxation.  There  being  no  sanctions  to 
the  congressional  ordinances,  the  Continental  officers  saw  those  ordinances  treated  with  neglect  and 
indifference,  and,  as  a  consequence,  they  and  their  men,  toward  the  end  of  the  war,  were  left  without  pay 
for  as  long  as  two  years. 

But  the  fire  of  patriotism  burned  strongly  in  the  hearts  of  the  original  Cincinnati,  and  nearly  all  of 
them  were  obliged  to  sacrifice  their  estates  and  property — and  become  beggared — in  order  to  support  them- 
selves and  families,  and  to  continue  in  service  and  prevent  the  disbandment  of  the  army  before  peace 
should  be  assured. 

Therefore,  they  were  intensely  in  earnest  as  to  the  necessity  of  a  national  Government  for  national 
purposes,  such  as  they  had  witnessed  in  1775— '76,  and  they  were  of  one  mind  that  a  good  Constitution  was 
a  national  necessity.    Accordingly,  their  favorite  toasts  indicative  of  their  sentiments  were  all  in  this  direc- 


1  Captain  Daniel  Morgan  Taylor,  Ordnance  Department  United  States  Army. 
5  Hon.  William  Wayne. 

3  Brevet  Major-General  Alexander  Stewart  Webb,  LL.  D.,  late  United  States  Army,  President  of  the  College  of  the  City 
of  New  York. 

4  Mr.  Stephen  Calhoun  Smith. 


156       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


tion.  Washington,  Lafayette,  Knox,  and  other  Cincinnati  all  wrote  urging  the  necessity  of  these  changes. 
When  the  army  was  about  to  lay  down  arms,  assumed  for  public  defense,  and  disband,  the  officers,  in 
their  cantonments  on  the  Hudson,  formed  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati. 

The  only  political  principle  incorporated  in  their  beloved  "Institution"  of  1783  was  "an  unalterable 
determination  to  promote  and  cherish  between  the  respective  States  that  union  and  national  honor  so  essentially 
necessary  to  their  happiness  and  the  future  dignity  of  the  American  Empire." 

Each  State  Society  was  required  to  write  annually,  or  oftener  if  necessary,  a  circular  letter  to  the  other 
State  Societies,  noting  whatever  they  might  think  worthy  of  observation  respecting  the  general  union  of  the 
States.  Therefore,  it  is  not  to  be  wondered  at  that,  in  all  movements  leading  up  to  the  adoption  and  ratifi- 
cation of  the  United  States  Constitution,  the  Cincinnati  were  potentially  conspicuous.  Time  will  not  permit 
me  to  give  details.  Nearly  all  the  Governors  or  Presidents  of  States,  as  well  as  the  President  of  the 
Continental  Congress,  were,  in  1787,  members  of  our  Order.  Nearly  half  of  the  members  of  the  Committee 
of  the  Continental  Congress  which  recommended  the  calling  of  a  Constitutional  Convention  belonged  to 
the  Order  of  the  Cincinnati,  as  did  nearly  half  of  the  Convention  itself,  including  the  President  and  Secretary 
and  nearly  half  of  those  who  signed  the  engrossed  copy  of  the  Constitution  when  it  was  adopted. 

It  was  a  member  of  the  Order  who  moved  in  the  Continental  Congress  that  the  Constitution  as 
adopted  by  the  Convention,  and  presented  for  consideration,  be  submitted  to  the  several  States  for  ratifica- 
tion ;  and,  after  ratification  had  taken  place  in  the  necessary  number  of  States,  it  was  a  member  who,  in 
his  place  in  the  Continental  Congress,  moved  the  necessary  resolution  for  putting  into  effect  the  new  Gov- 
ernment under  the  Constitution.  When  it  had  been  ratified  by  a  sufficient  number  of  States,  not  only 
State  Societies  of  the  Cincinnati,  but  the  General  Society,  at  its  next  triennial  meeting,  expressed  to  their 
President-General  their  extreme  satisfaction,  and  declared  that  a  good  Constitution  was  the  object  for  which 
they  had  risked  their  lives  and  experienced  unparalleled  difficulties.  With  the  adoption  of  the  Constitution, 
the  politieal  efforts  of  the  Cincinnati,  as  such,  came  to  an  end.  Political  parties  in  the  country  have  since 
risen  and  fallen,  and  political  associations  have  existed  for  longer  or  shorter  periods;  but  the  Society  of 
the  Cincinnati,  placed  on  a  higher  plane  than  that  of  mere  local  politics,  and  secure  in  the  affection  and 
respect  of  those  who  can  appreciate  the  sacrifices  and  efforts  of  its  founders  and  the  objects  of  their  "  In- 
stitution," has  continued  and  still  continues  as  the  symbol  of  the  generous  impulses  and  self-sacrificing 
patriotism  which  gave  to  the  American  people,  in  the  language  of  President-General  Washington,  "  national 
existence,  prosperity,  felicity,  and  safety." 

From  this  brief  recapitulation  of  what  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati  did  toward  the  framing  and 
adoption  of  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States,  it  can  with  propriety  be  urged  that  it  is  peculiarly 
entitled  to  celebrate  this  centennial,  and  indeed  it  may  be  said  that  no  other  organization  in  the  country 
can  prefer  the  same  claims  in  this  behalf.  That  the  Constitution  may  be  perpetual  was  the  hope  and  desire 
of  our  Revolutionary  ancestors  and  is  our  own.  Thanking  you,  Mr.  Chairman  and  dear  Brethren,  for  the 
particular  attention  with  which  you  have  listened  to  my  remarks,  I  beg  to  close  in  the  poetic  language  of 
a  patriotic  lady,  uttered  in  the  memorable  year,  1779,  when  John  Paul  Jones,  in  the  Bon  Homme  Richard, 
taught  the  British  Navy  that  Britannia  could  not  always  rule  the  waves;  and  Anthony  Wayne,  at  "Stony 
Point,"  showed  that  the  British  bayonet  was  the  heritage  of  the  American  Continental : 

God  save  our  States  ! 
Make  us  victorious, 
Happy  and  glorious, 

God  save  our  States  ! 

Fourth  Toast — "  The  Memory  of  Major-General  Nathanael  Greene,  and  all  who  have 

fallen  in  defense  of  america." 

Responded  to  by  Hon.  James  Simons,  Speaker  of  the  South  Carolina  House  of  Representatives. 

Mr,  Chairman  and  Gentlemen  :  I  thank  you  sincerely  for  the  very  kind  and  gracious  reception 
accorded  to  me.    I  have  just  arrived  in  the  city,  and  hastened  to  attend  this  assembly.    I  regret  that  I  do  not 


WALTER  LIVINGSTON. 
Commissioner  of  tne  Treasury. 

From  MINIATURE  OWNED  BY 
Mks.  Waiter  L.  Livingston, 
Widow  of  Great  Gkamm'n. 
Flatbush.  Kings  Co.,  N.  Y. 


CYRUS  GRIFFIN,  President  of  the  Old  Congress  in  1789. 

From  miniature  by  Lawrence  Sully  fainted  in  1799.  and 
owned  b»*  the  historical  societvof  pennsylvania. 


EBENEZER  HAZARD    Post  Master  General. 
Artist,  Duvivier,  1796.     Owned  by  Rev.  Thomas  E. 
Vekmilye.  D.  D  .  Son-in-law.  New  York. 


WALTER  LIVINGSTON, 

Commissioner  of  the  Treasury. 

From    miniature    11  v    M  RS. 
Robert  Fulton.    Owned  by 
Mrs.  Wm  Barclay  Parsons, 
Great  Granddaughter. 
New  York. 


ARTHUR  LEE.  Commissioner  of  the  Treasury. 

From  on.  miniature  by  J.  TRUMBULL,  painted  in  1790. 
Owned  by  Yale  University. 


JOHN  JAY,  Secretary  for  Foreign  Affairs. 
Artist,  Gilbert  Stuart.      Owned  by  Hon.  John  Jay, 
Grandson.  "Bedford  House,"  Katonah,  X.  Y, 
(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  121.) 


ARTHUR  LEE.  Commissioner  of  the  Treasury 

Artist,  C.  W.  Peale.  Owned  by  City  of  Phila- 
delphia and  deposited  in  National  Museum  (Old 
State  House.) 


OFFICERS   UNDER   THE  OLD  CONGRESS   IN  1789. 


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find  here  the  venerable  and  reverend  President  of  the  South  Carolina  State  branch  of  the  Cincinnati,  Charles 
Cotesworth  Pinckney,  who,  I  expected,  would  have  responded  to  the  sentiment  which  has  just  been  announced. 
No  man  could  have  done  so  more  appropriately,  bearing  as  he  does  an  illustrious  name,  identified  with  the 
great  struggle  which  gave  this  great  country  life — the  grandson  of  Major-General  Thomas  Pinckney  and  the 
grand-nephew  of  Major-General  Charles  Cotesworth  Pinckney,  both  distinguished  soldiers  of  the  Revolution, 
both  Presidents-General  of  the  Order  of  the  Cincinnati.  The  Vice-President  of  the  Order  in  my  State,  I  am 
here  as  a  descendant  of  one  who  was  a  young  man  in  the  days  of  the  Revolution,  who,  while  he  attained  no 
higher  rank  than  that  of  a  field-officer,  had  the  privilege  of  shedding  his  blood  in  the  great  cause  of  liberty, 
striving,  as  did  a  multitude  of  others,  the  vast  majority  of  whom  are  unknown  to  fame,  to  fulfill  the  high  duty 
of  patriotism.  Standing  here  in  this  great — this  wonderful  city — the  common  pride  of  all  Americans — and 
viewing  our  country  as  it  is  to-day — the  great  republic  of  the  world — in  reverence  and  gratitude  we  contem- 
plate the  memory  of  those  who  have  transmitted  this  heritage,  not  only  to  their  posterity  but  to  mankind  ; 
whose  enlightenment  and  devotion,  whose  blood  and  sacrifices  have  made  possible  what  we  enjoy  to-day. 
Dear  to  us  is  the  name  of  Greene — the  man  whose  constancy  and  wisdom,  fidelity  and  self-control,  whose  never- 
flinching  heroism  kept  alive  the  fire  of  Liberty  throughout  the  gloom  of  the  Southern  campaign.  It  is  unneces- 
sary to  rehearse  this  great  chapter  in  his  and  his  country's  history.  Its  details  are  familiar  to  all  who  feel 
any  pride  in  the  glory  of  the  country,  and  I  am  sure  need  not  be  recounted  in  this  presence.  Greene  was  a 
general — a  great  general — but  he  was  greater  still:  he  was  a  patriot  and  the  leader  of  patriots.  Justly  did  he 
earn  his  great  fame — deservedly  is  his  name  identified  with  the  independence  of  the  nation.  He  and  the  other 
renowned  men  of  that  day  did  their  part.  So  did  their  comrades  and  their  followers,  who,  while  their  services 
may  not  have  been  as  brilliant  or  their  renown  as  great,  did  as  much  as  the  greatest — they  did  their  duty.  Let 
us,  then,  on  this  grand  memorial  occasion,  with  gratitude  in  our  hearts,  offer  our  reverent  and  affectionate 
tributes  to  the  memory  of  all,  humble  or  exalted,  who  gave  their  lives  to  the  great  cause.  What  juster  measure 
of  the  gratitude  we  owe  the  men  of  the  Revolution  than  the  simple  exclamation,  uttered  in  the  nineteenth 
century,  "  I  am  an  American  citizen  !  " 

Fifth  Toast — "The  17TH  day  of  October,  1777,  at  Saratoga,  and  the  19TH  of  October,  1781, 

AT  YORKTOWN." 

Responded  to  by  the  Right  Rev.  William  Stevens  Perrv,  D.  D.  (Oxon.),  LL.  D.,  D.  C.  L.,  Bishop  of  Iowa. 

Mr.  Chairman  and  Brethren  of  the  Cincinnati  :  It  is  but  fitting  that  on  an  occasion  and  in  a 
presence  such  as  this  our  thoughts  should  revert  to  our  ancestors  in  whose  right  we  are  here  to-night:  My 
thoughts,  Mr.  President  and  Brethren,  were  thus  turned  when  the  allotment  of  this  toast  was  made  but  a 
moment  since  ;  and  I  confess  that  it  was  with  a  feeling  of  envy  that  I  recalled  the  fact  that  Lieutenant  Abel 
Perry,  of  Massachusetts,  member  of  the  Provincial  Assembly,  of  the  Committee  of  Safety,  officer  of  the  Thirty- 
first  Continental  Regiment  of  Foot,  and  out  at  Concord,  Lexington,  Bunker  Hill,  and  the  siege  of  Boston,  was, 
in  the  phrase  of  the  day,  a  minute-man — always  ready  for  the  fray ;  always  prepared  to  do  and  dare  at  duty's 
call.  If  there  were  all  we  think  there  is  in  heredity,  I  ought  to  be  a  minute-man  to-night,  ready  and  glad  to 
respond  to  the  toast  so  kindly  assigned  to  me  by  your  authoritative  command.  Would  that  I  were  ready  and 
able  to  respond  to  words  so  full  of  meaning — so  suggestive  to  a  patriotic  heart  !  At  Saratoga,  on  the  17th  of 
October,  1777,  the  convention  was  signed  making  the  army  of  Lieutenant-General  John  Burgoyne  prisoners  of 
war.  At  the  tune  of  "  Yankee  Doodle  "  the  American  soldiery  marched  into  the  British  lines  while  the  English 
marched  out,  and  out  of  sight  of  their  generous  victors  laid  down  their  arms.  At  Yorktown,  on  another 
October  day,  but  three  years  later,  another  British  general,  Lieutenant-General  Earl  Cornwallis,  yielded  his 
sword,  another  British  army  laid  down  its  arms,  each  surrendering  to 

"  That  illustrious  man, 
That  unblemished  gentleman," 

the  General  of  the  Army  of  the  Revolution,  our  first  President-General.  It  was  in  consequence  of  the  success 
at  Saratoga — a  victory  won  by  the  bravery  of  the  men  of  the  North — that  Washington  gained  at  the  distant 
South  the  final  triumph.    At  Saratoga,  Yorktown  was  made  possible,  and  though  there  were  days  of  doubt  and 


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defeat  intervening — though  Valley  Forge  had  its  tale  to  tell  of  privations,  sufferings,  discontent,  and  dark  fore- 
bodings— between  these  two  successes  we  may  well  believe  that  but  for  the  victory  of  October  17,  1777,  the 

close  of  the  strife  on  the  19th  of  October,  1781,  would  not  have  been  assured.  Thus 
mingle  the  North  and  the  South  in  toil  and  triumph  in  the  same  great  cause.  Thus 
from  the  victory  at  the  North  "the  little  candle  throws  its  light  afar,"  and  the  Old 
Dominion  is  illumined  by  its  gleaming  and  made  more  glorious  in  its  last,  its  crowning 
triumph.  Thus  may  it  ever  be,  the  North  and  the  South  united  in  the  upholding  of  the 
republic  formed  by  the  sacrifices  and  successes  of  each  !  One  may  not  claim  the  victory 
without  the  other.     To  each  its  own  ;  to  both  united,  the  fullest,  most  lasting  praise ! 

The  "  minute  "-man,  Mr.  Chairman  and  Brethren,  must  not  exceed  the  limit  sug- 
gested by  his  very  name.  My  minute  for  to-night  is  passed.  I  will  not  keep  you 
longer.  To-morrow  I  am  to  speak  at  length  in  that  historic  church,  which,  recalling 
as  it  does  our  early  days  and  standing  as  it  does  amid  our  noble  dead,  seems  fittingly 
our  chapel,  our  special  shrine,  as  Saint  George's,  Windsor,  is  the  sanctuary  of  Eng- 
land's and  the  world's  greatest  order  of  knighthood.  And,  mindful  of  the  morrow 
and  its  sacred  duty,  I  will  close  to-night  with  but  a  word — Saratoga  and  Yorktown  ! 
God  hath  joined  them  together  on  the  page  of  history,  and  in  the  remembrance  of  each 
patriotic  heart  may  their  union  never  be  broken  !  May  the  welding  together  of  North 
and  South,  East  and  West,  in  our  great  and  glorious  Union  be  perpetual !  Let  no  man 
put  asunder  these  whom  God  hath  joined  ! 


DRESS  SWORD  WORN 

BY  GOVERNOR 
BENJAMIN  PIERCE, 

of  New  Hampshire, 
father  of  President  Pierce. 
Owned  by  granddaughter 
Mrs.  McNeil  Potter, 
Brooklyn,  New  York. 
(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  638.) 


Sixth  Toast — "  All  Our  Brethren  who  assisted  either  in  the 
Cabinet  or  Field  in  the  Great  Work  of  Independence." 

Responded  to  by  Hon.  Frederick  Samuel  Tallmadge,  President  of  the  Society 

of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution. 

Mr.  Chairman  :  On  behalf  of  the  "  Sons  of  the  Revolution,"  whom  I  have  the 
honor  to  represent,  I  tender  to  you  my  sincere  thanks  for  this  opportunity  of  meeting 
you.  In  this  Society  of  the  Cincinnati  I  have  always  felt  a  deep  interest.  Indeed,  my 
regard  for  it  is  something  intense.  But  toward  the  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolu- 
tion I  feel  the  warmth  of  a  first  love.  Judge,  then,  of  the  gratification  I  experience  in 
the  blending  of  these  sentiments  this  evening,  when  you  meet  to  commemorate  the 
hundredth  anniversary  of  the  inauguration  of  "  George  Washington  "  as  first  President 
of  the  United  States,  and  the  first  President-General  of  your  Society  !  That  gratifica- 
tion has  been  increased  by  listening  to  the  frequent  reference  to  our  ancestors  by 
the  speakers  who  have  preceded  me.  If  that  child  be  wise  who  knows  his  own  father, 
how  much  wiser  is  he  who,  in  these  centennial  times,  knows  his  own  grandfather ! 
Early  traditions  have  been  discussed,  and  the  family  Bible  referred  to  and  opened  by 
some  people,  perhaps  for  the  first  time,  in  a  vain  search  for  the  records  of  virtues 
they  are  supposed  to  have  inherited  and  are  staggering  under  at  the  present  time. 
Indeed,  had  Sir  Walter  Scott  survived  until  the  present  moment,  what  fresh  illustra- 
tions he  would  have  found  for  his  "Tales  of  a  Grandfather!" 

But,  Mr.  Chairman,  while  thanking  you  for  the  enjoyment  of  this  meeting,  let  us 
not  forget  the  admirable  tact  of  your  committee  in  selecting  this  hall  of  the  "  Lawyers' 
Club  "  for  the  dinner  to-night.  Here  the  President  of  the  United  States  will  receive 
the  welcome  of  the  city  of  New  York  day  after  to-morrow,  and  I  am  sure  the  legal 
atmosphere  of  calfskin,  parchment,  and  foolscap  will  be  lost  in  the  odor  of  sanctity 
and  patriotism  infused  into  this  room  by  this  meeting. 

"Inter  arma  silent  leges." 

Thus  the  President  will  be  prepared  for  the  honors  that  await  him.  But,  sir,  there 
are  other  reasons  why  1  thank  you  for  the  privilege  of  being  here  and  responding  to 


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the  sentiment,  All  our  brethren  who  assisted  either  in  the  Cabinet  or  field  in  the  great  work  ofi  Independence.  I  am 
glad  of  the  opportunity  of  presenting  the  claims  of  "  The  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution,"  whose  Con- 
stitution, following  almost  the  exact  words  of  the  toast,  admits  to  membership  any  person  who  is  descended 
from  an  ancestor,  who  either  as  a  military  or  naval  officer,  soldier  or  sailor,  assisted  in  establishing  American  In- 
dependence. The  Sons  have  come  home  to-night  to  dine  with  their  Sires,  and  I  ask  a  cordial  welcome  for  them. 
They  are  here  to  celebrate  the  centennial,  and  are  entitled  to  the  fatted  calf,  although  they  may  not  be  prod- 
igal. You,  gentlemen,  have  inherited  a  proud  record  of  the  past.  We  believe  we  have  a  proud  future  before 
us,  and,  as  I  listen  with  so  much  pride  and  pleasure  to  the  tribute  of  praise  you  pay  to  your  ancestors,  I  say 
to  myself,  you,  their  descendants,  are  the  right  kind  of  material  to  make  good  Sons  of  the  Revolution  out  of, 
and  in  that  way  aid  us  in  transmitting  to  posterity  your  and  our  patriotic  inheritance  undimmed  by  time  and 
untarnished  by  abuse.  Help  us  to  look  forward  as  well  as  backward,  and  hold  a  centennial  feast  every  year. 
Shall  we  wait  another  hundred  years  before  we  shall  be  patriotic  ?  You  owe  a  debt  to  your  ancestors. 
We  propose  to  pay  it.  Not  by  eating  and  drinking,  and  resolving  that  "  we  are  the  righteous  and  shall 
inherit  the  land,"  but  by  publications,  public  discussions,  the  erection  of  monuments  to  the  memory  of  the 
patriots  of  '76,  and  the  celebration  of  anniversaries  commemorative  of  the  battles  of  the  Revolution,  and 
thus  strive 

"  To  make  mankind  in  conscious  virtue  bold, 
Live  o'er  each  scene  and  be  what  they  behold." 

For,  after  all,  patriotism,  or  love  of  your  country,  is  to  a  certain  extent  a  matter  of  education.  It  may 
slumber  and  die,  unless  kept  alive  by  appeals  to  the  head  and  heart,  as  pictures  cultivate  and  discipline  the  eye. 

Now,  Mr.  Chairman  and  gentlemen  of  the  Cincinnati  Society,  may  we  not  have  your  aid,  your  influence, 
and  your  co-operation  in  carrying  on  this  good  work  ?  Let  us  be  the  connecting  link  between  the  past  and  the 
future  in  perpetuating  forever  the  glorious  principles  of  American  liberty.  What  we  have  inherited  help  us  to 
teach  posterity  how  to  enjoy.  If  our  societies  can  and  will  unite  in  such  influences  and  aims,  I  am  sure  I  can 
call  upon  my  friend  on  my  left,  Bishop  Perry,  to  bless  our  Union.  "  Whom  God  hath  joined  together  let  no 
man  put  asunder." 

Seventh  Toast — "  Our  Ancient  and  Brave  Allv,  the  Nation  of  France." 

Responded  to  by  Hon.  James  M.  Varnum. 
Mr.  Chairman  and  Gentlemen  of  the  Society  :  Before  responding  to  this  sentiment  you  will  permit 
me  on  behalf  of  the  Hon.  Hamilton  Fish,  the  President-General  of  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati  for  more  than 
a  third  of  a  century,  and  President  of  the  New  York  Society,  to  present  to  you  his  sincere  regrets  that  physical 
infirmities  prevent  him  from  being  present  this  evening,  and  uniting  with  you  in  the  celebration  of  this  great 
anniversary.  Mr.  Alexander  Hamilton,1  Vice-President  of  the  New  York  Society,  is  also  prevented,  by  reason 
of  ill  health,  from  coming  to  New  York  this  evening,  but  sends  through  me  his  best  wishes  for  the  success  of 
our  meeting. 

"Our  ancient  and  brave  ally,  the  nation  of  France" — a  toast  offered  in  1796  at  the  meeting  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Society  of  the  Cincinnati.  We  are  carried  back  by  this  sentiment  more  than  a  hundred  and  ten  years, 
to  the  darkest  days  of  the  American  Revolution,  when  all  seemed  dreary,  hopeless,  and  uncertain — back  to  the 
days  of  Valley  Forge,  where  a  heroic  and  gallant  army,  half-fed,  half-clothed,  and  well-nigh  disheartened,  were 
looking  in  vain  for  some  hope  or  ray  of  encouragement  to  show  that  their  labor  might  possibly  bear  fruit,  and 
that  their  long  struggle  against  oppression  might  be  crowned  with  success.  The  clouds  gathered  closer  and 
darker  about  them,  and  even  the  heart  of  Washington  was  oppressed  with  dismal  forebodings  as  to  the  result 
of  the  long-continued  struggle  against  fearful  odds.  But  suddenly  the  clouds  seemed  to  be  breaking,  and  as 
they  parted  and  floated  swiftly  by,  their  glorious  silver  lining  became  revealed  to  the  almost  disheartened 


1  Hon.  Alexander  Hamilton,  of  the  New  York  Society  of  the  Cincinnati,  died  at  Tarrytown,  N.  Y.,  December  30,  1889,  in 
the  seventy-fourth  year  of  his  age. 


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patriots,  filling  their  hearts  with  encouragement  and  with  hope  for  the  future.  For  in  May,  1778,  there  came 
to  the  camp  at  Valley  Forge  the  news  of  the  Treaty  of  Lyons,  and  that  the  great  and  powerful  nation  of 
France  had  acknowledged  the  independence  of  the  American  colonies,  and  had  resolved  to  aid  them  with  all 
its  resources  in  securing  and  making  permanent  that  independence.  History  tells  us  what  a  great  day  that 
was  at  Valley  Forge  when  the  news  was  received,  and  what  a  grand  celebration  of  the  event  took  place  in  the 
camp  under  the  orders  of  General  Washington.  From  across  the  broad  ocean,  from  a  nation  old  in  years,  rich 
in  resources,  influential  in  the  affairs  of  the  world,  there  had  come  words  of  encouragement  and  hope  to  the 
poor,  struggling  colonists  in  America.  France  had  spoken,  and,  through  Louis  XVI,  had  said:  "Be  brave- 
hearted,  be  courageous,  be  encouraged.  The  great  nation  of  France  will  stand  by  those  struggling  against 
oppression  on  the  American  continent."  And  it  was  not  only  by  words  that  the  help  was  given,  for  soon  across 
the  Atlantic  came  great  ships-of-the-line  and  transports  laden  with  ammunition  and  supplies  and  gold,  and  fdled 
with  troops,  officered  by  the  ablest  and  bravest  officers  that  all  France  could  furnish,  to  aid  us  in  our  struggle 
for  independence.  The  members  of  this  Society  are,  as  a  rule,  careful  students  of  American  history,  and  there 
is  surely  no  need  for  me  to  refer  in  detail  to  those  subsequent  historical  events  with  which  you  are  all  so  famil- 
iar.   I  do  not  say  that  without  the  assistance  and  aid  of  France  there  would  not  have  been  an  American 

Republic — that  victory  might  not  in  the  end  have  perched  upon  the  banners  of 
Washington,  even  had  he  not  received  this  assistance  from  the  ally  across  the 
great  sea.  But  I  think  you  will  all  agree  with  me  that  the  end  came  sooner, 
that  the  success  was  greater,  and  that  perhaps  even  success  was  wrenched  from 
defeat  by  the  timely  action  and  active  and  efficient  support  of  our  great  ally  the 
nation  of  France.    It  is  but  natural,  then,  that  we,  descendants  of  Revolutionary 

MINIATURE  OF  sires,  should  have  a  deep  regard  for  France.    She  may  be  empire,  kingdom,  or 

GEORGE  WASHINGTON 

in  gold  ring  By  St  Memin  republic — it  is  all  the  same  to  us ;  we  look  back  a  hundred  years  through  our 
Owned  by  Mrs.  Cooper  Smith,  grandfathers'  spectacles,  and  see  only,  and  seeing  we  love,  "Our  ancient  and  brave 
Philadelphia.  ally,  the  nation  of  France."    We  remember  Louis  XVI,  to  whom  we  all  owe  so 

(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  385.)        much,  and  Rochambeau,  D'Estaing,  De  Grasse,  De  Chastellux,  Noailles,  De  Lau- 

zun,  St.  Simon,  and  all  that  long  list  of  brave  soldiers  and  sailors  of  France  who 
did  so  much  to  insure  our  country's  independence.  And  kindlier  and  dearer  than  all  is  the  memory  of  one 
young,  brave,  and  gallant  French  nobleman,  who  left  rank,  wealth,  and  home,  to  place  his  sword  at  the  dis- 
posal of  Washington,  and  to  risk  his  life  and  his  honor  in  behalf  of  American  freedom.  If  France  had  done 
nothing  more  for  us  we  should  still  hold  her  in  loving  remembrance  as  the  fatherland  of  the  gallant  Marquis 
de  Lafayette.  And  hence  is  it,  my  friends,  that  the  American  people,  and  especially  we  of  the  Order  of  the 
Cincinnati,  hold  in  kindly  and  grateful  remembrance  our  ancient  and  brave  ally,  the  nation  of  France,  and 
especially  those  of  that  nationality  who  are  the  descendants  and  representatives  of  the  French  soldiers  and 
sailors  who  aided  our  ancestors  in  the  establishment  of  our  Republic.  Is  this  interest  one-sided,  do  you  ask — 
have  the  descendants  of  the  French  officers  who  took  part  in  our  Revolution,  and  who  were  members  of  the 
Order  of  the  Cincinnati,  any  active  interest  in  the  America  of  to-day — any  pride  in  the  exploits  of  their  ances- 
tors— any  knowledge  of  and  interest  in  this  Order,  and  any  desire  to  claim  the  right  of  hereditary  member- 
ship therein  ?  These  questions  are  answered  in  part  by  the  fact  set  forth  in  the  records  of  the  last  triennial 
meeting  of  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati  in  1887,  that  a  number  of  French  gentlemen  entitled  to  hereditary 
membership  in  the  Society  have  formed  a  provisional  organization  for  the  purpose  of  reviving  the  French 
branch  of  the  Society,  with  the  Marquis  de  Rochambeau  as  provisional  president  and  the  Vicomte  de  Noailles 
as  secretary,  and  have  applied  for  and  obtained  recognition  from  the  General  Society.  They  are  answered 
in  part  by  applications  which  have  been  made  by  descendants  of  those  French  officers  of  a  hundred  or  more 
years  ago,  to  be  admitted  as  members  of  our  Order,  through  some  of  our  State  Societies,  and  to  have  thus 
restored  to  them  the  heritage  of  their  fathers.  And  some  of  us,  too,  can  bear  personal  testimony  to  the 
deep  and  strong  interest  which  some  of  these  descendants  take  in  our  historic  Order.  Speaking  for  my- 
self, I  can  say  that  it  has  been  my  own  pleasure  and  privilege  to  meet  many  of  them  on  terms  of  friend- 
ship. I  have  visited  at  Havana  the  Marquis  du  Quesne,  a  deputy  in  the  Spanish  Cortes,  and  a  descendant 
of  Rear-Admiral  the  Marquis  du  Quesne,  and  have  seen  with  what  pride  and  gratification  he  produced 
and  wore  the  Order  of  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati,  which  had  descended  to  him  from  his  grandfather.  I 


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have  visited  as  an  honored  guest  at  the  historic  Chateau  Rochambeau,  the  home  of  the  great  Marshal  of 
France,  the  Comte  de  Rochambeau,  and  in  the  bedchamber  occupied  by  him  in  his  lifetime  I  have  seen  its 
most  prominent  feature,  a  portrait  of  Washington,  the  first  President-General  of  this  Society,  and  side  by 
side  with  the  insignia  of  the  Golden  Fleece  and  other  decorations,  and  in  a  place  of  honor,  I  have  seen  our 
own  eagle — the  Order  of  the  Cincinnati — which  had  been  worn  by  the  great  Comte  de  Rochambeau  more  than 
a  century  ago.  It  has  been  my  pleasure  to  meet  that  distinguished  statesman  and  courtly  gentleman  the  Duke 
and  Prince  de  Broglie,  and  to  be  assured  by  him  of  his  pride  at  the  part  taken  by  his  grandfather,  the  Prince 
de  Broglie,  in  the  achievement  of  American  independence,  and  of  his  interest  in  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati, 
and  his  cordial  and  earnest  desire  to  co-operate  in  the  movement  for  the  re-establishment  of  the  French 
Society  of  the  Order.  And  from  time  to  time,  too,  there  come  to  me  friendly  reminders  from  Besancon, 
or  from  the  mountains  of  the  Vosges,  that  the  Comte  d'Ollone,  as  the  representative  of  Viomenil  and  grand- 
son of  a  gallant  officer  of  the  auxiliary  army,  has  an  abiding  and  enduring  interest  in  the  welfare  of  the 
Society  of  the  Cincinnati.  And  so,  gentlemen,  because  of  those  French  heroes  of  the  past,  who  were  the 
firm  friends  of  our  Revolutionary  sires,  because  of  their  descendants,  who  now,  in  friendly  remembrance  of 
that  past,  send  kindly  greetings  to  us,  because  by  the  action  of  the  French  nation  in  1778,  the  independence  of 
our  country  was  assured,  I  ask  you  to  fill  again  your  glasses,  and  to  drink  once  again  to  the  toast  of  "  Our 
ancient  and  brave  ally,  the  nation  of  France." 

Eighth  Toast — -The  Battles  of  Trextox,  Prixcetox,  Moxmouth,  axd  Sprixgfield 
attested  the  valor  of  the  continental  llxe." 

Responded  to  by  Hon.  John  Fitch.1 

Mr.  Chairman  and  Brethren  of  the  Society  :  Sad  and  dark  were  the  prospects  of  the  colonies  on 
the  eve  preceding  the  battles  of  Trenton  and  Princeton.  The  brave  Continentals  marching  through  New 
Jersey's  frozen  and  snow-covered  fields,  turned  upon  Cornwallis  at  Trenton  and  Princeton,  stayed  the  British 
progress  toward  Philadelphia,  checked  the  tide  of  success  of  the  English  army,  and  enabled  our  Continental 
Line  to  go  safely  into  winter  quarters.  These  victories  gave  the  colonists  their  first  hope  of  success.  They 
showed  that  the  "  Continental  Line  "  could  successfully  contend  with  England's  best  soldiers.  They  cheered 
the  drooping  spirits  of  the  Whigs,  gained  over  to  the  colonies  the  hesitating  and  doubtful,  and  crushed  the 
hopes  of  the  Tories.  Washington's  success  at  Trenton  and  Princeton  gave  us  the  friendship  of  France  and 
Holland,  made  Saratoga  possible,  and  enabled  the  country  to  raise  an  army  to  meet  and  capture  Burgoyne. 
Our  great  victory  at  Saratoga  gave  us  the  French  alliance,  and  had  it  not  been  for  the  arms  and  ammu- 
nition and  the  navy  which  she  sent  us,  and  of  which  we  were  so  sadly  in  need,  we  could  not  have  succeeded. 
Had  Washington  been  defeated  at  Trenton  and  Princeton,  there  would  have  been  no  free  and  independent 
United  States,  no  centennial,  no  Society  of  the  Cincinnati.  We  should  not  have  been  here  to-night,  and  this 
land  would  not  now  be  called  the  "  United  States."  The  colonies  would  have  been  crushed,  governed  by 
the  bayonet,  and  England  would  have  taxed  us  to  the  limit  of  endurance.  It  was  the  Continental  Line  that 
did  the  fighting;  it  was  Brigadier-General  Hugh  Mercer's  brigade  that  made  the  attack  and  won  the  victory 
at  Princeton.  The  brigade  was  composed  of  the  Fourth  Connecticut,  in  these  battles  commanded  by  one  of 
my  ancestors ;  the  New  Hampshire  regiment  under  Stark,  who  afterward  won  at  Bennington ;  and  two  Massa- 
chusetts regiments,  one  commanded  by  Colonel  Hutchinson  and  the  other  by  Colonel  Stone.  The  battles  of 
Trenton  and  Princeton  constituted  an  epoch  in  the  Revolution,  the  pivot  upon  which  success  depended.  They 
have  never  yet  received  due  credit  for  what  they  effected,  and  the  effect  has  never  as  yet  been  fairly  or  suffi- 
ciently chronicled,  nor  has  it  received  the  attention  it  deserves.  Neither  has  the  bravery  of  the  Continental 
Line  on  that  occasion  been  sufficiently  applauded  or  appreciated.  It  was,  and  may  be  called,  the  first  decisive 
battle  of  the  Revolution,  and  it  certainly  was  a  battle,  calling  Trenton  and  Princeton  one  battle,  of  which  a 
contrary  result — the  defeat  of  General  Washington— would  have  essentially  changed  the  fate  of  the  colonies, 


1  Hon.  John  Fitch,  of  the  New  Jersey  Society  of  Cincinnati,  died  in  the  city  of  New  York.  September  1.  1889,  in  the 
sixty-fifth  year  of  his  age. 
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162       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


and  their  subsequent  careers  would  have  been  entirely  varied  in  the  drama  of  the  world.  Historians  say  that, 
among  the  fifteen  decisive  battles  of  the  world,  Saratoga  was  included.     Now,  I  claim  that  Trenton  and 

Princeton  should  have  been  named  as  well  as  or  perhaps  instead  of  Sara- 
toga, because,  had  we  been  defeated  at  Trenton  and  Princeton,  the  col- 
^fSh^  onies  would  have  been  crushed ;  we  could  not  have  raised  an  army  with 

which  to  have  won  Saratoga,  and  there  would  have  been  no  United  States. 
If  Washington  had  been  defeated  at  Trenton,  Cornwallis  would  have  fol- 
lowed up  his  success,  received  large  re-enforcements  from  New  York,  and 
followed  Washington's  army  until  it  was  captured  or  scattered,  and  that 
.  ,  would  have  closed  the  scene.    Again,  the  Continentals  at  Monmouth  drove 

rtf**'  V"  \    \  England's  best  soldiers  from  the  battle-field,  forcing  them  to  seek  safety 

under  the  guns  of  the  British  fleet,  then  anchored  in  the  Lower  Bay. 
Our  victories  at  Saratoga  and  Monmouth  gave  us  the  aid  of  France  with 
an  army  and  a  fleet  of  more  than  thirty  sail,  by  the  aid  of  which  we 
captured  Cornwallis  with  his  army  and  the  fleet  at  Yorktown,  which  ended 
the  Revolution  and  established  our  independence.  Thus  it  was  that  the 
bravery  of  the  Continental  Line  gave  us  our  independence  and  enabled 
liberty  to  be  proclaimed  throughout  the  land.  Thus  to  the  battles  fought 
by  the  Continentals  on  New  Jersey's  blood-stained  soil  we  are  indebted 
for  what  we  are  to-day.  God  bless  France,  old  Neiu  Jersey,  and  the  Con- 
tinental Line !  This  is  not  all  we  have  to  thank  them  and  her  for.  But 
for  them  we  should  not  have  been  a  nation,  and  there  would  not  have 
been  a  government  like  ours,  "  of  the  people,  by  the  people,  and  for  the 
people  "  ;  and  the  mighty  West  would  have  been  a  howling  wilderness, 
probably  not  settled  beyond  the  Mississippi  River  at  this  time;  and  the 
religion  of  the  Saviour,  commencing  at  Jerusalem,  following  the  sun  in 
its  westerly  course  around  the  world,  would  not  as  yet  have  crossed  this 
continent  and  found  its  way,  as  it  has  nearly  done,  across  Asia  around 
to  Jerusalem,  thus  nearly  fulfilling  the  commands  of  the  Saviour  to  his 
disciples :  "  Go  ye  into  all  the  world  and  preach  the  gospel  to  every 
creature;  and,  lo,  I  am  with  you  alway,  even  unto  the  end  of  the  world." 
I  believe  it  was  the  will  of  God  and  his  design  to  spread  the  religion 
of  the  Saviour  by  way  of  Trenton,  Princeton,  and  Monmouth  across  this 
continent  to  Asia,  and  through  Asia  to  Jerusalem,  and  that  the  Con- 
tinental Line  for  that  purpose  took  the  place  of  his  disciples,  and  let 
us  all  say,  God  bless  Old  New  Jersey  and  the  Continental  Line! 

At  the  conclusion  of  Mr.  Fitch's  response,  the  chairman 
called  upon  the  Rev.  Dr.  Samuel  Moore  Shute  to  respond 
to  the  same  toast. 


Additional  response  to  the  Eighth  Toast  by  the 
Rev.  Samuel  Moore  Shute,  D.  I). 

Mr.  Chairman  and  Gentlemen  of  the  Cincinnati  :  I  presume 
that  I  but  put  into  words  the  one  common  sentiment  that  throbs  in 
your  souls  to-night  when  I  say  that  this  imposing  social  assemblage, 
and  the  interesting  exercises  connected  with  it,  are  a  most  fitting  pre- 
lude to  the  august  ceremonies  about  to  be  inaugurated  in  this  great 
metropolis  of  the  nation.  The  Man,  the  Society,  the  Constitution  !  What  more  stimulating  and  en- 
nobling themes  could  be  presented  for  the  consideration  of  an  assemblage,  the  members  of  which  are  the 


SABER  USED  BY 
GENERAL  JACOB  MORTON. 

Owned  by  Dr.  Henry  M.  Morton, 
Brooklyn,  New  York. 
(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  630.) 


THE  C INC  INN  A  TI  IN  THE  CELEBRA  TION 


sons  of  those  sires  of  the  heroic  age  of  the  Republic,  who  pledged  their  lives,  their  fortunes,  and  their 
sacred  honor,  that  they  would  unfalteringly  aid  the  Max  in  his  arduous  efforts  to  achieve  our  independ- 
ence ;  who,  having  nobly  redeemed  their  pledges  to  secure  it,  formed  the  Society,  whose  one  supreme  aim 
should  be  to  tenderly  care  for  the  widows  and  orphans  of  those  brother  officers  who  laid  down  their  lives 
on  the  bloody  field  of  strife,  and  also  to  cultivate  through  the  faithful  lives  of  their  sons,  during  all  the 
after  generations,  an  unwavering  loyalty  to  the  institutions,  the  foundations  of  which  they  themselves  had 
patiently  laid  in  the  expenditure  of  so  much  toil  and  blood;  and  who,  moreover,  aided  by  Divine  guid- 
ance, put  into  our  incomparable  written  Constitution  those  wise  provisions,  which,  by  their  careful  and 
conscientious  administration,  have  made  us  one  of  the  most  enlightened,  useful,  and  powerful  of  nations  ? 
A  theme  as  inspiring  as  ever  poet  wove  into  immortal  verse,  or  painter  ever  wrought  in  living  colors  on 
canvas.  The  Man,  by  world-wide  consent,  the  foremost  among  men  throughout  all  the  annals  of  human 
history  !  The  Society,  unique  in  its  origin,  unsurpassed  in  the  admirable  virtues  of  its  founders,  and  emi- 
nent for  the  honors  conferred  upon  it  in  lands  beyond  the  sea,  as  well  as  in  its  native  home !  A  Con- 
stitution so  strong  that  it  has  survived  the  Titanic  shocks  of  the  most  terrific  civil  war  that  ever  dev- 
astated the  fair  fields  of  earth,  and  so  elastic  that  it  adapts  itself  as  readily  to  a  domain  stretching  from  ocean 
to  ocean  as  it  did  to  the  original  narrow  Atlantic  strip  of  coast  with  its  thirteen  colonies,  and  as  completely 
meeting  the  multiplied  wants  of  sixty-three  millions  of  people  as  it  did  those  of  three  millions !  In  aiding 
the  Man,  in  organizing  the  Society,  in  elaborating  the  Constitution,  New  Jersey  contributed  her  share, 
and  with  a  heartiness,  a  persistency,  and  a  success  which  won  the  admiration  of  her  sister  colonies.  Upon  her 
soil  some  of  the  most  brilliant  military  movements  and  achievements  of  the  war  were  accomplished;  and 
Trenton,  Princeton,  and  Monmouth  have  not  only  made  the  soil  of  New  Jersey  sacred  to  her  sons,  but  have 
rendered  perpetually  illustrious  the  military  genius  of  the  great  leader  of  the  Revolution.  May  this  be,  pre- 
eminently, the  occasion  on  which  the  hallowed  memories  associated  with  the  great  deeds  of  our  fathers  shall 
be  strengthened  and  brightened ;  and  may  these  memories  be  the  means,  not  only  of  prompting  us,  their  sons, 
to  esteem  more  highly  the  priceless  civil  and  religious  privileges  which  they  secured  for  us,  but  also  of 
stimulating  us  to  imitate  the  virtues  which  have  made  their  names  and  deeds  immortal  in  the  enduring  records 
of  this  great  republic ! 


Ninth  Toast—"  The  Army  and  Navy  of  the  United  States." 

Responded  to  by  Brevet  Major-General  Alexander  Stewart  Webb,  LL.  D.,  late  United  States  Army, 

President  of  the  College  of  the  City  of  New  York. 

Mr.  Chairman  and  Brethren  :  It  is  probably  expected  that  in  answer  to  such  a  toast  it  will  devolve 
upon  me  to  speak  of  the  record  made  by  both  arms  of  the  service,  from  the  time  of  Paul  Jones  and  Wash- 
ington to  the  days  of  Farragut  and  Grant ;  to  express,  as  is  usual,  our  sympathy  for  those  who  ren- 
dered hard  service,  either  on  stormy  ocean  or  Western  desert,  and  to  pledge  our  firm  support  to  these 
two  arms,  which  are  to-day  more  than  ever  the  pride  of  the  whole  nation.  But  the  words  spoken  here 
already,  the  enthusiasm  shown  by  the  representatives  of  all  the  States  of  the  Union  present  here  to-night, 
whenever  the  reunion  of  the  States  has  been  alluded  to ;  the  truthful  but  extraordinary  recounting  of  the 
services  of  members  of  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati  in  drafting  the  Constitution  of  our  country  and  in 
securing  its  adoption  by  the  Legislatures  of  the  several  States,  have  all  tended  to  force  me  to  change 
entirely  the  historical  character  of  the  response  I  was  about  to  make,  and  to  call  your  attention  to  one 
view  of  the  services  of  the  army  and  navy  which  presents  itself  to  me  to-night.  As  we  look  upon  these 
two  arms  of  the  service,  originally  composed  of  representatives  of  all  the  States,  brought  up  at  two 
academies  under  the  direction  of  the  United  States  Government,  taught  to  love  and  respect  but  one  national 
flag — in  their  very  hearts  forced  to  believe  that  in  the  service  they  belonged  to  the  whole  nation  and  not 
to  particular  States — we  see  that  there  was  engendered  in  them  a  spirit  of  patriotism  which  I  believe  was 
never  obliterated  from  their  hearts.  Think  of  it  for  one  moment — what  gave  Grant  his  grand  spirit  of 
generosity  exhibited  at  Appomattox  Court-House  ?  What  made  the  officers  of  the  opposing  army  at 
once  accept  the  inevitable  consequences  of  their  defeat  ?    It  was  but  a  return  on   the  part  of  all  to  the 


i64       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 


THE  CINCINNATI  IN  THE  C E IE B RATION. 


■65 


teaching  they  had  received  when  young.  Anger  had  passed  away  in  a  great  measure;  respect  for  our 
adversaries  had  taken  the  place  of  bitter  hostility,  and  a  desire  to  see  once  more  the  whole  Union  restored 
was  predominant  in  the  hearts  of  the  officers  who  had  been  in  the  regular  army.  Seeing  their  leaders 
bearing  themselves  in  this  attitude  toward  one  another,  what  was  the  natural  effect  upon  the  men  of  the 
two  opposing  armies?  It  was  to  produce  in  the  heart  of  every  one  of  them  a  feeling  in  favor  of  recon- 
struction— to  follow  in  peace  the  example  of  the  very  men  who  had  been  their  leaders  in  war;  and  while 
the  world  looked  on  and  wondered,  through  the  active  energy  and  efforts  of  these  officers  of  the  army  and 
navy,  who  until  1861  had  served  together  as  brothers,  the  whole  Southern  section  made  strenuous  efforts 
to  prove  that  disunion  was  an  impossibility,  and  a  divided  country  a  blot  upon  the  face  of  the  earth. 
Now,  in  speaking  of  the  army  and  navy,  I  ask  you  hereafter  to  recall  that  they  contain  the  graduates  from 
the  two  public  institutions  selected  from  all  parts  of  the  Union  ;  that  each  and  every  officer  is  a  patriot 
through  habit  and  education  ;  that  the  more  intelligent  and  better  informed  from  both  sections  of  the  coun- 
try are  the  most  eager  to  prove  that  the  old  flag  never  was  other  than  dear  to  the  hearts  of  all ;  that  it 
will  ever  be  floating  over  a  united  country ;  and,  that  as  agents  for  the  preservation  of  the  Union  and 
Liberty,  no  two  bodies  of  men  stand  more  prominently  before  the  hearts  of  our  people,  or  are  more  capable 
of  loyalty  to  the  people,  to  the  Government,  and  to  the  flag  of  the  country. 

Tenth  Toast — "  The  Tammany  Society." 

Responded  to  by  Mr.  Charles  Beatty  Alexander. 

Mr.  Chairman  and  Brethren  :  The  unavoidable  and  unintended  absence  this  evening  of  one  of  our 
members,  General  John  Cochrane,  a  Sachem  of  Tammany,  is,  undoubtedly,  the  reason  why  you  have  placed 
on  me  the  duty  of  responding  to  this  toast.  In  1793,  when  this  toast  was  announced  at  the  annual  Fourth 
of  July  banquet  of  the  New  York  Society  of  the  Cincinnati,1  it  was  much  easier  adequately  to  reply  to  it 
than  now,  because  the  Tammany  Society  had  not  then  taken  on,  in  the  estimation  of  the  community,  that 
political  character  which  she  has  since  sustained.  Although  a  number  of  members  of  the  Society  of  the 
Cincinnati  were  among  the  founders  and  promoters,  in  1789,  of  the  Tammany  Society,  the  popular  impression 
has  generally  been  that  it  was  founded  in  opposition  to  our  Order  and  to  repress  its  supposed  aristocratic 
tendencies.  The  Society  of  the  Cincinnati  had  been  constituted  from  among  the  commissioned  officers — the 
gentlemen — of  the  Continental  Army  of  the  Revolution,  and  excluded  civilians  and  those  who  had  borne 
arms  against  the  American  cause.  The  Tammany  Society  was  less  exclusive,  and  membership  was  easily 
acquired  by  those  who  were  willing  to  promote  its  objects.  Under  the  astute  management  of  Colonel 
Aaron  Burr,  one  of  the  original  members  of  the  Cincinnati,  the  Tammany  Society  was  gradually  molded 
into  a  political  organization  of  great  effective  force  in  political  conflicts.  The  personal  and  political  rivalries 
between  General  Alexander  Hamilton,  of  the  New  York  Society  of  the  Cincinnati,  representative  of  the 
Federal  party,  to  which  Washington,  Adams,  and  the  great  majority  of  the  Continental  officers  belonged, 
and  Colonel  Burr,  the  acknowledged  leader  in  New  York  of  the  Republican,  or  Democratic,  party  of  those 
days — a  rivalry  only  terminated  on  the  greensward  of  Weehawken — probably  has  occasioned  the  idea  to 
which  I  have  referred,  that  one  of  the  objects  of  the  founding  of  the  Tammany  Society  was  to  oppose  our 
own  Order.  The  diligent  student  of  history,  however,  knows  that,  after  the  adoption  of  the  Constitution 
of  the  United  States,  the  political  work  of  the  Cincinnati  was  accomplished  before  the  Tammany  Society 
was  founded.  Political  discussions  have  no  place  in  our  meetings,  therefore  I  shall  not  sketch  the  career 
of  the  Tammany  Society  to  the  present  day,  because  its  history  is  one  of  politics  and  of  political  combina- 
tions. The  Tammany  Society  has  had  a  varied  and  checkered  career;  but  I  think  this  can  be  said  of  it. 
however,  that  at  no  time  in  its  history  has  it  ever  been  without  a  body  of  patriotic,  earnest,  and  honest 
men,  and  to-day  it  stands,  for  the  time  being,  as  the  chief  and  controlling  political  power  in  the  city  of 


1  As  early  as  the  22d  of  February,  1791,  on  the  occasion  of  the  celebration  of  Washington's  Birthday  by  the  New  York 
State  Society  of  the  Cincinnati  and  by  the  Tammany  Society,  mutual  congratulations  were  exchanged  between  the  two 
organizations. 


1 66       THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


New  York.  I  thank  you  most  cordially,  on  behalf  of  the  Tammany  Society,  for  proposing  this  time- 
honored  and  historic  toast,  and  express  to  you  its  cordial  welcome  to  the  city  of  New  York. 


Eleventh  Toast — "  The  President-General  and  the  Members  of  the  Cincinnati 

throughout  the  world." 

Responded  to  by  the  Hon.  William  Benning  Webb,  President  of  the  Commissioners  of  the  District  of 

Columbia. 

Mr.  Chairman  :  I  feel  highly  honored  by  being  assigned  the  duty  of  responding  to  the  sentiment  just 
announced,  but  at  the  same  time  I  must  apologize  for  my  inability  to  do  it  justice,  and  my  entire  want  of 
preparation  to  say  anything  fitting  a  theme  of  so  grave  importance.  What  I  say  will  be  the  utterance  of  my 
heart-felt  admiration  for  the  gentleman  who  has  so  long  and  so  acceptably  filled  the  office  of  President-General 
of  our  Society,  and  my  sincerity  must  make  amends  for  whatever  of  feebleness  may  be  exhibited  in  what  I 
attempt  to  say.  One  of  the  first  duties  I  was  called  on  to  perform  as  a  member  of  the  Maryland  State  Society 
of  the  Cincinnati  was  that  of  delegate  to  the  Triennial  Convention  that  met  at  Princeton  in  the  summer  of 
1884.  At  that  meeting  our  venerable  President  presided,  and  his  dignity,  gentleness,  and  unfailing  fairness 
won  the  admiration  of  all  who  attended  that  memorable  convention.  It  was  my  privilege  at  that  meet- 
ing to  cast  my  vote  for  the  re-election  of  the  Hon.  Hamilton  Fish  to  the  high  office,  the  duties  of  which 
he  had  performed  with  such  distinguished  ability.  None  of  us  who  were  present  on  that  occasion  can  forget 
the  fitting,  sad,  and  tender  speech  with  which  this  noble  gentleman  accepted  the  honor  conferred  upon  him. 

In  language  so  pathetic  that  every  man  of  us  felt  tears  of  sympathy  well- 
ing to  our  eyes,  he  spoke  of  his  advancing  years,  warning  him  as  they  did 
that  he  might  not  live  out  the  term  for  which  he  was  elected.  He  thanked 
us  for  the  honor  we  did  him  as  the  greatest  ever  conferred  upon  him,  because 
it  placed  him  in  the  seat  held  by  Washington,  Hamilton,  Pinckney,  Morgan 
Lewis,  and  others  equally  distinguished,  and,  with  something  of  a  protest 
against  his  continuance  in  the  office,  when  so  many  younger  men  might  have 
WASHINGTON  BREASTPIN.       been  chosen,  he  accepted.    Again,  in  1887,  I  was  honored  by  being  selected 

Owned  by  William  Baily  Faxon.  as  a  deiegate  t0  represent  the  Maryland  Society,  and  it  was  my  good  fortune 
New  York. 

n  t-  1,-u-.-  m  to  attend  the  convention  that  met  at  Newport  that  year.  Here  the  sad  an- 
(Loan  Exhibition,  349.)'  1  J 

nouncement  was  made  that  the  infirmities  of  accumulating  years  made  the 
presence  of  our  President-General  impossible ;  and,  with  the  announcement  that  he  could  no  longer  be  a 
candidate  for  the  presidency,  the  venerable  gentleman  urged  us  to  give  our  ballots  for  some  other  and 
younger  man.  There  was  but  one  sentiment,  however,  among  the  delegates  to  that  convention,  and  again 
I  had  the  honor  and  the  gratification  of  casting  my  ballot  for  that  noble  man  who  now  fills  the  place  of 
President-General  of  our  Society.  His  absence  from  our  banquet  to-night  warns  us  that  his  infirmities 
have  not  lessened ;  that  while  with  us  in  spirit  his  actions  are  hampered  by  the  weakness  of  age.  The 
State  of  Maryland  has  again  honored  me  with  her  choice,  and,  if  nothing  prevents,  I  hope  to  attend  the 
coming  triennial  convention  of  this  Society  at  Baltimore  in  1890.  It  is  the  sincerest  wish  of  my  heart  that 
again  I  may  be  enabled  to  cast  my  ballot  for  the  election  of  our  most  honorable  and  distinguished  President- 
General,  and  that  he  will  feel  himself  able  not  only  to  accept,  but  to  hold  and  fulfill  the  duties  of  that 
high  office  for  many  years  to  come.  The  office  is  a  lofty  one,  and  with  it  come  great  dignity  and  honor. 
Aside  from  its  associations,  aside  from  the  fact  that  such  men  as  Washington,  Hamilton,  Pinckney,  and  Lewis 
have  filled  it,  it  is  the  highest  place  in  an  association  constituted  to  keep  alive  in  our  country  those  ex- 
alted feelings  of  patriotism  and  that  devotion  to  the  principles  that  underlie  our  institutions,  so  character- 
istic of  the  great  men  who  gained  our  liberties  and  framed  our  Constitution.    Our  President-General  has 


1  Breastpin  with  hair  and  portrait  of  Washington  in  "Berlin  casting."  The  original  owner  was  A.  Collins  Lee,  of  Balti- 
more, who  belonged  to  a  Washington  club  of  twenty-five,  at  whose  solicitation  Washington  gave  some  of  his  hair,  which  was 
divided  among  the  members  and  placed  at  the  back  of  the  profile. 


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167 


held  high  positions  in  the  councils  of  our  country ;  he  has  been  the  representative  of  a  great  State  in  our 
country's  Senate,  and  has  sat  at  its  Cabinet  councils;  he  has  won  distinction  for  himself  and  has  done  faith- 
ful service  to  the  country,  but  nowhere  has  he  won  more  honor,  nowhere  has  he  more  fully  emphasized 
his  devotion  to  his  country  and  the  principles  of  its  government  than  in  the  position  he  now  holds  as  the 
President-General  of  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati.  In  everything  that  he  has  done  he  has  manifested  his 
devotion  to  the  cause  of  true  liberty  and  the  principles  embraced  within  the  institute  of  that  society,  and  I 
know  I  but  echo  the  feelings  of  all  who  hear  me  to-night  when  I  wish  for  this  venerable  man  a  long  continu- 
ance of  his  noble  and  honorable  career.  Mr.  Chairman,  ours  is  no  ordinary  association  united  in  the  cause  of 
simple  benevolence  or  charity.  We  date  back  to  the  earliest  days  of  our  history  as  a  people,  and  we  stand 
pledged  in  no  common  way  to  keep  the  faith  left  us  by  our  ancestors.  Those  glorious  heroes,  after  a  bloody 
conflict  of  eight  years,  fresh  from  vicissitudes,  trials,  dangers,  cares,  and  sorrows  that  tested  their  valor  and 
proved  their  patriotism,  having  won  the  freedom  of  the  colonies — united  themselves  in  the  association  to  "  per- 
petuate as  well  the  remembrance  of  that  vast  event,  as  the  mutual  friendships  which  were  formed  under  the 
pressure  of  common  dangers  and  in  many  instances  cemented  by  the  blood  of  the  parties."  This  is  the  great 
duty  set  us  to  do.  We  are  bound  by  the  same  faith  that  controlled  our  ancestors,  we  are  to  keep  alive  not 
only  the  love  of  our  country  and  its  institutions  inherited  from  our  fathers,  but  by  the  very  heritable  character 
of  our  membership  we  are  to  perpetuate  the  friendships  engendered  among  them  by  the  dangers  through 
which  they  braved  their  way  to  ultimate  victory.  Wherever  we  are,  in  whatever  land,  under  whatever  cir- 
cumstances placed,  we  meet  as  members  of  this  Society,  as  friends  bound  by  an  inherited  bond,  that  should 
strengthen  as  the  years  roll  by.  Time  can  never  efface,  nay,  it  can  never  dim  the  memory  of  the  glorious 
deeds  of  those  sires  of  whom  we  are  so  justly  proud ;  it  should  never  weaken,  if  we  are  true  men,  that  friend- 
ship for  their  comrades  bequeathed  to  us  so  solemnly  in  the  Preamble  of  our  Institute.  I  feel  proud  to-night 
as  I  look  around  me  at  the  representatives  of  the  Revolutionary  heroes  now  met  to  do  honor  to  this  grand 
centennial  of  our  country.  We  rejoice  together  as  no  people  ever  rejoiced  before  over  the  fruits  of  our  past, 
and,  while  we  shed  a  tear  over  the  sad  events  that  marked  the  early  dawn  of  our  liberties,  we  glory  in  the  glad 
splendor  of  our  country's  noonday.  Let  us  again  and  again  as  we  meet  together  renew  this  pledge  of  perpetual 
friendship,  and  let  it  be  the  proudest  record  we  can  leave  behind  us  to  those  who  are  to  inherit  our  member- 
ship that  we  have  ever  and  always  preserved  unbroken  the  pledge  of  friendliness  to  our  fellow-members.  And 
now,  as  we  pledge  ourselves  in  this  sentiment  to  which  I  have  attempted  to  respond,  let  us  remember  in  all 
kindness,  and  with  a  friendship  that  knows  no  selfish  taint,  the  members  of  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati,  where- 
ever  they  may  be. 

Twelfth  Toast — "  The  Original  Society  of  the  Cincinnati — the  Forlorn  Hope  in  estab- 
lishing the  Independence  of  the  United  States  of  America.  By  their  Example  may 
their  Successors  labor  to  preserve  and  perpetuate  the  Liberties  that  their  Patriot- 
ism ACQUIRED." 

Responded  to  by  Major  Grant  Weidman. 

Mr.  Chairman  and  Gentlemen  of  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati  :  The  toast  to  which  I  have 
been  called  upon  to  respond  is  most  worthy  of  being  remembered.  First  proposed  by  General  Burbeck,  an 
original  member  of  the  Society,  at  a  meeting  of  the  Massachusetts  Society  on  the  4th  of  July,  1848,  it  must  be 
peculiarly  gratifying  to  his  worthy  son  and  successor,  who  is  with  us  this  evening,  to  hear  it  recalled  on  this 
occasion,  and  its  sentiment  will  meet  with  a  hearty  response  from  every  member  of  the  Cincinnati.  As  citizens 
of  the  United  States  of  to-day,  it  is  perhaps  difficult  for  us  to  fully  understand  and  appreciate  the  situation 
of  the  original  members  of  this  Society  of  the  Cincinnati  at  the  time,  and  the  circumstances  under  which  the 
Society  was  instituted.  We  are  all  familiar  with  the  history  of  the  events  which  preceded  and  led  to  its  estab- 
lishment, and  it  is  unnecessary,  therefore,  to  recount  them  now.  Societies  have  been  instituted  and  orders 
established  to  commemorate  the  power  of  kings  and  princes,  and  the  deeds  done  in  wars  undertaken  for  con- 
quest and  like  motives ;  but  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati  was  instituted  for  a  nobler  and  better  purpose. 
Those  who  founded  our  Society  had  just  passed  through  a  long  and  bloody  war,  and  during  its  progress  had 


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suffered  hardships  and  privations  untold,  not  for  the  sake  of  glory  or  personal  advantage,  but  in  the  cause  of 
civil  and  religious  liberty,  in  defense  of  the  rights  of  the  people — the  liberty  of  the  citizen.    They  entered 

upon  the  contest  with  no  thought  of  conquest.  Pledging  their  lives,  their  fortunes, 
and  their  sacred  honors,  they  joined  together  in  the  great  struggle  which  estab- 
lished the  independence  of  the  United  States  of  America  from  love  of  their  country 
and  devotion  to  liberty.  Their  work  was  ended  ;  the  independence  of  their  coun- 
try had  been  secured;  the  result  which  moved  them  to  enter  upon  that  long  and 
bloody  struggle  which  had  just  ended  had  been  attained.  They  were  ready  to 
return  to  the  vocations  of  civil  life;  to  lay  down  their  arms,  and  resume  their 
places  among  the  citizens  of  the  republic  they  had  founded.  At  this  time  and 
under  these  circumstances  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati  was  instituted,  in  order 
that  the  principles  for  which  its  original  members  had  battled  might  be  ever  fresh 
in  memory,  and  that  patriotism  and  love  of  liberty  might  always  be  honored  among 
the  citizens  of  the  republic.  It  is  the  proud  boast  of  this  Society  that  it  was 
established,  not  to  celebrate  deeds  in  wars  for  glory  or  conquest,  not  to  do  honor 
to  kings  or  princes,  but  to  commemorate  the  triumph  of  civil  and  religious  liberty, 
of  freedom  and  independence,  of  the  rights  of  man.  When  we  recall  the  condition 
of  the  thirteen  colonies  after  the  struggle  for  independence  had  so  gloriously  closed, 
and  contemplate  the  greatness  and  power  of  the  United  States  of  to-day,  may  we 
not  feel  proud  that  we  have  descended  from  those  noble  patriots  who  were  the 
original  members  of  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati  ?  May  the  memory  of  their 
heroic  deeds  ever  be  fresh  in  our  minds;  may  their  example  ever  serve  to  nerve 
us  to  emulate  them  in  their  patriotic  devotion  to  liberty  and  the  rights  of  the 
people !  They  established  the  independence  of  the  United  States  of  America ; 
may  we  always  remember  that  it  is  our  duty  to  "  preserve  and  perpetuate  the 
liberties  that  their  patriotism  acquired  !  " 


Thirteenth  Toast—"  Perpetual  Peace  and  Happiness  to  the 
United  States  of  America." 


GOLD  HEADED  CANE 
belonging  to  John  Jay. 
Owned  by  his  grandson, 
Honorable  John  Jay, 
New  York. 
(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  571.) 


Responded  to  by  Mr.  David  Greene  Haskins,  Jr. 

Mr.  Chairman  and  Brothers  of  the  Cincinnati  :  We  are  all  looking 
backward  this  evening,  and  thinking  with  pride  and  gratitude  of  the  wonderful 
growth  and  success  of  our  beloved  country  in  its  first  century  of  Federal  union. 
1  wonder  if  any  one  of  us  has  tried  to  put  himself  in  the  place  of  Washington, 
and,  standing  in  imagination  where  he  stood  at  the  close  of  the  Revolution,  to  look, 
as  he  must  have  done,  into  the  unknown  future?  Of  course,  we  all  know  some- 
thing of  the  weak,  helpless,  and  disorganized  condition  of  our  infant  republic  be- 
fore the  adoption  of  the  Constitution,  but  I  think  it  is  very  difficult  for  us  to-day 
to  realize,  to  its  full  extent,  the  alarming  and  discouraging  situation  at  that  time. 
A  few  impoverished  States  on  the  Atlantic  coast,  hemmed  in  by  the  vast  territo- 
ries of  England,  France,  and  Spain;  bound  loosely  together  by  a  confederation  that 
was  every  day  losing  its  hold ;  a  Congress  powerless  to  compel  the  obedience  of 
the  States,  and  almost  without  influence  to  persuade  them  ;  a  treasury  so  low  that 
the  necessary  expenses  of  the  Government  could  only  be  met  by  drawing  on  our 
foreign  ministers ;  a  Government  too  feeble  to  protect  its  citizens,  even  from  the 
pirates  of  the  Barbary  states,  and  too  poor  to  buy  immunity  from  their  ravages; 
unable  to  check  the  alarming  disagreements  between  certain  States  that  threat- 
ened resort  to  physical  force;  helpless  at  home  and  without  influence  abroad— 
this  was  the  gloomy  picture  that  Washington  saw.    And,  standing  on  the  threshold 


JOHN  R,  LIVINGSTON,  (brother  of  Chancellor  Livingston  ! 
From  a  portrait  owned  bv  Miss  Eliza  H.  Livingston. 
Granddaughter.  Glenham.  N.  Y. 


JOHN  R  LIVINGSTON,  ibrother  of  Chancellor  Livingston  i 
From  a  crayon  miniature  owned  by  Miss  Eliza  H. 
Livingston.  Granddaughter.  Glenham,  N.  Y. 


ALEXANDER  HAMILTON. 

Artist,  James  Sh  a  rpless.  Owned  bv  the  Missbs  Ham- 
ilton. Granddaughters,  New  York. 


HENRY  KNOX. 


From  a  portrait  owned  by  Mrs.  Milton  A.  Fowi.kr. 

Great  GRANDDAUGHTER.  Poi'GHKEEPSIE.  \.  Y 


HENRY  KNOX 
Art  ist.  Edward  Savage.   Owned  bv  Boston  Museum 


Bishop  of  New  York  in  1789. 
From  a  portrait  owned  h v  the  Corpora  tion  ok  Trinity 
Church,  and  deposited  in  Trinity  Chapel.  New  York. 


EDMUND  RANDOLPH 
From  a  lopv  ok  the  original  portrait  owned  bv  Mrs. 
Charles  P  Moncurb.  Granddaughter,  Orange  Court 
H'u  -E,  Orange  Co..  Va. 


RICHARD  VARICK. 
Artist,  Henry  Inman.  Owned  bv  John  B.  Varick.  Grand 
Nephew.  Manchester.  N  H. 


PORTRAITS  OF  SECRETARY  OF  THE  TREASURY,  ALEXANDER  HAMILTON;  OF  SECRETARY  OF  WAR,  HENRY  KNOX  ; 
OF  ATTORNEY  GENERAL.  EDMUND  RANDOLPH  ;  OF  JOHN  R.  LIVINGSTON,  AN  "  ASSISTANT"  AT  WASH- 
INGTON'S INAUGURATION  ;  OF  RICHARD  VARICK.  RECORDER  OF  NEW  YORK 
AND  BISHOP  PROVOOST,  CHAPLAIN  OF  CONGRESS  IN  1789. 


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169 


of  our  national  life,  he  may  well  have  asked  himself  whether  the  Revolution  had  not,  after  all,  been  a  fail- 
ure; and  the  hope  with  which  he  gazed  into  the  future  must  have  been  mingled  with  grave  doubt  and  ap- 
prehension. It  is  pleasant  to  think  how  his  noble  soul  would  thrill  with  gratitude  and  joy  if  he  could  stand 
to-night  in  this  gathering  of  his  beloved  society,  and  view  with  us  the  wonders  of  the  present,  far  beyond 
his  most  sanguine  dreams.  And  now,  to-night,  we,  on  our  part,  may  well  cast  our  eyes  forward,  and  try  to 
forecast  the  future,  and  to  peer  into  the  obscurity  that  envelops  the  second  century.  And  I  believe  we  may  do 
so  with  firm  hope,  trusting  to  the  continued  protection  and  guidance  of  that  Divine  Providence  which  has  so 
signally  blessed  us  in  the  past.  Of  course,  our  age  has  its  own  peculiar  faults  and  dangers;  there  is  much  in 
public  and  in  private  life  to  censure,  and  we  sometimes  look  back  with  longing  to  the  "good  old  times."  But, 
after  all,  I  believe  we  idealize  the  past,  and  there  really  never  were  any  good  old  times.  The  world  is  growing 
better,  manners  and  morals  are  improving,  the  old  patriotic  flame  burns  as  brightly  as  ever,  and  the  heroes  of 
Bunker  Hill  and  Valley  Forge  were  not  a  whit  superior  in  courage  or  devotion  to  the  men  of  the  civil  war. 
We  have  abuses  enough  to  overthrow,  reforms  to  accomplish,  dangers  and  evil  tendencies  to  contend  against ; 
but,  in  spite  of  them  all,  the  second  century  opens  far  more  hopefully  than  did  the  first,  and  the  imagination  is 
baffled  and  bewildered  in  trying  to  picture  its  possible  magnificent  developments.  And  we  may  also  hope  for 
a  long  and  prosperous  life  for  our  honored  society.  That,  too,  has  had  its  day  of  discouragement,  when,  in 
some  few  quarters,  interest  flagged  and  State  Societies  were  dissolved  or  died  out,  from  the  dispersion  of  their 
members  to  remote  localities.  But  to-day  the  Society  is  cherished  and  honored,  and  is  steadily  growing  in 
strength ;  only  we  must  be  careful  to  guard  the  "  Institution  "  as  its  founders  created  it,  keeping  as  near,  as 
the  changed  conditions  will  admit,  to  the  spirit  and  purpose  that  animated  them;  and  we  must,  above  all  else 
and  under  all  circumstances,  cherish  that  spirit  of  brotherly  love,  the  perpetuity  of  which  was  the  main  object 
of  the  Society,  and  without  which  we  can  not  desire  it  to  endure.  And  so,  inspired  by  the  memories  that  this 
season  brings,  may  we,  Cincinnati,  set  our  faces  to  the  future,  and,  as  we  repeat  the  pious  wish  of  the  immortal 
Washington,  may  we,  each  in  his  sphere,  however  humble,  labor  as  we  can  to  promote  the  "  peace  and  happi- 
ness of  the  United  States  of  America." 


The  Commemorative  Services  of  the  Cincinnati  were  held  in  St.  Paul's  Chapel,1  on 
Broadway,  in  the  city  of  New  York,  on  Sunday  morning,  April  28,  1889,  the  use  of  the  chapel 
for  this  purpose  having  been  granted  by  the  Rev.  Morgan  Dix,  D.  D.,  D.  C.  L.,  Rector,  and  the 
Wardens  and  Vestry  of  Trinity  Parish. 

The  form  of  service  used  was  specially  authorized  for  the  occasion  by  the  Diocesan,  the 
Right  Rev.  Henry  Codman  Potter,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  Bishop  of  New  York  ;  and  was  substantially 


1  The  Cincinnati  frequently  held  commemorative  services  in  St.  Paul's  Chapel  in  the  last  century,  notably  on  July  4,  1788, 
when  the  New  York  Society  proceeded  thither  under  escort  of  a  brigade  of  militia  to  hear  their  annual  oration  by  the  Hon. 
William  Duer. 

In  the  following  year,  4th  July,  1789,  under  escort  of  a  regiment  of  State  artillery,  the  New  York  Society  again  went  to  St. 
Paul's  Chapel,  where  were  assembled,  by  their  invitation,  the  Vice-President  and  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  of  the 
United  States,  to  hear  Brevet  Colonel  Alexander  Hamilton's  masterly  oration  on  the  life  and  services  of  Major-General  Nathanael 
Greene.  President-General  Washington  could  not  be  present,  on  account  of  sickness,  but  his  family  were  there.  However,  on 
the  5th  July,  1790,  when  the  New  York  Society  of  Cincinnati  proceeded  to  St.  Paul's  Chapel,  under  escort  of  the  same  regiment 
of  State  artillery,  to  listen  to  their  annual  oration  by  Lieutenant-Colonel  Henry  Brockholst  Livingston,  one  of  their  own  members, 
President-General  Washington  also  attended,  and  Vice-President  John  Adams  and  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  of 
the  United  States,  and  many  strangers  of  distinction,  were  present  by  invitation. 

These  are  a  few  instances  among  a  number  which  give  St.  Paul's  Chapel  a  peculiar  place  in  the  regard  of  the  Order  of  the 
Cincinnati. 

A  number  of  the  original  members  are  buried  in  its  churchyard,  and,  altogether,  its  connection  with  the  Cincinnati  has  been 

such  as  almost  to  make  it  the  chapel  of  the  Order. 
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THE  GEXTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


that  used  by  the  Right  Rev.  Samuel  Provoost,  D.  D,  Bishop  of  New  York,  in  St.  Paul's 
Chapel,  for  the  service  attended  by  President-General  Washington,  on  his  inauguration  as 
President  of  the  United  States,  April  30,  1789. 

The  chapel  was  appropriately  and  beautifully  decorated  for  the  occasion,  under  the  super- 
intendence of  Colonel  Richard  T.  Auchmuty,  of  the  Vestry.    On  either  side  of  the  chancel 
was  placed  a  stand  of  national  colors,  whose  folds,  on  their  pikes,  reached  to  the  floor.  They 
framed  an  effective  display  of  flowers,  which  banked  the  altar  and  extended  as  high  as  the 
chancel  window.    In  the  center  were  two  clusters  of  American  Beauty  roses  in  full  bloom. 
Rising  from  them,  on  either  side,  were  masses  of  white  flowers,  consisting  of  hydrangeas,  roses, 
tuft,  lilies-of-the-valley,  and  hyacinths.    Then  came  ferns,  tall  standing  plants,  and  palms,  which 
filled  the  space  to  the  flags  at  the  sides.    A  national  flag  was  draped  at  the  top  of  each  col- 
umn supporting  the  gallery,  the  drapery  being  held  in 
place,  in  each  instance,  by  a  small  gilt  eagle.  From 
the  center  of  the  choir  gallery,  two  silken  colors — the 
American  flag  of  the   Revolution,  with  thirteen  stars 
on  the  blue  field,  and  the  royal  standard  of  France  in 
1 778-1 783  (the  white  flag  with  the  fleur-de-lis) — were 
displayed,  their  crossed  pikes  being  held  in  place  by  a 
gilt  eagle.     Each  of  the  windows  was  decorated  with 
palms  and  flowers,  and  each  chandelier  was  trimmed 
with    smilax  and  flowers.     Entrance  to  the  chapel  was 
by  the  west  doors,  facing  Church  Street.     Over  this  en- 
trance hung  two  national  flags,  the  staffs  of  which  were 
attached  to  the  spire  at  the  places  where  they  were  at- 
tached on  Inauguration-day  a  hundred  years  before.  The 
porch  at  this  entrance  was  shielded  by  striped  canvas  walls,  within  which  were  set  palms 
and  climbing  vines,  forming  a  framework  of  bright  green.    The  choir  consisted  of  a  double 
quartet  and  a  well-drilled  chorus. 

By  invitation  of  the  Executive  Committee,  a  large  delegation  of  the  Society  of  the  "  Sons 
of  the  Revolution,"  with  their  president,  the  Hon.  Frederick  Samuel  Tallmadge,  and  a  large 
representation  of  the  "  New  York  Commandery  of  the  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion  of 
the  United  States,"  including  many  distinguished  officers  of  the  regular  army  and  navy  and 
late  United  States  volunteer  service,  attended,  and  were  given  reserved  seats.  The  front  pews 
in  the  middle  aisle  were  reserved  for  the  Cincinnati. 

The  gentlemen  who  acted  as  ushers  in  seating  the  large  and  highly  appreciative  congrega- 
l  ion,  which  filled  the  chapel  to  its  utmost  capacity,  were  Messrs.  George  Norman  Gardiner, 
Latham  G.  Reed,  George  Gardiner  Fry,  Henry  Russell  Drownc,  Henry  Marion  Ward,  Cler- 
mont L.  Clarkson,  D.  Augustus  Clarkson,  Robert  T.  Varnum,  and  Nathanael  Greene,  Jr., 
each  of  whom  were  descendants  of  Continental  officers  of  the  Revolution. 


GOLD  SNUFF-BOX, 
elaborately  chased,  with  agate  top, 
and  bearing  the  Custis  crest  on  the  bottom, 
belonging  to  Martha  Washington, 
given  to  her  granddaughter  Eliza  Parke  Custis, 
vhose  grandson  Edmund  Law  Rogers,  Baltimore, 
is  the  present  owner. 
(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  454.) 


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The  Cincinnati  assembled  in  the  Parish  House  in  Church  Street,  corner  of  Vesey  Street, 
wearing  the  eagles  of  their  order,  and,  at  10.30  a.  m.,  formed  two  by  two,  and  preceded  1  by  the 
Secretary- General,  Presidents  of  State  Societies,  and  Assistant  Treasurer-General,  in  regular 
order  of  precedence  as  stated,  marched  in  a  body  through  the  churchyard  to  their  seats  in  the 
chapel.  The  choir  then  sang  hymn  309,  "  God  bless  our  Native  Land,"  as  a  processional, 
during  which  the  officiating  clergy  appeared  at  the  main  entrance  and  proceeded  to  their 
places  in  the  chancel. 

The  services  were  conducted  by  the  Right  Rev.  William  Stevens  Perry,  D.  D.  (Oxoji.), 
LL.  D.,  D.  C.  L.,  Bishop  of  Iowa  (who  preached  the  sermon),  and  by  the  Rev.  Charles  Cotes- 
worth  Pinckney,  D.  D.,  Chaplains-General  of  the  Order  of  the  Cincinnati,  assisted  by  the 
Rev.  James  Mulchahey,  D.  D.,  minister  in  charge  of  St.  Paul's  Chapel,  and  his  assistants,  the 
Rev.  William  Augustus  Holbrook  and  the  Rev.  William  Montague  Geer.  Rev.  Dr.  Pinck- 
ney acted  as  Gospeler ;  the  Rev.  Dr.  Mulchahey,  as  Epistler ;  and  the  Rev.  Mr.  Holbrook, 
lesson.    The  Te  Dcum  Laudamus  was  R.  P.  Stewart's,  in  E  flat,  for  double  chorus. 

At  the  Introit,  the  choir  sang  the  three  closing  numbers  of  Handel's  oratorio  of  "  Belshaz- 
zar":  "Tell  it  out  among  the  Nations;"  "Yes,  I  will  Build  Thy  City;"  "I  will  Magnify 
Thee,  O  God,  my  King."  For  the  offertory,  Sir  John  Stainer's  duet,  for  soprano  and  tenor, 
"  Love  Divine,  all  Love  Excelling,"  was  sung. 

THE  SERMON". 

The  following  is  the  sermon  delivered  during  this  service  by  the  Right  Rev.  William 
Stevens  Perry. 

"  My  strength  will  I  ascribe  unto  thee  ;  for  thou  art  the  God  of  my  refuge." 

— Ps.  lix,  9  (Prayer-Book  version). 

From  the  Psalms  of  David — the  liturgy  of  the  Holy  Ghost — the  praise-service  of  the  people,  and  the  lan- 
guage of  individual  thanksgiving,  for  the  Church  of  old,  and  the  Church  of  to-day  as  well,  we  take  the  text 
with  which  we  would  consecrate  our  theme :  "  My  strength  will  I  ascribe  unto  thee ;  for  thou  art  the  God  of 
my  refuge."  The  Christian  recognizes  the  hand  of  God  guiding,  controlling,  supporting  him  in  all  his  ways. 
The  Christian  patriot  ascribes  his  country's  strength,  its  support  in  adversity,  its  deliverance  from  troubles,  its 
triumph  over  its  foes,  unto  the  God  of  nations,  who  is  the  refuge  of  those  who  trust  in  him. 

Strikingly  was  this  the  feeling  of  our  fathers  at  the  period  of  our  history  we  recall  to-day.  The  appeal  to 
arms,  out  of  which  our  independence  was  won,  our  nationality  secured,  was  an  appeal  to  Heaven  for  the  defense 
and  triumph  of  the  right.  Those  who  directed  our  councils,  those  who  fought  our  battles  in  the  war  for  inde- 
pendence, reverently  ascribed  their  strength  unto  God,  and  looked  to  him  as  their  refuge.  The  deep  religious 
enthusiasm  of  the  Puritans  of  New  England  and  the  churchmen  of  the  Middle  and  Southern  States  can  not  be 
overlooked  or  ignored  in  any  recital  of  the  story  of  our  struggle  for  freedom.  The  patriot  priest  of  the  valley 
of  the  Shenandoah,  who,  at  the  close  of  a  fervid  appeal  to  his  people  to  resist  oppression  even  unto  blood, 
threw  off  his  surplice  and  stood  forth  before  his  parishioners  in  the  garb  of  a  soldier,  ready  to  lead  them  to  the 


1  The  President-General  was  unable,  for  reasons  before  stated,  to  attend.  The  Vice-President-General  was  abroad  as 
Envoy  Extraordinary  and  Minister  Plenipotentiary  of  the  United  States  at  Paris. 


i;2      THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


field,  was  but  a  single  example  of  a  wide-spread  feeling  animating  clergy  and  people  alike  in  entering  upon  a 
strife  in  which  God  alone  could  give  to  them,  in  their  weakness,  the  victory.  Prayer  consecrated  every  step  of 
our  forefathers  in  their  efforts  for  freedom.  The  pulpit  uttered  no  uncertain  sound  in  its  emphatic  teaching 
that  resistance  to  tyrants  was  obedience  to  God.  The  priest  went  with  his  people  to  the  field  of  battle,  and 
priest  and  people  reverently  ascribed  their  strength  to  the  God  of  their  refuge. 

The  words  and  example  of  these  patriot  priests  and  preachers  produced  a  profound  impression  on  the 
minds  of  those  who  listened  to  the  one,  or  felt  the  force  of  the  other.  Arousing,  as  they  did,  a  quiet  but  sus- 
tained determination,  giving  to  the  strife  the  consecration  of  a  holy  war,  there  was  needed  only  a  new  Joshua 
to  lead  forth  the  Israel  of  God  out  of  bondage,  into  the  glorious  liberty  of  freemen  in  the  sight  of  God  and 
men.  This  leader,  chosen  of  God  for  this  very  purpose,  and  mysteriously  trained  for  the  work  assigned  him  of 
Heaven  to  do,  was  given.  Those  who,  in  their  conscious  weakness,  ascribed  their  strength  unto  God  and  recog- 
nized him  as  their  refuge,  were  not  disappointed  in  their  deep  religious  reliance.  One  was  raised  up  to  be  a 
leader  of  the  people,  and  the  trust  in  God  which  inspired  them  was  the  animating  principle  of  his  life — the 
crowning  glory  of  his  career. 

It  was  a  Heaven-decreed  requirement  of  the  Hebrew  law  that  the  husbandman,  when  gathering  the  harvest- 
ings of  his  field,  should  leave  here  and  there  sheaves  of  the  rich,  ripe  grain  to  those  who  should  follow  in  his 
path — those  less  favored  by  Providence,  less  supplied  with  Nature's  gifts.  It  is  as  a  gleaner  that  I  venture  to- 
day to  follow  in  the  track  of  so  many  older,  wiser,  and  more  eloquent  panegyrists  of  our  Washington's  charac- 
ter, and  to  bind  a  few  golden  grains  dropped  from  their  richer  handfuls,  and  lay  them  as  a  votive  tribute  on 
the  altar  sacred  to  his  memory.  Though  conscious  of  my  inability  to  do  justice  to  the  occasion  or  the  theme 
now  thrilling  all  patriotic  souls  with  memories  of  the  past  and  good  auguries  for  the  future  of  our  loved  native 
land,  I  can  not  but  feel  the  appropriateness  and  the  beauty  of  this  gathering  and  this  commemoration  to-day. 
Fitting  is  it,  for  it  becomes  us  to  remember  the  Founder  of  our  Order,  the  Father  of  his  Country.  We  are  sons 
of  the  sires — we  fill  the  places,  bear  the  names,  wear  the  coveted  distinction  of  those  who  gathered  as  more  than 
friends  about  the  hero  of  our  war  for  independence,  who  were  his  companions  in  danger,  and  who  were  his 
loyal  supporters  in  the  peace  following  successful  war.  Rightly  does  it  fall  to  us,  members  of  the  Order 
of  the  Cincinnati,  to  give  to  this  great  national  celebration  its  key-note,  anticipating  all  the  land  in  the  grate- 
ful recognition  of  the  God-given  example  of  him  who  was  first  in  war,  first  in  peace,  and  who  shall  ever  be  first 
in  the  hearts  of  his  countrymen. 

Fitting,  indeed,  it  is  that,  at  the  expiration  of  a  hundred  years,  we  should  pause  on  the  threshold  of  a  new 
period  of  national  existence  to  inquire  whence  came  our  fathers'  strength,  and  to  thank  the  God  who  was  their 
refuge,  and  who  blessed  them  with  unlooked-for  success. 

There  is  a  beauty  in  this  act  of  ours.  We  turn  aside  from  our  accustomed  acts  of  prayer  and  praise,  to 
renew,  in  this  consecrated  spot  where  our  honorable  Order  was  wont  of  old  to  meet  for  solemn  services  of 
praise  and  prayer,  our  allegiance  to  principles  for  which  our  fathers  shed  their  blood,  and  to  offer  thanksgiv- 
ings to  our  God,  through  whom  the  principles  of  our  Order  have  been  maintained  and  established  for  a  hun- 
dred years.  In  our  grateful  recognition  of  the  greatness  of  our  Washington,  we  gladly  recall  the  fact  that  it 
was  his  trust  in  God  that  made  him  what  he  was — "of  all  great  men,  the  most  virtuous  and  the  most  fortu- 
nate."1 Not  merely  as  a  soldier,  not  alone  as  a  patriot,  not  simply  because  a  hero,  but  as  a  Christian,  fearing 
God  and  keeping  his  commandments,  we  accord  to  "  this  imperial  man  " — "  this  unblemished  gentleman,"  our 
grateful  remembrance  to-day. 

At  such  a  time  as  this,  and  on  this  sacred  day,  we  may  well  consider  the  evidence  afforded  in  the  life  and 
deeds  and  words  of  Washington  to  his  personal  trust  in  God ;  his  walking  in  God's  ways,  and  his  keeping  of 
God's  commandments.  Born  at  a  time  when,  in  his  home  and  family,  the  greatest  reverence  was  shown  to  the 
forms  and  usages  of  religion,  the  record  of  his  baptism  is  still  extant,  and  there  is  no  reason  to  doubt  that  he 
who,  at  the  font  in  the  old  Pope's  Creek  Church,  was  made  "  a  member  of  Christ,  the  child  of  God,  and  an 
inheritor  of  the  kingdom  of  heaven,"  was,  by  the  pious  care  and  teachings  of  parents  and  god-parents, 
instructed  not  alone  in  "  the  Creed,  the  Lord's  Prayer,  and  the  Ten  Commandments,"  but  in  those  "  other  parts 


5  Guizot. 


CHARLES  THOMSON. 


JOHN  JAY. 


GENERAL  BARON  de  STEUBEN. 


From  Engravings  made  in  1783  by  B.  Reading  after  life  drawings  by  Pierre 
Eugene  du  Simitieke.    Owned  by  Gen.  James  Grant  Wilson,  New  York. 


ELIZABETH  GRAY  OTIS. 
Wife  of  Samuel  Alleyne  Otis  and  Mother  of  Harrison  Gray  Otis. 
Artist.  J.  S.  Copley.   Owned  by  Harrison  Gray  Otis,  Great  Great  Grandson, 
and  deposited  with  the  "  Bostonian  Society,"  Old  State  House,  Boston. 


MRS.  LIVINGSTON  of  Clermont,  (born  Margaret  Beekman). 
Mother  of  Chancellor  Livingston. 

Artist,  Gilbert  Stuart.  Owned  by  Carleton  Hunt,  Great  Grand- 
nephew,  and  the  Misses  Hunt,  Great  Grandnieces,  Barrytown-on- 
Hudson,  N.  Y. 


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of  the  Church's  Catechism  "  which  a  child  "  ought  to  know  and  believe  to  his  soul's  health."  It  was  at  a  time 
when  the  training  and  disciplining  of  the  home  took  the  place  of  the  public  school  or  the  academy  of  a  later 
day;  and  so,  up  to  his  twelfth  year,  the  young  Washington  had  the  loving  care  and  oversight  of  his  parents. 
On  the  death  of  his  excellent  father,  this  care  devolved  upon  his  mother  and  his  uncle  ;  and,  in  addition  to  this 
home  training  and  the  instruction  received  in  the  old  field  school,  kept  by  the  sexton  of  the  parish  church, 
it  is  probable  that  he  attended  the  ministrations  of  the  Rev.  Archibald  Campbell,  the  uncle  of  the  poet,  and 
was,  possibly,  a  pupil  at  his  school  in  Washington  Parish,  Westmoreland  County.  While  with  his  mother  at 
Fredericksburg,  there  can  be  no  question  of  his  attendance  upon  the  services  of  her  faithful  parish  priest,  the 
Rev.  James  Mayre,  whose  Huguenot  blood  and  personal  consecration  made  him  one  of  the  most  devoted  of 
the  clergy  of  the  day.  While  at  school  the  young  Virginian  was  noticeable  for  his  abhorrence  of  the  practice 
of  fighting  among  the  boys,  and  was  wont,  by  personal  influence,  or  by  more  direct  interference,  to  prevent 
indulgence  in  this  brutal  pastime.  At  the  age  of  thirteen  he  drew  up,  from  works  he  had  read,  a  number  of 
resolutions  for  the  conduct  of  his  life.  We  find  among  these  aphorisms  the  following :  "  When  you  speak  of 
God  or  his  attributes,  let  it  be  seriously  in  reverence  " ;  "  Labor  to  keep  alive  in  your  breast  that  little  spark  of 
celestial  fire  called  conscience  " ;  "  Honor  and  obey  your  parents,  whatever  may  be  their  condition."  Two 
years  later  his  filial  piety  was  shown  in  his  relinquishment,  at  his  mother's  desire,  of  his  purpose  of  entering  the 
British  Navy,  in  strict  fulfillment  of  this  latter  resolution,  based  on  "  the  commandment  with  promise." 

Besides  the  Bible,  with  which  he  was  singularly  familiar,  and  the  Bible's  best  interpreter,  the  Book  of 
Common  Prayer,  Washington  had  listened  at  his  mother's  knee,  if  we  may  credit  tradition,  to  the  reading  of 
such  suggestive  works  as  Discourses  on  the  Common  Prayer  and  Sir  Matthew  Hale's  Contemplations,  Moral 
and  Divine.  The  latter  work,  well  styled  by  Washington  Irving  "a  precious  volume,"  is  still  preserved  at 
Mount  Vernon,  and  the  same  authority  assures  us  that  "  its  admirable  maxims  sank  deep  in  the  mind  of 
Washington,  and  were  exemplified  in  his  conduct  through  life." 

The  youth  thus  trained  proved  worthy  of  his  teachers  and  true  to.  the  lessons  of  religion  and  morality 
they  taught.  We  are  not  surprised  to  find  him,  in  his  early  manhood,  when  at  the  head  of  an  expedition 
against  the  French  and  savages,  counseled  by  his  "  paternal  adviser,"  Mr.  William  Fairfax,  of  Belvoir,  in 
these  words:  "I  will  not  doubt  your  having  public  prayer  in  the  camp,  especially  when  the  Indian  families 
are  your  guests,  that  they,  seeing  your  plain  manner  of  worship,  may  have  their  curiosity  to  be  informed 
why  we  do  not  use  the  ceremonies  of  the  French ;  which,  being  well  explained  to  their  understandings, 
will  more  and  more  dispose  them  to  receive  our  baptism  and  unite  in  strict  bonds  of  cordial  friendship." 
This  was  in  the  camp  at  Fort  Necessity,  at  the  Great  Meadows,  in  the  Alleghany  Mountains,  and  it  was 
certainly,  as  Irving  well  describes  it,  "not  one  of  the  least  striking  pictures  presented  in  this  wild  cam- 
paign— the  youthful  commander,  presiding  with  calm  seriousness  over  a  motley  assemblage  of  half-equipped 
soldiery,  leathern-clad  hunters  and  woodsmen,  and  painted  savages  with  their  wives  and  children,  and 
uniting  them  all  in  solemn  devotion  by  his  own  example  and  demeanor."  1 

For  several  consecutive  years,  Washington  was  engaged  in  this  border  warfare,  and  during  this  period, 
according  to  the  testimony  of  one  of  his  aides,  he  was  accustomed  to  read  prayers  on  Sunday  to  his  troops, 
thus  supplying  the  place  of  a  chaplain.  On  the  recall  of  Governor  Dinwiddie,  Washington  addressed  the 
President  of  the  Council  in  these  words :  "  The  Assembly,  in  their  Supply  Bill,  provided  for  a  chaplain  to 
our  regiment.  On  this  subject  I  had  often,  without  any  success,  applied  to  Governor  Dinwiddie.  I  now 
flatter  myself  that  your  Honor  will  be  pleased  to  appoint  a  sober,  serious  man  for  this  duty.  Common 
decency,  sir,  in  a  camp,  calls  for  the  services  of  a  divine,  which  ought  not  to  be  dispensed  with,  although 
the  world  may  think  us  void  of  religion  and  incapable  of  good  instruction."  We  are  all  familiar  with  the 
fact  of  his  reading  by  the  light  of  a  torch  at  night  the  Office  for  the  Burial  of  the  Dead  over  the  body 
of  General  Braddock,  after  the  disastrous  defeat  at  Monongahela ;  and  we  can  not  for  a  moment  doubt 
the  personal  trust  in  God  of  the  man  who  in  writing  familiarly  of  this  battle  to  his  brother  could  say  : 
"  By  the  all-powerful  dispensations  of  Providence,  I  have  been  protected  beyond  all  probability  or  expecta- 
tion ;  for  I  had  four  bullets  through  my  coat  and  two  horses  shot  under  me,  and  yet  escaped  unhurt." 


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174       THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


In  1759  Washington  married,  and,  in  the  same  year,  took  his  seat  in  the  House  of  Burgesses.  He 
became,  at  the  outset  of  his  domestic  life,  interested  in  the  promotion  of  the  interests  of  the  Church ;  and 
the  old  vestry-book  of  Truro  Parish  affords  abundant  proof  of  his  personal  share  in  the  erection  of  those 
historic  shrines  known  as  Payne's  and  Pohick  Churches.  We  find  the  young  vestryman  and  churchwarden 
occupied  in  sending  a  friend  and  neighbor  to  England  for  holy  orders,  in  procuring  a  glebe,  and  in  fitting 
up  a  home  for  the  newly-chosen  pastor  and  priest.  It  is  in  keeping  with  his  interest  in  the  work  of  his 
parish  that  we  learn  of  his  gifts  for  the  adornment  of  the  church,  the  site  of  which  he  himself  had  chosen  ; 
and  of  his  importation  from  England  of  pulpit  cushions  and  altar  cloths  of  crimson  velvet  with  gold 
fringe,  and  folio  prayer-books,  bound  sumptuously  in  morocco,  and  lettered  in  gilt  with  the  parish  name. 

While  thus  occupied  in  promoting  the  temporal  interests  of  the  Church,  it  is  the  testimony  of  his  rector, 
the  Rev.  Lee  Massey,  that  he  was  equally  attentive  to  his  spiritual  duties.  "  I  never  knew,"  writes  the 
Rev.  Mr.  Massey,  "so  constant  an  attendant  on  church  as  Washington.  His  behavior  in  the  house  of  God 
was  ever  so  reverential  that  it  produced  the  happiest  effect  on  my  congregation,  and  greatly  assisted  me 
in  my  pulpit  labors.  No  company  ever  kept  him  from  church."  Abundant  testimony  is  given  that  he 
was  a  frequent  and  devout  recipient  of  the  holy  communion  of  the  body  and  blood  of  Christ. 

In  1774  the  House  of  Burgesses  appointed  a  day  of  fasting  and  prayer,  in  view  of  the  state  of  the 
country,  and  the  private  diary  of  Washington  contained  this  entry:  "June  1,  Wednesday.  Went  to  church, 
and  fasted  all  day."  In  September  of  this  eventful  year,  Washington  was  in  Philadelphia  in  attendance 
upon  the  Continental  Congress,  to  which  he  was  delegate.  His  diary  records  his  regular  attendance  at  church; 
and  tradition  tells  us  that  at  the  calling  in  of  the  celebrated  Rev.  Jacob  Duche,  the  Rector  of  Christ  Church 
and  St.  Peter's,  to  read  prayers  before  this  Congress,  at  perhaps  the  most  critical  moment  of  its  delibera- 
tions, Washington  alone  of  the  delegates  knelt  when  the  church's  familiar  words  of  supplication  were  used. 

On  the  very  day  after  taking  command  of  the  Continental  Army,  in  1775,  the  following  order  was 
issued:  "The  General  requires  and  expects  of  all  officers  and  soldiers  not  engaged  in  actual  duty  a 
punctual  attendance  on  divine  service,  to  implore  the  blessings  of  Heaven  upon  the  means  used  for  our 
safety  and  defense."  On  the  15th  of  May,  1776,  Congress  having  appointed  a  day  of  humiliation  and 
prayer,  the  following  order  was  given:  "The  General  commands  all  officers  and  soldiers  to  pay  strict 
obedience  to  the  order  of  the  Continental  Congress,  that  by  their  unfeigned  and  pious  observance  of  their 
religious  duties  they  may  incline  the  Lord  and  Giver  of  victory  to  prosper  our  arms."  He  forbade  gam- 
bling, drunkenness,  and  profanity — "wicked  practices  hitherto  but  little  known  in  the  American  army," 
adding,  "We  can  have  but  little  hope  of  the  blessing  of  God  if  we  insult  him  by  our  blasphemies,  vices 
so  low  and  without  temptation  that  every  man  of  sense  and  character  detests  them." 

In  anticipation  of  an  impending  battle,  he  thus  addresses  his  soldiers:  "The  fate  of  unborn  millions 
will  now  depend,  under  God,  on  the  courage  and  conduct  of  the  army.  Let  us  rely  upon  the  goodness 
of  the  cause,  and  the  aid  of  the  Supreme  Being,  in  whose  hand  victory  is,  to  animate  and  encourage  us 
to  noble  actions." 

In  a  letter  to  Benjamin  Harrison,  a  fellow  Virginian  and  churchman,  in  1778,  he  says,  "Providence 
has  heretofore  taken  care  of  us  when  all  other  means  seemed  to  be  departing  from  us." 

We  find  him  referring  his  successes  to  "  that  Divine  Providence  which  has  manifestly  appeared  in  our 
behalf  during  our  whole  struggle";  while  in  alluding  to  his  reverses  he  adds,  "All  would  have  been  lost 
but  for  that  bountiful  Providence  which  has  never  failed  us  in  the  hour  of  distress."  Again  he  writes, 
"The  hand  of  Providence  has  been  so  conspicuous  that  he  must  be  worse  than  an  infidel  that  lacks  faith, 
and  more  than  wicked  that  has  not  gratitude  enough  to  acknowledge  his  obligations." 

On  the  proclamation  of  peace,  in  the  year  1783,  memorable  as  the  year  of  the  inauguration  of  our 
illustrious  Order,  the  General  called  upon  the  chaplains  of  the  forces  "  to  render  thanks  to  God  for  his 
overruling  the  wrath  of  man  to  his  own  glory,  and  causing  the  rage  of  war  to  cease."  A  few  months 
later  he  concluded  a  letter  to  the  Governors  of  the  States  with  the  "  earnest  prayer  that  God  may  have 
you  and  the  States  over  which  you  preside  in  his  holy  protection ;  that  he  would  incline  the  citizens  to 
obedience  to  government,  to  entertain  a  brotherly  love  for  one  another,  for  their  fellow-citizens  of  the 
United  States  in  general,  and  particularly  for  those  who  have  served  in  the  field ;  that  he  would  be 
pleased  to  dispose  them  to  do  justice,  to  love  mercy,  and  to  demean  themselves  with  that  charity,  humility, 


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and  pacific  temper  which  were  the  characteristics  of  the  Divine  Author  of  our  blessed  religion,  without  an 
humble  imitation  of  whose  example  in  these  things  we  can  never  hope  to  be  a  happy  nation." 

On  the  30th  day  of  April,  a.  d.  1789,  in  his  Inaugural  Address  to  both  Houses  of  Congress,  the  Father  of 
his  Country  used  these  words  : 

"  It  would  be  peculiarly  improper  to  omit,  in  this  first  official  act,  my  fervent  supplication  to  that  Almighty 
Being,  who  rules  over  the  universe,  who  presides  in  the  councils  of  nations,  and  whose  providential  aid  can  sup- 
ply every  human  defect,  that  his  benediction  may  consecrate  to  the  liberties  and  happiness  of  the  people  of  the 
United  States,  a  government  instituted  by  themselves  for  these  essential  purposes,  and  may  enable  every  instru- 
ment employed  in  its  administration  to  execute  with  success  the  functions  allotted  to  his  charge.  In  tendering 
this  homage  to  the  great  Author  of  every  public  and  private  good,  I  assure  myself  that  it  expresses  your  senti- 
ments not  less  than  my  own  ;  nor  those  of  my  fellow-citizens  at  large,  less  than  either.  No  people  can  be 
bound  to  acknowledge  and  adore  the  invisible  hand,  which  conducts  the  affairs  of  men,  more  than  the  people 
of  the  United  States. 

"  Every  step,  by  which  they  had  advanced  to  the  character  of  an  independent  nation,  seems  to  have  been 
distinguished  by  some  token  of  providential  agency.  And,  in  the  important  revolution  just  accomplished  in  the 
system  of  their  united  government,  the  tranquil  deliberations  and  voluntary  consent  of  so  many  distinct  com- 
munities, from  which  the  event  has  resulted,  can  not  be  compared  with  the  means  by  which  most  governments 
have  been  established,  without  some  return  of  pious  gratitude,  along  with  an  humble  anticipation  of  the  future 
blessings  which  the  past  seems  to  presage." 

Referring  again,  at  the  close  of  his  address,  to  his  sense  of  dependence  on  Almighty  Cod,  he  used  this 
language : 

"  Having  thus  imparted  to  you  my  sentiments,  as  they  have  been  awakened  by  the  occasion  which  brings 
us  together,  I  shall  take  my  present  leave,  but  not  without  resorting  once  more  to  the  benign  Parent  of  the 
human  race,  in  humble  supplication  that,  since  he  has  pleased  to  favor  the  American  people  with  opportunities 
for  deliberating  in  perfect  tranquillity,  and  dispositions  for  deciding  with  unparalleled  unanimity  on  a  form  of 
government  for  the  security  of  their  Union,  and  the  advancement  of  their  happiness;  so  his  divine  blessing 
may  be  equally  conspicuous  in  the  enlarged  views,  the  temperate  consultations,  and  the  wise  measures  on  which 
the  success  of  this  government  must  depend." 

And  in  responding  to  the  answer  of  the  Senate  to  his  speech,  he  further  added  : 

"  Thus,  supported  by  a  firm  trust  in  the  Great  Arbiter  of  the  universe,  aided  by  the  collected  wisdom  of  the 
Union,  and  imploring  the  divine  benediction  on  our  joint  exertions  in  the  service  of  our  country,  I  readily 
engage  with  you  on  the  arduous  but  pleasing  task  of  attempting  to  make  a  nation  happy." 

Language  such  as  this — like  recognition  of  a  superintending  Providence — occurs  again  and  again  in  his 
addresses,  the  general  orders,  the  private  letters,  the  diaries,  the  personal  memoranda  of  Washington.  They 
are  the  expressions  of  an  individual  trust  in  Cod,  which,  shown  in  his  earliest  years  and  displayed  throughout 
his  public  career,  was  strikingly  affirmed  in  that  "  Farewell  Address  "  which  was  his  invaluable  legacy  to  his 
countrymen.  It  is  among  his  last  councils,  written  at  a  time  when  infidelity  was  rampant,  and  the  Church,  of 
which  he  was  a  baptized  and  communing  member,  was  reduced  to  its  lowest  straits,  that  we  have  this  expres- 
sion of  Washington's  profound  conviction  of  the  necessity  of  religion  and  the  evil  tendency  of  unbelief : 

"  Of  all  the  dispositions  and  habits  which  lead  to  political  prosperity,  religion  and  morality  are  indispen- 
sable supports.  In  vain  would  that  man  claim  the  tribute  of  patriotism  who  should  labor  to  subvert  these  great 
pillars  of  human  happiness,  these  firmest  props  of  the  duties  of  men  and  citizens.  The  mere  politician,  equally 
with  the  pious  man,  ought  to  respect  and  cherish  them.  A  volume  could  not  trace  all  their  connections  with 
private  and  public  felicity.  Let  it  simply  be  asked,  Where  is  the  security  for  property,  for  reputation,  for  life,  if 
the  sense  of  religious  obligation  desert  the  oaths,  which  are  the  instruments  of  investigation  in  courts  of  jus- 
tice ?  And  let  us  with  caution  indulge  the  supposition  that  morality  can  be  maintained  without  religion. 
Whatever  may  be  conceded  to  the  influence  of.  refined  education  on  minds  of  peculiar  structure,  reason  and 
experience  both  forbid  us  to  expect  that  national  morality  can  prevail  in  exclusion  of  religious  principles." — 
Farewell  Address. 

To  these  outspoken  attestations  of  his  personal  trust  in  God  as  his  strength  and  refuge,  we  may  add  the 
testimony  of  those  who  knew  him  best,  the  members  of  his  family  and  household,  the  intimate  associates  of  his 
public  and  private  life,  that  he  was,  as  his  friend  and  biographer,  Chief-Justice  Marshall,  asserts,  "a  sincere 


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believer  in  the  Christian  faith  and  a  truly  devout  man."  His  reverence  for  the  Lord's  day,  his  habitual  reading 
of  the  Word  of  God,  his  daily  private  meditation  and  prayer,  his  unostentatious  but  abundant  charities,  his 
regular  attendance  at  church,  and  his  reception  from  time  to  time  of  the  holy  communion  of  the  body  and 
blood  of  Christ,  afford  additional  proof,  if  further  proof  were  wanting,  of  his  possession,  to  use  his  own  phrase, 
"  of  genuine  vital  religion." 

Is  it  to  be  wondered,  then,  that  when  the  "  last  enemy  "  came,  the  patriot  could  say,  "  I  am  not  afraid  to 
go  "  ?  The  strength  which  had  been  his  through  life  was  not  to  fail  him  now.  His  place  of  refuge  was  in  the 
Everlasting  Arms.  The  Word  of  God  was  on  his  bed  when  he  died.  She  who  so  often  shared  with  him  the 
holiest  offices  of  their  common  faith  ministered  to  his  dying  wants.  His  last  words  were,  "  'Tis  well."  He 
closed  his  own  eyes,  folded  his  arms  across  his  breast,  and  "  fell  asleep." 

Our  view  of  the  character  of  our  Founder  would  be  incomplete  without  allusion  to  the  sagacity  and  patri- 
otism with  which  he  sought  the  consolidation  of  the  union  between  the  States  by  the  adoption  of  the  Constitu- 
tion, under  which,  with  slight  changes,  we  have  been  so  strikingly  blessed  and  prospered  by  God  for  a  hundred 
years.  It  is  as  the  true  founder  of  the  constitutional  union  of  the  United  States  that  we  may  accord  to  our 
Washington  our  grateful  remembrance  to-day.  As  the  leader  of  the  Continental  Army — as  the  one  man  of  all 
others  highest  in  the  confidence  of  all  classes  of  his  countrymen,  we  may  say  with  the  historian  Bancroft, 
"  Without  him  the  Union  would  never  have  been  formed."  More  than  any  other  man  he  did  to  win  for  us  our 
independence.  To  this  he  added  the  further  glory  of  making  that  freedom  worthy  of  our  possessing,  in  secur- 
ing for  us  the  Constitution  and  the  Union  of  the  States.  True  to  his  country ;  true  to  his  trust  in  God,  who 
was  his  strength  and  his  refuge  ;  true  to  training  and  to  himself,  what  more  can  we  add  to  -our  tribute  of  grate- 
ful praise  to  God  for  the  Christian  character  and  consistent  patriotism  of  Washington  ? 

I  have  alluded  to  the  appropriateness  of  our  assembling  in  this  house  of  God,  where,  in  the  early  days  of 
the  republic,  our  fathers,  members  of  the  Order  of  the  Cincinnati,  were  wont  to  meet  in  recognition  of  the  glory 
and  goodness  of  their  God.  Here,  on  the  Fourth  of  July,  1788,  the  members  of  our  Order  listened  to  the  ear- 
nest and  eloquent  words  of  William  Duer.  Here,  on  the  Fourth  of  July,  1789,  our  own  Hamilton,  clarum  et 
venerabile  nomen,  delivered  a  eulogium  on  Nathanael  Greene  before  a  brilliant  assembly,  the  President  being 
prevented  by  severe  illness  from  attending,  but  Lady  Washington  and  family  occupying  yonder  pew,  ever 
sacred  to  patriotic  memories. 

On  Monday,  July  5,  1790,  the  President-General  of  the  Society  and  President  of  the  United  States,  our 
beloved  Washington,  attended  here  the  oration  of  Henry  Brockholst  Livingston,  on  themes  appropriate  to  the 
day.  Again  and  again  have  the  members  of  our  honorable  Order  assembled  here  in  recognition  of  their  trust 
in  God,  who  was  their  strength  and  refuge ;  and  around  these  sacred  walls  many  of  our  well-remembered  and 
illustrious  dead  await  in  the  dust  of  the  earth  the  resurrection  to  eternal  life. 

Ah  !  Brethren,  we  at  least  will  ascribe  our  strength  unto  God  who  was  our  fathers'  refuge,  and  whose  love 
and  care  will  not  fail  us  now  or  in  the  time  to  come.  The  share  taken  by  our  Order  in  the  adoption  and 
support  of  the  Constitution  of  our  beloved  native  land  is  not  to  be  overlooked  on  a  day  and  at  a  time  like  this. 
From  the  period  of  its  institution  in  the  year  of  peace,  1783,  to  the  day  of  the  inauguration  of  its  President- 
General  as  President  of  the  United  States,  the  Order  of  the  Cincinnati  was  the  only  organization  in  the  land 
devoted  to  "  promoting  and  cherishing  between  the  respective  States  that  Union  and  National  Honor,  so  essen- 
tially necessary  to  their  happiness  and  to  the  future  dignity  of  the  American  empire."  This,  the  only  political 
principle  incorporated  in  the  original  "  Institution  "  of  our  honorable  Order,  found  its  realization  in  the  adop- 
tion of  the  Constitution  under  which  God  has  been  our  strength  and  refuge  for  a  hundred  memorable  years. 

To-day,  Brothers  of  the  Cincinnati,  we  reverently  ascribe  unto  our  fathers'  God  and  our«own  the  praise  and 
glory  due  unto  his  holy  name.  Mindful  of  the  strength  he  gave  to  our  sires  of  old,  and  the  refuge  he  has  been 
in  our  times  of  trouble,  we  will  praise  and  bless  and  magnify  him  forever.  We  will  ascribe  unto  him  worship  as 
well  as  strength.  The  principles  for  which  our  fathers  fought,  the  freedom  secured  to  us  by  their  labors  and 
their  lives;  the  lessons  of  trust  in  God  and  recognition  of  an  all-wise  and  all-loving  Father's  care  and  guid- 
ance— these  shall  be  ours  as  patriots,  as  Christian  sons  of  Christian  sires,  in  the  years  to  come.  As  God  has 
blessed  our  fathers,  so  will  we  ask  his  blessing  on  ourselves  and  on  those  who  shall  come  after  us,  till  in  the 
spread  of  freedom,  limited  only  by  the  degrees  of  immutable  right,  of  liberty  protected  and  preserved  by  law, 
the  land  for  which  our  fathers  lived  and  died  shall  be  indeed  time's  noblest  offspring  if  its  last — the  realization 


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of  the  dreams  of  Christian  patriots,  the  ideal  commonwealth,  outlasting  empires  and  dynasties,  and  ending 
only  when  the  world  itself  shall  have  passed  away. 

For  all  the  ceremonial  reviews  and  entertainments  connected  with  the  celebration,  the 
General  Committee  of  the  Centennial  invited  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati  to  send  an 
official  representation. 

This  official  representation  was  as  follows  : 

The  Hon.  Hamilton  Fish,  LL.  D.,  President-General  of  the  Cincinnati,  eldest  son  of 
Major  and  Brevet  Lieutenant-Colonel  Nicholas  Fish,  Second  Regiment  New  York  Con- 
tinental Line  of  the  Revolution. 

Hon.  Asa  Bird  Gardiner,  LL.  D.,  Secretary-General  of  the  Cincinnati,  great-grandson  of 
Ensign  Reuben  Willard,  Twenty-fourth  Regiment  Continental  Foot,  and  grand-nephew  of 
First  Lieutenant  and  Regimental  Quartermaster  Jonathan  Willard,  First  Regiment  New 
Hampshire  Continental  Infantry. 

Mr.  John  Schuyler,  Treasurer-General  of  the  Cincinnati,  great-grandson  of  Major-General 
Philip  Schuyler,  of  the  Continental  Army  of  the  Revolution. 

The  Hon.  Samuel  Crocker  Cobb,  President  of  the  Massachusetts  State  Society  of  the 
Cincinnati,  grandson  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  the  Hon.  David  Cobb,  of  Massachusetts,  aide- 
de-camp  to  General  Washington  to  the  close  of  the  Revolution. 

Mr.  Henry  Thayer  Drovne,  of  the  Rhode  Island  State  Society  of  the  Cincinnati, 
grandson  of  Surgeon  Solomon  Drowne,  M.  D.,  LL.  D.,  of  the  Rhode  Island  Continental 
Line,  vice  the  Hon.  Nathanael  Greene,  President  of  that  State  Society,  who  was  unable  to 
attend,  grandson  of  Major-General  Nathanael  Greene,  of  the  Revolution. 

The  Hon.  Clifford  Stanley  Sims,  President  of  the  New  Jersey  State  Society,  great- 
grandson  of  Major  John  Ross,  M.  D.,  Second  Regiment  New  Jersey  Continental  Infantry. 

The  Hon.  William  Wayne,  President  of  the  Pennsylvania  State  Society  of  the  Cincin- 
nati, great-grandson  of  Major-General  Anthony  Wayne,  of  the  Continental  Army  of  the 
Revolution. 


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CHAPTER  VII. 


PRELIMINARY    WORK    IN    WASHINGTON    AND    THE    DEPARTURE    OF    THE    PRESIDENTIAL  PARTY 

FOR  NEW  YORK. 


By  John  A.  King, 

Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  General  Government. 

Notice  was  sent  on  the  3d  day  of  February,  1888,  that 
the  Committee  on  Plan  and  Scope  had  elected  me  Chairman 
of  the  sub-Committee  on  General  Government,  with  the  Hon. 
Seth  Low  as  Secretary,  and  Messrs.  John  Jay,  Edward  Cooper, 
William  H.  Wickham,  William  R.  Grace,  Frederic  J.  de  Pey- 
ster,  William  H.  Robertson,  and  Cornelius  Vanderbilt  as  asso- 
ciates. Shortly  thereafter,  being  instructed  that,  in  the  judg- 
ment of  the  chairmen  of  the  several  sub-committees,  initiatory 
action  should  commence  with  the  authorities  at  Washington, 
the  Committee  on  General  Government  was  called  together  at 
the  New  York  Historical  Society,  when  it  was  organized  and 
prepared  for  duty. 

The  chairman  was  during  the  winters  of  1888  and  1889  a 
resident  at  the  capital,  and  was  authorized  to  act,  subject  to 
such  advice  as  from  time  to  time  he  might  receive  from  the  Plan  and  Scope  Com- 
mittee. Congress  had  upon  its  files  a  bill  to  change  the  day  for  the  inauguration  of  the 
President  of  the  United  States  from  the  4th  of  March  to  the  30th  of  April,  1889;  also 
another  bill  that  the  Centennial  Celebration  of  the  Inauguration  of  George  Washington 
as  First  President  should  be  held  in  Washington  on  the  30th  of  April,  1889,  under  the 
auspices  of  the  Government,  with  the  Chief-Justice  of  the  United  States  as  orator. 

When  advising  the  Committee  on  Plan  and  Scope  of  these  bills,  it  was  suggested 
that  a  memorial  should  be  addressed  to  the  President  of  the  United  States  on  the  part 
of  the  New  York  Centennial  Committee,  in  order  to  draw  his  own  attention,  and  through 
him,  if  consonant  with  his  pleasure  and  duty,  that  of  Congress  and  of  the  people  of  the 
United  States,  to  the  well-organized  proceedings  of  the  citizens  of  New  York  in  relation 
to  the  centennial. 

Having  been  requested  to  prepare  such  memorial,  it  was,  when  ready,  sent  for  approval 
and  returned  to  me  on  the  10th  of  March,  1888,  duly  signed  by  the  Hon.  Hamilton  Fish, 
His  Honor  Abram  S.  Hewitt,  Elbridge  T.  Gerry,  and  Clarence  W.  Bowen. 


GEORGE  WASHINGTON. 
From  a  miniature  by  John  Ramage, 
painted  in  1789,  and  belonging 
to  Mrs.  M.  S.  Beach,  Peekskill, 
New  York. 
(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  22.) 


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It  was  forthwith  put  into  the  hands  of  President  Cleveland.  He  received  me  then,  and 
continued  to  do  so  until  his  retirement  from  office,  with  great  courtesy.  The  impression  left 
was  that  when  a  proper  opportunity  might  offer,  he  would  present  the  subject  as  desired. 
Copies  of  the  "  Memorial "  and  of  the  "  Plan  and  Scope  "  were  sent  to  me  to  deliver  to 
the  members  of  the  Cabinet,  the  Justices  of  the  Supreme  Court,  and  to  Senators  and 
members  of  the  House  of  Representatives. 

As  reference  was  made  in  the  memorial  to  intended  invitations,  the  Committee  on 
Plan  and  Scope  requested  the  Committee  on  Entertainment  to  have  them  prepared.  Con- 
sequently, on  the  1 8th  of  April,  1S88,  invitations,  which  were  very  handsomely  and  appro- 
priately engrossed,  were  forwarded,  and  on  April  19th  were  handed  by  me  to  the  President 
of  the  United  States,  to  the  members  of  the  Cabinet,  to  the  Presiding  Justice  (the  office  of 
Chief-Justice  being  vacant)  for  the  Justices  of  the  Supreme  Court,  to  the  President  of  the 
Senate  for  the  Senators,  and  to  the  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Representatives  for  the 
members  of  the  House.  That  to  the  Honorable  the  Justices  of  the  United  States  Supreme 
Court  was  duly  acknowledged.  In  the  Senate  it  was  received  and  referred  to  the  Com- 
mittee on  Centennials,  while  the  House  referred  it  to  the  Committee  on  Judiciary.  It 
would  be  useless  to  give  in  detail  the  various  interviews  during  the  spring  of  1888.  Owing 
to  the  pending  general  election  in  the  coming  autumn,  the  subject  was  one  of  great  deli- 
cacy, and,  consequently,  but  little  could  be  accomplished.  The  bill  before  Congress  to 
change  the  day  of  inauguration  had  failed  for  lack  of  a  sufficient  number  of  votes,  and  by 
its  failure  the  bill  for  the  celebration  of  the  centennial  in  Washington  had  been  seriously 
thwarted.  The  death  of  the  deeply-lamented  Chief-Justice  Waite,  leaving  that  office  vacant, 
also  rendered  one  of  the  important  features  of  the  bill  an  impossibility. 

On  my  return  to  Washington  late  in  November,  instructions  were  sent  to  me  by  the 
Committee  on  Plan  and  Scope  to  ask  President  Cleveland  to  allude  to  the  New  York 
Centennial  in  his  forthcoming  message  to  Congress,  and  also  to  draw  attention  to  the 
propriety  of  the  celebration  in  New  York,  and  to  suggest  such  national  co-operation  as 
would  be  worthv  of  the  occasion.  This  was  most  fittinsdv  and  willingflv  done  by  him  on 
the  3d  of  December.  The  subject  was  thus  brought  prominently  before  Congress  and 
the  people,  and  had  the  approbation  of  the  Chief  Magistrate  of  the  nation. 

The  Committee  on  Plan  and  Scope  very  judiciously  added  as  members  of  the  Committee 
on  General  Government  Hon.  William  M.  Evarts  and  Hon.  Frank  Hiscock.  To  both  of 
these  gentlemen,  as  also  to  the  late  S.  S.  Cox,  of  the  House  of  Representatives,  and  to  others 
of  the  New  York  delegation,  thanks  are  due  for  very  efficient  aid  during  the  winter  of  1889. 
Constant  efforts  were  made  for  positive  action  bv  the  House  of  Representatives,  and  several 
resolutions  were  introduced  ;  but  by  many  of  the  members  it  was  held  that,  as  the  present 
Congress  would  finally  adjourn  on  the  4th  of  March,  it  had  no  power  to  act  for  the  incoming 
House.  On  the  2d  of  March  a  final  effort  was  made  when  Hon.  S.  S.  Cox,  with  the  assist- 
ance of  his  colleagues  and  earnestly  seconded  by  Speaker  Carlisle  and  the  Chairman  of  the 


i So       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


House  Special  Committee,  framed  a  judicious  resolution,  which  succeeded  in  passing  the 
House,  and  thus  secured  co-operation  on  the  part  of  that  body  in  the  Centennial  at  New 
York.  It  authorized  the  acceptance  of  the  invitation,  and  empowered  the  Speaker  to  ap- 
point forty-two  members  as  delegates,  to  be  named  from  such  members  of  the  House  as  had 
been  re-elected  to  the  new  Congress. 

With  the  Senate,  it  was  deemed  wiser  to  defer  action  until  after  the  4th  of  March,  when 
the  new  Senate  would  convene.  In  April,  Vice-President  Morton  and  the  New  York 
Senators  had  resolutions  passed  to  accept  the  invitation  from  the  Centennial  Committee, 
and  to  authorize  the  Vice-President  to  appoint  Senators  to  represent  that  honorable  body 
at  the  New  York  celebration.  Congress,  prior  to  adjournment,  had  made  the  30th  of 
April  a  national  holiday.  Thus  the  co-operation  of  the  national  Congress  was  in  due 
time  completed. 

The  autumnal  election,  by  its  results,  had  rendered  it  necessary  to  communicate  with 
General  Harrison,  the  President-elect.  A  letter  was  written  to  him  by  me  on  the  26th  of 
November,  inclosing  the  memorial  of  the  10th  of  March,  the  Plan  and  Scope  Report  of 
February,  1888,  and  subsequent  reports  by  the  same  committee.  These  were  to  inform  him 
of  the  plans  and  expectations  of  the  citizens  of  New  York,  and  of  the  part  allotted  to  the 
Chief  Magistrate.  On  December  31st  a  letter  was  sent  to  the  Committee  on  Plan  and  Scope 
giving  a  statement  of  the  proceedings  of  the  Committee  on  General  Government,  and  fore- 
shadowing the  apprehension  that  but  little  could  be  effected  at  the  capital  until  near  or  after 
the  4th  of  March.  General  Harrison  reached  Washington  on  the  26th  day  of  February,  and 
received  me  on  the  27th  with  a  cordial  greeting.  He  had  proposed  to  speak  in  his  inaugural 
address  of  the  centennial,  and  in  such  language  as  would  be  agreeable  to  New  York.  He 
hoped  it  would  be  in  his  power  to  fully  gratify  the  wishes  of  the  people  of  that  city  and  of 
the  cities  intervening  between  it  and  Washington,  though  he  was  somewhat  appalled  by  the 
many  duties  which  had  been  mapped  out  for  him  in  New  York  itself,  and  in  journeying 
thither.  On  March  4th  the  memorial  from  the  clergy,  addressed  to  the  President  of  the 
United  States,  which  had  been  forwarded  by  the  Plan  and  Scope  Committee,  was  presented 
to  him,  and  the  petition  it  contained  was  advocated  by  me.  In  the  many  subsequent  inter- 
views with  the  President  in  relation  to  matters  referred  to  me  by  the  Committee  on  Plan 
and  Scope  and  by  the  other  sub-committees,  he  seemed  desirous  to  co-operate  with  their 
plans  to  the  fullest  extent. 

There  was  much  correspondence  in  relation  to  the  time  and  mode  of  procedure  of  the 
President  and  his  party  from  Washington  to  New  York,  of  the  members  of  his  party  and 
of  details  connected  therewith— all  most  essential  for  the  equipment  of  the  train  by  the  rail- 
road company  and  for  the  information  of  the  sub-Committee  on  Transportation.  The 
Committee  on  General  Government,  embarrassed  by  the  urgent  appeals  from  the  interven- 
ing cities  which,  very  properly,  sought  to  follow  out  in  1889  the  progress  which  had  been 
made  by  George  Washington  in  1 789  on  his  journey  to  New  York,  was  not  able  to  send 


Allen.  Wokmslev.  Allen.  Izard.  Beckfokd. 

RALPH    IZARD    AND    FELLOW    STUDENTS    AT    CAMBRIDGE    UNIVERSITY,  ENGLAND. 
Artist,  Benjamin  West.  Owner,  Walter  Izard,  Great  Grandson,  Goode's,  Bedford  Co.,  Va 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ralph  Izard. 

Artist,  John  S.  Coi-ley,  Rome.  i774.  Owner,  G   E.  Manigailt,  M.  D.,  Great  Grandson,  Charleston,    S.  C. 


(Loan  Exhibition.  No.  117.) 


DEPARTURE  OF  THE  PRESIDENTIAL  PARTY  FOR  NEW  YORK.  181 


positive  and  definite  information  to  the  Committee  on  Plan  and  Scope  upon  the  subject  until 
within  less  than  a  fortnight  before  the  celebration. 

The  President,  after  much  hesitation  and  great  reluctance,  found  that  he  would  be  unable 
to  give  the  time  for  so  many  days  of  stoppage  along  the  route  as  had  been  proposed. 
Hours  in  1889  had  taken  the  place  of  days  in  1789.  Consequently,  he  was  obliged  to 
forego  the  pleasure  which  he  had  anticipated  in  carrying  out  the  journey  as  made  by  his 
great  predecessor.  He  finally  decided  to  take  the  railway  train  at  ten  minutes  after  mid- 
night on  Sunday,  the  28th  of  April ;  to  breakfast  with  the  Governor  of  New  Jersey  at  Eliza- 
beth on  the  morning  of  the  29th  ;  and  after  a  brief  reception,  and  after  being  driven  to 
Elizabethport,  to  embark  on  the  United  States  steamer  Despatch  at  the  hour  named  in 
the  programme  of  the  New  York  Centennial  Committee.  In  effecting  the  solution  of  the 
questions  as  to  the  time  of  departure  from  Washington  of  the  President  and  his  party,  and 
of  the  precise  number  of  which  it  was  to  consist,  including  therein  the  members  of  the 
Cabinet  and  the  Justices  of  the  Supreme  Court  with  their  respective  families,  the  Chair- 
man of  the  sub-Committee  on  General  Government  would,  for  the  most  essential  aid 
received,  express  thanks  to  Hon.  Seth  Low,  Secretary  of  the  sub-Committee  on  General 
Government ;  Hon.  Orlando  B.  Potter,  Chairman  of  sub-Committee  on  Transportation  ;  Mr. 
James  Duane  Livingston,  Secretary,  and  Mr.  Clifford  Stanley  Sims,  of  the  same  committee; 
Mr.  Stuyvesant  Fish,  Chairman  of  sub-Committee  on  Entertainment ;  Mr.  Frank  S.  Wither- 
bee,  special  aide  to  Mr.  Fish  ;  Colonel  S.  V.  R.  Cruger  and  Major  Asa  Bird  Gardiner,  Chair- 
men of  the  sub-Committees  on  Army  and  Navy,  respectively  ;  and  to  Lieutenant  T.  B.  M. 
Mason,  of  the  United  States  Navy. 

The  Chairman  of  the  sub-Committee  on  Transportation  at  once  informed  the  Penn- 
sylvania Railroad  Company,  so  that,  under  the  guidance  of  its  very  able  officer,  Mr.  George 
W.  Boyd,  a  train  of  unsurpassed  excellence  in  all  its  appointments,  whether  for  comfort  or 
refreshment,  was  arranged  for. 

To  the  sub-Committee  on  General  Government  had  been  assigned  the  duty  of  escorting 
the  President  and  his  party  from  the  White  House  to  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad  Station, 
and  thence,  in  conjunction  with  the  sub-Committee  on  Transportation,  to  the  landing  at 
Elizabethport.  These  same  sub-committees  were,  after  the  conclusion  of  the  celebration,  to 
reconduct  the  President  back  to  Washington.  At  my  request,  Hon.  Seth  Low,  Secretary, 
notified  the  sub-Committee  on  General  Government  to  report  at  Wormley's  Hotel,  Wash- 
ington, on  the  28th  of  April,  and  to  distribute  to  them  the  badges  of  red,  white,  and  blue 
which  had  been  prepared  as  their  distinctive  colors.  Hon.  John  Jay,  Edward  Cooper,  Will- 
iam H.  Robertson,  and  Hon.  Seth  Low  were  able  to  join  the  chairman  for  duty.  Senators 
Evarts  and  Hiscock  met  us  the  next  day  at  Elizabethport.  Clarence  W.  Bowen,  the  Secre- 
tary, had  sent  to  me,  by  Hon.  Seth  Low,  a  gold  medal  for  the  President.  It  had  been 
arranged  through  Mr.  Halford,  the  private  secretary,  that  the  President  should  receive  the 
committee  who  were  to  be  his  escort  at  nine  o'clock  in  the  evening  of  the  28th  of  April. 


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Accordingly,  at  that  hour  the  members  of  the  committee,  accompanied  by  Mr.  Witherbee 
and  Lieutenant  Mason,  paid  their  respects  to  the  President  and  the  ladies  of  his  family. 
Alter  some  minutes  of  general  conversation  the  chairman  of  the  committee  had  the  honor  to 
present  to  the  President,  in  the  name  of  the  New  York  Centennial  Committee,  the  gold 
medal  which  had  been  struck  to  commemorate  the  centennial,  and  which  had  been  mounted 


CAMP  TRUNK  BELONGING  TO  GEORGE  WASHINGTON. 
(Leather,  brass  nails,  oval  brass  plate  inscribed  "  Genl.  Washington,  No.  4.") 
Owned  by  Edmund  Law  Rogers,  Baltimore,  Maryland. 
(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  353.) 


with  old-gold  ribbon  as  a  badge.  In  accepting  it  he  expressed  his  thanks  in  fitting  words, 
admired  its  great  beauty,  and,  after  showing  it  to  the  ladies,  adjusted  it  to  the  lapel  of  his 
coat,  where  he  continued  to  wear  it  until  his  return  to  Washington. 

It  was  now  time  to  leave,  and  upon  his  signifying  that  he  was  ready,  he  drove  with 
us  to  the  railway  station.  The  ladies  with  Messrs.  Witherbee  and  Mason  followed  in  their 
carriages.  The  President  was  received  at  the  station  by  Hon.  Orlando  B.  Potter,  Chairman 
of  the  sub-Committee  on  Transportation,  assisted  by  Mr.  James  Duane  Livingston  and 
Mr.  Clifford  Stanley  Sims  of  the  same  committee,  and  also  by  Mr.  George  W.  Boyd  and 
other  officers  of  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad  Company. 

Exquisite  flowers  and  other  beautiful  decorations  adorned  the  saloon  and  apartment  of 
the  President's  car.  The  members  of  the  Cabinet  and  the  Justices  of  the  Supreme  Court, 
with  their  families,  had   been  invited   by  the  Centennial  Committee  to  accompany  the 


DEPARTURE  OE  THE  PRESIDENTIAL  PARTY  FOR  NEW  YORK.  183 


President  on  the  journey,  and  to  be  the  guests  of  the  citizens  of  New  York  during  the 
celebration.  They,  with  the  members  of  the  two  escorting  committees  and  members  of 
the  press,  were  all  most  sumptuously  provided  for. 

Starting  a  few  minutes  after  midnight,  the  train  reached  Elizabeth  at  seven  o'clock 
in  the  morning  of  April  29th.  His  Excellency  Robert  S.  Green,  the  Governor  of  New 
Jersey,  surrounded  by  his  staff  and  other  military  officers  of  the  State  of  New  Jersey  and 
by  crowds  of  citizens,  was  at  the  station  to  meet  the  President  and  to  take  him  to  the 
Governor's  residence,  where,  with  the  members  of  the  Cabinet  and  the  Justices  of  the 
Supreme  Court,  he  breakfasted  and  afterward  held  a  reception.  Meanwhile  the  ladies  and 
other  guests  breakfasted  in  the  dining-car. 

The  President  was  returned  to  our  charge  at  the  landing,  at  Elizabethport,  at  half-past 
ten  o'clock,  and  was  taken  by  me  to  the  launch  of  the  United  States  steamer  Despatch, 
where  he  was  received  by  Colonel  Asa  Bird  Gardiner,  Chairman  of  the  sub-Committee  on 
Navy,  Captain  Henry  Erben  and  S.  Nicholson  Kane  of  the  Navy  Committee,  and  by 
them  at  once  conveyed  to  the  Despatch.  Although  myself  on  the  Despatch,  my  duties  as 
an  escort  were  at  an  end  until  the  three  days  of  the  celebration  had  concluded. 

On  the  1st  day  of  May,  after  the  review  of  the  Civic  and  Industrial  Parade,  the 
President  was  accompanied  from  the  grand  stand  by  several  members  of  the  committee, 
among  others  myself,  to  the  house  of  Vice-President  Morton,  whence,  after  a  brief  stop, 
we  drove  with  him  to  Jersey  City,  where  we  were  met  by  Hon.  Orlando  B.  Potter  and 
other  members  of  the  Committee  on  Transportation.  Having  informed  the  President 
that  the  special  train  was  waiting,  they  conducted  him  to  his  private  car,  which  was 
decorated  as  before  with  beautiful  flowers.  On  the  journey  a  sumptuous  dinner  was  served 
for  the  party,  including  members  of  the  press,  and  the  train  quickly  reached  Washington. 

Accompanying  the  President  to  his  own  carriage,  I  had  the  honor  to  complete  the 
duty  which  had  been  assigned  to  the  sub-Committee  on  General  Government. 


CHAPTER  VIII. 

THE  JOURNEY  OF  THE  PRESIDENTIAL  PARTY   FROM  WASHINGTON  TO  NEW  YORK 
AND   RETURN,  AND  THE  WORK   OF  THE  TRANSPORTATION  COMMITTEE. 

By  Orlando  B.  Potter, 

Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Railroads  and  Transportation. 

The  Committee  on  Railways  and  Transportation,  having  been 
organized  by  the  appointment  of  Mr.  O.  B.  Potter,  chairman,  and 
Mr.  James  Duane  Livingston,  secretary,  proceeded  at  once  to  de- 
cide, after  a  conference  with  officers  of  leading  railways,  upon  a  plan 
for  securing  transportation  from  all  parts  of  the  country  to  the  cele- 
bration and  return,  at  the  lowest  rate  practicable  for  first-class  serv- 
ice. The  rate  determined  upon  was  a  single  full  fare  one  way,  for 
the  full  trip  both  ways,  or  the  round  trip,  upon  all  railways,  and  a 
corresponding  reduction  upon  all  steam  lines  upon  water.  These 
terms  were  most  generously  and  patriotically  accepted  without  dissent 
by  all  transportation  lines,  both  by  land  and  water,  throughout  the 
country.  Special  reduced  rates  of  fare  were  also  generously  granted 
for  military  bodies  in  attendance.  This  arrangement  was  fully  carried  out,  and  this  very 
important  service  was  rendered  in  a  manner  which  left  nothing  to  be  desired.  A  vast 
concourse  of  citizens  from  all  parts  of  the  republic — greater,  it  is  believed,  than  ever  before 
assembled  upon  the  continent  to  celebrate  any  single  event  occurring  in  time  of  peace 
— were  thus  brought  together  at  this  chief  city  and  at  the  very  spot  where  the  Govern- 
ment was  inaugurated  one  hundred  years  before,  and  were  returned  to  their  homes  with 
a  celerity,  comfort,  and  safety  never  surpassed  upon  an  equal  area.  This  was  accomplished 
without  suspending  or  seriously  interrupting  the  ordinary  railway  and  steamboat  travel  and 
business  of  the  country.  Regarded  from  this  aspect,  this  great  celebration,  both  in  its 
beginning  and  close,  was  of  more  than  local  import.  Railways  and  steam  water  lines 
throughout  the  whole  country  contributed  their  resources  and  united  their  energies  to 
commemorate  the  event  which  made  their  own  progressive  development  and  power  possible 
and  actual  upon  a  great  continent,  as  if  moved  and  animated  by  the  same  spirit  and 
purpose  which  gathered  freemen  from  all  parts  of  a  united  nation  to  this  great  celebration. 

When  this  vast  gathering  of  the  nation's  representative  freemen,  together  with  the 
President,  Cabinet,  national  Judiciary,  and  chief  officers  of  Government  in  State  and 
nation,  is  contrasted  in  the  manner  of  its  accomplishment  with  the  gathering  of  Wash- 


GEORGE  WASHINGTON 
From  a  miniature  on  ivory, 
painted  by  C.  W.  Peale, 
and  belonging  to  the 
Metropolitan  Museum, 
New  York. 

(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  7.) 


THE  WORK  OF  THE  TRANSPORTATION  COMMITTEE.  185 


ington  and  his  compatriots,  by  the  modes  of  travel  then  available,  to  organize  the  Gov- 
ernment ;  and  when  we  similarly  consider  and  contrast  the  advance  made  by  our  country- 
men in  the  transmission  of  intelligence  as  exemplified  by  the  reproduction  in  electric 
throbs  throughout  the  nation  of  the  thoughts  and  words  suggested  by  this  occasion,  until 
a  whole  people  united  in  celebrating  together  the  organized  origin  of  their  Government, 
it  may  well  be  doubted  whether  Congress,  Cabinet,  field,  or  Bench,  has  furnished  more 
striking  evidence  of  the  wisdom  of  the  great  system  of  self-government  inaugurated  by 
Washington  to  secure  human  progress  and  happiness,  a  Government  which  in  its  original 
structure  declared  promotion  of  "progress  in  the  useful  arts"  one  of  its  distinctly  specified 
objects. 

If  illustration  of  the  progress  in  the  useful  arts  accomplished  under  this  beneficent  provis- 
ion of  our  Constitution  within  the  century  closed  with  this  celebration  were  to  be  attempted 
by  a  single  example  selected  from  the  daily  life  of  the  country,  no  example  could  be 
found  better  than  the  railway  train  furnished  on  this  occasion  by  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad 
Company  for  the  transportation  of  the  President  of  the  United  States  and  family,  Cabinet 
officers,  Justices  of  the  Supreme  Court,  and  other  representative  officers  of  the  Government, 
with  their  families,  from  Washington  to  New  York  and  back  to  Washington.  This  train 
was  made  up  from  the  regular  equipment  of  this  railroad,  and  the  cars  which  composed  it 
were  drawn  from  its  regular  service  as  employed  daily  for  the  convenience,  comfort,  and 
safety  of  the  people.  Selected,  not  on  account  of  extraordinary  elegance,  but  because  their 
size,  arrangement,  and  appointments  fitted  them  for  the  work  to  be  done,  they  were  in 
all  respects  the  best  types  of  American  railway  cars  yet  produced,  and  were  therefore 
well  adapted  for  use  in  celebrating  the  inauguration  of  a  Government  which  at  the  same 
time  inaugurated  "  progress  in  the  useful  arts." 

The  President  and  party  went  on  board  at  10.40  p.  m.,  but,  by  the  President's  direction, 
the  train  moved  from  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad  Station  at  Washington  at  12.10  a.m.,  those 
of  the  distinguished  company  who  so  preferred,  including  the  President,  having  already 
retired  to  rest.  The  journey  from  Washington  to  Elizabeth  was  as  smooth  and  quiet  as 
the  most  perfected  railway  travel  of  the  nineteenth  century  permitted. 

The  arrival  of  the  train  at  Elizabeth  at  7.25  a.  m.  was  announced  by  the  ringing  of  bells 
and  a  salute  of  twenty-one  guns,  while  citizens  of  New  Jersey  by  thousands  received  the 
distinguished  party  with  joyous  welcome,  in  which  all  voices  united.  The  President  and 
party  were  conducted,  accompanied  by  a  guard  of  honor  on  horseback,  to  the  residence  of 
Governor  Green,  where,  about  eight  o'clock,  they  sat  down  to  breakfast. 

Shortly  before  nine  o'clock  the  President  held  a  reception  at  which  many  of  the  promi- 
nent State  officers  of  New  Jersey  paid  their  respects  to  him,  and  were  introduced.  At  nine 
o'clock  the  President,  from  a  stand  upon  the  Governor's  lawn,  reviewed  the  first  two  divisions 
of  the  military  escort,  and  at  9.25  the  presidential  party  in  eight  carriages,  led  by  Governor 

Green  and  the  President,  moved  from  the  Governor's  house  for  Elizabethport.    These  eight 
25 


1 86       THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


carriages,  containing  the  President,  Vice-President,  Governor  Green,  and  chief  officers  of  the 
State,  were  flanked  on  the  right  and  left  by  twelve  other  carriages  containing  a  guard  of  honor 
from  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati,  the  Loyal  Legion,  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  Wash- 
ington Association,  New  Jersey  Historical  Society,  and  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution.  These 
were  followed  in  forty  more  carriages  by  the  Committee  of  Reception  of  the  city  of  Eliza- 
beth, the  Centennial  Committee  of  the  Board  of  Trade,  the  City  Council,  the  Board  of  Edu- 
cation, with  the  Boards  of  Trade  of  Trenton,  Newark,  and  Jersey  City,  and  the  mayors  of 
neighboring  cities  of  New  Jersey.  The  march  to  Elizabethport  was  a  continuous  ovation, 
the  presidential  party  and  escort  passing  between  two  continuous  lines  upon  both  sides  of 


THOMAS  JEFFERSON'S  BIBLE. 
Now  owned  by  Rev.  Isaac  J.  Hartley,  Utica,  New  Vork. 
(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  578.) 


the  streets  composed  of  the  leading  organizations  of  the  State,  civic  and  military.  Among 
these  a  representative  body  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  with  stained  and  dilapidated 
battle-flags,  attracted  attention  and  received  cordial  salutations  from  the  President.  In  this 
march  the  party  passed  beneath  triumphal  arches  decorated  from  garden,  wood,  and  field  of 
the  State.  From  one  of  these,  flowers  from  the  hands  of  forty-nine  New  Jersey  girls,  dressed 
in  appropriate  costumes  to  represent  the  forty-two  States  and  seven  Territories,  were  show- 
ered upon  the  President  and  immediate  party  as  they  passed  beneath.     The  decorations  of 


THE    BARGE   CONTAINING   THE    PRESIDENT    AND   VICE-PRESIDENT   OF   THE    UNITED  STATES 

Proceeding  prom  Elizabethport  to  the  U.  S.  S  Despatch  anchored  off  Port  Richmond. 


THE    U.    S.    S.    DESPATCH    UNDER    WAY    WITH    THE    PRESIDENTIAL    PARTY  ABOARD. 

(Naval  Parade,  New  York  Harbor.  Monday,  Aprrl  29.  1889  ) 


THE  WORK  OF  THE  TRANSPORTATION  COMMITTEE. 


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dwellings  along  the  way  were  striking  and  beautiful.  One  old  mansion,  made  famous  by 
visits  from  Washington  and  Lafayette,  and  covered  with  the  Stars  and  Stripes,  took  part 
in  celebrating  the  organized  origin  of  the  nation  whose  childhood  its  weather-beaten  timbers 
had  witnessed.  Thus,  amid  the  unanimous  salutations  of  the  people  and  State  of  New 
Jersey,  the  presidential  party  passed  from  her  soil,  and  from  the  direction  of  this  committee, 
on  board  the  Despatch  and  attendant  vessels  waiting  to  receive  them  at  Elizabethport,  and 
under  the  control  for  the  remainder  of  the  trip  of  the  Committee  on  Navy. 

The  only  remaining  service  required  from  the  Committee  on  Railroads  and  Transporta- 
tion toward  the  President  and  attendant  party  was  to  provide  for  their  return  to  the  capital 
after  the  close  of  the  celebration.  This  was  carefully  attended  to  by  our  committee,  and  the 
entire  party  returned  over  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad  in  the  same  cars  in  which  they  left 
Washington,  and  with  the  same  liberality  and  attention  to  the  wants,  comfort,  and  safety 
of  the  party  which  marked  the  conduct  of  this  railroad  company  from  the  beginning  to  the 
close  of  the  celebration. 

I  can  not  justly  omit  the  insertion  here  of  a  note  by  the  President  expressive  of  his  ap- 
preciation of  the  service  rendered  by  this  company  : 

Executive  Mansion,  Washington. 

M r.  Frank  Thomson,  Vice-President  Pennsylvania  Railway,  Philadelphia,  Pa. : 

My  dear  Sir  :  At  the  earliest  opportunity,  I  desire  to  express  my  sincere  thanks  for  the  generous  provision 
you  made  for  the  transportation  of  myself  and  the  party  accompanying  me  to  New  York  city.  The  train  was 
certainly  a  marvel  of  beauty  and  luxury  in  all  its  appointments,  and  the  arrangements  for  the  trip,  both  going 
and  coming,  were  such  as  to  insure  the  greatest  safety  and  comfort. 

I  regret  that  you  were  unable  to  meet  me  at  Trenton,  as  expected,  that  I  might  have  expressed  to  you 
personally  my  appreciation  not  only  of  your  own  courtesy,  but  of  the  faithful  and  efficient  manner  in  which  all 
the  gentlemen  connected  with  the  train  discharged  their  duties. 

Please  be  kind  enough  to  thank,  in  my  name,  all  who  in  any  manner  contributed  to  the  equipment  and 
running  of  the  train,  and  to  the  comfort  and  convenience  of  the  party.    Very  truly  yours, 

Benjamin  Harrison. 

May  j,  iSSg. 

The  following  resolution  and  minute  adopted  by  this  committee  on  May  9,  1889,  ex- 
presses its  appreciation  of  this  service  : 

Potter  Building,  New  York  Citv,  May  g,  iSSg. 
George  IF.  Boyd,  Esq.,  Assistant  General  Passenger  Agent,  The  Pennsylvania  Railroad  Company,  2JJ  South  Fourth 
Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa.  : 

My  dear  Sir  :  At  a  meeting  of  the  Committee  on  Railroads  and  Transportation  of  the  Centennial  Cele- 
bration of  the  Inauguration  of  George  Washington  as  President  of  the  United  States,  this  day  held,  the  follow- 
ing minute  was  unanimously  adopted,  and  I  was  instructed  to  forward  a  copy  of  the  same  to  you  : 

Minute. — "  The  committee  desire  to  express  their  high  appreciation  of  the  action  of  the  Pennsylvania  Rail- 
road Company  in  supplying  the  special  train  for  the  transit  of  the  President  of  the  United  States,  the  Cabinet, 
the  Supreme  Court,  and  the  party  accompanying  them,  from  Washington  to  Elizabethport,  on  the  29th  of 
April,  and  from  Jersey  City  to  Washington  on  the  1st  inst.,  on  the  occasion  of  the  Centennial  Celebration  at 
New  York  of  the  Inauguration  of  Washington  as  the  first  President  of  the  United  States. 

"  The  elegance  of  the  equipment,  the  complete  arrangements  regarding  every  detail,  the  perfect  manage- 
ment of  every  movement,  together  with  the  promptness  of  arrival  at  every  point  on  the  scheduled  route,  and 


t88      THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


the  most  excellent  cuisine,  made  the  train  unequaled  in  the  history  of  railroads  in  this  or  any  other  country, 
and  bore  ample  and  final  evidence  to  the  pre-eminence  of  the  corporation  above  named  in  the  perfection  of 
its  management  and  of  its  motive-power  and  equipment. 

"It  is  desired  also  to  place  upon  the  record  of  the  proceedings  of  the  committee  an  acknowledgment  of 
the  kindness  and  courtesy  of  Mr.  Frank  Thomson,  Vice-President,  and  Mr.  George  W.  Boyd,  Assistant  Gen- 
eral Passenger  Agent  of  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad  Company,  and  of  the  deep  interest  these  gentlemen  evinced 
in  the  endeavor  to  render  everything  connected  with  the  presidential  train  a  success,  and  the  assistance  they 
so  gladly  and  efficiently  rendered  in  that  direction.    Very  truly  yours, 

"  O.  B.  Potter,  Chairman  Committee  on  Railroads,  etc." 

As  chairman  of  this  committee  I  desire  here  to  record  that  the  services  of  Hon.  Clifford 
Stanley  Sims,  of  Philadelphia,  were  most  unremitting,  efficient,  and  important  in  all  the  work 
done  by  this  committee.  Without  the  aid  of  his  great  experience  and  knowledge  of  the  rail- 
way systems  of  the  country,  their  organization  and  capabilities,  and  his  constant  aid  and  ad- 
vice, it  would  have  been  difficult,  if  not  impossible,  for  this  committee  to  have  accomplished 
its  work  in  the  manner  it  has  been  done  without  mistake,  failure,  or  accident. 

It  is  due  to  this  committee  also  that  it  be  here  recorded  that  its  entire  work  has  been 
accomplished  and  all  the  attendant  expenses  have  been  provided  for  and  paid  by  the  com- 
mittee without  appropriation  or  aid  from  the  General  Committee,  and  without  lessening  the 
contributions  of  members  of  this  committee  to  the  general  fund. 


CHAPTER  IX. 


THE  NAVAL   PARADE  AND  THE   LANDING  OF   THE    PRESIDENT  AT  THE   FOOT  OF   WALL  STREET. 


By  Asa  Bird  Gardiner,  LL.  D., 

Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Navy. 

The  Committee  on  Navy,  ap- 
pointed by  the  Hon.  Abram  S. 
Hewitt,  LL.  D.,  Mayor,  was  con- 
stituted as  follows :  Asa  Bird  Gard- 
iner, LL.  D.,  Chairman;  John  S 
Barnes  (late  U.  S.  N.),  George  G. 
Haven,  Jackson  S.  Schultz,  D. 
Willis  James,  Frederic  R.  Cou- 
dert,  LL.  D.,  Captain  Henry  Erben, 
U.  S.  N.,  Ogden  Goelet,  John 
Jay  Pierrepont,  Loyall  Farragut 
(late  U.  S.  A.),  Alfred  C.  Cheney, 
Buchanan  Winthrop,  and  S.  Nich- 
olson Kane  (late  U.  S.  N.),  the  last 
named  acting  as  secretary.  Robert 
E.  Livingston,  a  grandson  of  Chan- 
cellor Robert  R.  Livingston,  was 
also  a  member  of  the  Committee 
on  Navy,  and  actively  participated 
in  its  deliberations  until  his  de- 
cease, in  the  city  of  New  York, 
a  few  weeks  before  the  celebration. 

The  programme,  as  finally  ar- 
ranged by  this  committee,  for  the 
reception  of  the  President  of  the 
United  States  and  suite  at  Eliza- 
bethport,  N.  J.,  and  journey  to  the 
city  of  New  York,  included  a  prog- 
ress over  the  same  route  taken  by  President  Washington  in  1 789,  and  a  naval  and  mer- 
chant-marine parade  and  review  in  the  upper  harbor  of  the   port  of   New  York.  The 


MARQUIS  DE  LAFAYETTE. 
From  a  bust  by  Houdon  from  a  cast  from  life. 
Done  by  the  order  of  the  Assembly  of  Virginia  for  the  State  of  Virginia, 
and  in  the  State  Capitol  building  at  Richmond. 


i9o       THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 


response  of  the  Navy  Department  to  this  recommendation  of  the  committee  was  prompt 
and  gratifying,  and,  by  direction  of  the  Hon.  Benjamin  F.  Tracy,  Secretary  of  the  Navy, 
all  available  ships  of  the  United  States  Navy  were  assembled  in  New  York  Harbor 
to  participate  in  the  parade  and  review,  while  the  United  States  steamer  Despatch  was 
placed  at  the  service  of  the  committee  for  the  occasion.  The  merchant  marine  also  responded 
with  enthusiasm  to  the  invitation,  and  a  committee  of  arrangements  was  appointed  by  the 


(Fac-simile  of  red-colored  ticket  to  steamer  ''  Sirius.") 


owners  of  steam  vessels  to  act  as  auxiliary  to  the  Committee  on  Navy.  Admiral  David  D. 
Porter,  U.  S.  N.,  was  invited  by  the  Committee  on  Navy  to  act  as  grand  marshal  for  the 
naval  and  merchant-marine  parade  and  review,  and,  having  accepted,  acted  in  that  capacity. 
Charles  W.  Woolsey,  Esq.  (late  U.  S.  N.),  the  Chairman  of  the  Merchant-Marine  Committee 
of  Arrangements,  was  invited  by  the  Committee  on  Navy  to  act  as  deputy  grand  marshal 
in  charge  of  the  merchant-marine  parade,  and,  having  accepted,  acted  in  that  capacity.  The 
following-named  gentlemen  were  invited  by  the  Committee  on  Navy  to  act  as  their  aides, 
and  accepted  and  performed  their  assigned  duties  in  the  most  satisfactory  manner,  viz. : 
Lieutenant  Arthur  P.  Nazro,  U.  S.  N.,  Lieutenant  Samuel  Seabury,  U.  S.  N.,  Lieutenant 
Millard  F.  Waltz,  Twelfth  Regiment  U.  S.  Infantry,  and  Samuel  Carpenter,  Esq.,  President 
of  the  Iron  Steamboat  Company. 

Upon  requisition  of  the  Committee  on  States  two  steamers  were  procured  to  take 
the  Governors,  Commissioners  of  States,  and  other  distinguished  guests  and  members 
of  the  General  Committee  on  the  Centennial  down  New  York  Bay  to  meet  the  Presi- 


THE    NAVY    COMMITTEE   ON    BOARD   THE    U.    S.    S.  DESPATCH. 

Cot'DKRT.     GoELET.     FARRAGUT.     GARDINER.     SCHULTZ.     J  AMES.     KANE.     PlERREFONT.     WlNTHROP.     EkHEN.  CHENEY. 


THE  NAVAL  PARADE. 


dent  of  the  United  States  and  accompany  him  to  the  city  of  New  York.  One  of  these 
steamers,  the  Erastus  Wiman,  was  obligingly  tendered  for  this  purpose  by  the  Staten  Island 
Rapid  Transit  Company,  and  accepted  by  the  Committee  on  Navy  and  placed  in  charge 
of  Lieutenant  Nazro.  The  other,  the  steamer  Monmouth,  was  chartered  of  the  Central 
Railroad  of  New  Jersey,  at  a  reduced  rate,  and  placed  in  charge  of  Lieutenant  Seabury. 
These  two  steamers  were  placed  at  the  service  of  the  Committee  on  States,  to  transport, 
as  indicated,  those  whom  they  had  invited.  In  order  to  enable  the  Committee  on  Navy 
to  bring  from  Elizabethport,  N.  J.,  official  personages  of  the  presidential  party  and  other 
guests,  including  the  families  of  the  President  and  Vice-President  of  the  United  States, 
the  Iron  Steamboat  Company  obligingly  tendered  the  beautiful  steamer  Sirius,  which  was 
accepted  for  the  purpose  and  placed  in  charge  of  Samuel  Carpenter,  Esq.  This  steamer 
proceeded  from  West  Twenty-third  Street,  New  York,  to  Elizabethport,  having  on  board 
the  representation  of  the  Honorable  Society  of  the  Cincinnati  and  many  ladies  and  gentle- 
men well  known  in  the  social  world. 


(Fac-simi!e  of  gray-colored  ticket,  with  blue-and-white  colored  flag,  to  United  States  steamer  "  Despatch.") 


The  following  was  the  general  programme  as  arranged  by  the  Committee  on  Navy  for 
Monday,  April  29,  1889: 

"  The  United  States  steamer  Despatch  to  take  on  board  at  foot  of  East  Twenty-sixth 
Street,  New  York,  on  the  morning  of  that  day,  the  Committee  on  Navy,  and  proceed  to 
Elizabethport  to  receive  the  President  and  suite. 

"  The  Governors,  Commissioners  of  States,  and  other  guests  with  ladies  invited  by  the 
Committee  on  States  and  the  members  of  the  General  Committee  to  embark  at  9.30  a.  m., 


i9a       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 

on  the  steamer  Erastus  Wiman  at  ferry  slip  foot  of  West  Twenty-third  Street,  New  York 
city,  in  order  to  meet  the  President's  steamer  off  Elizabethport. 

"  On  the  arrival  of  President  Harrison  and  the  Cabinet  officers  and  other  officials  of 
distinction  at  Elizabethport,  at  eleven  o'clock  Monday  morning,  the  party  to  embark  for 
New  York  city.  The  President  and  immediate  suite  to  be  received  by  the  Committee  on 
Navy,  and  under  their  direction  to  embark  on  the  United  States  steamer  Despatch. 

"  The  steamer  Sirius,  under  the  man- 
agement of  the  Committee  on  Navy, 
to  receive  at  Elizabethport  other  guests 
and  official  personages  of  the  presiden- 
tial party  who  can  not  be  accommo- 
dated on  the  President's  steamer.  The 
line  of  United  States  ships-of-war,  yachts, 
and  steamboats  to  be  formed  in  the 
upper  bay  under  Admiral  David  D.  Por- 
ter, U.  S.  N.,  as  Grand  Marshal,  and  re- 
viewed by  the  President. 

"  On  the  arrival  of  the  presidential 
party  in  the  East  River,  opposite  Wall 
Street,  a  barge  manned  by  a  crew  of 
ship-masters  from  the  Marine  Society 
of  the  Port  of  New  York,  to  row  the 
President  ashore,  the  crew  of  the  barge 
that  rowed  President  Washington  from 
Elizabethport  to  the  foot  of  Wall  Street 
having  been  members  of  the  same  so- 
ciety. The  steamers  Erastus  Wiman,  Monmouth,  and  Sirius,  prior  to  the  debarkation 
of  the  President,  to  land  at  Pier  16,  Wall  Street,  the  guests  for  the  reception  at  the 
Equitable  Building,  and  then  to  proceed  with  the  remaining  passengers  to  West  Twenty- 
third  Street  Ferry  slip. 

"  On  arriving  at  foot  of  Wall  Street,  the  President  of  the  United  States  to  be  received 
by  the  Hon.  Hamilton  Fish,  LL.  D.,  President  of  the  General  Centennial  Committee,  by 
William  G.  Hamilton,  Esq.,  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  States,  and  by  the  Governor 
of  the  State  of  New  York  and  the  Mayor  of  the  City  of  New  York." 

The  following  general  order  was  issued  by  Admiral  David  D.  Porter,  as  Grand 
Marshal : 


LINE  OF  FORMATION  AND  ROUTE  OF  NAVAL  PARADE. 


THE  U.   S.   S.  ESSEX. 


fNaval  Parade,  Now  York  Harbor,  Monday,  April  29,  1889.) 


THE  NAVAL  PARADE. 


*93 


General  Order  in  Relation  to  the  Naval  Display  in  the  Harbor  of  New  York,  April  2g,  18S9,  the 
Centennial  Celebration  of  Hie  Inauguration  of  George  Washington  as  First  President  of  the  United 
States. 

The  naval  vessels  participating  in  the  review  will  be  as  follows : 

CHICAGO, 

Carrying  the  flag  of  the  Secretary  of  the  Navy  at  the  main. 

BOSTON, 

Carrying  the  flag  of  the  Admiral  of  the  Navy  at  the  main. 
ATLANTA,  JUNIATA, 
YORKTOWN.  YANTIC. 


THE  PRESIDENT  AND  VICE-PRESIDENT  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES 
BOARDING  THE  UNITED  STATES  STEAMER  "DESPATCH." 
Naval  Parade,  New  York  Harbor,  April  29,  1889. 
(From  a  photograph  taken  by  the  "  Brooklyn  Academy  of  Photography.") 


The  naval  vessels  will  anchor  off  Ellis  Island  in  the  above  order,  the  Chicago  one  or  two  lengths 
north  of  the  island,  the  others  to  the  southward  of  that  ship,  at  twelve  o'clock  meridian  of  April  28th,  to  be 
ready  to  participate  in  the  ceremonies  of  the  following  day.  Each  vessel  will  be  provided  with  howitzers 
for  saluting. 

At  "  colors "  on  the  morning  of  April  29th  the  ships  of  the  fleet  will  be  dressed  with  rainbow  arches 

with  the  national  ensign  at  the  mast-heads,  except  on  the  main  or  mizzen  of  flag-ships,  and  a  salute  of 
26 


THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 


twenty-one  guns  will  be  fired.  When  the  President  passes  the  fleet,  each  vessel  will  man  yards  and  lire  a 
national  salute.    At  sunset  a  national  salute  will  also  be  fired  by  each  ship  and  all  flags  hauled  down. 

The  revenue  cutters  and  yachts  will  be  anchored  in  double  columns,  one  hundred  yards  apart,  on  April 
28th,  to  the  southward  of  the  naval  vessels,  and  will  dress  ship  on  the  29th.  Those  which  have  guns  will 
follow  the  motions  of  the  naval  fleet  in  firing  salutes  as  the  President  passes  the  line.  The  river  and 
sound  steamers  will  form  in  double  column  to  the  southward  of  the  yachts,  one  hundred  yards  apart. 

The  procession  of  river  and  sound  steamers  will  consist  of  three  hundred  vessels,  more  or  less,  formed 
in  twenty-three  divisions  of  thirteen  steamers  each.  Each  division  will  be  in  command  of  a  commodore 
appointed  from  the  most  experienced  river  or  sound  captains.  Each  division  will  form  in  two  columns, 
one  hundred  yards  apart,  and  the  flag-boat,  carrying  a  square  red  flag  with  the  number  of  the  division  in 
white  figures  three  feet  high,  will  lead. 

These  divisions  will  be  formed  in  three  Grand  Divisions.  The  first  will  consist  of  Divisions  1,  2,  3,  4, 
5,  6,  and  7,  under  the  supervision  of  the  commodore  of  the  first  division;  the  second  will  consist  of  Divisions 
8,  9,  10,  11,  12,  13,  14,  and  15,  under  the  supervision  of  the  commodore  of  the  eighth  division;  and  the 
third  will  consist  of  Divisions  16,  17,  18,  19,  20,  21,  22,  and  23,  under  the  supervision  of  the  commodore  of 
the  sixteenth  division.  Each  steamer  not  commanded  by  a  commodore  will  carry  a  blue  flag  forward 
with  the  number  of  the  division  in  white. 

The  commodore  of  each  Grand  Division  will  make  signal  by  steam-whistle,  to  "get  under  way,"  "go 
ahead,"  "slow  down,"  "prepare  to  anchor,"  "anchor,"  and  such  other  signals  as  may  be  necessary.  The 
commanding  officer  of  every  vessel  taking  part  in  the  procession  will  be  furnished  with  copies  of  the 
signals  that  are  to  be  used  from  the  steam-whistles,  of  the  general  programme,  and  of  orders. 

Six  deputy  marshals  will  be  appointed  from  the  captains  of  river  or  sound  steamers,  each  to  proceed 
in  a  tug,  in  order  to  get  the  steamers  first  into  divisions  and  then  into  line.  The  deputy  marshals  will 
confer  with  Rear-Admiral  James  E.  Jouett,  U.  S.  Navy,  Marshal  of  the  Day. 

A  naval  tug,  with  a  howitzer,  will  be  stationed  outside  of  Kill  Van  Kull,  and  will  fire  a  gun  when 
the  Despatch  is  abreast  Port  Richmond  as  a  signal  to  the  fleet  to  prepare  to  get  under  way;  and,  as  the 
Despatch  joins  the  rear  of  the  river  and  sound  steamers,  she  will  fire  two  guns  as  a  signal  to  the 
Chicago  to  steam  ahead,  all  following  in  column.  A  tug,  provided  with  a  signal-pole  and  howitzer,  will 
be  stationed  half  a  mile  south  of  Bedloe's  Island  to  repeat  the  signal  from  the  Despatch. 

In  running  up  the  North  River  the  naval  vessels  will  form  at  half  distance  (one  cable,  two  hundred 
yards,  apart)  in  column,  and  will  anchor  in  that  formation  at  the  same  distance  apart  on  reaching  a  boat 
anchored  in  the  stream.  The  usual  signal  for  anchoring  will  be  made  by  the  Chicago,  and  at  the  same 
time  she  will  fire  a  gun.  All  vessels  will  come  to  anchor  when  the  signal  is  hauled  down.  Distance  will 
be  carefully  preserved,  and  the  speed  of  the  fleet  will  be  six  knots.  Tugs  will  be  employed  to  keep  the 
river  clear  of  vessels,  and  all  vessels  besides  those  mentioned  in  the  programme  must  be  removed  by  9 
a.  m.  on  the  29th  of  April,  as  high  up  as  Fifty-ninth  Street. 

The  Despatch,  dressed  in  national  flags  and  signals,  will  be  at  the  foot  of  East  Twenty-sixth  Street, 
East  River,  at  7  a.  m.  of  the  29th,  to  receive  the  Committee  on  Navy.  She  will  then  steam  to  Elizabeth- 
port,  New  Jersey,  where  the  committee,  the  Admiral  of  the  Navy,  and  the  Major-General  commanding  the 
Army  will  receive  the  President  and  suite. 

When  the  President  has  reviewed  the  naval  display  at  anchor  and  has  passed  up  the  river  to  the 
foot  of  Wall  Street,  where  he  is  to  land,  the  revenue  cutters,  yachts,  river,  and  sound  steamers  will  be  at 
liberty  to  retire  from  the  line,  and  the  naval  vessels  will  get  under  way  and  proceed  to  their  regular 
anchorage  before  sunset,  so  as  not  to  obstruct  the  river.  No  tows  will  be  allowed  in  the  bay  or  North 
River.  All  tows  coming  down  the  river  will  be  required  to  haul  in-shore  at  Eighty-sixth  Street  until  after 
the  naval  display  is  concluded. 

Rear-Admiral  James  E.  Jouett,  U.  S.  Navy,  will  act  as  Marshal  of  the  Day,  and  deputy  marshals  will 
carry  out  such  orders  to  preserve  this  formation  as  he  may  give  personally  or  through  his  aides. 

David  D.  Porter, 
Admiral,  U.  S.  Navy,  Grand  Marshal. 


THE'  U.    S.    STEEL   CRUISER  BOSTON. 


THE    U.    S.    MAN-OF-WAR    BROOKLYN    SALUTING   THE    PRESIDENT   OF   THE    UNITED  STATES. 

iNaval  Parade.  New  York  Harbor.  Monday,  April  29    1889  1 


THE  NAVAL  PARADE. 


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This  order,  so  far  as  the  merchant-marine  parade  was  concerned,  was  subsequently 
modified  in  order  to  sanction  the  formation  arranged  in  the  following  general  order,  issued 
by  Charles  W.  Woolsey,  Esq.,  acting  vice-admiral : 

Headquarters  of  Committee  of  Arrangements, 
Merchant  Marine  Naval  Parade,  New  York,  April  18,  1880. 

General  Order,  No.  i. 

FORMATION  AND  ROUTE  OF  MERCHANT  MARINE  PARADE. 

APRIL  29th. 

1.  The  parade  will  be  divided  into  two  grand  divisions,  in  charge  of  the  senior  and  junior  rear-admirals 
respectively. 

2.  The  first  division  will  consist  of  squadrons  one  to  five  inclusive,  each  in  charge  of  a  commodore. 

3.  Division  second  will  consist  of  squadrons  six  to  ten  inclusive,  each  in  charge  of  a  commodore. 

4.  The  first  division  will  form  in  the  upper  bay,  the  right  resting  at  a  point  opposite  Burtis's  dry  dock, 
Red  Hook,  Brooklyn,  eastward  of  the  center  of  the  channel. 


BENJAMIN   HARRISON,  PRESIDENT  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES, 
AND  DAVID  D.  PORTER,  ADMIRAL  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES  NAVY, 
on  board  the  United  States  Steamer  "Despatch." 
Naval  Parade,  New  York  Harbor,  April  29,  1889. 


The  vessels  of  this  division  will  form  astern  of  the  flag-ship  in  the  regular  order;  the  left  toward  Sta- 
pleton,  Staten  Island,  heading  about  north-northeast. 

5.  Division  number  Two  will  form  to  the  westward  of  the  channel,  the  right  resting  abreast  of  Oyster 
Island  and  close  to  Buoy  No.  20.  and  the  left  of  the  line  not  to  extend  to  the  southward  of  the  bell-buoy  at 
Robbins  Reef. 


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6.  These  two  divisions  will  form  in  double  column,  the  smaller  boats  toward  the  channel ;  where  practi- 
cable or  necessary,  the  commodores  of  divisions  may  place  boats  three  or  four  abreast  in  order  to  shorten  the 
line  while  lying  at  rest  in  the  upper  bay. 

7.  The  President's  boat  and  convoy  will  pass  up  the  bay  between  the  two  divisions  of  the  merchant-marine 
fleet,  and  salutes  will  be  given  as  the  President's  boat  passes  the  commodore's  boat  of  each  squadron. 

SALUTES. 

8.  When  the  President's  boat  passes  each  squadron,  its  commodore  will  cause  a  salute  to  be  given  by 
dipping  of  colors  and  blowing  steam-whistles  of  a  period  not  exceeding  half  a  minute. 

9.  The  same  salute  will  be  given  when  the  fleet  passes  up  the  North  River,  and  is  abreast  of  the  war- 
ships at  anchor  about  Thirtieth  Street. 

10.  When  passing  in  review  before  the  vice-admiral,  off  Governor's  Island,  the  same  salute  shall  be  given, 
after  which  the  parade  will  be  dismissed. 

11.  No  other  whistles  shall  be  blown,  except  as  required  by  law,  during  the  entire  parade. 


THE  UNITED  STATES  TRAINING  SHIP  "  JAMESTOWN." 
Naval  Parade,  New  York  Harbor,  April  29,  1889. 


12.  The  signal  for  starting  the  column  will  be  the  lowering  of  the  Blue  Peter  from  the  mast-head  of  the 
Vice-Admiral's  vessel,  and  the  second  division  will  follow  immediately  after  the  first. 

13.  The  column  will  form  in  the  following  manner:  All  side-wheel  boats,  all  yachts  and  tugs  over  one 
hundred  feet  in  length,  will  form  in  single-file;  all  others  in  double-file,  and  proceed  in  regular  order,  one 
boat's  length  apart,  around  and  north  of  Governor's  Island,  into  the  East  River,  taking  the  east  shore,  and 
continuing  up  the  East  River  to  the  stake-boat  anchored  off  a  point  about  opposite  Thirtieth  Street,  thence 
down  on  the  west  shore  of  the  East  River,  around  the  Battery,  up  the  Hudson  River  to  Fiftieth  Street,  around 


THE  U.   S.  STEEL  CRUISER  YORKTOWN. 

(Naval  Parade.  New  York  Harbor,  Monday.  April  29.  1889.) 


THE  NAVAL  PARADE. 


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the  stake-boat  to  the  west  shore  of  the  Hudson  River,  passing  the  flag-ship  in  review  off  Governor's  Island, 
and  dismiss. 

14.  Commodores  of  squadrons  will  report  directly  to  rear-admirals  of  their  divisions,  and  will  be  respon- 
sible for  the  movements  of  boats  comprising  their  respective  squadrons. 

15.  Each  commodore  will  fly  his  pennant  and  squadron  number  on  the  masts  of  his  vessel. 

16.  When  boats  are  assigned  to  the  squadron  in  which  they  are  expected  to  sail,  the  commodores  will 
be  charged  with  the  duty  of  communicating  with  them  and  issuing  the  necessary  orders. 

17.  All  vessels  intending  to  participate  in  the  parade  must  be  in  line  by  10.30  a.m.,  April  29th,  sharp. 

18.  The  masters  of  all  vessels  will  be  expected  to  maintain  the  position  in  line  in  which  they  start,  and 
in  no  case  attempt  to  run  ahead  of  each  other.  C.  W.  Woolsev, 

Vice- Admiral  commanding  M.  M.  Fleet. 


UNITED  STATES  STEAMER  "BROOKLYN." 
With  homeward-bound  pennant  five  hundred  feet  long  flying  from  main  truck,  this  vessel  having  just  returned  from  the  Asiatic  Station. 

Naval  Parade,  New  York  Harbor,  April  29,  1889. 
(From  photograph  taken  by  the  "  Brooklyn  Academy  of  Photography.") 

For  the  proper  embarkation  of  the  presidential  party  at  Elizabethport  the  Alcyone  Boat 
Club  of  that  place  put  at  the  service  of  the  Committee  on  Navy  their  commodious  club- 
house, and  a  float  specially  prepared  for  the  purpose.  Messrs.  James  E.  Ward  &  Co.,  man- 
agers of  the  New  York  and  Cuba  Mail  Steamship  Company,  prepared  and  beautifully  deco- 
rated their  pier,  number  16,  at  the  foot  of  Wall  Street,  in  the  city  of  New  York,  and  also 
a  float  for  the  reception  of  the  presidential  party,  and  placed  the  same  at  the  service  of  the 
Committee  on  Navy.  At  seven  o'clock  on  the  morning  of  April  29th,  according  to  the 
programme,  the  Committee  on  Navy  went  on  board  the  Despatch,  Lieutenant  W.  S.  Cowles, 


i98      THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 


U.  S.  N.,  commanding.  Those  who  had  been  invited  to  accompany  them,  and  who  were 
present,  were  Admiral  David  D.  Porter,  U.  S.  N.,  Grand  Marshal;  Irion.  Benjamin  F.  Tracy, 
Secretary  of  the  Navy;  Major-General  John  M.  Schofield,  General-in-Chief,  U.  S.  A.;  Hon. 
David  B.  Hill,  Governor  of  the  State  of  New  York;  Hon.  Hugh  J.  Grant,  Mayor  of  the 
city  of  New  York;  General  W.  T.  Sherman,  U.  S.  A.;  Commodore  Francis  M.  Ramsay, 
U.  S.  N.,  Commandant  of  the  Brooklyn  Navy  Yard ;  First  Lieutenant  Tasker  H.  Bliss,  First 
U.  S.  Artillery,  aide-de-camp  to  the  General-in-Chief ;  and  Messrs.  Elbridge  T.  Gerry,  Clar- 
ence W.  Bowen,  and  James  M.  Varnum,  of  the  Executive  Committee.  United  States  Sena- 
tors William  M.  Evarts  and  Frank  Hiscox,  and  several  others,  also  came  on  board.  En 
ro7ite  to  Elizabethport,  breakfast  was  served  to  the  committee's  invited  guests.  On  ac- 
count of  the  shallowness  of  the  water  at  that  point,  the  Despatch  anchored  off  Port 
Richmond,  and  the  special  twelve-oared  barge,  in  charge  of  Ensign  N.  Eldridge,  U.  S.  N., 
was  lowered,  and  manned  for  this  occasion  by  a  crew  from  the  Despatch.  The  Chair- 
man   of  the    Committee   on    Navy,  together  with    Captain    Erben    and    Mr.   Kane,  of 


THE  UNITED  STATES  STEAMER  "  JUNIATA." 
Naval  Parade,  New  York  Harbor,  April  29,  1889. 


that  committee,  proceeded  in  the  barge  to  Elizabethport  as  a  special  sub-committee  to  receive 
the  presidential  party.     At  eleven  o'clock  the  Hon.  Benjamin  Harrison,  President  of  the 


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199 


United  States,  escorted  by  the  Hon.  Robert  S.  Green,  Governor  of  the  State  of  New  Jersey, 
entered  the  Alcyone  Club  Boat-House,  followed  by  the  presidential  party,  and  was  met  by 
the  sub-committee.    The  chairman  spoke  as  follows: 

"  Mr.  President  :  On  behalf  of  the  citizens  of  New  York,  the  pleasing  duty  of  receiving  you  here,  at 
the  gateway  of  our  State,  and  conducting  you  to  the  city  of  New  York,  over  the  route  taken  by  President 
Washington  one  hundred  years  ago,  has  been  assigned  to  the  Committee  on  Navy. 

"In  pursuance  of  the  duty  with  which  we  have  been  honored,  we  now  await  your  orders." 

The  President  then  took  the  arm  of  the  chairman,  and,  stepping  upon  the  float,  was 
conducted  to  the  barge.    Captain  Erben,  in  like  manner,  escorted  the  Hon.  Levi  Parsons 


THE  UNITED  STATES  STEAMER  "  YANTIC." 
Naval  Parade,  New  York  Harbor,  April  29,  1889. 

Morton,  Vice-President  of  the  United  States.  No  others  embarked  with  the  President. 
Mr.  Kane  remained  on  the  float  to  attend  to  the  embarkation  in  steam  tugs  of  the  Chief- 
Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States,  the  members  of  the  Cabinet,  Associate- 
Justices  of  the  United  States  Supreme  Court,  and  others  of  the  presidential  party.  The 
Governor  of  the  State  of  New  Jersey  and  staff  embarked  on  the  steam  yacht  Meteor, 
owned  and  commanded  by  A.  E.  Bateman,  Esq.,  which  carried  for  the  day  the  State  flag  of 
New  Jersey.  As  the  President's  barge,  carrying  the  President's  flag  at  the  bow,  pulled  away 
from  the  float,  cannon  were  fired,  steam-whistles  were  blown,  and  the  assembled  crowd  of 


2oo       77//:'  CUNTENNIAI  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


spectators  cheered  and  waved  handkerchiefs.  These  enthusiastic  manifestations  were  con- 
tinued during  the  trip  to  the  Despatch. 

When  the  barge  approached  that  vessel,  the  yards  were  manned,  the  marines  paraded, 
the  band  played,  and  the  President  was  received  with  prescribed  naval  honors  as  Com- 


STEAM  TUGS  SALUTING  THE  PRESIDENTIAL  PARTY. 

Naval  Parade,  New  York  Harbor,  April  29,  1889. 
(From  photograph  taken  by  the  "  Brooklyn  Academy  of  Photography.") 


mander-in-Chief.  The  Committee  on  Navy  received  him  at  the  starboard  gangway,  and 
were  introduced  by  the  Hon.  Jackson  S.  Schultz.  As  soon  as  the  Vice-President  and  sub- 
committee had  come  on  board,  the  party  proceeded  aft,  where  the  invited  guests  paid  their 
respects.  In  a  few  minutes  the  steam  launches  arrived  with  the  Hon.  Melville  W.  Fuller, 
Chief-Justice  of  the  United  States  Supreme  Court,  and  Associate-Justices  Stephen  J.  Field 
and  Samuel  Blatchford  and  ex-Associate-Justice  William  Strong  of  that  court ;  Hon.  William 
Windom,  Secretary  of  the  Treasury;  Hon.  Redfield  Proctor,  Secretary  of  War;  Hon.  W, 
H.  H.  Miller,  Attorney-General;  Hon.  John  Wanamaker,  Postmaster-General;  Hon.  John 
W.  Noble,  Secretary  of  the  Interior ;  Hon.  Jeremiah  M.  Rusk,  Secretary  of  Agricult- 
ure ;  Hon.  O.  B.  Potter,  Chairman  of  the  Centennial  Committee  on  Transportation  ;  Mr. 
Walker  Blaine,  as  representative  of  the  State  Department ;  Lieutenant-Colonel  Thomas 
F.  Barr,  U.  S.  A.,  acting  aide  to  the  Secretary  of  War;  Lieutenant  T.  Bailey  Myers 
M;ison,  U.  S.  N.,  acting  aide  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Navy;  Second  Lieutenant  William 


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20 1 


V.  Judson,  U.  S.  Corps  of  Engineers,  acting  aide  to  the  President;  and  Mr.  E.  W.  Halford, 
Private  Secretary.  As  the  Despatch  got  under  way  and  proceeded  through  the  Kill  Van 
Kull  to  the  upper  bay,  the  crowds  of  spectators  on  the  New  Jersey  and  Staten  Island  shores 
cheered  and  waved  handkerchiefs,  cannon  were  fired,  and  the  steam-whistles  of  factories  and 
steam  tugs  were  blown.  These  manifestations  of  enthusiasm  were  continuous  while  passing 
through  the  Kill.  In  every  direction  the  national  flag  was  displayed  on  the  shores,  and  the 
river  craft  were  dressed  in  bunting.  The  Despatch  was  followed  by  the  steamer  Sirius, 
upon  which  had  been  embarked  many  distinguished  guests  and  the  families  of  the  President 
and  Vice-President  and  also  representatives  of  the  Centennial  Committees  on  Transportation 
and  General  Government,  who  had  accompanied  the  presidential  party  from  Washington. 
The  steamers  Erastus  Wiman  and  Monmouth  also  accompanied  the  Despatch.  While  pass- 
ing through  the  Kill,  luncheon  was  served  on  the  President's  vessel,  after  which  he  and  his 
suite  proceeded  to  the  upper  deck  to  witness  the  naval  and  merchant-marine  review  in  the 
upper  bay.    The  ships-of-war  in  line  consisted  of  the  Boston,  Atlanta,  Yorktown,  Juniata, 


THE  UNITED  STATES  STEAMER  "  DESPATCH  "  IN  THE  EAST  RIVER, 

opposite  the  foot  of  Wall  Street. 
Naval  Parade,  New  Vork  Harbor,  April  29,  1S89. 
(From  photograph  by  the  "  Brooklyn  Academy  of  Photography.") 


Jamestown,  Brooklyn,  Essex,  Yantic,  Kearsarge,  and  Chicago.    The  steam  frigate  Minnesota 

also  participated,  but  was  anchored  in  a  more  northerly  position.     Each  ship  was  dressed 

in  bunting,  and,  as  the  Despatch  appeared,  the  yards  were  manned,   and,  as  the  President 

passed,  national  salutes  were  fired.    The  United  States  revenue  cutters  in  line  next  to  the 
27 


Till-   CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 


ships-of-war  consisted  of  the  Albert  Gallatin,  Samuel  Dexter,  U.  S.  Grant,  William  E.  Chan- 
dler, Washington,  Alexander  Hamilton,  and  Manhattan.  Charles  W.  Woolsey,  Esq.,  was  in 
charge  of  the  merchant-marine  and  steamboat  service,  assisted  by  Messrs.  F.  W.  Vosburgh 
and  J.  W.  Miller  as  division  commanders.  There  were  five  squadrons  to  each  division, 
comprising  in  all  one  ocean  steamship,  forty-four  steamboats,  one  hundred  and  seventy-one 
steam  tug-boats,  fourteen  steam  propellers,  six  steam  yachts,  eight  steam  ferry-boats,  seven- 
teen steam  lighters,  and  six  barges.  A  large  number  of  steamboats,  steam  yachts,  and  tug- 
boats, in  addition  to  the  above,  followed  in  the  wake  of  the  Despatch,  and  surrounded  the 
point  of  debarkation.  The  Despatch  having  anchored  off  the  foot  of  Wall  Street,  New 
York,  steam  tugs  carried  the  invited  guests  to  Pier  16,  and  brought  back  a  representative 
crew  of  ex-shipmasters,  members  of  the  Marine  Society  of  the  Port  of  New  York,  who 
manned  the  President's  barge  at  i  p.  m.    They  were  as  follows: 

Coxswain. — Ambrose  Snow,  Esq.,  President  of  the  Marine  Society  and  of  the  New  York 
Board  of  Trade  and  Transportation. 

Port  Oars. —  i,  W.  W.  Urquhardt,  who  has  received  many  medals  for  saving  lives  at 
sea;  2,  George  A.  Dearborn,  Dockmaster,  New  York  City;  3,  James  Parker,  late  Lieuten- 
ant-Commander U.  S.  N.,  Pilot  Commissioner  of  New  Jersey  ;  4,  John  R.  Dewar,  Super- 
intendent Guion  Line  of  Steamships ;  5,  Stephen  Whitman,  Surveyor  and  Inspector  of 
Vessels  loading  Petroleum ;  6,  Gustavus  D.  S.  Trask,  Governor  of  Sailors'  Snug  Harbor, 
Staten  Island. 

Starboard  Oars. —  1,  George  L.  Norton,  Editor  and  Manager  of  the  Marine  Journal; 
2,  Albert  Spencer,  Surveyor  for  French  Bztreati  Veritas  Register  of  Shipping ;  3,  Samuel 
G.  Fairchild,  United  States  Local  Inspector  of  Steam  Vessels;  4,  Richard  Luce,  Agent  of 
the  Application  Department  for  the  Trustees  of  Sailors'  Snug  Harbor ;  5,  Benjamin  F. 
Marsh,  retired  ship-master,  who  received  a  medal  and  decoration  from  the  French  Govern- 
ment for  life-saving  services  at  sea ;  6,  William  A.  Ellis,  Surveyor  of  the  New  York  Board 
of  Underwriters. 

Pursuant  to  the  specific  resolution  of  the  Committee  on  Navy  on  the  subject,  the 
following  members  were  designated  a  sub-committee  for  the  purpose,  and  accompanied 
the  President  and  Vice-President  in  the  presidential  barge  to  the  landing  at  Wall 
Street,  viz.,  the  Chairman  and  Messrs.  Jackson  S.  Schultz  and  Frederic  R.  Coudert. 
As  the  barge  quitted  the  Despatch,  the  usual  naval  honors  were  paid  the  Commander- 
in-Chief.  The  assembled  thousands  on  river-craft  and  docks,  piers,  and  nearest  houses 
along  South  and  Wall  Streets,  cheered  and  waved  handkerchiefs.  The  approach  of  the 
President  and  Vice-President  of  the  United  States  to  Pier  16  was  announced  by  a 
national  salute  of  twenty-one  guns  from  a  battery  of  light  artillery  placed  near  Pier  15. 
At  the  same  time  the  steam-whistles  from  all  the  tugs  and  steamboats  surrounding 
the  place  of  debarkation  were  blown.  The  Sirius  had  already  landed  her  guests  at  the 
head  of  Pier  16,  and  the  Governor  of  the  State  of  New  York  and  the  Mayor  of  the 


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203 


city,  together  with  the  members  of  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  General  Centen- 
nial Committee,  the  Cabinet,  and  Chief- Justice  and  Associate  Justices  of  the  Supreme 
Court,  had  left  the  Despatch  in  advance  of  the  President,  and  were  present  on  the 
float  in  order  to  receive  him  officially  on  landing.  The  Hon.  Hamilton  Fish,  LL.  D., 
President-General  of  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati,  senior  ex-Governor  of  the  State  of 
New  York,  and  long  United  States  Secretary  of  State,  was  also  present  as  President  of 


SHIP-MASTERS  FROM  THE  MARINE  SOCIETY  OF  THE  PORT  OF  NEW  YORK, 
who  rowed  the  President  and  Vice-President  of  the  United  States  from  the  United  States  steamer  '  Despatch  "  in  the  East  River 

to  the  foot  of  Wall  Street,  April  29,  1889. 
Back  row  (standing):  Captains  Spencer,  Ellis,  Dewar,  Parker,  and  Urquhardt.    Middle  row  (sitting)  :  Captains  Fairchild,  Trask,  Snow, 

Luce,  and  Dearborn.    Front  row  :  Captains  Norton,  Marsh,  and  Whitman. 


the  General  Centennial  Committee.  The  float  was  placed  in  the  slip  on  the  easterly  side 
of  Pier  16,  with  which  it  was  connected  by  a  gangway,  both  being  covered  with  crimson 
carpeting,  and  the  roof  of  the  pier  was  profusely  decorated  with  the  national  colors  and 
signal-flags  and  gayly  colored  bunting.  As  the  President's  barge  was  made  fast  to  the 
float,  he  stepped  out,  followed  by  the  Vice-President  and  special  sub-committee  of  the 
Committee  on  Navy. 


204       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


The  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Navy  (all  standing  uncovered  near  the  President) 
then  said  : 

"  Mr.  President:  I  have  the  honor  to  present  to  you  the  Honorable  Hamilton  Fish,  President  of  the 
General  Centennial  Committee  of  the  Citizens  of  New  York  and  President-General  of  the  Society  of  the 
Cincinnati." 

The  President  having  then  uncovered  and  taken  the  hand  of  the  venerable  President  of 
the  General  Centennial  Committee,  the  latter  said  : 

"  Mr.  President  :  In  the  name  of  the  Centennial  Committee,  representing  the  enthusiasm,  the  gratitude, 
and  the  pride  of  the  nation  on  this  centennial  anniversary,  I  tender  to  you  the  welcome  of  New  York  on 
the  very  spot  where,  one  hundred  years  ago,  your  great  predecessor,  our  first  President,  planted  his  foot 
when  he  came  to  assume  the  duties  of  the  great  office  which  has  now  devolved  upon  you,  and  to  set  in 
operation  the  machinery  of  that  glorious  Constitution  under  which  the  Government  has  prospered  and 
enlarged  and  extended  across  the  continent,  insuring  peace,  security,  and  happiness  to  more  than  sixty 
millions  of  people  and  not  a  single  slave. 

"  We  welcome  you  to  celebrate  the  centennial  anniversary  of  the  inauguration  of  that  Constitution  to 
whose  preservation  and  defense  you  have  sworn. 

"I  have  the  honor  to  present  the  Hon.  David  B.  Hill,  Governor  of  the  State  of  New  York;  the  Hon. 
Hugh  J.  Grant,  Mayor  of  the  City  of  New  York;  Mr.  Elbridge  T.  Gerry,  Chairman  of  the  Executive 
Committee  of  the  Centennial  Committee;  Mr.  Clarence  W.  Bowen,  Secretary  of  the  Centennial  Committee; 
and  Mr.  William  G.  Hamilton,  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  States  of  the  Centennial  Committee." 

President  Harrison,  still  clasping  Mr.  Fish's  hand,  said : 

"  I  thank  you  for  the  welcome  given,  for  the  reception  extended  on  the  spot  where  our  first  President- 
elect was  greeted  upon  his  entrance  into  the  first  capital  of  the  new  republic. 

'•  The  passing  of  a  century  has  brought  us  to  this  day,  and  to  the  event  which  we  commemorate  as 
foremost  in  our  history.  I  am  grateful  to  be  met  here  by  your  committee,  and  can  inadequately  express 
my  feelings  at  the  honor  shown  me  in  my  official  character  as  President  of  the  United  States." 

Mr.  Fish  then  turned  toward  Governor  Hill,  who  said: 

"  Welcome,  President  Harrison,  to  the  Empire  State." 

The  President  returned  his  thanks  ;  and  Mayor  Grant  then  stepped  forward  and  said  : 

"  New  York  extends  to  you  a  most  hearty  welcome,  Mr.  President;  pray  accept  the  freedom  of  the  city." 

The  President  thanked  Mayor  Grant. 

The  party  on  the  float,  preceded  by  the  President  leaning  on  the  arm  of  the  Governor 
of  the  State  and  the  President  of  the  General  Centennial  Committee  leaning  on  the  arm 
of  the  Mayor,  followed  by  the  remainder  of  the  presidential  party,  then  proceeded  up  the 
gangway  to  the  pier,  where  the  "  Committee  on  States "  assumed  charge  and  the  duties  of 
the  "  Committee  on  Navy "  terminated.  The  weather  had  been  most  propitious,  and  the 
marine  pageant  had  proved  one  of  exceptional  interest.  Never  before  in  the  history  of  the 
United  States  had  so  many  vessels  been  assembled  at  once  in  any  of  its  ports  to  participate 


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in  any  celebration.  Steamers  came  from  many  places  on  the  Hudson  and  Long  Island 
Sound  and  on  the  Atlantic  seaboard,  laden  with  persons  desirous  of  witnessing  the  naval 
review ;  but,  amid  all  the  thousands  on  the  waters  of  New  York  Bay  during  that  fair  day, 
not  an  accident  occurred  to  mar  the  general  joy.  How  different  the  sight  from  that  of  a 
century  before,  when  President  Washington  came  from  Elizabethport  in  a  barge  through  the 
Kill  Van  Kull  !  Then  the  United  States  had  no  navy,  and  the  only  naval  salutes  fired  were 
from  the  Spanish  corvette  Galveston  and  a  merchant-ship  ;  while  the  only  vessels  to  be  seen 
other  than  these  were  a  line  of  barges  propelled  by  oars  following  in  the  wake  of  the  Presi- 
dent's, and  a  few  sloops  of  small  tonnage.  The  contrast  marked  the  progress  of  the  United 
States  in  population,  wealth,  prosperity,  and  influence  among  the  nations  of  the  earth.  With 
the  conclusion  of  the  memorable  historic  naval  and  merchant-marine  review  of  April  29, 
1889,  which  terminated  their  duties,  the  Committee  on  Navy  had  the  pleasing  consciousness 
that  their  labors  of  many  months  had  not  been  in  vain,  and  that  the  celebration  with  which 
they  had  been  more  particularly  charged  had  redounded  to  the  honor  of  their  city  and  State. 


CHAPTER  X. 


THE    MARCH    UP    WALL    STREET,    THE    ENTERTAINMENT    AT    THE    LAWYERS  CLUB, 
AND  THE  PUBLIC   RECEPTION   AT  THE  CITY  HALL. 


By  William  Gaston  Hamilton, 

Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  States. 

On  February  3,  1888,  at  a  meet- 
ing of  the  Plan  and  Scope  Com- 
mittee on  the  Centennial  Celebra- 
tion of  the  Inauguration  of  George 
Washington  as  President  of  the 
United  States,  Mr.  Elbridge  T. 
Gerry,  Chairman  of  the  Executive 
Committee,  submitted  the  names 
of  the  gentlemen  to  serve  on  the 
sub-committees :  Those  for  Com- 
mittee No.  2,  on  States,  were  Will- 
iam G.  Hamilton,  Chairman; 
James  C.  Carter,  Hon.  Jacob  A. 
Cantor,  John  Schuyler.  E.  Ellery 
Anderson,  J.  Tallmadge  Van  Rens- 
selaer, Colonel  Floyd  Clarkson, 
Hon.  James  W.  Husted,  Henry 
W.  Le  Roy,  Hon.  Theodore  Roose- 
velt, John  B.  Pine,  and  James  M. 
Montgomery,  Secretary.  Mr.  Sam- 
uel Borrowe  was  subsequently  add- 
ed. The  duties  of  the  committee 
were  defined  as  follows : 

"The  duties  of  the  Committee  on 
States  would  be  to  address  a  communi- 
cation to  the  Governors  of  all  the  States 
and  Territories,  telling  them  of  the  cele- 
bration, inviting  their  co-operation,  and 
requesting  them  to  bring  before  the  Legislatures  of  their  several  States  the  fact  of  the  celebration,  and 
requesting  the  attendance  of  members  of  the  several  Legislatures,  of  gentlemen  whose  ancestors  took  a 


GEORGE  CLINTON,  GOVERNOR  OF  NEW  YORK  IN  1789. 
From  the  original  clay  model  by  Guiseppe  Ceracchi, 
in  the  possession  of  the  New  York  Historical  Society. 


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prominent  part  in  the  inauguration,  and  such  citizens  of  the  States  as  would  be  particularly  interested 
in  the  historical  event." 

To  this  end  the  following  general  invitation  was  sent  out  to  the  Governors  of  all  the 
States  and  Territories  by  the  Committee  on  States  : 

To  his  Excellency 

Governor  of  the  

Sir:  At  a  meeting  of  the  Washington  Centennial  Celebration  Committee,  organized  February  3,  1888, 
to  celebrate  on  the  30th  day  of  April,  1889,  in  the  city  of  New  York,  the  centennial  of  Washington's  taking 
the  oath  of  office  as  President  of  the  United  States  of  America — 

It  was  Resolved :  To  invite  the  co-operation  of  all  the  Gov- 
ernors of  all  the  States  and  Territories,  requesting  them  to  bring 
the  matter  before  the  Legislatures  of  the  several  States,  and  re- 
questing the  attendance  of  members  of  the  Legislatures,  of  gen- 
tlemen whose  ancestors  took  a  prominent  part  in  the  inaugura- 
tion, and  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  States  who  would  be  particu- 
larly interested  in  the  event. 

In  pursuance  of  this  duty,  the  sub-Committee  on  States  of 
the  Centennial  Celebration  of  the  Inauguration  of  George  Wash- 
ington as  the  First  President  of  the  United  States  of  America 
have  the  honor  to  lay  before  you  as  Governor  of  the  State  of 

 this  invitation  to  the 

Governor  and  staff,  the  Legislature,  and  prominent  citizens  of  the 

State  of  to  attend  the  celebration,  on 

the  30th  day  of  April,  1889,  in  the  city  of  New  York. 

Accompanying  this  invitation,  we  present  the  memorial  to  the 
President  of  the  United  States,  asking  the  approval  of  the  Gen- 
eral Government. 

The  committee  will  be  deeply  obliged  if  you,  by  special  message,  will  call  the  attention  of  your  people 
to  this  celebration,  and  solicit  them,  by  hearty  co-operation  and  participation,  in  honoring  the  memory  of 
the  First  President  of  these  United  States,  to  honor  themselves,  their  State,  and  country. 
The  committee  will  thank  you  for  the  names  of  the  authorized  representatives. 
We  have  the  honor  to  be  the  sub-Committee  on  States  of  the  Centennial  Celebration, 
E.  Ellery  Anderson,  William  G.  Hamilton,  John  B.  Pine, 

James  W.  Husted,  Theodore  Roosevelt, 

Henry  W.  Le  Roy,  John  Schuyler, 

James  M.  Montgomery,  J.  Tallmadge  Van  Rensselaer. 


The  Medal  used  in  invitation  sent  to  Governors 
is  a  fac-simile  of  the  Medal 
struck  off  on  the  unveiling  of  the 
Statue  of  Washington  in  Wall  Street  in  1883, 
with  an  alteration  in  the  dates  to  correspond 

to  the  date  of  taking  the  oath  in  1789, 
and  of  the  Centennial  Celebration  in  1889. 


Jacob  A.  Cantor, 
James  C.  Carter, 
Floyd  Clarkson, 


Elbridge  T.  GERRy,  Chairman  of  the  Executive  Committee. 
Clarence  W.  Bowen,  Secretary  of  the  Executive  Committee. 


in  Wall  Street,  City  of  New  York. 


In  answer  to  the  invitation  for  the  purpose  of  considering  the  programme  to  be 
adopted  for  the  celebration  and  for  an  interchange  of  ideas,  the  commissioners  appointed 
by  the  Governors  of  the  various  States  met  in  pursuance  to  said  invitation  at  the  Governor's 
Room  in  the  City  Hall,  New  York,  on  January  8,  1889,  at  3.30  p.  m.  For  the  committee 
there  were  present  Mr.  Elbridge  T.  Gerry,  Chairman  of  the  Executive  Committee;  Hon. 
Hugh  J.  Grant,  Mayor  of  the  City  of  New  York  ;  Mr.  William  G.  Hamilton,  Chairman  of 
the  sub-Committee  on  States ;  Mr.  James  M.  Montgomery,  Secretary  of  the  sub-Committee 


2o8        THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 


on  States ;  Colonel  S.  Van  Rensselaer  Cruger,  Chairman  of  the  sub-Committee  on  Army ; 
Mr.  John  C.  Tomlinson,  Secretary;  General  John  Cochrane,  of  Army  Committee;  Mr. 
Clarence  \V.  Bowen,  Secretary  of  the  Executive  Committee;  and  the  following  Commis- 
sioners: Ex-President  Rutherford  B.  Hayes,  of  Ohio;  General  Samuel  Dalton,  of  Massa- 
chusetts; General  Elisha  Dyer,  Jr.,  of  Rhode  Island;  General  William  S.  Stryker,  of  New 
Jersey;  Hon.  John  B.  Drake,  of  Illinois;  Hon.  John  L.  Webster,  of  Nebraska;  Governor 
Benjamin  T.  Biggs,  of  Delaware ;  Hon.  Charles  Williams,  of  New  Hampshire ;  Hon.  A.  D. 
Ayling,  of  New  Hampshire ;  Hon.  Levi  K.  Fuller,  of  Vermont ;  General  Theodore  S.  Peck, 
of  Vermont;  Hon.  W.  H.  Taylor,  of  Virginia;  and  General  John  L.  Porter,  of  New  Vork. 


sew. 


CoflMlTTEE  0M  St/\tes 
William  G  H/vmiltoiJ  .  Gmaii^man 
San|UEL  Bo^i^owe  J/\mesCG/h?teh, 
JoH"  ScpurLE^    J  T  V/»ij  [^ensselaeh. 

J>\fctES  W  HuSTED.     T^EODOI^E  RoOSEVEIT. 

Jacob  AvC/\>Jto^.    Z  LllerV  Anderson  . 
FloVd  Giaukson'.   HeMry  W  Le  Rov. 
JomiJ  BPiiJe.      J^mes M  Mo^T&o^EiiV 


(Fac-simile  of  blue-colored  ticket  to  Steamer  Erastus  Wiman  to  view  the  Naval  Parade,  April  29,  1889.) 

Mr.  Elbridge  T.  Gerry,  in  calling  the  meeting  to  order,  said: 

"Gentlemen,  it  gives  me  great  pleasure  to  welcome  you  to  this  city.  As  I  am  obliged  to  be  absent 
to  fill  another  engagement,  I  have  the  honor  of  requesting  Mr.  William  G.  Hamilton,  Chairman  of  the 
Committee  on  States,  to  preside  at  this  meeting." 

Mr.  Hamilton,  in  taking  the  chair,  said : 

"  Gentlemen,  Commissioners  from  the  States  and  Territories  of  the  United  States  to  the  Centennial  Cele- 
bration of  the  Inauguration  of  George  Washington  as  President  of  the  United  States:  In  the  name  of  the 
Centennial  Committee,  and  on  behalf  of  the  Committee  on  States,  I  welcome  you  to  this  city.  We  have 
come  together  to  arrange  the  details  of  the  celebration,  whereby  each  State  may  be  represented  by  its  dis- 
tinguished Chief  Magistrate  and  duly  appointed  Commissioners,  and  that  the  citizen  soldiers  of  each  State 
and  Territory  may  be  represented  in  the  military  display,  so  that,  as  one  great  nation,  we  may  pay  proper 
tribute  to  the  memory  of  the  immortal  Washington,  and  especially  at  the  hour  and  place  where  he  took  the 
oath  of  office  as  the  first  President  of  the  United  States. 


THE  MARCH  UP  WALL  STREET.  209 

"  The  city  of  New  York,  conscious  that  your  glory  is  her  glory,  will  do  all  in  her  power  to  entertain  you 
in  a  manner  becoming  the  event  and  worthy  of  your  high  positions.  I  have  the  pleasure  of  introducing  to 
you  His  Honor  the  Mayor  of  the  City  of  New  York,  Chairman  of  the  General  Committee ;  Colonel  S.  Van 
Rensselaer  Cruger,  Chairman  of  the  Army  and  Industrial  Parade  Committee ;  the  Hon.  Asa  Bird  Gardiner, 
Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Navy,  and  the  gentlemen  of  the  Committee  on  States.  Later  on  I  will  lay 
before  you  the  plans  proposed  for  the  guidance  of  the  work." 

In  welcoming  the  Commissioners,  His  Honor  Mayor  Grant  said  : 


"  Gentlemen :  It  affords  me  a  great  deal  of  pleasure  to  welcome  you,  on  behalf  of  the  city  of  New  York, 
to  our  city,  and  ask  your  earnest  co-operation  in  securing  the  object  for  the  accomplishment  of  which  Mr. 
Gerry,  Mr.  Cruger,  and  Mr.  Hamilton  are  so  earnestly  working,  and  I  hope  you  will  be  kind  enough  to  co- 
operate with  them  in  the  spirit  that  they  are  endeavoring  to  impart  to  this  celebration. 

"  Further  explanations  will  be  made  to  you  by  Mr.  Hamilton." 

The  chairman  read  the  following  report : 1 

New  York,  January  8,  i88g. 

To  the  State  and  Territorial  Commissioners  on  the  Centennial  Celebration  of  Washington's  Inauguration  : 

Gentlemen  :  In  behalf  of  the  Committee  on  States,  I  have  the  honor  to  report  that  the  following  pro- 
gramme has  been  arranged  for  the  Commissioners  appointed  by  the  Governors  of  the  different  States  and 
Territories  who  will  take  part  in  the  Centennial  Celebration  of  Washington's  Inauguration  on  April  30th  next. 


Committee  otf  States 
William  G.H/\MiiT0N.  Chaiunan. 
Samuel  Bokrowe.  James  C.Carter.. 
John  Schuyler.  J.T.V^n  Henselae*. 
James  W.Husted.  Theodore  Roosevelt 
Jacob  ^.C^ntor..    E.Ellery  Anderson 
Floyd  Clarkson1.  Henry  W.Le  r\ov. 
John1  B.Pin"e.  JamesM.MontcomerY. 

Seeder/iff/. 


ADMIT  AT 
CEDAR  ST,  &  NASSAU  I 


(Fac-simile  of  buff-colored  ticket  to  the  reception  at  the  Lawyers'  Club,  April  29,  1889.) 

1.  You  are  respectfully  requested  upon  your  arrival  in  New  York  the  last  of  April  next  to  call  at  the 
Governor's  room  in  the  City  Hall,  and  there  register  your  names  and  give  your  addresses  in  the  city,  in  order 
that  the  committee  may  know  of  your  arrival  and  communicate  with  you. 


1  It  was  found  necessary  to  make  certain  changes  in  this  programme  at  the  time  of  the  celebration. 
28 


2io       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


2.  You  are  respectfully  requested  to  meet  in  the  Governor's  room  on  Monday  afternoon,  April  29th  (the 
exact  hour  to  be  announced  later),  and,  under  military  escort,  proceed  to  the  foot  of  Wall  Street  to  meet  the 
President  of  the  United  States,  upon  his  arrival  in  this  city. 

3.  You  are  respectfully  requested  to  return  with  the  President  of  the  United  States,  the  Governor  of  the 
State  of  New  York,  and  the  Mayor  of  this  city,  to  the  Governor's  Room  in  the  City  Hall,  where  a  public  re- 
ception will  be  held. 

4.  On  the  evening  of  Monday,  April  29th,  there  will  be  a  ball  in  the  Metropolitan  Opera-House,  to  which 
you  are  respectfully  invited,  and  to  which  tickets  will  be  furnished  you  at  a  later  date. 


CARRIAGES  CONTAINING  THE  PLAN  AND  SCOPE  COMMITTEE, 
AND  THE  PRESIDENT  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES, 
leaving  the  foot  of  Wall  Street  for  the  reception  at  the  Equitable  Building,  New  York,  April  29,  1889. 
(From  a  photograph  by  the  "  Brooklyn  Academy  of  Photography.") 


5.  At  8.30  o'clock  on  Tuesday  morning,  April  30th,  you  are  requested  to  meet  in  the  Governor's  Room  in 
the  City  Hall,  and  proceed  to  St.  Paul's  Chapel  to  attend  the  service  of  thanksgiving,  which  will  take  place  at 
nine  o'clock.  The  service  will  also  be  attended  by  the  President  of  the  United  States  and  other  gentlemen  of 
distinction,  and  will  be  conducted  by  the  Bishop  of  New  York  and  the  Rev.  Dr.  Morgan  Dix,  Rector  of 
Trinity  Parish. 

It  was  on  April  30,  1789,  that  the  President  of  the  United  States  and  the  two  Houses  of  Congress  attended 
service  in  St.  Paul's  Chapel,  where  prayers  were  read  by  the  Chaplain  of  the  Senate  and  the  Bishop  of  New 
York,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Samuel  Provoost. 

6.  At  the  close  of  the  services  at  St.  Paul's  Chapel  the  Governor,  Lieutenant-Governor,  and  the  Chairman 
of  the  Commissioners  of  each  State  are  requested  to  proceed  to  the  grand  stand  on  the  steps  of  the  sub-Treas- 
ury Building  to  hear  the  literary  exercises  and  view  the-  parade.  The  Commissioners  will  be  provided  with 
carriages  to  take  part  in  the  parade,  for,  by  so  doing,  they  will  carry  out  the  national  idea  of  the  celebration 


THE  MARCH  UP  WALL  STREET. 


2  I  I 


7.  At  the  banquet  at  the  Metropolitan  Opera-House  the  Governor  of  each  Stale  will  be  invited,  or,  in  his 
absence,  the  Lieutenant-Governor,  or,  in  his  absence,  some  gentleman  of  distinction  from  each  State  whom  the 
Governor  may  appoint. 


THE  CARRIAGE  CONTAINING  THE  PRESIDENT  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES, 
THE  GOVERNOR  OF  THE  STATE  OF  NEW  YORK,  THE  MAYOR  OF  THE  CITY  OF  NEW  YORK, 
AND  THE  PRESIDENT  OF  THE  CENTENNIAL  COMMITTEE. 
Foot  of  Wall  Street,  New  York,  April  29,  1889. 
(From  a  photograph  by  the  "  Brooklyn  Academy  of  Photography.") 

8.  The  States  and  Territories  are  expected  to  pay  the  cost  of  transportation  and  other  expenses  connected 
with  the  military  representation  which  they  may  send ;  but  the  General  Committee  will  provide  shelter  and 
food  for  all  the  military  while  in  New  York. 

9.  The  States  will  have  precedence  in  all  cases  according  to  the  date  of  their  admission  into  the  United 
States. 

10.  Our  committee  are  anxious  to  have  every  State  and  Territory  in  the  Union  represented  in  the  celebra- 
tion, and  we  ask  you,  the  Commissioners,  who  have  already  been  appointed,  to  see  that  a  proper  military  rep- 
resentation from  your  State  is  sent  to  New  York  to  attend  the  Centennial  Celebration  of  the  Inauguration  of 
George  Washington  as  first  President  of  the  United  States.    Respectfully  submitted : 

William  G.  Hamilton, 

Chairman  Committee  on  States. 

Mr.  John  C.  Tomlinson,  the  Secretary  of  the  Army  Committee,  and  General  John  Coch- 
rane, of  the  same  committee,  reported  plans  for  the  military  and  industrial  parades,  as  far  as 
they  had  been  matured. 

Ex- President  Hayes  stated  that  Ohio  would  be  represented  by  a  military  display  of  in- 


2X2       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 

fantry,  artillery,  and  cavalry,  and  that  interest  in  the  celebration  was  wide-spread,  deep,  and 
earnest,  and  that  it  would  be  altogether  worthy  of  the  great  occasion.  Hon.  John  L.  Webster, 
of  Nebraska,  stated  that  his  State  would  be  represented  by  the  Governor,  his  staff,  and  the 
Commissioners  ;  that,  though  a  young  State,  it  would  be  fairly  represented,  commensurate  with 
its  ability  to  do  so.  General  Stryker  spoke  on  behalf  of  New  Jersey,  and  said  that  at  least 
one  thousand  men  from  that  State  would  participate  in  line  ;  that  each  State  should  provide 
for  the  care  of  her  own  troops  ;  that  New  Jersey  would  place  her  troops  in  New  York  and 
take  care  of  them  herself.  General  Dalton,  of  Massachusetts,  said  :  "  I  will  say,  for  the  State 
of  Massachusetts,  that  the  mere  mention  of  the  name  of  George  Washington  is  enough,  in  my 
opinion,  to  make  an  appropriation  large  enough  to  fully  represent  that  State  at  our  coming 
centennial,"  and  that  the  Governor  would  ride  at  the  head  of  his  troops;  they  would  come  to 
this  national  event  intact  as  an  organization  ;  that  the  State  would  make  its  own  arrange- 
ments, pay  its  own  bills,  and  do  all  it  could  to  make  it  a  proper  celebration.  General  Por- 
ter, Adjutant-General  of  the  Militia  of  the  State  of  New  York,  stated  that  "Governor  Hill 
takes  all  due  interest  in  the  matter,  and  is  anxious  to  make  the  occasion  a  success  worthy  of 
the  State  and  of  the  city  of  New  York  "  ;  that  he  would  send  to  New  York  all  the  troops 
of  the  State,  making  a  body  of  thirteen  thousand  men  ;  and  that,  in  his  annual  message,  the 
Governor  had  called  the  attention  of  the  Legislature  to  making  the  requisite  appropriation 
to  enable  a  full  body  of  men  to  be  sent  and  taken  care  of  while  there. 

General  Woodside,  Commissioner  from  Pennsylvania,  on  behalf  of  his  State,  said: 

"  Pennsylvania  has  always  felt  grateful  to  her  sister  States  for  their  sympathy  and  the  substantial  aid 
they  extended  to  her  in  the  celebration  of  the  centennial  of  those  great  events  which  have  transpired 
within  her  borders;  and  now,  when  we  have  come  to  the  last  of  these  centennial  celebrations,  she  feels  it 
not  only  her  duty  but  it  affords  her  great  pleasure  to  assist  with  all  the  means  in  her  power  to  make  the 
celebration  of  the  Inauguration  of  Washington  the  greatest  in  the  whole  history  of  centennial  celebrations. 
The  Governor  has  expressed  his  earnest  desire  to  bring  to  New  York  the  entire  National  Guard  of  the 
State  of  Pennsylvania,  and  to  ride  at  the  head  of  eight  thousand  well-equipped  and  well-armed  men.  The 
Legislature  has  decided  to  come  on  in  a  body  to  witness  the  celebration,  and  pay  its  own  expenses. 
The  officials  of  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad  Company  desired  me  to  state  that  they  were  in  heart-felt 
sympathy  with  this  movement;  that  they  would  do  all  in  their  power  to  promote  it,  and  that  they  would 
place  at  the  disposal  of  the  President  of  the  United  States  and  party  special  cars  to  bring  them  from 
Washington  to  New  York  and  return." 

Hon.  W.  H.  Taylor,  on  behalf  of  Virginia,  said  that  he  was  present  in  response  to  the 
invitation  and  the  suggestion  of  Governor  Lee ;  that  Virginia  had  but  a  small  body  of 
State  troops,  but  that  the  Old  Dominion  would  send  a  delegation  which  would  attest  its 
interest  in  the  ceremonies ;  that  in  the  matter  of  details,  Governor  Fitzhugh  Lee  would 
certainly  be  at  the  head  of  his  troops,  and  would  feel  out  of  place  anywhere  else. 

Governor  Biggs,  of  Delaware,  said : 

"  There  is  a  State  called  Delaware.  I  have  the  honor  at  the  present  time  to  be  the  Governor  of 
that  State.    It  is  not  worth  while  to  refer  back  to  her  history,  because  she  has,  in  every  emergency,  always 


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been  found  where  patriotism  would  indicate  her  place.  In  New  York,  in  April  next,  at  the  celebration  of 
the  Inauguration  of  General  Washington,  she  expects  to  be  here;  she  expects  to  come  with  as  large  a 
delegation  as  possible,  and,  if  my  life  is  spared,  I  expect  to  be  here  on  that  occasion  and  ride  at  the 
head  of  'The  Chickens  of  the  Old  Blue  Hen'  that  may  follow  me.  I  recommended  to  the  Legislature  a 
week  ago  that  a  suitable  appropriation  be  made.'* 

Hon.  Levi  K.  Fuller  said,  on  behalf  of  Vermont,  "  The  First  Child  of  the  Revolution," 
that  he  was  present  on  behalf  of  the  Governor;  that  the  people  of  Vermont,  with  his 
Excellency  at  their  head,  would  try  not  only  to  be  here  in  as  large  numbers  as  possible, 
but  would  do  all  they  could  to  make  the  celebration  a  success. 

Hon.  John  B.  Drake,  of  Illinois,  stated  that  he  represented  the  Governor,  and  came  for 
information  ;  that  he  knew,  when  he  returned  with  the  information,  the  Governor  would 
do  all  that  was  proper ;  that  he  felt  that  the  number  of  troops  would  be  so  great  that 
there  should  be  a  day  for  the  military  display,  and  a  day  for  the  civic  and  industrial  organ- 
izations. 

General  Dyer,  on  behalf  of  Rhode  Island,  said  : 

"  Rhode  Island  is  a  very  small  State,  but  she  is  heartily  in  accord  with  the  movement  which  is  being 
discussed.  The  Governor  is  coming  with  his  staff,  and  our  militia  are  coming,  as  many  as  we  can  send. 
It  is  our  intention  to  come  in  the  morning  and  leave  in  the  evening,  and  to  take  care  of  our  troops,  pay  for 
their  transportation,  and  see  that  they  get  out  of  New  York  before  dark.  We  are  heartily  in  accord  with 
your  movement.  The  Governor  of  our  State  has  already  made  it  the  subject  of  a  message  to  the  Legis- 
lature.   I  shall  ask  our  Legislature  for  a  sufficient  appropriation  to  enable  our  little  State  to  be  here." 

Hon.  Charles  Williams,  on  behalf  of  New  Hampshire,  stated  that  the  Legislature  did 
not  meet  until  June,  and  that  what  was  done  in  the  representation  of  the  State  in  a 
military  way  would  be  done  through  private  enterprise ;  that  they  would  probably  have 
seven  hundred  troops,  and  that  the  Governor  would  ride  at  their  head. 

General  Stryker  stated  that  New  Jersey  wished  to  have  the  President  at  Trenton  on 
Saturday,  April  27th,  to  pass  under  the  same  arch  that  Washington  did;  to  remain  with 
them  until  Monday,  and  thence  go  to  Elizabethport. 

In  relation  to  the  care  of  the  troops  while  in  New  Vork,  Colonel  Cruger,  Chairman 
of  the  Army  Committee,  stated  that  the  Committee  on  Army  were  making  arrangements 
to  provide  for  the  troops  during  their  stay  in  New  Vork,  but  that  there  had  been  no 
intention  to  pay  for  the  transportation  of  the  troops  to  and  from  New  Vork.  He  requested 
that  at  an  early  a  date  as  possible  a  report  be  made  by  each  State  of  the  number  of  troops 
and  organizations  to  be  present,  and  sent  to  the  Army  Committee  Headquarters  at  the 
Fifth  Avenue  Hotel,  New  Vork. 

Secretary  Bowen  explained  more  fully  the  wishes  of  the  Executive  Committee  in 
calling  this  meeting.  He  said  that  the  number  of  troops  that  would  come  from  the 
different  States  to  take  part  in  the  military  parade  on  April  30th  was  not  the  only 
question  to  be  considered  ;  but,  what  was  of  greater  importance  in  the  minds  of  the  com- 


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mittee,  every  State  and  Territory  of  the  United  States  should  be  officially  represented  at 
the  celebration.     He  thanked  the  Commissioners  for  their  attendance. 

The  chairman,  in  thanking  the  Commissioners  for  the  information  they  had  imparted, 
and  for  the  discussion  as  to  the  details  of  the  parade,  extended  an  invitation  to  a  breakfast 
at  the  Lawyers'  Club  from  the  Committee  on  States,  on  January  gth  at  i  p.  m.,  which 
was  accepted  and  fully  attended  by  the  Commissioners,  ex-President  Hayes  presiding. 

In  response  to  the  invitations  given,  the  following  States  and  Territories  were 
represented  by  their  Governors  and  Commissioners  at  the  centennial  ceremonies  on  the 
29th  of  April,  1889,  in  the  order  of  their  admission  into  the  Union,  as  follows: 

Governors. — Delaware,  December  6,  1787;  Benjamin  T.  Biggs.  Pennsylvania,  December  12,  1787; 
James  A.  Beaver.  New  Jersey,  December  18,  1787;  Robert  S.  Green.  Georgia,  January  2,  1788;  John  B. 
Gordon.    Connecticut,  January  9,  1788;  Morgan  G.  Bulkeley.    MassacJmsetts,  February  6,  1 788 ;  Oliver  Ames. 


THE  PRESIDENT  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES 
passing  under  the  Arch  at  the  foot  of  Wall  Street,  New  York,  April  29,  1889. 
(From  a  photograph  by  the  "  Brooklyn  Academy  of  Photography.") 

Maryland,  April  28,  1788;  Elihu  E.  Jackson.  South  Carolina,  May  23,  1788;  John  P.  Richardson.  New 
Hampshire,  June  21,  1788;  Charles  H.Sawyer.  Virginia,  June  25,  1788;  Fitzhugh  Lee.  New  York,  July  26, 
1788;  David  Bennett  Hill.  North  Carolina,  November  21,  1789;  Daniel  Gould  Fowle.  Rhode  Island,  May 
29,  1790;  Royal  C.  Taft.  Kentucky,  February  14,  1791  ;  Simon  B.  Buckner.  Vermont,  February  18,  1 7 9 1  ; 
William  P.  Dillingham.  Ohio,  April  30,  1802;  Joseph  B.  Foraker.  Indiana,  December  11,  1 81 6 ;  Alvin  P. 
Hovey.  Alabama,  December  14,  1819;  Thomas  Seay.  Maine,  March  3,  1820;  Edwin  C.  Burleigh.  Missouri, 
March  2,  182 1;  David   R.   Francis.    Michigan,  January  26,  1837;  Cyrus  G.  Luce.    Iowa,  March  3,  1845; 


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William  Larrabee.  Wisconsin,  March  3,  1847;  William  D.  Hoard.  Minnesota,  May  4,  1858;  William  R. 
Merriam.  Oregon,  February  14,  1859;  Sylvester  Pennoyer.  West  Virginia,  December  30,  1862  ;  E.  W.  Wilson. 
Nebraska,  February  9,  1867;  John  M.  Thayer.  Colorado,  March  3,  1875  ;  Job  A.  Cooper.  Washington,  March 
2,  1853;  Miles  C.  Moore.    Montana,  May  26,  1864;  P.  T.  Leslie. 

Commissioners. — Alabama,  Francis  B.  Clark,  Mobile.  Arkansas,  Judge  B.  J.  Brown,  Van  Buren  ;  General 
D.  W.  Jones  and  Hon.  J.  M.  Rose,  Little  Rock;  Hon.  M.  L.  Bell,  Pine  Bluff;  Hon.  B.  F.  Du  Vail,  Fort  Smith, 
Hon.  James  C.  Tappan,  Helena;  Hon.  Paul  Jones,  Texarkana  ;  Hon.  O.  W.  Watkins,  Eureka  Springs.  Califor- 
nia, Senators  Leland  Stanford  and  George  Hearst,  and  Congressmen  Morrow,  Felton,  and  McKenna,  San  Fran- 


THE  CROWD  IN  WALL  STREET,  IN  THE  REAR  OF  THE  PROCESSION. 

New  York,  April  29,  1889. 
(From  a  photograph  by  the  "  Brooklyn  Academy  of  Photography.") 

cisco ;  Congressman  Biggs,  Gridley ;  Congressman  Thompson,  Santa  Rosa ;  Congressman  Vandever,  San 
Buena  Ventura;  Hon.  James  S.  Waterman,  San  Francisco.  Colorado,  Hon.  E.  C.  Wolcott,  Denver;  Hon.  B.  F. 
Crowell,  Colorado  Springs.  Connecticut,  Major  John  C.  Kinney,  Hartford;  Hon.  George  P.  McLean,  Sudbury; 
Hon.  Frank  E.  Hyde,  Hartford  ;  Hon.  Alexander  Warner,  Pomfret ;  Henry  C.  Sturges,  Esq.,  Fairfield  ;  Major- 
General  A.  H.  Terry,  Fairfield  ;  Professor  Charles  F.  Johnson,  Hartford  ;  Hon.  Simeon  E.  Baldwin,  New  Haven ; 
Dr.  Pinkney  W.  Ellsworth,  Hartford;  Jonathan  Trumbull,  Norwich;  Hon.  W.  W.  Eaton  and  Hon.  E.  S.  Cleve- 
land, Hartford;  Hon.  E.  S.  Day,  Colchester.  Delaware,  Hon.  Thomas  F.  Bayard.  Florida,  Hon.  John  D. 
Treadwell,  Madison;  General  William  Miller,  Point  Washington;  John  Q.  Burbridge,  Esq.,  Jacksonville; 
Albert  W.  Gilchrist,  Esq.,  Punta  Gorda.  Georgia,  Charles  C.  Jones,  Jr.,  George  E.  Mercer,  Esq.,  Henry  Jack- 
son, Esq.,  and  J.  C.  C.  Block,  Esq.,  alternate;  A.  T.  Mclntyre,  Esq.,  alternate;  Pat  Calhoun,  Esq.,  alternate. 
Illinois,  Hon.  John  B.  Drake,  Chicago.  Indiana,  Hon.  L.  T.  Michener,  Hon.  John  A.  Holman,  Hon.  C.  W.  Fair- 
banks. Iowa,  L.  W.  Reynolds,  Esq.,  F.  Y.  Whitmore,  Esq.,  D.  N.  Cooley,  Esq.,  L.  A.  McMurray,  Esq.,  J.  B. 
Grinnell,  Esq.,  General  W.  U.  Alexander,  Joseph  F.  Parkes,  Esq.,  A.  J.  Holmes,  Esq.  Kansas,  Hon.  Eugene  F. 
Ware,  Captain  George  R.  Peck,  Hon.  Charles  K.  Wells,  Hon.  D.  E.  Cornell,  Colonel  W.  B.  Stone,  Captain  Perry 


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Hutchinson,  Major  Calvin  Hood,  A.  H.  Ellis,  Esq.,  Colonel  W.  W.  Lewis.  Kentucky,  John  C.  Latham,  Esq., 
Hon.  George  F.  Parder,  Hon.  William  Lindsay,  Hon.  A.  S.  Berry,  Hon.  John  H.  Ward,  Hon.  T.  T.  Garrard,  Hon. 
A.  W.  Hamilton,  Hon.  M.  R.  Hindman,  Hon.  W.  H.  Thomas,  Hon.  W.  H.  Yost,  Hon.  Samuel  H.  Stone,  Hon.  A. 
G.  Dejarnette,  Hon.  John  T.  McClure,  Hon.  George  Washington,  Hon.  John  R.  Proctor,  Hon.  John  Allen  Mur- 
ray, Hon.  Milbur  F.  Browder,  Hon.  Andrew  Cowan,  Hon.  Thomas  E.  Morss.  Louisiana,  General  Joseph  L. 
Brent.  Maine,  John  A.  Peters,  Esq.,  Selden  Connor,  Esq.,  Cortenas  Libby,  Esq.,  Arthur  Sewall,  Esq.,  W.  L. 
Putnam,  Esq.,  Payson  Tucker,  Esq.,  Lewis  Barker,  Esq.,  Charles  T.  Libby,  Esq.,  Charles  J.  Chapman,  Esq., 
Charles  F.  Bragg,  Esq.,  Frederick  A.  Powers,  Esq.,  Frederick  Robie,  Esq.  Maryland,  Hon.  John  Carroll  Walsh, 
Hon.  John  H.  B.  Latrobe,  Hon.  Albert  Ritchie,  ex-Governor  Oden  Bowie,  Colonel  H.  Kyd  Douglas,  Oswald 
Tilghman,  Esq.  Massachusetts,  Hon.  W.  A.  Tower.  Michigan,  Hon.  Henry  B.  Ledyard,  Hon.  Henry  M.  Duf- 
field,  Hon.  Thomas  W.  Perry,  Hon.  Philo  Parsons,  Hon.  J.  M.  Milliken,  Hon.  O.  B.  Turner,  Governor  C.  G. 
Luce.  Minnesota,  Hon.  William  Windom,  Hon.  Alexander  M.  Peabody,  Hon.  Thomas  Lowry,  Governor  William 
R.  Merriam.  Mississippi,  Attorney-General  T.  M.  Miller,  Judge  S.  S.  Calhoun,  Hon.  S.  R.  Bertron,  Hon.  John 
M.  Turner.  Missouri,  Hon.  D.  H.  Armstrong,  General  D.  M.  Frost,  Governor  E.  O.  Stannard,  Hon.  Charles  B. 
McAfee,  General  Furman  A.  Royer,  General  B.  G.  Boone,  Hon.  Rufus  Anderson,  Dr.  E.  A.  Donlin,  Benjamin 
Trueman,  Esq.,  Hon.  Henry  C.  Kumph.  Nebraska,  Hon.  John  L.  Webster.  Nevada,  Hon.  H.  F.  Bartine,  Dr. 
S.  L.  Lee.  New  Hampshire,  Hon.  Samuel  C.  Eastman,  Hon.  Stillson  Hutchins,  Hon.  J.  Albert  Walker,  Hon. 
Charles  H.  Amsden,  Hon.  Elisha  R.  Brown,  Governor  Charles  H.  Sawyer.  New  Jersey,  General  William  Scud- 
der  Stryker,  Hon.  Alexander  T.  McGill.  New  York,  Governor  Hill,  Lieutenant-Governor  Edward  F.  Jones. 
North  Carolina,  Hon.  Charles  M.  Stedman,  Colonel  W.  F.  Beasley,  Hon.  James  E.  Moore,  Colonel  Frank  Coxe, 
Captain  E.  R.  Stamps,  Colonel  J.  A.  Farney,  Colonel  R.  O.  Gregory,  Hon.  C.  C.  Clark,  Hon.  John  P.  Caldwell, 
Hon.  Julian  F.  Carr.  Ohio,  Hon.  R.  B.  Hayes,  Hon.  Asa  S.  Bushnell,  Hon.  John  W.  Herron,  Hon.  Clinton  D. 
Firestone,  Hon.  Myron  T.  Herrick,  Hon.  Selwyn  N.  Owen,  General  John  Eaton.  Oregon,  Governor  Sylvester 
Pennoyer.  Pennsylvania,  Hon.  John  W.  Woodside.  Rhode  Island,  General  Elisha  Dyer,  Jr.,  Governor  Royal  C. 
Taft.  South  Carolina,  Hon.  James  A.  Hoyt.  Tennessee,  Hon.  James  Gerald  Branch,  Hon.  A.  S.  Colyar,  Hon.  E. 
Embry  Hoss,  Hon.  Luke  E.  Wright,  Hon.  S.  J.  Kirkpatrick,  Hon.  John  B.  Stokeley,  Hon.  M.  M.  Hope,  Hon. 
Samuel  W.  Hawkins,  General  G.  P.  Thurston,  Right  Reverend  C.  T.  Quintard,  Hon.  John  M.  Lea.  Texas,  Hon. 
Henry  Exall,  Hon.  Peter  Smith,  Hon.  John  Hancock,  Hon.  W.  D.  Cleveland,  Hon.  Samuel  Maverick.1  Ver- 
mont, Hon.  S.  Gregory  Smith,  Hon.  Levi  K.  Fuller,  Hon.  Theodore  S.  Peck,  Hon.  J.  G.  McCulIough,  Hon.  Frank- 
lin Fairbanks,  Hon.  L.  Z.  Kingsley,  Hon.  J.  Gregory  Smith,  General  P.  B.  Pitkins,  Hon.  C.  A.  Ford,  Lieutenant- 
Governor  U.  A.  Woodbury.  Virginia,  ex-Governor  James  L.  Kemper,  Judge  W.  W.  Crump,  Hon.  J.  Randolph 
Tucker,  Judge  Walter  R.  Staples,  Hon.  Holmes  Conrad,  Captain  Phil  McKinney,  Colonel  Walter  H.  Taylor. 
West  Virginia,  Hon.  Henry  S.  Walker,  Hon.  W.  F.  Thompson,  Hon.  P.  F.  Duffy,  Hon.  B.  S.  Morgan,  Hon.  Alfred 
Caldwell,  Hon.  R.  P.  Chew,  Hon.  D.  B.  Lucas,  Hon.  Bushrod  C.  Washington,  Hon.  Joseph  Sprigg,  Hon.  S.  L. 
Flournoy,  Hon.  John  J.  Davis,  Colonel  J.  W.  St.  Clair,  Governor  J.  B.  Jackson,  Hon.  J.  J.  Woods,  Hon.  H.  J. 
Samuels,  Hon.  Eustace  Gibson,  Hon.  J.  W.  Arbuckle,  Hon.  J.  B.  Tanney,  Hon.  J.  C.  Alderson,  Hon.  H.  C.  Davis, 
Colonel  A.  A.  Franzheim,  General  E.  L.  Ward,  Hon.  M.  B.  Scott,  Hon.  Edwin  Maxwell,  Hon.  P.  W.  Morris,  Gen- 
eral J.  H.  Duvall,  General  C.  B.  Hart,  Governor  E.  W.  Wilson.  Wisconsin,  Hon.  T.  R.  Hudd,  Hon.  Horace  Rublee, 
Hon.  Ogden  H.  Fethers.  Alaska,  Hon.  Thomas  S.  Nowell,  Rev.  E.  A.  Austin,  Lieutenant  Commander,  J.  S. 
Newell.  Arizona,  Hon.  John  M.  Evans.  Dakota,  Hon.  R.  H.  MacBride.  Idaho,  Hon.  Frederick  T.  Dubois, 
Hon.  William  Hyndman.  Montana,  ex-Governor  S.  T.  Hauser,  Russell  B.  Harrison,  Esq.,  Hon.  W.  A.  Clarke. 
Arew  Mexico,  Governor  L.  Bradford  Prince,  General  J.  B.  Bowman.  Utah,  J.  E.  Dooley,  Esq.  Washington 
Territory,  Watson  C.  Squire,  Esq.,  J.  J.  Browne,  Esq.,  H.  M.  Chase,  Esq.,  E.  Hunter,  Esq.  Wyoming  Territory, 
Hon.  Frank  S.  Lusk,  Hon.  A.  H.  Reel,  Hon.  George  T.  Beck,  Hon.  W.  A.  Picket.  Indian  Territory,  Commander- 
General  Pleasant  Porter.    District  of  Columbia,  President  of  Commissioners  W.  B.  Webb. 

Invitations  were  given  to  the  Governors  and  Commissioners  to  meet  at  the  headquarters  of 
the  Committee  on  States,  at  the  Fifth  Avenue  Hotel,  on  Saturday,  April  27th,  said  invitations 


1  Hon.  Samuel  Maverick  brought  on  Company  B,  Belknap  Rifles  (thirty-two  men),  paying  the  entire  expenses  of  the  party. 


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being  available  until  the  4th  of  May.  They  were  under  the  immediate  charge  of  Brevet  Briga- 
dier-General J.  Fred  Pierson,  Mr.  John  Dufais,  Dr.  Stuyvesant  F.  Morris,  and  Mr.  Hugh  D. 
Auchincloss,  special  aides  to  the  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  States.  A  meeting  of  wel- 
come was  held  at  9  a.  m.  on  the  27th  of  April,  at  which  the  Committee  on  States  was  present. 
Bronze  medals  were  distributed  to  the  invited  guests,  and  tickets  distributed  for  the  various 
functions  of  the  celebration.  Bronze  medals  were  also  presented  to  all  the  Senators  and 
members  of  the  Assembly  of  the  State  of  New  York. 

The  committees  in  charge  of  the  celebration  held  a  meeting  at  the  police  departments  of 
the  city  of  New  York  at  the  Superintendent's  office,  300  Mulberry  Street.  At  this  meeting 
the  full  programme  of  the  whole  centennial  was  laid  before  the  Superintendent  of  the  Police, 
Mr.  William  Murray,  who  gave  full  directions  to  and  placed  the  execution  of  his  orders  in 
charge  of  Thomas  Byrnes,  Chief  Inspector  ;  Henry  V.  Steers,  Inspector ;  Alexander  S.  Will- 
iams, Inspector ;  and  Peter  Conlin,  Inspector.  Before  the  day  of  the  celebration  the  inspec- 
tors, with  the  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  States,  personally  inspected  the  places  and 
streets  to  be  protected  by  them,  which  resulted  in  the  most  harmonious  guarding  of  the  city 
by  the  police  force.  One  of  the  great  features  of  the  centennial  was  the  order  maintained 
and  the  kindly  courtesy  shown  by  the  police  to  all  classes  of  people. 

On  the  Committee  on  States  devolved  the  duty  of  providing  steamboats  to  enable  their 
guests  to  take  part  in  the  reception  of  the  President  and  party  at  Elizabethport,  N.  J.,  and 
to  escort  them  to  the  foot  of  Wall  Street,  New  York.  Some  four  thousand  invitations  were 
given  out  for  the  steamer  Erastus  Wiman,  kindly  placed  at  the  disposal  of  the  committee  by 
the  Staten  Island  Rapid  Transit  Company,  through  Erastus  Wiman,  Esq.,  and  the  steamer 
Monmouth,  furnished  by  the  Navy  Committee.  On  April  29th,  at  9  a.  m.,  the  invited  guests 
embarked  from  the  foot  of  West  Twenty-third  Street  on  the  Hudson  River,  New  York. 
They  consisted  of  the  Governors  of  the  different  States,  Senators,  and  Representatives  of 
Congress,  Legislatures  of  the  various  States,  Commissioners  of  the  States  and  Territories, 
Senators  and  members  of  the  Assembly  of  the  State  of  New  York,  the  Judiciary,  Aldermen 
of  the  cities  of  New  York  and  Brooklyn,  heads  of  the  Departments  of  the  City  Government, 
foreign  Consuls,  and  the  General  Committee  of  Two  Hundred  with  guests  specially  invited, 
nearly  all  accompanied  by  ladies.  The  steamers  were  filled  almost  to  overflowing.  The 
Erastus  Wiman,  under  the  command  of  Captain  Frank  Braisted,  Naval  Committee  officer, 
Lieutenant  Coles,  U.  S.  N.,  and  Mr.  H.  W.  Le  Roy,  Hon.  Theodore  Roosevelt,  and  Mr. 
James  M.  Montgomery,  of  the  Committee  on  States,  led  the  way  with  flags  from  each  mast- 
head, the  rigging,  and  rail,  and  with  her  decks  laden  with  all  classes  of  civic  dignitaries. 
Music  was  furnished  by  the  United  States  band  from  David's  Island,  under  command  of 
Colonel  Mears,  U.  S.  A.  The  Monmouth  followed  under  the  command  of  Lieutenant 
Samuel  Seabury,  U.  S.  N.,  and  Hon.  James  Tallmadge  Yan  Rensselaer,  Mr.  John  B.  Pine, 
and  Mr.  John  Schuyler,  of  the  Committee  on  States.    At  11  a.  m.  a  luncheon  was  served, 

and  the  Wiman  and  Monmouth,  falling  into  line,  followed  as  the  special  immediate  escort 
29 


218       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


of  the  United  States  steamer  Despatch  with  the  President  on  board,  to  the  foot  of  Wall 
Street,  where  the  landing  of  the  presidential  party  took  place. 


THE  LANDING  AT  WALL  STREET. 

Through  the  kindness  of  Mr.  VV.  H.  T.  Hughes  and  the  Ward  line  of  steamers,  the  bulk- 
head at  the  foot  of  Wall  Street  had  been  placed  at  the  disposal  of  the  Naval  Committee. 
The  building  was  elaborately  decorated  ;  from  its  flagstaff  flew  the  house-flag  of  the  "  WTard 
Line  of  Steamers";  lines  of  signal-flags  stretched  to  the  four  quarters  of  the  roof ;  shields  of 
brass  surrounded  by  small  flags  graced  each  side  of  the  pier  gates;  within,  from  the  rafters, 
floated  festoons  of  flags ;  the  walls  were  covered  with  banners  with  coats-of-arms  of  the  States 
and  Territories,  and  a  huge  Turkish  rug  served  as  a  curtain  to  inclose  the  end  of  the  pier.  At 
the  mast-head,  as  the  President  touched  the  wharf,  was  raised  and  floated,  for  the  first  time  in 
the  city  of  New  York,  the  "  President's  flag,"  of  deep  blue,  with  eagle,  laurel-wreath,  and  in- 
signia. A  crimson  carpet  covered  the  landing-stage  and 
passage-way  to  the  carriages.  Under  the  direction  of  Su- 
perintendent Murray,  the  acting  head  of  the  police  of 
New  York  city,  over  a  thousand  policemen  were  on  duty 
below  Chambers  Street.  Three  hundred  men,  under  Inspec- 
tor Williams,  guarded  Wall  Street,  and  held  the  vast  crowds 
awaiting  the  arrival  of  the  President  in  order,  and  kept 
(Fac-simiie  of  Flag  of  the  clear  the  approaches  to  the  landing.     Never  had  New 

President  of  the  United  States.)  ,t     ,  ,  ,  .  ,  111 

\  ork  witnessed  such  an  ovation,  and  never  had  such  a 
body  of  her  citizens  gathered  at  this  spot  where  Washington  landed  just  one  hundred 
years  before. 

At  twelve  o'clock,  noon,  committeemen,  police  officials,  and  the  carriages  in  waiting, 
were  congregated  on  the  covered  pier-head  to  escort  the  presidential  party,  while  the  occa- 
sional notes  from  the  bugle  or  trumpet  which  were  wafted  from  the  streets  told  of  the 
assembling  of  the  military.  At  12.30  the  river  scene  changed,  the  strong  sunlight  bringing 
out  vividly  the  mass  of  color  from  the  numerous  steamers  decked  with  brilliant  bunting 
and  the  bright  attire  of  women.  The  boats  conveying  the  specially  invited  guests  speedily 
landed  their  passengers,  and  the  energies  of  the  special  aides  were  taxed  to  their  utmost  to 
arrange  the  procession  in  proper  order.  At  1 2.45  the  steam-launch  from  the  Despatch  reached 
the  handsomely  decorated  float,  at  the  north  side  of  the  pier,  and  landed  his  Excellency 
Governor  Hill,  of  the  State  of  New  York;  His  Honor  Mayor  Grant,  of  the  City  of  New 
York  ;  Hon.  Elbridge  T.  Gerry,  Chairman  of  the  Executive  Committee  ;  Mr.  Clarence  W. 
Bowen,  Secretary  ;  and  Hon.  James  M.  Varnum,  of  the  Committee  on  Plan  and  Scope. 
They  were  received  by  Mr.  William  G.  Hamilton,  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  States. 
At  one  o'clock  President  Harrison  and  Vice-President  Morton,  rowed  by  members  of  the 


THE  MARCH  UP  WALL  STREET. 


Marine  Society,  were  brought  to  the  float,  where  were  already  assembled  Governor  Hill, 
Mayor  Grant,  and  Hon.  Hamilton  Fish,  President  of  the  Centennial  Committee,  leaning  on 
the  arm  of  his  aide,  Mr,  John  Cropper;  Chief-Justice  Fuller,  Justices  Blatchford  and  Field, 
ex-Justice  Strong,  Secretaries  Windom  of  the  Treasury,  Proctor  of  the  Army,  Tracy  of  the 
Navy,  Wanamaker  of  the  Post-Office,  Noble  of  the  Interior,  Rusk  of  Agriculture,  Attorney- 
General  Miller,  Mr.  Walker  Blaine,  Hon.  John  A.  King,  and  Hon.  John  Jay,  of  the  Commit- 
tee on  General  Government,  Mr.  Gerry,  Mr.  Varnum,  Captain  Erben,  Mr.  W.  G.  Hamil- 
ton, and  Mr.  W.  H.  T.  Hughes.  Amid  the  booming  of  cannon  and  the  din  of  steam- 
whistles,  Colonel  Gardiner,  of  the  Naval  Committee,  introduced  the  President  to  the  Hon. 
Hamilton  Fish,  who,  as  President  of  the  Centennial  Committee,  gave  the  President  the 
formal  welcome  quoted  in  the  preceding  chapter.  When  the  covered  dock  was  reached 
an  old  Grand  Army  man  in  the  crowd  shouted,  "Three  cheers  for  President  Harrison!" 
They  were  rousing  patriotic  shouts,  and  the  President's  face  lightened  up  with  a  smile  as 
he  bowed  his  acknowledgments. 


.  WALL  STREET. 

V 

Wall  Street  presented  a  living  wall  of  humanity  to  witness  the  first  of  the  land  pageants 
in  commemoration  of  the  inauguration  of  Washington  in  New  York  in  1789.  There  were 
dense  ranks  of  human  beings  from  the  fronts  of  the  houses  to  the  curbs  of  the  walks.  A  line 
of  policemen  kept  back  the  crowds  from  the  streets.  Before  the  policemen  were  the  forces, 
standing  in  double  lines,  assembled  to  salute  and  accompany  the  visitors,  arranged  in  the 
following  order  :  Regulars  ;  The  New  York  Commandery  of  the  Loyal  Legion  of  the  United 
States;  Commanders  of  Posts  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic  in  Counties  of  New  York 
and  Kings ;  Uniformed  Battalion  of  Veterans  of  the  Seventh  Regiment  New  York  State 
Militia;  Uniformed  Militia  Association  of  New  York  and  Brooklyn,  and  The  Society  of  the 
Sons  of  the  Revolution — in  all,  over  one  thousand  men  of  the  best  blood  that  the  city  could 
bring  forth  to  honor  the  memory  of  Washington  ;  men  who  had  graduated  from  the  battles 
of  the  civil  war,  or  who  had  led  our  hosts  in  battle ;  men  who  had  shed  their  blood  to  main- 
tain the  honor  of  their  country  ;  men  who,  now  as  private  citizens,  held  positions  of  trust ; 
and  men  who  were  descended  from  heroes  who  had  fought  with  Washington  the  battles  of 
the  Revolution.  From  South  Street  past  Pearl  Street  these  double  lines  were  formed  on 
both  sides  of  the  middle  of  the  street  waiting  for  the  head  of  the  procession  to  go  by, 
that  they  might  fall  in  behind.  Wheeling  quickly  into  line,  the  procession  formed  as  the 
escort  of  the  President  and  guests  to  the  Equitable  Building  on  Broadway,  a  block 
above  the  head  of  Wall  Street.  With  the  strain  from  the  bands  of  "  See  the  Conquering 
Hero  Comes,"  as  the  President's  carriage  emerged  from  the  pier  shed,  there  rose  a  mighty 
cheer  of  greeting  from  the  countless  multitude.  Proceeding  to  a  point  opposite  the 
center  of  Major  McCrea's  command,  the  President  was  saluted  by  the  escort  which,  break- 


220       THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 

ing  into  columns  of  companies  of  twelve  files  front,  began  to  move  in  the  following  order 
at  1.40  P.  M.  : 

Two  files  of  Mounted  Police. 

Brevet  Lieutenant-Colonel  Floyd  Clarkson,  Marshal  commanding. 
Adjutant-General  Major  L.  Curtis  Brackett. 

Aides-de-camp  :  General  E.  S.  Greeley,  Major  George  M.  Van  Hoesen,  Captain  James  D.  Bell,  Ensign  Aaron 
Vanderbilt,  Captain  J.  H.  de  Castro,  Captain  O.  W.  Leonard.  Chairman  Committee  on  States :  Mr.  William  G. 
Hamilton.  Special  Aides  to  Chairman  of  Committee  on  States:  Mr.  John  Dufais,  Dr.  Stuyvesant  F.  Morris,  Mr. 
Hugh  1).  Auchincloss,  and  Mr.  W.  H.  T.  Hughes.  The  Committee  on  States:  Mr.  E.  Ellery  Anderson,  Mr. 
Samuel  Borrowe,  Hon.  Jacob  A.  Cantor,  Mr.  James  C.  Carter,  Hon.  James  W.  Husted,  Mr.  Henry  W.  Le  Roy, 
Mr.  John  B.  Pine,  Hon.  Theodore  Roosevelt,  Mr.  John  Schuyler,  Hon.  J.  Tallmadge  Van  Rensselaer,  and  Mr. 
James  M.  Montgomery. 


ALEXANDER  S.  WILLIAMS,  INSPECTOR  OF  POLICE, 
being  interviewed  by  a  reporter  of  the  New  York  Herald,  Wall  Street,  New  York,  April  29,  18 
(From  a  photograph  by  the  "  Brooklyn  Academy  of  Photography.") 


Band  Fifth  Regiment  U.  S.  Artillery. 

Three  foot  batteries,  Fifth  Regiment  U.  S.  Artillery,  Major  Tully  McCrea,  commanding;  First  Lieutenant 
A.  Andrews,  Acting  Adjutant  of  the  battalion,  composed  of  Battery  H,  under  command  of  Lieutenant  John 
McClellan.  Battery  L:  Captain  Benjamin  K.  Roberts,  Lieutenant  Edward  T.  Brown.  Battery  C:  First  Lieu- 
tenant O.  E.  Wood,  Second  Lieutenant  I.  D.  Wiley. 

New  York  Commandery  Loyal  Legion  of  the  United  States,  under  the  command  of  Senior  Vice-Commander 
Colonel  William  C.  Church,  commanding  battalion;  Brigadier-General  Christian  T.  Christensen,  command- 


THE  MARCH  UP  WALL  STREET 


22  1 


ing  First  Company;  Brigadier-General  Charles  A.  Carleton,  commanding  Second  Company;  Lieutenant- 
Colonel  Edward  Haight,  adjutant  ;  Paymaster  George  De  F.  Barton,  Staff;  Brigadier-General  John  J.  Milhau, 
Brigadier-General  Frederick  T.  Locke,  Brigadier-General  Gilbert  H.  McKibbin,  Brigadier-General  Edwin  S. 
Greeley,  Colonel  Joseph  J.  Slocum,  Colonel  Horatio  C.  King,  Colonel  Edward  M.  L.  Ehlers,  Colonel  Richard 
A.  Brown,  Lieutenant-Colonel  Henry  E.  Lord,  Surgeon  Robert  Watts,  Major  Ivan  Tailof,  Major  William  S. 
Diller,  Major  Thomas  B.  Odell,  Major  John  B.  Lockwood,  Major  Charles  S.  Langdon,  Major  Henry  K.  Bicker, 
Surgeon  Gabriel  Grant,  Captain  Robert  A.  Ripley,  Captain  Samuel  Truesdell,  Captain  James  B.  Horner,  Chap- 
lain Daniel  O.  Ferris,  Captain  Edwin  A.  Merritt,  Captain  John  T.  Robeson,  Captain  William  H.  Jewell,  Captain 
Edgar  B.  Van  Winkle,  Captain  William  E.  Badger,  M.  California  Commandery,  Captain  James  E.  Fleming, 
Captain  William  H.  Wiley,  Lieutenant  F.  Lopes  de  Queralta,  Assistant  Surgeon  Charles  A.  Leale,  Medical 
Director  Charles  Martin,  Medical  Director  George  Peck,  Chief-Engineer  George  Sewell,  Assistant  Engineer 
Thomas  H.  Barrett,  Assistant  Engineer  John  W.  Handren,  Assistant  Paymaster  Josiah  H.  Benton,  Assistant 
Paymaster  Allen  S.  Apgar,  Assistant  Surgeon  Nicholas  L.  Campbell,  Ensign  David  McN.  Stauffer. 
Two  companies  of  commanders  of  Grand  Army  Posts  in  the  Counties  of  New  York  and  Kings  : 
Division  No.  i. — Under  command  of  Colonel  William  P.  Walton,  James  C.  Rice  Post  29,  Grand 
Marshal  of  the  Memorial  Committee,  County  of  New  York  :  Commander  Charles  E.  Hyatt,  Phil  Kearney 
Post  8;  Commander  J.  Boylan,  A.  Lincoln  Post  13;  Commander  James  M.  Smith,  Sumner  Post  24;  Com- 
mander William  Palmer,  James  C.  Rice  Post  29  ;  Commander  Fred.  Letzeiser,  Koltes  Post  32  ;  Com- 
mander W.  E.  White,  George  G.  Meade  Post  38 ;  Commander  William  J.  Kent,  W.  D.  Kennedy  Post  42  ; 
Commander  Philip  L.  Biglin,  Reno  Post  44;  Commander  D.  W.  Gilbert,  Robert  Anderson  Post  58;  Com- 
mander William  Rohling,  J.  L.  Riker  Post  62 ;  Commander  Michael  Meehan,  Ellsworth  Post  67 ;  Com- 
mander John  O'Connell,  James  Shields  Post  69 ;  Commander  Robert  S.  Heilferty,  Farragut  Post  75  ; 
Commander  R.  H.  Birmingham,  Wadsworth  Post  77;  Commander  Jacob  Scheider,  Cameron  Post  79;  Com- 
mander John  J.  Bowes,  John  A.  Rawlin's  Post  80  ;  Commander  George  W.  Brower,  Oliver  Tilden  Post  96  ; 
Commander  M.  T.  McMahon,  George  Washington  Post  103 ;  Commander  William  McEntee,  Dahlgren  Post 
113  ;  Commander  William  J.  Barry,  Joe  Hooker  Post  128;  Commander  A.  W.  Colwell,  John  A.  Dix  Post  135  ; 
Commander  George  Chappell,  Vanderbilt  Post  136 ;  Senior  Vice-Commander  John  H.  Cook,  Lafayette  Post 
140  ;  Commander  Samuel  H.  Bailey,  Judson  Kilpatrick  Post  143  ;  Commander  William  T.  Wood,  Alexander 
Hamilton  Post  182  ;  Commander  J.  V.  Byrne,  Sedgwick  Post  186;  Commander  Fred.  Levy,  Steinwehr  Post 
192;  Commander  S.  D.  Bingham,  Phil  Sheridan  Post  233;  "Commander  S.  E.  Saxton,  John  A.  Andrews  Post 
234  ;  Commander  William  Johnson,  Thad  Stevens  Post  255  ;  Commander  W.  W.  Badger,  Winfield  S.  Hancock 
Post  259;  Commander  John  P.  Heintz,  Gilsa  Post  264;  Commander  Thomas  J.  Wood,  Andrew  Jackson  Post 
300;  Commander  Lawrence  Freeland,  E.  D.  Morgan  Post  307;  Commander  Martin  F.  Conlin,  Adam  Goss 
Post  330;  Commander  George  P.  Pfitzer,  A.  S.  Williams  Post  394;  Commander  John  J.  Humphreys,  John  E. 
Bendix  Post  402;  Commander  S.  La  Grassa,  Fred.  Hecker  Post  408  ;  Commander  William  De  Lacy,  Michael 
Corcoran  Post  427;  Commander  John  J.  Keenan,  Veteran  Post  436;  Commander  J.  G.  Pfeiffer,  Musicians 
Post  452;  Commander  C.  McK.  Leoser,  Noah  L.  Farnham  Post  458  ;  Commander  F.  H.  Bachman,  Volunteer 
Post  459;  Commander  P.  H.  Grove,  Naval  Post  516;  Commander  James  Delehanty,  E.  H.  Wade  Post  520; 
Commander  Thomas  B.  Fitzpatrick,  General  George  B.  McClellan  Post  552  ;  Commander  Carl  Leschorn,  James 
McQuade  Post  557;  Commander  John  S.  Ellison,  William  G.  Mitchell  Post  559;  Commander  George  W. 
O'Neill,  Thomas  F.  Meagher  Post  567  ;  Commander  George  H.  Moore,  Horace  Greeley  Post  577  ;  Commander 
Lewis  J.  West,  Horace  B.  Claflin  Post  578;  Commander  Michael  H.  Whalen,  Peter  Cooper  Post  582  ;  Com- 
mander William  F.  Kirchner,  Lloyd  Aspinwall  Post  600 ;  Commander  T.  H.  C.  Kincaid,  Hans  Powell 
Post  638. 

Division  No.  2. — Under  command  of  Henry  W.  Knight,  U.  S.  Grant  Post  327,  Grand  Marshal  of  the 
Memorial  Committee  of  Kings  County  :  Commander  Samuel  V.  Owen,  Thatford  Post  3  ;  Commander  C.  A. 
Shaw,  Rankin  Post  10;  Commander  A.  E.  Fling,  Barbara  Frietchie  Post  n  ;  Commander  Moses  E.  Arment, 
Frank  Head  Post  16;  Commander  George  W.  Brown,  Harry  Lee  Post  21  ;  Commander  John  Brown,  Mans- 
field Post  35  ;  Commander  H.  A.  Bowman,  George  Hintsman  Post  50 ;  Commander  John  C.  Shott,  Kitching 
Post  60  ;  Commander  George  E.  Fisher,  Mallory  Post  84 ;  Commander  Robert  Given,  James  H.  Perry  Post  89  ; 
Commander  S.  A.  Baker,  Ab.  M.  Vosburg  Post  95  ;  Commander  J.  H.  Eadie,  R.  G.  Shaw  Post  112  ;  Commander 


222      THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 

V.  Deitrich,  Powell  Post  117  ;  Commander  W.  Hoffman,  G.  Metternich  Post  122;  Commander  S.  J.  Chambers, 
Morell  Post  144;  Commander  Reuben  Riley,  Devin  Post  148;  Commander  John  W.  Werner,  Kerswell  Post 
149;  Commander  P.  J.  Kennedy,  L.  M.  Hamilton  Post  152;  Commander  Alexander  J.  Fisher,  N.  S.  Ford  Post 
[6]  ;  Commander  William  De  Waters,  Lenhart  Post  163;  Commander  W.  Wilson,  Jr.,  Farnsworth  Post  170; 

Commander  E.  C.  Walter,  S. 
F.  Dupont  Post  187;  Com- 
mander J.  W.  Kay,  Winches- 
ter Post  197  ;  Commander 
Thomas  Holland,  T.  S.  Dakin 
Post  206  ;  Commander  Geo. 
W.  A.  Murray,  W.  L.  Garrison 
Post  207  ;  Commander  J.'  C. 
Mullins,  Cushing  Post  231  ; 
Commander  A.  Simpson, 
Benjamin  Ringold  Post  283  ; 
Commander  J.  N.  Ford,  G. 
K.  Warren  Post  286 ;  Com- 
mander George  A.  Price,  U. 
S.  Grant  Post  327  ;  Com- 
mander Gilbert  S.  King,  Eras- 
tus  T.  Tefft  Post  355  ;  Com- 
mander J.  R.  Thompson, 
George  Ricard  Post  362 ; 
Commander  J.  S.  Tweedale, 
Charles  Lawrence  Post  378  ; 
Commander  George  R.  Bald- 
win, C.  D.  McKenzie  Post 
399;  Commander  Daniel  Sim- 
mons, Abel  Smith  Post  435  ; 
Commander  T.  B.  Rutan, 
Moses  F.  Odell  Post  443;  Commander  C.  Buser,  Adam  Wirth  Post  451;  Commander  C.  T.  Carpenter,  Ward 
B.  Burnett  Post  496;  Commander  Horatio  C.  King,  Charles  R.  Doane  Post  499;  Commander  John  J.  Ashley, 
B.  F.  Middleton  Post  500;  Commander  A.  Brown,  Flandreau  Post  509;  Commander  B.  Mullin,  Richmond 
Post  524;  Commander  C.  H.  Guinaud,  George  C.  Strong  Post  534;  Commander  John  S.  Power,  R.  G.  Marks 
Post  560;  Commander  G.  B.  Balch,  Horatio  Seymour  Post  590;  Commander  G  A.  Hussey,  General  J.  B. 
McPherson  Post  614;  Commander  S.  L.  Thompson,  Henry  Ward  Beecher  Post  620;  Commander  J.  Foley, 
Michael  W.  Wall  Post  623. 

Cappa's  Seventh  Regiment  Band. 

Uniformed  Battalion  Veterans  of  the  Seventh  Regiment  N.  G.  S.  N.  Y.,  in  command  of  General  Henry  E. 
Tremain.  Field  and  Staff. — Lieutenant-Colonel  Edward  G.  Arthur,  Major  H.  W.  T.  Mali,  Adjutant  Charles 
H.  Covell,  Paymaster  Henry  L.  Freeland,  Commissary  John  C.  Giffing,  Chaplain  Edgar  M.  Crawford,  Surgeon 
T.  M.  Cheesman,  Assistant  Surgeon  Henry  S.  Morris. 

Honorary  Staff.  Delegation  of  Society  of  War  Veterans,  Seventh  Regiment,  N.  G.  S.  N.  Y.  First  Company  : 
Captain  Edward  C.  Anderson,  First  Lieutenant  John  R.  Stanton,  First  Sergeant  John  T.  Baker,  Second  Ser- 
geant Enos  F.  Jones.  Privates  :  Charles  Bowrosan,  C.  A.  Cappa,  Benjamin  Edge,  Jr.,  C.  O.  Ficht,  E.  J.  Hyde, 
William  H.  Macy,  William  V.  Porter,  W.  S.  Thomson,  James  W.  Taylor,  H.  M.  Funston,  Oscar  Mohle,  William 
J.  Cassard.  Second  Company :  Captain  R.  S.  Gould,  Jr.,  Lieutenant  A.  Garrison,  Sergeant  J.  H.  Redman,  First 
Corporal  William  M.  Haddock,  Second  Corporal  O.  M.  Chace,  Right  Guide  J.  J.  Morrison,  Second  Color  Ser- 
geant F.  H.  Schenck,  Sergeant-Major  R.  F.  Ware.  Privates  :  F.  G.  Agens,  J.  J.  Budd,  W.  F.  Blanck,  T.  J. 
Blanck,  T.  J.  Blanck,  2d,  F.  C.  Barlow,  W.  Brockner,  C.  F.  Brinck,  J.  W.  Clarke,  Edward  Gridley,  O.  F.  Haw- 
ley,  W.  H.  Montanye,  J.  T.  Porter,  R.  F.  Salisbury,  H.  S.  Street,  S.  S.  H.  Ward,  G.  L.  Wilson,  Edgar  Williams, 


THE  EQUITABLE  BUILDING,  CONTAINING  THE  LAWYERS'  CLUB. 
Scene  of  the  reception  to  the  President  of  the  United  States,  Monday,  April  29,  1889. 


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E.  L.  Young,  G.  Ogier.  Third  Company :  Captain  John  W.  Murray,  Lieutenant  William  R.  MacDiarmid,  First 
Sergeant  William  H.  Jackson,  Second  Sergeant  Joseph  H.  Chapman.  Privates:  Franklin  R.  Barnes,  William 
E.  Hoxie,  Frederick  C.  Knowles,  Charles  N.  Lee,  Thomas  R.  McNeil,  Samuel  K.  Poe,  John  W.  Salter,  Carl 
Sanford,  J.  J.  Stillings,  John  B.  Simpson,  Jr.,  George  Tuthill,  William  J.  Wilson.  Fourth  Company :  Lieutenant 
Edward  Earle,  Sergeant  William  Peake,  Corporal  Charles  W.  Kane.  Privates  :  Austin  D.  Ewen,  M.  T.  Brun- 
dage,  Robert  Dinwiddie,  Henry  H.  Holly,  James  C.  Aiken,  C.  B.  Outcalt,  Abraham  Demarest,  F.  P.  Crasto. 
Joseph  D.  Taylor,  A.  V.  B.  Lockrow,  W.  C.  Flanagan.  Fifth  Company :  Captain  William  A.  Speaight,  Lieutenant 
Peter  A.  Rink,  First  Sergeant  Joseph  H.  Simpson,  Second  Sergeant  Fred.  Eckel.  Privates  :  Charles  A.  Bene- 
dict, Charles  L.  Fleming,  E.  W.  Hutchings,  S.  Isidor,  A.  B.  Johnson,  George  W.  Jones,  Daniel  S.  Mapes, 
George  W.  Post,  F.  W.  Seagrist,  Jr.,  Samuel  Schwartz.  Sixth  Company  :  Captain  G.  G.  Brinckerhoff,  Lieuten- 
ant Samuel  Budd,  First  Sergeant  Charles  L.  Cozzens,  Second  Sergeant  Archer  V.  Pancoast,  Corporal  Edwin 
A.  Brooks,  Corporal  William  H.  Hampton.  Privates  :  Stanley  A.  Bryant,  Abner  S.  Brady,  William  H.  Brown, 
Charles  B.  Coffin,  F.  W.  Commiskey,  William  B.  Dick,  X.  J.  H.  Edge,  Isaac  N.  Field,  Fred.  A.  Goodwin,  John 
A.  Hadden,  Edmund  Hendricks,  H.  W.  Hendricks,  George  W.  Jones,  Gouverneur  Kemble,  Frederick  Nathan, 
William  H.  Ogden,  Gustave  J.  Wetzler,  Charles  Peck,  J.  B.  Archer.  Seventh  Company:  Captain  William  E. 
Callender,  Lieutenant  David  H.  Fowler,  First  Sergeant  John  L.  Cameron,  Second  Sergeant  John  J.  Coger, 
First  Corporal  H.  M.  Fairchild,  Second  Corporal  Frank  W.  Drake.  Privates:  Eugene  Britton,  James  S.  Bur- 
roughs, Alex.  Burn,  Joseph  W.  Duryee,  J.  Hoard  Dunscomb,  Robert  B.  Douglas,  F.  Albert  Fiston,  Henry  P. 
Gardiner,  W.  M.  Gregory,  W.  H.  Lent,  William  B.  Lynch,  William  Moores,  Benjamin  V.  Moies,  Frank  G.  Mc- 
Closky,  Fred.  H.  Pinkney,  William  Patten,  George  W.  Pease,  William  L.  Power,  Abraham  Steers,  P.  C.  Ster- 
ling, W.  Simpson,  A.  T.  Timpson,  Frank  C.  Vicat,  M.  A.  Van  Benschoten,  E.  Van  Ness,  C.  W.  Wernig,  George 
A.Weber,  Frank  Watkins,  John  A.  O'Connor.  Eighth  Company:  Captain  J.  P.  Burrell,  Sergeant  E.  Bissell, 
Sergeant  W.  L.  Mead,  Corporal  G.  S.  Loder,  Corporal  O.  G.  Barton.  Privates  :  A.  Arent,  E.  Van  Benschoten, 
J.  Lamb,  C.  J.  Townsend,  B.  M.  Whitlock,  L.  C.  Mott,  Edward  Dart,  S.  W.  M.  Decker.  Ninth  Company  ;  Cap- 
tain W.  G.  Dominick,  Lieutenant  Byron  W.  Greene,  First  Sergeant  Franklin  Harper.  Privates:  Austin 
Adams,  C.  R.  Conger,  Peter  De  Witt,  W.  F.  Englis,  H.  C.  Fisher,  L.  O.  Goodridge,  F.  C.  Mayhew,  L.  H. 
Schultz,  T.  M.  Wheeler.  Tenth  Company :  Captain  E.  M.  Le  Moyne,  Lieutenant  P.  F.  Macdonald,  First  Ser- 
geant James  Bleecker,  Second  Sergeant  J.  Ray.  Privates  :  W.  Coolidge,  H.  L.  Pierson,  J.  W.  Sackett,  E. 
Trenchard,  Charles  H.  Voorhees,  Christ.  Wolfe,  Edward  O.  Meyer,  Thomas  B.  Williams,  W.  W.  Fogg,  L.  Mor- 
timer Thorne,  Louis  L.  Allien. 

Srcenth  Regiment  Veteran  Reserves :  Captain  Joseph  Lentilhon,  First  Sergeant  Leonard  F.  Beckwith,  Corpo- 
ral Alister  Greene.  Privates  :  August  Belmont,  Jr.,  Alonzo  G.  Hagadorn,  George  Hoenig,  F.  L.  Leland,  F.  T. 
Luqueer,  Jr.,  Howland  Pell,  Frederick  S.  Pinkus,  T.  J.  O.  Rhinelander,  G.  N.  Williamson.  Major  Hyland 
MacGrath,  Sixth  Massachusetts  Volunteer  Militia. 

Gilmore's  Twenty-second  Regiment  Band. 

Uniformed  Battalion  of  National  Guards'  Veterans. 

Fifth  Regiment  of  seventy  men  :  Commander,  Henry  Kloeber  ;  Vice-Commander,  John  C.  Felton  ;  Adjutant 
Herman  Koehler. 

Ninth  Regiment  of  forty  men:  Commander,  Colonel  George  A.  Hussey ;  Lieutenant-Colonel  Joseph  T. 
Hallock  ;  Major  Thomas  L.  Hanna;  Adjutant  Horace  B.  Russ. 

Eleventh  Regiment  of  fifty  men  :  Commander,  Colonel  H.  Lussman  ;  Lieutenant-Colonel  Henry  Storch ; 
Major  George  Muller  ;  Sergeant  John  Balz. 

Thirteenth  Regiment  of  forty  men :  Commander,  Lieutenant-Colonel  H.  B.  Beadle;  Major  Fred.  H.  Baldwin  ; 
Commissary  Judah  B.  Voorhees:  Quartermaster  Charles  W.  Tandy. 

Twenty-second  Regiment  of  twenty-five  men  :  Commander,  Colonel  William  Lamb  ;  Lieutenant-Colonel  Will- 
iam Mathieson  ;  Major  Thomas  Cooper;  Adjutant  William  H.  Godfrey. 

Sixty-ninth  Regiment  of  forty-four  men :  Commander,  Lieutenant-Colonel  James  J.  Hawkins  ;  Major 
Thomas  J.  O'Donohue  ;  Captain  J.  H.  Brady  ;  Adjutant  T.  Norris. 

Srventy- first  Regiment  of  forty  men  :  Commander,  Colonel  D.  W.  C.  Ward  ;  Lieutenant-Colonel  H.  K. 
White;  Major  Charles  Catterick  ;  Adjutant  L.  Frank  Barry. 

Band,  General  Service  United  States  Army. 


224      THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 

Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution:  President,  Hon.  Frederick  S.  Tallmadge ;  Marshal,  John  J.  Riker ; 
Aides,  Captain  Rufus  Delafield,  Lieutenant  George  C.  Heilner;  Commander  First  Battalion,  Robert  Lenox 
Belknap;  Commander  Second  Battalion,  Captain  Albert  Delafield.  MEMBERS :  Charles  H.  Adams,  Malcolm 
Henry  Angell,  Clarence  Winthrop  Bowen,  F.  A.  Burrall,  M.  D.,  Leonard  Forbes  Beckwith,  Herman  Burgin, 
M.  D.,  W  illiam  Whittlesley  Badger,  Clarence  O.  Bigelovv,  Andrew  Aldridge  Bibby,  Walter  Sherman  Baldwin, 
Henry  Jackson  Brightman,  William  H.  Bissell,  George  Powell  Benjamin,  Horace  Barnard,  Eugene  Bissell, 
Edward  Flint  Brown,  Josiah  H.  Benton,  Samuel  Black  well  Bartow,  Jr.,  Frederick  A.  Benjamin,  G.  Johnston 

Bradish,  Alphonso  Trumpbour  Clearwater,  Charles  Whitney  Car- 
penter, Timothy  Matlack  Cheesman,  M.  U.,  Charles  A.  Coe, 
Banyer  Clarkson,  Hiram  Clark,  Ashton  Crosby  Clarkson,  George 
Taylor  Clarkson,  John  Van  Boskerck  Clarkson,  Edward  Carroll, 
Jr.,  Thomas  Mackaness  Ludlow  Chrystie,  M.  D.,  William  Car- 
pender,  William  B.  Crosby,  Henry  A.  Crosby,  George  E.  Curtis, 
John  Neilson  Carpender,  Livingston  Crosby,  Reese  Carpenter, 
John  Lambert  Cadwalader,  Richard  Delafield,  William  Gayer 
Dominick,  Fellowes  Davis,  Yellott  Dashiell  Dechert,  John  Lacey 
Darlington,  Albert  Delafield,  Henry  Thayer  Drowne,  Clarence 
Gilbert  Degraw,  William  Lacey  Darlington,  M.  D.,  Tallmadge 
Delafield,  Charles  Gibbons  Douw,  Rufus  Delafield,  Henry  Rus- 
sell Drowne,  Charles  W.  Dayton,  Clarence  Delafield,  Christian 
S.  Delavan,  Augustus  Floyd  Delafield,  Harry  Douglas,  John  W. 
Emerson,  Thomas  Grier  Evans,  John  Langdon  Erving,  Edward 
Ellsworth,  Livingston  Emery,  Morris  Patterson  Ferris,  William 
H.  Ford,  Francis  Emory  Fitch,  Thomas  Powell  Fowler,  George 
S.  Floyd-Jones,  Gustavus  Farley,  Jr.,  Thomas  B.  Fairchild,  De 
Lancey  Floyd-Jones,  Levi  K.  Fuller,  Asa  Bird  Gardiner,  Elbridge  T.  Gerry,  James  Renwick  Gibson,  Jr.,  George 
Clinton  Genet,  George  N.  Gardiner,  E.  Harrison  Gavvtry,  Robert  Renwick  Gibson,  George  Rutledge  Gibson, 
Frederic  Mills  Geer,  Francis  B.  Griffin,  C.  Van  Eversdyk  Gallup,  Clarence  W.  Goold,  Allston  Gerry,  Richard 
Henry  Greene,  Frederick  G.  Gedney,  William  W.  Green,  Rev.  Roswell  Randall  Hoes,  U.  S.  N.,  Alfred  Hodges, 
George  A.  Halsey,  John  Van  Boskerck  Herrick,  Francis  Johnstone  Hopson,  George  C.  Holt,  William  G.  Hack- 
staff,  George  Carson  Heilner,  Francis  L.  Hine,  William  Gaston  Hamilton,  Gilbert  R.  Hawes,  Henry  Hall,  War- 
ren M.  Healey,  Frederick  J.  Hall,  Caleb  Brewster  Hackley,  Arthur  Melvin  Hatch,  Rev.  Frank  Landon  Hum- 
phreys, Percy  Dakin  Hurlburt,  Edward  L.  Hedden,  A.  W.  Humphreys,  W.  T.  B.  S.  Imlay,  Rev.  Edward  P.  Inger- 
soll,  John  B.  Ireland,  William  H.  Jackson,  John  Clarkson  Jay,  Jr.,  M.  D.,  Joseph  C.  Jackson,  Jr.,  Joseph  C. 
Jackson,  Henry  Knickerbacker,  Horatio  C.  King,  Charles  Huntoon  Knight,  M.  D.,  Charles  Kellogg,  John  Alsop 
King,  James  Duane  Livingston,  Philip  L.  Livingston,  Francis  H.  Lathrop,  James  Betts  Lockwood,  Isaac  Ferris 
Lockwood,  Crossman  Lyons,  Howard  Lockwood,  C.  C.  Luckey,  John  Lawrence,  Henry  Wyckoff  Le  Roy,  Gouv- 
erneur  Morris,  Richard  Malcolm  Montgomery,  James  Mortimer  Montgomery,  Samuel  Vernon  Mann,  Dwight 
Morris,  Robert  Morris,  M.  D.,  Augustus  W.  Merwin,  Henry  Holdick  Morton,  Charles  Baumann  Marsh,  Clarence 
Morfit,  James  B.  Mix,  Rev.  Brockholst  Morgan,  Charles  H.  Murray,  John  Tracey  Mygatt,  Lemuel  Carrington 
Mygatt,  J.  Bleecker  Miller,  William  Irwin  Martin,  Waldo  Grant  Morse,  Charles  A.  Meigs,  Christie  Few  Nichol- 
son, Henry  Denton  Nicoll,  M.  D.,  James  Atkins  Noyes,  Warren  B.  Newkirk,  J.  Van  Vechten  Olcott,  George 
W.  Olney,  John  J.  Pierrepont,  James  Owen,  John  Northrop  Peet,  Albert  Ross  Parsons,  Francis  E.  Pinto,  Charles 
Elwell  Perkins,  Charles  H.  Pond,  John  Howard  Prall,  Henry  Pratt,  Wendell  C.  Phillips,  M.  I ).,  John  V.  S.  L. 
Pruyn,  Jacob  M.  Patterson,  Henry  L.  Potter,  Orlando  B.  Potter,  John  Parker  Prall,  William  A.  Pinto,  George 
Eltweed  Pomeroy,  Robert  Kelly  Prentice,  Rev.  Edward  J.  Runk,  Theodore  Frelinghuysen  Reed,  Henry  Mon- 
tague Robertson,  Augustus  Le  Fevbre  Revere,  C.  H.  E.  Redding,  Louis  Joseph  Sands,  John  H.  Swartwout, 
Satterlee  Swartwout,  Thomas  Bliss  Stillman,  Edward  Lyman  Short,  Thomas  Storm,  Charles  E.  Sprague,  John 
R.  Stanton,  Jacob  Shrady,  William  Shrady,  Elliott  Sandford,  Martin  H.  Stafford,  Murray  Hoffman  Strong,  Will- 
iam Stone,  Walter  Satterlee,  Clifford  Stanley  Sims,  Thomas  West  Smith,  Frank  Squier,  F.  LeRoy  Satterlee, 
M.  I).,  Jared  Sandford,  George  Terry  Sinclair,  John  J.  Sillcock,  Douglas  Rathbone  Satterlee,  William  Fred. 


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Stafford,  Edward  R.  Satterlee,  William  Crawford  Sheldon,  Jr.,  James  Remsen  Strong,  Richard  Loomis  Salis- 
bury, Henry  W.  Seeley,  Edwin  E.  Swift,  M.  D.,  Frederick  George  Swan,  Robert  Townsend,  Frederick  Samuel 
Tallmadge,  John  Canfield  Tomlinson,  Ezra  B.  Tuttle,  Theodore  E.  Tomlinson,  Jr.,  Edward  Trenchard,  Edwin 
B.  Tucker,  William  Alonzo  Tucker,  Francis  Cummings  Tucker,  Cummings  Hatfield  Tucker,  Jr.,  William  H. 
Tillinghast,  Clarence  Eugene  Thornall,  Edward  Voorhees  Thornall,  William  R.  Thompson,  Alexander  R. 
Thompson,  Jr.,  Von  Beverhout  Thompson,  M.  D.,  Henry  Overing  Tallmadge,  Francis  Bergh  Taylor,  Suther- 
land Gazzam  Taylor,  Theodore  B.  Talbot,  Robert  Thorne,  Edward  Wright  Tapp,  Charles  Montgomery  Vail, 
Frederic  Van  Lennep,  William  Gordon  Ver  Planck,  A.  Van  Wyck  Van  Vechten,  James  M.  Varnum,  Harmon 
Albert  Vedder,  George  Sandford  Wylie,  Sylvester  L.  H.  Ward,  Edmund  W.  Wylie,  Rev.  Daniel  Cony  Weston, 
D.  D.,  Bartow  S.  Weeks,  Samuel  Seymour  Wood,  Abraham  Wakeman,  Reynold  Webb  Wilcox,  M.  D ,  Francis 
Parsons  Webb,  Asa  Coolidge  Warren,  Henry  Applegate  Wilson,  Albert  Sullivan  Yeaton. 

First  carriage :  The  Committee  on  Plan  and  Scope  (having  the  general  supervision  of  the  celebration) ; 
Hon.  Cornelius  N.  Bliss,  Hon.  Samuel  D.  Babcock,  Hon.  Frederick  S.  Tallmadge,  Hon.  James  M.  Varnum,  and 
Mr.  Clarence  W.  Bowen,  Secretary. 

Second  carriage:  The  President  of  the  United  States,  with  the  Governor  of  the  State  of  New  York  on  his 
left;  Hon.  Hamilton  Fish,  with  Mayor  Hugh  J.  Grant  on  his  left.  This  landau  was  drawn  by  four  handsome 
horses,  the  leaders  dapple  grays  with  long  manes,  and  the  wheelers  bay  steeds.  On  the  box  was  driver  James 
Flaherty,  who  had  driven  Presidents  Grant,  Garfield,  Arthur,  and  Cleveland;  and  in  the  rumble  were  two  foot- 
men in  livery,  with  yellow  cockades,  and  rosettes  in  their  lapels. 

Third  carriage :  The  Vice-President  of  the  United  States,  with  Lieutenant-Governor  Jones,  of  the  State  of 
New  York,  at  his  left ;  the  Chief-Justice  of  the  United  States,  with  the  Chairman  of  the  Executive  Committee, 
Mr.  Gerry,  on  his  left. 

Fourth  carriage  :  Walker  Blaine,  representing  the  Secretary  of  State,  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury,  the 
Secretary  of  War,  and  the  Secretary  of  the  Navy. 

Fifth  carriage  :  The  Secretary  of  the  Interior,  the  Postmaster-General,  the  Attorney-General,  and  the  Sec- 
retary of  Agriculture. 

Sixth  carriage:  The  Associate  Justices  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States. 

Seventh  carriage  :  The  Admiral  of  the  Navy,  the  General  of  the  Army  (retired),  the  Major-General  com- 
manding the  Army,  and  Senator  William  M.  Evarts. 

Eighth  carriage:  The  ex-Presidents  of  the  United  States  and  Senator  Hiscock. 

Ninth  carriage:  Hon.  John  A.  King  and  Hon.  John  Jay,  Centennial  Committee  on  General  Government. 

The  Marine  Society  under  command  of  Coxswain  Snow,  with  their  banner,  which  was  used  at  Washington's 
landing  one  hundred  years  before,  carried  by  Ship-masters  Captain  Samuel  Harding,  Captain  William  B.  Hil- 
ton, and  Captain  William  H.  Allen,  who  marched  in  front  of  the  President's  carriage.  The  other  sea-captains, 
who  rowed  President  Harrison  ashore,  walked  at  the  side  of  his  carriage  as  a  special  escort. 

In  carriages  and  on  foot :  The  General  Committee  of  the  Centennial  Celebration.  The  Governors  of 
States,  taking  precedence  in  the  order  of  admission  of  their  States  into  the  Union.  The  official  repre- 
sentatives of  the  Senate  of  the  United  States.  The  official  representatives  of  the  House  of  Representatives 
of  the  United  States.  The  Governors  of  Territories  and  President  of  the  Board  of  Commissioners  of 
the  District  of  Columbia.  Officers  of  the  Army  and  Navy  who  by  name  have  received  the  thanks  of 
Congress.  The  official  representatives  of  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati.  The  Chief  Judge  and  Judges  of 
the  Court  of  Appeals  of  the  State  of  New  York.  The  Presiding  Justice  and  Justices  of  the  Supreme 
Court  of  the  State  of  New  York,  and  Judges  of  other  Courts  of  Record  within  the  city  of  New  York. 
The  Legislature  of  the  State  of  New  York.  The  State  officers  of  the  State  of  New  York,  Judges  and 
Justices  of  other  Courts  in  the  City  of  New  York.  The  Board  of  Aldermen  of  the  City  of  New  York. 
Heads  of  Departments  in  the  City  of  New  York.  Mayor  of  the  City  of  Brooklyn.  The  Board  of  Alder- 
men of  the  City  of  Brooklyn.  The  Foreign  Consuls  at  New  York,  and  officers  of  the  Army  and  Navy  of 
the  United  States.    Invited  guests  without  special  order  of  precedence. 

What  President  Harrison  saw  was  grander  and  greater  than  what  President  Washing- 
ton looked  upon.    From  the  river  to  Pearl  Street  the  line  of  vision  was  arrested  by  the 
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Merchants'  Arch  at  Front  and  Wall  Streets,  a  mass  of  red,  white,  and  blue  silk,  erected 
by  the  merchants  of  lower  Wall  Street.  From  Pearl  Street  there  stretched  an  open 
avenue  for  the  eye  to  look  through  toward  the  rise  of  ground.  As  far  as  where  Old  Trinity 
lifts  its  lofty  spire,  the  path  of  sight  was  bounded  on  each  side  by  the  walls  of  immense 
high  buildings,  each  structure  radiant  with  rainbow-hued  buntings  which  floated  and  waved 
in  the  passing  breeze  ;  every  window  gleaming  with  bright  eyes,  every  cornice  fringed  with 
faces  ;  while  from  projecting  platforms  built  out  from  lower  windows  were  irregular  groups 
of  people.  Each  wall  of  mingled  stone  and  brick  was  like  a  facet  of  a  huge  brilliant,  so 
abundant  and  so  varied  was  the  curtain  of  color  thrown  from  roof  to  foundation.  The 
banks,  strongholds  of  finance,  seemed  grand  sculptures  in  draperies  of  red,  white,  and  blue, 
green,  gold,  yellow,  and  black.  The  Treasury  Building,  with  its  shields  and  arms  of  the 
various  States,  looked  like  a  triumphal  temple  reared  to  demonstrate  the  financial  solidity 
of  the  Government  that  was  born  upon  its  site.  A  slight  halt  was  made  at  the  Custom- 
House,  the  front  of  which  was  gayly  decorated.  There  were  heard  the  sweet  notes  of 
"America,"  sung  by  the  Custom-House  Brokers'  Glee  Club  accompanied  by  a  cornet. 
The  club  also  sang  "  Marching  through  Georgia."  From  the  portico,  Collector  Magone 
and  his  principal  assistant  deputies  saluted  President  Harrison.  The  President  gazed  rev- 
erently at  the  bronze  statue  of  Washington  crowned  with  a  gold  laurel-wreath  on  the  steps 
of  the  Treasury.  Just  beyond  these  glorious  portions  of  the  spectacle  was  the  maze  of 
aerial  wires  that  cross  Nassau,  Broad,  and  Wall  Streets,  and  upon  them,  floating  in  the 
air,  were  streamers  of  telegraph  paper  which  fluttered  like  the  silvery  threads  that  spiders 
weave.  The  march  up  to  Broadway  was  an  ovation  ;  all  along  the  line  there  was  the  shout- 
ing of  the  throngs  of  the  people  on  the  streets,  and  the  music  of  the  human  voice  in  con- 
tinuous chorus  mingled  with  the  strains  of  bands  and  the  pealing  of  Trinity's  bells,  which 
rang  out  clear  and  strong  from  the  belfry  where  floated  magnificently  her  monster  flag. 
The  people  greeted  the  marshal  and  the  committee,  the  handsome  files  of  regulars,  the 
Loyal  Legion,  the  Veteran  Commanders,  the  Seventh  Regiment  Veterans  in  their  rich 
uniforms  of  black  sack-coats  and  blue  trousers  striped  with  white  and  each  man  carrying  a 
dress-sword,  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution,  and  the  officials  and  distinguished  occupants  of  the 
few  carriages ;  but  it  was  to  the  President,  chosen  at  the  commencement  of  the  nation's  second 
century  of  constitutional  government,  that  the  cheers  arose  in  the  greatest  volume.  To  prop- 
erly guard  the  approaches  to  the  Equitable  Building,  Police  Inspector  Conlin,  with  Captain 
McCullagh  the  elder  and  Captain  McCullagh  the  younger,  with  Captain  Brooks  and  Captain 
Sterns,  and  three  hundred  police,  guarded  Liberty,  Nassau,  and  Wall  Streets  and  Broadway, 
making  a  square  of  police.  Inspector  Conlin  arranged  a  similar  square  in  the  Grand  Hall  of 
the  Equitable,  while  Captain  Meeker,  U.  S.  Navy,  Lieutenant  Prince,  U.  S.  Navy,  and  Lieu- 
tenant Pendleton,  U.  S.  Navy,  with  a  drum  and  bugle  corps  and  one  hundred  marines  of  the 
navy  were  distributed  through  the  corridors  leading  to  the  rooms  of  the  Lawyers'  Club,  or 
were  stationed  like  statues  in  the  reception  and  dining  rooms,  parlors  and  libraries  of  the  club. 


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AT  THE   EQUITABLE  BUILDING. 


At  the  Equitable  Building,  where  the  President  was  to  receive  the  hospitality  of  New 
York,  elaborate  preparations  had  been  made  for  his  reception.  Outside  and  inside  bunting 
fluttered  in  artistic  festoons  and  in  boundless  profusion.  In  the  magnificent  hall,  from  the 
entrance  on  Broadway  to  the  great  staircase  drawn  up  in  two  lines  on  the  north  and 
south  sides,  were  detachments  of  the  Fifth  Artillery,  U.  S.  Army,  under  command  of  Major 
McCrea  ;  the  Commanders  of  the  Grand  Army  Posts  in  New  York  and  Brooklyn,  under 
Colonel  Walton  ;  the  New  York  Commandery  of  the  Loyal  Legion  ;  and  the  Centennial 
Committee  of  Two  Hundred.  On  the  south  staircase,  carpeted  with  crimson  velvet,  were 
sixty  members  of  the  vested  choir  of  Trinity  Church  under  the  leadership  of  Dr.  Arthur  H. 
Messiter.  Behind  the  military  were  masses  of  ladies  and  gentlemen  filling  every  available 
spot.  At  two  o'clock  the  cheering  outside  announced  that  the  President  had  arrived.  The 
troops  presented  arms ;  the  artillery  band  struck  up  the  President's  March ;  the  members 
of  the  Plan  and  Scope  Committee  entered  first,  and  President  Harrison,  escorted  by  Mr. 
William  G.  Hamilton,  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  States,  marched  through  the  lines. 
He  gracefully  acknowledged  the  salutes  of  the  troops  and  of  his  old  comrades  of  the 
Grand  Army,  as  also  of  the  Loyal  Legion.  Behind  the  President,  each  escorted  by  a 
member  of  the  Committee  on  States,  walked  Vice-President  Morton,  Governor  Hill, 
Mayor  Grant,  Hon.  Hamilton  Fish,  Lieutenant-Governor  Jones,  Elbridge  T.  Gerry,  Chief- 
Justice  Fuller,  the  members  of  the  Cabinet,  and  the  Justices  of  the  Supreme  Court.  Fol- 
lowing them  came  Senators  and  Representatives  of  Congress,  the  Governors  of  States, 
Admiral  Porter,  General  Sherman,  ex- President  Hayes,  General  Schofield,  Walker  Blaine, 
Chauncey  M.  Depew,  Secretary  Halford,  and  the  State  Commissioners  and  invited  guests. 
When  the  procession  had  advanced  a  considerable  distance  along  the  great  hall,  it  came  to 
a  halt ;  the  surpliced  choir  of  Trinity  Church  descended  the  steps  and  sang  with  well-trained 
voices  the  hymn  "  Before  the  Lord  we  bow."  President  Harrison  bowed  his  head  and 
remained  in  that  position  during  the  singing  of  the  hymn  : 

"  Before  the  Lord  we  bow —  "  For  this  fair  land, 


The  God  who  reigns  above 
And  rules  the  world  below. 
Boundless  in  power  and  love 


For  this  bright  day 
Our  thanks  we  pay, 
Gifts  of  thy  hand. 


"  Our  thanks  we  bring 
In  joy  and  praise; 
Our  hearts  we  raise 


To  heaven's  high  King. 


May  every  mountain-height, 
Each  vale  and  forest  green, 

Shine  in  thy  Word's  pure  light, 
And  its  rich  fruit  be  seen. 


"  The  nation,  though  blessed, 
May  well  thy  love  declare ; 
From  foes  and  fears  at  rest, 
Protected  by  thy  care. 


"  May  every  tongue 
Be  turned  to  praise, 


And  join  to  raise 
A  grateful  song  !  " 


228      THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


With  uncovered  heads  and  with  voices  clear  and  resonant  the  assembled  multitude  sang, 
to  the  accompaniment  of  the  military  bands,  the  Doxology : 

"  Praise  God  from  whom  all  blessings  flow, 
Praise  him  all  creatures  here  below; 
Praise  him  above,  ye  heavenly  host, 
Praise  Father,  Son,  and  Holy  Ghost." 

The  President  and  party,  after  being  relieved  of  their  hats  and  overcoats,  were  escorted  to 
the  rooms  of  the  Lawyers'  Club  where  a  reception,  banquet,  and  collation  were  given  by  the 
General  Committee  of  the  Centennial  Celebration,  through  the  Committee  on  States,  the  use 


(Reduced  fac-simile  of  the  first  page  of  the  invitation  to  the  reception  at  the  Lawyers'  Club,  April  29,  [889.) 


of  the  building  having  been  extended  through  the  courtesy  of  President  Hyde,  of  the  Equi- 
table Life- Assurance  Society,  and  President  William  Allen  Butler,  Jr.,  of  the  Lawyers'  Club. 
On  the  arrival  at  the  rooms  of  the  club  on  the  fifth  floor,  Mr.  Hamilton  presented  the  Presi- 
dent to  Mr.  William  Allen  Butler,  Jr.,  the  President  of  the  Lawyers'  Club;  Mr.  James  W. 
Alexander,  Vice-President  of  the  Equitable  Life-Assurance  Society;  and  Mr.  Samuel  Borrowe, 
second  Vice-President  of  the  Equitable  Life-Assurance  Society,  and  also  to  the  members  of 
the  Board  of  Governors  of  the  club.  This  ceremony  over,  the  President,  the  Vice-Presi- 
dent, Governor  Hill,  Mayor  Grant,  and  Hon.  Hamilton  Fish  were  escorted  to  the  reception- 


THE  ENTERTAINMENT  AT  THE  LAWYERS'  CLUB. 


229 


room,  attended  by  Messrs,  Hamilton,  Butler,  Borrowe,  and  Hallet  Borrowe,  special  aide  to 
Governor  Hill,  on  behalf  of  the  Committee  on  States.  A  raised  platform  was  provided,  on 
which  President  Harrison  took  his  place.  On  his  right  stood  Hon.  Hamilton  Fish  and 
Vice-President  Morton;  on  his  left,  Governor  Hill  and  Mayor  Grant.  The  members  of  the 
Cabinet,  Senators,  Governors,  etc.,  were  scattered  in  groups  on  each  side  of  the  dais.  Secre- 
taries Windom,  Tracy,  Proctor,  Noble,  and  Rusk,  Postmaster-General  Wanamaker  and  At- 
torney-General Miller  conversed  among  themselves,  with  ex-President  Hayes,  Senator  Evarts, 
Senator  Hiscock,  Walker  Blaine,  Chauncey  M.  Depew,  and  others,  on  one  side,  while  on  the 
other  the  Governors  of  the  various  States  made  themselves  at  home. 


WASHINGTON  BEING  RQWfD  FROM  NEtfJFRSEVTO  THE  LANDING  ATThE  ~COT  OF  WALL  STREET.  EAST  RIVER,  NEW  YORK. 

APRIL  23,0I789 


Hail  thou  auspicious  day 
Far  let  America 

Thy  praise  resound: 

Joy  to  our  native  land  ! 

Lft  tvry    hea-rt  cxparvd. 

For  Washingtons  &t  hand. 
N^ith,  Glory  crowr\'d  1 


ODE 


SUNG  ON  THE  ARRIVAL  OF  THE  PRESIDENT  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES.  APRIL  23B°I789 


Thnce  blest  Columbian  Hail 
Be  ho  Id,  be  fore  the  gale. 
Your  Ch'cJ  advance; 
The  matchless  Hero's  ni°h' 
Applaud  Hirn  to  the  sky. 
Who  gave  you  Liberty. 
With.  gen/rous  Frarvce  . 


Illustrious  Warrior    hail  I  Thrice  welcome  to  this  short,  far  be  the  din  of  Arms 

Oft'did  thy  Sword  prevail  Our  Leader  now  no  rrjore.  Henceforth  the  Olives  charms 

Oer  hosts  of  foes.  But  Ruler  tnou  ;  Shall  War  preclude, 

Come  and  fresh  laurels  claim..  Oh  Iruly  good  and  p,reai!  These  shores  a  Head  sh.all  own. 

Stilt  dearer  ma  Ke  thy  name  Lonp  tive  to  glad  our  S  tate ,  Unsully  d  by  a  rhrune  . 

Lor\g  as  Immortal  Fame  Where  countless  Honors  wair  Our  much  loved  Washington.. 

Her  Trumpet  blows'  To  deck  tf.y  brow.  The  Great,  the  Good 


THE  CITY   COUNCIL  OF  NEW-YORK,  1789 

Mayor.  Jambs  Duank.  RccottDKR.  Kichard  Varick. 

.'/Mermen.  ■  issislmi/s.  hi  i       .  , 

south  wo,rd  —  jLficn/AH  Woot.  Joseph  Pierson  Mferuien  .Issisltints 

DOCK-WARD  Peteh  Cltinc  Wyhant  Van  Zanot  NORTH  WARD  <ohh  Wylley  Ceo/ice  Janewait 

James  Hichoisoh  MONTGOMERIE  WARD.  Benjamin Blaggl  Tobias  Van  Ian ot. 

Ahiiaham  v»»  CriDta  OUT  WARD  Nicholas  Bayard.  John  Quachenboss 


EAST  WARD  'OHN  lAHKENCE 

WEST  WARD      Wiiuam  W  Ciihiht 


(Reduced  fac-simile  of  the  second  page  of  the  invitation  to  the  reception  at  the  Lawyers  Club,  April  29,  1889.) 

The  members  of  the  Reception  Committee  were  then  introduced  to  the  President,  who 
was  informed  that  these  gentlemen  would  present  to  him  the  guests  who  had  been  invited 
to  meet  him.  As  befitting  the  occasion,  this  committee  were  selected  from  the  descendants 
of  persons  associated  with  Washington  or  with  the  early  history  of  the  Government ;  they 
were  all  young  men,  who  wore  badges  of  dark  blue  and  gold.  They  were  Lewis  Livingston 
Delafield,  descended  from  the  families  of  Morgan  Lewis,  Livingston,  and  Hallet,  of  Hallet's 
Point;  W.  Pierson  Hamilton,  great-grandson  of  Alexander  Hamilton  and  descendant  of 
Abram  Pierson,  the  first  President  of  Vale  College  ;  Evart  Jansen  Wendell,  descendant  of 


23o       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


Evart  Jansen  Wendell,  one  of  the  founders  of  Albany,  N.  Y. ;  John  Watts  De  Peyster  Toler, 
representing  the  De  Peyster  family  ;  Boudinot  Keith,  great-grand-nephew  of  Elias  Boudinot, 
the  President  of  the  Continental  Congress;  Charles  K.  Beekman,  representing  the  Beekman, 
Ketaltas,  Rutgers,  and  Bedlow  families ;  Boudinot  Atterbury,  great-grandson  of  Elias  Bou- 
dinot ;  Sidney  D.  Ripley,  descendant  of  the  Otis  and  Dwight  families  ;  James  W.  Husted,  Jr., 
son  of  a  representative  legislator  of  New  York  State  ;  Archibald  Gracie,  great-grandson  of 
Chancellor  Livingston  ;  Duer  Breck,  descendant  of  the  Duer,  Dupont,  and  Breck  families  ; 
F.  Delano  W7eekes,  descendant  of  a  New  York  representative  merchant  ;  H.  W.  Banks,  Jr., 
descendant  of  a  New  York  representative  merchant ;  George  Haven,  Jr.,  descendant  of  a 
New  York  representative  merchant ;  Philip  Mercer  Rhinelander,  descendant  of  a  New  York 
representative  merchant ;  Philip  Rhinelander,  descendant  of  a  New  York  representative  mer- 
chant ;  Alexander  Stewart  Webb,  Jr.,  great-grandson  of  General  Samuel  B.  Webb,  aide  to 
Washington  ;  Samuel  Campbell,  Jr.,  descendant  from  the  Ludlow,  Kip  (Kip's  Bay),  and  Duyck- 
inck  families ;  Boudinot  Colt,  great-grandson  of  Elisha  Boudinot ;  Stephen  Chase,  descend- 
ant of  the  Livingstons  and  Morgan  Lewis,  and  great-great-grandson  of  William  Lowndes,  of 
South  Carolina ;  August  Belmont,  Jr.,  great-grandson  of  Commodore  Perry  ;  Livingston  Em- 
ery, great-grandson  of  William  Livingston,  aide  to  General  Washington  ;  Robert  R.  Living- 
ston, great-grandson  of  Chancellor  Robert  R.  Livingston  ;  Grenville  Winthrop,  descendant  of 
Governor  Winthrop ;  George  Adams,  great-great-grandson  of  John  Ouincy  Adams ;  Linzee 
Prescott,  great-grandson  of  Colonel  William  Prescott,  of  Bunker  Hill,  and  Captain  Linzee, 
commander  of  British  sloop-of-war  Falcon;  Henry  A.  Alexander,  great-grandson  of  Major 
William  Ferguson,  U.  S.  A.,  and  member  of  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati ;  Frederick  D. 
Thompson,  descendant  of  the  Gardiners,  of  Gardiner's  Island,  New  York  ;  George  B.  Post, 
Jr.,  representing  New  York's  architectural  progress;  James  Hazen  Hyde,  son  of  Henry  B. 
Hyde,  the  President  of  the  Equitable  Life-Assurance  Society  ;  John  Eliot  Bowen,  great-great- 
grand-nephew  of  Benjamin  Franklin,  and  great-great-grandson  of  Captain  Isaac  Gardner, 
killed  in  the  battle  of  Lexington,  and  representing  the  Eliot,  Wolcott,  Aspinwall,  and  Tappan 
families;  Newbold  Morris,  great-great-grandson  of  Robert  Morris;  Edmund  Dwight,  Jr., 
representing  the  Dwights,  Wolcotts,  and  Johnsons;  Devereau  Toler,  great-great-grandson  of 
Judge  Elisha  Boudinot  and  great-great-grand-nephew  of  Elias  Boudinot;  William  Shippin, 
great-grandson  of  General  Morton;  Meredith  Howland,  descendant  of  a  New  York  repre- 
sentative merchant  ;  Charles  A.  Van  Rensselaer,  descendant  of  the  Yan  Rensselaers  (the 
Patroons  of  Rensselaerwyck)  ;  Woodbury  Kane,  descendant  of  General  Armstrong  ;  Robert 
Stockton,  great-great-grandson  of  Richard  Stockton,  the  signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Inde- 
pendence; Stockton  Beekman  Colt,  great-grand-nephew  of  Elias  Boudinot,  the  President  of 
the  Continental  Congress;  Henderson  WTells,  great-grandson  of  Colonel  Peter  C.  Cortenius, 
of  New  York,  Paymaster  Continental  Army  during  the  Revolution  ;  Frederick  Satterlee, 
great-great-grandson  of  Chancellor  Livingston  ;  Waldron  Kintzing  Post,  great-grand-nephew 
of  John  Hancock,  the  first  signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  and  descendant  of  the 


THE  ENTERTAINMENT  AT  THE  LAWYERS'  CLUB. 


23i 


Waldron  family ;  Samuel  Dexter,  great-great-grandson  of  Colonel  William  Prescott,  com- 
mander of  the  forces  at  Bunker  Hill,  June  17,  1775;  Clermont  Livingston  Clarkson,  repre- 
senting the  Livingston  and  Clarkson  families  ;  Elisha  Dyer,  3d,  great-great-grandson  of 
Governor  William  Jones,  of  Rhode  Island,  sent  by  the  Continental  Congress  to  France  as 
bearer  of  dispatches  to  Benjamin  Franklin  ;  Ramsey  Trumbull,  descendant  of  General  Ram- 
sey;  Peter  Cooper  Hewitt,  grandson  of  the  great  philanthropist  Peter  Cooper ;  Joseph  Jack- 
son, Jr.,  great-great-great-great-grandson  of  Governor  Philip  Peterson  Schuyler  and  great- 
grand-nephew  of  Major-General  Oliver  Wolcott,  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  under  Washington. 

After  this  the  doors  of  the  Club  were  thrown  open  to  the  invited  guests  who  had  assem- 
bled in  the  offices  of  the  Equitable  Life-Assurance  Society  below.  They  were  conducted  in 
as  rapidly  as  possible  by  the  Reception  Committee,  and,  after  being  presented  to  the  Presi- 
dent, passed  on  into  the  library  and  dining-rooms.  President  Harrison  bowed  as  each  group 
passed.  Following  the  custom  of  Washington's  time,  there  was  no  hand-shaking.  This 
not  only  facilitated  the  rapid  passage  of  the  guests,  but  saved  the  President  much  fatigue. 
More  than  two  thousand  men  distinguished  in  their  respective  pursuits  had  been  spe- 
cially invited  to  meet  the  President,  including  a  special  delegation  from  army  and 
navy  officers,  actors,  authors,  architects,  artists,  auctioneers,  average  adjusters,  advertising 
agents,  bank  presidents,  book  publishers,  brewers,  butchers,  bankers,  representatives  of  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce  and  the  Cotton  and  Coffee  Exchanges,  clergymen,  civil  engineers, 
chair-makers,  chemists,  china  and  earthenware  dealers,  clothiers,  carriage  manufacturers, 
members  of  the  cigar  and  tobacco  trade,  foreign  consuls,  descendants  of  distinguished  for- 
eign officers  of  the  Revolution;  members  of  the  drug  and  chemical  trade,  dry-goods  mer- 
chants, expressmen,  dealers  in  flour,  furniture,  and  fish,  freight  agents,  grocers,  glass-import- 
ers, members  of  the  General  Society  of  Mechanics  and  Tradesmen,  engineers,  hatters,  fur- 
riers, harness-makers,  dealers  in  house-furnishing  goods,  members  of  the  iron  trade,  lawyers, 
lumber-dealers,  life-insurance  men,  liquor-dealers,  lead-pencil  manufacturers,  mechanical  engi- 
neers, marine  insurance  men,  metal-dealers,  naval  officers,  members  of  the  Maritime  and  Prod- 
uce Exchanges,  physicians  and  surgeons,  printers,  piano  manufacturers,  printing-press  manu- 
facturers, members  of  the  paint  trade,  photographers,  representatives  of  the  Society  of  the 
Cincinnati,  railroad  officers,  members  of  the  Real  Estate  and  Stock  Exchanges,  sugar-refiners, 
steamship  agents,  sail-makers,  silk  manufacturers,  ship-chandlers,  shoe  manufacturers,  officers  of 
trust  companies  and  telegraph  companies,  members  of  the  German  and  Holland  Societies, 
members  of  the  Century,  Union,  Manhattan,  Knickerbocker,  Calumet,  and  Lawyers'  Clubs, 
Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution,  Liederkrantz  and  Arion  Societies. 

Four  thousand  people  were  present — among  them  Bishop  H.  C.  Potter,  Rev.  Dr.  Dix, 
Edwards  Pierrepont,  General  Sherman,  General  McPherson,  Admiral  Porter,  ex-Secretary 
Bayard,  General  George  W.  Cullum,  General  Joseph  C.  Jackson,  General  Schuyler  Hamilton, 
John  F.  Plummer,  Esq.,  Eugene  Kelly,  Esq.,  Brayton  Ives,  Esq.,  E.  Ellery  Anderson,  Esq., 
Rev.  W.  B.  Derrick,  Commodore  James  D.  Smith,  General  William  G.  Ward,  General  Alex- 


232      THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


ander  S.  Webb,  General  Tower,  Henry  L.  Pierson,  Esq.,  D.  F.  Appleton,  Esq.,  Prof.  D.  G. 
Baton,  Mayor  Seth  Low,  President  of  Columbia  College;  Hamilton  Fish,  Jr.,  Esq.,  James 
M.  Montgomery,  Fsq.,  Asa  Bird  Gardiner,  Esq.,  Colonel  Silas  N.  Burt,  Cyrus  W.  Field,  Esq., 
Frederick  S.  Tallmadgc,  Esq.,  General  J.  F.  Pierson,  James  A.  Scrymser,  Esq.,  Charles  Emory 
Smith,  Esq.,  Daniel  Huntington,  Esq.,  Nicholas  Fish,  Esq.,  General  Fitzgerald,  Samuel  Crocker, 
Esq.,  Captain  Arthur  Hatch,  Jr.,  William  Wayne,  of  Pennsylvania,  Clifford  Stanley  Sims,  of 
New  Jersey,  Hon.  John  A.  King,  Hon.  John  Jay,  General  Egbert  L.  Viele,  the  Rev.  Charles 
Cotesworth  Pinckney,  of  South  Carolina,  Bishop  William  Stevens  Perry,  of  Iowa,  Rev.  Dr. 
Thomas  Armitage,  VV.  B.  Webb,  Esq.,  President  of  the  Commissioners  of  the  District  of 


6I5H0P  PROVOOST. 


S'  PAULS  CHAPEL. 1739 


CHANCELLOR  LIVINGSTON. 


CONGRESS  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES,  1789.  ASSEMBLED  IN  NEW-YORK. 

PRESIDENT 


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GEORGE  LEONARD,  15  GqifiT  UocnSvU ir 
GEORGE  PARTOJOGE,  /j  GtteftT  Uoe«  Stuclt 
GEORGE  THATCHER,  47  U40AO  Sr^tfr 

I"H,EOOORE  SEDGWICK,  IS  C^C/T  DOC\  Grocer 

■  cor?i?ecTicuT- 

flENJAM'N  HUNTINGTON,  S9  W/trcn  Sti^cc  r 
ROGER.  SHERMAN.  S9  w/r£/(  Srncci 

JONATHAN  STUR.GES  ■>/  IIi{o/id  Stucet 
JONATHAN  THUinUULL.  W  W/t7t*  Sr/(£cr 
JCREM  I  AM  WAOSWORTH.    f9S  tr/rcf  ttf^tir 


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WM  SAMUEL  JOHNSON,  A.7  THC  COllLCL 
OLIVER    ELLSWORTH,       IS3  tV/UCI[67i{££7 

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JOHN  HENR.*.  27  (J</c£/t  Street 

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RICHARD  H EN RY  LEE,        A7  Oi\££fltoiCti. 


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JOHN  HATHORN, 

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JEREMIAH  VAN  RENSSELAER. 

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PETER,  5YLUESTER,  16  AItudlA  IA*£ 

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ENTATIVES 

DANIEL  HEISTER.,  >3  MfititH l/INE  . 

T  A.MUHLENRERG,Jp<;4k»p   21  PpjiiH/in 
PETER  MUHLENBERG,        2*  CHS7/t/iii  Hon: 
THOMAS  5C0TT,  C0ifSrjir/f^oiV/iiiS7S. 
HENRY  WYNKOOP. 

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■  OeLflWflne • 

JOHN  VlNlNG,  /SW/tll  S7/IEET. 

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DANIEL  CARROLL,  5?  SfiirH  STf(C£T 

BENJAMIN  CONTEE,  13  WAti  &7f(££7. 

GEORGE    GALE,  52  StlirH  S7$[£7. 

J05HUA   5 EN EY,  iswall  St/iee7 

WlLLIAN   SMITH,  62bn<T"  t>rf(Lt-> 

M'CHAE-L  J  ENIfER.  STONE,  'SW^ll  S7/\ee> 

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THEODORJ  C  K  flLflNO,  S7 1 PI41DEN  LA.NE 
JOHN   DROWN,  '9  TfA'DC/V  LAME 

ISAAC   COLES,  57  /-lA'OEN  LAME. 


EDMUND  RANDOLPH.  Atlf  Gent. 
JOHN  OAY.      Chief  dusiiez  . 


•SOUTH  CflROLIRA- 

PIERCE  raUTLER,  ~i7  GtXEfli  Doc*  S7ftc LT 
RALPH  IZARD 

/MO^AOM/r  U*f>0fi7£  Ttfl  fnCf/Cit  Iff J/iiA 001(6. 


•  cconcm  • 

WILLIAM   FEW,  30  William  STAtET. 

JAMES  CUNN-  J9  a^oAuW^r  , 


SAMUEL  GRJFFIN. 

fl7  Tut  WHifi  Co //o u  1 7  Housf  ft / nn  7Mi  Hotn/tt. 
RICHARD    QLflNO  LEE,      iSWmi  £7H£E7. 
dAMES  MAOiSON.JR. 
ANDR.EW  MOORE, 
JOHN  PAGE, 
ALEXANDER  WH'TE. 
OOSlflr*  PARKER, 

■  SOUTH  CflROLIH/l  - 
EDANUS    f3URK  E,     At  A/if  Kucks.  WAIl  67. 
DANIEL   HUGER,     J>7  Tift .  TfOcM  Wflti 
WILLIAM  SMITH, 

IA  0AQ7i£>W*Y.tfCAr  77f£  SPANISH  Aftf/HTfty- 
THOMA5  5UMTER.  10  tVAli  67it£l  7. 

THOMAS  TUOOR  TUCKER. 

/T7  Aft  AV.-^a  Ct>A  <S/1t7it  aMo  W/ll  irs. 

■  CCORGIR  • 

ABRAHAM  BALDWIN.  hAMt  S7ACE7. 

JAMES  JACKS  ON  .  <JJ  QqoAQiSAf. 

GEORGE    MATHEWS,         »  ^Winjtr, 


f  7J4/07A  i  tAr 
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79  ft4/oe/t  lAltE. 

IS  ffllOfN  IMAf. 
47  7f4iD(fi  IaM£. 


(Reduced  fac-simile  of  the  third  page  of  the  invitation  to  the  reception  at  the  Lawyers'  Club,  April  29,  1889.) 


Columbia,  Colonel  Finley  Anderson,  Colonel  Oswald  Tilghman,  the  Rev.  William  Wallace 
Green,  William  McPherson  Homer,  Esq.,  J.  Edward  Simmons,  Esq.,  General  Abner  Double- 
day,  Colonel  W.  C.  Church,  Dr.  George  W.  Brush,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Henry  Anderson,  the  Rev. 
Dr.  Henry  B.  Chapin,  Henry  G.  Marquand,  Esq.,  General  Fitz-John  Porter,  and  Arthur  D. 
Eaton,  Esq.,  and  Mr.  Louis  Joseph  Sands. 

At  240  o'clock  it  was  necessary  to  terminate  the  public  reception  in  order  to  carry  out  the 
programme  of  the  day.  The  President  was  conducted  from  the  dais  to  the  Board  Room  of 
the  Equitable  Life-Assurance  Society,  followed  by  the  President's  party. 


THE  ENTERTAINMENT  AT  THE  LAWYERS'  CLUB. 


233 


BANQUET  TO  THE  PRESIDENT. 

Probably  never  before  in  this  country  had  there  been  seen  a  more  beautiful  banquet  hall. 
About  thirty  by  one  hundred  feet,  of  paneled  oak,  with  arched  ceiling  of  white  and  gold 
artistically  decorated,  the  windows  draped  with  heavy  curtains.  At  the  approach  of  the 
guests  the  room,  which  was  almost  in  darkness,  was,  by  the  touch  of  an  electric  button,  brill- 
iantly illuminated  and  flooded  with  a  glowing  pink  haze  almost  as  delicate  as  the  odor  of  the 
roses  which  perfumed  the  air.  A  table,  fifteen  feet  broad  and  nearly  as  long  as  the  room,  was 
a  garden  of  gems  and  flowers.    From  a  bank  of  deep  red  roses  in  the  center  containing  five 


THE  <&V£n/ei^  OF  THE  l^FTED  £X*TK$.ANl)  TKi\RIT01\IK$  0K  THE  lf?flTK0  -STATES  0P„AMEI|ICjA, 
y\^D  etyUI^EfjV   OF   eejOMlSSJO^EfH^  T0  THE  €ELRliI^T!e^t  ^.P^IIi  30X9  1889. 


DCLAWA^C.    1787.  DeC7. 

90*  B£**/AM/M  T.  DI66F. 
CO"    -:»•-:-»£    p  [  •  ■  •  - 
„PCrirjSYLVAniA.  1787.  DCC.I2. 

?  *S%  t/AtlCS  A.  SCA'LR^ 

cooy  -am.jo-H  w  woooJ.oe. 


THE  THIRTEEN   ORIGINAL  STATES.     With  Date  OF  Admission  Into  The  Union. 


„rcew  denser.  1787  oee  ie. 

3  CO¥  XOMtRT  S.  GXCC*. 
GEORGIA.  1788.  JAf]  2 

4  GOV  JQ»*  J}.  OOa\OOM. 

eonqecTieuT.  i7ee,  jAr?.9. 

S  OOV  f{OXOAM  6  Ot/l>{ClLY. 

COfV  >\»JO^,    JOHN  C,  V^Ktf. 


MASSACrfUSCTTS.  1788.  F€3.8. 
h  co*  olivch  Ancer. 

con   ~«  a  towcn.. 
M  AR.Y LAO D-  !788.APftlL28. 

COf   Cam/  £  u*C\40M 
'         COfS.    HON.  JOHM   h  S  LATH«SC 

SOUTH  eAR0LI0A.l788.MAY  £3. 


„  r?CW  HAM PSHI  R.£  .  l788,JU0e  21 
Q  Cor  CMAMtS  #  £Awrcn_. 

Con     MOW    i»1titt   C  t»iT«All. 

Virginia.  1788.  duoe  £5. 

Wc«f.  riTZfua*  tee.. 
Con,  .  .:  1<   w  w  c«wrt*' 
RCW   YOR.K-  1788,  clULY  £6. 

11  COf  PAV/O  D  MILL. 

"      iltYT  OOW  O-AAO  E  JON  15- 


VCF^MOriT.  1731.  MAR.CH  +. 
Jj  C«#  muLiAm  a.  put.i*e"Ai. 

..KeriTUckY.  i752,janci- 

flflt-  j 'not  e.  BvcAmt*.. 

Terfrressee*.  1796.  jurje  i. 

h  OOV     BOBCAT  L     7 A  r  LOR 

ton.  coi  •  s  coi*in 

omio.    1804.  qov.  ZD. 

17  -  .'-    -  :  1  L  ~  ~  B.  rOAAACA.. 

ton  f>  »Hti   (V««IC«»  A 

,_L0UI5IAnA.  1812.  APRIL30. 

|(J  Cor  fAAMCIJ  r.  M/CMOLtS. 


UTAH  TY.   1850.  S€P.  G. 
JS  c<u«*  •»  wejr. 

t*n  molcv. 
NCW  MCXICO  TY.  I850.SCP.  9. 

*■  I  Mr    tOfUmO  6  AOSS. 


^inOlAQA.    1816,  OCC.  II. 

1Q  Cor    Atr'M  a:  Mover. 

"       CO";  t«   to-  lilKT   ®  • 

.^MISSISSIPPI.   1817.  OCC  10. 

AOBCAT  LOWAV. 

ILUtlOIS.     1818.   OCC. 3. 

6*r.  joscpm  at.  Fire.*,.  " 

COB  f  bKAAt. 

ALAli  AMA .  1819.  U6C  14-. 

COr.  TMOAtAS  3C A  Y. 

ft„MAir7£.  1820.  MAPvCH  15. 
2j      oor.  eomiM  c.  BvAlcigm. 


STATES    SUBSEQUENTLY  ADMITTED 


M ISSOU  R.1 .   1841.  AUGUST  10. 

2j  oor   .  *  -       A.rAAMCiS . 

AR.KArjSAS .  l836.JUn.CI5. 
2j  oor    .•-(  i  *  cagic. 

M  I  C  M  IG  Ail.  1837.  JA17.46. 

7fi  Cor.  CTAUS   C.  I  O  C  C 

con    m  B  l£»»H» 

„FLORJL>A.   1845.  MAR.CH  3- 
/7  Coy  FA*\*tm  p_  rtcuMa. 

l-1       CO-,    .O-  4  BW».>VC.6C 

.TEXAS.    184-5.  OCQ.  29. 

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torn,    jomm  .»«(Otn. 


29 


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TERRITORIES. 

fl^lZOUA  TY.  186a.  FES.  J+. 


+20AKOTA  TY.  1861  MAjejj  J. 
43  w,V".«V^7f mob n£ ***" ™ 

50  ALASKA  TY.    I8S8.JULY  «7.  * 


IDAHO    TY.   1863.  MARCH  3 

4-\  («f    ttOASl  t  SMOVP. 


GALIFOR.0IA  I8SO.SCP.9. 
MII7r?eS0TA.    1858.  MAY  II. 

„0Re<soii.*°i&s9.Fea  i+. 


MOfJTArjA  TY.  186*.  MAY  JS 
WYOMir^S  TY.  1868.  JULY  25. 


riORTH  CAI\0UI7A.I789.H0V.2I. 

]2  «...  f.  c.  route. 

CMl  Ml  »  .  tGA.Lt.. 

„^H0D£  ISLAfJO.  1790.  MAY.29. 

|3  ...   XorAL  C  TA'T. 

CO*.  Ot.   tt-15***  flTH  J\. 


„  KAIJ5A5.    I8SI,  JAf)  29. 

X4  O.V  ItMAH  V  ..-..•£■ 

ton    ...    e-.t-i  ■  .... 

wesT  uiR,Gir)iA.  1863,  jurie  19 

Car  C  " 'if J  Wilson 
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Q€ VADA .    186*.  OCT.  31. 
35  cor  c  c . ST£  vcmso*. 

„I)CSHA5BA.  1867.  MARCH  I. 

3/  C.  At  THAYtA.. 

.  COLOFtAOO.  1876.  AUSU5TI. 

38  OO.  ^.fl  ..COO.£4. 


„inoiflr)  ty.  I83+. juneso. 

AH         .#  MMMI  titf.AAjrr. 
DISTRICT  OFCOLUMlllA 

49  I790  joir  It.  H)l  AAACA3 

..ts  3  -COS 


THE  AREA  Of  THE.  13  ORIGINAL  STATES    IN  tT69    WAS  3)3  610  SQUARE.  M  ll.ES .    POPULATION  4000,000. 

MILES.      POPULATION     65  000,000. 


(Reduced  fac-simile  of  the  fourth  page  of  the  invitation  to  the  reception  at  the  Lawyers'  Club,  April,  29,  1SS9.) 


thousand  roses — the  largest  and  rarest  that  could  be  found — a  tall  century  plant  spread  its 
green  branches,  overtopping  the  table  on  each  side.  It  bore  fruit  of  magnificent  luster  formed 
by  the  use  of  electric  lights  draped  in  pink  silk.  Scattered  among  the  roses  were  electric 
lights,  and  in  front  of  each  guest,  in  a  bed  of  ferns,  roses,  and  apple-blossoms,  was  an  electric 
light  with  a  pink  silk  shade,  gleaming  like  a  huge  glow-worm,  its  soft  flame  appearing  scarcely 
more  brilliant  than  the  colors  of  the  flowers.  Fully  fifteen  thousand  roses  and  over  one  hun- 
dred electric  lights  were  used  in  decorating  the  table. 

In  answer  to  the  special  invitation  to  this  banquet,  the  guests  present  were  the  Hon. 
31 


234       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 


Hamilton  Fish,  by  virtue  of  his  office  as  President  of  the  General  Centennial  Commit- 
tee, and  on  his  right  President  Harrison,  and  on  his  left  Governor  Hill.  On  the  right 
of  President  Harrison  were  Chief-Justice  Fuller,  of  the  United  States  Supreme  Court. 
On  the  left  of  Governor  Hill  sat  Mayor  Grant  ;  next  to  him  was  Vice-President  Morton, 
and  next  to  Mr.  Morton  ex-President  Hayes.  At  the  side  opposite  to  the  President 
sat  Mr.  William  G.  Hamilton,  the  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  States,  under  whose 
auspices  the  reception  was  given.  On  his  right  was  Mr.  Elbridge  T.  Gerry,  Chairman  of 
the  Executive  Committee,  and  on  his  left  Mr.  Clarence  W.  Bowen,  Secretary.  The  other 
guests  were  Postmaster-General  Wanamaker,  Secretary  Windom,  Secretary  Tracy,  Secretary 
Proctor,  Secretary  Noble,  Secretary  Rusk,  Attorney-General  Miller,  ex- President  Hayes, 
Associate  Justices  Field  and  Blatchford,  Senator  Evarts,  Senator  Hiscock,  Hon.  Chauncey 
M.  Depew,  Rev.  Dr.  Morgan  Dix,  General  W.  T.  Sherman,  General  John  M.  Schofield, 
Admiral  David  D.  Porter,  Mr.  James  W.  Alexander,  Vice-President  of  the  Equitable  Life- 
Assurance  Society,  Mr.  William  Allen  Butler,  President  of  the  Lawyers'  Club,  Mr.  Theo- 
dore Roosevelt,  Mayor  Chapin  of  Brooklyn,  Mr.  Whitelaw  Reid,  President  Arnold  of  the 
Board  of  Aldermen,  Mr.  Henry  G.  Marquand,  Mr.  Stuyvesant  Fish,  Mr.  S.  D.  Babcock,  Mr. 
Cornelius  N.  Bliss,  Mr.  John  T.  Agnew,  Mr.  Orlando  B.  Potter,  Mr  John  D.  Crimmins,  Mr. 
John  Alsop  King,  Mr.  James  M.  Varnum,  Mr.  F.  S.  Tallmadge,  Captain  Erben,  U.  S.  N., 
Hon.  J.  T.  Van  Rensselaer,  Mr.  John  Schuyler,  Hon.  James  W.  Husted,  Mr.  Henry  W.  Le 
Roy,  Hon.  Jacob  A.  Cantor,  Mr.  James  C.  Carter,  Colonel  Floyd  Clarkson,  Mr.  E.  Ellery 
Anderson,  Mr.  John  B.  Pine,  General  Joseph  C.  Jackson,  Mr.  Brayton  Ives,  Colonel  A.  B. 
Gardiner,  Mr.  W.  H.  Clarke,  Mr.  John  M.  Bowers,  Colonel  S.  Van  Rensselaer  Cruger,  Mr. 
T.  C.  T.  Crain,  Mr.  James  M.  Montgomery,  and  Mr.  Hugh  Auchincloss. 

Grace  was  pronounced  by  Rev.  Dr.  Dix  as  follows :  "  Almighty  God,  who  openest  thy 
hands  and  fillest  all  things  living  with  plenteousness,  bless,  we  beseech  thee,  these  pro- 
visions of  thy  bounty  to  our  advantage,  and  bless  thy  servants  for  Christ's  sake.  Amen." 

The  banquet  was  begun  without  formality.  The  menu  was  very  elaborate,  consisting 
of  six  heavy  rectangular  sheets  of  bristol  board  handsomely  engraved  and  tied  together 
with  blue  and  buff  ribbons,  the  "  Continental  colors."  After  the  guests  had  partaken  of 
their  coffee,  Hon.  Hamilton  Fish  introduced,  in  a  few  words,  Mr.  William  G.  Hamilton, 
Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  States,  who,  addressing  President  Harrison,  said  : 

"  Mr.  President :  As  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  States,  I  have  the  honor  to  pre- 
sent to  you,  in  the  name  of  the  General  Committee  of  the  Centennial  Celebration  of  the 
Inauguration  of  George  Washington  as  First  President  of  the  United  States,  a  souvenir 
of  this  auspicious  occasion.  We  have  gathered  with  us  the  most  honored  representative 
citizens  from  the  varied  pursuits  of  life  who  have  made  this  nation  what  it  is  at  the 
present  moment — religion,  law,  science,  art,  and  commerce — all  striving  to  do  honor  to 
the  name  of  Washington.  So  beloved  is  he  by  all  Americans  that  we  call  him  '  Father.'— 
so  deified  and  sanctified  in  our  hearts  that  but  one  other  birthday  is  as  sacred  to  us. 


! 


THE  ENTERTAINMENT  AT  THE  LAWYER'S  CLUB. 


235 


"  Mr.  President,  that  your  administration  may  be  so  wisely  ordered  that  you  may  be 
known  as  the  one  equally  honored  by  all  Americans  is  the  wish  of  this  United  Nation. 

"  Gentlemen,  you  will  please  fill  your  glasses  and  drink  to  the  memory  of  George  Wash- 
ington, the  Father  of  his  Country." 

The  souvenir  which  Mr.  Hamilton  handed  the  President  was  one  of  the  beautifully 
engraved  menus  containing  the  historical  sketch  such  as  all  the  other  guests  in  the  room 
had  found  beside  their  plates ;  but  this  copy  was  inclosed  in  a  solid  silver  case.  The 
President  bowed  and  smiled  in  response.  The  President,  as  also  some  of  the  guests  and 
committee,  were  obliged  to  leave  the  Equitable  Building,  and  hasten  to  the  reception  at 
the  City  Hall.    The  other  guests  remained  and  enjoyed  the  repast. 

BANQUET  TO  THE  GOVERNORS. 

Those  who  could  not  dine  with  the  President  had  the  satisfaction  of  knowing  that  they 
were  getting  just  as  good  a  dinner  in  another  part  of  the  building,  for  the  menu  was  pre- 
cisely the  same.  The  Governors  occupied  fifteen  tables  in  one  of  the  anterooms  of  the 
Lawyers'  Club.  Each  table  was  decorated  with  choice  flowers.  A  much  larger  number  of 
guests  were  accommodated  in  the  main  hall  of  the  Club,  and  for  those  who  could  not  find 
seats  there  was  a  stand-up  lunch  in  the  Library.  There  was  a  profusion  of  viands  and 
champagne.  Among  those  who  dined  up-stairs,  there  was  not  the  formality  which  was 
reserved  for  the  presidential  dinner  party.  Speeches  and  merriment  prevailed,  and  ceremony 
vanished  with  the  President's  departure.  While  the  President  and  his  party  were  being 
entertained  in  the  Equitable  Building,  the  escort  outside  partook  of  their  luncheon.  The 
Veterans  of  the  Seventh  Regiment  halted  in  front  of  Cable's  saloon  and  had  sandwiches, 
soup,  and  coffee.  The  V eteran  troops  and  other  organizations  were  also  cared  for.  The 
Trinity  Church  choir  was  taken  to  lunch  in  the  Cafe  Savarin  by  Mr.  Conrad  N.  Jordan, 
President  of  the  Western  National  Bank.  In  the  streets  the  crowds  grew  denser  and  denser, 
and  Broadway  was  one  solid  mass  of  humanity  as  far  as  the  City  Hall.  Both  sides  of  the 
streets  were  lined  with  police,  while  Inspector  Williams  and  his  men  kept  the  front  of  the 
Equitable  Building  and  the  approach  to  the  President's  carriage  clear.  Dark  clouds  by  this 
time  were  gathering  in  the  sky,  portentous  of  rain,  and  for  five  minutes  there  was  a  gentle 
pour  ;  then  the  sun  shone  forth  again. 

MARCH  TO  THE  CITY  HALL. 

A  hearty  cheer  went  up  as,  at  3.40  o'clock,  the  Fifth  United  States  Artillery  marched  out 
of  the  Equitable  Building  and  formed  in  line  on  Broadway.  The  people  knew  the  President 
was  coming,  and,  as  he  walked  out  on  the  arm  of  Governor  Hill  and  stepped  into  his 
carriage,  there  was  tremendous  cheering.    The  procession  then  moved  up  Broadway  in  the 


236        THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


following  order:  Colonel  Floyd  Clarkson,  Marshal.  Band  of  Fifth  Regiment  U.S.  Artil- 
lery. Three  foot-batteries,  Fifth  Regiment  U.  S.  Artillery.  New  York  Commandery  of  the 
Loyal  Legion  of  the  United  States.  Commanders  of  Posts  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Repub- 
lie  in  the  Counties  of  New  York  and  Kings.  Cappa's  Band.  Uniformed  Battalion  of  Veter- 
ans, Seventh  Regiment  N.  G.  S.  N.  Y.  Uniformed  Veteran  Military  Associations  of  New 
York  and  Brooklyn.  Band  of  the  General  Service  U.  S.  Army.  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the 
Revolution.  Carriage  with  President  Harrison,  Governor  Hill,  and  Mayor  Grant.  Carriage 
with  Vice-President  Morton,  Mr.  Elbridge  T.  Gerry,  and  Mr.  Clarence  W.  Bowen.  Carriage 
with  Mr.  W.  G.  Hamilton,  Mr.  James  M.  Montgomery,  and  Inspector  Williams. 


MAYOR  DUANE. 


MAYOR  GRANT. 


COMMITTEE  ON  THE  CENTENNIAL  CELEBRATION. 

APRIL  30TH.  1889. 

OF  THE   INAUGURATION   OF  GEORGE   WASHINGTON   AS   PRESIDENT   OF  THE   UNITED  STATES 

APRIL  30TH.  1789. 


HAMILTON  FISH,  Pretldent' 


NO.  1.  PLAN  AND  6COPE. 

SAMUEL  D  BA8COCK. 
CORNCDUS  N  BUGS. 
HUGH  J   ■,«'.'  gUMH 
A  BRAM  S  HEWITT. 
FREDERICK  S  TALLMADOE. 
JAMES  M  VARNUM. 

NO.  3,  •TATE9. 
E   ELLERY  ANDERSON, 
S*MUEL  B0RR0WE, 
JAMES  C  CARTER. 

FLOY0  clark&on. 

JACOB  A  CANTOR, 

WILLIAM  0  HAMILTON.  MfMKW. 

JAMES  W.  MUST  ED, 

HENRY  W  LEROV. 

JAMES  M  MONTGOMERY,  HCtC'i 


CHARLES  H  ADAMS, 
CHARLES  F  ALLEN 
E   ELLERY  ANDERSON. 
CHESTER  ALAN  ARTHUR. 
WM  WALDORF  ASTOR 
RICHARD  T  AUCHMUTV. 
SAMUEL  D  BABCOCK. 
JOHN  S  BARNES, 
SIM  BARLOW. 
WARREN  C  BEACH 
FREOERICK  A  BENJAMIN. 
J   W  6EEMMAN, 
WM    >■  BEEKMAN. 
ROBERT  LENNOX  BELKNAP. 
GEORGE  SLISS. 
CORNELIUS  N  BLISS, 
JOHN  H  BIRD 
WILLIAM  H  BISSEL, 
COWIN  BOOTH, 
SAMUEL  BORROWS. 
H  H  B0YESON 
CLARENCE  W  BOWEN. 
JAMES  M  BROWN 
.i      i  .  J  BUXNET, 
Al  LAN  CAMPBELL 
JOHN  L  CADWALADER, 
JACOB  A  CANTOR. 
JAMES  C  CARTER 
JOHN  JACOB  JR  . 


HUGH  J.  GRANT.  Chairman' 


ELBRIDGE  T,  GERRY,  Chairman  Exesu'.tc:  Committee: 


CLARENCE  W.  BOWEN.  Secretary 


JOHN  B  PINE. 

THEODORE  ROOSEVELT. 

JOHN  SCHUYLER. 

J  TALLMADOE  VAN  RENSSELAER 

NO.  3.  GENERAL.  COVERNMEN 
EDWARD  COOPER. 
FREDERICK  J  DE  PEYSTER, 
WM   M  EVARTS, 
WM   R  GRACE, 

HISOOCK. 


JO  Hi 


JAY, 


JOHN  A  KINO, 
SETH  LOW,  WWin 
WM   H  ROBERTSON. 
CORN  ELIU3  VANOERBILT. 
WM.  H.  WICKHAM 


HENRY  QUY  CARLETON. 
ALFRED  0  CHENEY. 
ALEXANDER  JAMES  CLINTON, 
FLOYD  CLARKSON, 
FREOERICK  CLARKSON. 
BANYER  CLARKSON, 
JOHN  CLAFLIN, 
CHARLES  A  COE. 
MONCURE  D  CONWAY, 
ALFRED  R  CONKLINQ. 
WASHINGTON  £  CONNOR. 
JAMES  M  CONSTABLE. 
COWARD  COOPER, 
JOHN  COCHRANE, 
FREDERICK  R  COUDERT, 
EDWIN  A.  CRUI KSHANK. 
S  VAN  RENSSELAER  ORuGER. 
WILLIAM  HENRY  CROSBY, 
W   BAYARD  CUTTINQ. 
CHAS  P  DALY, 
CHARLES  W  DAYTON, 
RICHARD  T  OAVIES, 
CHAUNOEY  M  OEPEW, 
FREDERICK  J   DC  PETSTCR. 
EDWARD  F  DE  LANCE Y, 
OEORGE  0   DC  WITT. 
R10HAR0  VARICK  Ot  WITT. 
L  P  Dl  CCSNOLA. 
HARRISON  CLARKE. 


NO.  4.  A" MY 

8  VAN  RENSSELAER  CRUOER,  < 
JOHN  COCHRANE. 
FREOERICK  GALLATIN. 
J  HAMPOEN  ROBB. 
FREOERICK  O.  TAPPAN, 
JOHN  0  TOMLINSON,  tftntn 
LOCKC  W  WINCHESTER 

NO.  3.  NAVY. 
JOHN  B  BARNES 
FREDERICK  R  OOUOERT, 
ALFRED  0  CHENEY, 
HENRY  ERBEN. 
LOYALL  FARRAOUT. 
ASA  BIRD  GARDINER.  etiitMt* 
OGOEN  OOElET, 


JOHN  0  CRIMMI NS, 
MORGAN  OIX. 
W  C  DO  DOE. 
A  W  DRAKE 
FRANKLIN  EDSON, 
EDW   M  L  EHLER3. 
THOMAS  AODiS  EMMET. 
HENRY  ERBEN. 
WM   M  EVARTS, 
LOYALL  FARRAOUT, 
BTUYVESANT  FISH, 
HAMILTON  FISH, 
LOUIS  FITZOERALD. 
JOSIAH  M  FISK, 
00HD0N  L  FOND. 
FREDERICK  GALLATIN. 
ASA  BIRO  GARDINER, 
GEORGE  CLINTON  GENET, 
WILLIAM  H  QEDNEY, 
CLBRlOGE  T  GERRY. 
RICHARO  W  GILOER 
OGOEN  OOELET, 
ROBERT  00 1 LET. 
HUOH  J  ORANT. 
WM   R  GRACE. 
GCOROC  0  HAVEN. 
SCHUYLER  HAMILTON. 
WILLIAM  0  HAMILTON. 
CHAS  HENRI  HART. 


SUB  COMMITTEES. 

GEORGE  j  HAVEN. 
D  WILLIS  JAMES. 
'  S  NICHOLSON  KANE  UVttlll 
JOHN  J  PIERREPONT. 
JACKSON  S  SHUL TJ. 
BUCHANAN  WINTHROP 

NO.  8.  ENTERTAINMENT. 
WM  WALDORF  ASTOR. 
WM  8  BEEKMAN, 
B  L  M  BARLOW, 
STUYYESANT  FISH.  BMNMUJ 
ROBERT  OOELET, 
WM  JAY, 

ward  McAllister, 

OOUVERNEUR  MORRIS,  UtmUt. 
STEPHEN  H  OLIN, 
WM   E.  D  STOKES, 

GENERAL  COMMITTEE. 

CHAS  HAUSELT, 

A 8ft AM  S  HEWITT.. 

EDMUND  HENDRICKS. 

FRANK  HISCOCK. 

DANlEL  HUNTINGTON. 

JAMES  W  HUSTED. 

HENRY  B  H YOt, 

CHARLES  (SHAM, 

ADRIAN  ISELIN, 

BRAYTON  IVES, 

JOSEPH  0.  JA0K3ON, 

0.  WILLIS  JAMES, 

WILLIAM  JAY, 

JOHN  JAY. 

JOHN  0  W.  JONES. 

3  NICHOLSON  KANE, 

WILLIAM  LINN  KEESE, 

EUGENE  KELLY, 

JOHN  A  KINO, 

RUFUS  KINO, 

ALEX  KNOX, 

JOHN  J  KNOX, 

FRANK  R  LAWRENCE. 

ARTHUR  LEARY. 

HENRv  BR0CKHOL3T  LEDYAF1  3. 

HENRY  W  LEROY. 

JOHNSTON  LIVINGSTON. 

JAMES  DUANE  LIVINGSTON. 

SETH  LOW. 


WM   K  VANOERBILT. 
EQERTQN  L  WINTHROP 

NO.   7.  FINANCE. 
JAMES  M  BROWN, 
ALLAN  CAMPBELL, 
LOUIS  FITZOERALD, 
HENRY  B  HIDE, 
BRAYTON  IVES.  CMAMU 
EUGENE  KELLY. 
JOHN  J  KNOX. 
EDWARD  V  lOE  W, 
OARlUS  O  MILLS. 
OE  LANCEY  NiCOLL,  UtMMt 
JOHN  F  PLUMMER. 
J   EDWARD  SIMMONS, 


EDWARD  V   LOE  w 

henry  0  marquand 
waro  McAllister, 
frank  d  millet, 
darius  0  mills, 
jacob  b  moore, 
thomas  s  moore, 
james  m  montgomery, 
oouverneur  morris, 
louis  0  morris, 
j.  pierpont  morgan, 
h  c  fahne3t0ck. 
theooore  w  myers, 
thomas  h  newsold. 
de  lancey  niooll, 
stephen  h.  olin, 
oswald  ottehoorfer. 
charles  parsons, 
oliver  h  perry, 
oeoroe  hunt  pendleton, 
john  b  pine, 
john  j  pierrepont, 
john  f  plummer. 
orlando  b  potter, 

WM  M  POLK. 

FREOERICK  W   RHIN ELAN DCD, 
ROBERT  B  ROOSEVELT. 
THEODORE  ROOSEVELT, 


NO.  6.  RAILROAD*  &  TIUUUP. 
CHAUNCEY  M  OEPEW, 
CHARLES  W  DAYTON, 
JOSIAH  M  FIBK, 

JAMES  DUANE  LIVINGSTON,  UCHT"t. 
THOMAS  S  MOORE. 
ORLANOO  B  POTTER,  OUMUM 
CLIFFORD  STANLEY  SIMS. 
CR*STU3  Wl MAN 


NO.  ft.  ART. 


H   H  eOYESON, 
JOHN  L  CADWALI 
WILLIAM  A  COFFI 
A  W  DRAKE, 


J  HAMPOEN  ROBB, 
WM    H  ROBERTSON, 
CHAS  H   RUSSELL.  JR  , 
ROBERT  RUTTER, 
ROBERT  80HALL. 
EDWARD  SCHELLi 
F  AUGUSTUS  SQHERMERHORN, 
JOHN  SCHUYLER, 
PHILIP  SCHUYLER, 
JESSE  SELKJMAN, 
CLARENCE  A  SEWARD. 
ROBT  H  SHANNON. 
OAROINER  SHERMAN, 
JACKSON  S.  SHULTI. 
CLIFFORD  STANLEY  SIMS, 
J   COWARD  SIMMONS. 
JOHN  SLOAN  C, 
WM   0  SLOAN E. 
HENRY  L  9L0TE, 
JAMES  D  SMITH. 
F.  HOPKINSON  SMITH, 
WM  O  SMIt 


WM   E  DO  DOC. 

QOROON  L  FORD. 

RICHARO  W  QILOCR  KMfTlM 

DANIEL  HUNTINGTON, 

CHAB  HENRV  HART. 

HENRY  Q  MARQUAND,  SNAANMI 

FRANK  0  MILLET. 

CHARLES  PARSONS, 

OLIVER  H  PtRRY, 

CHAS  H.  RUSSELL.  JR.. 

F  HOPKINSON  SMITH, 

RUTH ERFORO  STUYVESANT 

LISPENARD  STEWART 

NO.  10.  LITERARY  I    -    :  -- 
CLARENCE  W  BOWEN, 
ELBRIOOE  T  OERRY. 


JOHN  AUSTIN  STEVENS, 
MYLES  STAN  DISH, 
WILLIAM  L  8TRON0, 
FREDERICK  B  TALLMADOE, 
FREOERICK  D  TAPPAN, 
DANIEL  F.  TICMAN, 
JOHN  0.  TOMLINSON, 
JOHN  J.  TUCKCR. 
CORNELIUS  VANOERBILT. 
WM   K  VANOERBILT. 
TRAVIS  COLES  VAN  BUREN, 
JAMCB8  VAN  OOURTLAND, 


TALLI 


IO0.E  v 


f  aRiOk, 


I  STEIN 


'AY. 


RICHARO  HENRY  STOOOARD. 
WM   E  D  STOKES. 
RUTHERFORD  6TUIYESANT, 
LISPENARD  STEWART. 
WALTER  STANTON. 


JOHN  BARNES  V 
JAMES  M  VARNUM. 
ANDREW  WARNER. 
ALEXANOER  S  WEBB. 
O  OREIOHTON  WEJB, 
JOHN  A  WEEKES, 
ERASTUS  WIMAN, 
LOOKE  W  WINCHESTER. 
WM    H.  WICKHAM, 
RICHARD  T  WILSON. 
BUOHANAN  WINTHROP, 
EOCRTON  L  WINTHROP, 
JAMES  ORANT  WILSON. 
OEOROC  WILSON, 
STEPHEN  M  WRIGHT 


(Reduced  fac-simile  of  the  fifth  page  of  the  invitaton  to  the  reception  at  the  Lawyers'  Club,  April,  29,  1889.) 

For  block  after  block  along  the  line  of  march,  the  buildings  were  covered  with  bunting, 
among  them  being  the  Herald,  Times,  Tribune,  World,  Sun,  and  Press  newspaper  buildings, 
and  the  General  Post-Office,  which  was  beautifully  festooned.  The  procession  turned  into  the 
City  Hall  Park  from  Broadway  at  the  head  of  Warren  Street.  The  park  was  encircled  with  a 
living  mass,  and  Printing-House  Square  was  packed  with  people.  Inspector  Steers,  com- 
manding two  hundred  stalwart  blue-coats,  had  made  elaborate  arrangements  at  the  City  Hall 
for  the  arrival  of  the  President's  party.    Under  him  were  Police  Captains  Allaire,  Clinchy, 


PUBLIC  RECEPTION  AT  THE  CITY  HALL. 


237 


Eakins,  Carpenter,  Copeland,  and  Watts  with  platoons  of  men.  These  formed  a  circle  around 
the  building,  and  were  assisted  by  a  telegraph-wire  fence  in  keeping  the  too  enthusiastic  pub- 
lic at  a  proper  distance. 


RECEPTION  AT  THE  CITY  HALL. 


In  the  City  Hall  the  corridors  were  cleared,  and  the  Aldermen's  chamber  was  given  up  to 
the  school-girls  who  were  selected  to  greet  the  President  on  his  arrival.  President  J.  Edward 
Simmons,  of  the  Board  of  Education  ;  Superintendent  John  Jasper,  of  the  Public  Schools ; 


wemnsnjH's  M0H£.n«9  (s«  3  cherry  street:) 


^Reception  at  the  I^awyers Club. 
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HOMARD  BAGRATION. 


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FILET  DE  BOEUF  BALZAC. 

PETITS  POIS  FRANCAIS. 


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GALANTINE  DECHAPON. 

PATE  DE  GIBIER. 

POULET  ROTI  A  LA  GELEE. 


BECASSINES  SOR  CANAPE. 

PIGEONNAUX  ROTIS. 
SALADE  DE  SAISON.  UH^MKIC^E. 


GLACES  TORTONI.  CAFE  GLACE. 

PETITS  FOURS. 
THE.        CHOCOLAT.  CAFE 


(Reduced  fac-simile  of  the  sixth  page  of  the  invitation  to  the  reception  at  the  Lawyers  Club,  April  29,  1889.) 

President  Thomas  Hunter,  of  the  Normal  College,  and  a  delegation  of  School  Commission- 
ers and  teachers  of  both  sexes,  received  the  girls.  The  girls  from  the  Normal  College  were 
Mary  Higgins,  Edith  Z.  Colyer,  Annie  A.  Abrahams,  Gertrude  A.  Brewster,  Mary  Hotmer, 
Augusta  Mott,  Pauline  M.  Westcott,  Fannie  B  Cole,  Mildred  G.  Smith,  Annie  Berry, 
Martha  Z.  Fitchtel,  Annie  E.  Steger,  and  Mabel  Taylor. 

Those  from  the  Public  Schools.— No.  i,  Minnie  Lubin  and  Lucy  Kavannah  ;  No.  2, 
Ida  L.  Jackson  and  Grace  C.  Hurrell ;  No.  3,  Hortense  Blake  and  Carrie  Seaman  ;  No.  4, 


2 38       THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


Estelle  Maloney  and  Mary  McCuc  ;  No.  7,  Selina  Israel  and  Carrie  Uhl ;  No.  9,  Ella  McDon- 
ald and  Lillie  Crabtree ;  No.  10,  Ida  Millot  and  Lizzie  Helmstetter;  No.  13,  Maud  Patter- 
son and  Geneva  Hippcnmeyer ;  No.  20,  Mollic  Meuer  and  Dora  Grosner ;  No.  21,  Ida  Ste- 
phenson and  Josephine  Galle ;  No.  22,  Jeanette  S.  May  and  Bessie  B.  Heller;  No.  24,  Mary 
Strenger  and  Esther  Isaacs;  No.  25,  Edith  Kelby  and  Ida  Ganzenmullcr ;  No.  28,  Agnes 
James  and  Lizzie  Lennon  ;  No.  29,  Lillie  H.  Nelke  and  Dorothea  Goetz ;  No.  30,  Norma 
Romann  and  Mary  Daily;  No.  37,  Catherine  D.  Mahoney  and  Nellie  S.  Donahue;  No.  38, 
Minnie  Wallenhaupt  and  Lizzie  Richardson;  No.  41,  Ella  Burnes  and  Kate  Courtney;  No. 
42,  Elora  Rubenstein  and  Emma  Rinaldo  ;  No.  43,  Mary  Foxton  and  Annie  Mitchell;  No. 
44,  Amanda  Thompson  and  Dora  Rich;  No.  45,  Mabel  Morehead  and  Lettie  Call;  No.  46, 
Emma  M.  Ramsay  and  Isabel  F.  Kearney;  No.  47,  Bessie  Donaldson  and  Amilie  Gambier; 
No.  48,  Ida  A.  Walter  and  Sophie  R.  Wilkins ;  No.  49,  Lillian  A.  Jarvis  and  Lulu  M.  Irwin ; 
No.  50,  Jessie  T.  Mosher  and  Isabel  L.  Gourlie  ;  No  52,  Elizabeth  A.  Gibney  and  Rose  T. 
Marion;  No.  53,  Mary  Drew,  Gertrude  Nash,  and  Annie  Gaynor;  No.  54,  Addie  J.  White- 
side and  Louise  H.  Burns  ;  No.  56,  Jennie  M.  Drew  and  Bessie  H.  Williams;  No.  57,  Emily 
Walter  and  Rose  Leonard;  No.  59,  Ella  Hanson  and  Estelle  Rinaldo;  No.  60,  Augusta 
Weisman  and  Mary  Love;  No.  61,  Arline  Dodworth  and  Belle  McArthur  ;  No.  62,  Grace 
Liddle  and  Augusta  Strauss  ;  No.  63,  Erne  M.  Watkins  and  Katharine  Broas ;  No.  64,  Julia 
Woohfarth  ;  No.  65,  Lizzie  Mapes  ;  No.  66,  Ella  B.  Tiernay  ;  No.  68,  Grace  Knapp  and 
Laura  Judd  ;  No.  69,  Maud  Phelan  and  Ruby  Bartley  ;  No.  71,  Anna  E.  Graham  and  Minnie 
A.  Moorhouse;  No.  72,  Carrie  Cruger,  Mary  McNally,  and  Belle  Conway;  No.  73,  Lizzie 
A.  Durando  and  Florence  Knapp  ;  No.  76,  Gussie  Hyames,  Josephine  Sexton,  and  Laura 
Schaefer ;  No.  77,  Belle  Crane,  Emma  Hart,  and  Emma  Johnston:  No.  78,  Jane  Carter, 
Mamie  Gute,  and  Hattie  Rosenbaum  ;  No.  80,  Martha  Franklin;  No.  81,  Louise  Craig; 
No.  82,  Florence  Cudlipp  and  Tessie  Kerr. 


THE  STREWING  OF  THE  PATHWAY. 

As  the  procession  approached,  the  girls  were  marshaled  from  the  chamber  in  a  double 
column.  Each  maiden  carried  a  basket  of  flowers,  and  one  young  lady  held  a  large  bou- 
quet of  Jacqueminot  and  Marshal  Neil  roses  interspersed  with  lilies  of  the  valley,  and 
tied  with  a  brilliant  ribbon  of  crimson  satin.  This  floral  gift  was  intended  for  President 
Harrison.  There,  as  the  President's  party  halted,  was  the  prettiest  picture  of  the  day. 
Two  long  lines  of  white-robed  school-girls,  with  flower-baskets,  lined  the  steps  from  the 
portico  to  the  southerly  curb  as  the  President  left  his  carriage.  The  tall  buildings  skirt- 
ing the  park,  and  the  massive  Post-Office  covered  with  bunting,  made  a  fine  setting  to  the 
gayly  dressed  crowd.  Mayor  Grant  and  President  Harrison  alighted,  and  arm-in-arm 
walked  up  the  stoop  amid  a  shower  of  flowers.  Following  them  were  Vice-President 
Morton,  Governor  Hill,  Commodore  Gerry,  Mr.  W.  G.  Hamilton,  and  Mr.  J.  M.  Mont- 


PUBLIC  RECEPTION  AT  THE  CITY  HALE 


239 


gomery,  of  the  Centennial  Committee,  treading  on  paths  of  flowers.  President  Harrison 
greeted  each  school-girl  with  a  smile  as  she  strewed  his  pathway.  It  was  a  beautiful  and 
touching  sight.  The  gray-hairecl,  serene-faced  Chief-Magistrate  of  a  nation  of  sixty  millions 
of  freemen  running  the  pleasant  gauntlet  of  a  floral  fusillade,  and  the  refreshing  spectacle  of  a 
hundred  white-robed  school-girls  all  intent  on  doing  him  and  the  day  honor,  made  the  breast 
of  every  spectator  throb  with  emotion,  and  a  roar  of  applause  arose  that  reverberated  through 
the  park  and  into  the  streets  beyond.  When  the  President  and  his  party  reached  the 
porch,  Miss  Annie  Alida  Abrahams,  a  tall  and  handsome  blonde  who  was  selected  by  her 
associates  to  present  the  address  to  President  Harrison,  stepped  forward  and  handed  to 
him  an  elaborately  finished  copy  of  the  document.  It  was  an  album  bound  in  black  Russia 
leather,  and  the  lettering  was  in  illuminated  script.  Miss  Abrahams  read  the  address  in  a 
low  clear  voice  as  follows  : 

"  Mr.  President :  Through  us,  their  representatives,  one  hundred  and  eighty  thousand  pupils  of  the 
common  schools  of  the  city  of  New  York,  sixteeen  hundred  and  fifty  students  of  the  Normal 
College,  and  one  thousand  students  of  the  College  of  the  City  of  New  York  extend  to  you  their  cordial 
welcome.  It  is,  we  think,  appropriate  that  the  great  common-school  system,  which  is  to  a  large  extent 
the  outgrowth  of  Washington's  repeated  recommendations  to  the  newly-born  republic,  should  be  repre- 
sented in  the  public  Celebration  of  his  Inauguration  as  First  President  of  the  United  States.  Washington 
was  too  far-seeing  as  a  statesman  not  to  perceive  that  true  liberty  must  rest  on  the  basis  of  popular 
education.  He  keenly  felt  that  upon  the  intelligence  of  the  people  depended  the  fate  of  the  young 
nation,  and  repeatedly  urged  not  only  education  in  the  elementary  branches  but  the  establishment  of 
higher  institutions  of  learning,  even  going  so  far  as  to  recommend  the  endowment  of  a  national  university. 
His  attitude  toward  the  higher  education  is  clearly  expressed  in  his  letter  to  the  President  and  Faculty 
of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  in  which  he  says:  'I  am  fully  apprised  of  the  influence  which  sound 
learning  has  on  religion  and  manners,  on  government,  liberty,  and  laws.  I  conceive  hopes,  however,  that 
we  are  at  the  eve  of  a  very  enlightened  era.  The  same  unremitting  exertions  which,  under  all  the  blast- 
ing storms  of  war,  caused  the  arts  and  sciences  to  flourish  in  America,  will  doubtless  bring  them  nearer 
to  maturity  when  they  shall  have  been  sufficiently  invigorated  by  the  milder  rays  of  peace.' 

"This  great  nation  has  followed  Washington's  advice.  It  has  established  common  schools;  it  has 
founded  colleges  and  universities;  and  to  these,  above  all,  it  owes  its  progress  in  art  and  science,  and  its 
success  in  peace  and  war.  Long  ago  Aristotle  taught  that  no  state  is  secure  whose  children  are  not 
reared  in  perfect  sympathy  with  her  institutions.  This  is  just  what  the  vast  popular  American  education 
has  accomplished.  Appreciating  the  equity  and  justice  of  our  Constitution,  how  can  we  fail  to  honor  and 
obey  its  wise  provisions?  Thus,  thoroughly  imbued  with  the  love  of  country,  the  American  teacher,  as 
well  as  the  American  mother,  following  in  the  footsteps  of  Mary  and  Martha  Washington,  creates  and 
fosters  in  the  hearts  of  all  committed  to  her  care  that  same  noble  patriotism  that  swells  her  own  heart. 
Lowell  says  that  the  Puritans  were  the  first  lawgivers  who  saw  clearly  and  enforced  practically  the 
simple,  moral,  and  political  truth  that  'knowledge  was  not  an  alms  to  be  dependent  on  the  chance  charity 
of  private  men  or  the  precarious  pittance  of  a  trust  fund,  but  a  sacred  debt  which  the  Commonwealth 
owed  to  every  one  of  her  children.'  Admirably,  then,  has  this  Commonwealth  fulfilled  her  duty,  for  to-day 
the  highest  education  is  within  the  reach  of  the  humblest  of  our  little  ones,  for  which  the  men  of  a 
former  age  had  to  struggle  all  their  lives. 

"  This  day,  one  hundred  years  ago,  beheld  the  rising  of  the  sun  of  our  Republic,  the  very  beginning 
of  a  nation  which,  though  poor,  weak,  and  divided,  entered  with  faith,  hope,  and  courage  upon  the  fulfill- 
ment of  its  high  destiny  and  the  demonstration  of  man's  capacity  for  self-government. 

"  In  this,  our  well-beloved  city,  to  which,  Honored  Sir,  we  bid  you  thrice  welcome,  Washington,  casting 


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aside,  as  he  ever  did,  his  own  desires  and  private  interests,  though  already  bowed  beneath  the  weight  of  ad- 
vancing years  and  the  toils  of  a  long  and  bloody  war,  undertook,  at  the  call  of  the  country  he  had  freed,  the 
arduous  task  of  guiding  the  new  ship  of  state  through  unknown  seas  studded  with  rocks  and  shoals  into  the 
haven  of  peace,  happiness,  and  prosperity.  He  lived  to  see  the  stately  ship  safely  at  anchor,  and  then  gladly, 
gratefully,  and  happily  sank  to  rest.  No  weak  human  eulogy  can  enhance  his  glory,  for  it  outshines  that  of 
every  other  hero  whose  name  is  recorded  on  the  page  of  history.  Neither  is  it  necessary  that  we  speak  of  him 
for  mere  remembrance'  sake,  for  his  name  is  indissolubly  connected  with  that  liberty  which  is  the  birthright  of 
every  American  citizen,  and  is  forever  enshrined  in  every  American  heart. 

"  It  pleased  Divine  Providence,  a  hundred  years  ago,  to  produce  on  the  shores  of  the  New  World  a  body  of 
men  whom  the  Earl  of  Chatham  pronounced  the  greatest  and  noblest  the  earth  had  ever  seen  ;  and  of  those 
Titans  of  the  Revolution  it  is  no  disparagement  of  any  to  say  that  Washington  was  the  wisest  and  most  heroic 
character  of  all  time.  It  is,  then,  because  we  honor,  because  we  reverence,  and  because  we  love  him,  that  his 
name  comes  first  to  our  lips  to-day.  It  is  a  perpetual  inspiration,  a  never-ending  source  of  pride  and  joy,  and 
an  eternal  obligation  of  gratitude  and  thanksgiving.  Could  he  look  down  upon  us  to-day,  might  we  not  hum- 
bly hope  that  he  would  be  pleased  at  our  progress,  and  proud  of  our  position  among  the  powers  of  the  earth  ? 
Would  he  not  rejoice  over  our  smiling,  happy,  plenteous  land,  and  its  active,  vigorous  population  of  sixty 
millions  of  freemen,  obedient  to  law  and  faithful  to  the  sacred  charge  left  by  their  glorious  ancestors  and  to  the 
wise  and  temperate  use  of  their  liberties  ?  Above  all,  would  he  not  be  filled  with  joyful  wonder  at  the  marvel- 
ous moral  and  intellectual  growth  of  the  people,  and  feel  that  these  blessings  were  a  sufficient  recompense  for 
all  his  sufferings,  and  an  ample  reward  for  all  his  toil  ? 

"  Upon  you,  Honored  Sir,  has  been  conferred  the  highest  office  which  this  nation  of  intelligent,  self-gov- 
erning freemen  has  in  its  gift,  and  it  is  as  President  of  the  United  States  that  you  have  come  to  help  us  wor- 
thily to  commemorate  this  great  Centennial.  Upon  such  worthy  shoulders  has  the  mantle  of  America's  first 
and  noblest  Son  fallen,  that  we  can  repeat  to  you  to-day  the  words  our  Trenton  sisters  addressed  to  him  a 
century  ago  : 

'Virgins  fair  and  matrons  grave, 
Those  thy  conquering  arms  did  save, 
Build  for  thee  triumphal  bowers  ; 
Strew,  ye  fair,  his  way  with  flowers — 
Strew  your  hero's  way  with  flowers.'  " 

The  pretty  speaker  bowed  and  withdrew,  and  Mayor  Grant  escorted  the  President  up 
the  circular  iron  staircase  to  the  Governor's  Room,  where  a  canopied  dais  had  been  arranged. 
President  Harrison,  Vice-President  Morton,  Governor  Hill,  and  Mayor  Grant  stood  on  the 
platform.  Mr.  Gerry  and  Mr.  Hamilton,  on  either  side,  introduced  the  guests,  who  were  ush- 
ered in  by  a  guard  of  honor  composed  of  the  commanders  of  the  Grand  Army  posts.  The 
men,  women,  and  children,  many  of  whom  had  been  waiting  a  long  time  outside  the  building, 
were  admitted  by  the  east  door,  passed  in  front  of  the  President,  through  the  two  ranks  of 
Grand  Army  men,  bowed,  and  passed  out  by  the  next  west  door.  The  doors  were  open  at 
four  o'clock,  and  for  one  hour  some  five  thousand  people  passed  by  in  twos  and  threes  before 
the  President.  Governor  Hill  and  Mayor  Grant  stood  modestly  in  the  background.  The 
reception  was  truly  a  public  one.  Among  the  well-known  faces  were  Comptroller  Myers, 
Chamberlain  Richard  Croker,  General  C.  H.  T.  Collis,  Secretary  T.  C.  T.  Crain,  Judge 
McGown,  Congressman  Dunphy,  Assistant  District  Attorney  Foster,  and  Assemblyman 
John  E.  Brodsky,  who  paid  their  respects.  For  the  most  part,  the  crowd  consisted  of  plainly 
dressed  men  and  women — not  a  few  of  them  in  their  working-clothes — and  many  of  the 


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women  had  with  them  their  young  children.  There  were  groups  of  young  boys  and  school- 
girls in  the  throng,  many  veterans  of  the  rebellion  in  the  costume  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the 
Republic,  members  of  the  Loyal  Legion,  and  both  white  faces  and  faces  of  color.  At  five 
o'clock  the  doors  were  closed.  The  President,  Chairman  Gerry,  Vice-President  Morton, 
Governor  Hill,  Chairman  Hamilton,  Secretary  Montgomery,  and  Inspector  Williams  pro- 
ceeded to  their  carriages.  As  the  President  reappeared  at  the  front  entrance  he  was  loudly 
greeted.  When  seated,  he  thanked  Inspector  Williams  for  the  excellent  management  of  the 
reception  by  the  police,  and  handed  the  inspector  the  bouquet  presented  by  the  ladies.  The 
band  struck  up  a  lively  air,  and  the  column  moved  to  Broadway. 

After  the  reception  at  the  City  Hall  the  three  companies  of  the  Fifth  U.  S.  Artillery 
were  dismissed  and  the  Uniformed  Battalion  of  Veterans,  Seventh  Regiment  N.  G.  S.  N.  Y., 
and  the  Uniformed  Battalion,  National  Guards  Veterans,  commanded  respectively  by  Gen- 
"  erals  Henry  E.  Tremain  and  Theodore  B.  Gates,  the  First  Troop,  Ohio  Cavalry,  Captain 
Garretson  commanding,  and  the  First  New  York  Hussars,  under  the  command  of  Captain 
Charles  F.  Roe,  escorted  the  President  to  the  New  York  city  residence  of  Vice-President 
Morton,  No.  85  Fifth  Avenue,  and  the  Governor  of  New  York  to  the  Hoffman  House. 
The  troops  were  dismissed  at  Fifth  Avenue  and  Twenty-seventh  Street,  and  the  duties  of  the 
Committee  of  States  terminated  for  the  day. 

GUESTS  AT  THE  RECEPTION  AT  THE  LAWYERS'  CLUB. 

Governors  of  States. — Delaware,  Governor  Benjamin  T.  Biggs ;  Pennsylvania,  Governor  James  A. 
Beaver;  New  Jersey,  Governor  Robert  S.  Green;  Georgia,  Governor  John  B.  Gordon;  Connecticut,  Gov- 
ernor Morgan  G.  Bulkeley  ;  Massachusetts,  Governor  Oliver  Ames;  Maryland,  Governor  E.  E.  Jackson;  South 
Carolina,  Governor  John  P.  Richardson;  New  Hampshire,  Governor  Charles  H.  Sawyer;  Virginia,  Governor 
Fitzhugh  Lee;  New  York,  Governor  David  Bennett  Hill,  Lieutenant-Governor  Jones;  North  Carolina,  Gov- 
ernor Daniel  Gould  Fowle ;  Rhode  Island,  Governor  Royal  C.  Taft ;  Vermont,  Governor  William  P.  Dilling- 
ham; Kentucky,  Governor  Simon  B.  Buckner  ;  Ohio,  Governor  Joseph  B.  Foraker ;  Indiana,  Governor  Alvin 
P.  Hovey ;  Alabama,  Governor  Thomas  Seay ;  Maine,  Governor  Edwin  C.  Burleigh;  Missouri,  Governor 
David  R.  Francis;  Michigan,  Governor  Cyrus  G.  Luce;  Iowa,  Governor  William  Larrabee ;  Wisconsin,  Gov- 
ernor William  D.  Hoard;  Minnesota,  Governor  William  R.  Merriam ;  Oregon,  Governor  Sylvester  Pennoyer ; 
West  Virginia,  Governor  E.  W.  Wilson;  Nebraska,  Governor  John  M.  Thayer;  Colorado,  Governor  Job  A. 
Cooper;  Montana,  ex-Governor  S.  T.  Hauser ;  Washington  Territory,  Governor  Miles  C.  Moore. 

Committee  of  United  States  Senators. — Hon.  William  B.  Allison,  Hon.  Nelson  W.  Aldrich,  Hon. 
James  B.  Beck,  Hon.  Joseph  C.  S.  Blackburn,  Hon.  Alfred  H.  Colquitt,  Hon.  William  E.  Chandler,  Hon.  Shelby 
M.  Cullom,  Hon.  Henry  L.  Dawes,  Hon.  John  W.  Daniel,  Hon.  George  F.  Edmunds,  Hon.  James  B.  Eustis, 
Hon.  Charles  B.  Farwell,  Hon.  William  P.  Frye,  Hon.  George  Gray,  Hon.  Joseph  R.  Hawley,  Hon.  George 
F.  Hoar,  Hon.  Wade  Hampton,  Hon.  Frank  Hiscock  ;  Hon.  John  James  Ingalls,  Hon.  John  T.  Morgan,  Hon. 
Justin  S.  Morrill,  Hon.  Orville  H.  Piatt,  Hon.  Lei  and  Stanford,  Hon.  John  Sherman,  Hon.  Daniel  W.  Voor- 
hees,  General  Anson  G.  McCook  (Secretary  United  States  Senate  Committee). 

Members  of  the  United  States  House  of  Representatives. — Hon.  James  J.  Belden,  Hon.  Charles 

S.  Baker,  Hon.  Archibald  M.  Bliss,  Hon.  Lloyd  S.  Bryce,  Hon.  Henry  Bacon,  Hon.  James  W.  Covert, 

Hon.  Felix  Campbell,  Hon.  John  M.  Clancy,  Hon.  Samuel  S.  Cox,  Hon.  Amos  J.  Cummings,  Hon.  Timothy 

J.  Campbell,  Hon.  William  B.  Cockran,  Hon.  Edward  J.  Dunphy,  Hon.  Milton  De  Lano,  Hon.  Ira  Davenport, 

Hon.  Frederick  T.  Dubois,  Hon.  Willi  am  Elliott,  Hon.  Frank   1.  Fitzgerald,  Hon.  Roswell  P.  Flower,  Hon. 
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Ashbel  P.  Fitch,  Hon.  Thomas  S.  Flood,  Hon.  John  M.  Farquhar,  Hon.  Edward  W.  Greenman,  Hon.  Stephen 
T.  Hopkins,  Hon.  Frederick  Lansing,  Hon.  William  G.  Laidlaw,  Hon.  Thomas  F.  Magner,  Hon.  John  H. 
McCarthy,  Hon.  John  H.  Moffitt,  Hon.  T.  A.  Merriman,  Hon.  Abraham  X.  Parker,  Hon.  John  Quinn,  Hon. 
John  A.  Quackenbush,  Hon.  John  Raines,  Hon.  Charles  A.  Russell,  Hon.  Francis  R.  Spinola,  Hon.  William 

G.  Stahlnecker,  Hon.  Moses  D.  Stivers,  Hon.  John  Sanford,  Hon.  James  S.  Sherman,  Hon.  John  G.  Sawyer, 
Hon.  Charles  Tracey,  Hon.  William  C.  Wallace,  Hon.  David  Wilber,  Hon.  John  M.  Wiley,  Hon.  Stephen  V. 
White,  Hon.  George  West,  Hon.  John  B.  Weber. 

New  York  State  Government,  invited  to  participate  ix  the  Ceremonies  of  the  Celebra- 
tion.—  Governor,  David  Bennett  Hill;  Lieutenant-Governor,  Edward  F.  Jones;  Comptroller,  Edward 
Wemple;  Secretary  of  State,  Frederick  Cook;  State  Treasurer,  Lawrence  J.  Fitzgerald;  Attorney-General, 
Charles  F.  Tabor ;  State  Engineer  and  Surveyor,  John  Bogart ;  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction, 
Andrew  S.  Draper;  Superintendent  of  Insurance  Department,  Robert  A.  Maxwell;  Deputy  Superintendent  of 
Insurance  Department,  William  B.  Ruggles ;  Superintendent  of  Banking  Department,  Willis  S.  Paine;  Super- 
intendent of  State  Prisons,  Austin  Lathrop  ;  Superintendent  of  Public  Works,  James  Shanahan. 

Governor's  Staff. — Adjutant-General,  Major  -  General  Josiah  Porter;  Inspector  -  General,  Brigadier- 
General  E.  Schaefer ;  Chief  of  Ordnance,  Brigadier-General  J.  M.  Varian  ;  Engineer-in-Chief,  Brigadier-Gen- 
eral George  S.  F  ield ;  Chief  of  Artillery,  Brigadier-General  F.  P.  Earle ;  Judge-Advocate-General,  Brigadier- 
General  C.  A.  H.  Bartlett ;  Surgeon-General,  Brigadier-General  Joseph  D.  Bryant ;  Quartermaster-General, 
Brigadier-General  E.  D.  Lansing;  Paymaster-General,  Brigadier-General  W.  C.  Stokes;  Commissary-General 
of  Subsistence,  Brigadier-General  R.  Brandreth  ;  General  Inspector  of  Rifle  Practice,  Brigadier-General  C. 
F.  Robbins. 

Aides-de-Camp. — Colonel  W.  F.  Lansing,  Colonel  George  B.  McClellan,  Colonel  Albert  B.  Hilton,  Colonel 

H.  O'Donoghue,  Colonel  Edmund  L.  Judson,  Colonel  Marcus  D.  Russell,  Governor's  Private  Secretary,  Will- 
iam G.  Rice. 

Senate  of  the  State  of  New  York. — President,  Lieutenant-Governor  Edward  F.  Jones;  President  pro 
tern.,  J.  Sloat  Eassett ;  Clerk,  John  S.  Kenyon. 

Senators:  Simeon  S.  Hawkins,  Eugene  F.  O'Connor,  Michael  C.  Murphy,  George  F.  Langbein,  Charles 
A.  Stadler,  Eugene  S.  Ives,  John  J.  Linson,  Michael  F.  Collins,  John  Foley,  George  Z.  Erwin,  Henry  J. 
Coggeshall,  William  Lewis,  William  L.  Sweet,  John  Raines,  Edward  C.  Walker,  Commodore  P.  Vedder,  James 
F.  Pierce,  Jacob  Worth,  Thomas  F.  Grady,  Cornelius  Van  Cott,  Jacob  A.  Cantor,  William  H.  Robertson, 
Gilbert  A.  Deane,  Henry  Russell,  Rowland  C.  Kellogg,  George  B.  Sloan,  Frank  B.  Arnold,  Francis  Hen- 
dricks, J.  Sloat  Fassett,  Donald  McNaughton,  John  Laughlin. 

New  York  State  Assembly. — Speaker,  Fremont  Cole;  Clerk,  Charles  A.  Chickering.  Assemblymen:  J.  I.. 
Miller,  William  Burton  Le  Roy,  G.  N.  West,  Leander  Fitts,  Robert  P.  Bush,  William  Dinehart,  William  H. 
Mase,  Matthias  Endres,  Amos  H.  Baker,  Lewis  Brownell,  Dewitt  J.  Mesick,  Robert  H.  Miley,  Henry  F.  Hag- 
gerty,  Adam  Schaaff,  John  B.  Longley,  Hugh  Hughes,  Judson  F.  Sheldon,  W.  B.  Dunlap,  Thomas  Smith,  Jr., 
Charles  P.  Blake,  John  Martin,  Moses  Dinkelspiel,  Frederick  Hafner,  W.  H.  Neuschafer,  Ernest  H.  Crosby, 
Christopher  C.  Clarke,  J.  Harry  Kent,  James  W.  Upson,  Robert  Moody,  Ira  Edwards,  William  E.  Dante, 
Solomon  S.  Townsend,  Joseph  S.  Saunders,  Frank  P.  Demarest,  M.  H.  Flaherty,  Austin  A.  Yates,  William  H. 
Dunham,  Henry  E.  Huntting,  Frank  J.  Enz,  George  H.  Bush,  William  H.  Tefft,  William  Murray,  Greenleaf  S. 
Van  Gorder,  Vreeland  H.  Youngman,  Albert  B.  Cottrell,  J.  S.  Whipple,  S.  Frederick  Nixon,  Edgar  A.  Pearsall, 
Rufus  T.  Peck,  Johnston  L.  De  Peyster,  Leroy  Andrews,  Thomas  J.  Treadway,  John  M.  McKenzie,  Henry 
J.  Lane,  William  H.  McLaughlin,  John  Kelly,  William  Blanchfield,  Joseph  Aspinall,  Jotham  Clark,  Joseph 
Bauer,  Patrick  J.  Duffy,  Jeremiah  Hayes,  Francis  V.  King,  George  F.  Roesch,  Frederick  S.  Gibbs,  Edward 
P.  Hagan,  John  Connolly,  Joseph  Blumenthal,  John  F.  Little,  George  G.  McAdam,  William  H.  Gallup,  John 
C.  Adams,  S.  Mortimer  Coon,  Walter  L.  Brown,  Philip  T.  Cronin,  James  Ryan,  Jr.,  Newton  M.  Curtis,  H.  J. 
Donaldson,  J.  Edward  Young,  Charles  H.  McMaster,  Martin  A.  Smith,  George  A.  Davidson,  Scott  Barton, 
Charles  T.  Saxton,  Bradford  Rhodes,  William  A.  Carson,  Galen  R.  Hitt,  Alonzo  D.  Lewis,  John  E.  Savery, 
George  E.  Towne,  Stephen  Moffitt,  George  O.  Mead,  William  F.  Sheehan,  Henry  H.  Guenther,  William  ('. 
Stevens,  Francis  G.  Walters,  Andrew  C.  Comstock,  Peter  K.  McCann,  P.  II.  McCarren,  Frank  Sperry,  James 
P.  Graham,  Charles  E.  Maynard,  Edwin  A.  Loder,  Timothy  D.  Sullivan,  D.  F.  Mullaney,  Charles  Smith, 


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Robert  Ray  Hamilton,  Thomas  J.  Creamer,  John  Kerrigan,  William  H.  Hornidge,  August  Strassburg,  J.  Mar- 
ville  Hanvood,  A.  B.  Baker,  Walter  W.  Cheney,  George  W.  Greene,  U.  E.  Ainsworth,  Hamilton  Fish,  Jr., 
George  O'Neil,  Hubbard  R.  Yettman,  William  H.  Kimball,  George  S.  Batcheller,  Fremont  Cole,  Milo  M.  Acker, 
Abram  J.  Decker,  Jacob  Rice,  Charles  W.  Larmon,  Richard  P.  Groat,  James  W.  Husted. 

New  York  Court  of  Appeals. — Chief  Judge,  William  C.  Ruger.  Associate  Judges:  Robert  Earl, 
Francis  M.  Finch,  John  Clinton  Gray,  George  F.  Danforth,  Charles  Andrews,  Rufus  W.  Feckham. 

Second  Division,  Court  of  Appeals. — Chief  Judge,  David  L.  Follett.  Associate  Judges:  Joseph  Potter, 
Albert  Haight,  Irving  G.  Yann,  George  B.  Bradley,  Charles  F.  Brown,  Alton  B.  Parker. 

New  York  City  Officials. — Thomas  C.  T.  Crain,  Chief  Clerk  of  Mayor.  Board  of  Aldermen :  John  H. 
V.  Arnold,  President ;  F.  J.  Twomey,  Clerk ;  David  Barry,  Redmond  J.  Barry,  James  F.  Butler,  John  Carlin, 
William  Clancy,  James  A.  Cowie,  Patrick  Divver,  Alexander  J.  Dowd,  James  M.  Fitzsimons,  Cornelius  Flynn, 
James  Gilligan,  Christian  Goetz,  George  Gregory,  Henry  Gunther,  Charles  J.  Hammond,  George  B.  Morris, 
Andrew  A.  Noonan,  Patrick  X.  Oakley,  Edward  J.  Rapp,  William  P.  Rinkhoff,  Walton  Storm,  Richard  J. 
Sullivan,  William  Tait,  William  H.  Walker. 

Chamberlain. — Richard  Croker. 

Comptroller. — Theodore  W.  Myers. 

Law  Department. — Henry  R.  Beekman,  Corporation  Counsel ;  William  A.  Boyd,  Corporation  Attorney. 
Police  Commissioners. — Stephen  B.  French,  President ;  Commissioner  Charles  F.  MacLean,  Commissioner 
John  McClave,  Commissioner  John  R.  Voorhis. 

Department  of  Public  Works. — Commissioner  D.  Lowber  Smith. 

Department  of  Public  Parks. — M.  C.  D.  Borden,  Waldo  Hutchins,  Stevenson  Towle. 

Public  Charities  and  Corrections. — Thomas  S.  Brennan,  President ;  Charles  E.  Simmons,  Henry  H.  Porter. 

Health  Department. — James  C.  Bayles,  President ;  Joseph  D.  Bryant,  M.  D. 

Taxes  and  Assessments. — Michael  Coleman,  President ;  Edward  L.  Parris,  Thomas  L.  Feitner. 

Board  of  Excise. — Charles  H.  Woodman,  President  ;  John  Yon  Giahn,  William  S.  Andrews. 

Dock  Department. —  Edwin  A.  Post,  James  Matthews,  Charles  A.  Silliman. 

Aqueduct  Commissioners. — General  J.  C.  Duane,  President ;  John  J.  Tucker,  Francis  M.  Scott,  Walter  Howe. 
Sheriff. — James  A.  Flack;  Thomas  F.  Gilroy,  Cinder-Sheriff. 
County  Clerk. — Edward  F.  Reilly. 
Register. — James  J.  Slevin. 
Surrogate. — Rastus  S.  Ransom. 

Supreme  Court. — Charles  H.  Van  Brunt,  Presiding  Justice.  Justices :  John  R.  Brady,  Abraham  R.  Law- 
rence, George  C.  Barrett,  George  P.  Andrews,  Edward  Patterson,  Morgan  J.  O'Brien. 

Superior  Court. — Chief-Justice,  John  Sedgwick.  Judges:  John  J.  Freedman,  Charles  H.  Truax,  Richard 
O'Gorman,  George  L.  Ingraham,  P.  Henry  Dugro. 

Common  Pleas. — Chief  Judge,  Richard  E.  Larremore.  Judges:  George  M.  Van  Hoesen,  Joseph  F.  Daly, 
Miles  Beach,  Henry  Wilder  Allen,  Henry  W.  Bookstaver. 

City  Court. — Chief-Justice,  David  McAdam.  Justices:  Charles  J.  Nehrbas,  Edward  Browne,  Simon  M. 
Ehrlich,  Henry  P.  McGown,  William  F.  Pitshke. 

Police  Justices. — Charles  Welde,  Andrew  J.  White,  Solon  B.  Smith,  Jacob  M.  Patterson,  Maurice  J.  Power, 
Henry  Murray,  James  T.  Kilbreth,  John  J.  Gorman,  J.  Henry  Ford,  Patrick  G.  Duffy,  Daniel  O.  Reiley. 

District  Court  Justices. — Michael  Norton,  Thomas  E.  Murray,  Alfred  Steckler,  Andrew  J.  Rogers,  Samson 
Lachman,  John  Jeroloman,  Henry  M.  Goldfogle,  Joseph  P.  Fallon,  Charles  M.  Clancy,  George  B.  Deane, 
Jr.,  Ambrose  Monell. 

Court  of  General  Sessions. — Frederick  Smyth,  Recorder  ;  Judges:  Henry  A.  Gildersleeve,  Rufus  B.  Cowing, 
Randolph  B.  Martine. 

Fire  Department. — Henry  D.  Purroy,  President ;  General  Fitz-John  Porter. 

Brooklyn  City  Government. — Mayor,  Alfred  C.  Chapin ;  Clerk,  E.  W.  Price;  Sheriff,  Clark  D.  Rhine- 
hart;  County  Clerk,  John  M.  Rankin;  City  Civil  Service,  Edward  M.  Shepard  ;  Justice  Supreme  Court,  Calvin  E. 
Pratt ;  Park  Commissioner,  James  T.  Easton ;  Fire  Commissioner,  John  Ennis ;  Police  Commissioner,  James  D. 
Bell;  Public  Works,  John  P.  Adams. 


244      THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


SPECIAL  GUESTS  INVITED  TO  MEET  THE  PRESIDENT. 

Thk  Clergy. —  Right  Rev.  Henry  C.  Potter,  Right  Rev.  Abram  N.  Littlejohn,  Most  Rev.  M.  A.  Corri- 
gan,  Rev.  Thomas  Armitage,  Rev.  Charles  H.  Parkhurst,  Rev.  Henry  J.  Van  Dyke,  Jr.,  Rev.  Richard  S. 
Storrs,  Rev.  R.  S.  MacArthur,  Rev.  M.  H.  Poyson,  Rev.  Talbot  W.  Chambers,  Rev.  George  H.  Smyth,  Rev. 
James  M.  King,  Rev.  C.  P.  Marsden,  Rev.  John  Hall,  Rev.  Howard  Crosby,  Rev.  T.  De  Witt  Talmage,  Rev. 
William  M.  Taylor,  Rev.  R.  R.  Meredith,  Rev.  Gustav  Gottheil,  Rev.  Henry  S.  Jacobs,  Rev.  G.  F.  Krotel,  Rev. 
John  W.  Brown,  Rev.  Henry  Y.  Satterlee,  Rev.  Morgan  Dix,  Rev.  W.  S.  Rainsford,  Rev.  William  B.  Derrick, 
Rev.  James  H.  McGean,  Monsignor  Preston,  Rev.  Thomas  J.  Ducey,  Rev.  Roderick  Terry,  Rev.  Felix  Adler, 
Rev.  R.  Heber  Newton,  Rev.  R.  S.  Mansfield. 

The  Bar. — Joseph  H.  Choate,  President  of  the  Bar  Association  ;  Judge  Noah  Davis,  Judge  Charles  P. 
Daly,  Judge  Hooper  C.  Van  Vorst,  Judge  Albon  P.  Man,  John  E.  Parsons,  William  Allen  Butler,  William 

D.  Shipman,  James  C.  Carter,  Hon.  Benjamin  F.  Tracy,  Benjamin  D.  Silliman,  Jasper  W.  Gilbert,  Theodore 
W,  Dwight,  Francis  C.  Barlow,  John  F.  Dillon,  Frederic  R.  Coudert,  Sigismund  Kaufman,  Edward  N. 
Dickerson,  Hamilton  Cole,  Elihu  Root,  William  B.  Hornblower,  Henry  E.  Howland,  Myer  S.  Isaacs,  Samuel 
Untermyer,  Julien  T.  Davies,  Burton  N.  Harrison,  Benjamin  H.  Bristow,  De  Lancey  Nicoll,  Francis  L.  Stetson, 
William  G.  Choate,  Edward  Mitchell,  Judge  Enoch  L.  Fancher,  Judge  Charles  A.  Peabody,  Henry  L.  Sprague, 
George  Bliss,  George  De  Forest  Lord,  Horace  Porter,  Douglas  Campbell,  Walter  Howe,  E.  A.  Cruikshank, 
Richard  M.  Harison,  Peter  B.  Olney,  E.  Randolph  Robinson,  Charles  A.  Peabody,  Jr. 

Physicians  and  Surgeons. — Dr.  Alfred  L.  Loomis,  President  of  the  Academy  of  Medicine  ;  Dr.  D.  B. 
St.  John  Roosa,  Vice-President  of  the  Academy  of  Medicine ;  Dr.  T.  Gaillard  Thomas,  Dr.  William  H. 
Draper,  Dr.  Fordyce  Barker,  Dr.  Austin  Flint,  Jr.,  Dr.  Learning,  Dr.  William  M.  Polk,  Dr.  Daniel  Lewis, 
President  of  the  County  Medical  Society  ;  Dr.  R.  P.  Lincoln,  Dr.  George  H.  Fox,  Dr.  Allen  McLane  Hamil- 
ton, Dr.  H.  Knapp,  Dr.  Ellsworth  Eliot,  Dr.  John  T.  Metcalfe,  Dr.  Gerardus  H.  Wynkoop,  Dr.  F.  LeRoy  Sat- 
terlee, Dr.  George  L.  Peabody,  Dr.  A.  Jacobi,  Dr.  John  C.  Jay,  Jr.,  Dr.  Thomas  M.  Markoe,  Dr.  C.  Cleveland, 
Dr.  Zabriskie,  Dr.  William  T.  Bull,  Dr.  L.  A.  Sayre,  Dr.  J.  D.  Bryant,  Dr.  W.  Gill  Wylie,  Dr.  D.  M.  Stimson, 
Dr.  E.  L.  Keyes,  Dr.  George  A.  Peters,  Dr.  Charles  McBurney,  Dr.  William  T.  Lusk,  Dr.  Robert  F.  Weir. 

Colleges  and  Schools. — Dr.  F.  A.  P.  Barnard  (Columbia)  ;  Dr.  Henry  Drisler  (Columbia)  ;  Theodore 
W.  Dwight  (Columbia)  ;  General  Alexander  S.  Webb  (College  of  New  York)  ;  Dr.  Jean  Roemer  (College  of 
New  York)  ;  Dr.  Henry  M.  MacCracken  (University)  ;  Dr.  John  Hall  (University) ;  Prof.  Egleston  (School  of 
Mines,  Columbia)  ;  Rev.  Dr.  Henry  A.  Coit  (St.  Paul's  School,  Concord)  Mr.  Milnor  Coit  ;  Frank  Drisler; 

E.  D.  Lyon  ;  S.  S.  Packard  ;  Endicott  Peabody  (Groton)  ;  Arthur  H.  Cutler  (Berkeley)  ;  Mr.  John  Jasper 
(Superintendent  of  Public  Schools);  Thomas  Hunter  (President  of  Normal  College). 

Authors. — W.  D.  Howells,  E.  C.  Stedman,  Clarence  King,  H.  C.  Bunner,  Brander  Matthews,  Frank 
Stockton,  Edward  Eggleston,  Paul  L.  Ford,  George  Cary  Eggleston. 

Artists. — Daniel  Huntington,  President  of  Academy  of  Design  ;  T.  W.  Wood,  V.  P.,  J.  Q.  A.  Ward,  Albert 
Bierstadt,  Frederick  S.  Church,  Jasper  F.  Cropsey,  George  Inness,  Eastman  Johnson,  John  Lafarge,  Benjamin 
C.  Porter,  Launt  Thompson,  A.  St.  Gaudens,  J.  H.  Whitehouse,  R.  C.  Minor,  J.  G.  Brown,  Henry  Farrer,  James 
Symington,  Louis  C.  Tiffany,  Kruseman  Van  Elten,  J.  C.  Nicholl,  Charles  A.  Piatt,  Fred.  W.  Freer,  J.  Francis 
Murphy,  Percy  Moran,  C.  Y.  Turner,  Walter  Satterlee,  George  W.  Maynard. 

The  Drama. — Augustin  Daly,  A.  M.  Palmer,  Henry  E.  Abbey,  Bronson  Howard,  William  Winter,  Edward 
Harrigan,  Joseph  Jefferson,  James  E.  Murdock,  W.  J.  Florence,  James  Lewis,  John  Gilbert. 

Civil  Engineers. — Max  J.  Becker,  President  of  the  American  Society  of  Civil  Engineers;  Julius  W. 
Adams,  General  George  S.  Greene,  George  S.  Greene,  Jr.,  William  J.  McAlpine,  John  Bogart,  W.  E.  Worthen, 
Thomas  C.  Clarke,  Alphonse  Fteley,  Benjamin  S.  Church,  J.  J.  R.  Croes,  Theodore  Cooper,  Leonard  F.  Beck- 
with,  Joseph  P.  Davis,  Charles  Macdonald,  Theodore  Weston,  W.  G.  Hamilton. 

Architects. — R.  M.  Hunt,  President  A.  I.  A.  ;  E.  H.  Kendall,  President  N.  Y.  C.  A.  I.  A.;  Russell  Sturgis, 
President  A.  L. ;  Professor  William  R.  Ware,  George  B.  Post,  Charles  F.  McKim,  Stanford  White,  Charles 
W.  Clinton,  C.  C.  Haight,  Napoleon  Le  Brun,  John  L.  Dufais,  J.  C.  Cady,  James  Renwick,  S.  D.  Hatch. 

Chamher  of  Commerce. — John  T.  Agnew,  Isaac  H.  Bailey,  George  F.  Baker,  J.  A.  Bostwick,  John  Crosby 
Brown,  Henry  W.  Cannon,  William  P.  Clyde,  Samuel  Colgate,  James  M.  Constable,  Charles  C.  Dodge,  Charles 


PUBLIC  RECEPTION  A  T  THE  CITY  HALL. 


245 


M.  Fry,  Anson  W.  Hard,  Oliver  Harriman,  A.  Foster  Higgins,  Thomas  Hillhouse,  Solon  Humphreys,  A.  Gracie 
King,  A.  C.  Kingsland,  John  Jay  Knox,  Charles  G.  Landon,  William  H.  Lyon,  James  McCreery,  Jordan  L. 
Mott.  Alexander  E.  Orr,  William  P.  St.  John,  Jesse  Seligman,  H.  F.  Spaulding,  Jacob  Wendell. 

Bank  Presidents. — Jacob  D.  Vermilye,  George  S.  Coe,  Richard  King,  C.  M.  Fry,  H.  W.  Cannon,  George 
G.  Williams,  E.  Kellogg  Wright,  W.  M.  Bliss,  George  F.  Baker,  John  Jay  Knox,  George  M.  Hard,  A.  S. 
Frissell,  A.  C.  Cheney,  Francis  A.  Palmer,  Percy  R.  Pyne,  Francis  L.  Leland,  E.  W.  Corlies,  William  Dowd, 
William  Sherman,  Nathaniel  Niles,  V.  Mumford  Moore,  George  Montague,  D.  R.  Satterlee,  F.  H.  Parker, 
Edward  Wood,  Henry  L.  Hoguet,  J.  Harsen  Rhoades,  Silas  B.  Dutcher,  William  C.  Sturges,  Edward  Schell, 
Andrew  Warner,  W.  H.  Slocum,  Thomas  Lawrence,  D.  T.  Hoag. 

Trust  Companies. — Edward  King,  R.  G.  Rolston,  John  A.  Stewart,  Henry  Parish,  Fred.  P.  Olcott,  Robert 
B.  Roosevelt,  Thomas  Hillhouse. 

Bankers. — Henry  Clews,  John  C.  Latham,  August  Belmont,  Adrian  Iselin,  Jesse  Seligman,  J.  Pierpont 
Morgan,  James  M.  Brown,  Augustus  Kountze,  George  C.  Magoun,  Russell  Sage,  Arthur  J.  Peabody,  Jay 
Gould,  L.  A.  Von  Hoffman,  Walter  T.  Hatch,  John  Paton,  Morris  K.  Jesup,  Gustav  Kessler,  William  Hall- 
garten,  David  C.  Clark,  Harvey  Fisk,  Charles  Lanier,  Edward  D.  Adams,  George  S.  Bowdoin,  C.  H.  Coster. 

Railroads. — J.  Rogers  Maxwell,  Collis  P.  Huntington,  Samuel  Sloan,  Robert  M.  Olyphant,  Edwin  D. 
Worcester,  Austin  Corbin,  E.  Norton,  Cornelius  Vanderbilt,  William  Butler  Duncan,  John  King,  S.  M.  Felton, 
Jr.,  Charles  P.  Clark,  Robert  Harris,  Elijah  Smith,  Chauncey  M.  Depew,  John  Newton,  George  B.  Roberts, 
Edward  F.  Winslow,  Frank  Thomson,  T.  N.  Ely,  Charles  E.  Pugh,  Wolcott  Jackson. 

Telegraphs. — Norvin  Green,  James  A.  Scrymser,  Cyrus  W.  Field,  Wilson  G.  Hunt,  A.  B.  Cornell,  James 
D.  Reid,  General  Thomas  T.  Eckert,  Albert  B.  Chandler,  D.  H.  Bates,  George  G.  Ward,  Theodore  J.  De 
Sabla,  George  A.  Hamilton,  Thomas  A.  Edison,  George  d'Infrerville,  James  A.  Beard. 

Stock  Exchange. — William  L.  Bull,  President  ;  James  D.  Smith,  R.  H.  Thomas,  James  M.  Drake,  Isidor 
Wormser,  H.  L.  Horton,  Jenkins  Van  Schaick,  Horace  L.  Hotchkiss,  Latham  A.  Fish,  Constant  A.  Andrews, 
Washington  E.  Connor,  John  Bloodgood,  James  K.  Gracie,  David  A.  Boody,  George  Blagden,  Nicholas  Fish, 
John  C.  Westervelt,  Louis  Joseph  Sands. 

Coffee  Exchange.  John  F.  Scott,  Joseph  J.  O'Donohue,  Henry  Sheldon,  Benjamin  G.  Arnold,  John 
Arbuckle,  George  W.  Crossman,  S.  Gruner,  T.  T.  Barr,  Eugene  O'Sullivan,  Frederick  T.  Sherman,  Henry 
W.  Banks,  Anson  W.  Hard. 

Cotton  Exchange. — Charles  W.  Ide,  C.  C.  Baldwin,  John  H.  Inman,  Henry  Hentz,  E.  J.  Donnell,  William 
V.  King,  Em.  Lehman,  G.  Schroeder,  S.  Gruner,  James  F.  Wenman,  Charles  D.  Miller. 

Con.  Stock  and  Petroleum  Exchange. — Charles  George  Wilson,  Col.  Thomas  L.  Watson,  George  Rut- 
ledge  Gibson,  George  W.  Fuller,  Jr.,  Charles  E.  Orvis,  George  H.  Lincoln,  John  Stanton,  R.  A.  Chesebrough. 

New  York  Maritime  Exchange. — Thomas  P.  Ball,  John  P.  Townsend,  Charles  R.  Flint,  Alfred  D.  Snow, 
Edward  Hincken,  W.  A.  Street,  John  B.  Woodward,  William  R.  Grace,  W.  R.  T.  Jones,  W.  H.  H.  Moore. 

Produce  Exchange. — Alexander  E.  Orr,  President;  H.  O.  Armour,  T.  A.  Mclntyre,  J.  Hobart  Herrick, 
Franklin  Edson,  E.  C.  Rice,  George  W.  Smith,  R.  O.  N.  Ford,  Silas  Davis,  George  W.  Van  Boskerck,  Isaac  T. 
Frost,  Franklin  Woodruff,  J.  B.  Carberry,  D.  A.  Bingham,  Hermann  Stutzer,  T.  B.  Woolsey,  George  V.  Hecker. 

Importers  and  Grocers'  Exchange. — Charles  E.  Beebe,  Henry  E.  Hawley,  George  H.  Macy,  F.  Mead, 
Jr.,  Morris  Woodruff,  J.  R.  Montgomery. 

Real-Estate  Exchange. — H.  H.  Cammann,  President;  George  R.  Read,  E.  A.  Cruikshank,  L.  J.  Carpen- 
ter, Horace  S.  Ely,  George  De  F.  Barton,  R.  V.  Harnett,  Ferdinand  Fish,  F.  Zittel,  George  H.  Scott,  Morris 
Wilkins,  L.  J.  Phillips. 

Newspapers. — Henry  M.  Field  (Evangelist),  Wendell  Prime  (Observer),  Joseph  Pulitzer  (World),  John  A. 
Cockerill  (World),  Parke  Godwin  (Commercial),  Colonel  Elliott  F.  Shepard  (Mail  and  Express),  Major  Bundy 
(Mail  and  Express),  M.  Beardsley  (Commercial),  Charles  A.  Dana  (Sun),  George  W.  Curtis  (Harpers),  White- 
law  Reid  (Tribune),  Henry  Hall  (Harpers),  Robert  P.  Porter  (Press),  George  Jones  (Times),  Mr.  Casey 
(Harpers),  Horace  White  (Post),  E.  L.  Godkin  (Post),  Robert  Bonner  (Ledger),  Lyman  Abbott  (Christian 
Union),  Henry  C.  Bo  wen  (Independent),  M.  H.  Mallory  (Churchman),  Gardiner  G.  Howland  (Herald), 
Mitchell  and  Miller  (Life),  M.  N.  Forney  (Railroad  Gazette),  C.  H.  Meyers  (Building  News),  A.  M.  Wellington 
(Railroad  Journal),  Bernhard  Gillam  (Judge),  Schwarzmann  and  Keppler  (Puck). 


246       THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


Fire  Insurance. — Daniel  A.  Heald,  Francis  C.  Moore,  Henry  T,  Drowne,  Peter  Notman,  Rudolph  Gar- 
rigue,  H.  \V.  Eaton,  Samuel  P.  Blagden,  H.  H.  Hall,  George  M.  Coit,  Alfred  Pell,  James  Yereance,  Howland 
Pell,  Edward  A.  Walton,  John  G.  Mills,  Mason  A.  Stone,  Emil  Oelbermann. 

Like  In  surance. — James  M  McLean,  Hugo  Wesendonck,  William  A.  Brewer,  Jr.,  E.  B.  Harper,  W.  H. 
Beers,  Sheppard  Homans,  R.  A.  McGurdy,  H.  B.  Hyde,  C.  P.  Peet. 

Marine  Insurance. — John  D.  Jones,  James  F.  Cox,  W.  Irving  Gomes 

Insurance  Brokers.— S.  Benedict,  F.  H  Parsen,  Elliot  McCormick,  W  E.  Whitney,  R.  C  Rathbone, 
William  G.  Pate,  John  V.  B.  Clarkson,  G.  P  Frame,  J  A.  Beckwith,  J.  B.  Duer,  G.  W.  Langford,  Lenox  Smith. 

Expresses. —  Locke  W  Winchester,  Thomas  C,  Piatt,  John  Hoey,  William  B  Dinsmore,  Johnston  Living- 
ston, J.  G.  Fargo,  Philip  S.  Biglin,  L.  Gontanseau. 

Board  of  Trade  and  Transportation.  —  Ambrose  Snow,  -President j  George  L,  Pease,  James  H  Sey- 
mour, William  H.  Parsons,  Vice-Presidents';  John  C  Cook,  Treasurer  ;  Darwin  R.  James,  Secretary, 

Steamship  Agents. —  A  M.  Underhill,  Vernon  H  Brown,  A.  F.  Forget,  J.  Bruce  Ismay,  W.  P.  Clyde, 
Hermann  Oelrichs,  Richard  Henderson,  H.  L.  Freeland,  H.  W.  O.  Edye,  John  E.  Alexandre,  W.  E.  Cleary,  W. 
H    T.  Hughes,  F.  W   J.  Hurst,  Austin  Baldwin. 

Magazines. — Charles  De  F.  Burns,  Philip  Cowen,  W.  C.  Church,  William  Whitlock,  P.  V.  Hickey,  Ros- 
well  Smith,  H.  P.  Sampers,  DeWitt  J.  Seligman,  W.  Lynch,  W.  J.  Arkell,  Martha  J.  Lamb,  Allen  Thorndike 
Rice. 

Book  Publishers. — Anson  D.  F.  Randolph,  Joseph  W.  Harper,  George  W.  Dillingham,  William  W.  Apple- 
ton,  Isaac  K.  Funk,  A.  H.  Scribner,  C.  L.  Webster,  George  H.  Putnam,  Joseph  J.  Little,  R.  J.  McMillan,  Frank 
H.  Dodd,  E.  P.  Dutton,  J.  M.  Potts,  Robert  Carter. 

Wholesale  Dry  Goods. — John  Claflin,  Edward  S  Jaffray.  William  L  Strong,  Cornelius  N  Bliss,  John 
F.  Plummer,  James  H  Dunham,  Woodbury  Langdon,  William  E  Tefft,  Walter  H.  Lewis,  William  A.  Pem- 
brook,  Henry  A.  Page,  A  D  Juilliard,  William  B  Kendall,  Seth  M.  Milliken,  Francis  M.  Bacon,  George  F. 
Victor,  Hewlett  Scudder,  Edward  M.  Townsend,  Edgar  S.  Auchincloss.  J.  Spencer  Turner,  James  H.  Froth- 
ingham. 

Hide  and  Leather. — Jackson  S  Schultz,  Charles  H  Isham.  Justus  L  Bulkley,  William  Palen,  E  H.  K. 
Belcher,  James  Fraser,  P.  C.  Costello,  Lewis  H.  Bullard,  William  C.  Lee,  Thomas  Keck,  William  Hoyt. 

Drugs  and  Chemicals. — William  H.  Schieffelin.  J.  L.  Morgan,  John  McKesson,  Jr.,  Charles  Pfizer, 
George  M.  Olcott,  W.  F.  Tiemann,  William  H.  Hall,  John  L.  Riker. 

Ikon. — B.  G.  Clarke,  Andrew  Carnegie,  H.  A.  Rogers,  James  A.  Burden,  Edward  Cooper,  David  S.  Egles- 
ton,  Charles  C.  Dodge,  A.  R.  Whitney,  John  H.  Abeel,  Jr.,  Henry  L.  Pierson,  Jr. 

Iron  Works. — N.  F.  Palmer,  Jr.,  C.  H.  Delamater,  George  W.  Quintard,  M.  Eger. 

Metals. — E.  M.  Cook,  Joshua  Hendricks,  John  E.  Thompson,  George  A.  Crocker,  R.  M  Thompson 

Oil  Trade.— A.  C.  Clarkson,  George  Delano,  J.  A.  Dean,  William  H.  Macy,  C   M.  Pratt. 

Paints. — F.  W.  Devoe,  J   Seaver  Page,  John  W.  Masury. 

Sugar  Refiners. — H.  O.  Havemeyer,  Theodore  A.  Havemeyer,  B  H  Howell,  F  O  Matthiessen,  J.  E. 
Searles,  Jr. 

Auctioneers. — John  H.  Draper,  H.  L.  Hoguet,  C.  S.  Brown,  R.  M  Montgomery. 
Average  Adjusters. — A.  Foster  Higgins,  James  A.  Whitlock,  J   W.  Hayward 
Commercial  Agencies. — R.  G.  Dun,  The  J.  M.  Bradstreet  Co. 
Freight  Agents. — A.  H.  Pride,  L  W.  Morris,  P   H.  Marshall. 

Retail  Dry  Goods. — Hugh  O'Neill,  Louis  Stern,  James  M.  Constable,  Samuel  Lord.  Jr.,  Isaac  Stern, 
J.  W.  Aitken,  William  G.  Thomas,  Charies  B.  Webster,  John  Daniell,  George  A.  Hearn,  George  Le  Boutillier, 
William  Crawford,  Samuel  W.  Ehrich. 

Flour  Merchants. — George  W.  Smith,  Robert  S.  Holt,  Isaac  H.  Reed,  Josiah  M  Fiske. 

Butchers. — William  Ottmann,  Solomon  Sayles,  Bernhard  Beinecke,  Robert  B.  Nooney,  Thomas  Fletcher, 
T.  C.  Eastman,  W,  Simonson. 

Grocers. — T.  M.  McCarthy,  C.  Burkhalter,  Joseph  Park,  G  L.  Acker,  John  Duncan,  Francis  H.  Leggett, 
H.  K.  Thurber,  A   T.  Albro,  J.  W.  O'Connor,  J.  E.  Armstrong,  Hugh  Cassidy,  William  J.  Merrall. 

Fish.— E.  G.  Blackford,  William  H.  Middleton,  A.  &  P.  Dorlon. 


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Printing-Presses. — R.  Hoe,  C.  B.  Cottrell. 
Flags. — John  L.  Salisbury,  Benjamin  F.  Annin. 

Glass. — Siegmund  J.  Bach,  J.  A.  Waller,  W.  Holbrook,  T.  W.  Morris. 
Harness. — Wood  Gibson,  John  Moore,  A.  R.  Van  Nest,  R.  S.  Luqueer. 
Carriages. — J.  B.  Brewster,  A.  T.  Demarest. 
Hoi. low  Ware. — Jordan  L.  Mott. 

Paper. — Jonathan  Bulkley,  F.  H.  Hard,  J.  M.  Waterbury,  Augustine  Smith. 
Pencils. — E.  Faber. 

Printers. — W.  C.  Martin,  Theodore  L.  De  Vinne,  J.  J.  Little,  Douglas  Taylor. 

Dealers  in  Historical  Engravings. — Edward  W.  Currier,  J.  C.  McRae,  Frederick  Reppel,  William 
Schaus,  H.  Wunderlich. 

Lumber. — C.  L.  Bucki,  A.  M.  Dodge,  George  L.  Schuyler,  E.  W.  McClave. 

Jewelers'  Association. — Chester  Billings,  David  C.  Dodd,  Jr.,  Thomas  G.  Brown,  Edward  Holbrook, 
Charles  E.  Bulkley,  C.  L.  Tiffany,  Theodore  B.  Starr,  D.  F.  Appleton. 

Pianos. — William  Steinway,  C.  F.  Chickering,  Frederick  Hazelton,  J.  J.  Decker,  Ernest  Knabe. 

Furniture. — T.  G.  Sellew,  F.  A.  Hall,  George  Heyman. 

China.— C.  Ahrenfeldt,  Sereno  D.  Bonfils,  F.  Haviland,  D.  B.  Bedell. 

Hatters  and  Furriers. — W.  H.  Hurlbut,  Charles  Knox,  R.  Dunlap,  D.  D.  Youmans,  Edward  Miller, 
John  Ruszits,  Benjamin  Russak,  F.  Frederick  Gunther,  C.  C.  Shayne. 

Clothing. — W.  C.  Browning,  E.  Naumburg,  Isaac  V.  Brokaw,  George  A.  Jones,  Francis  G.  Lloyd,  John 
E.  Brooks. 

Photography. — E.  Bierstadt,  E.  W.  Bogardus,  R.  A.  Anthony,  N.  Sarony. 

Silk  Manufacturers. — W.  H.  Barnard,  F.  Cheney. 

Ship-Chandlers. — W.  N.  De  Grauw,  Jr.,  George  Bell,  H.  B.  Newhall. 

Sails.— H.  F.  Hayden,  J.  M.  Sawyer. 

Shoe  Manufacturers. — E.  C.  Burt,  C.  E.  Bigelow. 

Tobacco. — W.  S.  Kimball,  F.  S.  Kinney,  George  Storm,  Pierre  Lorillard,  James  Havemeyer. 
Brewers. — P.  Ballantine,  A.  N.  Beadleston,  H.  Clausen,  T.  C.  Lyman,  Jacob  Ruppert,  George  Ehret. 
Liquors. — Colonel  Leoser,  Alexander  D.  Shaw,  James  N.  McCall,  John  S.  Beecher,  John  Osborn,  Charles 

H.  Arnold,  Oswald  Jackson,  Frederick  De  Bary,  George  S.  Nicholas,  E.  A.  Du  Vivier,  H.  Bohrmann,  William 
M.  Fliess,  E.  Lamontagne. 

Trades  and  Materials. — John  M.  Canda,  E.  W.  Candee,  M.  Eidlitz,  J.  S.  Gardner,  W.  Hamel,  C.  P. 
Mills,  Toshua  S.  Peck,  John  J.  Tucker,  Robert  L.  Darragh,  Alexander  Brown,  D.  H.  King,  Charles  Buck,  John 
Downey,  John  McGlensey,  James  Thomson,  John  Keating,  W.  H.  Jackson,  S.  B.  H.  Vance,  A.  V.  Pancoast,  A. 
T.  Enos,  James  Muir,  Frederick  T.  Locke,  William  Quirck,  Benedict  Fisher,  F.  Shaw,  J.  M.  Cornell,  A.  J.  Post, 

I.  W.  Fiske,  A.  E.  Conover. 

General  Society  of  Mechanics  and  Tradesmen. — Robert  Rutter,  President ;  A.  G.  Bogert,  Oliver 
Barratt,  George  A.  Jeremiah,  William  Stoneback,  John  L.  Hamilton,  J.  J.  Little,  S.  A.  Briggs,  Daniel  D. 
Wright,  Frank  E.  Conover,  Guy  Culgin,  Horace  L.  Rutter. 

Press  Club. — James  Pooton,  George  F.  Williams,  Charles  H.  Bladen,  William  N.  Penney,  J.  C.  Hennessy, 
T.  A.  Mernman,  Amos  J.  Cummings,  John  A.  Greene,  John  A.  Cockerill,  P.  J.  Hanway. 

German  Society. — Charles  Hauselt,  President;  Carl  Schurz,  Henry  Villard,  Julius  W.  Brunn,  ex-Gov- 
ernor Edward  Salomon,  William  Steinway,  Paul  Lichtenstein,  Philip  Bissinger,  Gustave  Heye,  G.  H.  Schwab, 
Theodore  Thomas,  Walter  J.  Damrosch,  Dr.  A.  Berghaus,  Frederick  W.  Holls,  Dr.  A.  Jacobi. 

Holland  Society. — Judge  Hooper  C.  Van  Vorst,  George  W.  Van  Siclen,  x\braham  Van  Santvoord, 
Judge  George  M.  Van  Hoesen,  James  A.  Roosevelt,  John  D.  Vermeule,  L.  L.  Van  Allen,  Samuel  D.  Coyken- 
dall,  George  G.  DeWitt,  Jr.,  Kiliaen  Van  Rensselaer. 

Southern  Society  of  New  York. — John  C.  Calhoun,  President ;  Virginius  Dabney,  Viee-P resident ; 
Francis  R.  Rives,  Macgrane  Coxe,  Robert  L.  Harrison. 

Grand  Army. — James  L.  Frazer,  N.  W.  Day,  John  W.  Jacobus,  John  Palmer,  George  H.  Treadwell, 
William  Johnson,  S.  E.  Saxton,  James  R.  O'Beirne,  William  A.  Copp,  William  McEntee,  J.  A.  Joel,  P.  S.  Big- 


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lin,  C.  McK.  Leoser,  William  H.  Barker,  George  W.  Brown,  John  H.  Cook,  John  A.  Reynolds,  N.  Martin 
Curtis,  Henry  A.  Barnum,  Josiah  Hatfield. 

Society  of  THE  CINCINNATI. —  Hon.  Samuel  Crocker  Cobb,  Brigadier-General  F.  Winthrop  Palfrey, 
Hon.  Nathanael  Greene,  Hon.  Henry  Edward  Turner,  Henry  Thayer  Drowne,  Francis  Barber  Ogden,  Hon. 
William  Wayne,  Richard  Dale,  Francis  Marinus  Caldwell,  Otho  Holland  Williams,  Richard  Meredith  Mc- 
Sherry,  Wilson  Cary  McHenry,  Colonel  Oswald  Tilghman,  Rev.  Charles  Cotesworth  Pinckney,  I).  I).,  Hon. 
James  Simons,  1).  E.  Huger  Smith,  Richard  Irvine  Manning,  Dr.  Herman  Burgin,  Right  Rev.  William  Stevens 
Perry,  D,  D.,  Rev.  Samuel  Moore  Shute,  I).  1).,  William  Chetwood  Spencer,  David  Provoost  Thomas,  Henry 
Kiersted  Bicker,  William  Ogden  Giles,  Major  Grant  Weidman. 

Descendants  of  Distinguished  Foreign  Officers  of  the  Re  volution. — Le  Marquis  de  Rocham- 
beau,  Le  Marquis  Du  Quesne,  Le  Comte  d'Ollone,  Sous  Lt.  Hans  Ludwig,  Count  von  Stedingk,  M.  Edmond 
de  Lafayette,  M.  Le  Vicomte  de  Noailles,  M.  Le  Comte  de  Galbert,  Brevet  Lieutenant-Colonel  Anthony 
E.  Stocker. 

Distinguished  Persons. — Right  Rev.  Thomas  A.  Starkey,  Rev.  E.  E.  Butler,  Commander  Mar  St  on  Miles, 
Hon.  Alfred  Mills,  Robert  Lenox  Banks,  Hon.  Jacob  A.  Geissenhainer,  General  W.  T.  Sherman,  General  G. 
W.  Cullum,  Colonel  F.  D.  Grant,  Alonzo  B.  Cornell,  ex-Governor  George  Hoadley,  Dorman  B.  Eaton,  Joel  B. 
Erhardt,  Chauncey  M.  Depew,  George  H.  Moore,  Andrew  Carnegie,  Augustus  N.  Weller,  George  N.  Gardner, 
Alexander  Hamilton,  P.  Lorillard,  General  Schuyler  Hamilton,  Dr.  Lyman  Abbott,  A.  A.  Low,  Grover  Cleve- 
land, Hon.  Thomas  Francis  Bayard,  Hon.  Charles  S.  Fairchild,  Hon.  William  C.  Endicott,  Hon.  Don  M. 
Dickinson,  Hon.  Augustus  H.  Garland,  Hon.  William  C.  Whitney,  Hon.  William  F.  Vilas,  Hon.  George  L. 
Rives,  James  A.  Dumont,  E.  B.  Youmans,  General  John  C.  Fremont,  General  Lew.  Wallace,  Preston  Red- 
mond, J.  Lawrence  Boggs,  H.  L.  Pierson,  Colonel  Thomas  Stokes,  William  Kelby,  General  George  Crook. 

Army  Officers. — Major-General  Schofield,  Major-General  O.  O.  Howard,  Brevet  Brigadier-General 
Cyrus  B.  Comstock,  Brevet  Brigadier-General  Charles  H.  Tompkins,  Brevet  Brigadier-General  Thomas  L. 
Crittenden,  Brevet  Brigadier-General  William  W.  Burns,  Brevet  Brigadier-General  William  D.  Whipple, 
Colonel  Charles  Sutherland,  Colonel  Robert  P.  Hughes,  Lieutenant-Colonel  George  L.  Gillespie,  Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel Herbert  P.  Curtis,  Brevet  Lieutenant-Colonel  William  B.  Beck,  Major  Wallace  F.  Randolph. 

Navy  Officers. — Commodore  F.  M.  Ramsay,  Captain  J.  N.  Miller,  Captain  W.  A.  Kirkland,  Commander 
W.  H.  Whiting,  Commander  Charles  O'Neil,  Commander  F.  M.  Green,  Lieutenant-Commander  W.  B.  New- 
man, Lieutenant-Commander  A.  B.  H.  Lillie,  Medical  Directors  A.  L.  Gihon  and  D.  Bloodgood,  Surgeon 
E.  Kershner. 

Foreign  Consuls  (residing  in  New  York). — Argentine  Republic,  Carlos  Carranza,  C.  G. ;  Adolph  G. 
Calvo,  C. ;  Felix  L.  de  Castro,  V.  C. — Austria-Hungary,  Theodore  A.  Havemeyer,  C.  G. ;  Anton  von  Palitschek, 
C. — Belgium,  Jules  Reuleaux,  C.  G. ;  Charles  Mali,  C. — -Bolivia,  Melchor  Obarrio,  C.  G. — Brazil,  Salvador  de 
Mendonca,  C.  G. ;  G.  H.  Gossler,  V.  C. — Chili,  Federico  A.  Beelan,  C.  G. ;  Justo  R.  de  la  Espriella,  C. — 
China,  Yee  shaw  How,  C. ;  Lew  Yuk  Lin,  V.  C. — Colombia,  Climaco  Calderon,  C.  G. — Costa  Rica,  Jose  M. 
Munoz,  C.  G. ;  Juan  M.  Ceballos,  V.  C. — Denmark,  Henri  M.  Braem,  C. ;  Thomas  Schmidt,  V.  C. — Dominican 
Republic,  Carlos  Julien,  C. — Ecuador,  Domingo  L.  Ruiz,  C.  G. — France,  Maurice  Truy,  C.  ;  Alexandre  Dausse- 
ing,  V.  C. — German  Empire,  August  Feigel,  C.  G. ;  C.  B.  Marheinecke,  C. ;  C.  Ferrie,  V.  C. — Great  Britain, 
William  Lane  Booker,  C.  G.  ;  William  R.  Hoare,  C. ;  Gilbert  Fraser,  ist  V.  C. ;  Horace  D.  Nugent,  2d  V.  C. 
— Greece,  Demetrius  N.  Botassi,  C.  G. — Guatemala,  Jacob  Baiz,  C.  G. — Hawaiian  Islands,  Elisha  H.  Allen, 
C.  G. — Hayti,  Ebenezer  1).  Bassett,  C.  G.  ;  Cuthbert  Singleton,  V.  C. — Honduras,  Jacob  Baiz,  C.  G. ;  E.  Grant 
Marsh,  C. ;  Francis  Spies,  V.  C. — Italy,  I.  P.  Riva,  C.  G. ;  Attilio  Monaco,  ist  V.  C. ;  Girolamo  Marazzi,  2d 
V.  C. — Japan,  Saburo  Fujii,  C. — Korea,  Everett  Frazar,  C.  G. — Liberia,  Joseph  W.  Yates,  C. — Mexico,  Juan  N. 
Navarro,  C.  G. ;  Ramon  Y.  Williams,  Chancellor. — Monaco,  Alexandre  Dausseing,  C. — Netherlands,  John  R. 
Planten,  C.  G. ;  William  M.  B.  Gravenhorst,  V.  C. — Nicaragua,  Alexander  I.  Cotheal,  C.  G. ;  Charles  R.  Flint, 
C. — Norway,  Christian  Bors,  C.  ;  Christopher  Ravn,  V.  C— Orange  Free  State,  Charles  D.  Pierce,  C. —  Peru, 
Elias  Latore,  C.  G.  ;  F.  Perez  de  Valasco,  C. — Portugal,  Manuel  N.  B.  F.  d'Almeirim,  C.  G.  ;  Gustav 
Anisinck,  C.  ;  Adelino  A.  Ferreira,  Chancellor. — Russia,  Roman  Rosen,  C.  G.  ;  Christian  G.  Petersen,  V.  C. — 
Salvador,  J.  A.  Perez  Bonalde,  C.  G.  ;  Marino  Pomares,  C.  ;  S.  Perez  Triana,  V.  C. — Siam,  Isaac  T.  Smith, 
C.  G. — Spain,  Miguel  Suarez  Guanes,  C.  G.  ;  Manuel  de  la  Cueva,  V.  C. — Sweden,  Christian  Bors,  C.  ; 


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Christopher  Ravn,  V.  C. — Switzerland,  Jacob  Bertschmann,  C. ;  J.  Eugene  Robert,  V.  C. — Turkey,  Xenophon 
Baltazzi,  C.  G. — Uruguay,  Enrique  M.  Estrazulas,  C.  G. — Venezuela,  Pedro  V.  Mijares,  C.  G. 


The  following  official  communications  are  added,  as  properly  belonging  to  the  work  of 
the  Committee  on  States : 

1. 

Committees  on  the  Centennial  Celebration,  April  30,  1889,  of  the  Inauguration 
of  George  Washington  as  President  of  the  United  States. 

HAMILTON  FISH,  President,  ELBRIDGE  T.  GERRY,  Chairman  Executive  Committee, 

HUGH  J.  GRANT,  Chairman,  CLARENCE  W.  BOWEN,  Secretary. 

Committee  No.  2. — States. 

William  G.  Hamilton,     Jacob  A.  Cantor,            Henry  W.  LeRoy,  J.  Tallmadge  Van  Rens- 

Chairman,                      James  C.  Carter,            John  B.  Pine,  selaer, 

E.  Ellery  Anderson,       Floyd  Clarkson,             Theodore  Roosevelt,  James  M.  Montgomery, 

Samuel  Borrowe,             James  W.  Husted,            John  Schuyler,  Secretary. 

Office  of  the  Committee,  280  Broadway,  New  York,  April  10,  iSSg. 
Reception  at  the  Equitable  Building,  in  the  Lawyers'  Club,  April  29,  1889,  at  2  P.  M. 
Guests  will  please  observe  the  following  directions : 

1.  Have  your  buff  card  of  invitation  with  you,  and  keep  it  in  sight  and  retain  it. 

2.  Guests,  other  than  those  of  the  official  party,  will  enter  the  Equitable  Building  by  the  Cedar  Street 
or  Nassau  Street  entrance,  and  will  ascend  to  the  main  office  of  the  Equitable  Company,  either  by  the  grand 
staircase  or  by  elevators  opposite  the  Cedar  Street  entrance. 

3.  They  will  please  check  their  coats  and  hats  in  the  reception-rooms  over  the  Cedar  Street  annex,  receiv- 
ing a  red  check. 

4.  The  guests  will  remain  on  this  floor  until  the  official  party  shall  have  ascended  to  the  club-room,  and, 
when  notified  that  the  reception  is  in  readiness,  they,  with  the  buff  cards  of  admission  in  sight,  will  take  the 
Pine  Street  elevators  in  the  main  hall  and  ascend  to  the  club-room,  where  they  will  show  their  tickets  at  the 
door,  retaining  them. 

Order  of  Presentation. — The  President  and  Vice-President  of  the  United  States,  with  his  Cabinet,  and 
the  Governors  of  States,  and  his  Excellency  David  B.  Hill,  Governor  of  the  State  of  New  York,  Hon.  Hugh 
J.  Grant,  Mayor  of  the  City  of  New  York,  and  Hon.  Hamilton  Fish,  President,  will  receive  the  guests,  who 
will  pass,  two  by  two,  and  bow  to  the  President  and  party  without  shaking  hands  (as  was  the  custom  at  the 
reception  of  Washington  in  1789). 

After  making  their  compliments  the  guests  will  proceed  through  the  library  to  the  hall,  where  ushers  will 
conduct  them  to  the  private  entrance  of  the  dining-room,  where  the  coupon  on  their  ticket  will  be  taken  up. 

Official  Party. — The  gentlemen  forming  the  official  party  will  enter  the  main  entrance  on  Broadway, 
in  order  of  march,  and  check  coats  and  hats  in  coat-room  on  north  side  of  main  hall,  receiving  a  blue  check, 
and  will  ascend  by  elevators  to  the  club-rooms.  William  G.  Hamilton, 

Chairman  Committee  on  States. 

II. 

Report  of  Colonel  Floyd  Clarkson. 

39  Broadway,  New  York,  May  6,  iS8g. 

Hon.  William  G.  Hamilton,  Chairman  Committee  on  States  : 

Dear  Sir  :  In  compliance  with  your  request,  I  have  the  honor  to  report  that,  as  marshal  of  the  Presi- 
dent's escort  on  April  29,  1889,  I  personally  directed  the  movement  of  the  troops  and  societies  under  my  com- 
33 


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mand  OB  that  day,  and,  through  the  promptness  of  the  several  commanders  in  executing  my  orders,  I  was 
enabled  to  make  -every  movement  in  accordance  with  the  time  prescribed  by  your  committee.  Inclosed  you 
will  find  Special  Orders  No.  i  from  my  headquarters,  which,  with  the  exception  of  the  dismissal  of  the  entire 
escort  at  the  City  Hall,  required  no  alteration  to  make  it  serve  as  a  report  of  the  organization  comprising  my 
command  and  their  movement  on  that  day.  After  the  conclusion  of  the  reception  to  the  President  of  the 
United  States  at  the  City  Hall,  I  dismissed  a  portion  of  the  escort,  viz.,  the  three  companies  of  the  Fifth 
U.  S.  Artillery,  under  Major  McCrea,  and  retained  the  Uniformed  Battalion  of  the  Veterans,  Seventh  Regi- 
ment, N.  G.  S.  N.  Y.,  and  the  uniformed  Battalion  National  Guard  Veterans,  commanded  respectively  by 
Generals  Tremain  and  Gates,  and  with  the  First  Troop  Ohio  Cavalry,  Captain  Garretson  commanding,  in 
advance,  and  the  First  New  York  Hussars,  Captain  Charles  F.  Roe,  I  escorted  the  President  to  the  New  York 
city  residence  of  Vice-President  Morton,  afterward  dismissing  the  troops  at  Fifth  Avenue  and  Twenty- 
seventh  Street. 

Early  in  the  day  I  dispatched  my  adjutant-general  to  the  Equitable  Building  to  post  a  detachment  of  one 
hundred  marines  under  Captain  Meeker,  which,  through  your  committee,  had  been  ordered  from  the  Navy- 
Yard  by  direction  of  the  Secretary  of  the  Navy  ;  consequently  I  am  able  to  report  that  at  no  time,  from  the 
landing  of  the  President  at  the  foot  of  Wall  Street  to  his  entering  the  Vice-President's  mansion,  was  he  for  a 
moment  unguarded  by  his  escort. 

For  the  successful  performance  of  the  duties  devolving  upon  my  command  on  this  memorable  day  much 
can  be  attributed  to  the  harmony  and  promptitude  that  prevailed  throughout,  and  I  feel  called  upon  to  ex- 
press to  your  committee  my  indebtedness  to  the  officers  mentioned  in  Special  Orders  No.  r,  and  to  the  officers 
and  members  of  their  respective  commands;  also  to  Captain  Meeker,  of  the  Marine  Corps.  I  was  greatly 
assisted  by  my  personal  staff,  composed  of  the  following  officers:  Adjutant-General  Major  L.  Curtis  Brackett, 
Aide-de-Camp  General  E.  S.  Greeley,  Major  George  M.  Van  Hoesen,  Captain  James  D.  Bell,  Ensign  Aaron 
Vanderbilt,  Captain  J.  H.  De  Castro,  and  Captain  O.  W.  Leonard. 

I  would  also  acknowledge  the  hearty  co-operation  I  at  all  times  received  from  your  honorable  commit- 
tee, of  which  I  have  the  honor  to  be  a  member. 

With  assurance  of  esteem,  believe  me,  dear  sir,  ever  yours  most  truly, 

Floyd  Clarkson,  Brcvct-Coloncl  U.  S.  Volunteers,  Marshal  President's  Eseort. 

Headquarters  of  Marshal,  President's  Escort  for  April  29,  1889.  Washington 

Centennial  Celebration. 

Special  Orders  No.  i.  39  Broadway,  New  York  City,  April  s>j,  iSSg. 

I.  In  pursuance  of  the  programme  arranged  by  the  Committee  on  States  for  the  reception  and  escort 
of  the  President  of  the  United  States,  on  Monday,  the  29th  inst.,  the  following  is  announced  as  the 
order  of  formation  and  route  of  march  for  the  troops  and  the  several  organizations  forming  the  escort 
to  the  President  on  that  day. 

II.  The  formation,  at  the  foot  of  Wall  Street,  will  be  made  promptly  at  12  m.,  and  in  the  following  order: 
Major  Tully  McCrea,  commanding  batteries  "  A, ""  C,"  and  "  I,,"  Fifth  Regiment  U.  S.  Artillery,  with 

the  band  of  that  regiment,  will  form  his  command  in  line  on  the  south  side  of  Wall  Street,  with  his 
right  resting  at  the  southeast  corner  of  Wall  and  South  Streets. 

Colonel  William  C.  Church,  commanding  a  representation  from  the  New  York  Commandery  of  the 
Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion,  United  States,  will  move  his  command  into  line  on  the  south  side 
of  Wall  Street,  with  his  right  resting  within  two  paces  of  the  left  of  Major  McCrea's  command.  Owing 
to  the  limited  space  between  South  Street  and  the  Merchants'  Arch  at  Water  Street,  it  will  be  necessary 
for  Colonel  Church  to  form  his  command  in  two  ranks. 

Commanders  of  Posts  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic  in  the  Counties  of  New  York  and  Kings 
(in  formation  of  companies,  the  first  under  command  of  Colonel  W.  P.  Walton,  the  second  under  command 
of  Captain  H.  W.  Knight),  will  be  formed  in  two  ranks  under  the  direction  of  Colonel  Walton.  Their 
position  in  line  at  the  foot  of  Wall  Street  will  be  on  the  south  side  of  the  street,  with  their  right  resting 
within  two  paces  of  the  left  of  Colonel  Church's  command. 


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General  Henry  E.  Tremain,  commanding  the  Uniformed  Battalion  of  Veterans  Seventh  Regiment, 
N.  G.  S.  N.  Y.,  with  Cappa's  Seventh  Regiment  Band,  will  form  his  battalion  in  line  on  the  south  side 
of  Wall  Street,  with  his  right  resting  within  two  paces  of  the  left  of  Colonel  Walton's  command. 

General  Theodore  B.  Gates,  commanding  Uniformed  Battalion  of  National  Guard  Veterans  (Fifth, 
Ninth,  Eleventh,  Thirteenth,  Twenty-second,  Twenty-third,  Sixty-ninth,  and  Seventy-first  Regiments),  with 
Gilmore's  Twenty-second  Regiment  Band,  will  form  his  battalion  on  the  north  side  of  Wall  Street,  with 
his  right  resting  on  the  northeast  corner  of  Wall  and  Water  Streets. 

Major  John  J.  Riker,  commanding  the  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution,  with  the  Band  of  the 
General  Service,  U.  S.  Army,  will  form  his  line  on  the  north  side  of  Wall  Street,  with  his  right  resting 
within  two  paces  of  the  left  of  General  Gates's  command.  Should  the  distance  between  the  left  of 
General  Gates's  battalion  and  South  Street  prove  insufficient  for  proper  alignment,  Major  Riker  will 
extend  his  line  at  right  angle,  north,  on  the  west  side  of  South  Street. 

After  his  reception  at  the  pier,  the  President  will  be  escorted  by  the  General  Committee,  under  the 
direction  of  the  Marshal,  to  a  point  opposite  the  center  of  Major  McCrea's  command,  where  he  will 
receive  the  salute  of  the  escort.  The  command  for  this  salute  will  be  given  by  Major  McCrea,  and  will 
be  executed  by  the  entire  escort. 

After  the  salute  the  Marshal  will  direct  that  portion  of  the  escort  on  the  south  side  of  Wall  Street 
to  take  up  the  line  of  march  by  breaking  into  column  of  companies  (twelve  files  front)  by  breaking 
from  the  right  to  march  to  the  left,  commencing  on  the  right  with  Major  McCrea's  command. 

As  soon  as  the  left  of  General  Tremain's  battalion  has  passed  Water  Street,  that  portion  of  the 
escort  on  the  north  side  of  Wall  Street  (the  commands  of  General  Gates  and  Major  Riker)  will  move 
forward  in  column  of  companies  (twelve  files  front)  by  wheeling  to  the  right. 

The  line  of  march  will  extend  to  the  Equitable  Building,  via  Wall  Street  and  Broadway,  and  thence 
to  the  City  Hall  via  Broadway. 

III.  When  the  head  of  the  column  arrives  at  the  Equitable  Building,  Major  McCrea  will  remove  his 
command  into  the  grand  court  of  the  building,  taking  position  therein,  his  right  resting  at  the  north- 
west corner,  and  his  line  extending  east. 

Colonel  Church  will  follow  with  his  command,  taking  position  on  the  south  side  of  the  court,  his 
right  resting  at  the  barricade  and  his  line  extending  west. 

Colonel  Walton  will  enter  the  building  with  his  command  and  move  to  a  position  in  line  on  the 
south  side  of  the  court,  with  his  left  resting  at  the  southwest  corner. 

General  Tremain  will  move  a  portion  of  his  command  into  line  north  of  Cedar  Street,  facing  south  ; 
the  balance  of  his  command  to  occupy  a  position  in  line  on  the  west  side  of  Broadway,  facing 
east. 

General  Gates  will  conform  to  the  movement  of  the  Battalion  of  Veterans  of  the  Seventh  Regiment 
in  so  much  as  relates  to  forming  the  line  on  the  west  side  of  Broadway,  facing  east. 

Major  Riker's  command  will  move  into  position  on  the  east  side  of  Broadway,  and  on  both  sides  of 
the  main  entrance  to  the  Equitable  Building. 

Commanding  officers  will  order  their  respective  commands  when  in  line  opposite,  or  within  the 
Equitable  Building,  to  salute  the  President  when  he  approaches  their  respective  flanks. 

IV.  In  breaking  into  column  to  escort  the  President  from  the  Equitable  Building  to  the  City  Hall, 
Major  McCrea's  command  will  have  the  right  of  the  column,  and  will  be  followed  by  the  Commanders 
of  Posts  G.  A.  R.,  under  Colonel  Walton. 

The  Battalion  of  Veterans  of  the  Seventh  Regiment  N.  G.  S.  N.  Y.,  General  Tremain  commanding, 
will  be  next  in  column,  followed  by  the  carriage  conveying  the  President  of  the  United  States. 

General  Gates's  command  will  have  the  left  of  the  column  in  the  march  from  the  Equitable  Building 
to  the  City  Hall. 

After  passing  the  front  of  the  City  Hall,  Major  McCrea  will  move  his  command  into  line,  forming  a 
right  angle,  facing  west  and  north. 

The  Commanders  of  Posts,  G.  A.  R.,  under  the  command  of  Colonel  Walton,  will  from  the  Equitable 
Building  form  the  special  guard  of  the  President,  forming  on  either  side  of  his  carriage,  and,  upon 


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reaching  the  City  Hall,  leave  the  column  and  at  once  proceed  to  the  Governor's  Room  to  perform  the 
duty  designated  by  the  Committee  on  States. 

General  T remain's  command  will  take  position  in  front  of  the  City  Hall,  facing  north,  with  his  right 
resting  within  two  paces  of  Major  McCrea's  left. 

General  Gates  will  move  his  battalion  into  line  with  his  right  resting  within  two  paces  of  the  left  of 
General  Tremain's  command.  The  left  wing  of  General  Gates's  battalion  will  form  in  line  at  right 
angle  to  his  right,  facing  east. 

The  command  will  be  given  by  Major  McCrea  for  the  entire  escort  to  salute  the  President  as  he  is 
about  to  leave  his  carriage.  After  the  Marshal  returns  from  escorting  the  President  to  the  Governor's 
Room,  he  will  dismiss  the  escort. 

By  command  of 

Colonel  Floyd  Clarkson,  Marslial : 

L.  Curtis  Brackett,  Major  and  Adjutant-General. 

III. 

Headquarters  Commandery  of  the  State  of  New  York,  202  Broadway. 

New  York,  June  j,  iSgo. 

Dear  Sir  :  In  reply  to  your  favor  of  the  25th  ultimo,  I  beg  to  inclose  list  of  names  of  Companions  of 
this  Order  who  acted  as  escort  to  the  President  of  the  United  States  from  the  foot  of  Wall  Street  to  the 
Equitable  Building  on  April  29,  1889  (Centennial  Day). 

I  also  send  an  account  of  the  proceedings  of  this  Commandery  during  the  three  days  of  the  Centennial 
celebration,  drawn  by  General  Charles  A.  Carleton,  the  chairman  of  the  committee  having  the  matter 
in  charge.    Very  respectfully,  George  De  F.  Barton,  Recorder. 

"  To  William  G.  Hamilton,  Esq.,  Chairman  of  Committee  on  States,  105  East  Twenty-first  Street,  City. 

"  Mindful  of  the  importance  of  observing  the  Centennial  in  a  social  way,  this  important  body  of  military 
and  naval  heroes  of  the  War  of  the  Republic,  in  accordance  with  a  vote  of  the  Commandery  of  the  State  of 
New  York,  secured  rooms  located  at  Clark's  Restaurant,  No.  22  West  Twenty-third  Street  as  a  rendezvous 
for  their  own  members,  and  for  the  reception  and  entertainment  of  visiting  Companions  of  the  Order.  These 
rooms  were  appropriately  decorated,  and  over  the  door  at  the  main  entrance  on  the  street  was  displayed  in 
colors  and  draped  with  national  flags  the  legend — 

"'Loyal  Legion,  Washington  Centennial,  1889.' 

"  The  rooms  were  kept  open  constantly  from  10  a.  m.  to  midnight  on  each  day  of  the  celebration  (April 
29th  and  30th,  and  May  ist). 

"Tables  with  refreshments  were  kept  constantly  spread,  and  the  frequent  click  of  glasses  testified  to  the 
good  cheer  provided. 

"  The  military  character  of  the  occasion  was  maintained  by  a  guard  from  the  United  States  troops  sta- 
tioned in  the  city,  kept  constantly  on  duty  at  the  main  entrance  with  side-arms. 

"As  a  memento  of  the  occasion,  a  register  was  provided  in  which  all  visitors  recorded  their  names;  and 
the  singing  of  army  songs,  with  instrumental  accompaniment,  and  the  recital  of  campaign  experiences,  re- 
newed old  associations  and  memories  of  the  war,  and  testified  to  the  cordial  good  fellowship  enjoyed  by  all, 
as  the  representatives  of  visitors  extended  from  Maine  to  California,  and  the  large  number  present  included 
many  of  the  most  prominent  members  of  the  order. 

"  The  committee  in  charge  consisted  of  the  following-named  Companions  of  the  New  York  Commandery : 
Brevet  Brigadier-General  Charles  A.  Carleton,  U.  S.  V.,  Chairman  ;  Captain  B.  H.  Huttman,  U.  S.  V.,  Secre- 
tary ;  Brevet  Major  Charles  F.  Ulrich,  U.  S.  V.,  Medical  Director;  Delavan  Bloodgood,  U.  S.  N. ;  Captain 
Arthur  Morris,  U.  S.  A. ;  Brevet  Lieutenant-Colonel  Charles  N.  Swift,  U.  S.  V. ;  Brigadier-General  Nicholas 
W.  Day,  U.  S.  V.;  Acting  Third  Assistant  Engineer  Thomas  H.  Barrett,  late  U.  S.  N. ;  Lieutenant-Colonel 
Richard  F.  O'Beirne,  U.  S.  A.;  Major  J.  Langdon  Ward,  U.  S.  V.;  Acting  Assistant  Surgeon  Titus  M.  Coan, 


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253 


U.  S.  N. ;  Brevet  Captain  James  C.  Cooley,  late  U.  S.  A. ;  Brevet  Major  Thomas  B.  Odell,  U.  S.  V. ;  Brevet 
Colonel  Matthias  S.  Euen,  U.S.  V.;  Captain  Orville  W.  Leonard,  U.  S.  V.;  Captain  James  B.  Horner,  U.  S.  V.; 
Commander  Charles  H.  Rockwell,  U.  S.  N. ;  Acting  Volunteer  Lieutenant  Henry  A.  Classford,  late  U.  S.  N. 

"Brevet  Brigadier-General  Charles  A.  Carleton,  Chairman." 

Seventh  Regiment  Veterans. 

The  battalion  with  its  invited  guests,  the  War  Veterans,  took  lunch  at  Bailey's  and  Cable's,  at  the  expense 
of  the  uniformed  battalion. 

After  the  dismissal  at  Twenty-seventh  Street,  General  Tremain  led  the  battalion  and  invited  guests  into 
the  large  supper-room  of  the  Hotel  Brunswick,  where  the  commissary  had  provided  a  bounteous  lunch. 
Speeches  were  made  by  General  Gates,  of 
the  Thirteenth  Veterans ;  General  Robert 
Nugent,  of  the  Seventh  War  Veterans;  Col- 
onel Floyd  Clarkson  ;  Colonel  W.  G.  Ward, 
Twelfth  Veterans  ;  Colonel  Locke  W.  Win- 
chester, of  the  Seventh  Veterans  ;  and  Gen- 
eral Tremain. 

The  parade  from  the  foot  of  Wall  Street 
to  its  close  was  a  continuous  ovation,  thus 
placing  the  Veterans  of  the  Seventh,  and  all 
who  participated  as  the  escort  to  the  Presi- 
dent on  his  reception,  in  a  very  enviable 
place  in  its  history. 

The  Marshal,  Colonel  Floyd  Clarkson, 
one  of  our  Veterans,  may  justly  feel  proud 
of  his  command  on  Monday,  April  29,  1889, 
as  we  feel  proud  of  him,  who  so  successfully 
organized  this  now  historic  escort,  and  saw 
all  his  orders  executed.    Respectfully  yours, 

George  P.  Edgar, 

Brevet  Major  and  Military  Secretary. 

Subscribers  to  seven  hundred  dollars  for  Arch  erected  by  the  "Business  Men"  of  lower 
Wall  Street  at  Wall  and  Pearl  Streets  in  commemoration  of  the  inauguration  of  George 
Washington,  as  President  of  the  United  States  : 

Orson  Adams,  Arnold  &  Co.,  William  A.  Avis  &  Co.,  Baiz  &  Wakeman,  H.  W.  Banks  &  Co.,  Thomas  T. 
Barr,  Boulton,  Bliss  &  Dallet,  James  A.  Benedict  &  Co.,  Buchanan  &:  Lyall,  Carter,  Macy  &  Co.,  J.  M.  Cebellos 
&  Co.,  Champion  &  Standinger,  Dearborn  &  Co.,  George  Delano's  Sons,  Dick  &  Meyer  Sugar-Refining  Co., 
J.  W.  Doane  &  Co.,  Elliott  F.  Driggs,  Elmenhorst  &  Co.,  George  F.  Gilman,  Volney  Green  &  Son,  E.  H.  Hor- 
ner, Hard  &  Rand,  B.  H.  Howell,  Son  &:  Co.,  Havemeyer  &  Elder  Sugar-Refining  Co.,  Havemeyer  Sugar-Re- 
fining Co.,  D.  H.  Houghtaling  &  Co.,  Huntington  &  Dorn,  Gustave  A.  Jahn  &  Co.,  Kirby  &  Halsted,  Richard 
Kolb,  E.  J.  Larrabee  &  Co.,  Robert  P.  McBride,  McDougall  &  Sprague,  L.  W.  Minford  &  Co.,  F.  O.  Matthie- 
sen  &  Wiecher's  Sugar-Refining  Co.,  George  H.  Moller,  R.  M.  Montgomery  &  Co.,  D.  W.  Morrison,  John 
O'Donohue  Sons,  Eugene  O'Sullivan  &  Co.,  J.  L.  Phipps  &  Co.,  Sanger  &  Wells,  Henry  Sheldon  &  Co.,  Short- 
land  Brothers  &  Co.,  Smith  &  Schipper,  Steinwender,  Stoffregen  &  Co.,  F.  T.  Sherman,  Daniel  Talmage  Sons, 
James  H.  Taylor  &  Co.,  Taylor  &  Taube,  J.  Monroe  Taylor,  The  Brooklyn  Sugar- Refining  Co.,  Thomsen  &  Co., 
William  Wall's  Sons,  James  E.  Ward  &  Co.,  L.  Waterbury  &  Co.,  Waterbury  &  Force,  W.  D.  Wheelwright  &  Co. 


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v. 

1 789-1889. 

Centennial  Celebration,  April  29,  1889,  at  the  Lawyers'  Club,  Equitable  Building. 
The  Committee  on  States  request  the  pleasure  of  President  Harrison's  company  to  a  collation  on 
Monday,  April  29th,  in  the  Directors'  Banquet  Hall,  at  2.30  i>.  m.    After  the  reception,  an  aide  will  conduct 
you  to  the  Hall  on  presentation  of  this  invitation. 

280  Broadway,  New  York.  William  G.  Hamilton,  Chairman  Committee  on  States. 

R.  S.  V.  P. 

Executive  Mansion,  Washington,  D.  C,  April  23,  /SSg. 

Dear  Sir:  The  President  directs  me  to  acknowledge  the  receipt  of  an  invitation  to  a  collation  at  the 
Lawyers'  Club,  on  Monday,  the  29th  inst.,  and  to  express  his  thanks  for  the  courtesy. 

He  desires  me  to  say  that  during  his  stay  in  New  York  his  time  will  be  at  the  disposal  of  the  Committees 
on  the  Centennial  Celebration.    Very  truly  yours, 

E.  \V.  Halford,  Private  Secretary. 

William  G.  Hamilton,  Esq.,  280  Broadway,  New  York. 


THE  CITY  HALL,  NEW  YORK,  APRIL  29,  1889. 
(From  a  photograph  by  the  "  Brooklyn  Academy  of  Photography.") 


Executive  Mansion,  Washington,  D.  C,  April  23,  r88g. 
Dear  Sir  :  The  President  directs  me  to  acknowledge  the  receipt  of  your  letter  of  the  24th,  conveying  a 
request  from  the  Uniformed  Veterans  of  the  City  and  County  of  New  York  and  Kings  to  act  as  an  escort 
from  the  reception  at  the  City  Hall  on  the  29th  inst.,  etc.,  and  to  express  through  you  to  the  Veterans  his  high 
appreciation  of  the  tender  of  their  services. 

During  the  President's  stay  in  your  city  on  the  occasion  of  the  Centennial  Celebration  his  time  and  move- 
ments will  be  controlled  entirely  by  the  several  committees  in  charge  of  the  celebration,  and  he  feels  that  the 
above  request  is  a  matter  which  should  be  determined  by  the  committees.    Very  respectfully  yours, 

E.  W.  Halford,  Private  Secretary. 

W.  G.  Hamilton,  Esq.,  Chairman  Committee  on  States,  New  York. 


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VI. 

Report  of  Chairman  of  Committee  on  States. 

New  York,  April  29,  1890. 

Elbridge  T.  Gerry,  Esq.,  Chairman  Executive  Committee. 

Dear  Sir  :  I  have  the  honor  of  sending  herewith  the  report  of  the  sub-Committee  on  States,  giving  a 
detailed  report  of  the  portion  of  the  Centennial  Celebration  of  April  last  which  came  under  its  direction. 

I  beg  to  express  to  you  the  thanks  of  all  the  members  of  this  committee  for  the  zeal  with  which  you 
seconded  their  wishes,  and  the  willing  support  you  always  gave  them.  The  committee  wish  to  express  their 
thanks  to  his  Honor  Mayor  Hewitt  for  his  work  in  the  inception  of  the  celebration  in  forming  the  committees 
and  procuring  the  requisite  co-operation  of  the  City  Government;  to  the  Governor  and  Legislature  of  the 
State  of  New  York;  his  Honor  Mayor  Grant;  the  Board  of  Aldermen  and  Officers  of  the  City  Government; 
the  General  Government  at  Washington  ;  the  Governors  of  the  States  and  Territories  of  the  United  States  by 
their  presence  and  by  their  commissioners  and  troops;  to  Erastus  YViman,  Esq.,  for  furnishing  his  steamer;  to 
the  Ward  Line  for  the  use  and  decoration  of  its  pier ;  to  the  business  men  of  lower  Wall  Street  for  the  erec- 
tion of  the  Arch;  to  the  Equitable  Life  Association  and  to  the  Lawyers'  Club  for  the  free  use  of  their  build- 
ing; to  the  Rector,  Wardens,  and  Vestry  of  Trinity  Parish;  to  the  Loyal  Legion;  the  Commanders  of  the 


WILLIAM  MURRAY,  THOMAS  BYRNES, 

Superintendent  of  Police  in  New  York  in  1889.  Chief  Inspector  of  Police  in  New  York  in  1889. 


Veteran  Posts  of  Counties  of  New  York  and  Kings;  to  the  Veterans  of  the  Seventh  National  Guard,  State  of 
New  York,  and  the  Uniformed  Battalion  National  Guard  Veterans ;  First  Troop  Ohio  Cavalry;  to  the  First 
New  York  Hussars  ;  to  the  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution ;  the  Marine  Society  of  New  York,  and 
the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati ;  to  Lieutenant-Colonel  Floyd  Clarkson  and  his  staff ;  to  General  Secretary 
Clarence  W.  Bowen  ;  to  Mr.  James  M.  Montgomery,  Secretary  Committee  on  States,  and  to  Mr.  Samuel  Bor- 
rowe,  for  his  special  share  in  the  entertainment  at  the  Equitable ;  to  Mr.  James  Horton  Whitehouse,  of  Messrs. 
Tiffany  &  Co. ;  to  Mr.  William  Murray,  Superintendent  of  Police  of  New  York  ;  and  to  Inspectors  Thomas 
Byrnes,  Henry  V.  Steers,  Alexander  S.  Williams,  and  Peter  Conlin,  for  their  efficient  management  of  the  police 
force  of  the  city;  to  my  aides  Brevet  Brigadier-General  J.  Fred.  Pierson,  U.  S.  V. ;  Mr.  John  Dufais,  Dr.  Stuy- 
vesant  F.  Morris,  and  Mr.  Hugh  D.  Auchincloss ;  and  to  the  commanders  and  committees  in  charge  of  steam- 
ers Wiman  and  Monmouth. 

The  Committee  on  States  will  always  bear  in  mind  the  happy  harmony  which  existed  between  yourself 
and  our  own  committee  and  the  other  committees  with  which  we  were  allied.  The  report  of  the  treasurer 
shows  the  amount  expended  by  the  Committee  on  States.    Very  sincerely  yours, 

William  Gaston  Hamilton,  Chairman. 


CHAPTER  XI. 


the  centennial  ball. 
By  William  Jay, 

Vice-Chair  man  of  the  Committee  on  Entertainment. 

The  sub-Committee  on  En- 
tertainment of  the  Commit- 
tee on  the  Centennial  Cele- 
bration of  Washington's  In- 
auguration consisted  of  Stuy- 
vesant  Fish,  Chairman  ;  Will- 
iam Waldorf  Astor,  William 
K.  Vanderbilt,  William  Jay, 
Egerton  L.  Winthrop,  Robert 
Goelet,  William  B.  Beekman, 
Stephen  H.  Olin,  William  E. 
D.  Stokes,  and  Gouverneur 
Morris,  Secretary.  This  com- 
mittee had  numerous  meet- 
ings, beginning  in  the  winter 
of  1888-9,  to  make  arrange- 
ments for  a  ball  to  be  given 
on  the  night  of  the  29th  of  April,  and  a  banquet  to  be  given  on  the  night  of  the  30th  of 
April,  1889,  to  commemorate  the  inauguration  of  George  Washington  as  President  in 
1789.  It  was  decided  to  give  both  the  ball  and  the  banquet  at  the  Metropolitan  Ope- 
ra-House ;  and,  in  order  to  provide  accommodation  for  the  large  number  of  persons  ex- 
pected to  be  present  at  the  ball,  it  was  decided  to  build  a  temporary  structure  covering 
parts  of  Thirty-ninth  Street  and  Seventh  Avenue  adjoining  the  building.  This  tempo- 
rary building  formed  a  handsome  and  convenient  supper-room. 

The  price  of  tickets  to  the  ball  was  fixed  at  ten  dollars.  Twenty-two  hundred  and  fifty- 
five  tickets  were  bought  by  the  Executive  Committee  from  the  Entertainment  Committee, 
and  were  issued  to  invited  guests,  among  whom  were  the  following : 

President  Harrison  and  Mrs.  Harrison ;  Vice-President  Levi  P.  Morton  and  Mrs.  Morton  ;  members  of 
the  Cabinet  and  the  wives  of  members  of  the  Cabinet;  ex-President  Rutherford  B.  Hayes  and  Mrs.  Hayes; 


FAN,  WITH  PORTRAIT  OF  WASHINGTON. 
Owned  a  hundred  years  ago  by  Miss  Jean  Buchanan, 
now  in  the  possession  of  her  grandniece  Mrs.  Haslett  McKim 
(Harriet  Rogers  Winthrop),  New  York. 
(Loan  Exhibition,  not  in  catalogue.) 


IT 


MRS.  ROBERT  R.  LIVINGSTON  iborn  Margaret  Beekman). 
Artist,  Gilbert  Stuart.     Owned  by  Stei-hkn  H. 
Oi  i n ,  Great  Great  Grandson,  New  York. 


JUDGE  ROBERT  R.  LIVINGSTON. 

From  a  Portrait  owned  by  Stephen  H.  Olin. 
Great  Great  Grandson,  New  York. 


MRS.  ROBERT  R.  LIVINGSTON 
From  a  Portrait  owned  by  Mrs.  Robert  B.  Liv- 
ingston,  widow  of  Great   Grandson.  Cler- 


mont. 


Ttvou-on-Hudson.  N.  Y. 

(Loan  Exhibition  No.  152.) 


JUDGE  ROBERT  R.  LIVINGSTON 

From  a  Portrait  owned  by  Mrs.  Robert  E.  Liy- 
ingston,  widi nv  op  Greai  Grandson,  " Cler- 
mont,"   TlVOLI-ON-Hl'DSON,  N.  Y. 

(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  149. i 


MRS  ROBERT  R  LIVINGSTON  (born  Margaret  Beekman). 

Artist,  Gilbert  Stuart,    Owned  by  the  Misses 

Tll.LUTsON.  PATERNAL  (iKKAT  AND  MATERNAL  GREAT 

Great  GRANDDAUGHTERS.  New  York. 


^^^^^ 


Mrs.  Lawrence  Lewis   (born  Eleanor  Parke  Custis). 
Artist.  Gilbert  Stvart.    Owned  by  E.  I'.  C. 


Lewis,  Grandson.  Hobokbn.  N.  J. 

-Loan  Exhibition    No  142.' 


MRS.  FIELDING  LEWIS,  (born  Elizabeth  Washington), 

Sister  of  Washington. 
Artist,  John  Woi.laston.    Owned  by  H.  L.  D. 
Lewi-.  Great  Grandson,  "  Audlev  "  Brrryvili.e. 
Clakk  Co..  Va. 

I  Loan  Exhibition.  No.  145.1 


COL.  FIELDING  LEWIS,  Brother-in-Law  of  Washington. 
Artist.  John  WoL-LASTON.  Owned  by  H.  L.  D. 
Lewis.  Great  Grandson,  "  Auoley"  Bkrrvville, 
Clark  Co..  Va. 

I  Loan  Exhibition.  No.  144.1 


Mrs.  Lawrence  Lewis  (born  Eleanor  Parke  Custis). 
Artist,  James  ShakpLBSS.    Owned  by  Prof.  R.  B. 
Winder,  M.  D..  D.  O.  S.,  Baltimore,  Hd. 


Portraits  of  the  Father  and  Mother  of  Chancellor  Livingston,  of  the  Sister  and 
Brother  -  in  -  Law  of  George  Washington  and  of  Nelly  Custis. 
Granddaughter  of  Martha  Washington. 


THE  CENTENNIAL  BALL. 


257 


ex-President  Grover  Cleveland  and  Mrs.  Cleveland  ;  Governor  David  B.  Hill,  of  New  York  ;  Governor  Robert 
S.  Green,  of  New  Jersey;  Governor  Oliver  Ames,  of  Massachusetts;  Governor  James  A.  Beaver,  of  Pennsyl- 
vania; Governor  Benjamin  T.  Biggs,  of  Delaware;  Governor  Morgan  G.  Bulkeley,  of  Connecticut;  Governor 
John  B.  Gordon,  of  Georgia ;  Edward  W.  Le  Compte,  Secretary  of  State,  of  Maryland  ;  Governor  John  P. 
Richardson,  of  South  Carolina;  Governor  Charles  H.  Sawyer,  of  New  Hampshire ;  Governor  Fitzhugh  Lee, 
of  Virginia;  Governor  Daniel  G.  Fowle,  of  North  Carolina;  Governor  Royal  C.  Taft,  of  Rhode  Island; 
Governor  William  P.  Dillingham,  of  Vermont ;  Governor  Simon  B.  Buckner,  of  Kentucky ;  Governor  Joseph 
B.  Foraker,  of  Ohio;  Governor  Francis  T.  Nichols,  of  Louisiana;  Governor  Robert  Lowery,  of  Mississippi; 
Governor  C.  G.  Luce,  of  Michigan  ;  Governor  Francis  P.  Fleming,  of  Florida ;  Governor  E.  Willis  Wilson,  of 
West  Virginia ;  Colonel  E.  C.  Blunt,  of  the  District  of  Columbia;  the  Lieutenant-Governors  of  the  States; 
the  Mayor  and  Aldermen  of  New  York  City;  Chief-Justice  of  the  United  States  Supreme  Court,  Melville  W. 
Fuller;  Associate  Justices  Samuel  F.  Miller,  Stephen  J.  Field,  and  Samuel  Blatchford ;  Mayor  Alfred  C. 
Chapin,  of  Brooklyn,  and  Mrs.  Chapin  ;  United  States  Senators,  members  of  the  House  of  Representatives, 
State  Senators  and  Assemblymen  ;  General  William  T.  Sherman,  General  John  M.  Schofield,  General  O.  O. 
Howard,  General  Daniel  E.  Sickles,  General  T.  M.  Vincent,  General  Daniel  Butterfield,  General  Joseph  C. 
Jackson,  General  Horatio  C.  King,  General  Joseph  B.  Carr,  General  Martin  T.  McMahon. 

The  following  ministers,  representing  foreign  countries,  were  also  invited  : 

Sir  Julian  Pauncefort,  Great  Britain;  M.Theodore  Roustan,  France;  Count  Ludwig  von  Arco  Valley,  Ger- 
many ;  Baron  Rosen,  Russia ;  Senor  Don  Emilio  de  Muruaga,  Spain  ;  Chevalier  Schmit  von  Tavera,  Austria- 
Hungary ;  M.  de  Bounder  de  Melsbroeck,  Belgium;  Senhor  Jose  A.  Ferriera  da  Costa,  Brazil;  Baron  de  Fava, 
Italy;  Mavroyeni  Bey,  Turkey ;  Seftor  Don  Emilio  C.  Varas,  Chili;  Mr.  Chang  Yen  Hoon,  China;  Senor 
Don  Matias  Romero,  Mexico  ;  Senor  Don  Vicente  G.  Quesada,  Argentine  Republic ;  Seftor  Don  Jose  Marcelino 
Hurtado.  Colombia;  Mr.  Pak  Chung  Yang,  Corea ;  Seftor  Pedro  Perez  Zeledon,  Costa  Rica;  Count  de  Spon- 
neck,  Denmark;  M.  Jean  Genadias,  Greece ;  Mr.  H.  A.  P.  Carter,  Hawaii;  Mr.  Munemitsu  Mutsu,  Japan; 
Mr.  G.  de  Weckherlin,  Netherlands;  Seftor  Don  Horacio  Guzman,  Nicaragua;  Hadji  Hassin  Ghooly  Khan, 
Persia;  Baron  d'Almeirim,  Portugal;  Mr.  Charles  Woxen,  Sweden  and  Norway;  Seftor  Don  Felix  C.  C.  Zegar- 
ra,  Peru  ;  M.  Alfred  de  Claparede,  Switzerland  ;  Seftor  Don  Carlos  Farini,  Uruguay ;  Seftor  Don  Francisco 
Antonio  Silva,  Venezuela ;  Senhor  Dom  Francisco  Lainfiesta,  Guatemala. 

In  addition  to  the  twenty-two  hundred  and  fifty-five  tickets  sold  to  the  Executive  Com- 
mittee, five  thousand  and  twenty-two  were  sold  to  individuals,  making  a  total  of  over  seven 
thousand  persons  who  attended  the  ball.  The  Entertainment  Committee  did  not  call  for  any 
portion  of  the  twenty  thousand  dollars  which  had  been  guaranteed  by  the  Plan  and  Scope 
Committee,  but  paid  all  the  expenses  for  the  ball  and  banquet  from  the  sale  of  tickets. 
A  balance  of  $1,350  dollars,  due  from  the  Executive  Committee  for  tickets  sold,  it  was 
not  necessary  to  collect;  and,  after  paying  all  expenses,  the  sum  of  $1,865.95  was  turned 
over  to  the  Treasurer  of  the  General  Committee.  These  two  sums,  in  addition  to  the 
twenty-thousand-dollar  guarantee  fund,  made  the  resources  of  the  Entertainment  Committee, 
exceed  its  obligations  by  $23,215.95. 

On  the  evening  of  the  29th  of  April  the  presidential  party  dined  with  Mr.  Stuyvesant 

Fish,  the  Chairman  of  the  Entertainment  Committee.     The  guests  were  as  follows  :  The 

President  and  Mrs.  Harrison,  the  Vice-President  and  Mrs.  Morton,  the  Governor  of  the  State 

of  New  York,  the  Lieutenant-Governor  and  Mrs.  Jones,  the  Mayor  of  the  City  of  New 

York,  Hon.  Hamilton  Fish,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Elbridge  T.  Gerry,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robert  Goelet, 
34 


258       77//:'  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Waldorf  Astor,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Jay,  Mrs.  Burke-Roche,  and 
Miss  Hamersley. 

At  about  half-past  ten  o'clock  the  President  and  Mrs.  Harrison  drove  to  the  Metropolitan 
Opcra-House.  The  President  was  received  at  the  door  by  Edmund  C.  Stanton,  Director  of 
the  Ball,  and  presented  to  the  Mayor,  and  was  escorted  by  the  Mayor  and  Governor  to  the 
box  w  hich  had  been  constructed  for  him  under  the  center  of  the  proscenium  arch.  Following 
the  President  were  the  Vice-President  leading  Mrs.  Harrison,  Lieutenant-Governor  Jones 
with  Mrs.  Morton,  and  members  of  the  Entertainment  Committee.  This  party  passed  across 
the  floor  of  the  house  between  two  lines  of  light-artillerymen  of  the  National  Guard,  under 
command  of  Major  Edmund  C.  Stanton.  The  appearance  and  bearing  of  the  troops  were 
soldierly,  and  the  effect  striking.  On  reaching  his  box  the  President  received  the  members 
of  the  various  committees  on  the  Centennial  Celebration  and  their  families,  who  were  in  turn 
presented  to  him  by  the  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Entertainment. 

Then  followed  the  presentation  of  the  ladies  and  gentlemen  who  had  been  selected  to 
take  part  in  the  opening  quadrille,  and  immediately  a  simple  quadrille  was  danced  in  an 
open  space  kept  clear  by  the  troops.    Those  taking  part  in  the  quadrille  were : 

Levi  P.  Morton,  Vice-President  of  the  United  States,  and  Mrs.  Edward  F.  Jones;  Lieutenant  Judson, 
first  aide  to  General  Harrison  and  representing  him,  and  Mrs.  William  Astor;  Admiral  Jouett,  who  rep- 
resented the  Navy,  and  Mrs.  William  Herbert,  of  Washington  ;  General  McCook  and  Mrs.  Alexander  S. 
Webb ;  General  Fitzgerald  and  Mrs.  A.  Gracie  King ;  Captain  Sampson,  U.  S.  Navy,  Commandant  at 
Annapolis,  and  Mrs.  Frederic  J.  Ue  Peyster ;  Dr.  M.  L.  Ruth,  of  the  Navy,  representing  the  Loyal  Legion, 
and  Mrs.  W.  Bayard  Cutting ;  J.  William  Beekman  and  Miss  Carola  Livingston;  Lieutenant-Governor  Jones 
and  Mrs.  L.  P.  Morton  ;  Senator  Aldrich  and  Mrs.  S.  V.  R.  Cruger ;  General  Vincent  and  Mrs.  Elbridge 
T.  Gerry ;  Commodore  Ramsay  and  Mrs.  A.  Newbold  Morris ;  Captain  Dorst  and  Mrs.  Edward  Cooper ; 
Frederic  J.  De  Peyster  and  Mrs.  Alexander  Van  Rensselaer  ;  Colonel  James  M.  Varnum  and  Mrs.  Robert 
F.  Weir;  G.  Creighton  Webb  and  Miss  Louise  Lee  Schuyler. 

This  was  followed  by  round  and  square  dancing,  in  which  all  took  part.  Music  was 
furnished  by  two  bands  stationed  on  opposite  sides  of  the  house  :  they  played  alternately 
dance  and  promenade  music. 

The  order  was  as  follows  : 


Overture, 

National  Airs, 

Lander. 

Overture, 

Rienzi, 

Wagner. 

I. 

Quadrille, 

Declaration, 

Wiegand. 

i. 

Polka, 

Rosebud, 

Dietrich. 

2. 

Waltz, 

Militaire, 

VValdteufel. 

2, 

Waltz, 

Sweet  Dream, 

Eilenberg. 

3- 

Polka, 

Hungarian, 

Lander. 

3- 

Polka, 

Camarade, 

Waldteufel. 

4- 

Landers, 

Said  Pasha, 

Stahl. 

4- 

Promenade, 

Fleurette, 

Thorn. 

5- 

Waltz, 

My  Treasure, 

Strauss. 

5. 

Waltz, 

Luna  Bella, 

Aigrette. 

6. 

Polka, 

Telegraph, 

Puerner. 

6. 

Polka, 

Pretty  Maiden, 

Aronson. 

7- 

Waltz, 

Winter  Echoes, 

Strauss. 

7- 

Waltz, 

La  Gitana, 

Buccalossi. 

8. 

Landers, 

Marquis, 

Lacome. 

8. 

Promenade, 

Polonaise, 

Weingarten 

9- 

Polka  Redowa, 

Arm-in-Arm, 

Strauss. 

9- 

Polka  Redowa, 

Alpine  Violets, 

Fahrbach. 

10. 

Waltz, 

Blooming  Youth, 

Wiegand. 

IO. 

Waltz, 

Santiago, 

Corbin. 

1 1. 

Galop, 

Sky-rockets, 

C  F.  Wernig. 

ii. 

Galop, 

Dash, 

Wiegand. 

12. 

Landers, 

Yeomen  of  the  Guard, 

Sullivan. 

12. 

Promenade, 

Cupid, 

Bopp. 

MRS  JAMES  MADISON     (born  Dorothy  Payne). 
rVRTisT,  Gilbert  Stuart.    Owned  by  Mrs.  John  Kunkei 
(born   Mary   Carvallo   Calsten).    Grand  Niece. 
Washington,  D.  C. 


MRS.  JAMES  MADISON,    (born  Dorothy  Payne). 
From  Miniature  by  J  ames  Peale,  1794. 
Owned  by  Mrs.  Richard  D.  Cctts, 
Widow  ok  Nephew.  Brookxine,  Mass. 


MRS.  JAMES  MADISON,    (born  Dorothy  Payne). 
Artist.  Rembrandt  Peale.  Owned  bv  New  York 
Historical  Society. 


MRS.  JAMES  MONROE,    iborn  Elizabeth  Kortngnt 
Miniatl'RB  bv  Sknk.  Paris,  1704-  Ovvnkd 


MRS   JAMES  MONROE,    1  born  Elizabeth  Kortnghtt. 
Artist.  Benjamin  West.  1790.    Owned  bv  Mrs.  Gorv- 
eknei'k.  Granddaughter.  Washington.  D.  C. 

1  Loan  Exnibition  No 


Chani.es  Wilmer.  Widower 
daughter,  Baltimore.  Md. 


Gre/ 


MRS  JAMES  MADISON,  iborn  Dorothy  Payne). 
Artist.  James  Shari-less.    Owned  by  Citv  (>!■ 


finilOli    fi\mi..t  w»nn>  ww      —  —  -    -  -  — 

Philadelphia  and  deposited  in  National  .Mi  - 


164j 


i 


MRS.  JOHN  VINING 

From  a  portrait  belonging  to  Mrs.  Charles 
Ridc.ki.ev)  Du  Pont.  Wilmington.  Del. 


MRS.  JOHN  BAPTIST  A  ASHE. 
Great  grandniece  of  Oliver  Cromwe 
From  Ivory  Miniature  belonging  to  Mrs 
Mary  Sheppard  Crawford,  Great  Grani 
DAi't.HTER,  Little  Rock.  Ark. 


I.  (Anns 


MRS.  THEODORE  SEDGWICK,  (born  Pamela  Dwight  I 
and  daughter  Cathanoe  M.  Sengwick. 
Artist.  Ralph  Eari.e.    Owned  by  Henry  D.  Sedgwick. 
Grandson  and  Nephew.  Stockbridge.  Mass. 


PORTRAITS   OF    WIVES   OF    MEMBERS   OF   THE    FIRST   CONGRESS    UNDER    THE  CONSTITUTION. 


THE  CENTENNIAL  BALL. 


259 


13.  Waltz, 

14.  Polka, 

15.  Waltz, 

16.  York, 


Lagoons,  Strauss. 

Fairy  Tales,  Roth. 

Confidences,  Waldteufel. 

One  Heart,  One  Mind,  Strauss. 

Dorothy,  Cellier. 

Sans  Souci,  Strauss. 

Good  Faith,  L.  Fuenkenstein. 

Now  or  Never,  Baker. 

Vienna  Women,  Strauss. 

Ticklish  Waiter,  Lander. 

Nick  of  the  Woods,  Wiegand. 

Dianelli,  Fuenkenstein. 


13.  Waltz, 

14.  Polka, 

15.  Waltz, 

16.  York, 


Angelo,  Czibulka. 

Eda,  Fuenkenstein. 

Pearl  of  Pekin,  Kerker. 

Oxford,  Pinner. 
Newburg  Centennial,  Rehm. 

Bouquet,  Dietrich. 

Said  Pasha,  Stahl. 

Holter  Polter,  Wiegand. 

Paris  Nouveau,  Wohanka. 

Tarok,  Miller. 

Carrie,  Lander. 


17.  Lanciers, 


17.  Promenade, 


18.  Polka, 

19.  Waltz, 

20.  Galop, 

21.  Waltz, 

22.  Polka, 

23.  Waltz, 

24.  Polka, 


18.  Polka, 

19.  Waltz, 

20.  Galop. 

21.  Waltz, 

22.  Polka, 

23.  Waltz, 


24  Home,  Sweet  Home. 


The  Entertainment  Committee  were  assisted  at  the  ball  by  the  following-named  Floor 
Committee : 

Edmund  C.  Stanton,  Chairman  ;  Daniel  T.  Worden,  Campbell  Steward,  G.  G.  Haven,  Jr.,  Alfred 
Wagstaff,  Walther  Luttgen,  H.  Le  Grand  Cannon,  M.  L.  Ruth,  M.  D.,  U.  S.  N.,  General  Martin  T. 
McMahon,  Henry  E.  Howland,  Henry  W.  Bibby,  William  Saloman,  John  Hone,  Jr.,  David  Milliken,  J. 
J.  Townsend,  George  H.  Bend,  Charles  DeKay,  S.  L.  Morison,  Allan  McLane  Hamilton,  Lloyd  Aspinwall, 
J.  L.  Anthony,  J.  William  Beekman,  Charles  D.  Miller,  Elliott  Roosevelt,  Auguste  Montant,  Daniel  Apple- 
ton,  J.  Bowers  Lee,  John  M.  Bowers,  Charles  S.  Stokes,  Duncan  Elliott,  Frederic  Van  Lennep,  Henry  R. 
McElligott. 

At  midnight  the  President  and  his  party  went  to  supper.  The  party  included  Mrs. 
Harrison,  the  Vice-President  and  Mrs.  Morton,  the  Governor  of  New  York,  Mrs.  J.  V.  L. 
Pruyn,  of  Albany,  the  Mayor  of  New  York  City,  Mrs.  Jones,  Stuyvesant  Fish,  and  Edmund 
C.  Stanton.  The  way  was  kept  open  across  the  dancing-floor  by  the  troops  disposed  in 
two  lines  as  before.  Supper  was  served  in  the  main  supper-room  already  mentioned ;  the 
President  and  his  party  sat  at  a  raised  table  in  full  sight  of  all  present.  The  President 
after  supper  was  escorted  back  through  the  house  to  his  carriage,  the  way  being  kept 
open  as  before  bv  the  troops.  The  Governor  and  Mayor  were  duly  escorted  back  to 
their  boxes.  The  official  personages  who  attended  the  ball  retired  as  they  saw  fit,  and 
no  formalities  were  observed  at  their  departure.  Dancing  was  continued  until  a  late 
hour. 

In  addition  to  the  boxes  erected  for  the  President,  Governor,  and  Mayor,  other  boxes  had 
been  built  on  the  stage.     The  boxes  were  occupied  by  the  following-named  persons : 

President's  Box. — President  and  Mrs.  Harrison,  Vice-President  and  Mrs.  Morton,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Russell 
Harrison,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  McKee,  Private  Secretary  Elijah  W.  Halford. 

Box  N. — Secretary  and  Mrs.  Benjamin  F.  Tracy,  Mrs.  Wilmerding,  Admiral  Porter  and  Mrs.  Porter. 
Box  P. — Senator  Hiscock  and  party. 

Box  R. — Chief-Justice  and  Mrs.  Fuller,  Justice  and  Mrs.  Blatchford,  Justice  and  Mrs.  Field. 

Boxes  W  and  X. — Secretary  of  the  Interior  Noble  and  Mrs.  Noble,  Senator  Shelby  M.  Cullom  and  Miss 
Cullom,  Senator  Alfred  H.  Colquitt  and  Mrs.  Colquitt,  Senator  John  J.  Ingalls,  Senator  Henry  L.  Dawes, 
Senator  Charles  F.  Manderson,  Senator  Wade  Hampton,  Senator  James  B.  Eustis. 


26o       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


In  other  special  boxes  were  : 

General  Anson  G.  McCook,  Secretary  United  States  Senate ;  John  B.  Clark,  Jr.,  Clerk  United  States  House 
of  Representatives  ;  Colonel  William  P.  Canaday,  Sergeant-at-Arms  of  the  United  States  Senate ;  ex-Presi- 
dent and  Mrs.  Cleveland,  Governor  Gordon,  of  Georgia,  and  Mrs.  Cordon,  Hugh  Gordon,  Miss  Caro  Lewis 
Cordon,  Samuel  Borrowe,  Colonel  Mercer,  Colonel  Harry  Jackson  and  Miss  Cornelia  Jackson,  Colonel  Crant, 
Colonel  Shakespeare,  Colonel  Seaton  Grantlands,  and  several  members  of  the  Diplomatic  Corps. 

The  holders  of  the  other  boxes  were  as  follows  : 

No.  9,  William  Astor.  No.  24,  William  Waldorf  Astor.  No.  69,  H.  H.  Anderson.  No.  5,  James  A.  Bur- 
den. No.  13,  Henry  I.  Barbey.  No.  16,  James  H.  Beekman.  No.  47,  George  S.  Bowdoin.  No.  55,  S.  L.  M. 
Barlow.  No.  72,  Alexander  Brown.  No.  70,  Clarence  W.  Bowen.  No.  56,  Cornelius  N.  Bliss.  No.  65,  Sam- 
uel D.  Babcock.  No.  30,  Samuel  F.  Barger.  No.  27,  C.  C.  Baldwin.  No.  14,  Henry  Clews.  No.  50,  Robert 
L.  Cutting.  No.  68,  Smith  Clift.  No.  67,  Edward  Cooper.  No.  57,  S.  Van  Rensselaer  Cruger.  No.  40, 
Frederic  J.  De  Peyster.    No.  23,  Chauncey  M.  Depew.    No.  37,  S.  B.  Elkins.    No.  52,  Seth  Barton  French. 


(Fac-simile  of  ticket  to  Centennial  Ball,  April  29,  1889  ;  gold  script  upon  white  back  ground.) 


No.  35,  Hamilton  Fish.  No.  29,  Stuyvesant  Fish.  No.  n,  Ogden  Coelet.  No.  6,  James  W.  Cerard.  No.  63, 
Hugh  J.  Crant.  No.  61,  Asa  Bird  Gardiner.  No.  20,  Robert  Goelet.  No.  25,  Elbridge  T.  Cerry.  No.  33, 
Peter  Cooper  Hewitt.  No.  53,  E.  H.  Harriman.  No.  45,  James  A.  Hamilton.  No.  43,  G.  C.  Haven.  No.  1, 
Thomas  Hitchcock.  No.  19,  William  G.  Hamilton  and  James  M.  Montgomery.  No.  58,  Brayton  Ives.  No. 
34,  Adrian  Iselin.  No.  15,  H.  A.  Johnson.  No.  18,  William  Jay.  No.  7,  George  L.  and  Ambrose  C.  Kings- 
land.  No.  38,  John  Kean.  No.  26,  Luther  Kountze.  No.  28,  James  P.  Kernochan.  No.  64,  John  A.  King 
No.  66,  Ceorge  W.  Kidd.  No.  36,  Levi  P.  Morton.  No.  60,  Henry  G.  Marquand.  No.  71,  Theodore  W. 
Myers.  No.  10,  A.  Newbold  Morris.  No.  12,  Ward  McAllister.  No.  48,  J.  Pierpont  Morgan.  No.  39,  Met- 
ropolitan Opera-House  Company.  No.  21,  H.  Victor  Newcomb.  No.  62,  Orlando  B.  Potter.  No.  46,  E. 
Randolph  Robinson.  No.  44,  Elliott  and  Theodore  Roosevelt.  No.  4,  J.  Hampden  Robb.  No.  42,  W.  C. 
Schermerhorn.  No.  10,  Byam  K.  Stevens.  No.  5 1,  Mrs.  Henry  W.  Smith.  No.  41,  Lispenard  Stewart.  No. 
2,  Clarence  A.  Seward.    No.  17,  William  I).  Sloane.    No.  59,  Mrs.  Paran  Stevens.    No.  73,  W.  E.  D.  Stokes. 


MRS  JOSIAH  QUINCY  (born  Eliza  Morion),  it  age  22 

From  Steel  Engraving  by  St.  Memin,  1797. 
Owned  by  Corcoran  Gallery  of  Art, 
Washington,  D.  C 


MRS   JOSIAH  QUINCY  (born  Eliza  Morton),  at  age  3 1 

Artist,  Gilbert  Stuart.  1806.  Owneu  by  Henry 
P.  Quincy,  Grandson,  Dedham.  Mass. 


MRS   RUFUS  KING  (born  Mary  Alsop). 

Artist,  J.  Trumbull.   Owned  by  Charles  R, 
King.  M  D.  Grandson.  Andalusia,  Pa. 
(Loan  Exhibition   No  134.1 


Mrs  Col  Wm.  Stephens  Smith  (born  Abigail  Adams). 

From  Engraving  by  H.  S.  Sadd,  (after  portrait 
by  John  S.  Copley.)  owned  by  Arthur  de  Windt. 
Grandson.  Fishkill-on-Hudson.  N.  Y. 


Mrs.  General  Phihp  Schuyler  (born  Catharine  Van  Rensselaer). 

From  portrait  belonging  to  Great  Grandson, 
Philip  Schuyler.  New  York. 

(Loan  Exhibition   No.  190.) 


Mrs  Co!  Wm  Stephens  Smith  (born  Abigail  Adams) 
at  age  21. 

Artist.  Mather  Brown.  1786.  Owned  by  Brooh< 
Adams,  Grandnephew,  Qtincv.  Mass. 


MRS  JOHN  ADAMS  (born  Abigail  Smith) 
Artist.  Gilbert  Stuart.  1804.    Owned  hv  Brooks  Adam-. 
Okeat  Gra.-.dsos.  Quincv,  Mass. 

(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  57.) 


MRS   ELIAS  BOUDINOT  1  born  Hannah  Stockton,  sister  of 
Richard  Stockton.  Signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence) 

Artist.  C.  W.  Pkai.e.  Owned  by  Miss  J.  J.  BOUDINOT, 
Grandniece.  Beknardsyille.  N.  J. 

(Loan  Exhibition  No.  69.) 


PORTRAITS  OF  MRS.  SCHUYLER.  MRS   KING  AND  MRS.  BOUDINOT.  WIVES  OF  MEMBERS  OF  THE  FIRST  CONGRESS  UNDER  THE 
CONSTITUTION;  OF  MRS   ADAMS  AND  MRS.  SMITH.  THE  WIFE  AND  DAUGHTER  OF  VICE-PRESIDENT  JOHN  ADAMS; 
AND  OF  ELIZA  MORTON.  SISTER  OF  M  A  J .  JACOB  MORTON.  AND  AFTERWARDS  MRS.  JOSIAH  QUINCY, 
WHO  AS  AN  EYE-WITNESS  WROTE  A  DESCRIPTION  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


THE  CENTENNIAL  BALL. 


261 


No.  54,  Frederick  S.  Tallmadge.  No.  8,  James  M.  Varnum.  No.  3,  R.  T.  Wilson.  No.  49,  Egerton  L.  Win- 
throp.    No.  31,  Robert  C.  Winthrop.    No.  22,  George  Henry  Warren.    No.  32,  W.  Seward  Webb. 

Among  the  guests  of  the  box-holders  and  those  who  occupied  seats  in  the  boxes  were 
the  following  : 

Mrs.  Percy  Alden,  Mrs.  Will  iam  W  aldorf  Astor,  Mrs.  John  E.  Alexander,  Mrs.  Henry  I.  Barbev,  the  Misses 
Barbey,  Mrs.  Samuel  F.  Barger,  the  Misses  Barger,  Miss  Baldwin,  Mrs.  Fordyce  D.  Barker,  Jr.,  the  Misses  Bab- 
cock,  Miss  Lizzie  Beach,  Mrs.  James  H.  Beekman,  Mrs.  George  H.  Bend,  Miss  Amy  Bend,  Miss  Beckwith, 
Mrs.  August  Belmont,  Jr.,  Miss  Berryman,  Mrs.  Cornelius  N.  Bliss,  Mrs.  George  S.  Bowdoin,  Miss  Bowdoin, 
Mrs.  Henry  C.  Bowen,  Miss  Bowen,  Mrs.  H.  L.  Burnett,  Mrs.  Isaac  Bronson,  Miss  Bronson,  Mrs.  Alexander 
Brown,  Mrs.  Cameron,  Mrs.  Clarence  Cary,  Mrs.  Austin  Corbin,  Mrs.  Henry  Clews,  Miss  Corbin,  the  Misses 
Clift,  Mrs.  Walter  Cutting,  Miss  Cutting,  Miss  Flora  Davis,  Mrs.  Frederic  J.  De  Peyster,  Mrs.  George  B.  De 
Forest,  Mrs.  R.  Ogden  Doremus,  Miss  Estelle  Doremus,  Mrs.  J.  G.  K.  Duer,  the  Misses  Duer,  Mrs.  S.  B.  Elkins, 
Miss  Elkins,  Mrs.  Dudley  Field,  Mrs.  Hamilton  Fish,  Jr.,  Mrs.  Nicholas  Fish,  Miss  Fish,  Miss  Sarah  Floyd- 
Jones,  Mrs.  George  B.  French,  Mrs.  Albert  Gallatin,  Mrs.  James  W.  Gerard,  Mrs.  Elbridge  T.  Gerry,  Mrs. 
Robert  Goelet,  Mrs.  Ogden  Goelet,  Mrs.  Harold  Godwin,  Miss  Nora  Godwin,  Mrs.  E.  Ely  Goddard,  Mrs. 
William  G.  Hamilton,  Miss  Daisy  Hamilton,  Miss  Hall,  Mrs.  Hazen,  Mrs.  J.  E.  Smith  Hadden,  Mrs.  Edward 
H.  Harriman,  Miss  Hargous,  Mrs.  Charles  B.  Hillhouse,  Mrs.  Burton  N.  Harrison,  Mrs.  Michael  Henry  Her- 
bert, Mrs.  Peter  Cooper  Hewitt,  the  Misses  Heckscher,  Miss  Grace  Holt,  Mrs.  I.  Bruce  Ismay,  Mrs.  Brayton 
Ives,  Miss  Ives,  Mrs.  John  Jay,  Mrs.  William  Jay,  Mrs.  John  D.  Jones,  Mrs.  John  Innes  Kane,  Mrs.  Edward 
Kemeys,  Mrs.  John  Kean,  the  Misses  Kean,  Mrs.  James  P.  Kernochan,  Mrs.  George  W.  Kidd,  Mrs.  John  Alsop 
King,  Mrs.  Luther  Kountze,  Mrs.  J.  F.  D.  Lanier,  Miss  Clarisse  Livingston,  Mrs.  Henry  G.  Marquand,  Miss 
Marquand,  Mrs.  J.  Pierpont  Morgan,  the  Misses  Morgan,  Miss  Eva  Van  Cortlandt  Morris,  Mrs.  Robert  B. 
Minturn,  the  Misses  Minturn,  Mrs.  John  Minturn,  Jr.,  Miss  Minturn,  Miss  Ethel  Moore,  Mrs.  Theodore  W. 
Myers,  Mrs.  Victor  Newcomb,  Miss  Edith  Newcomb,  Mrs.  Paul,  Mrs.  Howland  Pell,  Mrs.  J.  Fred.  Pierson, 
Mrs.  Porter,  Mrs.  Charles  A.  Pool,  Miss  Lina  Post,  Miss  Potter,  Miss  Nellie  Redmond,  Mrs.  Sidney  Dillon 
Ripley,  Mrs.  Burke-Roche,  Mrs.  Elliott  Roosevelt,  Mrs.  Theodore  Roosevelt,  Mrs.  Robert  G.  Remsen,  the 
Misses  Remsen,  Mrs.  J.  Hampden  Robb,  Miss  Schieffelin,  Miss  Marie  Louise  Shepard,  Mrs.  W.  C.  Schermer- 
horn,  Mrs.  M.  Roosevelt  Schuyler,  Mrs.  William  Douglas  Sloane,  Mrs.  Edward  Snelling,  Miss  Grace  Snelling, 
the  Misses  Stevens,  the  Misses  Stokes,  Mrs.  Lispenard  Stewart,  Miss  Fanny  Tailer,  Mrs.  F.  S.  Tallmadge,  Mrs. 
W.  H.  Tillinghast,  Mrs.  George  Henry  Warren,  Jr.,  the  Misses  Webb,  Mrs.  Orme  Wilson,  Miss  Grace  Wilson, 
Mrs.  R.  T.  Wilson,  Mrs.  Robert  Winthrop,  Mrs.  Buchanan  Winthrop,  Miss  Winthrop,  Mrs.  C.  R.  Williams,  Mrs. 
E.  J.  Woolsey,  Jr. 

Messrs.  F.  W.  Adee,  Clarence  Andrews,  Rudolph  Aronson,  Peter  T.  Barlow,  D.  I.  Barker,  J.  S.  Barnes, 
Oliver  G.  Barton,  F.  A.  Benjamin,  Robert  L.  Belknap,  Captain  Warren  C.  Beach,  John  G.  Beresford,  Charles  K. 
Beekman,  William  B.  Beekman,  Samuel  Borrowe,  Hallett  Alsop  Borrowe,  William  Allen  Butler,  Jr.,  H.  H. 
Boyesen,  John  Bloodgood,  Henry  C.  Bowen,  Herbert  Wolcott  Bowen,  John  Eliot  Bowen,  Martin  B.  Brown,  J. 

G.  Bulkeley,  Sir  Roderick  W.  Cameron,  John  L.  Cadwalader,  F.  R.  Coudert,  Charles  Coudert,  Washington  E. 
Connor,  J.  B.  Conway,  W.  A.  Coffin,  E.  F.  Coward,  General  di  Cesnola,  C.  Stacy  Clark,  Colonel  Emmons  Clark, 
Banyer  Clarkson,  Robert  L.  Cutting,  Jr.,  W.  H.  Crosby,  Ernest  H.  Crosby,  Charles  P.  Daly,  William  Dalton, 
Julien  T.  Davies,  F.  P.  Delafield,  William  E.  Dodge,  Edward  F.  de  Lancey,  Rhinelander  Dillon,  Prof.  R.  Ogden 
Doremus,  Prof.  Charles  A.  Doremus,  Arthur  Doremus,  Colonel  Edward  M.  L.  Ehlers,  George  Ehret,  Dr.  T. 
Addis  Emmet,  De  Witt  Clinton  Falls,  Arthur  Ferry,  F.  Ormonde  French,  George  W.  Forsyth,  George  Gardiner 
Fry,  George  Clinton  Genet,  R.  W.  Gilder,  Henry  S.  Glover,  W.  R.  Grace,  E.  B.  Harper,  Frederick  A.  Halsey, 

H.  N.  Hayden,  Oliver  Harriman,  Jr.,  James  Plarriman,  George  F.  Hecker,  Ambrose  Henry,  Eugene  Higgins, 
J.  Stockton  Hough,  J.  R.  Houghton,  F.  R.  Houghton,  Center  Hitchcock,  Henry  Hilton,  Edward  B.  Hilton, 
Daniel  Huntington,  Henry  B.  Hyde,  Charles  Isham,  Oswald  Jackson,  D.  Willis  James,  John  D.  Jones,  De  Witt 
Clinton  Jones,  Eugene  Kelly,  Jr.,  James  L.  Kernochan,  Shepherd  Knapp,  William  S.  Kingsland,  A.  C.  Kings- 
land,  J.  H.  Kimball,  Roland  F.  Knoedler,  John  Jay  Knox,  Woodbury  G.  Langdon,  Abraham  R.  Lawrence, 
Frank  R.  Lawrance,  A.  La  Montague,  E.  V.  Loew,  Arthur  Leary,  H.  B.  Ledyard,  Johnston  Livingston,  Philip 


262       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


Livingston  Livingston,  Auguste  Montant,  Jules  A.  Montant,  James  M.  Montgomery,  G.  A.  Morrison,  Stanley 
Mortimer,  David  M.  Morison,  J.  Ridgway  Moore,  J.  Murray  Mitchell,  Edward  Mitchell,  F.  D.  Millet,  F.  W. 
Murray,  H.  Alexander  Murray,  Antonio  F.  de  Navarro,  J.  F.  De  Neufville,  De  Lancey  Nicoll.  Robert  Osborne, 
Oswald  Ottendorfer,  R.  Wayne  Parker,  Captain  James  Parker,  U.  S.  A.,  Cortlandt  Parker,  C.  Lawrence  Perkins, 
(i.  D.  M.  Peixotto,  J.  B.  Pine,  Edwards  Pierrepont,  John  A.  Pinard,  Charles  Pinard,  William  Post,  Charles  A. 
Post,  Charles  Pratt,  A.  B.  Requa,  Karrick  Riggs,  S.  Howland  Robbins,  J.  L.  Riker,  Charles  H.  Russell,  Jr.,  Henry 
Lawrence  Rutherfurd,  Robert  W.  Rutherfurd,  Edgar  E.  Saltus,  Jesse  Seligman,  Alexander  D.  Shaw,  Bache 
Schmidt,  Myles  Standish,  Louis  Stanton,  Charles  J.  Stebbins,  Colonel  Elliott  F.  Shepard,  J.  L.  Schroeder,  Robert 
Schell,  Rudolph  Schack,  General  Sickles,  John  Sloane,  John  Austin  Stevens,  F.  Hopkinson  Smith,  Clinton 
Stuart,  Rutherfurd  Stuyvesant,  Edmund  Terry,  Frank  Tilford,  W.  H.  Tillinghast,  P.  G.  Thebaud,  Conde 
Thorn,  Dr.  Von  Beverhout  Thompson,  Preble  Tucker,  John  A.  Varick,  James  S.  Van  Cortlandt,  A.  Van  Sant- 
voord,  A.  A.  Vantine,  W.  C.  Wallace,  Myron  P.  Walker,  Thomas  W.  Ward,  Willard  P.  Ward,  George  M.  Watts, 
H.  Walter  Webb,  George  Westinghouse,  General  Edward  Winslow,  Locke  W.  Winchester,  R.  T.  Wilson,  M. 
Orme  Wilson,  Baron  de  Wiedener,  Frank  Sherman  Witherbee,  Erastus  Wiman,  William  H.  Wickham,  J.  Hood 
Wright,  W.  Griswold  Wheeler. 

Some  of  the  married  ladies  and  young  ladies  who  attended  the  ball  were  : 

Mrs.  M.  S.  Ayers,  Miss  Arthur,  Miss  Abbe,  Miss  Ames,  Miss  Avery,  Miss  Allen,  Mrs.  G.  G.  Barnard,  Mrs.  E. 
Bedell  Benjamin,  Miss  Baird,  Miss  Martha  Stewart  Barnes,  Miss  L.  Barrett,  Miss  Christine  Biddle,  Miss  Beals, 
Miss  Stella  Barney,  Miss  Fanny  Betts,  Mrs.  Mary  E.  Bryan,  Mrs.  Horace  Broch,  Mrs.  L.  Buttenweiser,  Miss 
Kitty  Byrne,  Miss  Buhler,  Mrs.  J.  H.  Caryl,  Mrs.  Addison  Cammack,  Mrs.  C.  M.  Callahan,  Mrs.  Elliott  Cones, 
Mrs.  George  Clarke,  Miss  E.  Clarke,  Mrs.  J.  T.  C.  Clarke,  Miss  Anna  Coleman,  Mrs.  Samuel  Colgate,  Mrs.  R. 
Fulton  Cutting,  Mrs.  Clarence  Delafield,  Mrs.  J.  Coleman  Drayton,  Miss  Florence  Dean,  Mrs.  James  Stokes, 
Mrs.  S.  B.  Duryea,  Miss  Sibyl  Eager,  Miss  E.  E.  Erving,  Mrs.  W.  J.  Fanning,  Mrs.  K.  Foley,  Mrs.  John  R. 
Foley,  Miss  Helen  Fowle,  Miss  Fettrech,  Mrs.  George  P.  Germain,  Mrs.  Charles  Godfrey,  Miss  Godfrey,  Mrs. 
John  Gregg,  Mrs.  Dr.  Gladwin,  Miss  E.  Godfrey,  Mrs.  Charles  Gulack,  Mrs.  F.  D.  Harmon,  Mrs.  Hartridge, 
Miss  M.  L.  Hamblin,  Miss  Herring,  Miss  M.  B.  Hathaway,  Miss  Myra  Hardenbrook,  Miss  C.  W.  Herrick,  Mrs. 
Edward  B.  Hilton,  Mrs.  F.  W.  Holls,  Mrs.  Otto  Heinze,  Miss  Heinze,  Mrs.  Warren  Higley,  Miss  Mary  Jones, 
Miss  Kirkland,  Miss  Leary,  Mrs.  William  E.  Laytin,  Miss  Luttgen,  Mrs.  William  S.  Livingston,  Miss  Maud  Mor- 
gan, Miss  Eva  Morris,  Mrs.  Alexander  McKinstry,  Mrs.  Walter  McCorkle,  Mrs.  A.  Monell,  Miss  Anna  Murray, 
Mrs.  Otis,  Miss  Elita  Proctor  Otis,  Mrs.  A.  Pippey,  Mrs.  R.  A.  Pryor,  Mrs.  L.  Bradford  Prince,  Miss  H.  Porter, 
Mrs.  J.  N.  Robertson,  Mrs.  N.  E.  Rutter,  Miss  Romaine  Stone,  Mrs.  Sayles,  Miss  Madeline  Le  Roy  Satterlee, 
Miss  Sinclair,  Miss  E.  Stevens,  Mrs.  Charles  N.  Schenck,  Mrs.  J.  E.  Smith,  Mrs.  J.  W.  Spalding,  Mrs.  Mary 
G.  Smith,  Miss  Isabel  Smith,  Mrs.  Frank  Tilford,  Miss  Bessie  Tucker,  Mrs.  M.  Louise  Thomas,  Mrs.  Robert 
Tryon,  Mrs.  S.  H.  Valentine,  Miss  Vallean,  Mrs.  William  Vincent,  Mrs.  Charles  F.  Walters,  Miss  Annie  Ida 
Walters,  Mrs.  George  W.  Wallace,  Miss  Lena  Warren,  Mrs.  Wagstaff,  Mrs.  Richard  M.  Walters,  Miss  Fannie 
Williams,  Mrs.  T.  B.  Willis,  Mrs.  Herbert  A.  Wright  Miss  L.  Whitehead,  Mrs.  R.  L.  Ward,  Mrs.  J.  C.  Wood- 
hull,  Mrs.  Benjamin  Wood,  Miss  Emma  Wood. 

The  guests  at  the  ball,  in  addition  to  those  whose  names  have  been  already  mentioned, 
included  officers  of  the  Army  and  Navy,  Commissioners  of  States  and  Territories,  the 
guests  at  the  banquet,  and  other  gentlemen  whose  official  position  entitled  them  to  the 
honor,  and  whose  names  are  mentioned  as  guests  at  other  portions  of  the  celebration. 
The  subscribers  to  the  ball  were  : 

Dr.  Frank  Abbott,  R.  Adams,  Jr.,  Samuel  Adams,  Jr.,  Charles  H.  Adams,  Percy  D.  Adams,  Dr.  E.  C. 
Adams,  Francis  Peters  Adams,  Mortimer  C.  Addoms,  F.  W.  Adee,  Edward  Adriance,  B.  F.  Agan,  A.  T.  Albro, 
Henry  Alexander,  John  E.  Alexander,  Henry  V.  Allen,  B.  Nelson  Allen,  Charles  F.  Allen,  Edward  D.  Allen, 
Henry  A.  Anderson,  Colonel  Finlay  Anderson,  E.  Ellery  Anderson,  P.  C.  Anderson,  William  S.  Andrews, 


Also  said  to  be  a  portrait  of  Mrs.  Col.  Fielding  Lewis. 
Sister  of  Washington. 


MRS.  ELIAS  BOUDINOT, 
(born  Hannah  Stockton.) 

From  a  Miniature  owned  by 
Miss  J.  J.  Boudinot,  Gkand 
Niece,  Bernardsville,  X.  J. 
(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  70. 


MRS.  MARTHA  CUSTIS,  Widow  of  John  Parke  Custis  and 
afterwards  Mrs.  George  Washington,  Age  25. 
Artist,  John  Woolaston,  1757.  Owned  by  General  George 
Washington  Custis  Lee,  Gkeat  Great  Grandson,  Lexing- 
ton, Va.  1^^^ 


I 


MRS.  JAMES  MADISON,  (born  Dorothy  Payne.) 
From  a  Drawing  by  T.  C.  Lifbers.  Owned  by  Mrs.  J.  D. 
McGuire,  Grand  Niece  of  James  Madison,  Ellicot  City. 


MRS.  JOSIAH  QUINCY,  (born  Eliza  Morton.; 
Sister  of  General  Jacob  Morton. 
Artist,  Chester  Harding,  1824.    Owned  by  Henry 
Qi  incy,  Grandson,  Dedham.  M  v.s 


MRS.  RALPH  IZARD,  (born  Alice  de  Lancey.) 
Miniature  by  Edward  G.  Malbone, 
1803.  Owned  by  G.  E.  Mamgault  M. 
D.,  Charleston,  S.  C. 


MRS.  JAMES  DUANE 

Artist,  C.  W.  Pbalh.  Owned  byJames  C.  Duane, 
Great  Grandson,  StatbN  Island,  New  York. 


MRS.  JAMES  DUANE. 
From  a  Portrait  owned  by 
James  Duane  Fkathkrston- 
haugh.  Grandson,  Duans- 

burgh.  n.  y. 


r      ^  "  ' 


MRS  MAJOR  WILLIAM  JACKSON,  (born  Elizabeth  Willing,) 
Daughter  of  Thomas  Willing  of  Philadelphia  and  Sister  of 
Mrs.  William  Bingham. 
Artist,  Gilbert  Stuart.      Owned  by  Pennsylvania 
Academy  of  the  Fine  Arts.  Philadelphia. 


MRS.  JEREMIAH  WADSWORTH,  iborn  Mehitabel  Russell ) 
Age  72. 

Artist,  Thomas  SULLY,  1807.  Owned  hy  "Charles  A. 
Brinley,  Great  Grandson,  Philadelphia.  Pa. 


PORTRAITS  OF  MARTHA  WASHINGTON.  WIFE  OF  THE  PRESIDENT  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES  IN  1789  :  OF  MRS.  DUANE,  WIFE  OF  THE  MAYOR 
OF  NEW  YORK  IN  1789:  OF  MRS.  BOUDINOT,  MRS.  IZARD,  MRS.  MADISON  AND  MRS.  WADSWORTH.  WIVES  OF  MEMBERS  OF  CONGRESS 
IN  1785;  OF  MRS.  JACKSON,  WIFE  OF  THE  PRIVATE  SECRETARY  TO  WASHINGTON  IN  1789;  AND  OF  MRS.  JOSIAH  QUINCY,  WHO 

AS  ELIZA  MORTON,  WITNESSED  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


THE  CENTENNIAL  BALE 


263 


William  L.  Andrews,  W.  C.  Andrews,  H.  H.  Anderson,  William  C.  Annan,  0.  H.  P.  Archer,  E.  A.  Archer,  0.  M. 
Arkenburgh,  Rudolph  Aronson,  Chester  Alan  Arthur,  William  W.  Astor,  John  J.  Astor,  Jr.,  George  S.  Atkins, 
Miss  M.  Atterbury,  Truman  G.  Avery,  Samuel  D.  Babcock,  D.  S.  Babcock,  S.  Bachman,  S.  T.  Backer,  Henry 
Clinton  Backus,  Daniel  Bacon,  F.  L.  Bailey,  A.  R.  Bainbridge,  A.  W.  Balch,  C.  C.  Baldwin,  Leroy  W.  Baldwin, 
Theodore  Z.  Baldwin,  Frederick  H.  Baldwin,  Sumner  Ballard,  F.  H.  Ballard,  Henry  A.  Ballou,  Fernando  Bakes, 
C.  W.  Bangs,  David  Banks,  Louis  Baner,  G.  Banman,  Lucius  A.  Barbour,  C.  A.  Barcley,  S.  L.  M.  Barlow,  Dr. 
Fordyce  Barker,  John  S.  Barnes,  General  Alfred  C.  Barnes,  William  D.  Barnes,  C.  W.  Barnes,  C.  T.  Barney, 
Stewart  Barney,  W.  C.  Barrett,  J.  Arthur  Barrette,  Dr.  John  C.  Barron,  E.  L.  Bartell,  George  Bartholemew, 
Judge  Bartlett,  Oliver  G.  Barton,  George  D.  F.  Barton,  Levi  M.  Bates,  Charles  S.  Bates,  N.  G.  Bates,  Charles 
F.  Bates,  Richard  Battin,  William  Baylis,  Edmund  L.  Baylies,  S.  G.  Bayne,  John  E.  Bazley,  Captain  Warren  C. 
Beach,  John  K.  Beach,  Charles  S.  Beardsley,  Louis  D.  Beck,  A.  O.  Beebe,  James  H.  Beekman,  J.  W.  Beekman, 
William  B.  Beekman,  Robert  Lenox  Belknap,  G.  H.  Bend,  Read  Benedict,  Le  Grand  L.  Benedict,  Dr. 
Edward  W.  Benette,  J.  J.  Benhew,  Frederick  A.  Benjamin,  Frederick  J.  Benjamin,  George  P.  Benjamin, 
Lieutenant  W.  C.  Benn,  Colonel  Josiah  H.  Benton,  Samuel  Berger,  Leo  Bergholz,  J.  C.  Bernheim,  Abram 
Bernheim,  E.  J.  Berrand,  S.  S.  Berry,  Frank  W.  Berry,  George  F.  Betts,  Albert  Bierstadt,  William  G.  Bibb, 

B.  T.  Biggs,  John  H.  Bird,  William  H.  Bissell,  P.  St.  G.  Bissell,  A.  C.  Blanchard,  Cornelius  N.  Bliss,  George  T. 
Bliss,  Tilden  Blodgett,  John  Bloodgood,  L.  Bloomingdale,  Alonzo  Boice,  J.  K.  Bole,  J.  Lawrence  Boggs,  Jr., 
Samuel  Borrowe,  C.  H.  Botsford,  Miss  J.  J.  Boudinot,  Clarence  W.  Bowen,  Henry  C.  Bowen,  Miss  Grace  Aspin- 
wall  Bowen,  John  Eliot  Bowen,  Franklin  D.  Bowen,  Mrs.  L.  J.  Bowen,  James  R.  Boyd,  A.  A.  Boyer,  Stewart  R. 
Bradburn,  Charles  R.  Braine,  E.  Percy  Bramwell,  G.  W.  Bramwell,  Benjamin  Harris  Brewster,  W.  H.  Brewster, 
Jr.,  X.  Brewster,  S.  W.  Bridgham,  B.  L.  Brigg,  Osborn  E.  Bright,  William  B.  Bristow,  R.  Adams  Britton,  J.  S. 
Broadley,  Mrs.  L.  Freeman  Brockway,  D.  S.  Brodwick,  Edward  W.  Bok,  Isaac  V.  Brokaw,  G.  C.  Broome,  Will- 
iam L.  Brower,  Watson  A.  Brown,  M.  D.,  James  M.  Brown,  Addison  Brown,  Martin  B.  Brown,  Robert  Biddle 
Brown,  J.  G.  Brown,  C.  Brown,  Jr.,  I.  Townsend  Burden,  W.  F.  Bruns,  Philip  Bruns,  William  Buchanan,  C.  P. 
Buchanan,  William  Buchanan,  Jr.,  Peter  Buckel,  J.  Buckley,  J.  L.  Bulkley,  Dr.  William  T.  Bull,  James  A.  Bur- 
den, Mrs.  John  W.  Burgess,  J.  H.  Burgh,  Hon.  H.  G.  Burleigh,  T.  B.  Burnham,  Franklin  Crosby  Butler,  Charles 
Butler,  J.  A.  Butler,  William  Allen  Butler,  General  Daniel  Butterfield,  Moses  G.  Byers,  George  A.  Byrne,  John  L. 
Cadwalader,  James  J.  Caffery,  E.  H.  Caffery,  C.  Caldern,  W.  H.  Caldwell,  John  C.  Calhoun,  Addison  Cam- 
mack,  Alfred  J.  Cammeyer,  Allan  Campbell,  J.  Richard  Campbell,  A.  Cane,  Jacob  A.  Cantor,  Henry  Guy 
Carleton,  Nelson  G.  Carman,  Jr.,  William  H.  Carr,  Mrs.  S.  H.  W.  Carroll,  Henry  Carson,  Oliver  S.  Carter, 
James  C.  Carter,  H.  D.  Caryll,  George  H.  Cassidy,  James  S.  Cattanach,  L.  S.  Chandler,  H.  S.  Chandler,  Alfred 

C.  Chapin,  S.  Hartwell  Chapman,  W.  H.  Chapman,  Stephen  Chase,  John  Healy  Childs,  S.  B.  Chittenden,  E. 
Dwight  Church,  John  Claflin,  Alfred  Clagett,  Henry  O.  Clark,  C.  Stacy  Clark,  Alfred  C.  Clark,  William  N 
Clark,  Gardner  K.  Clark,  William  Clark,  D.  A.  Clarkson,  Edward  L.  Clarkson,  Banyer  Clarkson,  Colonel 
Floyd  Clarkson,  Clement  Cleveland,  S.  Clift,  B.  S.  Clift,  Charles  N.  Clinton,  M.  H.  Clyde,  M.  E.  Cobb,  General 
John  Cochrane,  J.  F.  Cockerill,  Charles  A.  Coe,  Henry  Coffin,  Coionel  Frederick  Coffin,  A.  B.  Coit,  Charles  L. 
Colby,  F.  Cole,  George  S.  Collum,  Roswell  L.  Colt,  Stockton  Colt,  O.  R.  Comins,  Thomas  Comon,  Cornelius 
Comstock,  Alfred  R.  Conkling,  Washington  E.  Connor,  J.  F.  Conrad,  R.  B.  Constantine,  E.  S.  Converse,  Mon- 
cure  D.  Conway,  James  J.  Coogan,  Colonel  Charles  E.  Coon,  Theodore  Polhemus  Cooper,  William  B.  Cooper, 
Mrs.  Coppenhagen,  J.  Weeks  Cornwall,  Charles  N.  Cotting,  J.  H.  Cottman,  Frederic  R.  Coudert,  A.  R.  Cox, 
Jr.,  Alexander  Coyle,  Samuel  D.  Craig,  L.  W.  Cramkhite,  S.  A.  Crocker,  James  J.  Crogan,  Albert  Crolin,  Fred- 
eric Cromwell,  John  Cropper,  R.  J.  Cross,  Colonel  S.  V.  R.  Cruger,  Edwin  A.  Cruikshank,  G.  B.  Crumbie,  W. 

D.  Crumbie,  Frank  S.  Crumbie,  N.  W.  Crydee,  Charles  G.  Currier,  E.  J.  Curry,  F.  K.  Curtis,  H.  Holbrook 
Curtis,  W.  E.  Curtis,  Miss  Constance  Curtis,  P.  J.  Cuskley,  F.  M.  Cussitt,  W.  Bayard  Cutting,  Robert  L. 
Cutting,  William  B.  Cutting,  General  Samuel  Dalton,  William  Dalton,  Charles  F.  Daly,  David  J.  Damit, 
Paul  Dana,  Julien  T.  Davies,  W.  H.  Davis,  Henry  H.  Davis,  James  J.  Davis,  Henry  J.  Davison,  Mel- 
ville C.  Day,  Charles  W.  Dayton,  John  H.  Deane,  Adolph  D.  Bary,  George  De  Forest,  Mrs.  Clara  F.  Deiham, 
Sidney  De  Kay,  B.  F.  De  Klyn,  C.  B.  De  Klyn,  Maturin  L.  Delafield,  Robert  H.  Delafield,  F.  P.  Delafield, 
Tallmadge  Delafield,  Edward  F.  de  Lancey,  A.  F.  de  Navarro,  F.  de  Neufitte,  W.  Butler  Duncan,  Jr.,  Dr. 
Loomis  L.  Demfoldt,  S.  Carleton  Dempsey,  George  Trimble  Davidson,  D.  S.  Dennison,  Chauncey  M.  Depew, 
Alexander  Deutcher,  Horace  K.  Devereux,  Baun  R.  de  Wardmer,  George  G.  De  Witt,  Jr.,  Samuel  Dexter, 


264       THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


Stanley  W.  Dexter,  A.  'J'.  Dicker,  Piatt  K.  Dickinson,  Thomas  M.  Dillingham,  Hamilton  W.  Disston,  A.  J. 
Dittenhoefer,  Rev.  Dr.  Morgan  Dix,  W  illiam  E.  Dodge,  C.  Stuart  Dodge,  J.  B.  Doherty,  J.  M.  Donald,  R.  C. 
Dorsett,  Spencer  C.  Doty,  Abbott  L.  Dow,  W.  A.  Downs,  David  Dows,  Jr.,  A.  W.  Drake,  John  B.  Drake,  Law- 
rence Drake,  Mrs.  Anna  Palmer  Draper,  Miss  Le  Roy  Dresser,  Horace  E.  Dresser,  Henry  T.  Drowne,  Dr.  M. 
B.  Du  Hois,  W.  B.  Duncan,  R.  Dunlap,  John  S.  Durand,  Mrs.  Durell,  C.  S.  Durfee,  William  A.  Durming,  H.  C. 
Duval,  E.  A.  Du  Vivier,  Jonathan  Dwight,  General  Elisha  Dyer,  Isaac  M.  Dyckman,  Ferdinand  P.  Earle,  S.  B. 
Eaton,  Dorman  B.  Eaton,  D.  Cady  Eaton,  J.  Esler  Eckerson,  R.  A.  Eddy,  Franklin  Edson,  Charles  J.  Edwards, 
William  T.  Egan,  George  Ehret,  George  L.  Elbrooke,  George  W.  Elder,  John  Elderkin,  C.  R.  Eldridge,  Hon. 
S.  B.  Elkins,  S.  R.  Ellerson,  F.  B.  Elliott,  Samuel  Elliott,  John  W.  Ellis,  William  I).  Ellis,  Ismar  S.  Ellison, 
William  W.  Ellsworth,  Amie  F.  Ellsworth,  U.  S.  Elirt,  Mrs.  Florence  W.  Elmendorf,  George  W.  Ely,  Livingston 
Emery,  John  J.  Emery,  Dr.  Thomas  A.  Emmet,  Dr.  B.  McE.  Emmet,  Charles  Emmet,  C.  M.  Englis,  Amos  F. 
Eno,  Captain  Henry  Erben,  Leo  Erlick,  George  Everall,  John  Erving,  Charles  O.  Fairbank,  Thomas  B. 
Fairchild,  Benjamin  T.  Fairchild,  De  Witt  Clinton  Falls,  H.  L.  Faris,  Loyall  Farragut,  Edgar  Fawcett,  P.  H. 


(Fac-simile  of  Press  Ticket  to  the  Centennial  Ball,  gold  script  upon  white  background.) 

Fay,  Sigourney  W.  Fay,  G.  R.  Fearing,  Cyrus  W.  Field,  Edward  M.  Field,  George  F.  Finlay,  Myer  Finn, 
Nicholas  Fish,  Stuyvesant  Fish,  Josiah  M.  Fiske,  Hamilton  Fish,  Irving  R.  Fisher,  N.  C.  Fisher,  Charles 
J.  Fisk,  Benjamin  Fitch,  Miss  C.  Fitzgerald,  Frank  T.  Fitzgerald,  General  Louis  Fitzgerald,  T.  C.  Fitz- 
simmons,  George  H.  Fitzwilson,  James  Flanagan,  Nicoll  Floyd,  Jr.,  John  R.  Foley,  John  Foley,  George 
Follett,  Emerson  Foote,  Gordon  L.  Ford,  William  L.  Ford,  William  Forster,  Dr.  George  B.  Fowler,  Dr.  A.  J. 
Fox,  John  W.  Fraser,  J.  H.  Frein,  S.  B.  French,  Thomas  J.  French,  Francis  Ormond  French,  Dr.  H.  H.  Fries, 
John  Frith,  C.  F.  Frothingham,  Theodore  L.  Frothingham,  S.  R.  C.  Furniss,  T.  Gerald  Gair,  Colonel  Gaithers, 
Frederic  Gallatin,  R.  M.  Gallaway,  Asa  Bird  Gardiner,  J.  Lyon  Gardiner,  John  L.  Gardiner,  Charles  Frederick 
Garr,  W.  D.  Garrison,  J.  B.  Geissinger,  George  Clinton  Genet,  J.  W.  Gerard,  James  N.  Gerard,  Charles  A.  Ger- 
lach,  Elbridge  T.  Gerry,  William  Ghormley,  John  J.  Gibbons,  Henry  B.  Gibbons,  Walter  C.  Gibson,  George 
R.  Gibson,  E.  E.  Gedney,  Fred.  Gilbert,  R.  W.  Gilder,  W.  Fearing  Gill,  W.  C.  Gilliam,  Henry  S.  Glover,  R. 
Glover,  E.  Ely  Goddard,  Robert  Goelet,  Ogden  Goelet,  Antonio  Gonzales,  General  J.  B.  Gordon,  J.  K.  Gracie, 
W.  I.  A.  Granitch,  Hon.  Hugh  J.  Grant,  Dr.  Gabriel  Grant,  F.  E.  Grant,  George  Walton  Green,  Willard  Greg- 
ory, Samuel  C.  Gremerl,  M.  B.  Griffin,  William  M.  Grinnell,  Fred.  Grinnell,  Dr.  Morton  Grinnell,  Thomas  W. 
Grosvenor,  L.  J.  Guilmartin,  Barker  Glimmer,  Thomas  F.  Gurry,  William  I).  Guthrie,  Bernhard  C.  Gynn,  E. 
P.  Hagan,  Charles  C.  Haight,  F.  K.  Hain,  Richard  T.  Haines,  Frank  L.  Hall,  J.  F.  Halloway,  S.  B.  Ham- 
burger, William  G.  Hamilton,  Miss  Adelaide  Hamilton,  J.  Augustus  Hamilton,  E.  A.  Hammond,  George 
Edward  Harding,  J.  Montgomery  Hare,  E.  B.  Harper,  George  Harral,  E.  H.  Harriman,  S.  Carmon  Harriot,  Jr., 
Benjamin  Harrison,  Charles  Henry  Hart,  E.  B.  Hart,  George  E.  B.  Hart,  Marcellus  Hartley,  G.  E.  Harvey, 
C.  F.  Hartwell,  Thomas  H.  Hartwell,  H.  C.  Haskins,  James  H.  Haslin,  Henry  P.  Hatch,  Miss  Mary  B.  Hatha- 
way, Charles  Hauselt,  ex-Governor  Samuel  T.  Hauser,  George  G.  Haven,  R.  F.  Hawke,  Granville  P.  Hawes, 


ELEANOR  PARKE  CUSTIS  ("  Nelly  Curtis"). 
Granddaughter  ok  Martha  Washington,  at  this 
age  ok  thirteen. 


CORNELIA  SCHUYLER 
Daughter  ok  Gen.  Philip  Schuyler,  and  sister  of 
Mrs.  Alexander  Hamilton,  at  the  agk.  ok  sixteen. 


MARTHA  WASHINGTON. 

At  the  age  ok  SIXTY. 


SOPHIA  CHEW, 

Daughter  of  Chief  Justice  Benjamin  Chew  of 
Pennsylvania,  at  the  age  of  twenty  four. 


HARRIET  CHEW 
Daughter  OF  Chief  Justice  Benjamin  Chew  of 
Pennsylvania,  and  wife  of  Charles  Carroll, 
only  son 'of  Charles  Carroll  of  Carrollton,  at 
the  age  of  eighteen. 


OIL  MINIATURES  BY  JOHN  TRUMBULL  OF  NELLY  CUSTIS.  CORNELIA  SCHUYLER  AND  MARTHA  WASHINGTON,  PAINTED  IN  1  792  ; 
AND  OF  SOPHIA  AND  HARRIET  CHEW,  PAINTED  IN  1793.  OWNED  BY  YALE  UNIVERSITY. 


THE  CEN  TEXNIA  L  BAEE 


William  S.  Hawk,  E.  MacDougal  Hawkes,  H.  C.  Hawkins,  E.  J.  Hawley,  Henry  W.  Hayden,  R.  S.  Hayes, 
Rutherford  B.  Hayes,  A.  E.  Haynes,  T.  J.  Hayward,  Octave  B.  Hebert,  George  F.  Hecker,  E.  Georgie  Hed- 
den,  A.  S.  Heidelback,  J.  Heifer,  Edmund  Hendricks,  Dr.  J.  J.  Henna,  Myron  T.  Hernck,  E.  W.  Hester,  John 
I).  Hewlett,  Charles  Hickox,  W.  H.  Higbee,  Eugene  Higgins,  Henry  T.  Higginson,  Edwin  M.  Hill,  James  R. 
Hill,  Mrs.  Charles  B.  Hillhouse,  Alonzo  Hillier,  J.  B.  Hillyer,  Judge  Henry  Hilton,  Matthew  Hinman,  John  H. 
Hinton,  M.  D.,  Hiram  Hitchcock,  W.  E.  Hoag,  C.  X.  Hoagland,  N.  Hobart,  Garret  A.  Hobart,  Joseph  E.  Hoey, 
C.  B.  Hoffman,  C.  F.  Hoffman,  Daniel  J.  Holden,  Robert  G.  Hone,  Franklin  W.  Hopkins,  Leonard  S.  R.  Hop- 
kins, Edward  I.  Horsman,  E.  J.  Horsman,  F.  R.  Houghton,  L.  S.  Howard,  T  H.  Howard,  Charles  P.  Howell, 
Alexander  J.  Howell,  Judge  Henry  E.  Howland,  Jesse  Hoyt,  Gerald  L.  Hoyt,  William  Hughes,  James  Hughes, 
William  P.  Hughes,  Richard  D.  Hughes,  J.  S.  Hulin,  H.  C.  Humphrey,  George  B.  Hurd,  E.  A.  Hurry,  James 
W.  Husted,  William  H.  Husted,  George  L.  Hutchings,  Russell  D.  Hyde,  Henry  McLean  Ingersoll,  George  W. 
Isaacs,  Isaac  Iselin,  Columbus  O'Donnell  Iselin,  William  E.  Iselin,  Adrian  Iselin,  Mrs.  Charles  H.  Isham, 
Charles  Isham,  Edward  B.  Ives,  Brayton  Ives,  Henry  Ivison,  Lindsay  C.  Ivory,  Joseph  C.  Jackson,  W.  O. 
Jacobs,  John  W.  Jacobus,  Henry  James,  D.  Willis  James,  Arthur  R.  Jarrett,  William  Jay,  John  Jay,  William 
W.  Jenks,  Charles  E.  Jenkins,  Miss  Annie  B.  Jennings,  George  F.  Johnson,  W.  H.  Johnstone,  Walter  O. 
Jones,  W.  Strother  Jones,  George  W.  Jones,  Shipley  Jones,  Wilber  R.  Jones,  John  J.  Jones,  Albert  S.  Jones, 
Cyrus  Field  Judson,  Albert  L.  Judson,  S.  Nicholson  Kane,  General  James  Karn,  Martin  J.  Keep,  Miss  Keith, 
Charles  Kellogg,  J.  J.  Kelheims,  R.  A.  Kemble,  George  H.  Kendall,  E.  G.  Kennedy,  Walter  S.  Kemeys, 
James  P.  Kernochan,  Charles  Francis  Ketcham,  George  B.  Ketcham,  John  H.  Kimball,  Henry  B.  Kinchardt,  Jr., 
John  A.  King,  Clarence  King,  Francis  Valmer  King,  William  Kingsland,  George  L.  Kingsland,  Lieutenant  G. 
Kingsley,  Francis  P.  Kinnicutt,  Charles  F.  Kirker,  C.  Wright  Kirby,  G.  Klee,  H.  H.  D.  Klinker,  Dr.  Herman 
Knapp,  S.  Knapp,  Edmond  L.  Knoedler,  George  J.  Knox,  Alexander  Knox,  Herman  Knubel,  Henry  C.  F. 
Koch,  D.  M.  Koehler,  Solomon  Kohn,  Julius  A.  Kohn,  Luther  Kountze,  Moses  Kraus,  C.  W.  Kraushaar,  Walter 
V.  Kreamer,  Dr.  Paul  H.  Kretzschmar,  Percival  Kuhne,  Frederick  Kuhne,  Frederick  A.  Kursheedt,  Mrs.  Martha 
J.  Lamb,  Dr.  Robert  H.  Lamborn,  Edward  Van  Zandt  Lane,  J.  W.  Lane,  Dr.  F.  Lange,  J.  Lange,  J.  F.  D. 
Lanier,  Alfred  O.  Larkin,  W.  H.  Larr,  F.  L.  Lavanburg,  Edward  J.  Lawler,  Albert  T.  Lawrence,  W.  V.  Lawrence, 
Henry  E.  Lawrence,  Joseph  Lawrence,  James  R.  Learning,  Harry  Learned,  J.  D.  Leary,  Arthur  Leary,  C.  W. 
Leavitt,  Miss  Leavitt,  W.  H.  L.  Lee,  J.  B.  Lee,  Albert  Leeds,  A.  T.  Leftovich,  Charles  A.  Leids,  Z.  L.  Leiter, 
William  H.  Lent,  Henry  W.  Le  Roy,  Edward  A.  Le  Roy,  Newbold  Le  Roy,  Charles  McK.  Leoser,  Clarence  D. 
Levey,  B.  J.  Levy,  J.  L.  Levy,  George  Levy,  Edwin  J.  Levy,  James  F.  Lewis,  Theodore  Graham  Lewis,  Henry 
A.  Lewis,  Samuel  Lichtenstadter,  Leonard  Lippman,  Edward  H.  Litchfield,  Lucius  N.  Littauer,  Johnston  Liv- 
ingston, Philip  L.  Livingston,  James  Duane  Livingston,  William  S.  Livingston,  Jr.,  Cambridge  L.  Livingston, 
Howard  Lockwood,  James  Loeb,  Edward  V.  Loew,  A.  Loisette,  F.  Lombardo,  Edward  Eugene  Loomis,  Joseph 
Loth,  Seth  Low,  Otto  Lowengard,  L.  Mcl.  Luquer,  Thatcher  T.  P.  Luqueer,  F.  Lusar,  Miss  Pauline  H.  Leddy, 
William  H.  Lyon,  Alfred  Lyons,  William  H.  Lynn,  A.  A.  McAleeman,  Thomas  N.  McCarter,  Louis  B.  McClagg, 
John  McClave,  John  J.  McConnell,  J.  Henry  McCoon,  Walter  L.  McCorkle,  William  McCormick,  R.  C.  McCor- 
mick,  A.  J.  McCosh,  M.  D.,  T.  J.  McBride,  George  A.  McDermott,  John  McDonald,  George  W.  McGili,  Robert 
McGinness,  Hylande  McGrath,  John  C.  McGuire,  Daniel  McKeever,  Howard  McKirtland,  William  G.  McLaugh- 
lin, Samuei  McMillan,  James  McNamee,  Howard  McNutt,  James  C.  McQuade,  Bryan  G.  McSwyny,  Harry  D. 
Mack,  Thomas  F.  Magner,  Charles  H.  Maguire,  Charles  V.  Mapes,  Mrs.  J.  S.  Marbury,  Clement  March, 
Henry  G.  Marquand,  Peter  Marie,  F.  A.  Marsling,  Lieutenant  Commander  J.  Marthon,  James  M.  Martin,  C. 
Grayson  Martin,  F.  N.  R.  Martinez,  C.  Grayson  Martrid,  Stephen  Marx,  H.  H.  Mason,  Jose  Masti,  Mrs.  De 
Witt  Clinton  Mather,  Edward  J.  Maxwell,  Dr.  Charles  H.  May,  Bernhard  Mayer,  Charles  B.  Meigs,  George  G. 
Mercer,  A.  L.  Merriam,  Joshua  D.  Mersereau,  O.  Metcalf,  M.  F.  Meyers,  L  A.  Millbank,  Edgar  G.  Miller, 
Philip  S.  Miller,  Hoffman  Miller,  George  S.  Miiler,  A.  Ray  Miller.  J.  Bleecker  Miller,  David  Milne,  John  Mur- 
ray Mitchell,  William  Mitchell,  Winfield  S.  Moddy,  Peter  Moller,  John  Moller,  Ambrose  Monell,  W.  P.  Mon- 
tague, Frederick  L.  Montague,  James  M..  Montgomery,  W.  E.  Montgomery,  John  H.  Montgomery,  Leonard 
Moody,  Julia  F.  Moore,  Thomas  S.  Moore,  Jacob  B.  Moore,  J.  Ridgway  Moore,  John  E.  Moore,  W.  D.  Moore, 
Anson  B.  Moran,  E.  H.  Moran,  F.  C.  Morehead,  John  C.  Morgan,  Henry  K.  Morgan,  Stephen  Moriarty,  A. 
Newbold  Morris,  Gouverneur  Morris,  Charles  W.  Morris,  George  P.  Morris,  George  B.  Morris,  G.  A.  Morri- 
son, David  M.  Morrison,  S.  L.  Morrison,  Waldo  G.  Morse,  Stanley  Mortimer,  Theodore  Moss,  J.  Osborn  Moss, 
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A.  C.  iMonson,  John  Muir,  Thomas  J.  Muller,  Richard  Munfield,  H.  M.  Munsell,  E.  C.  Murphy,  William  I). 
Murphy,  Dr.  V.  W.  Murray,  Logan  C.  Murray,  Russell  Murray,  Theodore  W.  Myers,  Sinclair  Myers,  J.  R. 
Myers,  Mrs.  S.  Matilda  Mygatt,  T.  Stuart  Napier,  James  R.  Nash,  George  W.  Nash,  Joseph  Naylor,  Mrs.  Belle 
Neilson,  William  Nelson,  Edmund  V.  Nelson,  I).  A.  Nesbitt,  John  J.  Neville,  Thomas  H.  Nevvbold,  H.  Victor  New- 
comb,  N.  J.  Newwitter,  W.  G.  Nichols,  W.  S.  Nichols,  L)e  Lancey  Nicoll,  Andrew  A.  Noonan,  Frank  F.  Northrop, 
Edward  L.  Norton,  F.  Hammatt  Norton,  Edward  N.  Norton,  Fred.  F.  Nugent,  D.  Nunan,  Theodore  Oakes,  W.  J. 
O'Connor,  W.  H.  O'Donnell,  Frank  A.  O'Donnell,  J.  S.  Ogilvie,  M.  E.  O'Keefe,  Stephen  H.  Olin,  Robert  Oly- 
phant,  E.  M.  O'Neil,  Fred.  Oppenheim,  W.  L.  Ormsby,  Alexander  M.  Orr,  Albert  W.  Orr,  Charles  E.  Orvis, 
E,  P.  Otis,  A.  Outwell,  W.  W.  Overman,  Walter  S.  Owen,  Edwin  Packard,  R.  C.  M.  Page,  M.  D.,  J.  Seaver 
Page,  Archer  V.  Pancoast,  C.  C.  Paneding,  H.  C.  Parke,  Edward  Parke,  R.  Wayne  Parker,  George  B.  Parker, 
Daniel  Parker,  Jr.,  Edward  L.  Parris,  J.  Frank  Patterson,  F.  S.  Patterson,  Arthur  J.  Peabody,  Richmond 
Pearson,  William  E.  Pearson,  Charles  G.  Pease,  Edward  H.  Peaslee,  Prof.  H.  T.  Peck,  General  T.  S.  Peck, 
George  Pell,  W.  A.  Penfield,  William  H.  Penfold,  C.  S.  Percival,  F.  L.  Perine,  Gilman  H.  Perkins,  J.  L.  Perry, 
John  H.  Perry,  G.  I).  Petrie,  Thomas  A.  Phelan,  R.  M.  Phillips,  E.  L.  E.  Phipps,  A.  D.  Pick,  John  J.  Pierre- 
pont,  General  J.  Fred.  Pierson,  Charles  Pinard,  J.  A.  Pinard,  John  B.  Pine,  Benjamin  Y.  Pippey,  Charles  ('.. 
Piatt,  T.  C.  Piatt,  Miss  C.  F.  Plum,  James  R.  Plum,  John  F.  Plummer,  William  M.  Polk,  W.  H.  Pomery,  Charles 
H.  Pond,  Edward  E.  Poor,  E.  A.  Poor,  David  F.  Porter,  Mrs.  Clara  Pond  Porter,  Francis  Dwight  Porter,  Ed- 
ward E.  Potter,  William  A.  Potter,  Orlando  B.  Potter,  John  F.  Praeger,  S.  S.  Pratt,  Robert  Kelly  Prentice, 
T.  R.  Proctor,  W.  Edgar  Pruden,  W.  R.  Pryor,  George  Haven  Putnam,  H.  Mason  Raborg,  Frederick  Radley, 
John  J.  Radley,  F.  T.  Raemer,  Lawrence  Raemer,  Homer  E.  Ramsdell,  A.  C.  Rand,  Samuel  H.  Randell,  J.  H. 
Ranger,  Paul  C.  Ranson,  James  Rascover,  Alfred  Ray,  Felix  Ray,  William  A.  Read,  Geraldyn  Redmond,  J.  Q. 
Reed,  Lloyd  Reed,  S.  A.  Reed,  Edward  M.  Reid,  Thomas  Reilly,  Norman  I.  Reis,  L.  Frederic  Requa,  R.  Rus- 
sell Requa,  Frederick  J.  Reville,  Thomas  L.  Reynolds,  A.  B.  Rhett,  Frederick  W.  Rhinelander,  T.  J.  Oakley 
Rhinelander,  Philip  Rhinelander,  Benjamin  T.  Rhodes,  Jr.,  A.  T.  J.  Rice,  George  S.  Rice,  Edward  C.  Rice, 
Ignatius  Rice,  R.  K.  Richards,  Charles  R.  Richards,  William  Munroe  Rickoff,  John  Riddle,  Alerandi  Riddle, 
A.  Riesenberg,  E.  Stanton  Riker,  J.  Hampden  Robb,  Dr.  M.  J.  Roberts,  William  H.  Robertson,  J.  L.  Robertson, 
Jeremiah  P.  Robinson,  George  W.  Robinson,  M.  D.,  Douglas  Robinson,  E.  R.  Robinson,  S.  R.  Robinson,  E. 
Willard  Roby,  M.  Rock,  Harris  C.  Rodgers,  Charles  W.  Rodvvell,  Charles  F.  Roe,  Washington  A.  Roebling, 
W  illiam  F.  Roeder,  Noah  C.  Rogers,  H.  L.  Rogers,  Henry  A.  Rogers,  Benjamin  F.  Romaine,  Jr.,  P.  S.  Ronalds, 
Theodore  Roosevelt,  Dr.  J.  West  Roosevelt,  S.  M.  Roosevelt,  Charles  H.  Ropes,  E.  W.  Ropes,  J.  H.  Rosen- 
berg, Joseph  Rosenberg,  Schuyler  Ross,  F.  Ross,  George  W.  Rowan,  William  Henry  Rowe,  Robert  Colemande 
Roy,  Rev.  Alfred  Lee  Royce,  John  M.  Ruck,  Jacob  Rulins,  Charles  H.  Russell,  Jr.,  Mrs.  S.  H.  Russell,  J.  Rus- 
zits,  John  A.  Rutherfurd,  Robert  Rutter,  Richard  W.  Ryan,  R.  A.  Ryley,  Charles  F.  Sabin,  William  P.  St.  John, 
Leopold  Salzer,  W.  C.  Sammis,  W.  C.  Sammons,  Edward  C.  Sampson,  Charles  E.  Sampson,  J.  Samuels,  Harry 
L.  Sanford,  Louis  Sands,  George  H.  Sargent,  Lewis  Hall  Sayre,  Miss  Mary  H.  Sayre,  Julia  A.  Sayre,  Robert 
Schell,  Jacob  H.  Schiff,  Edward  Schell,  F.  Augustus  Schermerhorn,  Charles  A.  Schermerhorn,  Schuyler  Schieffe- 
lin,  Charles  M.  Schieffelin,  C.  J.  Schneider,  J.  Langdon  Schroeder,  S.  D.  Schuyler,  Miss  Louise  Lee  Schuyler, 
Abe.  Schwab,  Thomas  Scott,  G.  Hilton  Scribner,  John  H.  Scriven,  C.  M.  Seamans,  C.  Swan  Sedgwick,  A.  J. 
Simendinger,  Clarence  A.  Seward,  W.  H.  Schaffer,  Robert  H.  Shamins,  Robert  H.  Shannon,  R.  C.  Sharmon, 
Hon.  George  Shea,  A.  J.  Sheldon,  W.  C.  Sheldon,  Jr.,  Colonel  Elliott  F.  Shepard,  Prentise  Shethar,  William  P. 
Shinn,  Louis  L.  Shipman,  David  H.  Shipman,  William  Huntley  Short,  Henry  B.  Shute,  Jr.,  David  B.  Sickeis, 
R.  H.  Silverman,  A.  D.  Simendinger,  J.  Edward  Simmons,  A.  C.  Simonson,  H.  Marion  Sims,  A.  J.  Sims, 
E.  V.  Skinner,  W.  H.  Slack,  Henry  Lewis  Slade,  Marshall  P.  Slade,  Douglas  Sladen,  A.  J.  Slendon,  Hugh 
Slevin,  Samuel  Sloan,  Jr.,  Benson  J.  Sloan,  James  P.  Sloane,  W.  D.  Sloane,  Thomas  L.  Small,  Edmund  Norton 
Smedley,  F.  Hopkinson  Smith,  Ernest  Duval  Smith,  William  C.  Smith,  A.  D.  Smith,  Flarlan  P.  Smith,  Oliver 
Drake  Smith,  R.  B.  Smith,  W.  Tracey  Smith,  D.  Lowber  Smith,  Gerrit  Smith,  Henry  C.  Smith,  Charles  Stewart 
Smith,  Dr.  Samuel  W.  Smith,  E.  G.  Snow,  Henry  S.  Sohn,  S.  W.  Soper,  George  H.  Southard,  Charles  A.  Spear, 
Fred.  O.  Spedden,  J.  Clinton  Spencer,  Harris  S.  Spencer,  F.  C.  Spooner,  Charles  E.  Sprague,  James  Spreyer, 
W.  P.  Spurgeon,  Albert  C.  Squier,  Myles  Standish,  Walter  Stanton,  M.  Allen  Starr,  M.  D.,  Charles  J.  Stebbins, 
Arthur  Stedman,  George  E.  Stedman,  Mrs.  B.  M.  Steever,  S.  Bethune  Stein,  Miss  Gertrude  Stella,  Maurice  C. 
Sternbach,  M.  Sternbach,  Charles  Sternbach,  Philip  Sternbach,  Adolph  Sternfeld,  Francis  Lynde  Stetson,  John 


HARRIET  WADSWORTH 
Daughter  of  Colonel  Jekemiah  Wadsworth,  at  th 

AGE  OF  TWENTY  TWO  AND  WHO  DIET'  IN  BeRMI  DA  AT  TH 
AGE  OF  TWENTY  FOUR. 


W 


FAITH  TRUMBULL 

Daughter  of  Jonathan  Tri  mbull.  Memher  of 
Congress  in  1789,  and  wife  of  Daniel  Wads- 
worth.  AT  THE  AGE  OF  TWENTY  TWO. 


MRS  JONATHAN  TRUMBULL, 

(born  Eunice  Backus.) 

Wife  of  the  Member  of  Congres: 
in  i789.  at  the  age  of  forty  four 


CATHARINE  WADSWORTH 
Daughter  of  Colonel  Jeremiah  Wadsworth  and  Wife 
of  Gexekal  Nathaniel  Terr%  .  at  the  age  ok  eighteen. 


MARY  JULIA  SEYMOUR. 
Daughter  of  Thomas  SkymoUR,  First  Mayor  of  H  \ki- 
ford,  Connecticut,  and  wife  of  Caktain  John  Chen- 
evard.  at  the  age  of  twenty  three. 


Oil.  MINIATURES  BY  JOHN  TRUMBULL  OF  MRS  JONATHAN  TRUMBULL.  PAINTED  IN  1793;  OF  HER  DAUGHTER  FAITH 
TRUMBULL.  PAINTED  IN  1791;  OF  CATHARINE  WADSWORTH  AND  MARY  JULIA  SEYMOUR.  PAINTED  IN  1792; 
AND  OF  HARRIET  WADSWORTH.  PAINTED  IN  1791     OWNED  BY  YALE  UNIVERSITY. 


THE  CENTENNIAL  BALE 


267 


Austin  Stevens,  Eben  F.  Stevens,  Theodore  F.  Stevens,  Lispenard  Stewart,  J.  Stikemann,  Dr.  Daniel  M.  Stimson, 
Joseph  H.  Stiner,  J.  M.  Stoddard,  Lorimer  Stoddard,  Frederick  Norton  Stoddard,  William  E.  D.  Stokes,  James 
Stokes,  Miss  Caroline  Phelps  Stokes,  Dexter  L.  Stone,  John  Strahan,  James  S.  Strahan,  Frank  Vance  Strauss, 
W.  A.  Street,  William  L.  Strong,  J.  H.  W.  Strong,  F.  Strong,  Murray  H.  Strong,  Wilson  Budd  Strong,  Nathan 
Strouse,  Arthur  Pemberton  Sturges,  Rutherfurd  Stuyvesant,  Arthur  T.  Sullivan,  George  W.  Sullivan,  Wilber- 
force  Sully,  Captain  J.  Frank  Supplee,  J.  Holden  Sutton,  W.  J.  Swan,  Dr.  John  H.  Swasey,  Wager  Swayne, 
Edward  R.  Sweetser,  Howard  P.  Sweetser,  Christopher  Swezey,  M.  R.  Swift,  Dr.  Edwin  E.  Swift,  William 
Sykes,  Henry  L.  Taggart,  E.  N.  Tailer,  Giles  E.  Taintor,  James  Talcott,  Frederick  S.  Tallmadge,  }.  V.  Tarns, 
Fred.  D.  Tappen,  Miss  L.  B.  Taylor,  H.  A.  Taylor,  W.  A.  Taylor,  P.  B.  Taylor,  Edward  Tcrrill,  Edmund 
R.  Terry,  Paul  L.  Thebaud,  Seth  E.  Thomas,  Baron  de  Thompsen,  Dr.  William  G.  Thompson,  Frederick  D. 
Thompson,  John  Thompson,  E.  O.  Thompson,  C.  R.  Thorn,  George  E.  Throop,  H.  N.  Tieman,  Belmont 
Tiffany,  Frank  Tilford,  William  H.  Tillinghast,  Joseph  F.  Tobias,  Louis  L.  Todd,  Theodore  J.  Toedt,  John  C. 
Tomlinson,  R.  A.  Torrey,  George  W.  Townsend,  E.  Townsend,  J.  Coleridge  Travis,  Lieutenant  S.  R.  Tre- 
gellas,  H.  G.  Trevot,  C.  H.  Truax,  F.  H.  Trusdell,  John  J.  Tucker,  Samuel  A.  Tucker,  Lawrence  Turner,  W. 
H.  Turner,  M.  T.  Turner,  Southerland  T  urnery,  Lawrence  Furnure,  Jr.,  Charles  M.  Tyson,  George  I.  Tyson, 

E.  B.  Underhill,  George  H.  Upshur,  Theodore  F.  Vail,  David  Duncan  Vail,  A.  B.  Valentine,  S.  H.  Valentine, 

F.  Van  Armingo,  Travis  C.  Van  Buren,  James  S.  Van  Cortlandt,  Cornelius  Vanderbilt,  S.  Oakley  Vanderpoel, 
William  L.  Vandervoort,  Mrs.  M.  D.  Van  Duren,  L.  V.  A.  Van  Home,  Edward  Van  Ness,  J.  Tallmadge  Van 
Rensselaer,  E.  Van  Raalti,  A.  Van  Santvoord,  George  W.  Van  Siclen,  Howard  Van  Sinderen,  Ashley  A.  Van- 
tine,  J.  Albert  Van  Winkle,  A.  S.  Van  Winkle,  General  James  M.  Varnum,  Marion  J.  Verdery,  William  G.  Ver 
Planck,  George  J.  Vestner,  William  E.  D.  Vincent,  George  Floyd  Vingut,  Alphonso  von  Munn,  J.  H.  Wade 
Jr.,  Daniel  T.  Wade,  William  C.  Wallace,  George  W.  Wallace,  John  B.  Walker,  Amos  J.  Walker,  Myron  P. 
Walker,  Thomas  J.  Walsh,  Thomas  J.  Walters,  Colonel  Walton,  J.  L.  Ward,  James  Barclay  Ward,  Raymond 
L.  Ward,  Barclay  Ward,  J.  H.  Ward,  Jr.,  Walter  E.  Ward,  R.  F.  Ware,  R.  C.  Ware,  John  C.  Warner,  J.  Hobart 
Warren,  Mrs.  J.  Hobart  Warren,  J.  B.  Wasson,  Nelson  J.  Waterbury,  T.  J.  Waters,  W.  Argyle  Watson,  John 
Watts,  George  B.  Watts,  Jr.,  G.  C.  Wattles,  Mrs.  Charlton  H.  Way,  General  Alexander  S.  Webb,  G.  Creighton 
Webb,  Dr.  William  Seward  Webb,  Willoughby  Webster,  A.  T.  Webster,  John  A.  Weekes,  Francis  H.  Weeks, 
Grenville  M.  Weeks,  Bartow  S.  Weeks,  Grant  Weidman,  H.  S.  Weigand,  George  W.  Weld,  R.  W.  Welling,  R. 
W.  G.  Welling,  F.  L.  Wellman,  William  Wells,  T.  Tileston  Wells,  William  Storrs  Wells,  A.  E.  Wemple,  David 
M.  Wenberger,  Ross  W.  Went,  G.  J.  Wetzlar,  W.  B.  Wheeler,  Charles  W.  Wetmore,  L.  E.  Whicher,  Fred.  C. 
White,  Joseph  B.  White,  Gaylord  B.  White,  George  A.  White,  Mrs.  J.  M.  White,  Worthington  Whitehouse,  A. 
R.  Whitney,  Carroll  Whittaker,  Marshall  P.  Wilder,  M.  A.  Wilks,  M.  G.  Wilkins,  J.  T.  Willets,  G.  H.  C.  Will- 
iams, Frank  S.  Williams,  William  H.  Williams,  Charles  P.  Williams,  W.  P.  Williams,  J.  Francis  Williams,  W.  C. 
Williams,  George  Williamson,  John  C.  Williamson,  Theodore  B.  Willis,  John  C.  Wilmerding,  Dee  Laroo  Wil- 
son, George  Wilson,  General  James  Grant  Wilson,  Richard  T.  Wilson,  Miss  Wilure,  Erastus  Wiman,  M.  R. 
Winchell,  Locke  W.  Winchester,  Egerton  L.  Winthrop,  Buchanan  Winthrop,  John  S.  Wise,  Charles  A. 
Wissman,  Frank  Sherman  Witherbee,  John  Wolfe,  J.  S.  Wolfe,  Benjamin  Wood,  Thomas  C.  Wood,  Theodore 
C.  Woodbury,  General  Stewart  L.  Woodford,  Maxwell  Van  Zandt  Woodhull,  N.  B.  Woodworth,  Thomas  B. 
Woolsey,  William  F.  Wright,  M.  D.,  J.  Hood  Wright,  W.  O.  Wyckoff,  John  J.  Wysong,  Louis  Yalden,  Charles 
N.  Yeamans,  James  Yereance,  Daniel  D.  Youmans,  Elbert  Jones  Yonge,  John  F.  Zebley. 

Following  is  the  menu  of  the  supper  : 

C/iauds. — Consomme  en  Tasse,  Huitres  Poulette,  Bouchees  a  la  Reine,  Timbales  Venetiennes,  Croquettes 
de  Volaille,  Terrapins  Maryland,  Filets  de  Boeuf  aux  Champignons,  Chapone  roti  aux  Marrons. 

Froids. — Saumons  de  Canada  au  beurre  de  Montpelier,  Bass  reyes  a  la  Borgia,  Fruites  samones  k  la 
Bayadere,  Filets  de  Bceuf  a  la  Russe,  Aspics  de  foie  gras  en  Belle  yeux,  Pates  a  la  Washington,  Jambons 
historiques,  Tartines  de  foie  gras,  Buissons  de  Truffles  du  Perigord,  Langues  de  Bceuf  a  la  ecarlate,  Noix 
de  veaux  a  la  Ravigotte,  Galantines  de  Champons  aux  Truffles,  Chaud-froid  d'OrtoIans,  Becassines  et 
Pluviers  a  la  Gelee,  Agneaux  du  printemps  roti,  entiers,  Sandwiches  de  foie  gras,  Salade  de  Volaille,  Salade 
de  Homard. 


268       77//:   CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


Sucres. — Pieces  montees  en  Patisserie,  Gelee  aux  Fruits,  Gelee  Orientale,  Charlottes  Russes,  Charlottes 
Dosia,  Gaufres  Chantilly,  Biscuits  des  Princes,  Diplomates  a  la  creme  Chantilly,  Brioches  en  Moules, 
Savarins  en  Monies,  Quartiers  d'Oranges  glaces  au  Caramel,  Nougat  Parisien,  Neapolitains,  Chateaubriand, 
Meringues  Suisses,  Fantaisies,  Sultanes,  Cornes  d'abondance,  Petit  Gateaux,  Petit  Fours,  Mottoes,  Bonbons. 

Glaces. — Vanille,  Pistaches,  Framboises,  Ananas. 

Cafe". — Corbeilles  de  Fruits. 


CHAPTER  XII. 

THE  SERVICES  AT  ST.   PAUL'S  CHATEL. 


Tuesday,  the  30th  of  April,  was  the  most  important  of  the  three  days'  celebration.  It 
was  the  centennial  day,  and  the  first  feature  of  the  programme  were  the  services  at  St. 
Paul's  Chapel,  the  same  house  of  worship  where  services  were  held  on  the  day  of  Wash- 
ington's inauguration.  The  hour  selected  was  nine  o'clock  in  the  morning,  the  same  hour 
in  which  the  doors  of  the  churches  in  the  city  had  been  thrown  open  for  a  brief  service 
of  prayer  and  thanksgiving  just  a  hundred  years  before. 

It  was  half-past  eight  o'clock  when  William  G.  Hamilton  and  James  M.  Montgomery, 
Chairman  and  Secretary  of  the  Committee  on  States,  called  at  the  house  of  Vice-President 
Morton,  at  the  northeast  corner  of  Fifth  Avenue  and  Sixteenth  Street,  and,  under  the 
protection  of  a  squad  of  twenty-five  mounted  police,  escorted  the  President  and  Vice- 
President  of  the  United  States  to  St.  Paul's  Chapel.  The  carriage,  drawn  by  four  horses, 
was  the  same  one  that  was  used  by  the  President  during  the  entire  celebration.  It  was 
followed  by  another  carriage  containing  Mrs.  Harrison  and  Mrs.  Morton  and  the  Secretary 
of  the  General  Committee.  Both  carriages  were  driven  rapidly  down  Fifth  Avenue  to 
Waverly  Place,  through  Waverly  Place  to  Broadway,  and  down  Broadway  to  St.  Paul's 
Chapel,  which  was  reached  at  five  minutes  before  nine  o'clock.  Closely  following  the 
presidential  party  were  other  carriages  containing  the  members  of  the  President's  Cabinet, 
the  Chief-Justice  and  Associate  Justices  of  the  United  States,  and  other  distinguished  guests, 
all  under  the  escort  of  the  Committee  on  States.  The  police  had  cleared  the  streets 
adjoining  the  chapel  of  the  crowds  of  people. 

The  presidential  party  and  all  the  invited  guests  entered  at  the  Vesey  Street  gate. 
The  walk  from  this  gate  to  the  west  porch  of  St.  Paul's  Chapel  was  covered  by  an  awning, 
under  which  a  carpet  was  laid.  Two  American  flags  were  floating  from  the  steeple.  The 
Committee  of  the  Vestry  of  Trinity  Church,  consisting  of  Richard  T.  Auchmuty,  Stephen 
V.  R.  Cruger,  William  Jay,  Alexander  Hamilton,  and  Frederick  Clarkson,  met  the  President 
and  Vice-President  at  the  Vesey  Street  gate,1  and  escorted  them  to  the  west  porch  of 
the  chapel,  where  they  were  received  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Morgan  Dix,  Rector  of  Trinity 
Parish,  and  the  full  vestry — namely  :  Wardens — Stephen  P.  Nash  and  Allan  Campbell ; 
Vestrymen — Henry  Drisler,  Charles  H.  Contoit,  John  H.  Caswell,  Richard  T.  Auchmuty, 
Thomas  Egleston,  Walter  H.  Lewis,  Thomas  L.  Ogden,  Bowie  Dash,  Stephen  V.  R.  Cruger, 


1  The  Committee  of  the  Vestry  in  attendance  were  Messrs.  Auchmuty,  Jay,  and  Clarkson.  Colonel  Cruger  was  on 
duty  with  the  military  parade,  and  Mr.  Hamilton  was  absent  from  the  city. 


270       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 


William  Jay,  Nathaniel  P.  Bailey,  Edmund  D.  Randolph,  Hermann  H.  Cammann,  George  A. 
Robbins,  Alexander  Hamilton,  George  M.  Coit,  Elihu  Chauncey,  Richard  Delafield,  William 
W.  Astor,  and  Frederick  Clarkson. 

The  President  passed  up  the  middle  aisle,  escorted  by  the  Senior  Warden,  Stephen  P. 
Nash,  followed  by  the  Vice-President,  escorted  by  the  Junior  Warden,  Allan  Campbell; 
turning  to  the  left,  they  proceeded  to  the  Washington  pew.  In  this  pew,  which  George 
Washington  occupied  on  the  day  of  his  inauguration,  now  sat  the  President  and  Vice- 
President  of  the  United  Sates.  The  Vestry  of  Trinity  Church,  preceded  by  the  Commit- 
tee of  the  Vestry,  followed  the  presidential  party  and  occupied  the  two  seats  in  front  and 


Committee  oftAe  Vest/-?/  of'Thmily  C/iurefc> 
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the  three  behind  the  presidential  pew,  and  in  the  pew  directly  opposite  the  President  sat 
the  four  officers  of  the  General  Committee.  The  Governor  Clinton  pew,  on  the  south- 
side  aisle,  was  reserved  for  the  Governor  of  the  State  of  New  York.  Other  pews  were 
occupied  by  the  two  ex-Presidents  of  the  United  States,  Rutherford  B.  Hayes  and  Grover 
Cleveland  ;  by  Governors  of  States,  members  of  the  Supreme  Court,  officers  of  the  Army 
and  Navy,  Senators  and  Representatives,  members  of  the  Diplomatic  Corps,  and  Judges 
of  the  Court  of  Appeals,  committees  of  the  State  Senate  and  Assembly  and  Cincinnati 
Society,  clergymen,  city  officials,  and  other  invited  guests,  and  members  of  the  Centennial 
Committee.  A  limited  number  of  invitations  were  sent  to  ladies  and  to  distinguished 
citizens,  and,  as  admission  was  by  ticket  only,  the  building  was  not  crowded.  Each  pew 
had  a  small  lavender-colored  label  with  the  assignment  printed  on  it  in  gold. 


THE  SEE  J  ICES  AT  ST  PALE'S  CHAPEL. 


271 


The  decorations  of  the  chapel  consisted  principally  of  flags,  plants,  and  flowers.  There 
were  two  large  pyramids  of  flowers  on  each  side  of  the  chancel,  surmounted  by  three  Ameri- 
can flags,  while  within  the  chancel  masses  of  flowers  and  plants  were  artistically  arranged. 
Palms,  azaleas,  and  hydrangeas,  were  placed  on  each  window-sill.  Smilax  and  roses  adorned 
the  chandeliers,  of  which  the  large  one  in  the  chancel  was  lighted.  On  the  columns  support- 
ing the  side  galleries  were  shields  with  golden  eagles  arranged  on  stands  of  the  flags  of  1  789 
and  1889.  The  most  striking  feature  of  the  decorations  were  two  large  crossed  flags  on  the 
choir  gallery,  facing  the  chancel,  one  being  the  national  flag  as  used  a  hundred  years  ago,  with 
the  thirteen  stars  arranged  in  a  circle,  and  the  other  the  ancient  white  silk  banner  with  the 
royal  golden  fleur-de-lis  of  the  King  of  France. 

Leo  Kofler  was  the  choir-master  and  organist,  and  the  following  was  the  musical  pro- 
gramme : 

Voluntary — Theme  and  Variations:  "God  Save  the  King"  H.  Matthison  Hansen. 

Processional,  Hymn  409  Old  Hundred. 

Psalter:  Psalm  lxxxv  G.  A.  Macfarren. 

Psalm  exxii  E.  F.  Rimbault. 

Te  Deum  Laudamus  in  E  flat  for  double  chorus  R.  P.  Stewart. 

Benedicite  (portion  of)  Henry  Rogers. 

Recessional,  Hymn  309  God  bless  Our  Native  Land. 

Finale  of  the  Fifth  Sonata  Joseph  Rheinberger. 


The  double  quartet  included  :  Miss  Bella  L.  Watson,  first  soprano ;  Miss  Clara  B. 
Leek,  second  soprano  ;  Miss  Edith  Tuttle,  first  alto ;  Miss  Florence  N.  Bachman,  sec- 
ond alto ;  George  O'Reilly,  first  tenor ;  Robert  Schreyvogel,  second  tenor ;  John  F. 
Luetgens,  first  bass;  William  H.  H.  Kase,  second  bass.  In  the  chorus  were:  Sopranos: 
Louise  Pickenbach,  Sophie  Goeggelman,  Minniebelle  Demarest,  Ethel  Merington,  Helen 
H.  McGown,  Marie  K.  Hinds,  and  Gertrude  Kimball.  Altos :  Susie  Pfeiffer,  Anna 
Crowen,  Margaret  A  McGown,  May  C.  Smith,  and  Mamie  W.  Plumb.  Tenors  :  Ernest 
P.  Stephenson,  Edmund  T.  Koch,  Fred  H.  Cullom,  C.  Elbert  McGown,  and  George  R. 
Henricks.  Basses  :  Thomas  Smith,  Dr.  Ransom,  George  Rogers,  George  Aspinwall,  and 
W.  Stagg  Cerren. 

The  services  were  as  follows:  1.  Processional  Hymn.  2.  Our  Father,  etc.  3.  Psalm 
lxxxv.  4.  First  Lesson,  Ecclesiasticus  xliv.  5.  Te  Deum.  6.  Second  Lesson,  St.  John  viii. 
7.  Benedicite.  8.  Creed  and  Prayers.  9.  Address  by  the  Right  Rev.  Henry  C.  Potter,  Bish- 
op of  New  York.    10.  Recessional  Hymn. 

As  the  clock  on  St.  Paul's  struck  nine,  the  choir  began  to  sing  the  following  hymn,  to  the 
tune  of  Old  Hundred: 

1.  Before  Jehovah's  awful  Throne, 

Ve  nations,  bow  with  sacred  joy  ; 
Know  that  the  Lord  is  God  alone; 
He  can  create,  and  he  destroy. 


272        THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


2.  His  sovereign  power,  without  our  aid, 

Made  us  of  clay,  and  formed  us  men  ; 
And  when  like  wandering  sheep  we  strayed, 
He  brought  us  to  his  fold  again. 

3.  We  are  his  people,  we  his  care, 

Our  souls,  and  all  our  mortal  frame  ; 
What  lasting  honors  shall  we  rear, 
Almighty  Maker,  to  thy  Name  ? 


4.  We'll  crowd  thy  gates  with  thankful  songs, 

High  as  the  heaven  our  voices  raise  ; 
And  earth,  with  her  ten  thousand  tongues, 
Shall  fill  thy  courts  with  sounding  praise. 

5.  Wide  as  the  world  is  thy  command  ; 

Vast  as  eternity  thy  love  ; 
Firm  as  a  rock  thy  truth  must  stand, 
When  rolling  years  shall  cease  to  move. 


When  the  distinguished  congregation  arose  to  join  in  the  singing,  the  officiating  bishops  and 
clergy  attired  in  their  robes  of  office  took  the  places  assigned  to  them  in  the  chancel.  They 

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THE  SERVICES  AT  ST  PAULS  CHAPEE 


included  :  Right  Rev.  Henry  C.  Potter,  Bishop  of  New  York  ;  Right  Rev.  Abram  Newkirk 
Littlejohn,  Bishop  of  Long  Island;  Right  Rev.  William  Stevens  Perry,  Bishop  of  Iowa; 
Right  Rev.  Charles  Todd  Quintard,  Bishop  of  Tennessee;  the  Yen.  Alexander  Mackay- 
Smith,  Arch-deacon  of  New  York ;  the  Yen.  W.  R.  Thomas,  Arch-deacon  of  Orange  ;  the 
Yen.  F.  B.  Van  Kleeck,  Arch-deacon  of  Westchester,  New  York  ;  the  Yen.  Henry  L.  Ziejjen- 
fuss,  Arch-deacon  of  Dutchess,  New  York  ;  the  Yen.  George  D.  Johnson,  Arch-deacon  of 
Richmond,  New  York  ;  Rev.  Morgan  Dix,  D.  D.,  Rector  of  Trinity  Church  ;  Rev.  James 
Mulchahey,  D.  D.,  and  Rev.  William  Montague  Geer,  Assistant  Ministers  of  St.  Paul's 
Chapel ;  and  Rev.  W.  A.  Holbrook,  temporary  officiant  at  St.  Paul's  Chapel. 
The  services  at  St.  Paul's  were  entitled  : 

"A  Form  of  Prayer  and  Thanksgiving  to  Almighty  God  for  the  Inestimable  Blessings  of 
Civil  and  Religious  Liberty,  set  forth  by  the  Bishop  of  the  Diocese  of  New  York,  to  be  used 
in  St.  Paul's  Chapel  on  Tuesday,  the  Thirtieth  Day  of  April,  MDCCCLXXXIX,  the  One 
Hundredth  Anniversary  of  the  Inauguration  of  George  Washington,  First  President  of  the 
United  States  of  America ; "  and  the  same  services  were  also  authorized  in  the  Diocese  of 
Pennsylvania,  by  Bishop  O.  W.  Whitaker  ;  in  the  Diocese  of  Massachusetts,  by  Bishop  Ben- 
jamin H.  Paddock;  in  the  Diocese  of  Springfield,  by  Bishop  George  F.  Seymour;  in  the 
Diocese  of  Newark,  by  Bishop  T.  A.  Starkey ;  in  the  Diocese  of  Pittsburgh,  by  Bishop 
Cortlandt  Whitehead  ;  and  in  the  Diocese  of  Maine,  by  Bishop  H.  A.  Neely. 

Rev.  Dr.  Morgan  Dix  began  the  services. 

The  first  Lesson  was  read  by  Bishop  Littlejohn,  and  the  second  Lesson  by  Bishop  Quin- 
tard, and  the  Rev.  Dr.  Mulchahey  led  in  reading  the  Apostles'  Creed,  and  also  read  the  pray- 
ers that  followed. 

The  full  text,  together  with  the  hymn  that  followed,  is  given  below. 

A  FORM  OF  PRAISE  AND  THANKSGIVING. 

1  The  Minister  shall  begin  the  Service  by  reading  the  following  sentences  of  Holy  Scripture: 

TTOLY,  Holy,  Holy,  Lord  God  Almighty,  which  was,  and  is.  and  is  to  come.    Rev.  iv,  8. 

-*■        The  eternal  God  is  thy  refuge,  and  underneath  are  the  everlasting  arms.    Dent,  xxxiii,  27. 

Happy  art  thou,  O  Israel  :  who  is  like  unto  thee,  O  people  saved  by  the  Lord,  the  shield  of  thy  help,  and 
who  is  the  sword  of  thy  excellency  !    Dent,  xxxiii,  29. 

O  that  men  would  therefore  praise  the  Lord  for  his  goodness :  and  declare  the  wonders  that  he  doeth  for 
the  children  of  men  !    Psalm  cvii,  21. 

IT  Then  the  Minister  shall  say: 

O  give  thanks  unto  the  God  of  heaven. 
Answer.  For  his  mercy  endureth  for  ever. 
Minister.  O  give  thanks  unto  the  Lord  of  Lords. 
Answer.  For  his  mercy  endureth  for  ever. 

1  Then,  all  kneeling  down,  the  Minister  and  the  People  shall  say  the  Lord's  Prayer,  the  Minister  first  pronouncing  : 

Let  us  pray. 
Lord,  have  mercy  upon  us. 

Christ,  have  mercy  upon  us. 
Lord,  have  mercy  upon  us. 

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274       THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 

OUR  Father,  who  art  in  heaven,  Hallowed  be  thy  name.  Thy  kingdom  come.  Thy  will  be  done  on  earth, 
As  it  is  in  heaven.  Give  us  this  day  our  daily  bread.  And  forgive  us  our  trespasses,  As  we  forgive 
those  who  trespass  against  us.  And  lead  us  not  into  temptation  ;  But  deliver  us  from  evil :  For  thine  is  the 
kingdom,  And  the  power,  and  the  glory,  For  ever  and  ever.  Amen. 

1  Then  shall  the  Minister  say  as  followeth  t 
A  Prayer  of  Thanksgiving. 

OGOD,  whose  Name  is  excellent  in  all  the  earth,  and  whose  glory  is  above  the  heavens :  We  bless  thee  for 
the  great  things  thou  hast  done  and  art  doing  for  the  children  of  men.  We  consider  the  days  of  old, 
the  years  of  ancient  times,  and  unto  thee  do  we  give  thanks.  Moreover,  we  yield  thee  most  high  praise  for 
the  wonderful  grace  and  virtue  declared  in  all  those  thy  children  who  have  been  the  lights  of  the  world  in 
their  several  generations.  For  raising  up  thy  servant  GEORGE  WASHINGTON,  and  giving  him  to  be  a 
leader  and  commander  to  the  people;  for  vouchsafing  to  him  victory  over  kings,  and  for  bestowing  upon  him 
many  excellent  gifts;  for  inclining  the  hearts  of  men  in  Congress  assembled  to  wise  choices,  and  for  granting 
them  vision  of  the  days  to  come;  for  a  settled  Constitution,  and  for  equal  laws;  for  freedom  to  do  the  thing 
that  is  right,  and  liberty  to  say  the  truth ;  for  the  spread  of  knowledge  everywhere  among  us,  and  for  the  pres- 
ervation of  the  faith;  we  bless  and  magnify  thy  holy  Name,  humbly  beseeching  thee  to.  accept  this  our  sacri- 
fice of  thanks  and  praise,  through  Jesus  Christ  our  only  Saviour  and  Redeemer.  Amen. 

Minister.  We  will  praise  thy  Name,  O  God,  with  a  song. 
Answer.  And  magnify  it  with  thanksgiving. 

1  Here,  all  standing  up,  the  Minister  shall  say  : 
Glory  be  to  the  Father,  and  to  the  Son,  and  to  the  Holy  Ghost ; 

Answer.  As  it  was  in  the  beginning,  is  now,  and  ever  shall  be,  world  without  end.  Amen. 
Minister.  Praise  ye  the  Lord. 
Answer.  The  Lord's  name  be  praised.1 

T  Then  shall  be  sung  these  Psalms  following,  with  the  GLORIA  Patri  : 

Psalm  lxxxv.    Benedixisti,  Do  mine. 

T  ORD,  thou  art  become  gracious  unto  thy  land  :  thou  hast  turned  away  the  captivity  of  Jacob. 
'  2.  Thou  hast  forgiven  the  offence  of  thy  people:  and  covered  all  their  sins. 

3.  Thou  hast  taken  away  all  thy  displeasure  :  and  turned  thyself  from  thy  wrathful  indignation. 

4.  Turn  us  then,  O  God  our  Saviour :  and  let  thine  anger  cease  from  us. 

5.  Wilt  thou  be  displeased  at  us  for  ever:  and  wilt  thou  stretch  out  thy  wrath  from  one  generation  to  an- 
other ? 

6.  Wilt  thou  not  turn  again,  and  quicken  us:  that  thy  people  may  rejoice  in  thee  ? 

7.  Show  us  thy  mercy,  0  Lord  :  and  grant  us  thy  salvation. 

8.  I  will  hearken  what  the  Lord  God  will  say  concerning  me :  for  he  shall  speak  peace  unto  his  people, 
and  to  his  saints,  that  they  turn  not  again. 

9.  For  his  salvation  is  nigh  them  that  fear  him :  that  glory  may  dwell  in  our  land. 

10.  Mercy  and  truth  are  met  together  :  righteousness  and  peace  have  kissed  each  other. 

11.  Truth  shall  flourish  out  of  the  earth;  and  righteousness  hath  looked  down  from  heaven. 

12.  Yea,  the  Lord  shall  show  loving-kindness:  and  our  land  shall  give  her  increase. 

13.  Righteousness  shall  go  before  him:  and  he  shall  direct  his  going  in  the  way. 

Psalm  cxxii.    Lcetatus  sum. 

T  WAS  glad  when  they  said  unto  me :  We  will  go  into  the  house  of  the  Lord. 
*■    2.  Our  feet  shall  stand  in  thy  gates:  O  Jerusalem. 

3.  Jerusalem  is  built  as  a  city:  that  is  at  unity  in  itself. 

4.  For  thither  the  tribes  go  up,  even  the  tribes  of  the  Lord  :  to  testify  unto  Israel,  to  give  thanks 
unto  the  Name  of  the  Lord. 

5.  For  there  is  the  seat  of  judgment:  even  the  seat  of  the  house  of  David. 

6.  O  pray  for  the  peace  of  Jerusalem :  they  shall  prosper  that  love  thee. 

7.  Peace  be  within  thy  walls:  and  plenteousness  within  thy  palaces. 


1  Dr.  Dix  read  as  far  as  these  words. 


THE  SERVICES  AT  ST  PAULS  CHAPEL. 


8.  For  my  brethren  and  companions'  sakes :  I  will  wish  thee  prosperity. 

9.  Yea,  because  of  the  house  of  the  Lord  our  God :  I  will  seek  to  do  thee  good. 


1  Then  shall  be  read  for  the  first  Lesson  the  following  portion  of  the  Forty-fourth  Chapter  of  the  BOOK  OF  Ecclesi- 
ASTICUS  :  beginning  at  the  first  verse} 

T  ET  us  now  praise  famous  men,  and  our  fathers  that  begat  us.  The  Lord  hath  wrought  great  glory 
by  them,  through  his  great  power,  from  the  beginning.  Such  as  did  bear  rule  in  their  kingdoms, 
men  renowned  for  their  power,  giving  counsel  by  their  understanding  and  declaring  prophecies;  leaders 
of  the  people  by  their  counsels,  and  by  their  knowledge  of  learning  meet  for  the  people,  wise  and 
eloquent  in  their  instructions.  .  .  .  All  these  were  honored  in  their  generation,  and  were  the  glory  of 
their  times.  There  be  of  them  that  have  left  a  name  behind  them,  that  their  praises  might  be  reported. 
And  some  there  be  which  have  no  memorial ;  who  are  perished,  as  though  they  had  never  been  ;  and  are 
become  as  though  they  had  never  been  born ;  and  their  children  after  them.  But  these  were  merciful 
men,  whose  righteousness  hath  not  been  forgotten.  .  .  .  Their  bodies  are  buried  in  peace ;  but  their 
name  liveth  for  evermore.  The  people  will  tell  of  their  wisdom,  and  the  congregation  will  show  forth 
their  praise. 

IT  Then  shall  be  sung  the  following  Hymn  : 

Te  Deum  Laudamus. 

\  \  TE  praise  thee,  O  God:  we  acknowledge  thee  to  be  the  Lord. 
*  *     All  the  earth  doth  worship  thee:  the  Father  everlasting. 

To  thee,  all  Angels  cry  aloud:  the  Heavens,  and  all  the  Powers  therein. 

To  thee,  Cherubim  and  Seraphim :  continually  do  cry, 

Holy,  Holy,  Holy:  Lord  God  of  Sabaoth ; 

Heaven  and  earth  are  full  of  the  Majesty  :  of  thy  Glory. 

The  glorious  company  of  the  Apostles :  praise  thee. 

The  goodly  fellowship  of  the  Prophets  :  praise  thee. 

The  noble  army  of  Martyrs :  praise  thee. 

The  holy  Church  throughout  all  the  world:  doth  acknowledge  thee; 

The  Father:  of  an  infinite  Majesty. 

Thine  adorable,  true :  and  only  Son  ; 

Also  the  Holy  Ghost :  the  Comforter. 

Thou  art  the  King  of  Glory  :  O  Christ. 

Thou  art  the  everlasting  Son  :  of  the  Father. 

When  thou  tookest  upon  thee  to  deliver  man  :  thou  didst  humble  thyself  to  be  born  of  a  Virgin. 
When  thou  hadst  overcome  the  sharpness  of  death  :  thou  didst  open  the  Kingdom  of  Heaven  to  all 
believers. 

Thou  sittest  at  the  right  hand  of  God :  in  the  Glory  of  the  Father. 
We  believe  that  thou  shalt  come:  to  be  our  Judge. 

We  therefore  pray  thee,  help  thy  servants :  whom  thou  hast  redeemed  with  thy  precious  blood. 
Make  them  to  be  numbered  with  thy  Saints :  in  glory  everlasting. 
O  Lord,  save  thy  people :  and  bless  thine  heritage. 
Govern  them :  and  lift  them  up  for  ever. 
Day  by  day :  we  magnify  thee ; 

And  we  worship  Thy  name :  ever  world  without  end. 

Vouchsafe,  O  Lord :  to  keep  us  this  day  without  sin. 

O  Lord,  have  mercy  upon  us:  have  mercy  upon  us. 

O  Lord,  let  thy  mercy  be  upon  us :  as  our  trust  is  in  thee. 

O  Lord,  in  thee  have  I  trusted :  let  me  never  be  confounded. 

If  Then  shall  be  read  for  the  second  Lesson  the  following  portion  of  the  Eighth  Chapter  of  the  Gospel  according  to  St. 
John  :  beginning  at  the  thirty-first  verse? 

*  I  "HEN  said  Jesus  to  those  Jews  which  believed  in  him,  If  ye  continue  in  my  word  then  are  ye  my 
A     disciples  indeed ;  and  ye  shall  know  the  truth,  and  the  truth  shall  make  you  free.    They  answered 
him,  We  be  Abraham's  seed,  and  were  never  in  bondage  to  any  man :  How  sayest  thou,  Ye  shall  be 


1  Bishop  Littlejohn  read  the  first  Lesson. 

2  Bishop  Quintard  read  the  second  Lesson. 


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made  free?  Jesus  answered  them,  Verily,  verily,  I  say  unto  you,  Whosoever  committeth  sin  is  the  servant 
of  sin.  And  the  servant  abideth  not  in  the  house  for  ever:  but  the  Son  abideth  ever.  If  the  Son  there- 
fore shall  make  you  free,  ye  shall  be  free  indeed. 

IT  Then  shall  be  sung  a  portion  of  the  Canticle,  BENEDICTTE,  OMNIA  OPERA,  as  followeth :  with  the  Gloria  Patri. 

f~\  ALL  ye  Works  of  the  Lord,  bless  ye  the  Lord:  praise  him,  and  magnify  him  for  ever. 
()  ye  Angels  of  the  Lord,  bless  ye  the  Lord:  praise  him,  and  magnify  him  for  ever. 
O  ye  Children  of  Men,  bless  ye  the  Lord;  praise  him,  and  magnify  him  for  ever. 
O  let  Israel  bless  the  Lord:  praise  him,  and  magnify  him  for  ever. 
O  ye  Priests  of  the  Lord,  bless  ye  the  Lord  :  praise  him,  and  magnify  him  for  ever. 
O  ye  Servants,  of  the  Lord,  bless  ye  the  Lord:  praise  him,  and  magnify  him  for  ever. 
O  ye  Spirits  and  Souls  of  the  Righteous,  bless  ye  the  Lord :  praise  him,  and  magnify  him  for  ever. 

0  ye  holy  and  humble  Men  of  heart,  bless  ye  the  Lord  :  praise  him,  and  magnify  him  for  ever. 

T  Then  shall  be  said  by  the  Minister  and  the  People  the  Apostles'  Creed.1 

T    BELIEVE  in  God  the  Father  Almighty,  Maker  of  heaven  and  earth: 

And  in  Jesus  Christ  his  only  Son  our  Lord ;  Who  was  conceived  by  the  Holy  Ghost,  Born  of  the 
Virgin  Mary;  Suffered  under  Pontius  Pilate,  Was  crucified,  dead,  and  buried;  He  descended  into  hell,  The 
third  day  he  rose  again  from  the  dead;  He  ascended  into  heaven,  And  sitteth  on  the  right  hand  of  God 
the  Father  Almighty;  From  thence  he  shall  come  to  judge  the  quick  and  the  dead. 

1  believe  in  the  Holy  Ghost;  The  holy  Catholic  Church;  The  Communion  of  Saints;  The  Forgiveness  of 
sins;  The  Resurrection  of  the  body;  And  the  Life  everlasting.  Amen. 

IT  Then  shall  be  said  these  Prayers  following,  all  devoutly  kneeling;  the  Minister  first  pronouncing, 

'  I  "HE  Lord  be  with  you. 
*•     Answer.  And  with  thy  spirit. 
Minister.  Let  us  pray. 
O  Lord,  show  thy  mercy  upon  us. 
Answer.  And  grant  us  thy  salvation. 
Minister.  O  Lord,  save  thy  people. 
Ansiuer.  And  bless  thine  inheritance. 
Minister.  Endue  thy  Ministers  with  righteousness. 
Answer.  And  make  thy  chosen  people  joyful. 
Minister.  O  Lord,  bow  thine  ear. 

Answer.  And  mercifully  hear  us  when  we  call  upon  thee. 
Minister.  Give  peace  in  our  time,  O  Lord. 

Answer.  For  it  is  thou  Lord  only  that  makest  us  dwell  in  safety. 
Minister.  O  God,  make  clean  our  hearts  within  us. 
Answer.  And  take  not  thy  Holy  Spirit  from  us. 

IT  Then  shall  follow  these  Prayers,  the  Minister  and  the  People  still  kneeling. 

A  Collect  for  Peace. 

f~\   GOD,  who  art  the  author  of  peace  and  lover  of  concord,  in  knowledge  of  whom  standeth  our  eternal 
life,  whose  service  is  perfect  freedom  ;  Defend  us  thy  humble  servants  in  all  assaults  of  our  enemies  ; 
that  we,  surely  trusting  in  thy  defense,  may  not  fear  the  power  of  any  adversaries,  through  the  might  of 
Jesus  Christ  our  Lord.  Amen. 

For  the  President  of  the  United  States  and  all  in  Civil  Authority. 

A  LMIGHTY  God,  the  fountain  of  all  goodness,  we  humbly  beseech  thee  to  bless  thy  servant,  BENJAMIN 
HARRISON,  President  of  the  United  States,  his  counselors  and  all  others  in  authority.  Endue 
them  with  thy  Holy  Spirit  ;  enrich  them  with  thy  heavenly  grace  ;  prosper  them  with  all  happiness ;  and  bring 
them  to  thine  everlasting  kingdom  ;  through  Jesus  Christ  our  Lord.  Amen. 

For  the  Country. 

\  LMIGHTY  God,  who  in  the  former  time  didst  lead  our  fathers  forth  into  a  wealthy  place  :  Give  thy 
grace,  we  humbly  beseech  thee,  to  us  their  children,  that  we  may  always  approve  ourselves  a  people 


1  Dr.  Mulchahey  began  with  the  Apostles'  Creed. 


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mindful  of  thy  favor  and  glad  to  do  thy  will.  Bless  our  land  with  honorable  industry,  sound  learning,  and 
pure  manners.  Defend  our  liberties,  preserve  our  unity.  Save  us  from  violence,  discord,  and  confusion,  from 
pride  and  arrogancy,  and  from  every  evil  way.  Fashion  into  one  happy  people  the  multitudes  brought  hither 
out  of  many  kindreds  and  tongues.  Endue  with  the  spirit  of  wisdom  those  whom  we  intrust  in  thy  Name 
with  the  authority  of  governance,  to  the  end  that  there  be  peace  at  home,  and  that  we  keep  a  place  among  the 
nations  of  the  earth.  In  the  time  of  prosperity,  fill  our  hearts  with  thankfulness  ;  and  in  the  day  of  trouble, 
suffer  not  our  trust  in  thee  to  fail ;  all  which  we  ask  for  Jesus  Christ's  sake.  Amen. 


For  a  Blessing  on  the  Families  of  the  Land. 

ALMIGHTY  God,  our  heavenly  Father,  who  settest  the  solitary  in  families  ;  We  commend  to  thy  continual 
care  the  homes  in  which  thy  people  dwell.  Put  far  from  them,  we  beseech  thee,  every  root  of  bitter- 
ness, the  desire  of  vain-glory  and  the  pride  of  life.  Fill  them  with  faith,  virtue,  knowledge,  temperance, 
patience,  godliness.  Knit  together  in  constant  affection  those  who,  in  holy  wedlock,  have  been  made  one 
flesh  ;  turn  the  heart  of  the  fathers  to  the  children,  and  the  heart  of  the  children  to  the  fathers  ;  and  so  kin- 
dle charity  among  us  all,  that  we  be  evermore  kindly  affectioned  with  brotherly  love  ;  through  Jesus  Christ 
our  Lord.  Amen. 

For  the  Unity  of  the  Church  of  God. 

S~\  GOD,  the  Father  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  our  only  Saviour,  the  Prince  of  Peace  ;  Give  us  grace  seri- 
ously  to  lay  to  heart  the  great  dangers  we  are  in  by  our  unhappy  divisions.  Take  away  all  hatred  and 
prejudice,  and  whatsoever  else  may  hinder  us  from  godly  union  and  concord  ;  that,  as  there  is  but  one  Body, 
and  one  Spirit,  and  one  Hope  of  our  calling,  one  Lord,  one  Faith,  one  Baptism,  one  God  and  Father  of  us  all, 
so  we  may  all  be  of  one  heart,  and  of  one  soul,  united  in  one  holy  bond  of  Truth  and  Peace,  of  Faith  and 
Charity,  and  may  with  one  mind  and  one  mouth  glorify  thee  ;  through  Jesus  Christ  our  Lord.  Amen. 

2  Cor.  xiii,  14. 

'  1  "HE  grace  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  and  the  love  of  God,  and  the  fellowship  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  be  with 
*■     us  all  evermore.  Amen. 


R 


HYMN. 

ISE,  crowned  with  light,  imperial  Salem,  rise ;    3.  See  barbarous  nations  at  thy  gates  attend, 
Exalt  thy  towering  head  and  lift  thine  eyes:         Walk  in  thy  light,  and  in  thy  temple  bend  : 


See  heaven  its  sparkling  portals  wide  display,  See  thy  bright  altars  thronged  with  prostrate  kings, 

And  break  upon  thee  in  a  flood  of  day.  While  every  land  its  joyous  tribute  brings. 


2.  See  a  long  race  thy  spacious  courts  adorn, 
See  future  sons,  and  daughters  yet  unborn, 
In  crowding  ranks  on  every  side  arise, 
Demanding  life,  impatient  for  the  skies. 


4.  The  seas  shall  waste,  the  skies  to  smoke  decay, 
Rocks  fall  to  dust,  and  mountains  melt  away  ; 
But  fixed  his  word,  his  saving  power  remains  ; 
Thy  realm  shall  last,  thy  own  Messiah  reigns. 


After  the  singing  of  the  above  hymn,  the  Right  Rev.  Henry  C.  Potter,  Bishop  of  New 
York,  delivered  the  following  discourse  : 

Oxe  hundred  years  ago  there  knelt  within  these  walls  a  man  to  whom,  above  all  others  in  its  history,  this 
nation  is  indebted.  An  Englishman  by  race  and  lineage,  he  incarnated  in  his  own  person  and  character  every 
best  trait  and  attribute  that  have  made  the  Anglo-Saxon  name  a  glory  to  its  children  and  a  terror  to  its  enemies 
throughout  the  world.  But  he  was  not  so  much  an  Englishman  that,  when  the  time  came  for  him  to  be  so,  he 
was  not  even  more  an  American ;  and  in  all  that  he  was  and  did,  a  patriot  so  exalted  and  a  leader  so  great 
and  wise  that,  what  men  called  him  when  he  came  here  to  be  inaugurated  as  the  first  President  of  the  United 
States,  the  civilized  world  has  not  since  then  ceased  to  call  him — the  Father  of  his  Country. 

We  are  here  this  morning  to  thank  God  for  so  great  a  gift  to  this  people,  to  commemorate  the  incidents  of 
which  this  day  is  the  one  hundredth  anniversary,  and  to  recognize  the  responsibilities  which  a  century  so 
eventful  has  laid  upon  us. 

And  we  are  here  of  all  other  places,  first  of  all,  with  pre-eminent  appropriateness.  I  know  not  how  it  may 
be  with  those  to  whom  all  sacred  things  and  places  are  matters  of  equal  indifference,  but  surely  to  those  of  us 


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with  whom  it  is  otherwise  it  can  not  be  without  profound  and  pathetic  import  that  when  the  first  President  of 
the  Republic  had  taken  upon  him,  by  virtue  of  his  solemn  oath  pronounced  in  the  sight  of  the  people,  the 
heavy  burden  of  its  chief  magistracy,  he  turned  straightway  to  these  walls,  and,  kneeling  in  yonder  pew,  asked 
God  for  strength  to  keep  his  promise  to  the  nation  and  his  oath  to  him.  This  was  no  unwonted  home  to  him 
nor  to  a  large  proportion  of  those  eminent  men  who,  with  him,  were  associated  in  framing  the  Constitution 
of  these  United  States.    Children  of  the  same  spiritual  mother  and  nurtured  in  the  same  Scriptural  faith  and 


THE  PRESIDENT  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES 
leaving  the  Vesey  Street  entrance  of  St.  Paul's  Chapel,  to  drive  to  the  Sub-Treasury  Building,  April  30,  1S89, 
(From  photograph  by  the  "Brooklyn  Academy  of  Photography.") 


order,  they  were  wont  to  carry  with  them  into  their  public  deliberation  something  of  the  same  reverent  and 
conservative  spirit  which  they  had  learned  within  these  walls,  and  of  which  the  youthful  and  ill-regulated  fer- 
vors of  the  new-born  republic  often  betrayed  its  need.  And  he,  their  leader  and  chief,  while  singularly  with- 
out cant  or  formalism  or  pretense  in  his  religious  habits,  was  penetrated,  as  we  know  well,  by  a  profound  sense 
of  the  dependence  of  the  republic  upon  a  guidance  other  than  that  of  man,  and  of  his  own  need  of  a  strength 
and  courage  and  wisdom  greater  than  he  had  within  himself. 

And  so,  with  inexpressible  tenderness  and  reverence,  we  find  ourselves  thinking  of  him  here,  kneeling  to 
ask  such  gifts,  and  then  rising  to  go  forth  to  his  great  tasks  with  mien  so  august  and  majestic  that  Fisher 
Ames,  who  sat  beside  him  in  this  chapel,  wrote,  "  I  was  present  in  the  pew  with  the  President,  and  must  assure 
you  that,  after  making  all  deductions  for  the  delusions  of  one's  fancy  in  regard  to  characters,  I  still  think  of 
him  with  more  veneration  than  for  any  other  person."  So  we  think  of  him,  I  say;  and,  indeed,  it  is  impossible 
to  think  otherwise.  The  modern  student  of  history  has  endeavored  to  tell  us  how  it  was  that  the  service  in 
this  chapel  which  we  are  striving  to  reproduce  came  about.  The  record  is  not  without  obscurity,  but  of  one 
thing  we  may  be  sure — that  to  him  who  of  that  goodly  company  who,  a  hundred  years  ago,  gathered  within 
these  walls  was  chief,  it  was  no  empty  form,  no  decorous  affectation.  Events  had  been  too  momentous,  the 
hand  of  a  heavenly  Providence  had  been  too  plain  for  him  and  the  men  who  were  grouped  about  him  then 


THE  SERVICES  AT  ST.  PAULS  CHAPEE 


to  misread  the  one  or  mistake  the  other.  The  easy  levity  with  which  their  children's  children  debate  the  facts 
of  God,  and  duty,  and  eternal  destiny  was  as  impossible  to  them  as  faith  and  reverence  seem  to  be,  or  to  be 
in  danger  of  becoming,  to  many  of  us.  And  so  we  may  be  very  sure  that,  when  they  gathered  here,  the  air 
was  hushed  and  hearts  as  well  as  heads  were  bent  in  honest  supplication. 

For,  after  all,  their  great  experiment  was  then,  in  truth,  but  just  beginning.  The  memorable  days  and 
deeds  which  had  preceded  it — the  struggle  for  independence,  the  delicate,  and,  in  many  respects,  more  difficult 
struggle  for  union,  the  harmonizing  of  the  various  and  often  apparently  conflicting  interests  of  rival  and 
remote  States  and  sections,  the  formulating  and  adopting  of  the  national  Constitution — all  these  were,  after 
all,  but  introductory  and  preparatory  to  the  great  experiment  itself.  It  has  been  suggested  that  we  may 
wisely  see  in  the  event  which  we  celebrate  to-day  an  illustration  of  those  great  principles  upon  which  all  gov- 
ernments rest,  of  the  continuity  of  the  chief  magistracy,  of  the  corporate  life  of  the  nation  as  embodied  in  its 
executive,  of  the  transmission,  by  due  succession,  of  authority,  and  the  like;  of  all  of  which,  doubtless,  in  the 
history  of  the  last  one  hundred  years  we  have  an  interesting,  and,  on  the  whole,  inspiring  example. 

But  it  is  a  somewhat  significant  fact  that  it  is  not  along  lines  such  as  these  that  that  enthusiasm  which  has 
flamed  out  during  these  recent  days  and  weeks,  as  this  anniversary  has  approached,  has  seemed  to  move.  The 
one  thing  that  has,  I  imagine,  amazed  a  good  many  cynical  and  pessimistic  people  among  us  is  the  way  in 
which  the  ardor  of  a  great  people's  love  and  homage  and  gratitude  has  kindled,  not  before  the  image  of  a 
mechanism,  but  of  a  man.  It  has  been  felt  with  an  unerring  intuition  which  has,  once  and  again  and  again  in 
human  history,  been  the  attribute  of  the  people  as  distinguished  from  the  doctrinaires,  the  theorists,  the  system- 
makers,  that  that  which  makes  it  worth  while  to  commemorate  the  inauguration  of  George  Washington  is  not 
merely  that  it  is  the  consummation  of  the  nation's  struggle  toward  organic  life,  not  merely  that  by  the  initia- 
tion of  its  chief  executive  it  set  in  operation  that  Constitution  of  which  Mr.  Gladstone  has  declared,  "  As  far  as 
I  can  see,  the  American  Constitution  is  the  most  wonderful  work  ever  struck  off  at  one  time  by  the  brain  and 
purpose  of  man  ";  but  that  it  celebrates  the  beginning  of  an  administration  which,  by  its  lofty  and  stainless 
integrity,  by  its  absolute  superiority  to  selfish  or  secondary  motives,  by  the  rectitude  of  its  daily  conduct  in 
the  face  of  whatsoever  threats,  blandishments,  or  combinations,  rather  than  by  the  ostentatious  phariseeism 
of  its  professions,  has  taught  this  nation  and  the  world  forever  what  the  Christian  ruler  of  a  Christian  people 
ought  to  be. 

I  yield  to  no  man  in  my  veneration  for  the  men  who  framed  the  compact  under  which  these  States  are 
bound  together.  No  one  can  easily  exaggerate  their  services  or  the  value  of  that  which  they  wrought  out. 
But,  after  all,  we  may  not  forget  to-day  that  the  thing  which  they  made  was  a  dead  and  not  a  living  thing. 
It  had  no  power  to  intrepret  itself,  to  apply  itself,  to  execute  itself.  Splendid  as  it  was  in  its  complex  and 
forecasting  mechanism,  instinct  as  it  was,  in  one  sense,  with  a  noble  wisdom,  with  a  large-visioned  statesman- 
ship, with  a  matchless  adaptability  to  untried  emergencies,  it  was,  nevertheless,  no  different  in  another  aspect 
from  one  of  those  splendid  specimens  of  naval  architecture  which  throng  our  wharves  to-day,  and  which,  with 
every  best  contrivance  of  human  art  and  skill,  with  capacities  of  progress  which  newly  amaze  us  every  day, 
are  but  as  impotent,  dead  matter,  save  as  the  brain  and  hand  of  man  shall  summon  and  command  them. 
"The  ship  of  state,"  we  say.  Yes;  but  it  is  the  cool  and  competent  mastery  at  the  helm  of  that,  as  of  every 
other  ship,  which  shall,  under  God,  determine  the  glory  or  the  ignominy  of  the  voyage. 

Never  was  there  a  truth  which  more  sorely  needed  to  be  spoken  !  A  generation  which  vaunts  its  descent 
from  the  founders  of  the  republic  seems  largely  to  be  in  danger  of  forgetting  its  pre-eminent  distinction. 
They  were  few  in  numbers,  they  were  poor  in  worldly  possessions — the  sum  of  the  fortune  of  the  richest 
among  them  would  afford  a  fine  theme  for  the  scorn  of  the  plutocrat  of  to-day ;  but  they  had  an  invincible 
confidence  in  the  truth  of  those  principles  in  which  the  foundations  of  the  republic  had  been  laid,  and  they 
had  an  unselfish  purpose  to  maintain  them.  The  conception  of  the  national  Government  as  a  huge  machine, 
existing  mainly  for  the  purpose  of  rewarding  partisan  service — this  was  a  conception  so  alien  to  the  character 
and  conduct  of  Washington  and  his  associates  that  it  seems  grotesque  even  to  speak  of  it.  It  would  be  inter- 
esting to  imagine  the  first  President  of  the  United  States  confronted  with  some  one  who  had  ventured  to 
approach  him  upon  the  basis  of  what  are  now  commonly  known  as  "practical  politics."  But  the  conception 
is  impossible.  The  loathing,  the  outraged  majesty  with  which  he  would  have  bidden  such  a  creature  to  be- 
gone is  foreshadowed  by  the  gentle  dignity  with  which,  just  before  his  inauguration,  replying  to  one  who  had 


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the  strongest  claims  upon  his  friendship,  and  who  had  applied  to  him  during  the  progress  of  the  "presidential 
campaign,"  as  we  should  say,  for  the  promise  of  an  appointment  to  office,  he  wrote :  "  In  touching  upon  the 
more  delicate  part  of  your  letter,  the  communication  of  which  fills  me  with  real  concern,  I  will  deal  with  you 
with  all  that  frankness  which  is  due  to  friendship,  and  which  I  wish  should  be  a  characteristic  feature  of  my 
conduct  through  life.  .  .  .  Should  it  be  my  fate  to  administer  the  Government,  I  will  go  to  the  chair  under  no 
pre-engagement  of  any  kind  or  nature  whatever.  And  when  in  it,  I  will,  to  the  best  of  my  judgment,  discharge 
the  duties  of  the  office  with  that  impartiality  and  zeal  for  the  public  good  which  ought  never  to  suffer  connections  of 
blood  or  friendship  to  have  the  least  sway  on  decisions  of  a  public  nature." 

On  this  high  level  moved  the  first  President  of  the  Republic.  To  it  must  we  who  are  the  heirs  of  her 
sacred  interests  be  not  unwilling  to  ascend,  if  we  are  to  guard  our  glorious  heritage! 

And  this  all  the  more  because  the  perils  which  confront  us  are  so  much  graver  and  more  portentous  than 
those  which  then  impended.  There  is  (if  we  are  not  afraid  of  the  wholesome  medicine  that  there  is  in  consent- 
ing to  see  it)  an  element  of  infinite  sadness  in  the  effort  which  we  are  making  to-day.  Ransacking  the  annals 
of  our  fathers  as  we  have  been  doing  for  the  last  few  months,  a  busy  and  well-meaning  assiduity  would  fain 
reproduce  the  scene,  the  scenery,  the  situation,  of  a  hundred  years  ago  !  Vain  and  impotent  endeavor!  It 
is  as  though  out  of  the  lineaments  of  living  men  we  would  fain  produce  another  Washington.  We  may  disin- 
ter the  vanished  draperies,  we  may  revive  the  stately  minuet,  we  may  rehabilitate  the  old  scenes,  but  the 
march  of  a  century  can  not  be  halted  or  reversed,  and  the  enormous  change  in  the  situation  can  neither  be 
disguised  nor  ignored.  Then  we  were,  though  not  all  of  us  sprung  from  one  nationality,  practically  one  peo- 
ple. Now,  that  steadily  deteriorating  process,  against  whose  dangers  a  great  thinker  of  our  own  generation 
warned  his  countrymen  just  fifty  years  ago,  goes  on,  on  every  hand,  apace.  "  The  constant  importation," 
wrote  the  author  of  "  The  Weal  of  Nations,"1  "as  now,  in  this  country,  of  the  lowest  orders  of  people  from 
abroad  to  dilute  the  quality  of  our  natural  manhood,  is  a  sad  and  beggarly  prostitution  of  the  noblest  gift 
ever  conferred  on  a  people.  Who  shall  respect  a  people  who  do  not  respect  their  own  blood  ?  And  how 
shall  a  national  spirit,  or  any  determinate  and  proportionate  character,  arise  out  of  so  many  low-bred  associa- 
tions and  cross-grained  temperaments,  imported  from  every  clime  ?  It  was  indeed  in  keeping  that  Pan,  who 
was  the  son  of  everybody,  was  the  ugliest  of  the  gods." 

And  again  :  Another  enormous  difference  between  this  day  and  that  of  which  it  is  the  anniversary  is  seen 
in  the  enormous  difference  in  the  nature  and  influence  of  the  forces  that  determine  our  national  and  political 
destiny.  Then,  ideas  ruled  the  hour.  To-day,  there  are  indeed  ideas  that  rule  our  hour,  but  they  must  be 
merchantable  ideas.  The  growth  of  wealth,  the  prevalence  of  luxury,  the  massing  of  large  material  forces, 
which  by  their  very  existence  are  a  standing  menace  to  the  freedom  and  integrity  of  the  individual,  the  infi- 
nite swagger  of  our  American  speech  and  manners,  mistaking  bigness  for  greatness,  and  sadly  confounding 
gain  and  godliness — all  this  is  a  contrast  to  the  austere  simplicity,  the  unpurchasable  integrity  of  the  first 
days  and  first  men  of  our  republic,  which  makes  it  impossible  to  reproduce  to-day  either  the  temper  or  the 
conduct  of  our  fathers.  As  we  turn  the  pages  backward,  and  come  upon  the  story  of  that  30th  of  April,  in 
the  year  of  our  Lord  1789,  there  is  a  certain  stateliness  in  the  air,  a  certain  ceremoniousness  in  the  manners, 
which  we  have  banished  long  ago.  We  have  exchanged  the  Washingtonian  dignity  for  the  Jeffersonian  sim- 
plicity, which  in  due  time  came  to  be  only  another  name  for  the  Jacksonian  vulgarity.  And  what  have  we 
gotten  in  exchange  for  it  ?  In  the  elder  States  and  dynasties  they  had  the  trappings  of  royalty  and  the  pomp 
and  splendor  of  the  king's  person  to  fill  men's  hearts  with  loyalty.  Well,  we  have  dispensed  with  the  old  titu- 
lar dignities.  Let  us  take  care  that  we  do  not  part  with  that  tremendous  force  for  which  they  stood !  If 
there  be  not  titular  royalty,  all  the  more  need  is  there  for  personal  royalty.  If  there  is  to  be  no  nobility  of 
descent,  all  the  more  indispensable  is  it  that  there  should  be  nobility  of  ascent — a  character  in  them  that  bear 
rule,  so  fine  and  high  and  pure,  that,  as  men  come  within  the  circle  of  its  influence,  they  involuntarily  pay 
homage  to  that  which  is  the  one  pre-eminent  distinction,  the  royalty  of  virtue ! 

And  that  it  was,  men  and  brethren,  which,  as  we  turn  to-day  and  look  at  him  who,  as  on  this  morning  just 
a  hundred  years  ago,  became  the  servant  of  the  republic  in  becoming  the  chief  ruler  of  its  people,  we  must 


1  Horace  Hushnell. 


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needs  own,  conferred  upon  him  his  divine  right  to  rule.  All  the  more,  therefore,  because  the  circumstances 
of  his  era  were  so  little  like  our  own,  we  need  to  recall  his  image  and,  if  we  may,  not  only  to  commemorate, 
but  to  reproduce  his  virtues.  The  traits  which  in  him  showed  pre-eminent  as  our  own  Irving  has  described 
them,  "  firmness,  sagacity,  an  immovable  justice,  courage  that  never  faltered,  and  most  of  all  truth  that  dis- 
dained all  artifices  " — these  are  characteristics  in  her  leaders  of  which  the  nation  was  never  in  more  dire  need 
than  now.  And  so  we  come  and  kneel  at  this  ancient  and  hallowed  shrine  where  once  he  knelt,  and  ask  that 
God  would  graciously  vouchsafe  them.  Here  in  this  holy  house  we  find  the  witness  of  that  one  invisible 
Force  which,  because  it  alone  can  rule  the  conscience,  is  destined,  one  day,  to  rule  the  world.  Out  from  airs 
dense  and  foul  with  the  coarse  passions  and  coarser  rivalries  of  self-seeking  men,  we  turn  aside  as  from  the 
crowd  and  glare  of  some  vulgar  highway,  swarming  with  pushing  and  ill-bred  throngs,  and  tawdry  and  clam- 
orous with  bedizened  booths  and  noisy  speech,  into  some  cool  and  shaded  wood  where  straight  to  heaven 
some  majestic  oak  lifts  its  tall  form,  its  roots  imbedded  deep  among  the  unchanging  rocks,  its  upper  branches 
sweeping  the  upper  airs,  and  holding  high  commune  with  the  stars;  and,  as  we  think  of  him  for  whom  we 
here  thank  God,  we  say,  "Such  a  one,  in  native  majesty  he  was  a  ruler,  wise  and  strong  and  fearless,  in  the 
sight  of  God  and  men,  because  by  the  ennobling  grace  of  God  he  had  learned,  first  of  all,  to  conquer  every 
mean  and  selfish  and  self-seeking  aim,  and  so  to  rule  himself !  "    For — 

"...  what  are  numbers  knit 
By  force  or  custom  ?    Man  who  man  would  be 

Must  rule  the  empire  of  himself — in  it 

Must  be  supreme,  establishing  his  throne 
On  vanquished  will,  quelling  the  anarchy 

Of  hopes  and  fears,  being  himself  alone." 

Such  was  the  hero,  leader,  ruler,  patriot,  whom  we  gratefully  remember  on  this  day.  We  may  not  repro- 
duce his  age,  his  young  environment,  nor  him.  But  none  the  less  may  we  rejoice  that  once  he  lived  and  led 
this  people,  "  led  them  and  ruled  them  prudently,"  like  him,  that  Kingly  Ruler  and  Shepherd  of  whom  the 
Psalmist  sang,  "with  all  his  power."  God  give  us  the  grace  to  prize  his  grand  example,  and,  as  we  may  in  our 
more  modest  measure,  to  reproduce  his  virtues  ! 

The  services  were  concluded  by  prayers  and  benediction  by  Bishop  Potter,1  and  the  sing- 
ing of  the  hymn,  God  bless  our  Native  Land. 

On  leaving  the  chapel  the  same  order  was  observed  as  on  entering.  Preceding  the  presi- 
dential party  were  four  members  of  the  Aisle  Committee:  David  A.  Clarkson,  Amory  S. 
Carhart,  Dr.  John  C.  Jay,  and  Charles  A.  Van  Rensselaer.  The  Committee  of  the  Vestry 
escorted  the  President  and  Vice-President  to  the  west  porch  and  thence  to  the  Vesey  Street 
gate,  where  they  were  received  by  the  Committee  on  Literary  Exercises,  who  escorted  them 
to  the  steps  of  the  sub-Treasury  Building  at  the  corner  of  Wall  and  Nassau  Streets. 

The  Special  Committee  of  the  General  Committee  on  the  Centennial  Celebration 
that  had  charge  of  the  services  at  St.  Paul's  Chapel  were :  Rev.  Dr.  Morgan  Dix, 
Frederick  Clarkson,  Richard  T.  Auchmuty,  S.  Van  Rensselaer  Cruger,  and  William  Jay. 


:  "  The  bishop  used  an  ancient  prayer-book,  the  property  of  Samuel  L.  M.  Barlow.  Esq..  who  kindly  lent  it  for  this 
occasion.  The  volume  formerly  belonged  to  General  Washington,  and  was  used  by  him  in  Christ  Church,  in  Philadelphia. 
It  is  a  i2mo.  bearing  on  the  title-page  the  words,  'Philadelphia:  Printed  by  Hall  and  Sellers  in  Market  St..  MDCCXC 
The  book  is  bound  in  red  morocco,  with  gilt  edges,  and  decorated  with  the  American  eagle  stamped  on  the  cover." — (Year 
Book  and  Register  of  the  Parish  of  Trinity  Church  in  the  City  of  New  York,  1890,  p.  118.) 
37 


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There  was  also  an  efficient  Aisle  Committee  who  received  the  invited  guests  as  they 
entered  the  chapel  and  escorted  such  to  the  seats  assigned  to  them.  The  Aisle  Com- 
mittee consisted  of  the  following-named  gentlemen  of  Revolutionary  ancestry  :  David 
Augustus  Clarkson,  chairman,  a  descendant  of  Chancellor  Livingston,  warden  in  1785, 
and  of  David  Clarkson,  warden  in  1770;   Howland  Pell,  secretary,  a  descendant  in  the 


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jiyJ  yipVttffi't^  ^i'fii'iyjp  iju^jxidii-  'Ji^_  - 
iiiiiAiiiL*  3311 


(Facsimile  of  tablet  unveiled  in  St.  Paul's  Chapel,  Sunday,  Dec.  7,  1890,  to  commemorate  the  Centennial  of  Washington's  Inauguration.) 


eighth  generation  of  John  Pell,  lord  of  the  Manor  of  Pelham,  1669,  representing  Major  Sam- 
uel T.  Pell,  Second  New  York  Regiment  and  Lieutenant-Colonel  Philip  Pell,  Deputy  Judge- 
Advocate,  Continental  Army,  members  of  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati ;  Hallett  Alsop  Bor- 
rowe,  representing  the  Hallett  and  Alsop  families  ;  Temple  Bowdoin,  a  descendant  of  General 
Alexander  Hamilton  ;  Amory  Sibley  Carhart,  a  great-great-grandson  of  Major  Cornelius  Car- 
hart  and  of  Colonel  Joseph  Beavers,  of  the  Revolutionary  Army,  and  a  descendant  of  the 
Blount  and  Rose  colonial  families  ;  Banyer  Clarkson,  a  descendant  of  Chief-Justice  Jay,  war- 
den in  1789  and  of  General  Matthew  Clarkson,  vestryman  in  1789  ;  John  Langdon  Erving, 
great-great-grandson  of  John  Langdon,  member  of  Continental  Congress  1776,  Governor  of 
New  Hampshire  1 788,  President  of  United  States  Senate  1 789,  and  of  Willian  Paterson, 


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283 


member  of  Continental  Congress  1780,  United  States  Senate  1  789,  Governor  of  New  Jersey 
1 79 1 ,  Judge  of  United  States  Supreme  Court  1793,  and  a  descendant  of  the  signer  Philip 
Livingston  and  of  the  Patroon  Stephen  Van  Rensselaer  ;  Dr.  John  Clarkson  Jay,  great-grand- 
son of  Chief-Justice  John  Jay  ;  Edward  A.  Le  Roy,  Jr.,  representing  Jacob  Le  Roy,  vestry- 
man in  1  795,  great-great-grandson  of  Captain  Shubael  Downes,  of  the  Revolutionary  Army, 
and  a  descendant  of  the  Livingston,  Pell,  and  Otis  families;  Philip  Livingston  Livingston,  a 
great-great-grandson  of  Philip  Livingston,  signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  and  of 
George  Williamson,  lieutenant  in  the  Continental  Army ;  Edward  De  Peyster  Livingston,  a 
descendant  of  Chancellor  Robert  R.  Livingston  ;  William  Bard  McYickar,  a  descendant  of 
Dr.  Samuel  Bard,  President  of  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  in  New  York,  and 
vestryman  in  1788;  Richard  Malcolm  Montgomery,  great-great-grandson  of  Colonel  William 
Malcom,  additional  Regiment  Continental  Infantry,  Deputy  Adjutant-General  Northern  De- 
partment, Brigadier-General  Militia  New  York  and  Richmond  1  789-1  792,  and  commandant 
of  the  militia  at  inauguration  of  Washington,  and  also  a  descendant  of  Colonel  William 
Henry,  county  lieutenant,  Philadelphia,  1777  to  1  790,  and  of  Commissary  George  Henry,  of 
the  Continental  Navy,  member  of  Philadelphia  City  Troop;  Newbold  Morris,  great-great- 
grandson  of  Lewis  Morris,  signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence  ;  Ludlow  Ogden,  rep- 
resenting the  Ludlow  and  Ogden  families  ;  T.  J.  Oakley  Rhinelander,  a  descendant  of  Philip 
Jacob  Rhinelander,  who  settled  at  New  Rochelle  1685,  of  John  Cruger,  Mayor  of  New  York 
1739  to  1744,  and  a  great-great-grandson  of  Jesse  Oakley,  Secretary  to  the  Military  Com- 
mittee, and  first  lieutenant  in  the  militia  of  Dutchess  County,  New  York,  1775  ;  Winthrop 
Rutherfurd,  a  descendant  of  Colonel  John  Rutherfurd,  of  the  Revolution,  and  a  vestryman  in 
1787;  William  H.  Russell,  a  descendant  of  the  Alexander  and  Russell  families;  Samuel 
Auchmuty  Tucker,  a  great-great-grandson  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Samuel  Auchmuty,  rector  from 
1764  to  1777;  Augustus  Yan  Cortlandt,  Jr.,  a  great-great-grandson  of  Augustus  Van 
Cortlandt,  vestryman  in  1 784  ;  Charles  A.  Yan  Rensselaer,  representing  the  Yan  Rensse- 
laer family  ;  Robert  T.  Yarnum,  representing  General  James  M.  Varnum  ;  John  Tillotson 
Wainwright,  a  great-great-grandson  of  Chancellor  Livingston,  of  Dr.  Isaac  Foster,  surgeon 
in  charge  of  hospitals,  Eastern  Department  1777,  and  great-grandson  of  Dr.  Thomas  Tillot- 
son, Secretary  of  State  New  York  and  Surgeon-General  United  States  Army;  and  J. 
Louis  Webb,  grandson  of  General  Samuel  B.  Webb. 


The  bronze  tablet  erected  in  St.  Paul's  Chapel  by  the  Aisle  Committee  in  commemoration 
of  the  services  held  in  the  chapel  on  April  30,  1889,  was  unveiled  at  the  close  of  the  regular 
morning  service  on  Sunday,  December  7,  1890.  The  committee  in  charge  were  Hallett  Alsop 
Borrowe,  David  Augustus  Clarkson,  Howland  Pell,  and  William  H.  Russell;  but  most  of  the 
other  members  of  the  Aisle  Committee  were  present,  as  well  as  some  members  of  the  Cen- 


284       THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


tennial  Committee,  including  William  G.  Hamilton,  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  States. 
The  tablet  is  of  bronze,  and  was  placed  on  the  wall  on  the  north  side  of  the  church  and  west 
of  the  pew  occupied  by  Washington  in  i  789.  Before  pronouncing  the  benediction  the  Rev. 
Dr.  Mulchahey  gave  notice  that  immediately  after  the  close  of  the  service  with  hymn  309 
(God  bless  our  Native  Land),  as  the  Recessional,  the  memorial  tablet  would  be  unveiled  and 
open  for  the  inspection  of  all  interested.    Dr.  Mulchahey  then  said: 

"  Although  permission  for  any  addition  to  the  furniture  or  structure  of  any  church  of  this 
parish  must  come  legally  from  the  vestry  rather  than  from  one  whose  only  responsibility  or 
prerogative  here  is  that  of  a  pastor,  I  take  pleasure  in  saying  that  a  tablet  on  the  walls  of  this 
church,  in  commemoration  of  a  service  which,  for  its  meaning  and  purpose,  looked  back  to  the 
very  foundation  of  our  republic,  seems  to  me  to  be  entirely  fitting.  And  I  am  the  more  ready 
to  say  this  as  it  accords  with  a  thought  which  I  have  often  had,  that  the  time  must  come 
when  this  venerable  chapel — the  only  colonial  church  building  now  standing  in  this  city — will 
be  recognized  as  sustaining  a  relation  to  the  Church  and  Commonwealth  somewhat  similar  to 
that  of  Westminster  Abbey  to  London  and  the  English  nation  ;  when  the  descendants  of 
the  fathers  of  the  city  and  State,  or  at  least  the  founders  of  this  church,  will  count  it  a  privi- 
lege to  fill  all  these  windows  with  memorials  of  their  ancestors.  Indeed,  I  would  not  ob- 
ject to  seeing  these  walls  covered  with  memorials  of  persons  and  events  conspicuous  in  the 
history  of  the  church  and  the  State.  Nor  would  there  be,  in  my  estimation,  any  incongruity 
in  thus  placing  historical  memorials  under  the  sanction  of  religion,  since  it  is  certain  that  the 
historic  spirit  is  second  only  to  that  of  religion  in  elevating  and  ennobling  the  tone  of  the 
national  character." 


CHAPTER  XIII. 


THE   LITERARY   EXERCISES  AT  THE  SUB-TREASURY. 

Cheer  after  cheer  greeted  the  presidential  party  as  the  procession  slowly  moved  from 
St.  Paul's  Chapel  to  the  sub-Treasury  Building.  The  police  kept  the  streets  clear  about  St. 
Paul's,  as  well  as  that  portion  of  Pine  Street  which  extends  from  Broadway  to  the  rear  of  the 
sub-Treasury  Building.  Following  the  mounted  police  came  the  procession  in  the  following 
order:  First  carriage — the  President  of  the  Centennial  Committee  and  the  Mayor  of  the 
City  of  New  York  ;  second  carriage — the  President  and  Vice-President  of  the  United  States 
and  the  Chairman  and  Secretary  of  the  Committee  on  Literary  Exercises  ;  third  carriage — ■ 
the  Secretaries  of  the  Treasury,  War,  and  Navy  ;  fourth  carriage — the  Secretary  of  the  Interior, 
Postmaster-General,  Attorney-General,  and  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture;  fifth  carriage — the 
Chief-Justice  and  Associate  Justices  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States;  sixth  car- 
riage— the  General  of  the  Army  (retired),  Admiral  of  the  Navy,  and  Senator  Evarts,  of  New 
York;  seventh  carriage — the  ex-Presidents  of  the  United  States  and  Senator  Hiscock,  of 
New  York ;  eighth  carriage — the  Committee  on  Plan  and  Scope. 

On  the  arrival  of  the  carriages  at  the  Pine-Street  entrance  of  the  sub-Treasury  Building 
the  President  and  Vice-President  of  the  United  States  were  received  by  Nicholas  Fish,  G. 
Creighton  Webb,  Charles  B.  Bleecker,  Lewis  H.  Livingston,  and  Arthur  De  Windt,  who  rep- 
resented the  five  "  assistants  "  at  Washington's  inauguration.1  Johnston  Livingston  De  Pey- 
ster,  Chairman  of  the  Platform  Committee,  was  also  present. 

On  entering  the  building  the  President  of  the  United  States  was  welcomed  by  the  Assist- 
ant Treasurer  of  the  United  States,  Ellis  H.  Roberts,  with  these  words :  "  Mr.  President,  it 
gives  me  great  pleasure  to  welcome  you  to  this  building,  on  this  historic  spot,  under  such 
auspicious  circumstances." 

President  Harrison  and  Vice-President  Morton  were  escorted  through  the  sub-Treasury 
Building  to  the  platform  on  Wall  Street  by  the  Chairman  and  Secretary  of  the  Committee 
on  Literary  Exercises.  They  were  preceded  by  Hamilton  Fish  and  Mayor  Hugh  J.  Grant, 
the  President  and  Chairman  of  the  Centennial  Committee,  and  were  followed  by  Secretaries 
Proctor,  Tracy,  Wanamaker,  Windom,  Noble,  and  Rusk,  of  the  President's  Cabinet  ;  by 
Chief-Justice  Fuller  and  the  Associate  Justices  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States; 


1  Lieutenant-Colonel  Nicholas  Fish,  the  grandfather  of  Nicholas  Fish  ;  General  Samuel  B.  Webb,  the  grandfather  of  G. 
Creighton  Webb;  Major  Leonard  Bleecker,  the  grandfather  of  Charles  B.  Bleecker;  Mr.  John  R.  Livingston,  the  great-great- 
uncle  of  Lewis  H.  Livingston ;  and  Colonel  William  S.  Smith,  the  grandfather  of  Arthur  De  Windt,  were  the  "  assistants  " 
at  Washington's  inauguration. 


286      THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


by  ex- Presidents  Hayes  and  Cleveland;  by  Rev.  Dr.  Storrs,  Archbishop  Corrigan,  and 
Chauncey  M.  Depevv  ;  and  by  other  invited  guests  and  members  of  the  Platform  Committee. 

Gilmore's  band,  that  had  been  playing  for  an  hour  or  more  "  The  Star-spangled  Banner," 
"  Washington's  Grand  March,"  "  Hail  Columbia,"  "  Yankee  Doodle,"  and  other  patriotic  airs, 
received  the  President  with  "Hail  to  the  Chief!" 

The  President  was  escorted  to  the  front  of  the  platform,  which  faced  Broad  Street,  to 
the  Washington  Chair,  so  named  because  it  was  the  very  chair  which  was  used  bv 
Washington  at  the  inauguration  ceremonies  of  1789.  Near  by  stood  a  table  which  once 
belonged  to  Chancellor  Livingston,  and  is  now  owned  by  his  great-grandson,  Robert  R. 
Livingston,  of  the  Platform  Committee.  Upon  a  blue  plush  cushion,  which  rested  on 
the  table,  was  the  Bible  upon  which  Washington  took  the  oath  of  office  on  April  30, 
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that  owned  the  book  a  hundred  years  ago,  and  was  guarded  by  the  following  Committee 
of  St.  John's  Lodge:  Ambrose  J.  Agate,  Oliver  G.  Brady,  Horace  J.  Arne,  Joseph  B.  Rose, 
Alexander  R.  Corbet,  John  C.  Walker,  and  W.  E.  D.  Stokes. 

A  glance  at  the  decorations  of  the  sub-Treasury  Building,  which  had  been  left  to 
the  supervision  of  the  Committee  on  Literary  Exercises,  should  be  taken  before  listening 
to  the  Prayer,  Oration,  and  Poem,  and  the  Address  of  the  President. 

The  first  thing  to  notice  was  the  building  itself.  It  was  erected  during  the  years 
1832-1842  by  John   Frazee,  architect  for  the  Custom-House,  and  is  probably  as  fine  a 


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specimen  of  pure  Grecian  Doric  architecture  as  exists  in  this  country.  It  closely  follows 
the  details  of  the  Parthenon  at  Athens,  and  is  a  building  that  is  not  only  exceedingly 
decorative  in  itself,  but  lends  itself  very  well  to  festal  decorations. 

The  motive  of  the  decoration  was  to  emphasize  the  constructional  and  ornamental 
features  of  the  building,  and  at  the  same  time  to  make  the  whole  design  symbolic  of  the 
celebration,  and,  above  all,  thoroughly  national  ;  accordingly,  nothing  was  used  but  the 
American  flag  and  the  national  and  State  emblems. 

Acting  on  this  idea,  the  tympanum  or  triangular  space  above  the  main  columns  in 
front  was  filled  with  a  large  gilded  eagle  specially  modeled  for  the  occasion,  measuring 
twenty-five  feet  across  its  outspread  wings,  flanked  by  twelve  large  American  flags  tastefully 
draped.  The  fourteen  square  spaces  in  the  main  frieze,  technically  called  the  metopes,  were 
filled  by  the  coats-of-arms  of  the  thirteen  original  States,  placed  in  the  order  in  which 
they  were  admitted  to  the  Union,  commencing  at  the  west  or  Broadway  end  of  the  front 
with  Delaware  and  ending  at  the  lower  end  with  Rhode  Island,  the  only  exception  being 
New  York,  which,  as  the  Empire  State  and  also  as  the  host  on  this  occasion,  had  the 
place  of  honor  in  the  center,  occupying  two  spaces.  These  shields  were  all  painted  in 
colors,  the  coats-of-arms  being  treated  as  panels  and  backed  by  the  Stars  and  Stripes,  thus 
making  a  uniform  series  conformable  to  the  severe  character  of  the  building  itself.  On 
the  architrave  or  space  underneath  the  shield  of  the  State  of  New  York  was  the  national 
motto,  "  E  Pluribus  Unum  "  in  color. 

Thus  the  main  cornice  with  its  motto,  and  the  glorious  Bird  of  Freedom  with  its  out- 
stretched wings,  represented  the  original  United  States  at  the  time  of  Washington's  inau- 
guration. 

The  whole  of  the  front  steps  and  the  sidewalk  were  converted  into  a  large  platform 
capable  of  holding  twelve  hundred  people.  It  extended  from  the  curb  on  Nassau  Street 
down  to  the  doorway  of  the  Assay  Office  on  Wall  Street,  and  from  the  curb  on  Wall 
Street  back  to  the  third  step  from  the  top  of  the  sub-Treasury  steps.  The  platform 
was  elevated  from  the  street  about  eleven  feet,  and  was  built  out  of  rough  timbers 
which  were  hidden  from  view.  By  filling  the  spaces  between  the  uprights  alternately 
with  red  and  white  bunting,  and  the  railing  space  above  with  blue,  an  immense  American 
flag  was  formed,  stretching  the  whole  length  of  the  facade.  The  stars  were  replaced  by 
another  series  of  the  arms  of  the  States,  also  in  their  proper  order,  with  three  exceptions, 
forty-two  in  all,  including  the  four  last  admitted — Montana,  Washington,  and  North  and 
South  Dakota.  New  York  occupied  the  central  panel  of  the  small  projecting  platform  for 
the  speakers,  flanked  on  the  right  by  Virginia,  Washington's  State,  and  on  the  left  by 
Indiana,  as  being  President  Harrison's  State. 

The  front  of  the  platform  was  thus  made  to  typify  the  United  States  of  to-day.  The 
platform  was  continued  as  a  raised  stage  in  front  of  the  Assay  Office  in  order  to  afford 
additional  accommodation.     Each  of  the  main  columns  in   front  was  decorated  with  a 


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gilded  eagle  and  a  trophy  of  silk  flags  reaching  about  half-way  up  the  shaft,  and  the  door 
in  the  center  was  draped  with  two  large  flags.    At  each  corner  of  the  main  platform 


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was  erected  a  pole,  surmounted  by  a  Cap  of  Liberty  on  the  top  and  draped  with  silk 
ilags  and  clusters  of  red,  white,  and  blue  ribbons,  while  at  the  corner  of  the  projecting 
speakers'  platform  was  erected  a  forty-foot    fiag-staff,  from  which  waved  the  President's 


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official  flag,  brought  especially  from  Washington  for  the  occasion  ;  it  was  hoisted  as  soon  as 
he  entered  the  building,  and  removed  on  his  departure. 

The  American  flag  flew  from  the  lofty  flag-staff  on  the  apex  of  the  roof,  and,  stretch- 
ing to  either  corner  of  the  roof  were  two  lines  of  signal  flags  of  the  International  Maritime 
Code,  which  to  the  initiated  spelled  out  the  signal,  "  First  in  war,  first  in  peace,  first  in 
the  hearts  of  his  countrymen." 

The  whole  of  the  work  was  designed  and  carried  out  by  Messrs.  Duncan  and  Johnston, 
decorators,  who,  after  the  celebration  was  over,  presented  the  large  eagle  to  the  Treasury 
Building,  where  it  may  still  be  seen  in  the  rotunda.  The  large  shields  on  the  frieze  were 
presented  to  the  City  Hall,  and  the  smaller  series  on  the  platform  to  the  New  York 
Historical  Society. 

Besides  the  President  and  Vice-President,  the  members  of  his  Cabinet,  the  Chief-Justice 
and  Associate  Justices,  and  the  guests  whose  names  have  been  already  mentioned,  the 
following-named  gentlemen  were  seen  on  the  platform  : 

Daniel  F.  Appleton,  Ambrose  J.  Agate,  Horace  J.  Arne,  Senator  William  B.  Allison,  Bishop  Edward  G. 
Andrews,  John  Anthon,  J.  Lawrence  Aspinwall,  Rev.  Dr.  O.  Applegate,  William  G.  Alden,  Judge  Charles  L. 
Benedict,  Lewis  Barker,  Hallett  Borrowe,  Samuel  Borrowe,  Samuel  D.  Babcock,  ex-Secretary  Thomas  F 
Bayard,  ex-Secretary  George  S.  Boutwell,  Henry  C.  Bowen,  Edward  Bierstadt,  James  M.  Brown,  Oliver  G. 
Brady,  Judge  Henry  W.  Bookstaver,  Charles  B.  Bleecker,  Walker  Blaine,  Herbert  Wolcott  Bowen,  Colonel 
Henry  W.  Banks,  Abraham  Bernheim,  Edward  A.  Bowen,  Thomas  Jefferson  Coolidge,  Jr.,  Clermont  L 
Clarkson,  Senator  Shelby  M.  Cullom,  Alexander  R.  Corbett,  General  John  Cochrane,  Andrew  Carnegie, 
Allan  Campbell,  James  C.  Carter,  A.  de  Claparede,  the  Swiss  Minister,  John  Claflin,  John  Cropper,  Isaac  S. 
Catlin,  Alfred  R.  Conkling,  John  D.  Crimmins,  Stacy  Clark,  General  Floyd  Clarkson,  W.  Bayard  Cutting, 
Charles  W.  Dayton,  Edward  F.  de  Lancey,  John  H.  Dingman,  Prof.  Henry  Drisler,  Charles  W.  Darling, 
Frederick  Douglass,  Henry  Dudley,  Leroy  Dresser,  S.  L.  Dows,  Senator  Henry  L.  Dawes,  Colonel  B.  T. 
Duval,  Julien  T.  Davies,  Johnston  Livingston  De  Peyster,  Henry  Thayer  Drowne,  President  Timothy 
Dwight,  of  Yale  University,  President  J-  D.  Dreher,  Ph.  D.,  of  Roanoke  College,  President  Charles  W. 
Eliot,  of  Harvard  University,  William  P.  Estes,  Major  George  P.  Edgar,  Senator  William  M.  Evarts, 
Nicholas  Fish,  Stuyvesant  Fish,  Everett  Frazar,  Patrick  Ford,  Governor  Daniel  G.  Fowle,  of  North  Carolina, 
Giraud  Foster,  Rev.  Lewis  Francis,  Colonel  Asa  Bird  Gardiner,  John  Wheelright  Greaton,  President  Merrill, 

E.  Gates,  then  of  Rutgers,  now  of  Amherst  College,  William  Gaston  Hamilton,  William  Pierson  Hamilton, 
Hannibal  Hamlin,  ex-Vice-President  of  the  United  States,  James  W.  Husted,  Henry  Waterman  Holden,  John 
S.  Hancock,  Walter  T.  Hatch,  Senators  Anthony  Higgins  and  Joseph  R.  Hawley,  Prof.  J.  L.  N.  Hunt,  John 

F.  Henry,  William  Wirt  Henry,  Governor  David  B.  Hill,  Senator  Frank  Hiscock,  Hamilton  B.  Holt,  Senator 

John  James  Ingalls,  John  Jay,  Lieutenant  W.  V.  Judson,  special  aide  to  the  President,  Lieutenant-Governor 

Edward  F.  Jones,  of  New  York,  William  B.  B.  Ingalls,  John  A.  King,  Eugene  Kelly,  John  J.  Knox,  James  Russell 

Lowell,  Edward  V.  Lowe,  W.  A.  Linn,  Walther  Luttgen,  Dr.  Robert  H.  Lamborn,  Sigismund  Lasar,  Robert 

R.  Livingston,  James  Duane  Livingston,  Seth  Low,  Lewis  H.  Livingston,  John  J.  Morris,  James  M.  Montgomery, 

Rev.  Charles  E.  McDonnell,  D.  D.,  Darius  O.  Mills,  James  Mulchahey,  D.  D.,  Senator  Charles  F.  Manderson, 

Lieutenant  T.  B.  M.  Mason,  Joseph  J.  O'Donohue,  General  J.  Fred.  Pierson,  Charles  Cotesworth  Pinckney, 

D.  D.,  Admiral  David  D.  Porter,  Orlando  B.  Potter,  Bishop  William  Stevens  Perry,  of  Iowa,  Edward  L.  Parris, 

Edwards  Pierrepont,  Robert  P.  Porter,  Stephen  Peabody,  John  F.  Plummer,  John  Jay  Pierrepont,  President 

Eliphalet  N.  Potter,  of  Hobart  College,  Bishop  Charles  Todd  Quintard,  Charles  H.  Russell,  Jr.,  Joseph  B. 

Rose,  John  P.  Rider,  I.  F.  Roe,  Whitelaw  Reid,  Minister  to  France,  Ellis  H.  Roberts,  William  H.  Robertson, 

General  William  T.  Sherman,  Senator  John  Sherman,  Colonel  Elliott  F.  Shepard,  John  Austin  Stevens,  Robert 

Sedgwick,  Ambrose  Snow,  W.  E.  D.  Stokes,  Lispenard  Stewart,  William  Carv  Sanger,  Mvles  Standish,  J. 
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Edward  Simmons,  John  Schuyler,  William  L.  Strong,  John  Sloane,  Christopher  Columbus  Shayne,  Walter 
Stanton,  Francis  Louis  Slade,  John  L.  Salisbury,  Carl  Schurz,  Isaac  T.  Smith,  Gardiner  Sherman,  Samuel 
A.  Suydam,  Augustus  I).  Shepard,  Edward  N.  Tailer,  Ur.  John  F.  Talmage,  James  Talcott,  Jonathan 
Trumbull,  Adrian  Van  Sinderen,  General  James  M.  Varnum,  John  C.  Walker,  Charles  Dudley  Warner,  Colonel 
Locke  W.  Winchester,  William  Argyle  Watson,  William  Greene  Ward,  John  A.  Weekes,  Rev.  William  Hayes 
W  ard,  1).  1).,  George  Wilson,  ex-Police  Superintendent  George  Washington  Walling,  Alexander  Warner, 
Krastus  Wiman,  Frank  S.  Witherbee,  and  Arthur  De  Windt. 

It  was  twenty-five  minutes  after  ten  when  Hamilton  Fish,  president  of  the  committee,  the 
son  of  the  honored  friend  of  Washington  who  assisted  in  the  inauguration  ceremonies  of  i  789, 


THE  SUB-TREASURY  BUILDING,  CORNER  OF  WALL  AND  NASSAU  STREETS, 
(From  photograph  by  the  "  Brooklyn  Academy  of  Photography.") 


APRIL  30,  1889. 


arose  and  said  :  "  I  am  requested  by  the  Executive  Committee  to  call  this  assembly  to  order, 
and  to  present  the  Hon.  Elbridge  T.  Gerry,  the  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Literary  Ex- 
ercises, as  president  of  the  meeting." 

Mr.  Gerry  then  made  the  following  introductory  address  : 

"  Fkllow-Citizf.ns  :  One  hundred  years  ago,  on  this  spot,  George  Washington,  as  first  President  of  the 
United  States,  took  his  oath  of  office  upon  the  Holy  Bible.  That  sacred  volume  is  here  to  day,  silently  attest- 
ing the  basis  upon  which  our  nation  was  constructed  and  the  dependence  of  our  people  upon  Almighty  God. 
In  the  words,  then,  of  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Government,  '  with  hearts  overflowing  with  gratitude  to  our 
Sovereign  Benefactor  for  granting  to  us  existence,  for  continuing  it  to  the  present  period,  and  for  accumulat- 


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ing  on  us  blessings  spiritual  and  temporal  through  life,  may  we  with  fervor  beseech  him  so  to  continue  them 
as  best  to  promote  his  glory  and  our  welfare.'  1 

"The  Rev.  Richard  S.  Storrs  will  utter  the  invocation.    The  audience  will  please  uncover." 


PRAYER  BY  RICHARD  S.  STORRS,  D.  D.,  LL.  D. 

Almighty  God,  most  merciful  Father,  who  art  infinite  in  wisdom,  sovereign  in  power,  and  whose  are  the 
eternal  years;  in  penitence  and  with  reverence  we  offer  before  thee  our  humble  supplication,  remembering  in 
our  low  estate  that  the  heaven  of  heavens  can  not  contain  thee,  and  that  heaven  and  earth  are  full  of  the 
majesty  of  thy  glory. 

With  contrite  confession  we  acknowledge  our  sins,  of  heart  and  of  life,  with  which  thou  art  most  justly 
displeased,  and  entreat  thy  forgiveness  through  Him  whom  thou  hast  exalted  with  thy  right  hand  to  be  a 
Prince  and  a  Saviour.  Accept,  we  beseech  thee,  the  requests  and  thanksgivings  which  we  offer  in  His  name ; 
give  us  a  heart  to  love  and  to  fear  thee;  and  both  now  and  ever,  in  whatsoever  frailty  of  body  or  of  mind, 
may  we  find  in  thee  recourse  and  succor. 

We  give  praise  and  homage  to  thy  great  name  for  the  favor  thou  didst  show  to  our  fathers  aforetime, 
when  they  dwelt  as  strangers  in  a  wide  land,  when  this  city  was  a  little  one,  and  few  men  in  it ;  that  they 
looked  unto  thee  and  were  lightened,  and  their  faces  were  not  ashamed ;  that  though  they  went  through  fire 
and  through  water  thou  broughtest  them  out  into  a  wealthy  place;  and  that,  by  thy  help,  from  dependence 
and  fear  they  were  quickly  exalted  to  dominion  and  honor. 

Especially  we  thank  thee  for  those  who  by  wisdom,  by  constancy,  and  by  valor  were  thy  ministers  to  the 
people,  conducting  them  out  of  peril  into  peace,  leading  them  in  the  paths  which  thou  hadst  ordained  to 
large  prosperity  and  a  secure  freedom.  Through  thy  preparation  came  the  captains  and  counselors,  whose 
dust  we  guard  with  affectionate  honor,  while  the  nation  which  they  served  has  become  their  memorial. 

Most  of  all,  on  this  day,  we  give  thanks  and  praise  for  him  whom  thou  in  thy  providence  didst  set  forth 
to  be  the  leader  of  our  leaders  in  council  and  in  arms,  and  the  ensample  for  all  who  follow  in  his  high  office. 
For  his  patience  and  courage  which  never  failed,  and  his  foreseeing  wisdom  which  was  not  dimmed,  for  the 
steadfastness  of  spirit,  sustained  upon  thee,  which  sank  beneath  no  weight  of  burdens,  the  magnanimous 
serenity  which  disaster  could  not  shake  nor  any  successes  unduly  exalt,  we  render  to  Thee  homage  and  laud; 
for  his  majestic  fidelity  to  an  unsurpassed  trust,  his  reverent  faith  in  thy  Word  and  in  thee.  We  bless  thee 
that  through  the  gifts  and  grace  with  which  thou  didst  endue  him  his  name  remains  for  us,  as  for  our  fathers, 
a  banner  of  light,  to  the  luster  of  which  the  nations  turn.  Make  us  worthy  partakers  of  the  fruit  of  his 
labors,  munificent  in  blessing,  whose  fame  is  henceforth  in  all  the  earth. 

Behold,  we  beseech  thee,  with  thy  merciful  favor  the  nation  which  thou  didst  thus  plant  and  protect, 
setting  it  in  the  place  which  thou  hadst  prepared,  and  multiplying  it  with  large  increase.  Thou  hast  given  it 
riches  of  silver  and  gold,  and  made  it  possessor  of  a  land  of  abundance,  whose  stones  are  iron,  and  out  of 
whose  rock  flow  rivers  of  oil.  In  its  plentiful  fields  the  year  is  crowned  with  the  joy  of  harvest,  within  its 
borders  are  all  pleasant  fruits,  and  its  harbors  exult  in  the  tribute  of  the  seas.  Thou  hast  given  it  wise  and 
equal  laws,  for  the  home-born  and  the  stranger,  ordinances  of  justice,  a  government  which  has  been  to  it,  in 
successive  generations,  for  a  name  and  a  praise.  May  it  equally  inherit  the  blessings  of  thy  grace,  and  par- 
take of  thy  righteousness  !  In  obedience  to  thy  will,  and  in  reverence  for  thy  truth,  may  its  liberties  abide 
on  the  surest  foundations  !  In  faith  unfeigned,  and  with  joyful  homage,  may  it  offer  to  thee  its  sacrifice  of 
praise,  and  in  all  coming  time  find  happiness  and  hope  in  thy  benediction  ! 

Regard  with  thy  favor,  and  crown  with  thy  blessing,  thy  servant,  the  President  of  the  United  States, 
with  all  who  have  part  in  the  enactment  of  law  or  its  just  execution.  Speak  unto  them  from  the  cloudy  pil- 
lar of  the  great  example  which  this  day  recalls.  May  they  so  use  authority  as  those  who  themselves  must 
give  account  !    Give  them  wisdom  to  carry  into  prosperous  effect  designs  conceived  in  equity  and  love,  that 


1  Words  of  Elbridge  Gerry,  member  of  Congress  in  1789,  and  grandfather  of  Elbridge  T.  Gerry. 


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by  virtue  and  knowledge  they  may  obtain  a  good  renown,  and  that  under  their  governance  the  people  may 
dwell  throughout  our  coasts  in  friendship  and  hope;  and  when  thou  hast  guided  them  by  thy  connsel  on 
earth  receive  them,  we  pray  thee,  to  thy  heavenly  glory. 

O  thou,  who  hast  made  of  one  blood  all  nations  of  men,  for  to  dwell  on  all  the  face  of  the  earth,  appoint- 
ing their  times  and  the  bounds  of  their  habitation,  and  who  art  ever  the  author  of  peace  and  lover  of  con- 
cord, remember  in  thy  mercy  all  kindreds  of  mankind,  with  them  that  have  office  and  rule  among  them. 
Thou  art  lifting  the  gates  and  opening  the  doors  between  the  peoples,  that  the  King  of  glory  may  come  in. 
Before  the  brightness  of  thy  benign  light  cause  confusion  and  darkness  to  flee  away.  For  oppression  give 
freedom;  for  anxiety  and  fear,  give  glad  expectation;  and  in  place  of  enmity,  jealousy,  and  strife,  establish 
the  nations  in  the  quietness  of  confidence  and  the  fellowship  of  love,  till  the  peace  of  the  world  shall  flow  like 
a  river,  and  its  righteousness  as  the  waves  of  the  sea. 

"Our  Father  who  art  in  heaven:  hallowed  be  thy  name.  Thy  kingdom  come;  thy  will  be  done  on 
earth,  as  it  is  in  heaven.  Give  us  this  day  our  daily  bread.  And  forgive  us  our  trespasses,  as  we  forgive 
those  that  trespass  against  us.  And  lead  us  not  into  temptation  ;  but  deliver  us  from  evil.  For  thine  is  the 
kingdom,  and  the  power,  and  the  glory,  for  ever  and  ever.  Amen." 

Dr.  Storrs  wore  a  silk  skull-cap,  was  dressed  in  his  usual  ministerial  robes,  and  read  the 
prayer  from  manuscript.  When  the  Lord's  Prayer  was  reached,  the  audience  joined  in  re- 
peating it. 

At  the  close  of  the  prayer  Mr.  Gerry  said  :  "  The  poem  entitled  '  The  Vow  of  Washing- 
ton,' by  John  Greenleaf  Whittier,  will  now  be  read  by  Clarence  W.  Bowen,  the  Secretary  of 
the  Committee  on  Literary  Exercises." 

The  following  poem  was  then  read : 

THE  VOW  OF  WASHINGTON. 
By  John  Greenleaf  Whittier. 


The  sword  was  sheathed:  in  April's  sun 
Lay  green  the  fields  by  Freedom  won  ; 
And  severed  sections,  weary  of  debates, 
Joined  hands  at  last  and  were  United  States. 

()  City  sitting  by  the  Sea! 

How  proud  the  day  that  dawned  on  thee, 
When  the  new  era,  long  desired,  began, 
And,  in  its  need,  the  hour  had  found  the  man  ! 

One  thought  the  cannon  salvos  spoke; 

The  resonant  bell-tower's  vibrant  stroke, 
The  voiceless  streets,  the  plaudit-echoing  halls, 
And  prayer  and  hymn  borne  heavenward  from  St.  Paul's! 

How  felt  the  land  in  every  part 

The  strong  throb  of  a  nation's  heart, 
As  its  great  leader  gave,  with  reverent  awe, 
His  pledge  to  Union,  Liberty,  and  Law  ! 


That  pledge  the  heavens  above  him  heard, 
That  vow  the  sleep  of  centuries  stirred ; 
In  world-wide  wonder  listening  peoples  bent 
Their  gaze  on  Freedom's  great  experiment. 

Could  it  succeed  ?    Of  honor  sold 
And  hopes  deceived  all  history  told. 
Above  the  wrecks  that  strewed  the  mournful  past, 
Was  the  long  dream  of  ages  true  at  last  ? 

Thank  God  !  the  people's  choice  was  just, 

The  one  man  equal  to  his  trust, 
Wise  beyond  lore,  and  without  weakness  good, 
Calm  in  the  strength  of  flawless  rectitude ! 

His  rule  of  justice,  order,  peace, 
Made  possible  the  world's  release  ; 
Taught  prince  and  serf  that  power  is  but  a  trust, 
And  rule,  alone,  which  serves  the  ruled,  is  just ; 


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That  Freedom  generous  is,  but  strong 
In  hate  of  fraud  and  selfish  wrong, 
Pretense  that  turns  her  holy  truths  to  lies, 
And  lawless  License  masking  in  her  guise. 


For,  ever  in  the  awful  strife 

And  dark  hours  of  the  nation's  life, 
Through  the  fierce  tumult  pierced  his  warning  word  ; 
Their  father's  voice  his  erring  children  heard  ! 


Land  of  his  love  !  with  one  glad  voice 
Let  thy  great  sisterhood  rejoice  ; 
A  century's  suns  o'er  thee  have  risen  and  set, 
And,  God  be  praised,  we  are  one  nation  yet ! 


The  change  for  which  he  prayed  and  sought 
In  that  sharp  agony  was  wrought ; 
No  partial  interest  draws  its  alien  line 
'Twixt  North  and  South,  the  cypress  and  the  pine ! 


And  still,  we  trust,  the  years  to  be 
Shall  prove  his  hope  was  destiny, 
Leaving  our  flag  with  all  its  added  stars 
Unrent  by  faction  and  unstained  by  wars ! 


One  people  now,  all  doubt  beyond, 
His  name  shall  be  our  Union-bond; 
We  lift  our  hands  to  heaven,  and  here  and  now 
Take  on  our  lips  the  old  Centennial  vow. 


Lo  !  where  with  patient  toil  he  nursed 
And  trained  the  new-set  plant  at  first, 
The  widening  branches  of  a  stately  tree 
Stretch  from  the  sunrise  to  the  sunset  sea. 


For  rule  and  trust  must  needs  be  ours ; 

Chooser  and  chosen  both  are  powers 
Equal  in  service  as  in  rights  ;  the  claim 
Of  Duty  rests  on  each  and  all  the  same. 


And  in  its  broad  and  sheltering  shade,  Then  let  the  sovereign  millions,  where 

Sitting  with  none  to  make  afraid,  Our  banner  floats  in  sun  and  air, 

Were  we  now  silent,  through  each  mighty  limb.  From  the  warm  palm-lands  to  Alaska's  cold, 

The  winds  of  heaven  would  sing  the  praise  of  him.  Repeat  with  us  the  pledge  a  century  old ! 


Our  first  and  best  ! — his  ashes  lie  Oak  Knoll,  Danvers,  Mass. 

Beneath  his  own  Virginian  sky. 
Forgive,  forget,  O  true  and  just  and  brave. 
The  storm  that  swept  above  thy  sacred  grave  ! 


At  the  conclusion  of  the  reading  the  assemblage  gave  Mr.  Whittier  three  cheers  and  a 
tiger. 

Mr.  Gerry  then  introduced  the  Hon.  Chauncey  M.  Depew  as  the  orator  of  the  day,  and 
when  Mr.  Depew  arose  he  was  warmly  greeted  with  applause  and  cheers.  His  oration  was 
as  follows  : 


ORATION  BY  CHAUNCEY  MITCHELL  DEPEW,  LL.  D. 


We  celebrate  to-day  the  centenary  of  our  nationality.  One  hundred  years  ago  the  L:nited  States  began 
its  existence.  The  powers  of  government  were  assumed  by  the  people  of  the  republic,  and  they  became 
the  sole  source  of  authority.  The  solemn  ceremonial  of  the  first  inauguration,  the  reverent  oath  of  Wash- 
ington, the  acclaim  of  the  multitude  greeting  their  President,  marked  the  most  unique  event  of  modern  times 
in  the  development  of  free  institutions.  The  occasion  was  not  an  accident,  but  a  result.  It  was  the  culmina- 
tion of  the  working  out  by  mighty  forces  through  many  centuries  of  the  problem  of  self-government.  It  was 
not  the  triumph  of  a  system,  the  application  of  a  theory,  or  the  reduction  to  practice  of  the  abstractions  of 
philosophy.  The  time,  the  country,  the  heredity  and  environment  of  the  people,  the  folly  of  its  enemies,  and 
the  noble  courage  of  its  friends  gave  to  liberty,  after  ages  of  defeat,  of  trial,  of  experiment,  of  partial  success 
and  of  substantial  gains,  this  immortal  victory.     Henceforth  it  had  a  refuge  and  recruiting-station.  The 


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oppressed  found  free  homes  in  this  favored  land,  and  invisible  armies  marched  from  it  by  mail  and  telegraph, 
by  speech  and  song,  by  precept  and  example,  to  regenerate  the  world. 

Puritans  in  New  England,  Dutchmen  in  New  York,  Catholics  in  Maryland,  Huguenots  in  South  Carolina 
had  felt  the  fires  of  persecution  and  were  wedded  to  religious  liberty.  They  had  been  purified  in  the  furnace, 
and  in  high  debate  and  on  bloody  battle-fields  had  learned  to  sacrifice  all  material  interests  and  to  peril  their 
lives  for  human  rights.  The  principles  of  constitutional  government  had  been  impressed  upon  them  by  hun- 
dreds of  years  of  struggle,  and  for  each  principle  they  could  point  to  the  grave  of  an  ancestor  whose  death 


THE  PEOPLE  IN  BROAD  STREET,   IN  FRONT  OF  THE  SUB-TREASURY  BUILDING, 

listening  to  the  Literary  Exercises,  April  30,  1S89. 
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attested  the  ferocity  of  the  fight  and  the  value  of  the  concession  wrung  from  arbitrary  power.  They  knew 
the  limitations  of  authority,  they  could  pledge  their  lives  and  fortunes  to  resist  encroachments  upon  their 
rights;  but  it  required  the  lesson  of  Indian  massacres,  the  invasion  of  the  armies  of  France  from  Canada,  the 
tyranny  of  the  British  crown,  the  seven-years'  War  of  the  Revolution,  and  the  five  years  of  chaos  of  the  Con- 
federation to  evolve  the  idea,  upon  which  rest  the  power  and  permanency  of  the  republic,  that  liberty  and 
union  are  one  and  inseparable.  [Applause.] 

The  traditions  and  experience  of  the  colonists  had  made  them  alert  to  discover  and  quick  to  resist  any 
peril  to  their  liberties.  Above  all  things  they  feared  and  distrusted  power.  The  town  meeting  and  the  Colo- 
nial Legislature  gave  them  confidence  in  themselves  and  courage  to  check  the  royal  Governors.  Their  inter- 
ests, hopes,  and  affections  were  in  their  several  commonwealths,  and  each  blow  by  the  British  ministry  at 
their  freedom,  each  attack  upon  their  rights  as  Englishmen  weakened  their  love  for  the  mother-land  and 
intensified  their  hostility  to  the  crown.  But  the  same  causes  which  broke  down  their  allegiance  to  the  central 
Government  increased  their  confidence  in  their  respective  colonies,  and  their  faith  in  liberty  was  largely 
dependent  upon  the  maintenance  of  the  sovereignty  of  their  several  States.    The  farmers'  shot  at  Lexington 


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echoed  round  the  world,  the  spirit  which  it  awakened  from  its  slumbers  could  do  and  dare  and  die,  but  it 
had  not  yet  discovered  the  secret  of  the  permanence  and  progress  of  free  institutions.  Patrick  Henry  thun- 
dered in  the  Virginia  Convention  ;  James  Otis  spoke  with  trumpet  tongue  and  fervid  eloquence  for  united 
action  in  Massachusetts;  Hamilton,  Jay,  and  Clinton  pledged  New  York  to  respond  with  men  and  money  for 
the  common  cause,  but  their  vision  only  saw  a  league  of  independent  colonies.  The  veil  was  not  yet  drawn 
from  before  the  vista  of  population  and  power,  of  empire  and  liberty,  which  would  open  with  national  union. 

The  Continental  Congress  partially  grasped  but  completely  expressed  the  central  idea  of  the  American 
Republic.  More  fully  than  any  other  body  which  ever  assembled  did  it  represent  the  victories  won  from 
arbitrary  power  for  human  rights.  In  the  New  World  it  was  the  conservator  of  liberties  secured  through 
centuries  of  struggle  in  the  Old.  Among  the  delegates  were  the  descendants  of  the  men  who  had  stood  in 
that  brilliant  array  upon  the  field  of  Runnymede,  which  wrested  from  King  John  Magna  Charta — that 
great  charter  of  liberty  to  which  Hallam,  in  the  nineteenth  century,  bears  witness  that  "all  which  had  been 
since  obtained  is  little  more  than  as  confirmation  or  commentary."  There  were  the  grandchildren  of  the 
statesmen  who  had  summoned  Charles  before  Parliament  and  compelled  his  assent  to  the  Petition  of  Rights, 
which  transferred  power  from  the  crown  to  the  Commons,  and  gave  representative  government  to  the  Eng- 
lish-speaking race.  And  there  were  those  who  had  sprung  from  the  iron  soldiers  who  had  fought  and 
charged  with  Cromwell  at  Naseby  and  Dunbar  and  Marston  Moor.  Among  its  members  were  Huguenots 
whose  fathers  had  followed  the  white  plume  of  Henry  of  Navarre,  and,  in  an  age  of  bigotry,  intolerance,  and 
the  deification  of  absolutism,  had  secured  the  great  edict  of  religious  liberty  from  French  despotism ;  and 
who  had  become  a  people  without  a  country  rather  than  surrender  their  convictions  and  forswear  their  con- 
sciences. In  this  Congress  were  those  whose  ancestors  were  the  countrymen  of  William  of  Orange,  the  Beg- 
gars of  the  Sea,  who  had  survived  the  cruelties  of  Alva  and  broken  the  yoke  of  proud  Philip  of  Spain,  and 
who  had  two  centuries  before  made  a  declaration  of  independence  and  formed  a  federal  union  which  were 
models  of  freedom  and  strength. 

These  men  were  not  revolutionists,  they  were  the  heirs  and  the  guardians  of  the  priceless  treasures  of 
mankind.  The  British  king  and  his  ministers  were  the  revolutionists.  They  were  reactionaries,  seeking 
arbitrarily  to  turn  back  the  hands  upon  the  dial  of  time.  A  year  of  doubt  and  debate,  the  baptism  of  blood 
upon  battle-fields  where  soldiers  from  every  colony  fought  under  a  common  standard  and  consolidated  the 
Continental  Army,  gradually  lifted  the  soul  and  understanding  of  this  immortal  Congress  to  the  sublime 
declaration  :  "  We,  therefore,  the  representatives  of  the  United  States  of  America,  in  General  Congress 
assembled,  appealing  to  the  Supreme  Judge  of  the  world  for  the  rectitude  of  our  intentions,  do,  in  the  name 
and  by  the  authority  of  the  good  people  of  these  colonies,  solemnly  publish  and  declare  that  these  united 
colonies  are,  and  of  right  ought  to  be,  free  and  independent  States." 

To  this  declaration  John  Hancock,  proscribed  and  threatened  with  death,  affixed  a  signature  which  has 
stood  for  a  century  like  the  pointers  to  the  north  star  in  the  firmament  of  freedom ;  and  Charles  Carroll, 
taunted  that  among  many  Carrolls  he,  the  richest  man  in  America,  might  escape,  added  description  and  iden- 
tification with  "of  Carrollton."  Benjamin  Harrison,  a  delegate  from  Virginia,  the  ancestor  of  the  distin- 
guished statesman  and  soldier  who  to-day  so  worthily  fills  the  chair  of  Washington,  voiced  the  unalterable 
determination  and  defiance  of  the  Congress  He  seized  John  Hancock,  upon  whose  head  a  price  was  set,  in 
his  arms,  and,  placing  him  in  the  presidential  chair,  said,  "  We  will  show  Mother  Britain  how  little  we  care 
for  her  by  making  our  President  a  Massachusetts  man,  whom  she  has  excluded  from  pardon  by  public  proc- 
lamation !  "  and  when  they  were  signing  the  Declaration  and  the  slender  Elbridge  Gerry  uttered  the  grim 
pleasantry,  "We  must  hang  together  or  surely  we  will  hang  separately,"  the  portly  Harrison  responded  with 
the  more  daring  humor,  "  It  will  be  all  over  with  me  in  a  moment,  but  you  will  be  kicking  in  the  air  half  an 
hour  after  I  am  gone."  Thus  flashed  athwart  the  great  charter,  which  was  to  be  for  its  signers  a  death- 
warrant  or  a  diploma  of  immortality,  as  with  firm  hand,  high  purpose,  and  undaunted  resolution,  they  sub- 
scribed their  names,  this  mockery  of  fear  and  of  the  penalties  of  treason. 

The  grand  central  idea  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence  was  the  sovereignty  of  the  people.  It  relied 
for  original  power  not  upon  States  or  colonies  or  their  citizens  as  such,  but  recognized  as  the  authority  for 
nationality  the  revolutionary  rights  of  the  people  of  the  United  States.  It  stated  with  marvelous  clearness 
the  encroachments  upon  liberties  which  threatened  their  suppression  and  justified  revolt;  but  it  was  inspired 


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by  the  very  genius  of  freedom,  and  the  prophetic  possibilities  of  united  commonwealths  covering  the  continent 
in  one  harmonious  republic,  when  it  made  the  people  of  the  thirteen  colonies  all  Americans,  and  devolved 
upon  them  to  administer  by  themselves  and  for  themselves  the  prerogatives  and  powers  wrested  from  crown 
and  Parliament.  It  condensed  Magna  Charta,  the  Petition  of  Rights,  the  great  body  of  English  liberties 
embodied  in  the  common  law  and  accumulated  in  the  decisions  of  the  courts,  the  statutes  of  the  realm,  and 
an  undisputed  though  unwritten  constitution;  but  this  original  principle  and  dynamic  force  of  the  people's 
power  sprang  from  these  old  seeds  planted  in  the  virgin  soil  of  the  New  World. 

More  clearly  than  any  statesman  of  the  period  did  Thomas  Jefferson  grasp  and  divine  the  possibilities 
of  popular  government.  He  caught  and  crystallized  the  spirit  of  free  institutions.  His  philosophical  mind 
was  singularly  free  from  the  power  of  precedents  or  the  chains  of  prejudice.  He  had  an  unquestioning  and 
abiding  faith  in  the  people,  which  was  accepted  by  but  few  of  his  compatriots.  Upon  his  famous  axiom  of 
the  equality  of  all  men  before  the  law  he  constructed  his  system.  It  was  the  trip-hammer  essential  for  the 
emergency  to  break  the  links  binding  the  colonies  to  imperial  authority  and  to  pulverize  the  privileges  of 
caste.  It  inspired  him  to  write  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  but  it  persuaded  him  to  doubt  the  wisdom 
of  the  powers  concentrated  in  the  Constitution.  In  his  passionate  love  of  liberty  he  became  intensely  jealous 
of  authority.  He  destroyed  the  substance  of  royal  prerogative,  but  he  never  escaped  from  its  shadow.  He 
would  have  the  States  as  the  guardians  of  popular  rights  and  the  barriers  against  centralization,  and  he  saw 
in  the  growing  power  of  the  nation  ever-increasing  encroachments  upon  the  rights  of  the  people.  For  the 
success  of  the  pure  democracy  which  must  precede  Presidents  and  Cabinets  and  Congresses,  it  was  perhaps 
providential  that  its  apostle  never  believed  a  great  people  could  grant  and  still  retain,  could  give  and  at  will 
reclaim,  could  delegate  and  yet  firmly  hold  the  authority  which  ultimately  created  the  power  of  their  republic 
and  enlarged  the  scope  of  their  own  liberty.  [Applause.] 

Where  this  master-mind  halted,  all  stood  still.  The  necessity  for  a  permanent  union  was  apparent, 
but  each  State  must  have  hold  upon  the  bowstring  which  encircled  its  throat.  It  was  admitted  that 
union  gave  the  machinery  required  to  successfully  fight  the  common  enemy,  but  yet  there  was  fear  that 
it  might  become  a  Frankenstein  and  destroy  its  creators.  Thus  patriotism  and  fear,  difficulties  of  com- 
munication between  distant  communities,  and  the  intense  growth  of  provincial  pride  and  interests,  led 
this  Congress  to  frame  the  Articles  of  Confederation,  happily  termed  the  League  of  Friendship.  The 
result  was  not  a  government,  but  a  ghost.  By  this  scheme  the  American  people  were  ignored  and  the 
Declaration  of  Independence  reversed.  The  States,  by  their  Legislatures,  elected  delegates  to  Congress, 
and  the  delegate  represented  the  sovereignty  of  his  Commonwealth.  All  the  States  had  an  equal  voice, 
without  regard  to  their  size  or  population.  It  required  the  vote  of  nine  States  to  pass  any  bill,  and  five 
could  block  the  wheels  of  Government.  Congress  had  none  of  the  powers  essential  to  sovereignty.  It 
could  neither  levy  taxes  nor  impose  duties  nor  collect  excise.  For  the  support  of  the  army  and  navy, 
for  the  purposes  of  war,  for  the  preservation  of  its  own  functions,  it  could  only  call  upon  the  States, 
but  it  possessed  no  power  to  enforce  its  demands.  It  had  no  President  nor  executive  authority,  no  Supreme 
Court  with  general  jurisdiction,  and  no  national  power.  Each  of  the  thirteen  States  had  seaports  and 
levied  discriminating  duties  against  the  others,  and  could  also  tax  and  thus  prohibit  interstate  commerce 
across  its  territory.  Had  the  Confederation  been  a  Union  instead  of  a  League,  it  could  have  raised  and 
equipped  three  times  the  number  of  men  contributed  by  reluctant  States,  and  conquered  independence 
without  foreign  assistance.  This  paralyzed  Government — without  strength,  because  it  could  not  enforce 
its  decrees;  without  credit,  because  it  could  pledge  nothing  for  the  payment  of  its  debts;  without  respect, 
because  without  inherent  authority — would,  by  its  feeble  life  and  early  death,  have  added  another  to 
the  historic  tragedies  which  have  in  many  lands  marked  the  suppression  of  freedom,  had  it  not  been 
saved  by  the  intelligent,  inherited,  and  invincible  understanding  of  liberty  by  the  people  and  the  genius 
and  patriotism  of  their  leaders. 

But,  while  the  perils  of  war  had  given  temporary  strength  to  the  Confederation,  peace  developed 
its  fatal  weakness.  It  derived  no  authority  from  the  people,  and  could  not  appeal  to  them.  Anarchy 
threatened  its  existence  at  home,  and  contempt  met  its  representatives  abroad.  "Can  you  fulfill  or 
enforce  the  obligations  of  the  treaty  on  your  part  if  we  sign  one  with  you?"  was  the  sneer  of  the 
courts  of  the  Old  World  to  our  ambassadors.    Some  States  gave  a  half-hearted  support  to  its  demands; 


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others  defied  them.  The  loss  of  public  credit  was  speedily  followed  by  universal  bankruptcy.  The 
wildest  phantasies  assumed  the  force  of  serious  measures  for  the  relief  of  the  general  distress.  States 
passed  exclusive  and  hostile  laws  against  each  other,  and  riot  and  disorder  threatened  the  disintegration 
of  society.    "  Our  stock  is  stolen,  our  houses  are  plundered,  our  farms  are  raided,"  cried  a  delegate  in 


RICHARD  SALTER  STORRS,  D.  D.,  LL.  D„ 
reading  the  prayer  at  the  Sub-Treasury  Building,  April  30,  1889. 
(From  photograph  by  the  "  Brooklyn  Academy  of  Photography.") 

the  Massachusetts  Convention ;  "  despotism  is  better  than  anarchy ! "  To  raise  four  millions  of  dollars 
a  year  was  beyond  the  resources  of  the  Government,  and  three  hundred  thousand  was  the  limit  of  the 
loan  it  could  secure  from  the  money-lenders  of  Europe.  Even  Washington  exclaimed  in  despair:  "I  see 
one  head  gradually  changing  into  thirteen ;  I  see  one  army  gradually  branching  into  thirteen ;  which, 
instead  of  looking  up  to  Congress  as  the  supreme  controlling  power,  are  considering  themselves  as  depend- 
ing on  their  respective  States."  And  later,  when  independence  had  been  won,  the  impotency  of  the 
Government  wrung  from  him  the  exclamation,  "  After  gloriously  and  successfully  contending  against  the 
usurpation  of  Great  Britain,  we  may  fall  a  prey  to  our  own  folly  and  disputes." 

But  even  through  this  Cimmerian  darkness  shot  a  flame  which  illumined  the  coming  century,  and 
kept  bright  the  beacon-fires  of  liberty.  The  architects  of  constitutional  freedom  formed  their  institutions 
with  wisdom  which  forecast  the  future.  They  may  not  have  understood  at  first  the  whole  truth,  but, 
for  that  which  they  knew,  they  had  the  martyrs'  spirit  and  the  crusaders'  enthusiasm.  Though  the  Con- 
federation was  a  government  of  checks  without  balances,  and  of  purpose  without  power,  the  statesmen 
who  guided  it  demonstrated  often  the  resistless  force  of  great  souls  animated  by  the  purest  patriotism, 
and  united  in  judgment  and  effort  to  promote  the  common  good,  by  lofty  appeals  and  high  reasoning,  to 
elevate  the  masses  above  local  greed  and  apparent  self-interest  to  their  own  broad  plane. 

The  most  significant  triumph  of  these  moral  and  intellectual  forces  was  that  which  secured  the  assent 
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of  the  States  to  the  limitation  of  their  boundaries,  to  the  grant  of  the  wilderness  beyond  them  to  the 
General  Government,  and  to  the  insertion  in  the  ordinance  erecting  the  Northwest  Territories  of  the  im- 
mortal proviso  prohibiting  "slavery  or  involuntary  servitude"  within  all  that  broad  domain.  The  States 
carved  out  of  this  splendid  concession  were  not  sovereignties  which  had  successfully  rebelled,  but  they 
were  the  children  of  the  Union,  born  of  the  covenant  and  thrilled  with  its  life  and  liberty.  They  be- 
came the  bulwarks  of  nationality  and  the  buttresses  of  freedom.  Their  preponderating  strength  first 
checked  and  then  broke  the  slave  power,  their  fervid  loyalty  halted  and  held  at  bay  the  spirit  of  State 
rights  and  secession  for  generations;  and,  when  the  crisis  came,  it  was  with  their  overwhelming  assistance 
that  the  nation  killed  and  buried  its  enemy.  The  corner-stone  of  the  edifice  whose  centenary  we  are 
celebrating  was  the  Ordinance  of  1787.  It  was  constructed  by  the  feeblest  of  Congresses,  but  few  enact- 
ments of  ancient  or  modern  times  have  had  more  far-reaching  and  beneficent  influence.  It  is  one  of  the 
sublimest  paradoxes  of  history,  that  this  weak  confederation  of  States  should  have  welded  the  chain, 
against  which,  after  seventy-four  years  of  fretful  efforts  for  release,  its  own  spirit  frantically  dashed  and 
died. 

The  government  of  the  republic  by  a  Congress  of  States,  a  diplomatic  convention  of  the  ambassadors 
of  petty  commonwealths,  after  seven  years'  trial,  was  falling  asunder.  Threatened  with  civil  war  among 
its  members,  insurrection  and  lawlessness  rife  within  the  States,  foreign  commerce  ruined  and  internal 
trade  paralyzed,  its  currency  worthless,  its  merchants  bankrupt,  its  farms  mortgaged,  its  markets  closed, 
its  labor  unemployed,  it  was  like  a  helpless  wreck  upon  the  ocean,  tossed  about  by  the  tides  and  ready 
to  be  ingulfed  in  the  storm.  Washington  gave  the  warning  and  called  for  action.  It  was  a  voice  ac- 
customed to  command,  but  now  entreating.  The  veterans  of  the  war  and  the  statesmen  of  the  Revolution 
stepped  to  the  front.  The  patriotism  which  had  been  misled,  but  had  never  faltered,  rose  above  the 
interests  of  States  and  the  jealousies  of  jarring  confederates  to  find  the  basis  for  union.  "  It  is  clear 
to  me  as  A,  B,  C,"  said  Washington,  "  that  an  extension  of  federal  powers  would  make  us  one  of  the 
most  happy,  wealthy,  respectable,  and  powerful  nations  that  ever  inhabited  the  terrestrial  globe.  Without 
them  we  shall  soon  be  everything  which  is  the  direct  reverse.  I  predict  the  worst  consequences  from  a 
half-starved,  limping  Government,  always  moving  upon  crutches,  and  tottering  at  every  step."  The  re- 
sponse of  the  country  was  the  Convention  of  1787,  at  Philadelphia.  The  Declaration  of  Independence 
was  but  the  vestibule  of  the  temple  which  this  illustrious  assembly  erected.  With  no  successful  precedents 
to  guide,  it  auspiciously  worked  out  the  problem  of  constitutional  government,  and  of  imperial  power 
and  home  rule,  supplementing  each  other  in  promoting  the  grandeur  of  the  nation  and  preserving  the 
liberty  of  the  individual.  [Applause.] 

The  deliberations  of  great  councils  have  vitally  affected,  at  different  periods,  the  history  of  the 
world  and  the  fate  of  empires ;  but  this  Congress  builded,  upon  popular  sovereignty,  institutions  broad 
enough  to  embrace  the  continent,  and  elastic  enough  to  fit  all  conditions  of  race  and  traditions.  The 
experience  of  a  hundred  years  has  demonstrated  for  us  the  perfection  of  the  work,  for  defense  against 
foreign  foes  and  for  self-preservation  against  domestic  insurrection,  for  limitless  expansion  in  population 
and  material  development,  and  for  steady  growth  in  intellectual  freedom  and  force.  Its  continuing  in- 
fluence upon  the  welfare  and  destiny  of  the  human  race  can  only  be  measured  by  the  capacity  of  man 
to  cultivate  and  enjoy  the  boundless  opportunities  of  liberty  and  law.  The  eloquent  characterization  of 
Mr.  Gladstone  condenses  its  merits:  "The  American  Constitution  is  the  most  wonderful  work  ever  struck 
off  at  a  given  time  by  the  brain  and  purpose  of  man." 

The  statesmen  who  composed  this  great  senate  were  equal  to  their  trust.  Their  conclusions  were  the 
results  of  calm  debate  and  wise  concession.  Their  character  and  abilities  were  so  pure  and  great  as  to 
command  the  confidence  of  the  country  for  the  reversal  of  the  policy  of  the  independence  of  the  State 
of  the  power  of  the  General  Government,  which  had  hitherto  been  the  invariable  practice  and  almost 
universal  opinion,  and  for  the  adoption  of  the  idea  of  the  nation  and  its  supremacy. 

Towering  in  majesty  and  influence  above  them  all  stood  Washington,  their  President.  Beside  him 
was  the  venerable  Franklin,  who,  though  eighty-one  years  of  age,  brought  to  the  deliberations  of  the 
Convention  the  unimpaired  vigor  and  resources  of  the  wisest  brain,  the  most  hopeful  philosophy,  and 
the  largest  experience  of  the  times.    Oliver  Ellsworth,  afterward  Chief-Justice  of  the  United  States,  and 


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the  profoundest  jurist  in  the  country;  Robert  Morris,  the  wonderful  financier  of  the  Revolution,  and 
Gouverneur  Morris,  the  most  versatile  genius  of  his  period  ;  Roger  Sherman,  one  of  the  most  eminent 
of  the  signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence;  and  John  Rutledge,  Rufus  King,  Elbridge  Gerry, 
Edmund  Randolph,  and  the  Pinckneys,  were  leaders  of  unequaled  patriotism,  courage,  ability,  and  learn- 
ing ;  while  Alexander  Hamilton  and  James  Madison,  as  original  thinkers  and  constructive  statesmen, 
rank  among  the  immortal  few  whose  opinions  have  for  ages  guided  ministers  of  state,  and  determined 
the  destinies  of  nations. 

This  great  Convention  keenly  felt,  and  with  devout  and  serene  intelligence  met,  its  tremendous  responsi- 
bilities. It  had  the  moral  support  of  the  few  whose  aspirations  for  liberty  had  been  inspired  or  renewed  by 
the  triumph  of  the  American  Revolution,  and  the  active  hostility  of  every  government  in  the  world. 

There  were  no  examples  to  follow,  and  the  experience  of  its  members  led  part  of  them  to  lean  toward 
absolute  centralization  as  the  only  refuge  from  the  anarchy  of  the  Confederation,  while  the  rest  clung  to  the 
sovereignty  of  the  States,  for  fear  that  the  concentration  of  power  would  end  in  the  absorption  of  liberty. 
The  large  States  did  not  want  to  surrender  the  advantage  of  their  position,  and  the  smaller  States  saw  the 
danger  to  their  existence.  The  leagues  of  the  Greek  cities  had  ended  in  loss  of  freedom,  tyranny,  conquest, 
and  destruction.  Roman  conquest  and  assimilation  had  strewn  the  shores  of  time  with  the  wrecks  of  em- 
pires, and  plunged  civilization  into  the  perils  and  horrors  of  the  dark  ages.  The  government  of  Cromwell 
was  the  isolated  power  of  the  mightiest  man  of  his  age,  without  popular  authority  to  fill  his  place  or  the  he- 
reditary principle  to  protect  his  successor.  The  past  furnished  no  light  for  our  State  builders,  the  present  was 
full  of  doubt  and  despair.  The  future,  the  experiment  of  self-government,  the  perpetuity  and  development 
of  freedom,  almost  the  destiny  of  mankind,  was  in  their  hands. 

At  this  crisis  the  courage  and  confidence  needed  to  originate  a  system  weakened.  The  temporizing  spirit  of 
compromise  seized  the  Convention  with  the  alluring  proposition  of  not  proceeding  faster  than  the  people  could 
be  educated  to  follow.  The  cry,  "  Let  us  not  waste  our  labor  upon  conclusions  which  will  not  be  adopted,  but 
amend  and  adjourn,"  was  assuming  startling  unanimity.  But  the  supreme  force  and  majestic  sense  of  Washing- 
ton brought  the  assemblage  to  the  lofty  plane  of  its  duty  and  opportunity.  He  said :  "  It  is  too  probable  that 
no  plan  we  propose  will  be  adopted.  Perhaps  another  dreadful  conflict  is  to  be  sustained.  If  to  please  the  peo- 
ple we  offer  what  we  ourselves  disapprove,  how  can  we  afterward  defend  our  work  ?  Let  us  raise  a  standard 
to  which  the  wise  and  honest  can  repair;  the  event  is  in  the  hands  of  God."  "I  am  the  state,"  said  Louis 
XIV,  but  his  line  ended  in  the  grave  of  absolutism.  "  Forty  centuries  look  down  upon  you,"  was  Napoleon's 
address  to  his  army,  in  the  shadow  of  the  Pyramids,  but  his  soldiers  saw  only  the  dream  of  Eastern  empire 
vanish  in  blood.  Statesmen  and  parliamentary  leaders  have  sunk  into  oblivion  or  led  their  party  to  defeat, 
by  surrendering  their  convictions  to  the  passing  passions  of  the  hour;  but  Washington  in  this  immortal  speech 
struck  the  key-note  of  representative  obligation,  and  propounded  the  fundamental  principle  of  the  purity  and 
perpetuity  of  constitutional  government. 

Freed  from  the  limitations  of  its  environment,  and  the  question  of  the  adoption  of  its  work,  the  Conven- 
tion erected  its  government  upon  the  eternal  foundations  of  the  power  of  the  people.  It  dismissed  the  delu- 
sive theory  of  a  compact  between  independent  States,  and  derived  national  power  from  the  people  of  the  United 
States.  It  broke  up  the  machinery  of  the  Confederation,  and  put  in  practical  operation  the  glittering  gen- 
eralities of  the  Declaration  of  Independence.  From  chaos  came  order,  from  insecurity  came  safety,  from  dis- 
integration and  civil  war  came  law  and  liberty,  with  the  principle  proclaimed  in  the  preamble  of  the  great 
charter,  "  We,  the  people  of  the  United  States,  in  order  to  form  a  more  perfect  union,  establish  justice,  insure 
domestic  tranquillity,  provide  for  the  common  defense,  promote  the  general  welfare,  and  secure  the  blessings 
of  liberty  to  ourselves  and  our  posterity,  do  ordain  and  establish  this  Constitution  for  the  United  States." 
With  a  wisdom  inspired  of  God,  to  wrork  out  upon  this  continent  the  liberty  of  man,  they  solved  the  problem 
of  the  ages  by  blending  and  yet  preserving  local  self-government  with  national  authority,  and  the  rights  of 
the  States,  with  the  majesty  and  power  of  the  republic.  The  government  of  the  States,  under  the  Articles  of 
Confederation,  became  bankrupt  because  it  could  not  raise  four  millions  of  dollars  ;  the  Government  of  the 
Union,  under  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States,  raised  six  thousand  millions  of  dollars,  its  credit  growing 
firmer  as  its  power  and  resources  were  demonstrated.  The  Congress  of  the  Confederation  fled  from  a  regi- 
ment, which  it  could  not  pay  ;  the  Congress  of  the  Union  reviewed  the  comrades  of  a  million  of  its  victorious 


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soldiers,  saluting  as  they  marched  the  flag  of  the  nation,  whose  supremacy  they  had  sustained.  The  promises 
of  the  Confederacy  were  the  scoff  of  its  States  ;  the  pledge  of  the  republic  was  the  honor  of  its  people. 

The  Constitution,  which  was  to  be  strengthened  by  the  strain  of  a  century,  to  be  a  mighty  conqueror 
without  a  subject  province,  to  triumphantly  survive  the  greatest  of  civil  wars  without  the  confiscation  of  an 
estate  or  the  execution  of  a  political  offender,  to  create  and  grant  home  rule  and  State  sovereignty  to  twenty- 
nine  additional  commonwealths,  and  yet  enlarge  its  scope  and  broaden  its  power,  and  to  make  the  name  of  an 
American  citizen  a  title  of  honor  throughout  the  world  [applause],  came  complete  from  this  great  Conven- 
tion for  adoption  by  the  people.  As  Hancock  rose  from  his  seat  in  the  old  Congress,  eleven  years  before,  to 
sign  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  Franklin  saw  emblazoned  on  the  back  of  the  President's  chair  the  sun 
partly  above  the  horizon,  but  it  seemed  setting  in  a  blood-red  sky.  During  the  seven  years  of  the  Confedera- 
tion he  had  gathered  no  hope  from  the  glittering  emblem;  but  now  as  with  clear  vision  he  beheld  fixed  upon 


CHAUNCEY  MITCHELL  DEPEW,   LL.  U., 
delivering  the  oration  at  the  Sub-Treasury  Building,  April  30,  l88g. 
(From  photograph  by  the  "  Brooklyn  Academy  of  Photography.") 


eternal  foundations  the  enduring  structure  of  constitutional  liberty,  pointing  to  the  sign,  he  forgot  his  eighty- 
two  years,  and  with  the  enthusiasm  of  youth  electrified  the  Convention  with  the  declaration,  "  Now  I  know 
that  it  is  the  rising  sun  !  "  [Applause.] 

The  pride  of  the  States  and  the  ambition  of  their  leaders,  sectional  jealousies,  and  the  overwhelming  dis- 
trust of  centralized  power,  were  all  arrayed  against  the  adoption  of  the  Constitution.  North  Carolina  and 
Rhode  Island  refused  to  join  the  Union  until  long  after  Washington's  inauguration.  For  months  New  York 
was  debatable  ground.  Her  territory,  extending  from  the  sea  to  the  lakes,  made  her  the  keystone  of  the  arch. 
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New  York  and  subjugated  the  colonies,  and  in  this  crisis,  unless  New  York  assented,  a  hostile  and  powerful 
commonwealth,  dividing  the  States,  made  the  Union  impossible. 

Success  was  due  to  confidence  in  Washington  and  the  genius  of  Alexander  Hamilton.  Jefferson  was  the 
inspiration  of  independence,  but  Hamilton  was  the  incarnation  of  the  Constitution.  In  no  age  or  country 
has  there  appeared  a  more  precocious  or  amazing  intelligence  than  Hamilton.  At  seventeen  he  annihilated 
the  president  of  his  college  upon  the  question  of  the  rights  of  the  colonies,  in  a  series  of  anonymous  articles 
which  were  credited  to  the  ablest  men  in  the  country ;  at  forty-seven,  when  he  died,  his  briefs  had  become 
the  law  of  the  land,  and  his  fiscal  system  was,  and  after  a  hundred  years  remained,  the  rule  and  policy  of  our 
Government.  He  gave  life  to  the  corpse  of  national  credit  and  the  strength  for  self-preservation  and 
aggressive  power  to  the  Federal  Union.  Both  as  an  expounder  of  the  principles  and  an  administrator  of 
the  affairs  of  government  he  stands  supreme  and  unrivaled  in  American  history.  His  eloquence  was  so  mag- 
netic, his  language  so  clear,  and  his  reasoning  so  irresistible,  that  he  swayed  with  equal  ease  popular  assem- 
blies, grave  senates,  and  learned  judges.  He  captured  the  people  of  the  whole  country  for  the  Constitution 
by  his  papers  in  "The  Federalist,"  and  conquered  the  hostile  majority  in  the  New  York  Convention  by 
the  splendor  of  his  oratory. 

But  the  multitudes  whom  no  argument  could  convince,  who  saw  in  the  executive  power  and  cen- 
tralized force  of  the  Constitution,  under  another  name,  the  dreaded  usurpation  of  king  and  ministry,  were 
satisfied  only  with  the  assurance,  "Washington  will  be  President."  "Good!"  cried  John  Lamb,  the  able 
leader  of  the  Sons  of  Liberty,  as  he  dropped  his  opposition  ;  "  for  to  no  other  mortal  would  I  trust  authority 
so  enormous."  "  Washington  will  be  President!"  was  the  battle-cry  of  the  Constitution.  It  quieted  alarm 
and  gave  confidence  to  the  timid  and  courage  to  the  weak.  The  country  responded  with  enthusiastic 
unanimity,  but  the  chief  with  the  greatest  reluctance.  In  the  supreme  moment  of  victory,  when  the  world 
expected  him  to  follow  the  precedents  of  the  past,  and  perpetuate  the  power  a  grateful  country  would 
willingly  have  left  in  his  hands,  he  had  resigned  and  retired  to  Mount  Vernon  to  enjoy  in  private  station 
his  well-earned  rest.  The  Convention  created  by  his  exertions  to  prevent,  as  he  said,  "  the  decline  of  our 
Federal  dignity  into  insignificant  and  wretched  fragments  of  empire,"  had  called  him  to  preside  over  its 
deliberations.  Its  work  made  possible  the  realization  of  his  hope  that  "  we  might  survive  as  an  independent 
republic,"  and  again  he  sought  the  seclusion  of  his  home.  But  after  the  triumph  of  the  war  and  the  forma- 
tion of  the  Constitution  came  the  third  and  final  crisis — the  initial  movements  of  government  which  were  to 
teach  the  infant  state  the  steadier  steps  of  empire. 

He  alone  could  stay  assault  and  inspire  confidence  while  the  great  and  complicated  machinery  of  organized 
government  was  put  in  order  and  set  in  motion.  Doubt  existed  nowhere  except  in  his  modest  and  unambi- 
tious heart.  "  My  movements  to  the  chair  of  government,"  he  said,  "  will  be  accompanied  by  feelings  not 
unlike  those  of  a  culprit  who  is  going  to  the  place  of  his  execution — so  unwilling  am  I,  in  the  evening  of 
life,  nearly  consumed  in  public  cares,  to  quit  a  peaceful  abode  for  an  ocean  of  difficulties,  without  that  com- 
petency of  political  skill,  abilities,  and  inclination  which  are  necessary  to  manage  the  helm."  His  whole 
life  had  been  spent  in  repeated  sacrifices  for  his  country's  welfare,  and  he  did  not  hesitate  now,  though  there 
is  an  undertone  of  inexpressible  sadness  in  this  entry  in  his  diary  on  the  night  of  his  departure:  "About  ten 
o'clock  I  bade  adieu  to  Mount  Vernon,  to  private  life,  and  to  domestic  felicity,  and,  with  a  mind  oppressed 
with  more  anxious  and  painful  sensations  than  I  have  words  to  express,  set  out  for  New  York  with  the  best 
disposition  to  render  service  to  my  country  in  obedience  to  its  call,  but  with  less  hope  of  answering  its 
expectations." 

No  conqueror  was  ever  accorded  such  a  triumph,  no  ruler  ever  received  such  a  welcome.  In  this  memo- 
rable march  of  six  days  to  the  capital  it  was  the  pride  of  States  to  accompany  him  with  the  masses  of  their 
people  to  their  borders,  that  the  citizens  of  the  next  Commonwealth  might  escort  him  through  its  territory. 
It  was  the  glory  of  cities  to  receive  him  with  every  civic  honor  at  their  gates  and  entertain  him  as  the  savior 
of  their  liberties.  He  rode  under  triumphal  arches  from  which  children  lowered  laurel-wreaths  upon  his 
brow.  The  roadways  were  strewn  with  flowers,  and  as  they  were  crushed  beneath  his  horse's  hoofs  their 
sweet  incense  wafted  to  heaven  the  ever-ascending  prayers  of  his  loving  countrymen  for  his  life  and  safety. 
The  swelling  anthem  of  gratitude  and  reverence  greeted  and  followed  him  along  the  country-side  and 
through  the  crowded  streets:  "Long  live  George  Washington!    Long  live  the  Father  of  his  people!" 


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His  entry  into  New  York  was  worthy  the  city  and  State.  He  was  met  by  the  chief  officers  of  the 
retiring  Government  of  the  country,  by  the  Governor  of  the  Commonwealth,  and  the  whole  population. 
This  superb  harbor  was  alive  with  fleets  and  flags,  and  the  ships  of  other  nations  with  salutes  from  their 
guns  and  the  cheers  of  their  crews  added  to  the  joyous  acclaim.  Rut  as  the  captains  who  had  asked  the 
privilege,  bending  proudly  to  their  oars,  rowed  the  President's  barge  swiftly  through  these  inspiring  scenes, 
Washington's  mind  and  heart  were  full  of  reminiscence  and  foreboding. 

He  had  visited  New  York  thirty-three  years  before,  also  in  the  month  of  April,  in  the  full  perfection 
of  his  early  manhood,  fresh  from  Braddock's  bloody  field,  and  wearing  the  only  laurels  of  the  battle,  bearing 
the  prophetic  blessing  of  the  venerable  President  Davies,  of  Princeton  College,  as  "that  heroic  youth  Colonel 
Washington,  w  hom  I  can  not  but  hope  Providence  has  hitherto  preserved  in  so  signal  a  manner  for  some  impor- 
tant service  to  the  country."  It  was  a  fair  daughter  of  our  State  whose  smiles  allured  him  here,  and  whose  coy 
confession  that  her  heart  was  another's  recorded  his  only  failure,  and  saddened  his  departure.  Twenty  years 
passed,  and  he  stood  before  the  New  York  Congress,  on  this  very  spot,  the  unanimously  chosen  Commander- 
in-Chief  of  the  Continental  Army,  urging  the  people  to  more  vigorous  measures,  and  made  painfully  aware  of 
the  increased  desperation  of  the  struggle,  from  the  aid  to  be  given  to  the  enemy  by  domestic  sympathizers, 
when  he  knew  that  the  same  local  military  company  which  escorted  him  was  to  perform  the  like  service  for 
the  British  Governor  Tryon  on  his  landing  on  the  morrow.  Returning  for  the  defense  of  the  city  the  next 
summer  he  executed  the  retreat  from  Long  Island,  which  secured  from  Frederick  the  Great  the  opinion  that 
a  great  commander  had  appeared ;  and  at  Harlem  Heights  he  won  the  first  American  victory  of  the  Revolution, 
which  gave  that  confidence  to  our  raw  recruits  against  the  famous  veterans  of  Europe  which  carried  our  army 
triumphantly  through  the  war.  Six  years  more  of  untold  sufferings,  of  freezing  and  starving  camps,  of 
marches  over  the  snow  by  barefooted  soldiers  to  heroic  attack  and  splendid  victory,  of  despair  with  an  un- 
paid army,  and  of  hope  from  the  generous  assistance  of  France,  and  peace  had  come  and  independence 
triumphed.  As  the  soldier  of  the  invading  enemy  embarks,  Washington,  at  the  head  of  the  patriot  host, 
enters  the  city,  receives  the  welcome  and  gratitude  of  its  people,  and  in  the  tavern  which  faces  us  across  the 
way,  in  silence  more  eloquent  than  speech,  and  with  tears  which  choke  the  words,  he  bids  farewell  forever  to 
his  companions  in  arms.  Such  were  the  crowding  memories  of  the  past  suggested  to  Washington  in  1789  by 
his  approach  to  New  York.  But  the  future  had  none  of  the  splendor  of  precedent  and  brilliance  of  promise 
which  have  since  attended  the  inauguration  of  our  Presidents.  An  untried  scheme,  adopted  mainly  because 
its  administration  was  to  be  confided  to  him,  was  to  be  put  in  practice.  He  knew  that  he  was  to  be  met  at 
ever  step  of  constitutional  progress  by  factions  temporarily  hushed  into  unanimity  by  the  terrific  force  of 
the  tidal  wave  which  was  bearing  him  to  the  President's  seat,  but  fiercely  hostile  upon  questions  affecting 
every  power  of  nationality  and  the  existence  of  the  Federal  Government. 

Washington  was  never  dramatic,  but  on  great  occasions  he  not  only  rose  to  the  full  ideal  of  the  event,  he 
became  himself  the  event.  One  hundred  years  ago  to-day,  the  procession  of  foreign  ambassadors,  of  states- 
men, and  generals,  of  civic  societies,  and  military  companies,  which  escorted  him,  marched  from  Franklin 
Square  to  Pearl  Street,  through  Pearl  to  Broad,  and  up  Broad  to  this  spot,  but  the  people  saw  only  Washing- 
ton. As  he  stood  upon  the  steps  of  the  old  Government  Building  here,  the  thought  must  have  occurred  to  him 
that  it  was  a  cradle  of  liberty,  and  as  such  giving  a  bright  omen  for  the  future.  In  these  Halls  in  1735,  in  the 
trial  of  John  Zenger,  had  been  established,  for  the  first  time  in  its  history,  the  liberty  of  the  press.  Here  the 
New  York  Assembly,  in  1764,  made  the  protest  against  the  Stamp  Act,  and  proposed  the  General  Conference, 
which  was  the  beginning  of  united  colonial  action.  In  this  old  State-House  in  1765  the  Stamp-Act  Congress, 
the  first  and  the  father  of  American  Congresses,  assembled  and  presented  to  the  English  Government  that 
vigorous  protest  which  caused  the  repeal  of  the  act,  and  checked  the  first  step  toward  the  usurpation  which 
lost  the  American  colonies  to  the  British  Empire.  Within  these  walls  the  Congress  of  the  Confederation  had 
commissioned  its  ambassadors  abroad,  and  in  ineffectual  efforts  at  government  had  created  the  necessity  for 
the  concentration  of  Federal  authority,  now  to  be  consummated. 

The  First  Congress  of  the  United  States  gathered  in  this  ancient  temple  of  liberty,  greeted  Washington 
and  accompanied  him  to  the  balcony.  The  famous  men  visible  about  him  were  Chancellor  Livingston,  Vice- 
President  John  Adams,  Alexander  Hamilton,  Governor  Clinton,  Roger  Sherman,  Richard  Henry  Lee,  General 
Knox,  and  Baron  Steuben.    But  we  believe  that  among  the  invisible  host  above  him,  at  this  supreme  mo- 


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ment  of  the  culmination  in  permanent  triumph  of  the  thousands  of  years  of  struggle  for  self-government,  were 
the  spirits  of  the  soldiers  of  the  Revolution  who  had  died  that  their  countrymen  might  enjoy  this  blessed  day, 
and  with  them  were  the  Barons  of  Runnymede  and  William  the  Sdent,  and  Sidney  and  Russell,  and  Cromwell 
and  Hampden,  and  the  heroes  and  martyrs  of  liberty  of  every  race  and  age. 

As  he  came  forward,  the  multitude  in  the  streets,  in  the  windows,  and  on  the  roofs  sent  up  such  a  raptur- 
ous shout  that  Washington  sat  down  overcome  with  emotion.  As  he  slowly  rose  and  his  tall  and  majestic 
form  again  appeared,  the  people,  deeply  affected,  in  awed  silence  viewed  the  scene.  The  chancellor  solemnly 
read  to  him  the  oath  of  office,  and  Washington,  repeating,  said,  "I  do  solemnly  swear  that  I  will  faithfully 
execute  the  office  of  President  of  the  United  States,  and  will,  to  the  best  of  my  ability,  preserve,  protect,  and 
defend  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States."  Then  he  reverently  bent  low  and  kissed  the  Bible,  uttering 
with  profound  emotion,  "  So  help  me  God."  The  Chancellor  waved  his  robes  and  shouted  :  "  It  is  done;  long 
live  George  Washington,  President  of  the  United  States!"  "  Long  live  George  Washington,  our  first  Presi- 
dent !  "  was  the  answering  cheer  of  the  people,  and  from  the  belfries  rang  the  bells,  and  from  forts  and  ships 
thundered  the  cannon,  echoing  and  repeating  the  cry  with  responding  acclaim  all  over  the  land,  "  Long  live 
George  Washington,  President  of  the  United  States !  " 

The  simple  and  imposing  ceremony  over,  the  inaugural  read,  the  blessing  of  God  prayerfully  petitioned  in 
old  St.  Paul's,  the  festivities  passed  ;  and  Washington  stood  alone.  No  one  else  could  take  the  helm  of 
state,  and  enthusiast  and  doubter  alike  trusted  only  him.  The  teachings  and  habits  of  the  past  had  educated 
the  people  to  faith  in  the  independence  of  their  States,  and  for  the  supreme  authority  of  the  new  Government 
there  stood,  against  the  precedent  of  a  century  and  the  passions  of  the  hour,  little  besides  the  arguments  of 
Hamilton,  Madison,  and  Jay  in  "The  Federalist,"  and  the  judgment  of  Washington.  With  the  first  attempt  to 
exercise  national  power  began  the  duel  to  the  death  between  State  sovereignty  claiming  the  right  to  nullify 
Federal  laws  or  secede  from  the  Union,  and  the  power  of  the  republic  to  command  the  resources  of  the  coun- 
try, to  enforce  its  authority  and  protect  its  life.  It  was  the  beginning  of  the  sixty  years'  war  for  the  Consti- 
tution and  the  nation.  It  seared  consciences,  degraded  politics,  destroyed  parties,  ruined  statesmen,  and 
retarded  the  advance  and  development  of  the  country;  it  sacrificed  hundreds  of  thousands  of  precious  lives, 
and  squandered  thousands  of  millions  of  money,  it  desolated  the  fairest  portion  of  the  land  and  carried 
mourning  into  every  home  North  and  South;  but  it  ended  at  Appomattox  in  the  absolute  triumph  of  the 
republic.  [Applause.] 

Posterity  owes  to  Washington's  Administration  the  policy  and  measures,  the  force  and  direction  which 
made  possible  this  glorious  result.  In  giving  the  organization  of  the  Department  of  State  and  foreign  rela- 
tions to  Jefferson,  the  Treasury  to  Hamilton,  and  the  Supreme  Court  to  Jay,  he  selected  for  his  Cabinet  and 
called  to  his  assistance  the  ablest  and  most  eminent  men  of  his  time.  Hamilton's  marvelous  versatility  and 
genius  designed  the  armory  and  the  weapons  for  the  promotion  of  national  power  and  greatness,  but  Wash- 
ington's steady  support  carried  them  through.  Parties  crystallized,  and  party  passions  were  intense,  debates 
were  intemperate,  and  the  Union  openly  threatened  and  secretly  plotted  against,  as  the  firm  pressure  of  this 
mighty  personality  funded  the  debt  and  established  credit,  assumed  the  State  debts  incurred  in  the  war  of  the 
Revolution,  and  superseded  the  local  by  the  national  obligation,  imposed  duties  upon  imports  and  excise  upon 
spirits  and  created  revenue  and  resources,  organized  a  national  banking  system  for  public  needs  and  private 
business,  and  called  out  an  army  to  put  down  by  force  of  arms  resistance  to  the  Federal  laws  imposing  un- 
popular taxes.  Upon  the  plan  marked  out  by  the  Constitution,  this  great  architect,  with  unfailing  faith  and 
unfaltering  courage  builded  the  republic.  He  gave  to  the  Government  the  principles  of  action  and  sources  of 
power  which  carried  it  successfully  through  the  wars  with  Great  Britain  in  1812  and  Mexico  in  1848,  which 
enabled  Jackson  to  defeat  nullification,  and  recruited  and  equipped  millions  of  men  for  Lincoln  and  justified 
and  sustained  his  Proclamation  of  Emancipation. 

The  French  Revolution  was  the  bloody  reality  of  France  and  the  nightmare  of  the  civilized  world.  The 
tyranny  of  centuries  culminated  in  frightful  reprisals  and  reckless  revenges.  As  parties  rose  to  power  and 
passed  to  the  guillotine,  the  frenzy  of  the  revolt  against  all  authority  reached  every  country,  and  captured  the 
imaginations  and  enthusiasm  of  millions  in  every  land,  who  believed  they  saw  that  the  madness  of  anarchy, 
the  overturning  of  all  institutions,  the  confiscation  and  distribution  of  property,  would  end  in  a  millenium  for 
the  masses  and  the  universal  brotherhood  of  man.    Enthusiasm  for  France,  our  late  ally,  and  the  terrible 


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commercial  and  industrial  distress  occasioned  by  the  failure  of  the  Government  under  the  articles  of  Confed- 
eration, aroused  an  almost  unanimous  cry  for  the  young  republic,  not  yet  sure  of  its  own  existence,  to  plunge 
into  the  vortex.  The  ablest  and  purest  statesmen  of  the  time  bent  to  the  storm,  but  Washington  was  un- 
moved. He  stood  like  the  rock-ribbed  coast  of  a  continent  between  the  surging  billows  of  fanaticism  and  the 
child  of  his  love.  Order  is  Heaven's  first  law,  and  the  mind  of  Washington  was  order.  The  Revolution  defied 
God  and  derided  the  law.  Washington  devoutly  reverenced  the  Deity,  and  believed  liberty  impossible  without 
law.  He  spoke  to  the  sober  judgment  of  the  nation  and  made  clear  the  danger.  He  saved  the  infant  Gov- 
ernment from  ruin,  and  expelled  the  French  minister  who  had  appealed  from  him  to  the  people.  The  whole 
land,  seeing  safety  only  in  his  continuance  in  office,  joined  Jefferson  in  urging  him  to  accept  a  second  term. 
•'  North  and  South,"  pleaded  the  Secretary,  "  will  hang  together  while  they  have  you  to  hang  to." 

No  man  ever  stood  for  so  much  to  his  country  and  to  mankind  as  George  Washington.  Hamilton,  Jefferson, 
and  Adams,  Madison  and  Jay,  each  represented  some  of  the  elements  which  formed  the  Union.  Washington 
embodied  them  all.  They  fell  at  times  under  popular  disapproval,  were  burned  in  effigy,  were  stoned,  but  he 
with  unerring  judgment  was  always  the  leader  of  the  people.  Milton  said  of  Cromwell,  that  "  war  made  him 
great,  peace  greater."  The  superiority  of  Washington's  character  and  genius  were  more  conspicuous  in  the 
formation  of  our  government  and  in  putting  it  on  indestructible  foundations  than  in  leading  armies  to  victory 
and  conquering  the  independence  of  his  country.  "  The  Union  in  any  event  "  is  the  central  thought  of  his 
farewell  address,  and  all  the  years  of  his  grand  life  were  devoted  to  its  formation  and  preservation.  [Ap- 
plause.] He  fought  as  a  youth  with  Braddock  and  in  the  capture  of  Fort  Du  Quesne  for  the  protection  of  the 
whole  country.  As  Commander-in-Chief  of  the  Continental  Army,  his  commission  was  from  the  Congress  of 
the  United  Colonies.  He  inspired  the  movement  for  the  republic,  was  the  President  and  dominant  spirit  of  the 
Convention  which  framed  its  Constitution  and  its  President  for  eight  years,  and  guided  its  course  until  satis- 
fied that,  moving  safely  along  the  broad  highway  of  time,  it  would  be  surely  ascending  toward  the  first  place 
among  the  nations  of  the  world,  the  asylum  of  the  oppressed,  the  home  of  the  free. 

Do  his  countrymen  exaggerate  his  virtues  ?  Listen  to  Guizot,  the  historian  of  civilization  :  "  Washington 
did  the  two  greatest  things  which  in  politics  it  is  permitted  to  man  to  attempt.  He  maintained  by  peace  the 
independence  of  his  country  which  he  conquered  by  war.  He  founded  a  free  government  in  the  name  of  the 
principles  of  order  and  by  re-establishing  their  sway."  Hear  Lord  Erskine,  the  most  famous  of  English  advo- 
cates:  "You  are  the  only  being  for  whom  I  have  an  awful  reverence."  Remember  the  tribute  of  Charles 
James  Fox,  the  greatest  parliamentary  orator  who  ever  swayed  the  British  House  of  Commons:  "  Illustrious 
man,  before  whom  all  borrowed  greatness  sinks  into  insignificance."  Contemplate  the  character  of  Lord 
Brougham,  pre-eminent  for  two  generations  in  every  department  of  human  activity  and  thought,  and  then 
impress  upon  the  memories  of  your  children  his  deliberate  judgment  :  "  Until  time  shall  be  no  more  will  a  test 
of  the  progress  which  our  race  has  made  in  wisdom  and  virtue  be  derived  from  the  veneration  paid  to  the 
immortal  name  of  Washington." 

Chatham,  who,  with  Clive,  conquered  an  empire  in  the  East,  died  broken-hearted  at  the  loss  of  the  empire 
in  the  West,  by  follies  which  even  his  power  and  eloquence  could  not  prevent.  Pitt  saw  the  vast  creations  of 
his  diplomacy  shattered  at  Austerlitz,  and  fell  murmuring,  "  My  country  !  how  I  leave  my  country  !  "  Napo- 
leon caused  a  noble  tribute  to  Washington  to  be  read  at  the  head  of  his  armies,  but,  unable  to  rise  to  Wash- 
ington's greatness,  witnessed  the  vast  structure  erected  by  conquest  and  cemented  by  blood,  to  minister  to  his 
own  ambition  and  pride,  crumble  into  fragments,  and  an  exile  and  a  prisoner  he  breathed  his  last  babbling  of 
battle-fields  and  carnage.  But  Washington,  with  his  finger  upon  his  pulse,  felt  the  presence  of  death.  Calmly 
reviewing  the  past  and  forecasting  the  future,  he  answered  to  the  summons  of  the  grim  messenger,  "  It  is 
well,"  and  as  his  mighty  soul  ascended  to  God  the  land  was  deluged  with  tears  and  the  world  united  in  his 
eulogy.  Blot  out  from  the  page  of  history  the  names  of  all  the  great  actors  of  his  time  in  the  drama  of 
nations,  and  preserve  the  fame  of  Washington,  and  that  century  would  be  renowned.    [Great  applause.] 

We  stand  to-day  upon  the  dividing  line  between  the  first  and  second  century  of  constitutional  govern- 
ment. There  are  no  clouds  over  our  heads  and  no  convulsions  under  our  feet.  We  reverently  return  thanks 
tci  Almighty  God  for  the  past,  and  with  confident  and  hopeful  promise  march  upon  sure  ground  toward  the 
future.  The  simple  facts  of  these  hundred  years  paralyze  the  imagination,  and  we  contemplate  the  vast  ac- 
cumulations of  the  century  with  awe  and  pride.    Our  population  has  grown  from  four  to  sixty-five  millions. 


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Its  center  moving  westward  five  hundred  miles  since  1789,  is  eloquent  with  the  founding  of  cities  and  the  birth 
of  States.  New  settlements,  clearing  the  forests  and  subduing  the  prairies,  and  adding  four  millions  to  the 
few  thousands  of  farms  which  were  the  support  of  Washington's  republic,  create  one  of  the  great  granaries  of 
the  world  and  open  exhaustless  reservoirs  of  national  wealth. 

The  infant  industries,  which  the  first  act  of  our  first  Administration  sought  to  encourage,  now  give  remu- 
nerative employment  to  more  people  than  inhabited  the  republic  at  the  beginning  of  Washington's  presidency. 
The  grand  total  of  their  annual  output  of  seven  thousand  millions  of  dollars  in  value  places  the  United  States 
first  among  the  manufacturing  countries  of  the  earth.  One  half  the  total  mileage  of  all  the  railroads,  and  one 
quarter  of  all  the  telegraph  lines  of  the  world  within  our  borders,  testify  to  the  volume,  variety,  and  value 
of  an  internal  commerce  which  makes  these  States,  if  need  be,  independent  and  self-supporting.  These  hun- 
dred years  of  development  under  favoring  political  conditions  have  brought  the  sum  of  our  national  wealth  to 
a  figure  which  has  passed  the  results  of  a  thousand  years  for  the  mother-land  herself,  otherwise  the  richest  of 
modern  empires. 

During  this  generation,  a  civil  war  of  unequaled  magnitude  caused  the  expenditure  and  loss  of  eight  thou- 
sand millions  of  dollars,  and  killed  six  hundred  thousand  and  permanently  disabled  over  a  million  young  men  ; 
and  yet  the  impetuous  progress  of  the  North  and  the  marvelous  industrial  development  of  the  new  and  free 
South  have  obliterated  the  evidences  of  destruction,  and  made  the  war  a  memory,  and  have  stimulated  produc- 
tion until  our  annual  surplus  nearly  equals  that  of  England,  France,  and  Germany  combined.  [Applause.] 
The  teeming  millions  of  Asia  till  the  patient  soil  and  work  the  shuttle  and  loom  as  their  fathers  have  done  for 
centuries,  modern  Europe  has  felt  the  influence  and  received  the  benefit  of  the  incalculable  multiplication  of 
force  by  inventive  genius  since  the  Napoleonic  wars  ;  and,  yet  only  two  hundred  and  sixty-nine  years  after 
the  little  band  of  forty  Pilgrims  landed  on  Plymouth  Rock,  the  people  of  these  United  States,  numbering  less 
than  one  fifteenth  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  globe,  do  one  third  of  its  mining,  one  fourth  of  its  manufacturing, 
one  fifth  of  its  agriculture,  and  own  one  sixth  of  its  wealth.    [Great  applause.] 

This  realism  of  material  prosperity,  surpassing  the  wildest  creations  of  the  romancers  who  have  astonished 
and  delighted  mankind,  would  be  full  of  danger  for  the  present  and  menace  for  the  future  if  the  virtue,  intelli- 
gence, and  independence  of  the  people  were  not  equal  to  the  wise  regulation  of  its  uses  and  the  stern  preven- 
tion of  its  abuses.  [Applause.]  But,  following  the  growth  and  power  of  the  great  factors,  whose  aggregation 
of  capital  made  possible  the  tremendous  pace  of  the  settlement  of  our  national  domain,  the  building  of  our 
great  cities,  and  the  opening  of  the  lines  of  communication  which  have  unified  our  country  and  created  our 
resources,  have  come  national  and  State  legislation  and  supervision.  Twenty  millions  of  people,  a  vast 
majority  of  our  population  of  intelligent  age,  acknowledging  upon  record  the  authority  of  their  several 
churches,  twelve  millions  of  children  in  the  common  schools,  three  hundred  and  forty-five  universities  and 
colleges  for  the  higher  education  of  men  and  two  hundred  for  women,  four  hundred  and  fifty  institutions  of 
learning  for  science,  law,  medicine,  and  theology,  are  the  despair  of  the  scoffer  and  the  demagogue,  and  the 
firm  support  of  civilization  and  liberty.    [Great  applause.] 

Steam  and  electricity  have  changed  the  commerce  not  only,  they  have  revolutionized  also  the  govern- 
ments of  the  world.  They  have  given  to  the  press  its  power,  and  brought  all  races  and  nationalities  into 
touch  and  sympathy.  They  have  tested  and  are  trying  the  strength  of  all  systems  to  stand  the  strain 
and  conform  to  the  conditions  which  follow  the  germinating  influences  of  American  democracy.  At  the 
time  of  the  inauguration  of  Washington,  seven  royal  families  ruled  as  many  kingdoms  in  Italy,  but  six 
of  them  have  seen  their  thrones  overturned  and  their  countries  disappear  from  the  map  of  Europe.  Most 
of  the  kings,  princes,  dukes,  and  margraves  of  Germany  who  reigned  despotically  and  sold  their  soldiers 
for  foreign  service,  have  passed  into  history,  and  their  heirs  have  neither  prerogatives  nor  domain.  Spain 
has  gone  through  many  violent  changes,  and  the  permanency  of  her  present  Government  seems  to  depend 
upon  the  feeble  life  of  an  infant  prince.  France,  our  ancient  friend,  with  repeated  and  bloody  revolutions, 
has  tried  the  government  of  Bourbon  and  Convention,  of  Directory  and  Consulate,  of  Empire  and  Citizen 
King,  of  hereditary  Sovereign  and  Republic,  of  Empire,  and  again  Republic.  The  Hapsburg  and  the 
Hohenzollern,  after  convulsions  which  have  rocked  the  foundations  of  their  thrones,  have  been  compelled 
to  concede  constitutions  to  their  people  and  to  divide  with  them  the  arbitrary  power  wielded  so  auto- 
cratically and  brilliantly  by  Maria  Theresa  and  Frederick  the  Great.  The  royal  will  of  George  III 
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could  crowd  the  American  colonies  into  rebellion,  and  wage  war  upon  them  until  they  were  lost  to  his 
kingdom,  but  the  authority  of  the  crown  has  devolved  upon  ministers  who  hold  office  subject  to  the 
approval  of  the  representatives  of  the  people;  and  the  equal  powers  of  the  House  of  Lords  have  become 
vested  in  the  Commons,  leaving  to  the  Peers  only  the  shadow  of  their  ancient  privileges.  But  to-day, 
the  American  people,  after  all  the  dazzling  developments  of  the  century,  are  still  happily  living  under 
the  Government  of  Washington.  The  Constitution  during  all  that  period  has  been  amended  only  upon 
the  lines  laid  down  in  the  original  instrument,  and  in  conformity  with  the  recorded  opinions  of  the 
fathers.  The  first  great  addition  was  the  incorporation  of  a  Bill  of  Rights,  and  the  last  the  imbedding 
into  the  Constitution  of  the  immortal  principle  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence — of  the  equality  of  all 
men  before  the  law.  No  crisis  has  been  too  perilous  for  its  powers,  no  evolution  too  rapid  for  its  adaptation, 
and  no  expansion  beyond  its  easy  grasp  and  administration.  It  has  assimilated  diverse  nationalities  with 
warring  traditions,  customs,  conditions,  and  languages,  imbued  them  with  its  spirit,  and  won  their  passionate 
loyalty  and  love. 

The  flower  of  the  youth  of  the  nations  of  Continental  Europe  are  conscripted  from  productive  in- 
dustries and  drilling  in  camps.  Vast  armies  stand  in  battle  array  along  the  frontiers,  and  a  Kaiser's  whim 
or  a  minister's  mistake  may  precipitate  the  most  destructive  war  of  modern  times.  Both  monarchical  and 
republican  governments  are  seeking  safety  in  the  repression  and  suppression  of  opposition  and  criticism. 
The  volcanic  forces  of  democratic  aspiration  and  socialistic  revolt  are  rapidly  increasing  and  threaten 
peace  and  security.  We  turn  from  these  gathering  storms  to  the  British  Isles  and  find  their  people  in  the 
throes  of  a  political  crisis  involving  the  form  and  substance  of  their  Government,  and  their  statesmen  far 
from  confident  that  the  enfranchised  and  unprepared  masses  will  wisely  use  their  power. 

But  for  us  no  army  exhausts  our  resources  or  consumes  our  youth.  Our  navy  must  needs  increase,  in 
order  that  the  protecting  flag  may  follow  the  expanding  commerce,  which  is  to  successfully  compete  in  all 
the  markets  of  the  world.  The  sun  of  our  destiny  is  still  rising,  and  its  rays  illumine  vast  territories 
as  yet  unoccupied  and  undeveloped,  and  which  are  to  be  the  happy  homes  of  millions  of  people.  The 
questions  which  affect  the  powers  of  Government  and  the  expansion  or  limitation  of  the  authority  of  the 
Federal  Constitution  are  so  completely  settled  and  so  unanimously  approved,  that  our  political  divisions 
produce  only  the  healthy  antagonism  of  parties  which  is  necessary  for  the  preservation  of  liberty.  Our 
institutions  furnish  the  full  equipment  of  shield  and  spear  for  all  the  battles  of  freedom,  and  absolute 
protection  against  every  danger  which  threatens  the  welfare  of  the  people  will  always  be  found  in  the 
intelligence  which  appreciates  their  value  and  the  courage  and  morality  with  which  their  powers  are  exer- 
cised. The  spirit  of  Washington  fills  the  Executive  office.  Presidents  may  not  rise  to  the  full  measure 
of  his  greatness,  but  they  must  not  fall  below  his  standard  of  public  duty  and  obligation.  [Great  ap- 
plause.] His  life  and  character,  conscientiously  studied  and  thoroughly  understood  by  coming  generations, 
will  be  for  them  a  liberal  education  for  private  life  and  public  station,  for  citizenship  and  patriotism,  for 
love  and  devotion  to  union  and  liberty.  With  their  inspiring  past  and  splendid  present,  the  people  of 
these  United  States,  heirs  of  a  hundred  years  marvelously  rich  in  all  which  adds  to  the  glory  and  great- 
ness of  a  nation,  with  an  abiding  trust  in  the  stability  and  elasticity  of  their  Constitution,  and  an  abound- 
ing faith  in  themselves,  hail  the  coming  century  with  hope  and  joy. 

Besides  the  prolonged  applause  that  followed  Mr.  Depevv's  oration,  three  cheers  were 
given  to  him.  Mr.  Gerry  then  said  :  "  Fellow-citizens,  the  President  of  the  United  States 
will  address  you." 

When  President  Harrison  arose,  Nicholas  Fish,  the  vice-Chairman  of  the  Plat- 
form Committee,  proposed  three  cheers,  which  were  given  with  a  will.  The  Presi- 
dent said : 


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ADDRESS  BY  BENJAMIN  HARRISON,  PRESIDENT  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES. 

Official  duty  of  a  very  exacting  character  has  made  it  quite  impossible  that  I  should  deliver  an  ad- 
dress on  this  occasion.  Foreseeing  this,  I  early  notified  your  committee  that  the  programme  must  not 
contain  any  address  by  me.  The  selection  of  Mr.  Depew  as  the  orator  of  this  occasion  makes  further 
speech  not  only  difficult,  but  superfluous.  He  has  met  the  demand  of  this  great  occasion  on  its  own 
high  level.  [Applause.]  He  has  brought  before  us  the  incidents  and  the  lessons  of  the  first  inaugura- 
tion of  Washington.  We  seem  to  have  been  a  part  of  that  admiring  and  almost  adoring  throng  that 
filled  these  streets  one  hundred  years  ago. 


BENJAMIN  HARRISON,  PRESIDENT  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES, 
making  an  address  at  the  Sub-Treasury  Building,  April  30,  1889. 
(From  photograph  by  the  "  Brooklyn  Academy  of  Photography.") 


We  have  come  into  the  serious  but  always  inspiring  presence  of  Washington.  He  was  the  incarna- 
tion of  duty ;  and  he  teaches  us  to-day  this  great  lesson — that  those  who  would  associate  their  names 
with  events  that  shall  outlive  a  century,  can  only  do  so  by  high  consecration  to  duty.  [Applause.] 

Self-seeking  has  no  public  observance  or  anniversary.  The  captain  who  gives  to  the  sea  his  cargo 
of  rags  that  he  may  give  safety  and  deliverance  to  his  imperiled  fellow-men  has  fame  ;  he  who  lands 
the  cargo  has  only  wages.    [Great  applause.] 

Washington  seemed  to  come  to  the  discharge  of  the  duties  of  his  high  office  impressed  with  a  great 
sense  of  his  unfamiliarity  with  these  new  calls  upon  him,  modestly  doubtful  of  his  own  ability,  but 
trusting  implicitly  in  the  sustaining  helpfulness  and  grace  of  that  God  who  rules  the  world,  presides  in 
the  councils  of  nations,  and  is  able  to  supply  every  human  defect. 

We  have  made  marvelous  progress  in  material  things,  but  the  stately  and  enduring  shaft  that  we 


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have  erected  at  the  national  capital  at  Washington  symbolizes  the  fact  that  he  is  still  the  First  American 
Citizen.     [Great  applause.] 

The  President's  ringing,  penetrating  voiee  was  distinctly  heard  by  the  ten  thousand 
people  gathered  in  front  of  the  sub-Treasury  Building. 

In  response  to  calls  whicb  were  made  for  Levi  P.  Morton,  the  Vice-President  of  the 
United  States,  Mr.  Morton  arose  and  bowed. 

Mr.  Gerry  then  said  :  "  His  Grace  Michael  Augustine  Corrigan,  Archbishop  of  New 
York  will  pronounce  the  benediction." 

The  Archbishop  said  : 

The  grace  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  and  the  charity  of  God,  and  the  communication  of  the  Holy  Spirit 
be  with  you  all.  Amen.  And  may  the  blessings  of  God  Almighty,  Father,  Son,  and  Holy  Ghost,  descend  on 
our  beloved  country  and  abide  with  it  forever. 

The  heroic  statue  of  Washington  was  guarded  during  the  exercises  by  Henry  S.  Marlor, 
a  member  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic. 

At  the  close  of  the  literary  exercises  the  audience  quickly  dispersed.  An  informal  lunch 
was  given  in  the  sub-Treasury  Building  to  the  President  and  Vice-President  of  the  United 
States,  to  members  of  the  Cabinet,  to  the  Chief-Justice  and  Associate  Justices  of  the  United 
States,  to  Rutherford  B.  Hayes  and  Grover  Cleveland,  ex-Presidents  of  the  United  States, 
to  Chauncey  M.  Depew,  LL.  D.,  the  orator  of  the  day,  and  to  others  who  had  assisted  in 
the  literary  exercises.  The  remainder  of  the  invited  guests  went  by  the  elevated  railroad  to 
the  grand  stand  on  Madison  Square. 

The  arrangements  for  the  seating  of  the  distinguished  company  at  the  sub-Treasury  exer- 
cises were  carried  out  by  the  following-named  gentlemen,  composing  the  Platform  Commit- 
tee:  Johnston  Livingston  De  Peyster,  Chairman ;  Nicholas  Fish,  Vice-Chairman ;  Frank 
S.  Withcrbee,  Secretary ;  Robert  R.  Livingston,  G.  Creighton  Webb,  Arthur  de  Windt, 
Charles  B.  Bleecker,  Lewis  H.  Livingston,  William  Pierson  Hamilton,  Brooks  Adams, 
Thomas  Jefferson  Coolidge,  Jr.,  Gardiner  Sherman,  Clermont  L.  Clarkson,  William  E.  Dodge 
Stokes,  Lispenard  Stewart,  Charles  H.  Russell,  Jr.,  Alfred  R.  Conkling,  William  Cary  Sanger, 
J.  Lawrence  Aspinwall,  and  John  Anthon. 

Robert  R.  Livingston  was  a  great-grandson  and  Clermont  Livingston  Clarkson  was  a 
great-great-grandson  of  Chancellor  Livingston  ;  Lewis  H.  Livingston  was  the  great-grandson 
of  Morgan  Lewis,  the  Marshal  at  the  Inauguration,  a  great-grand-nephew  of  Chancellor  Liv- 
ingston and  of  John  R.  Livingston,  an  "  assistant " ;  and  Messrs.  Fish,  Webb,  De  Windt,  and 
Bleecker  were,  as  before  stated,  grandsons  respectively  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  Nicholas  Fish, 
General  Samuel  Blatchley  Webb,  Colonel  William  S.  Smith,  and  Major  Leonard  Bleecker, 
the  so-called  "  assistants "  on  the  same  historic  ground  when  the  oath  of  office  was  adminis- 
tered to  Washington. 


THE  LITERARY  EXERCISES  AT  THE  SUB-TREASURY. 


Other  members  of  the  Platform  Committee  included  descendants  of  Alexander  Hamil- 
ton, John  Adams,  Thomas  Jefferson,  and  Roger  Sherman. 

The  work  of  the  Platform  Committee  was  subdivided  as  follows :  Committee  on  Seating, 
Messrs.  Fish,  Sanger,  and  Witherbee  ;  Committee  on  Printing,  Messrs.  Conkling  and  VVith- 
erbee;  Committee  on  Music,  G.  Creighton  Webb;  Committee  on  Press,  Charles  B. 
Bleecker ;  and  Committee  on  Relics,  Robert  R.  Livingston. 

Mr.  Stewart  was  appointed  a  committee  of  one  to  escort  Mr.  Depew  to  the  exercises,  and 
Mr.  Sanger  to  escort  Dr.  Storrs,  and  Mr.  Webb  to  escort  Archbishop  Corrigan. 


CHAPTER  XIV. 

THE   MILITARY  PARADE. 


By  S.  Van  Rensselaer  Cruger, 

Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Army. 


SWORD  WORN   BY  MORGAN  LEWIS, 
Marshal  at  Washington's  Inauguration  in  1789. 
When  Francis  Lewis  went  to  the  Continental  Congress  he  gave  this  sword 
to  his  son  Morgan  Lewis. 
It  is  now  owned  by  Daniel  L.  Jones,  Brooklyn,  New  York. 


Of  the  various  sub-committees  ap- 
pointed by  the  Plan  and  Scope  Commit- 
tee on  the  Centennial  Celebration  of  the 
Inauguration  of  Washington,  the  sub- 
Committee  on  Army  held  one  of  the 
most  responsible  positions,  for  to  its  care 
was  intrusted  the  military  parade  of  April 
30th,  and  the  industrial  parade  of  May 
1,  1889  That  the  work  of  the  Army 
Committee  was  the  crowning  success  of 
this  great  celebration  is  shown  by  the 
fact  that  two  days  were  required  to  com- 
plete the  demonstration,  and  that,  while 
fully  one  hundred  thousand  soldiers  and 
citizens  participated  in  the  two  parades, 
not  a  single  complaint  was  heard  of 
from  visitors,  the  general  public,  or  the 
press.  The  sub-Committee  on  Army 
was  appointed  February  3,  1888,  by  the 
Plan  and  Scope  Committee,  with  Colo- 
nel Philip  Schuyler  as  its  chairman. 
The  associate  members  of  the  commit- 
tee comprised  General  John  Cochrane, 
Colonel  Locke  W.  Winchester,  Hon.  J. 
Hampden  Robb,  Frederic  Gallatin,  John 
C.  Tomlinson,  and  Colonel  S.  Van 
Rensselaer  Cruger.  On  February  25, 
1 888,  the  organization  of  the  commit- 
tee was  perfected,  Hon.  J.  Hampden 
Robb  being  chosen  treasurer  and  John 


THE  MILITARY  PARADE. 


C.  Tomlinson  secretary.  At  the  same  meeting  the  powers  and  duties  of  the  sub-Committee 
on  Army,  as  prescribed  by  the  Plan  and  Scope  Committee,  were  made  known  to  its  mem- 
bers in  the  following  official  communication  : 

The  Committee  on  Army  shall  have  the  power  and  are  directed : 

First.  To  appoint  a  grand  marshal,  subject  to  approval  of  the  Committee  on  Plan  and 
Scope,  and  such  other  officials  as  they  may  deem  necessary,  for  the  proper  conduct  of  a 
parade  on  Tuesday,  April  30,  1889. 

Second.  To  admit  such  troops,  organizations,  etc.,  as  they  may  deem  proper  to  take  part 
in  said  parade. 

Third.  To  provide  for  the  reception,  etc.,  of  such  troops,  organizations,  etc. 
Fourth.  To  designate  the  line  of  march  and  its  time,  and  to  regulate  the  same  in  all 
respects. 

Fifth.  To  receive  and  have  entire  charge  of  the  expenditure  of  the  funds  which  may 
be  given  to  it  for  carrying  out  any  of  the  objects  over  which  such  committee  may  have 
control;  to  audit  all  bills;  and,  upon  the  completion  of  their  duties,  to  make  a  proper 
return  to  the  Committee  on  Plan  and  Scope. 

Having  outlined  the  scope  of  its  proposed  endeavors,  the  Army  Committee,  at  the 
meeting  of  March  9th,  1888,  considered  the  subject  of  the  appointment  of  a  grand  marshal 
for  the  day  of  the  military  parade.  And  it  was  the  unanimous  opinion  of  the  committee 
that  General  William  T.  Sherman  should  be  first  tendered  the  position.  On  account  of 
the  uncertainty  of  his  future  movements  General  Sherman  was,  however,  constrained  to 
deny  himself  the  proffered  invitation,  and  through  Colonel  Schuyler,  the  office  of  grand 
marshal  was  tendered  to  Lieutenant-General  Philip  H.  Sheridan,  U.  S.  Army,  and  was 
accepted  by  him.  Colonel  Schuyler  resigned  from  the  committee  the  first  part  of  Novem- 
ber, 1888,  on  account  of  illness  in  his  family  necessitating  his  spending  the  winter  abroad,  and 
Colonel  S.  V.  R.  Cruger  was  unanimously  chosen  to  succeed  him  as  chairman.  Mr.  Fred- 
erick D.  Tappen  was  appointed  a  member  of  the  committee  in  place  of  Colonel  Schuyler. 
At  the  meeting  of  the  committee  held  December  3d,  it  was  resolved,  on  motion  of 
General  Cochrane,  "  That  owing  to  the  death  of  General  Sheridan,  Major-General  J.  M. 
Schofield  be  requested  to  act  as  grand  marshal,  and  that  the  chairman  should  submit  Gen- 
eral Schofield's  name  to  the  Chairman  of  the  Executive  Committee  for  approval."  General 
Schofield's  name  was  unanimously  approved,  and  he  accepted  the  appointment  of  the  com- 
mittee. From  the  mass  of  correspondence  which  poured  in  upon  the  committee  with  every 
mail,  it  speedily  became  apparent  that  the  dimensions  of  the  parade  would  largely  exceed 
the  most  liberal  estimates.  Beginning  with  South  Carolina — taking  the  letters  in  the  order 
of  receipt — followed  by  New  Hampshire,  Connecticut,  Mississippi,  Pennsylvania,  New  Jer- 
sey, Vermont,  Maine,  Ohio,  Delaware,  Michigan,  Maryland,  West  Virginia,  and  Minnesota, 
with  but  few  exceptions  every  State  in  the  Union,  through  its  Governor  or  Adjutant-Gen- 
eral, gave  notice  of  intention  to  send  forward  a  greater  or  smaller  body  of  troops.  Add- 


3>2       THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 

ed  to  these  were  scores  of  applications  for  assignment  to  places  in  the  procession  from  civic 
societies,  semi-military  organizations,  trades  associations,  and  representatives  of  manufactures 
and  industries  of  every  description. 


TOMB  OF  ALEXANDER  HAMILTON  IN  TRINITY  CHURCHYARD, 
Broadway  near  the  head  of  Wall  Street,  New  York. 
Decorated  on  the  occasion  of  the  Centennial  of  Washington's  Inauguration,  April  30,  l8i 


Starting  with  the  thirteen  thousand  troops  of  the  National  Guard  of  New  York  as  a 
basis,  it  required  but  slight  computation  to  disclose  the  fact  that,  provided  only  a  majority 
of  the  State  assurances  were  fulfilled,  the  military  division  of  the  procession  alone  would 
contain  not  fewer  than  thirty  thousand,  and  in  all  likelihood  over  forty  thousand,  men — an 
army  in  itself,  and  the  largest  body  of  troops  ever  brought  together  in  this  country  in 
time  of  peace.  The  handling  of  so  vast  a  multitude  of  men  in  the  streets  of  New 
York,  under  the  most  favorable  conditions,  presented  a  problem  of  no  ordinary  magnitude. 
It  was  plain  that  a  single  procession,  affording  adequate  opportunity  for  public  display  of 
the  several  military,  semi-military,  civic,  and  industrial  elements,  was  wholly  impracticable. 
One  of  two  courses  remained  open  to  the  sub-Committee  on  Army:  either  failure  in  the 
accomplishment  of  the  object  for  which  it  was  created  must  needs  be  accepted  in  advance, 
or  that  the  parade  be  divided  and  made  to  cover  two  days  instead  of  one,  as  originally  con- 


THE  MILITARY  PARADE. 


3i3 


templated.  The  latter  course  was  decided  upon.  The  pressure  upon  the  committee,  even 
at  a  comparatively  early  date,  for  positions  in  the  parade  of  April  30th  and  May  1st,  had 
grown  so  great  that  it  became  imperative  to  define  the  limitations  of  both  processions.  And 
it  was  therefore  decided  at  a  meeting  of  the  committee,  held  February  14,  1889,  that  the 
parade  of  April  30th  should  be  restricted  to  the  military  and  naval  forces  of  the  United 
States,  the  regularly  organized  State  troops — National  Guard  or  Volunteer  Militia — the 
Loyal  Legion,  and  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  the  order  of  precedence  being  as  here- 
given.  The  route  of  march  as  finally  agreed  upon  was  from  Wall  Street  up  Broadway  to 
Waverly  Place,  Waverly  Place  to  Fifth  Avenue,  up  Fifth  Avenue  to  Fourteenth  Street, 
through  Fourteenth  Street  to  Union  Square,  around  Union  Square  and  through  Fifteenth 
Street  to  Fifth  Avenue,  and  up  Fifth  Avenue  to  Fifty-ninth  Street.    It  was  further  decided 


CARRIAGE  CONTAINING  RUTHERFORD  B.  HAYES  AND  GROVER  CLEVELAND, 
EX-PRESIDENTS  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES, 
proceeding  from  the  Sub-Treasury  Building  to  the  Grand  Stand,  Military  Parade,  April  30,  1889. 
(From  a  photograph  by  the  "  Brooklyn  Academy  of  Photography.") 

that  the  Civic  and  Industrial  parade  should  be  held  on  May  ist.    At  the  request  of  the 

committee,  Major-General  Daniel  Butterfield  accepted  the  office  of  Grand  Marshal.  The 

route  on  the  second  day,  as  decided  upon,  was  from  Fifty-ninth  Street  and  Fifth  Avenue,  down 

Fifth  Avenue  to  Fifteenth  Street,  around  Union  Square,  through  Fourteenth  Street  to 

Fifth  Avenue  and  to  Waverly  Place,  thence  to  Broadway,  and  down  Broadway  to  Canal 

Street.     While  the  preliminary  parade  of  Monday,  April  29th,  attendant  upon  the  reception 

of  President  Harrison,  did  not  properly  fall  within  the  province  of  the  sub-Committee  on 
41 


314       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


Army,  it  was  nevertheless  in  complete  harmony  with  the  general  plan  of  puhlic  celebration 
formulated  by  this  committee,  and  constituted  a  significant  and  fitting  prelude,  leading  up  to 
the  magnificent  military  demonstration  of  Tuesday,  April  30th. 

In  this,  the  chief  parade  of  the  centennial  celebration,  there  were  49,861  persons  who 
took  part,  the  majority  of  the  participants  being  troops  in  uniform.  In  this  procession 
were  included  :  30  Governors  of  States;  Troops  of  the  United  States  Army:  Infantry,  146; 
artillery,  911  ;  cavalry,  111  ;  Troops  of  the  United  States  Marine  Corps,  394;  Sailors  of  the 
United  States  Navy,  1,131  ;  Cadets  of  the  United  States  Military  Academy,  West  Point, 


TEMPORARY  ARCH  NEAR  THE  GRAND  STAND, 
Fifth  Avenue  and  Twenty-Third  Street,  New  York. 
Military  Parade,  April  30,  1889. 
(From  a  photograph  by  the  "  Brooklyn  Academy  of  Photography.") 


288  ;  Troops  of  the  National  Guard,  State  troops,  and  volunteer  militia,  37,785  ;  Comrades 
of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic  of  the  United  States,  11,876;  Companions  of  the 
Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion  of  the  United  States,  200.  In  assuming  the  duties 
of  Marshal  of  the  military  parade,  March  18,  1889,  Major-General  Schofield  announced 
that  "  all  the  arrangements  for  these  ceremonies  will  be  made  by  the  sub-Committee  on 
Army."  The  chief  function  in  this  assignment  of  duties — that  of  the  disposition  and 
handling  of  the  troops,  preliminary  and  subsequent  to,  and  during  the  progress  of  the 


THE  MILITARY  PARADE. 


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parade  proper — was  fortunately  intrusted  by  General  Schofield  to  Captain  Stanhope  E. 
Blunt,  U.  S.  A,  as  Chief  Aide.  The  zeal,  intelligence,  and  military  capacity  displayed  by 
Captain  Blunt  in  the  discharge  of  his  onerous  duties  can  not  be  too  highly  praised,  and 
the  sub-Committee  on  Army  takes  great  pleasure  in  placing  on  record  this  tribute  to  his 
ability.  Allusion  has  been  made  to  the  difficulties  attending  the  massing,  moving,  and 
dispersal  of  so  large  a  multitude  of  troops.  The  wisdom  of  the  committee  in  determin- 
ing to  start  the  parade  practically  from  the  Battery,  and  to  dismiss  it  in  the  vicinity  of 
Central  Park,  was  questioned.  These  apprehensions,  happily,  proved  to  be  altogether 
unfounded,  notwithstanding  the  fact  that  the  original  route  of  march  was  extended 
nearly  a  mile,  to  enable  the  procession  to  circle  Union  Square.  Although  the  start- 
ing of  the  parade  from  the  head  of  Pine  Street  in  Broadway  was  delayed  more  than 
half  an  hour  beyond  the  schedule  time,  10  a.  m.,  owing  to  the  lengthened  services  at 
St.  Paul's  Chapel,  the  entire  route  was  covered  within  the  interval  calculated  by  Captain 
Blunt,  the  march  being  accomplished  at  the  rate  of  seven  thousand  troops  per  hour,  and 
the  rear  division  of  the  procession  reaching  the  point  of  dismissal,  Fifty-seventh  Street  and 
Fifth  Avenue,  at  about  seven  o'clock.  While  the  parade  was  in  progress,  communication 
was  maintained  throughout  all  its  parts  by  telegraph.  The  police  arrangements  were  ample 
and  of  the  most  complete  description,  and  the  manner  in  which  they  were  carried  out 
reflected  the  fullest  credit  upon  the  members  of  the  force,  from  superintendent  to  patrol- 


(Fac-simile  of  blue-colored  ticket  to  the  Grand  Stand,  April  30,  18S9.) 


men.  As  already  stated,  shortly  after  ten  o'clock  General  Schofield  gave  the  order  to 
move  forward,  the  head  of  the  column  passing  over  the  route  of  march  to  Fifth  Avenue 
and  Nineteenth  Street,  where  it  formed  line  on  the  east  side  of  the  avenue,  the  posts  of 


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THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 


the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic  having  in  the  mean  while  formed  line  on  the  west  side 
of  the  avenue,  and  extending  south  from  Nineteenth  Street.  Thus  the  presidential  party, 
on  the  way  from  the  sub-Treasury  to  the  reviewing  stand  at  Madison  Square,  received  the 
salutes  of  the  Veterans  of  the  War,  of  the  Army  and  Navy,  and  a  portion  of  the  National 


BENJAMIN  HARRISON,  PRESIDENT  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES, 
reviewing  the  Military  Parade  from  the  Grand  Stand,  April  30,  i88g. 
(From  a  photograph  by  the  "  Brooklyn  Academy  of  Photography.") 


Guard.  At  the  close  of  the  sub-Treasury  exercises  a  lunch  was  given  to  the  presidential 
party,  and  at  a  quarter  after  twelve  the  President,  leaning  upon  the  arm  of  Mr.  Elbridge 
T.  Gerry,  reappeared  at  the  Pine-Street  entrance  of  the  building  and  was  greeted  with 
cheers.  At  the  entrance,  Mr.  Gerry  turned  the  President  over  to  the  charge  of  General 
John  Cochrane,  of  the  Army  Committee,  who  attended  him  to  his  carriage,  which  he 
occupied  in  company  with  Mayor  Grant  and  Lieutenant  Judson,  the  President's  Aide. 
Thirteen  carriages  followed  the  President's,  and  they  came  in  the  following  order : 

2.  Vice-President  Morton,  Mr.  Hamilton  Fish,  and  Colonel  Locke  W.  Winchester,  of 
the  Army  Committee. 

3.  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  Windom,  Chairman  Gerry,  and  Secretary  Bowen. 

4.  Secretary  of  War  Proctor  and  Secretary  of  the  Navy  Tracy,  with  their  special  aides, 
Colonel  Barr,  U.  S.  A.,  and  Lieutenant  Mason,  U.  S.  N. 


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5.  Postmaster-General  Wanamaker,  Lieut-Governor  Jones,  N.  Y.,  and  a  military  escort. 

6.  Attorney-General  Miller,  Secretary  of  the  Interior  Noble,  and  Secretary  of  Agri 
culture  Rusk. 

7.  Chief-Justice  Fuller  and  Associate  Justices  of  the  Supreme  Court. 

8.  Admiral  Porter,  General  Sherman,  and  Senator  Evarts. 

9.  Ex- Presidents  Cleveland  and  Hayes  and  Senator  Hiscock. 
10  and  11.  Representatives  of  the  Senate  of  the  United  States. 

12.  Mr.  Chauncey  M.  Depew,  the  orator  of  the  day,  and  the  Most  Reverend  M.  A. 
Corrigan,  Archbishop  of  New  York. 

13.  The  Right  Rev.  Henry  C.  Potter,  Bishop  of  New  York;  the  Right  Rev.  Will- 
iam Stevens  Perry,  Chaplain-General  of  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati ;  and  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Richard  S.  Storrs. 

14.  Members  of  the  Committee  on  Plan  and  Scope,  having  the  general  supervision 
of  the  celebration,  Messrs.  James  M.  Yarnum,  Cornelius  N.  Bliss,  Frederick  S.  Tallmadge, 
and  Samuel  D.  Babcock. 

Along  the  route,  and  especially  at  Union  and  Madison  Squares,  the  cheers  and  en- 
thusiasm of  the  people  were  overwhelming. 
The  presidential  party  was  received  at  the 
Grand  Stand  by  four  members  of  the  sub- 
Committee  on  Army — Messrs.  Frederick  D. 
Tappen,  J.  Hampden  Robb,  Frederic  Gal- 
latin, and  John  C.  Tomlinson.  The  signal, 
"  All  ready,"  was  given  to  General  Scho- 
field,  the  troops  wheeled  into  column,  and 
the  great  parade  began.  As  already  stated, 
the  column  was  formed  with  the  regular 
army  on  the  right,  followed  by  the  navy 
and  marines,  and  then  the  troops  of  the 
several  States  as  they  originally  entered  the 
Union,  while  the  left  of  the  column  was 
held  by  the  Yeterans  of  the  Grand  Army 
of  the  Republic. 

Regarding  the  parade  the  New  York 
Herald  of  May  1,  1889,  reported  as  follows: 


MAJOR-GENERAL  JOHN  M.  SCHOFIELD,  U.  S.  A. 
Grand  Marshal  Military  Parade,  New  York,  April  30,  1S89. 


"Who  can  describe  Broadway,  stretching  away  with  its  myriad  of  fluttering  flags  and  its  seething  swarm 
of  human  ants  ?  Who  can  paint  in  words  the  buildings  decked  in  the  national  colors  with  windows  in  which 
were  the  faces  of  the  fairest  and  bravest  of  all  the  land?  Who  can  tell  the  story  of  that  mighty  host;  their 
hopes  and  fears,  their  swelling  patriotic  hearts,  their  honest  faces,  and  their  loyal  cheers  of  welcome  to 
the  flag  they  love  so  well  ? 


3i8      THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 


"  And  when  the  gallant  Schofield,  grown  w  hite  in  the  service  of  his  country,  but  still  erect,  alert,  and 
soldierly,  came  up  astride  a  gallant  bay,  who  can  reproduce  the  whisper  of  admiration  which  passed  along 
the  winds,  'That  is  Schofield;  he  took  Sheridan's  place'' 

••  Indeed,  the  glory  of  the  day  was  not  the  glory  of  the  marching  men;  it  was  the  glory  of  the  people. 
Sturdy,  loyal,  steadfast,  conscious  of  their  power,  they  viewed  the  serried  columns  with  a  pleasure  no  other 
people  on  earth  could  feel. 

"There  was  no  cringing  to  a  hireling  soldiery,  no  shouts  or  caps  in  the  air  at  sight  of  men  who  ruled 
by  the  power  of  the  sword. 

"'These  troops  are  ours,  of  our  making,  and  made  from  us,'  was  what  the  greetings  meant. 

" '  These  soldiers  and  Governors  have  as  much  at  stake  as  we.    In  honoring  them  we  honor  ourselves.' 

"  If  Washington  could  have  stood  and  seen  the  sight,  his  magnificent  heart  would  have  swelled  with 
gratitude  at  the  deliverance  of  his  posterity  from  those  evils  which  he  feared.     He  would  have  seen  the 


CADETS  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES  MILITARY  ACADEMY,  WEST  POINT, 
approaching  the  Grand  Stand,  April  30,  1889. 


republic  he  founded  great  and  glorious  in  its  century  of  marvelous  prosperity,  and  thousands  of  its  citizens 
standing  before  him  would  have  testified  to  that  fact. 

"The  regular  troops  marched  well  and  received  a  very  large  part  of  the  generous  applause  of  the  day. 
The  navy  and  marines  were  not  forgotten.     This  was  as  might  have  been  expected. 

"  Hut  when  the  Southern  troops  swung  along,  the  greeting  was  not  only  generous,  it  was  spontaneous. 
The  Maryland  contingent,  with  its  band  playing  '  My  Maryland,'  was  received  with  a  warmth  that  awoke 
the  sentiment  of  all  who  heard  and  looked.     Line  after  line  of  the  blue  and  gray  intermingled,  'Dixie' 


THE  MILITARY  PARADE. 


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and  'Yankee  Doodle'  swelling  the  grand  chorus,  until  the  lookers-on  became  frantic  and  showered  whatever 
they  had  on  the  moving  ranks  of  their  brothers  of  the  South." 

The  roster  of  the  troops  taking  part  in  this  great  parade  was  compiled  from  official 
reports  by  the  Clerk  of  the  Committee  on  Army,  Captain  William  H.  Murphy,  Twelfth 
Regiment,  New  York,  and  the  comments  on  the  several  organizations  are  taken  from  the 
reports  of  the  Army  and  Navy  Journal  and  the  New  York  Tribune  : 

THE  TROOPS. 

Chief  Marshal. — Major-General  John  M.  Schofield,  U.  S.  A.  Chief  of  Staff. — Col.  S.  V.  R.  Cruger, 
N.  Y.  Vols.    Chief  Aide. — Capt.  Stanhope  E.  Blunt,  U.  S.  A. 


CADETS  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES  MILITARY  ACADEMY,  WEST  POINT, 
passing  the  Grand  Stand,  April  30,  18S9. 


Aides.— Gen.  T.  M.  Vincent,  U.  S.  A.,  Col.  J.  J.  Coppinger,  U.  S.  A.,  Maj.  Arthur  MacArthur,  U.  S.  A.,  Capt. 
E.  L.  Zalinski,  U.  S.  A.,  Lieut.  C.  B.  Schofield,  U.  S.  A.,  Lieut.  T.  H.  Bliss,  U.  S.  A.,  Lieut.  John  Pitcher,  U.  S.  A., 
Lieut.  Thomas  J.  Lewis,  U.  S.  A.,  Lieut.  A.  C.  Blunt,  U.  S.  A.,  Lieut.  C.  G.  Treat,  U.  S.  A.,  Lieut.  H.  S.  Whipple, 
U.  S.  A.,  Lieut.  A.  D.  Andrews,  U.  S.  A.,  Com'dr  J.  Duncan  Graham,  U.  S.  N„  Surg.  M.  L.  Ruth,  U.  S.  N„  Lieut. 
Austin  M.  Knight,  U.  S.  N.,  Gen.  Daniel  Butterfield,  U.  S.  Vols.,  Gen.  J.  F.  Pierson,  U.  S.  Vols.,  Gen.  Michael 
Kerwin,  U.  S.  Vols.,  Gen.  L.  T.  Barney,  U.  S.  Vols.,  Gen.  Joseph  C.  Jackson,  U.  S.  Vols.,  Gen.  H.  L.  Burnett,  U.  S. 
Vols.,  Gen.  Jos.  B.  Carr,  U.  S.  Vols.,  Gen.  Horatio  C.  King,  U.  S.  Vols.,  Gen.  Martin  T.  McMahon,  U.  S.  Vols., 


32o       THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


Gen.  Wm.  G.  Ward,  N.  G.  S.  N.  Y.,  Col.  C.  N.  Swift,  U.  S.  Vols.,  Col.  H.  D.  Hull,  U.  S.  Vols.,  Col.  David  Mor- 
rison, U.  S.  Vols.,  Col.  A.  M.  Clark,  U.  S.  Vols.,  Col.  Johnston  L.  De  Peyster,  U.  S.  Vols.,  Col.  Archie  E.  Baxter, 
U.  S.  Vols.,  Col.  Thos.  R.  Scott,  U.  S.  Vols.,  Col.  Jas.  C.  Reed,  U.  S.  Vols.,  Col.  Finley  Anderson,  U.  S.  Vols., 
Col.  Wm.  C.  Church,  U.  S.  Vols.,  Col.  J.  Schuyler  Crosby,  U.  S.  Vols.,  Col.  Chas.  E.  Bridge,  N.  G.  S.  N.  Y., 
Col.  l.ee  Chamberlin,  N.  G.  S.  N.  Y.,  Col.  E.  A.  McAlpin,  N.  G.  S.  N.  Y.,  Col.  Charles  R.  Braine,  N.  G.  S.  N.  Y., 
Col.  John  Ward,  N.  G.  S.  N.  Y.,  Col.  Harry  M.  Alden,  U.  S.  Vols.,  Col.  John  W.  Jacobus,  U.  S.  Vols.,  Col.  John 
Don,  U.  S.  Vols.,  Col.  C.  L.  Burgess,  U.  S.  Vols.,  Col.  John  W.  Marshall,  U.  S.  Vols.,  Col.  Floyd  Clarkson,  U.  S. 
Vols.,  Col.  Shaughnessy,  U.  S.  Vols.,  Col.  I).  W.  C.  Ward,  U.  S.  Vols.,  Col.  Cavanaugh,  U.  S.  Vols.,  Col.  Wm. 

E.  Van  Wyck,  U.  S.  Vols.,  Maj.  J.  O.  Woodward,  N.  (i.  S.  N.  Y.,  Maj.  Morris  B.  Farr,  N.  G.  S.  N.  Y.,  Maj. 
Chas.  E.  Stott,  U.  S.  Vols.,  Maj.  Wm.  H.  Bright,  U.  S.  Vols.,  Maj.  John  M.  Searle,  U.  S.  Vols.,  Maj.  Wm.  C. 
Sanger,  N.  G.  S.  N.  Y.,  Capt.  I.  H.  MacDonald,  U.  S.  Vols.,  Capt.  Wm.  H.  Murphy,  N.  G.  S.  N.  Y.,  Capt.  W.  E. 
Roosevelt,  N.  G.  S.  N.  Y.,  Capt.  Obed  Wheeler,  U.  S.  Vols.,  Capt.  Waldo  Sprague,  U.  S.  Vols.,  Capt.  Joseph  P. 
Jardine,  N.  G.  S.  N.  Y.,  Capt.  G.  W.  Collins,  N.  G.  S.  N.  Y.,  Capt.  H.  D.  Lockwood,  N.  G.  S.  N.  Y.,  Capt.  E.  A. 
Des  Marets,  N.  G.  S.  N.  Y.,  Capt.  H.  B.  Turner,  N.  G.  S.  N.  Y.,  Capt.  Abr.  H.  Herts,  N.  G.  S.  N.  Y.,  Lieut.  A. 

F.  Schermerhorn,  N.  G.  S.  N.  Y.,  Lieut.  John  N.  Golding,  N.  G.  S.  N.  Y.,  Lieut.  George  A.  Clement,  N.  G.  S.  N. 
Y.,  Lieut.  Willard  C.  Fisk,  N.  G.  S.  N.  Y.,  Lieut.  O.  Harriman,  Jr.,  N.  G.  S.  N.  Y.,  Mr.  Geo.  H.  Hallett,  Mr. 
Nicholas  Fish,  Mr.  G.  Creighton  Webb,  Mr.  Charles  B.  Bleecker,  Mr.  Arthur  De  Windt,  Mr.  Lewis  H.  Liv- 
ingston, Mr.  Newbold  Morris,  Mr.  Oliver  S.  Teall,  Mr.  Myles  Standish,  Mr.  W.  Dillaway. 

As  Representatives  of  their  respective  States. — Col.  Benjamin  Whitely,  Delaware.  Gen.  Frank  Reeder,  Penn- 
sylvania. Col.  S.  Meredith  Dickinson,  New  Jersey.  Col.  Seaton  Grantland,  Georgia.  Capt.  Phineas  H.  In- 
galls,  Connecticut.  Col.  E.  E.  Currier,  Massachusetts.  Col.  Columbus  O'Donnell,  Maryland.  Col.  Le  Roy 
Springs,  South  Carolina.  Col.  R.  M.  Seamman,  New  Hampshire.  Maj.  Norman  V.  Randolph,  Virginia.  Gen. 
Daniel  D.  Wylie,  New  York.  Capt.  Benehan  Cameron,  North  Carolina.  Gen.  E.  H.  Rhodes,  Rhode  Island. 
Gen.  Edward  H.  Ripley,  Vermont.  Col.  Morris  B.  Belknap,  Kentucky.  Col.  H.  C.  Corbin,  Ohio.  Gen.  Henry 
M.  Sprague,  Maine.  Col.  Charles  H.  Jones,  Missouri.  Gen.  D.  B.  Ainger,  Michigan.  Col.  Albert  W. 
Gilchrist,  Florida.  Maj.  Fred.  F.  Feigle,  Texas.  Col.  W.  B.  Stone,  Kansas.  Maj.  J.  C.  Alderson,  West 
Virginia. 

Special  Escort  to  the  Chief-Afarshal.--Ma.].  Louis  H.  Carpenter,  5th  U.  S.  Cav.,  Commanding.  1st  Lieut. 
Wm.  Baird,  6th  U.  S.  Cav.,  Adjutant.  Troop  "B,"  6th  U.  S.  Cav.,  Capt.  George  S.  Anderson,  53.  Troop 
"B,"  4th  U.  S.  Cav.,  Capt.  James  Parker,  56.    Officers,  6;  enlisted  men,  105. — Total,  in. 


BRIGADE  UNITED  STATES  ARMY. 

Col.  Richard  I.  Dodge,  nth  Inf'ty,  Commanding.    1st  Lieut.  R.  J.  C.  Irvine,  nth  Inf'ty,  A.  A.  G. 

Cadets  U.  S.  Military  Academy  {West  Point). — Lieut. -Col.  H.  S.  Hawkins,  23d  Inf'ty,  Commanding.  1st 
Lieut.  C.  J.  Crane,  24th  Inf'ty,  Adjutant.  Band  and  Drum  Corps,  42.  Eight  companies,  commanded  by  Cadet 
Officers,  246.    Field  and  staff,  6;  enlisted  men,  288. — Total,  294. 

Battalion  Third  Artillery. — Col.  Horatio  G.  Gibson,  3d  Art'y,  Commanding.  1st  Lieut.  Chas.  B.  Satterlee, 
3d  Art'y,  Adjutant.    Field  and  Staff,  3;  N.  C.  Staff,  6;  band,  15.— Total,  24.     Battery  I,  Capt.  J.  R.  Myrick, 

25.  Battery  L,  Capt.  F.  W.  Hess,  26.    Battery  H,  Capt.  James  O'Hara,  29.    Battery  E,  Lieut.  J.  B.  Banette, 

26.  Battery  K,  Capt.  Lewis  Smith,  30.  Battery  D,  Capt.  E.  C.  Knower,  27.  Battery  A,  Lieut.  B.  H.  Ran- 
dolph, 27.    Battery  G,  Lieut.  J.  R.  Williams,  25.    Officers,  22;  enlisted  men,  215. — Total,  237. 

Battalion  Fifth  Artillery .-i- Lieut-Col.  Richard  Lodor,  5th  Art'y,  Commanding.  2d  Lieut.  J.  D.  Miley,  5th 
Art'y,  Act'g  Adjutant.  Field  and  Staff,  2  ;  N.  C.  Staff,  3  ;  band,  15.— Total,  20.  Battery  K,  Capt.  H.  F.  Brew- 
erton,  26.  Battery  I,  Lieut.  Luigi  Lomia,  30.  Battery  H.  Capt.  J.  A.  Fessenden,  31.  Battery  E,  Capt.  Paul 
Roemer,  29.  Battery  A,  Capt.  W.  B.  Beck,  29.  Battery  B,  Lieut.  G.  N.  Whistler,  23.  Battery  L,  Capt.  B.  K. 
Roberts,  29.    Battery  M,  Lieut.  C.  B.  Wheeler,  29.    Officers,  14;  enlisted  men.  231. — Total,  245. 

Battalion  Fourth  Artillery. — Brev.-Brig.-Gen.  R.  H.  Jackson,  Lieut. -Col.  4th  Art'y,  Commanding.  1st  Lieut. 
S.  W.  Taylor,  4th  Art'y,  Adjutant.  Field  and  Staff,  2  ;  N.  C.  Staff,  4;  band,  15. — Total,  21.  Battery  I,  Lieut. 
C.  P.  Townsley,  26.  Battery  L,  Capt.  Ed.  Field,  28.  Battery  G,  Capt.  Wm.  Ennis,  26.  Battery  A,  Lieut.  A. 
Cronkhite,  23.  Battery  E,  Lieut.  H.  R.  Anderson,  29.  Battery  C,  Capt.  R.  P.  Strong,  21.  Officers,  15;  en- 
listed men,  159. — Total,  174. 

Battalion  Second  Artillery. — Maj.  C.  B.  Throckmorton,  2d  Art'y,  Commanding.  Battery  M,  Lieut.  W. 
Everett,  4th  Art'y,  Commanding,  23.  Battery  K,  Lieut.  C.  Deems,  4th  Art'y  Commanding,  21.  Officers,  3  ; 
enlisted  men,  42. — Total,  45. 

Battalion  Eleventh  Infantry. — Lieut-Col.  E.  G.  Bush,  nth  Infantry,  Commanding.  1st  Lieut.  J.  H. 
Philbrick,  nth  Infantry,  Acting  Adjutant.  Field  and  Staff,  5;  N.  C.  Staff,  4;  band,  18.— Total,  27. 
Company  H,  Capt.  E.  C.  Gilbreath,  24.    Company  D,  Lieut.  P.  M.  B.  Travis,  22.    Company  A,  Capt.  Ira 


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Quinby,  25.  Company  I,  Capt.  F.  W.  Mansfield,  25.  Company  G,  Lieut.  R.  L.  Hirst,  23.  Officers,  16; 
enlisted  men,  130. — Total,  146. 

Battalion  Light  Batteries. — Maj.  Abram  C.  Wildrick,  5th  Art'y,  Commanding.  Light  Battery  C,  3d 
Art'y,  Capt.  Jno.  G.  Turnbull,  63.  Light  Battery  B,  4th  Art'y,  Capt.  H.  C.  Cushing,  59.  Light  Battery  F, 
5th  Art'y,  Capt.  J.  R.  Brinckle,  60.    Officers,  13;  enlisted  men,  170. — Total,  183. 

Total  Army. — Officers,  87  ;  enlisted  men,  1,063. — -Aggregate,  1,150. 

At  the  head  of  the  column  rode  General  Schofield,  skillfully  reining  his  handsome  horse.  The  veteran 
looked  every  inch  the  soldier  ;  and,  as  he  gracefully  brought  his  sword  to  the  salute,  a  grand  cheer  went 
up.  He  was  followed  by  a  glittering  staff,  superbly  mounted,  although,  in  accordance  with  his  order, 
its  members  did  not  salute.  Next  came  the  escort,  under  Major  L.  H.  Carpenter,  Fifth  Cavalry,  the  bugles 
sounding  exultingly.  These  regulars  appeared  splendidly,  and  would  have  made  a  grand  passage  at  the 
Grand  Stand  but  for  some  unfortunate  check  in  front  that  interrupted  their  march.  Their  horses,  arms, 
and  accoutrements  were  in  brilliant  condition,  and  this  prelude  to  the  procession  captivated  the  crowd. 

When  once  more  in  motion,  the  regular  brigade  swept  smoothly  by.  In  front  was  the  corps  of  cadets 
from  West  Point.  They  appeared  in  their  highest  form,  displaying  absolute  perfection  of  alignment,  step, 
and  uniformity.  They  wore  gray  uniforms,  and  the  battalion  was  formed  in  eight  companies.  It  was  a 
sight  to  make  an  old  West-Pointer  young  again. 

Following  the  cadets  came  the  Battalion  of  the  Third  Artillery.  They  marched  well  and  steadily, 
and  were  as  neat  and  trim  as  regulars  should  be,  but  with  bayonets  unfixed,  a  curious  lapse  for  a  regu- 
lar command,  in  the  opinion  of  those  critics  who  were  unaware  that  this  command  has  the  rod  bayonet, 
which  is  only  to  be  fixed  in  time  of  war.  Next  followed  the  battalion  of  the  Fifth  Artillery,  march- 
ing and  appearing  very  handsomely.  Then  came  the  Fourth  Artillery,  showing  an  especially  fine  step 
and  discipline.  The  five  companies  of  the  Eleventh  Infantry  marched  past  beautifully,  and  the  three 
light  batteries  rumbled  by  in  the  order  named,  looking  admirably. 

THE  NAVAL  BRIGADE. 
Capt.  W.  A.  Kirkland,  U.  S.  Navy,  Commanding.    Lieut.  A.  C.  Dillingham,  A.  A.  G. 

Battalion  U.  S.  Marines. — Capt.  Charles  F.  Williams,  Commanding.  2d  Lieut.  Jos.  H.  Pendleton, 
Adjutant.  Marine  Band,  37.  1st  Company,  Capt.  E.  P.  Meeker,  125.  2d  Company,  Capt.  Geo.  C.  Reid,  125. 
3d  Company,  Capt.  E.  R.  Robinson,  124.    Total,  411.    Officers,  12;  enlisted  men,  411. — Aggregate,  423. 

Apprentice  Battalion. — Lieut. -Commander  Edwin  Longnecker,  U.  S.  N.,  Commanding.  (Band,  17.)  Officers, 
16;  enlisted  men,  498. — Total,  531. 

First  Battalion  Seamen,  Infantry. — Lieut. -Commander  Harry  Knox,  U.  S.  N.,  Commanding.  (Band,  27.) 
Eight  companies. — Details  from  the  Boston,  Minnesota,  Essex,  and  Yantic.  Officers,  17 ;  enlisted  men, 
275.— Total,  319. 

Second  Battalion  Seamen,  Infantry. — Lieut. -Commander  Chas.  Belknap,  U.  S.  N.,  Commanding.  Eight 
companies. — Details  from  the  Chicago,  Kearsarge,  Brooklyn,  Yorktown,  and  Despatch.  Officers,  12;  enlisted 
men,  279. — Total,  291.    Six  Staff  Officers,  2  Ambulances,  1  Apothecary,  and  4  Baymen. 

Total  Navy. — Officers,  64  ;  enlisted  men,  1,431. — Aggregate,  1,495. 

To  the  strains  of  the  famous  Marine  Band,  the  still  more  famous  Marine  Corps  marched  by.  They 
maintained  their  high  reputation  in  every  point,  keeping  fronts  and  distances  perfectly,  and  looking  as 
soldierly  as  the  most  rigid  martinet  could  desire.  The  ladies  love  a  sailor,  and  when  the  next  battalion, 
made  up  of  naval  apprentices  from  the  training-ships,  marched  by,  their  fine  step  and  good  alignments 
were  not  so  much  observed  perhaps  as  their  boyish  looks  and  picturesque  dress.  Two  strong  battalions 
of  seamen,  eight  companies  each,  from  the  Boston,  Minnesota,  Essex,  Yantic,  Chicago,  Kearsarge,  Brook- 
lyn, Yorktown,  and  Despatch  rolled  by  next,  in  splendid  form,  and  the  Ambulance  and  Stretcher  Corps 
brought  up  the  rear  of  the  regular  contingent. 

Then  every  one  settled  down  to  watch  for  the  most  distinguished  incident  of  the  parade,  the  passage 
of  the  Governors  and  the  troops  of  the  various  States. 


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THE  UNITED  STATES  NAVAL  BRIGADE, 
approaching  the  Grand  Stand,  April  30,  1889. 

DELAWARE. 

Governor,  Benjamin  T.  Biggs.  Brig. -Gen.  Richard  R.  Kenny,  Adjt.-Gen.  Staff:  Officers,  12;  enlisted 
men,  2. — Total,  14. 

First  Regiment  (Mi/ford).—  Col.  Geo.  W.  Marshall.  Lt.  H.  L.  Paige,  Adjt.  Co.  A,  Capt.  E.  Mitchell.  Jr.; 
Co.  B,  Capt.  E.  C.  Wiswell;  Co.  C,  Capt.  I.  P.  Wickersham ;  Co.  D,  Capt.  R.  D.  Simmons;  Co.  E,  Capt.  W,  T. 
Griffenberg;  Co.  F,  Capt.  W.  Condon;  Co.  G,  Capt.  C.  L.  Moore;  Co.  H,  Capt.  G.  W.  Eckels.  Officers,  31; 
enlisted  men,  410. — Total,  441. 

Troop  "  B  "  First  Cavalry  (Wilmington). — Capt.  Thos  B.  Rice.  Officers,  3  ;  enlisted  men,  38. — Total,  41. 
Total  Delaware. — Officers,  46  ;  enlisted  men,  450. — 496. 

A  noble  cheer  greeted  the  colors  of  Delaware,  blue  lozenge  on  a  white  field,  and  the  cheer  rose  to 
a  general  shout  of  welcome  as  Governor  Biggs  rode  up,  bareheaded — a  shout  that  indicated  recognition 
of  the  seniority  of  the  "old  blue  hen's  chickens"  in  the  brotherhood  of  States.  First  in  rank  as  the 
eldest,  though  among  the  least  in  numbers,  Delaware  made  a  remarkable  display. 

The  most  conspicuous  feature  of  the  Delaware  parade  was  the  band,  uniformed  in  indigo  blue,  with 
the  drum-major  radiant  in  a  uniform  of  white  and  yellow.  The  First  Regiment,  Colonel  Marshall, 
paraded  ten  companies,  in  a  serviceable  uniform  of  blue,  and  made,  all  in  all,  a  very  fair  appearance. 
Troop  B  passed  with  good  alignment,  and  made  a  creditable  appearance. 


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BENJAMIN  T.  BIGGS,  GOVERNOR  OF  DELAWARE,  AND  BRIGADIER-GENERAL  RICHARD  R.  KENNY, 

ADJUTANT-GENERAL  OF  DELAWARE, 
passing  through  Union  Square,  at  the  head  of  the  Delaware  troops,  April  30,  1SS9. 

(From  a  photograph  by  the  "  Brooklyn  Academy  of  Photography.") 


PENNSYLVANIA. 

Governor,  James  A.  Beaver.    Brig. -Gen.  D.  H.  Hastings,  Adjt.-Gen.    Staff,  22. 

The  Pennsylvania  troops  long  ago  made  their  reputation  as,  perhaps,  the  most  business-like  of  the 
State  forces.  They  wear  the  regular  uniform  and  affect  the  monotonous  appearance  of  the  regulars. 
They  always  march,  too,  in  heavy  dress,  carrying  all  the  accoutrements  of  an  active  campaign.  Knap- 
sacks, blankets,  haversacks,  canteens,  and  cups  are  a  serious  handicap  in  a  dress  parade,  and  the  Penn- 
sylvanians  suffer  somewhat  on  a  gala  day  from  their  heavy  uniform.  But  their  marching  is  always  good, 
and  they  give  an  impression  of  force  and  solidity  which  the  other  regiments  often  missed  ;  it  gave  the 
appearance  of  a  return  from  a  campaign  rather  than  of  troops  on  parade  for  ceremony. 

Division.— Maj. -Gen.  John  F.  Hartranft.    Lieut.-Col.  Geo.  H.  Hall,  A.  A.  G.    Staff,  12. 

First  Brigade. — Brig. -Gen.  Geo.  R.  Snowden.    Maj.  C.  H.  Townsend,  A.  A.  G.    Staff,  10. 

Second  Regiment  {Philadelphia). — Col.  Robert  B.  Dechert.  Lieut.  A.  H.  Hartung,  Adjt.  Field  and  Staff,  9  ; 
X.  C.  Staff,  5;  band,  40.  Co.  A.  Capt.  J.  T.  Durang;  Co.  B,  Capt.  W.  H.  Davis;  Co.  C,  Capt.  Wm.  Macintosh; 
Co.  D,  Capt.  J.  F.  Stevenson;  Co.  E,  Capt.  P.  H.  Jacobus;  Co.  F,  Capt.  C.  H.  Worman  ;  Co.  G,  Capt.  J.  T. 
Hughes;  Co.  H,  Capt.  G.  W.  Ahrens;  Co.  I,  Capt.  W.  C.  Cunningham;  Co.  K.  Capt.  Theo.  Gepfert.  Co. 
officers,  25  ;  enlisted  men,  522. — Total,  601. 

The  Second  held  the  right  of  the  brigade,  staff  dismounted  ;  the  companies  passed  in  excellent  form  ; 
general  appearance  good. 

Sixth  Regiment  (Philadelphia).— Col  J.  W.  Schall.  Lieut.  T.  J.  Stewart,  Adjt.  Field  and  Staff.  4:  X.  C. 
Staff,  2;  band,  20.— Total,  26.    Co.  A,  Capt.  W.  E.  Schuyler;  Co.  B,  F.  G.  Sweeney;  Co.  C,  Capt.  Geo.  W. 


324      THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


Royer ;  Co.  D,  Capt.  T.  L.  R.  Walters;  Co.  F,  Capt.  H.  Jacobs;  Co.  G,  Capt.  E.  Kochersperger ;  Co.  H,  Capt. 
W.  R.  Carson;  Co.  I,  Capt.  M.  Paxson.    Co.  officers,  21  ;  enlisted  men,  334. — Total,  381. 

The  Sixth,  eight  companies,  was  all  very  creditable  in  alignment  and  step.  The  color  company  was 
the  best  in  the  regiment. 

Third  Regiment  {Philadelphia). — Col.  S.  Bonnaffon,  Jr.  Lieut.  Frank  Redfearn,  Adjt.  Field  and  Staff,  6; 
N.  C.  Staff,  5;  band,  22.— Total,  33.  Co.  A,  Capt.  L.  C.  Hall,  Jr.;  Co.  B,  Capt.  G.  W.  Harris;  Co.  C,  Capt. 
T.  H.  Maginniss;  Co.  D,  Capt.  G.  J.  Gillispie,  Jr.;  Co.  E,  Capt.  T.  A.  Edwards;  Co.  F,  Capt.  J.  C.  Thompson; 
Co.  G.  Capt.  T.  Ryan,  Jr.;  Co.  H,  Capt.  F.  Houget.    Co.  officers,  17  ;  enlisted  men,  339. — Total,  389. 

First  Regiment  {Philadelphia). — Col.  Wen- 
dell P.  Bowen.  Lieut.  P.  S.  Conrad,  Adjt. 
Field  and  Staff,  9;  N.  C.  Staff,  6;  band,  24. 
—Total,  39.    Co.  A,  Capt.  F.  W.  Magill ;  Co. 

B,  Capt.  Win.  Ewing ;  Co.  C,  Capt.  M.  W. 
Orme;  Co.  D,  Capt.  H.  O.  Hastings;  Co.  E, 
Capt.  Jas.  Muldoon ;  Co.  F,  Lieut.  William 
Brod;  Co.  G,  Capt.  A.  L.  Williams;  Co. 
H,  Capt.  C.  T.  Kensil;  Co.  I,  Lieut.  Thos. 
H.  P.  Todd;  Co.  K,  Capt.  A.  J.  Diamond, 
Jr.  Co.  officers,  26  ;  enlisted  men,  497. — 
Total,  562. 

The  First  Regiment  sustained  its  well- 
earned  reputation  of  being  the  best  in  the 
State.  With  full  ranks,  ten  companies  of 
twenty  files  front,  the  regiment  never  showed 
to  better  advantage. 

Battalion  State  Fencibles  {Philadelphia). — 
Maj.  W.  W.  Chew.  Lieut.  E.  H.  Cooper, 
Adjt.  Field  and  Staff,  4;  N.  C.  Staff,  4; 
band,  50. — Total,  58.  Co.  A,  Capt.  Wm.  A. 
Witherup;  Co.  B,  Capt.  Geo.  W.  Rea ;  Co. 

C,  Capt.  R.  P.  Schellingar;  Co.  D,  Capt.  T. 
T.  Brazer.  Co.  officers,  7  ;  enlisted  men, 
174.— Total,  239. 

Gray  Invincibles  {Colored,  Philadelphia). — 
Capt.  Chas.  A.  Hailstock.  Officers,  2  ;  en- 
listed men,  55. — Total,  57. 

Battery  "A,"  Capt.  M.  C.  Stafford. 
Officers,  4;  enlisted  men,  76. — Total,  80. 


JAMES  A  BEAVER,  GOVERNOR  OF  PENNSYLVANIA, 
AND  BRIGADIER-GENERAL  D.  H.  HASTINGS, 
ADJUTANT-GENERAL  OF  PENNSYLVANIA. 
Military  Parade,  New  York,  April  30,  1889. 


The  Battalion   State   Fencibles,  Major 
Chew,  appeared  well.     The  marching,  align- 
ments, and  distance  were  excellent. 
Gray  Invincibles  (independent  colored  company)  passed  with  a  solid  front  of  twenty-four,  and  presented 
an  appearance  the  equal  of  any  other  company  in  the  division. 

Battery  A,  Captain  Stafford,  brought  up  the  rear,  and  made  the  passage  in  good  shape. 

Third  Brigade. — Brig.-Gen.  J.  P.  S.  Gobin.    Maj.  M.  A.  Gherst,  A.  A.  G.     Staff,  10. 

Ninth  Regiment  {Wilkesbarre). —Col.  M.  J.  Keck.  Lieut.  J.  R.  Wright,  Adj.  Field  and  Staff,  4;  N.  C.  Staff, 
4 ;  band,  32,— Total,  43.  Co.  A,  Capt.  W.  H.  Broadhead ;  Co.  B,  Capt.  J.  C.  Horton ;  Co.  C,  Capt.  J.  W. 
Burns;  Co.  D,  Capt.  Asher  Miner;  Co.  E,  Capt.  Geo.  Wallace,  Jr.;  Co.  F,  Capt.  N.  Stranburg;  Co.  H,  Capt. 
J.  T.  Flannery.     Co.  officers,  16;  enlisted  men,  327. — Total,  386. 

Passed  in  excellent  form. 

Eighth  Regiment  {IVrightsville). — Col.  F.  J.  Magee.  Lieut.  J.  P.  Levergood,  Adj.  Field  and  Staff,  4;  N.  C, 
Staff,  4.— Total,  8.  Co.  A,  Capt.  E.  Z.  Strine;  Co.  B,  Capt.  G.  Warrington  ;  Co.  C,  Capt.  J.  C.  Gerbig,  Co.  D, 
Capt.  T.  F.  Maloney;  Co.  E,  Capt.  W.  E.  Jones;  Co.  F,  Capt.  J.  G.  Johnson;  Co.  G,  Capt.  E.  B.  Watts;  Co. 


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H,  Capt.  R.  Rahn ;  Co.  I,  Capt.  J.  W.  Minnich;  Co.  K,  Capt.  W.  H.  Holmes.  Co.  officers,  22;  enlisted  men. 
442. — Total,  472. 

The  Eighth  Regiment  (ten  companies  located  in  the  center  of  the  State)  was  one  of  the  largest  in  the 
division,  and  passed  in  excellent  form. 

Fourth  Regiment  (Allentown).— Col.  S.  D.  Lehr.  Lieut.  C.  O'Neill,  Adjt.  Field  and  Staff,  6;  N.  C.  Staff,  3, 
—Total,  9.  Co.  A,  Capt.  H.  J.  Christoph ;  Co.  B,  Capt.  G.  B.  Roth;  Co.  C,  Capt.  F.  A.  Bennett;  Co.  D,  Capt. 
W.  D.  Mickley;  Co.  E,  Capt.  C.  F.  Seaman;  Co.  F,  Capt.  E.  D.  Smith;  Co.  G,  Capt.  J.  P.  Earnest;  Co.  H. 
Capt.  H.  W.  Hankee.    Com.  officers,  22  ;  enlisted  men,  275. — Total,  306. 

The  Fourth  is  located  along  the  line  of  the  Lehigh  Valley  Railroad. 

Twelfth  Regiment  ( U'illiamsfort). — Col.  Thos.  W.  Lloyd.  Lieut.  W.  P.  Clarke,  Adjt.  Field  and  Staff, 
7;  N.  C.  Staff,  2;  band,  16.— Total,  25.     Co.  A,  Capt.  G.  S.  Matlack ;  Co.  B,  Capt.  Wra.  Sweeley ;  Co. 

C,  Capt.  J.  M.  Caldwell;  Co.  D,  Capt.  B.  H.  Updegraff;  Co.  E,  Capt.  C.  N.  Clement;  Co.  F,  Capt.  W.  B. 
Baldy ;  Co.  G,  Capt.  E.  Russell;  Co.  H,  Capt.  G.  A.  Brown.  Com.  officers,  22;  enlisted  men,  299. — 
Total,  346. 

They  passed  in  good  form. 

Thirteenth  Regiment  {Scranton).—<2o\.  Ezra  Z.  Ripple.  Lieut.  W.  S.  Millar,  Adjt.  Field  and  Staff,  6 ;  N.  C. 
Staff,  5. — Total,  n.    Co.  A,  Capt.  H.  R.  Madison;  Co.  B,  Capt.  Wm.  Kellow ;  Co.  C,  Capt.  Jas.  Moir;  Co. 

D,  Capt.  W.  A.  May:  Co.  E,  Capt.  G.  H.  Whitney;  Co.  G,  Capt.  E.  C.  Smith  ;  Co.  H,  Capt.  Wm.  B.  Rockwell; 
Co.  I,  Capt.  J.  H.  Duggan.     Co.  officers,  22;  enlisted  men,  366. — Total,  399. 

This  regiment  has  gained  an  excellent  reputation  for  rifle-practice,  and  in  that  respect  is  one  of  the  best 
if  not  the  best  regiment  in  the  State  service. 

Battery  C,  Captain  Dennithorne,  Jr.,  dismounted,  were  armed  with  sabers  only. 

Second  Brigade. — Brig.-Gen.  John  A.  Wiley.     Major.  Chas.  Miller,  A.  A.  G.    Staff,  10. 

Tenth  Regiment  {Washington).— Col.  A.  L.  Hawkins.  Lieut.  S.  B.  Hayes.  Adjt.  Field  and  Staff,  8;  N.  C. 
Staff,  5  :  band,  27. — Total  40.  Co.  A,  Capt.  J.  T.  Armstrong;  Co.  B,  Capt.  J.  P.  Sherwood;  Co.  C,  Capt.  D.  M. 
Bierer;  Co.  D,  Capt.  Harry  Palmer;  Co.  E,  Capt.  James  A.  Loar;  Co.  G,  Capt.  T.  Powers;  Co.  H,  Capt.  W. 
W.  Mowry ;  Co.  I,  Capt.  James  Keenan ;  Co.  K,  Capt.  J.  M.  Smith.  Co.  officers,  20;  enlisted  men,  393. — 
Total,  453. 

The  Tenth  held  the  right  of  the  brigade,  with  eight  companies  of  twenty  front.  It  is  from  the  western 
part  of  the  State.    It  made  a  good  appearance. 

Fifteenth  Regiment  {Greenville).— Col.  Wm.  A.  Kreps.  Lieut.  D.  P.  Packard,  Adjt.  Field  and  Staff,  6  ;  N.  C. 
Staff,  4.— Total,  10.  Co.  B,  Capt.  F.  C.  Baker;  Co.  C,  Capt.  D.  S.  Crawford;  Co.  D,  Capt.  A.  J.  Davis;  Co.  E, 
Capt.  W.  T.  Mechling ;  Co.  F,  Capt.  W.  J.  Xeyman  ;  Co.  G,  Capt.  W.  W.  Hanna ;  Co.  K,  Capt.  W.  F.  Harpst. 
Co.  officers,  21  ;  enlisted  men,  357. — Total,  388. 

This  is  a  good  organization,  and  passed  the  reviewing-point  in  commendable  form. 

Eighteenth  Regiment  {Pittsburg). — Col.  Norman  M.  Smith.  Lieut.  Charles  Reese,  Adjt.  Field  and  Staff, 
13;  Drum  Corps,  50.  Total,  63.  Co.  A,  Capt.  Chas.  H.  Roessing;  Co.  B,  Capt.  Samuel  W.  Harper;  Co.  C, 
Capt.  E.  M.  McCombs ;  Co.  D,  Lieut.  W.  D.  Harvey ;  Co.  E,  Capt.  G.  Bochert ;  Co.  F,  Capt.  Wm.  W.  Awl ;  Co. 
G,  Capt.  J.  P.  Penney;  Co.  H,  Capt.  R.  W.  A.  Simmons;  Co.  I,  Capt.  Ollie  C.  Coon.  Com.  officers,  26;  en- 
listed men,  542. — Total,  631. 

In  this  regiment  the  companies  were  in  good  strength. 

Fifth  Regiment  {A  I  too  no). —Co\.  Theo.  Burchfield.  Lieut.  W.  C.  Westfall,  Adjt.  Field  and  Staff,  7  ;  N.  C. 
Staff,  4.— Total,  n.  Co.  B,  Capt.  A.  Mullen  ;  Co.  C,  Capt.  M.  Bell,  Jr.  ;  Co.  D,  Capt.  J.  P.  Kennedy;  Co.  F, 
Capt.  A.C.  Braughler;  Co.  G,  Capt.  R.  C.  Elder  ;  Co.  H,  Capt.  E.  T.  Carswell ;  Co.  I,  Capt.  R.  C.  McNamara  ; 
Co.  Officers,  18;  enlisted  men,  328. — Total,  357. 

The  seven  companies  of  this  command  passed  in  very  good  form. 

Sixteenth  Regiment  {Oil  City).— Col.  W '.J .  Hulings.  Lieut.  H.  McSweeney,  Adjt.  Field  and  Staff,  9  ;  N. 
C.  Staff,  4;  band,  16.— Total,  29.    Co.  A,  Capt.  M.  N.  Baker;  Co.  C,  Capt.  J.  C.  Fox;  Co.  D,  Capt.  G.  C. 


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Rickards;  Co.  E,  Capt.  L.  L.  Ray;  Co.  F,  Capt.  Geo.  E.  Ridgeway  ;  Co.  H,  Capt.  W.  S.  Horton  ;  Co.  I,  Capt. 
J.  M.  Siegfried;  Co.  K,  Capt.  M.  R.  Rouse.    Co.  Officers,  18  ;  enlisted  men,  340. — Total,  387. 

Within  a  year  or  two  past  this  regiment  has  become  noted  for  rifle-practice. 

Fourteenth  Regiment  {Pittsburg)^Co\.  P.  D.  Perchment.  Lieut.  L.  F.  Robb,  Adjt.  Field  and  Staff,  7  ;  N. 
C.  Staff,  5. — Total,  12.  Co.  A,  Capt.  H.  Schmidt  ;  Co.  B,  Capt.  G.  R.  Taylor;  Co.  C,  Capt.  J.  W.  Nesbit;  Co. 
E,  Capt.  J.  R.  Day;  Co.  F,  Capt.  A.  G.  Tim;  Co.  G,  Capt.  W.  J.  Hamilton;  Co.  I,  Capt.  W.  E.  Thompson; 
Co.  K,  Capt.  E.  S.  Hill.    Co.  Officers,  30;  enlisted  men,  446. — Total,  588. 

The  step  of  this  regiment  was  regular,  and  the  alignments  were  good. 

Sheridan  Troop  {Tyrone). — Capt.  C.  S.  W.  Jones.    Officers,  3  ;  enlisted  men,  35 — Total,  38. 
Battery  B  [Pittsburg). — Capt.  Alfred  E.  N.  Hunt.    Officers,  5  ;  enlisted  men,  75. — Total,  80. 
This  troop  was  finely  mounted,  and  the  men  looked  well.     The  battery,  though  having  to  halt  in  front  of 
the  grand  stand,  made  a  creditable  display. 

Total  Pennsylvania. — Governor  and  Staff,  22.  Division  General  and  Staff,  13.  First  Brigade,  2,338. 
Second  Brigade,  2,026.    Third  Brigade,  2,672.    Aggregate,  7,071.    Officers,  502  ;  enlisted  men,  6,569. — Total, 

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NEW  JERSEY. 

Governor  Robert  S.  Green.    Maj.-Gen.  Wm.  S.  Stryker,  Adjt. -Gen.    Staff,  13. 

Division. — Maj.-Gen.  Joseph  W.  Plume.  Col.  Marvin  Dodd,  A.  A.  G.  Staff:  Officers,  11  ;  enlisted  men 
2. — Total,  13. 

Governor  Green  headed  the  New  Jersey  troops,  receiving  a  royal  reception  as  he  came  abreast  of  the  re- 
viewing-stand.  The  military  display  of  New  Jersey  was  large  and  attractive.  Clad  in  a  uniform  similar  to 
the  army  full  dress,  except  that  facings  of  the  infantry  were  blue,  the  troops  presented  a  solid,  serviceable 
appearance. 

The  staff  of  the  Governor  passed  in  good  form.  Major-General  Plume  and  staff  made  an  excellent 
appearance. 

Second  Brigade. — Brev.  Maj.-Gen.  Wm.  J.  Sewell.  Lieut. -Col.  T.  S.  Chambers,  A.  A.  G.  Staff:  Officers, 
10  ;  enlisted  men,  3. — Total,  13. 

Third  Regiment  {Elizabeth). — Col.  E.  H.  Ropes.  Lieut.  J.  Mandeville,  Adjt.  Co.  A,  Capt.  A.  D.  McCabe  ; 
Co.  B,  Capt.  Chas.  Morris;  Co.  C,  Capt.  W.  H.  De  Hart;  Co.  D,  Capt.  Jos.  Kay;  Co.  E,  Capt.  J.  C.  Lucas; 
Co.  F,  Capt.  B.  F.  King;  Co.  G,  Capt.  Wm.  Warner;  Co.  H,  Capt.  G.  S.  Cook.  Officers,  34;  enlisted  men, 
507.— Total,  541. 

Their  general  appearance  was  neat  and  tidy. 

Sixth  Regiment  {Camden). — Col.  Wm.  H.  Cooper.  Lieut.  C.  S.  Magrath,  Adjt.  Co.  A,  Capt.  J.  I.  Shinn  ; 
Co.  B,  Capt.  Wm.  P.  Mockett  ;  Co.  C,  Capt.  Chas.  S.  Walz  ;  Co.  D,  Capt.  C.  S.  Barnard ;  Co.  E,  Capt.  E.  Du 
Bois;  Co.  F,  Capt.  Sam'l  E.  Perry;  Co.  H,  1st  Lieut.  H.  W.  Edmunds;  Co.  K,  Capt.  O.  W.  Vernal.  Officers, 
28;  enlisted  men,  459. — Total,  487. 

Seventh  Regiment  {Trenton). — Col.  R.  A.  Donnelly.  Capt.  C.  H.  W.  Van  Sciver,  Adjt.  Co.  A,  Capt.  W.  H. 
Skirm  ;  Co.  B,  Capt.  P.  C.  Kulp  ;  Co.  C,  Capt.  C.  A.  Slack  ;  Co.  D,  Capt.  J.  E.  Walsh  ;  Co.  E,  Capt.  A.  J.  Buck; 
Co.  F,  Capt.  C.  E.  Merritt ;  Co.  G,  Capt.  R.  F.  Goodman  ;  Co.  H,  1st  Lieut.  J  no.  W.  Adams.  Officers,  34  ;  en- 
listed men,  427. — Total,  461. 

The  Sixth  and  Seventh  regiments  presented  a  soldierly  appearance. 

Gatling  Gun,  Co.  "  B"  {Trenton). — Capt.  Robert  G.  Eckendorff.    Officers,  3  ;  enlisted  men,  53. — Total,  56. 

First  Brigade. — Brig.-Gen.  Dudley  S.  Steele.  Lieut. -Col.  Jno.  A.  Parker,  A.  A.  G.  Staff:  Officers,  10; 
enlisted  men,  3. — Total,  13. 

First  Regiment  {Newark). — Col.  Edward  A.  Campbell.  Capt.  J.  L.  Marsh,  Adjt.  Co.  A,  Capt.  J.  J.  Berry; 
Co.  B,  Capt.  Geo.  Handley  ;  Co.  C,  Capt.  Geo.  Schenck  ;  Co.  D,  Capt.  A.  Williams  ;  Co.  E,  Capt.  C.  B.  Cham- 
plain  ;  Co.  F,  Capt.  \V.  Van  Buskirk.    Officers,  28;  enlisted  men,  441. — Total,  469. 

They  were  cleanly  and  neat  in  appearance. 


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Second  Regiment  (Hoboken). — Col.  Edwin  A.  Stevens.  Lieut.  Jas.  Benson,  Adjt.  Co.  A,  Capt.  H.  W. 
Sagendorf ;  Co.  B,  Lieut.  T.  Buttenbaum  ;  Co.  C,  Capt.  L.  R.  McCulloch  ;  Co.  I),  Capt.  H.  J.  Lohman.  Offi- 
cers, 23  ;  enlisted  men,  320. — Total,  343. 

The  several  companies  of  this  regiment  passed  in  good  form  with  easy  step  and  fair  alignment,  making  a 
very  creditable  appearance. 

Fifth  Regiment  [Newark). — Col.  Levi  R.  Barnard.  Capt.  Jas.  J.  Dooner,  Adjt.  Co.  C,  Capt.  Elmer  Hill  ; 
Co.  D,  Capt.  Wm.  E.  Kelly  ;  Co.  E,  Capt.  Robt.  L.  Smith  ;  Co.  F,  Capt.  Frank  R.  Reilly  ;  Co.  G,  Capt.  Geo.  M. 
Townsend  ;  Co.  H,  Capt.  Wm.  Astley.    Officers,  25  ;  enlisted  men,  364. — Total,  389. 

This  regiment  made  an  excellent 
showing  throughout. 

Fourth  Regiment  (Jersey  City). — Col. 
P.  Farmer  Wanser.  1st  Lieut.  B.  M. 
Gerardin,  Adjt.  Co.  A,  Capt.  Fred  A. 
Appelles  ;  Co.  B,  Capt.  James  J.  Reid  ; 
Co.  C,  Capt.  John  Graham ;  Co.  D, 
Capt.  John  N.  Burns  ;  Co.  E,  Capt. 
Robt.  G.  Smith  ;  Co.  F,  Capt.  J.  H. 
Brensinger.  Officers,  28  ;  enlisted  men, 
335-— Total,  363. 

This  is  one  of  the  best  regiments 
in  the  State,  and  was  generously  ap- 
plauded for  its  excellent  marching  and 
appearance. 

Second  Battalion  (Hackcnsack). — 
Lieut. -Col.  Jas.  V.  Moore.  Lieut.  C. 
W.  Springer,  Adjt.  Co.  A,  Capt.  J.  S. 
Edsall  ;  Co.  B,  Capt.  D.  A.  Currie ; 
Co.  C,  Capt.  A.  D.  Campbell.  Offi- 
cers, 19  ;  enlisted  men,  213. —  Total, 
232. 

The  second  is  composed  of  a  fine 
set  of  young  soldiers  who  pride  them- 
selves on  drill  and  discipline.  They 
made  a  creditable  display. 

Third  Battalion  (Faterson). — Maj. 
Edw.  H.  Snyder.  Lieut.  E.  H.  Hine, 
Adjt.  Co.  A,  Capt.  W.  H.  Latimer ; 
Co.  B,  Capt.  J.  J.  Fell  ;  Co.  C,  Capt.  A. 
Lennox.  Officers,  14  ;  enlisted  men, 
205. — Total,  219. 

The  Third  also  made  a  first-rate 
passage. 


ROBERT  S.  GREEN,  GOVERNOR  OF  NEW  JERSEY, 
AND  MAJOR-GENERAL  WILLIAM  S.  STRYKER, 
ADJUTANT-GENERAL  OF  NEW  JERSEY. 
Military  Parade,  New  York,  April  30,  1889. 


First  Battalion  (Faterson).— Maj.  Sam'l  V.  Muzzy.  1st  Lieut.  Jno.  F.  Hilton,  Adjt.  Co.  A,  Capt. 
Jno.  R.  Beam;  Co.  B,  Capt.  Robt.  H.  Fordyce  ;  Co.  C,  Capt.  W.  F.  Decker.  Officers,  18;  enlisted  men,  207.— 
Total,  225. 

This  is  a  good  organization,  marching  and  looking  well. 

Gatling  Gun,  Co.  "  A  "  (Elizabeth).— Capt.  and  Brev.  Brig.-Gen.  J.  Madison  Drake.  Officers,  4  ;  enlisted 
men>  55-— Total,  59. 

The  rear  was  brought  up  by  the  celebrated  General  George  H.  Thomas  Post  and  the  Veteran  Zouaves, 
of  Elizabeth,  General  Drake,  escorting  as  their  guests  the  Chicago  Zouaves,  and  both  passed  handsomely. 


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Total  New  Jersey:  Governor  and  Staff,  15.  Division  General  and  Staff,  13.  Second  Brigade,  1,558. 
First  Brigade,  2,312.    Aggregate,  3,898.    Officers,  307  ;  enlisted  men,  3,591.— Total,  3,898. 

New  Jersey,  though  small  in  comparison  with 
many  of  the  other  States,  proved  her  ability  to  pro- 
vide her  full  quota  of  troops  ready  for  any  emer- 
gency. 

GEORGIA. 

Governor,  John  B.  Gordon.  Col.  John  Mcin- 
tosh, Adjt.  Gen.  Staff  :  Commissioned  Officers,  4. — 
Total,  6. 

A  cheer  rent  the  air  as  the  form  of  Governor 
John  B.  Gordon,  of  Georgia,  came  into  view,  and  it 
was  echoed  as  the  Confederate  soldier  bared  his 
head  and  gracefully  bowed  to  the  President.  He 
was  escorted  by  a  staff  handsomely  mounted,  but  no 
troops. 

CONNECTICUT. 

Governor,  Morgan  G.  Bulkeley.  Brig. -Gen.  L. 
A.  Barbour,  Adjt. -Gen.  Staff  :  Officers,  8  ;  enlisted 
men,  2. — Total,  10. 

Escort :  First  Co.  Governors  Foot-Guards  {Hart- 
ford).— Maj.  John  C.  Kinney.  Lieut.  F.  C.  Clark, 
Adjt.  Officers,  6  ;  band,  25  ;  enlisted  men,  94. — To- 
tal, 125. 


JOHN  B.  GORDON,  GOVERNOR  OF  GEORGIA. 
Military  Parade,  New  York,  April  30,  1889. 


Governor  Morgan  G.  Bulkeley,  of  Connecticut,  received  an  ovation  as  he  passed,  leading  the  noted 
Governor's  Foot-Guards.     Service  uniforms  were  becoming  monotonous,  and  applause  long  and  loud  rang 

out  as  Colt's  Band,  of 
Hartford,  swung  into 
sight.  Uniformed  in 
white  coats  and  blue 
trousers,  they  made  a 
pleasing  contrast  to 
the  even  more  brill- 
iant uniform  of  the 
jaunty  military  or- 
ganization of  Con- 
necticut, the  Foot- 
Guards,  Major  Kin- 
ney in  command. 
Their  grenadier  sha- 
kos, scarlet  coats, 
half  -  breeches,  and 
velvet  leggings  were 
similar  to  the  uni- 
form of  the  Cold- 
stream   Guards,  or 

MORGAN  G.  BULKELEY,  GOVKRNOR  OF  CONNECTICUT,  the  prjnce  Reeent's 

WITH  BRIGADIER-GENERAL  LUCIUS  A.  HARBOUR, 
ADJUTANT-GENERAL  OF  CONNECTICUT,  AND  STAFF.  Guards  of  England. 

Military  Parade,  New  York,  April  30,  1889.  This     uniform  has 


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been  worn  by  the  Foot-Guards  without  change  for  one  hundred  and  eighteen  years.  Twice  they  did  escort 
duty  for  General  Washington.  They  passed  in  single  rank,  four  companies  of  sixteen  front.  Their  uniform 
was  handsome,  and,  of  course,  attracted  the  attention  of  the  civilians.  To  the  military  eye  their  faultless 
alignment  and  distance  were  worthy  of  even  greater  commendation. 

Fourth  Regiment  {Bridgeport). — Col.  Thomas  L.  Watson.  Lieut.  N.  Van  Keuren,  Adjt.  Staff:  Officers,  11; 
enlisted  men,  26. — Total,  37.  Band:  Co.  B,  Capt.  G.  W.  Cornell;  Co.  C,  Capt.  W.  F.  Daniel;  Co.  I),  Capt.  R. 
Frost;  Co.  E,  Capt.  Jas.  Sheridan;  Co.  F,  Capt.  A.  A.  Betts;  Co.  G,  Capt.  F.  R.  Nash;  Co.  I,  Capt.  A.  K. 
Deming;  Co.  K,  Capt.  E.  Morehouse. 

This  regiment  passed  with  solid  ranks  and  good  alignments ;  it  is  a  credit  to  the  State  of  Connecticut. 

Fourth  Machine-Gun  Platoon. — Lieut.  Geo.  P.  Rand. 
Officers,  36;  enlisted  men,  488. — Total,  524. 

Total  Connecticut.— Governor  and  Staff,  10;  Fourth  Regiment,  524;  First  Co.  Gov.  Foot-Guards,  125; 
aggregate,  659.    Officers,  50  ;  enlisted  men,  609. — Total,  659. 

MASSACHUSETTS. 
Governor  Oliver  Ames.    Maj.-Gen.  Samuel  Dalton,  Adjt. -Gen.    Staff,  16. 

First  Corps  Cadets  [Boston). — Lieut. -Col.  Thos.  F.  Edmands,  Lieut.  J.  E.  R.  Hill,  Adjt.  Field,  Staff,  and 
band,  40;  Co.  A,  Capt.  F.  H.  Appleton ;  Co.  B,  Capt.  And.  Robesen ;  Co.  C,  Capt.  W.  H.  Alline ;  Co.  D,  Capt. 
H.  B.  Rice.    Officers,  14;  enlisted  men,  185. — Total,  199. 

They  were  clad  in  white  coats,  blue  trousers,  and  sha- 
kos; four  companies,  sixteen  front,  and  their  appearance 
was  exceptionally  fine,  the  first,  second,  and  third  com- 
panies being  excellent. 

Second  Corps  Cadets  {Salem). — Lieut. -Col.  J.  F.  Dalton. 
Lieut.  A.  Fitz,  Adjt.  Field,  staff,  and  band,  41.  Co.  A, 
Capt.  S.  A.  Johnson  ;  Co.  B,  Capt.  W.  F.  Peck  ;  Co.  C, 
Capt.  C.  W.  Osgood ;  Co.  D,  Capt.  C.  S.  Proctor.  Officers, 
16;  enlisted  men,  184. — Total,  200. 

The  Second  Corps  wore  red  coats  and  blue  trousers. 
The  first  and  third  companies  were  excellent,  and  the 
second  and  fourth  very  good. 

Fifth  Regiment  {Boston). — Col.  Wm.  A.  Bancroft.  Lieut. 
H.  P.  Ballard,  Adjt.  Field,  staff,  and  band,  55.  Co.  A, 
Capt.  Chas.  E.  French ;  Co.  B,  Capt.  S.  T.  Tolman  ;  Co.  C, 
Capt.  Geo.  C.  Applin  ;  Co.  D,  Capt.  Herbert  Morrissey ; 
Co.  H.  Capt.  T.  C.  Henderson ;  Co.  F,  Capt.  Geo.  H.  Dick- 
son ;  Co.  G,  Capt.  W.  C.  Parker,  Co.  E,  Capt.  W.  L.  Fox ; 
Co.  I,  Capt.  W.  H.  Goff ;  Co.  K.  Capt.  W.  E.  Morrison ; 
Co.  L,  Capt.  G.  H.  Swasey ;  Co.  M,  Capt.  A.  M.  Mossman. 
Officers,  48;  enlisted  men,  742. — Total,  790. 

The  Second  Corps  had  scarcely  passed,  when  the  broad  OLIVER  AMES,  GOVERNOR  OF  MASSACHUSETTS, 
front  of  the  Fifth  Regiment,  Colonel  Bancroft,  swung  for-  Military  Parade,  New  Vork,  April  30,  1889. 

ward  with  twelve  companies  twenty-four  files  front.  Noth- 
ing finer  as  an  organization  had  passed.    The  Massachusetts  contingent,  though  in  numbers  not  equal  to  sev- 
eral of  the  other  States,  certainly  made  up  for  it  in  general  appearance  and  fine  marching. 

Ambulance  Corps.    Detachment  {Boston). — Enlisted  men,  9. 

Signal  Corps  Second  Brigade,  M.  V.  M. — Officer,  1  ;  enlisted  men,  10. — Total,  n. 

The  Ancient  and  Honorable  Artillery  Co.  {Boston).— Capt.  Henry  E.  Smith.  Lieut.  J.  Payson  Bradley,  Adjt. 
Officers,  12;  enlisted  men,  75. — Total,  87. 

The  Ancient  and  Honorable  Artillery  of  Boston  formed  the  rear-guard.  It  eclipsed  the  splendor  of  the 
Connecticut  Foot-Guards  as  much  as  the  Foot-Guards  had  dimmed  the  luster  of  the  plainer  blue-coats  toward 
43 


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the  front  of  the  parade.  Every  member  of  the  Ancient  and  Honorable  Artillery  is,  or  ought  to  be,  a  brigadier- 
general.  The  command  turned  out  eighty-seven,  in  almost  as  many  different  uniforms,  from  that  of  an  old 
Continental  private  to  that  of  a  European  field-marshal.  This  kaleidoscopic  display  may  have  been  a 
shock  to  the  nerves  of  the  military  experts,  but  it  gave  undiluted  joy  to  the  Philistines  on  the  sidewalks, 
ami  a  shout  of  welcome  met  the  first  file  of  the  artillerymen,  which  never  broke  in  force  till  the  backs  of 
the  last  file  were  disappearing  up  the  avenue. 


THE  ANCIENT  AND  HONORABLE  ARTILLERY  COMPANY  OF  BOSTON, 
UNDER  CAPTAIN  HENRY  E.  SMITH,  AND  LIEUTENANT  J.  PAYSON  BRADLEY,  ADJUTANT. 

Military  Parade,  New  York,  April  30,  l88g. 


Total  Massachusetts. — Governor  and  Staff,  17;  First  Corps  Cadets,  199;  Second  Corps  Cadets,  198; 
Fifth  Reg't,  Boston,  790;  Ancient  and  Hon.  Artillery  Co.,  87;  Ambulance  and  Signal  Corps,  20;  aggregate, 
1,311.    Officers,  108;  enlisted  men,  1,203. — Total,  1,311. 

MARYLAND. 

Secretary  of  State,  Edward  W.  Le  Compte.    Major-Gen.  James  Howard,  Adjt.-Gen.    Staff,  12. 

Fifth  Regiment  (Baltimore). — Col.  ('has.  D.  Gaither.  Capt.  W.  K.  Whitney,  Adjt.  Field,  Staff,  and  band,  86. 
Co.  A,  Capt.  \V.  I).  Robinson;  Co.  B,  Capt.  W.  Owen;  Co.  C,  Capt.  R.  P.  Brown;  Co.  T),  Capt.  G.  C.  Cole;  Co. 
E,  Lieut.  H.  F.  Pennington;  Co.  F,  Capt.  J.  F.  Supple;  Co.  G,  Capt.  L.  Riggs;  Co.  H,  Capt.  C.  F.  Albers ;  Co. 
I,  Capt.  W.  L.  Goldsborough ;  Co.  K,  Capt.  R.  R.  Brown.    Officers,  35;  enlisted  men,  489. — Total,  524. 

Total  Maryland. — Officers,  63;  enlisted  men,  524. — 587. 

Expectation  was  on  tiptoe  as  the  famous  Fifth  Maryland  Regiment  approached.  Its  position  in  the 
Monumental  City  is  like  that  of  the  Seventh  in  New  York.    It  was  formed  shortly  after  the  war,  largely  from 


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old  members  of  the  Maryland  Guard,  and  it  was  a  soldierly  command  from  the  start.  A  fortunate  succession 
of  excellent  colonels  soon  brought  it  to  a  prominent  place  in  the  militia  of  the  United  States.    Its  uniform 


EDWARD  W.  LE  COMPTE,1  SECRETARY  OF  STATE,  OF  MARYLAND. 
AND  MAJOR-GENERAL  JAMES  HOWARD,  ADJUTANT-GENERAL  OF  MARYLAND. 

Military  Parade,  New  York,  April  30,  1  SSg. 

was  of  gray,  and  similar  to  that  of  the  Seventh  New  York.  It  marched  past  the  President  in  grand  style, 
the  ten  companies  equalized  to  twenty  files,  arms  and  equipments  in  perfect  condition.  The  step  was  accurate 
and  the  alignments  excellent. 

SOUTH  CAROLINA. 

Governor  John  P.  Richardson.  Brig.-Gen.  M.  S.  Bonham,  Jr.,  Adjt.-Gen.  Staff,  15.  Brig.-Gen.  H.  N. 
Richbourg.    Maj.  W.  A.  Metts,  A.  A.  G. 

First  Battalion. — Major  R.  C.  Gilchrist,  Commanding.  Lieut.  A.  L.  Bristoll,  Adjt.  Co.  A,  Washington 
Light  Infantry,  Charleston,  Capt.  A.  W.  Marshall,  45  ;  Co.  B,  Marion  Rifles,  Marion,  Capt.  P.  A.  Wilcox,  31. 

Second  Battalion. — Capt.  Wylie  Jones,  Commanding.  Lieut.  K.  Alston,  Adjt.  Co.  A,  Governor's  Guards, 
Columbia,  First  Lieut.  E.  E.  Calvo,  31  ;  Co.  B,  Richland  Yolunteers,  Columbia,  Capt.  Chas.  Newnham,  26. 

Third  Battalion. — Capt.  Ed.  Bacon,  Commanding.  Co.  A,  Butler  Guards,  Greenville,  Capt.  W.  A.  Hunt,  33. 
Co.  B,  Morgan  Rifles,  Spartanburg,  Lieut.  W.  H.  Clark,  Commanding,  30. 

Total  South  Carolina. — Officers,  43;  enlisted  men,  175. — 218. 

Governor  Richardson  received  a  warm  welcome,  and  his  staff  passed  and  saluted  the  President  remark- 
ably well.  The  various  companies  were  mostly  in  gray  uniforms.  Though  small  fronts  were  the  rule,  the 
general  showing  was  creditable.  The  leading  command,  in  a  blue  uniform,  and  wearing  shakos,  looked  quite 
handsome.  The  long  distance  they  had  to  travel  made  the  turn-out  from  South  Carolina  a  very  creditable 
one  in  point  of  numbers. 


1  Elihu  E.  Jackson,  Governor  of  Maryland,  was  unable  to  visit  New  York  on  account  of  illness. 


JOHN  P.  RICHARDSON,  GOVERNOR  OF  SOUTH  CAROLINA, 
AND  BRIGADIER-GENERAL  M.  S.  BONHAM,  JR.,  ADJUTANT-GENERAL  OF  SOUTH  CAROLINA. 

Military  Parade,  New  York,  April  30,  1S89. 

NEW  HAMPSHIRE. 

Governor  Chas.  H.  Sawyer.  Maj.-Gen.  A.  D.  Ayling,  Adjt.-Gen.  Staff,  9. 
Amoskcag  Veterans  {Independent). — Officers,  4;  enlisted  men,  71. — Total,  75. 

Following  the  Governor  of  New  Hampshire,  and  his  staff,  was  a  well-ordered  signal  corps,  and  then  came 
the  Amoskeag  Veterans,  in  a  very  striking  Continental  uniform,  blue  coats,  turned  back  with  white,  knee- 
breeches,  and  cocked  hats  with  black  plumes.  The  officers  wore  falls  of  white  lace  on  bosoms  and  wrists,  and 
their  plumes  were  black  and  white.  Splendid-looking  men  they  were.  Their  gorgeous  uniform  and  their 
fine  marching  made  them  among  the  most  noticeable  commands  in  the  long  column,  and  secured  for  them 
unbounded  applause. 

First  Brigade.— Brig.-Gen.  D.  M.  White.  I.ieut.-Col.  Geo.  W.  Gould,  A.  A.  G.  Staff :  Officers,  6  ;  en- 
listed men,  2. — Total,  8. 

Third  Regiment  (Concord).— -Col.  J.  N.  Patterson.  Lieut.  F.  S.  Hall,  Adjt.  Field,  Staff,  N.  C.  Staff,  and 
band,  43-    Co.  A,  Capt.  W.  A.  Messer  ;  Co.  C,  Capt.  E.  H.  Dickson  ;  Co.  D,  Capt.  F.  F.  Hall  ;  Co.  E,  Capt. 

G.  H.  Colby;  Co.  F,  Capt.  U.  M.  Galley;  Co.  G,  Capt.  E.  S.  Downes  ;  Co.  H,  Capt.  G.  N.  Cheever  ;  Co.  K, 
Capt.  J.  Lewando.    Officers,  30;  enlisted  men,  294. — Total,  324. 

The  Third  showed  a  fine  body  of  men.    The  first  company  carried  off  the  honors. 

Second  Regiment  (Nashua).— Col.  E.  J.  Cobb.  Lieut.  E.  A.  Eaton,  Adjt.  Field,  Staff,  X.  C.  Staff,  and 
band,  35.    Co.  C,  Capt.  H.  S.  Stevens  ;  Co.  D,  Capt.  Ira  Stowell  ;  Co.  E,  Capt.  I.  D.  Piercy  ;  Co.  F,  Capt.  C. 

H.  Pitman  ;  Co.  G,  Capt.  F.  O.  Nimms ;  Co.  H,  Capt.  J.  P.  W'ellman  ;  Co.  I,  Capt.  E.  H.  Parmenter  ;  Co.  K, 
Capt.  II.  P.  Whitaker.    Officers,  28;  enlisted  men,  254. — Total,  282. 


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The  Second  Regiment  marched  and  appeared  even  better.  All  the  companies  except  the  fifth  and  sixth 
were  strong  in  numbers,  and  all  preserved  the  step  and  alignment  very  well. 

First  Regiment  (Manchester). — 
Col.   G.  M.  Lane.     Lieut.  A.  F.  _ -^-a,  ... 

Eaton,  Adjt.  Field,  Staff,  and  N. 
C.  Staff,  ii.  Co.  A,  Capt.  G.  N. 
Demeritt ;  Co.  B,  Capt.  D.  F.  Shea ; 
Co.  C,  Capt.  L.  S.  Ridwell ;  Co.  D, 
Capt.  B.  I.  Brown  ;  Co.  E,  Capt. 
B.  N.  Wilson  ;  Co.  F,  Capt.  M.  G. 
Frye;  Co.  H,  Capt.  M.  Labreche  ; 
Co.  K,  Capt.  P.  H.  O'Mally.  Offi- 
cers, 31 ;  enlisted  men,  350. — Total, 
381.  * 

The  alignments  and  marching 
of  this  regiment  were  good. 

Total  New  Hampshire  :  Offi- 
cers, no;  enlisted  men,  971. — 
Total,  1,081. 


VIRGINIA. 

Governor  Fitz-Hugh  Lee.  Brig.- 
Gen.  Chas.  J.  Anderson,  A.  A.  G. 
Staff,  12. 

Escort :  Troop  "A"  First  Regi- 
ment Cavalry  [Richmond).  —  Capt. 
Chas.  Euker,  42. 

Col.  H.  C.  Hudgins,  colonel 
Fourth  Regiment.  Capt.  Jno.  S. 
Jenkins,  A.  A.  G.  Staff,  2. 

First  Regiment  [Richmond). — Co.  A,  Capt.  C.  G.  Bossieux,  37.  Co.  C,  Capt.  Merriwether  Jones,  48.  Field 
music,  16. — Total,  101. 

Second  Regiment  {Winchester). — Col.  Joseph  A.  Nulton.  Capt.  Wm.  G.  Kinney,  Adjt.  Co.  E,  Capt.  J.  C. 
Baker,  Jr.,  38.    Co.  F,  Lieut.  R.  E.  Trenary,  44.    Field  music,  33. — Total,  117. 

Third  Regiment  (Charlottesville). — Lieut. -Col.  Wm.  Nalle.  Capt.  J.  S.  Barbour,  Adjt.  Co.  F,  Capt.  Geo.  A. 
Mushback,  49.    Co.  K,  Capt.  L.  G.  Rigg,  59. — Total,  no. 

Fourth  Regiment  (Portsmouth). — Lieut. -Col.  Thos.  W.  Smith.  Capt.  J.  S.  Jenkins,  Adjt.  Field  Staff,  N.  C. 
Staff,  and  band,  41.  Co.  A,  Capt.  Geo.  W.  Taylor,  54.  Co.  B,  Capt.  H.  Hodges,  50.  Co.  D,  Capt.  C.  E.  Mon- 
tague, 50.    Co.  E,  Capt,  J.  M.  Binford,  49.    Co.  F,  Capt.  C.  W.  Wright,  49.— Total,  294. 

Richmond  Light  Infantry  Blues. — Capt.  Sol.  Hutchins.    Officers,  4  ;  enlisted  men,  44. — Total,  48. 

First  Battalion  Artillery  (Richmond). — Major  W.  E.  Simons.  Capt.  W.  G.  Harvey,  Adjt.  Staff.  2.  Bat- 
tery A,  Capt.  B.  Lorraine,  47.    Battery  B,  Capt.  M.  C.  Keating,  40. — Total,  91. 

Total  Virginia  :  Officers,  70  ;  enlisted  men,  732. — Total,  802. 

When  Governor  Lee,  of  Virginia,  appeared,  he  was  heartily  welcomed.  He  was  escorted  by  the  Govern- 
or's Troop,  which  passed  well.  Several  companies  of  the  First,  Third,  and  Fourth  Virginia,  a  fine-looking 
battalion  in  gray,  followed  in  column  of  fours.  Then  came  the  Richmond  Blues,  their  white  plumes  and 
facings,  and  their  superb  marching,  delighting  the  crowd.  The  men  of  Batteries  A  and  B  were  dismounted, 
and,  armed  with  sabers,  closed  the  Virginia  column  handsomely. 


CHARLES  H.  SAWYER,  GOVERNOR  OF  NEW  HAMPSHIRE, 
AND  MAJOR-GENERAL  A.  D.  AVLING,  ADJUTANT-GENERAL  OF 

NEW  HAMPSHIRE. 
Military  Parade,  New  York,  April  30,  1889. 


334      THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 


FITZHUGH  LEE,  GOVERNOR  OF  VIRGINIA, 
AND  BRIGADIER-GENERAL  CHARLES  J.  ANDERSON,  ASSISTANT  ADJUTANT-GENERAL  OF  VIRGINIA, 

passing  through  Union  Square  at  the  head  of  the  Virginia  troops. 
Military  Parade,  New  York,  April  30,  1889. 


NEW  YORK. 

Governor  David  Bennett  Hill.    Major-Gen.  Josiah  Porter,  Adjt.-Genl.    Staff,  21.— Total,  23. 
Escort  to  Governor  7////.— Troop  "  A,"  First  Brigade,  Capt.  Chas.  F.  Roe.    Officers,  2  ;  enlisted  men,  50.— 
Total,  52. 

As  Governor  Hill,  leading  the  New  York  column,  and  accompanied  by  General  Porter,  his  adjutant- 
general,  came  in  sight,  the  crowd  cheered  lustily.  His  staff  saluted  well  and  passed  in  excellent  order. 
Then  came  New  York's  only  troop  of  cavalry,  making  its  first  public  appearance.  The  men  were 
splendidly  mounted,  kept  a  good  front,  and  made  a  fine  impression. 

First  Brigade  (New  York  City.)— Brig.-Gen.  Louis  Fitzgerald.  Lieut. -Col.  Robt.  W.  Leonard,  A.  A.  G. 
Staff,  10. — Total,  12. 

First  Brigade  Signal  Corps. — Major  Edmund  C.  Stanton,  Commanding.  Capt.  Albert  Gallup.  Officers,  2; 
enlisted  men,  16. — Total,  18. 

General  Fitzgerald  and  his  staff  saluted  in  graceful  unison,  and  the  Signal  Corps,  mounted  as  his 

escort,  appeared  to  good  advantage. 

Seventh  Regiment.— Col.  Emmons  Clark.  Lieut.  Geo.  W.  Rand,  Adjt.  Field  and  Staff,  10.  Co.  A,  Capt.  A. 
W.  Conover;  Co.  B,  Capt.  I).  A.  Nesbitt ;  Co.  C,  Capt.  D.  A.  Pollard;  Co.  L),  Capt.  A.  E.  Allen;  Co.  E,  Capt. 
G.  B  Rhodes;  Co.  F,  Capt.  Dan'l  Appleton ;  Co.  G,  Capt.  J.  C.  Abrams ;  Co.  H,  Capt.  Chas.  E.  Lydecker; 
Co.  I,  Capt.  J.  T.  Harper;  Co.  K,  Capt.  L.  E.  Lefferts.  Co.  officers,  29;  enlisted  men,  917.  Total  officers, 
39;  enlisted  men,  917. — Total,  956. 


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335 


Headed  by  its  fine  band  and  drum  corps,  the  Seventh  Regiment  advanced,  and,  as  the  long,  straight 
gray  ranks,  with  the  familiar  figure  of  Colonel  Clark  at  their  head,  came  in  sight,  the  enthusiasm  of  the 
crowd  rose  to  its  highest  point.  In  twenty  platoons,  each  of  twenty  files,  the  regiment  swept  by  as 
grandly  as  it  ever  appeared.  Quite  as  much  to  be  praised  as  the  accuracy  of  the  step  and  alignment  were 
the  steadiness  and  attention  of  the  men.  Eyes  straight  to  the  front,  they  passed  the  President  and  the 
grand  stand  without  a  glance  to  right  or  left.    Every  company  passed  superbly. 

Sixty  -  ninth  Regiment.  —  Col.  Jas. 
Cavanagh.  Lieut.  John  Murphy,  Adjt. 
Field  and  Staff,  8.  Co.  A,  Capt.  M. 
Brennan  ;  Co.  B,  Capt.  J.  Conlon  ;  Co. 
C,  Capt.  D.  C.  McCarthy ;  Co.  D,  Capt. 
M.  Cox  ;  Co.  E,  Capt.  H.  Coleman ; 
Co.  F,  Capt.  T.  Mortimer  ;  Co.  G, 
Capt.  S.  P.  Ryan  ;  Co.  H,  Capt.  P.  J. 
Morgan  ;  Co.  I,  Capt.  L.  C.  Quinn ; 
Co.  K,  Capt.  J.  Kerr.  Co.  officers, 
27 ;  enlisted  men,  745.  Total  officers, 
35  ;  enlisted  men,  745. — Total,  780. 

Then  came  the  Sixty-ninth,  wear- 
ing the  green  above  the  red.  The 
regiment  never  made  a  handsomer  ap- 
pearance. It  was  in  sixteen  compa- 
nies of  twenty  files  each.  The  men 
marched  with  a  fine,  free  step,  and 
every  front  was  very  well  preserved. 

Eighth  Regiment.  —  Col.  Geo.  D. 
Scott.  Lieut.  G.  L.  Wentworth,  Adjt. 
Field  and  Staff,  10.  Co.  B,  Capt.  Thos. 
M.  Young;  Co.  C,  Capt.  A.  T.  Mason; 
Co.  D,  Lieut.  G.  C.  Heilner ;   Co.  E, 

Capt.  E.  A.  Oothout;  Co.  F,  Capt.  K.  Neftel ;  Co.  G,  Capt.  A.  A.  Oates;  Co.  H,  Capt.  W.  D.  L.  Cunningham; 
Co.  I,  Capt.  Wm.  H.  Dewar.  Co.  officers,  19;  enlisted  men,  383.  Total  officers,  29;  enlisted  men,  383. — 
Total,  412. 

The  Eighth,  the  oldest  of  the  New  York  regiments,  by  virtue  of  its  direct  descent  from  a  command  that 
paraded  when  Washington  was  inaugurated,  followed  next.    It  appeared  unusually  well. 

Ninth  Regiment. — Col.  Wm.  Seward,  Jr.  Lieut.  Y.  D.  Dechert,  Adjt.  Field  and  Staff,  11.  Co.  A,  Capt.  G. 
H.  Lorigan;  Co.  B,  Capt.  N.  L.  Cocheu  ;  Co.  C,  Capt.  H.  Paret ;  Co.  D,  Capt.  J.  D.  Walton;  Co.  E,  Capt.  S.  E. 
Japha;  Co.  F,  Capt.  Wolcott  Marks;  Co.  G,  Capt.  W.  Willcocks ;  Co.  H,  Capt.  F.  A.  Gale;  Co.  I,  Capt.  H.  W. 
Leonard;  Co.  K,  Capt.  J.  N.  Billings.  Co.  officers,  20;  enlisted  men,  548.  Total  officers,  31  ;  enlisted  men, 
548.— Total,  579. 

The  Ninth  Regiment  showed  full  fronts,  all  of  them  very  good. 


DAVID  BENNETT  HILL,  GOVERNOR  OF  NEW  YORK, 
AND  MAJOR-GENERAL  JOSIAII   PORTER,  ADJUTANT-GENERAL 

OF  NEW  YORK. 

Military  Parade,  New  York,  April  30,  1889. 


Twenty-second  Regiment. — Col.  John  T.  Camp.  Lieut.  Wm.  B.  Smith,  Adjt.  Field  and  Staff,  9.  Co.  A, 
Capt.  Wm.  E.  Preece ;  Co.  B,  Capt.  Wm.  J.  Maidhoff ;  Co.  C,  Capt.  Jno.  G.  R.  Lilliendahl ;  Co.  D,  Capt.  Frank- 
lin Bartlett ;  Co.  E,  Capt.  Nath'l  B.  Thurston;  Co.  F,  Capt.  Chas.  A.  Du  Bois;  Co.  G,  Capt.  Geo.  F.  Demarest ; 
Co.  H,  Capt.  James  W.  Finch ;  Co.  I,  Capt.  John  P.  Leo  ;  Co.  K,  Capt.  Geo.  E.  B.  Hart.  Co.  officers,  30 ; 
enlisted  men,  552.    Total  officers,  39;  enlisted  men,  552. — Total,  591. 

Gilmore's  band,  playing  "  Hail  to  the  Chief,"  preceded  this  regiment  in  their  distinctive  Austrian  uniform, 
the  white  coats  pleasantly  relieving  eyes  beginning  to  weary  of  the  blue.  The  Twenty-second  marched 
splendidly,  as  it  always  does.    The  regiment  gained  fresh  honor  through  the  appearance  of  each  company. 


Seventy-first  Regiment. — Col.  Fred.Kopper.  Lieut.  P.  S.  Tilden,  Adjt.  Field  and  Staff,  9.  Co.  A,  Capt.  C. 
M.  Kennedy;  Co.  B,  Capt.  A.  W.  Belknap;  Co.  C,  Capt.  A.  T.  Francis;  Co.  D,  Capt.  W.  C.  Clark;  Co.  F,  Capt. 


336       THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


J.  A.  H.  Dressel;  Co.  G,  Capt.  W.  T.  Gouch ;  Co.  H,  Capt.  A.  P.  Delcambre;  Co.  I,  Capt.  G.  A.  Bascom;  Co. 
K,  Capt.  W.  D.  Goss.    Co.  officers,  21  ;  enlisted  men,  449.    Total  officers,  20;  enlisted  men,  449. — Total,  479. 

The  Seventy-first  paraded  nine  companies,  full  fronts,  and  each  marched  by  handsomely. 

Twelfth  Regiment.— Col.  Thos.  H.  Barber.  Lieut.  C.  M.  Jesup,  Adjt.  Field  and  Staff,  8.  Co.  A,  Capt. 
H.  Pell;  Co.  B,  Capt.  C.  S.  Burns;  Co.  C,  Capt.  R.  Delafield ;  Co.  D,  Capt.  B.  S.  Barnard;  Co.  E,  Capt.  F. 
Roosevelt;  Co.  F,  Capt.  W.  H.  Murphy;  Co.  G,  Capt.  W.  H.  Kirby ;  Co.  H,  Capt.  W.  Content;  Co.  I,  Capt. 
H.  C.  Aspinwall;  Co.  K,  Capt.  J.  F.  Boylan.  Co.  officers,  25;  enlisted  men,  554.  Total,  officers,  33;  enlisted 
men,  554.— Total,  587. 

The  Twelfth  Regiment,  under  its  West  Point  field-officers,  turned  out  splendidly,  with  twelve  companies 
of  twenty  files.  Its  appearance  was  excellent  and  the  step  very  fine.  In  general,  this  ancient  regiment 
made  a  noble  appearance,  and  was  deservedly  applauded. 

Following  the  infantry  were  the  First  and  Second  Batteries. 


BRIGADIER-GENERAL  LOUIS  FITZGERALD, 
at  the  head  of  the  First  Brigade,  New  York  State  Troops. 
Military  Parade,  Union  Square,  New  York,  April  30,  1889. 


First  Battery. — Capt.  Louis  Wendel.    Officers,  5  ;  enlisted  men,  103. — Total,  108. 
Second  Battery. — Capt.  David  Wilson.    Officers,  5  ;  enlisted  men,  92. — Total,  97. 
Total  First  Brigade:  Officers,  259;  enlisted  men,  4,308. — Total,  4,567. 

Second  Brigade  (Brooklyn). — Brig.-Gen.  Jas.  McLeer.  Lieut. -Col.  Jno.  B.  Frothingham,  A.  A.  G.  Staff, 
9. — Total,  11. 

Second  Brigade  Signal  Corps. — Capt.  Fred  T.  Leigh.    Officers,  1  ;  enlisted  men,  15. — Total,  16. 
The  Second  Brigade  Staff  did  not  salute,  observing  General  Schofield's  order  in  that  respect;  but  other- 
wise the  brigade  followed  the  usual  rules.    The  Signal  Corps  as  escort  made  a  very  fine  appearance. 


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Thirteenth  Regiment. — Col.  David  E.  Austen.  Lieut.  W.  H.  Coughlin,  Adjt.  Field  and  Staff,  9.  Co.  A, 
Capt.  W.  J.  Collins;  Co.  B,  Capt.  W.  Powell  ;  Co.  C,  Capt.  W.  A.  French;  Co.  D,  Capt.  C.  O.  Davis;  Co.  E, 
Capt.  W.  Kerby;  Co.  F,  Capt.  J.  F.  Dillont ;  Co.  G,  Capt.  W.  L.  Watson;  Co.  H,  Capt.  W.  H.  A.  Cochran;  Co. 
I,  Capt.  G.  L.  Cochran;  Co.  K,  Capt.  C.  H.  Luscomb.  Co.  officers,  21  ;  enlisted  men,  654.  Total  officers,  30; 
enlisted  men,  654. — Total,  684. 

The  Thirteenth  Regiment  paraded  fifteen  companies,  and  never  appeared  to  better  advantage. 

Thirty-second  Regiment. — Col.  Louis  Finkelmeier.  Lieut.  \Ym.  Van  der  Clute,  Jr.,  Adjt.  Field  and  Staff, 
10.  Co.  A,  Capt.  Geo.  H.  Bishop;  Co.  B,  Capt.  Edw.  J.  Renison  ;  Co.  C,  Capt.  Geo.  D.  Russell  ;  Co.  D,  Lieut. 
Wm.  Finkelmeier;  Co.  F,  Capt.  Chas.  Waage ;  Co.  G,  Capt.  Jno.  Klein  ;  Co.  H,  Capt.  H.  Kreger ;  Co.  I,  Capt. 
Chas.  C.  Schoeneck ;  Co.  K,  Capt.  Maxwell  C  Burger.  Co.  officers,  18;  enlisted  men,  328.  Total  officers, 
28  ;  enlisted  men,  328. — Total,  356. 

With  but  seven  companies,  sixteen  front,  this  regiment  appeared  diminutive  after  the  massive  columns 
of  the  Thirteenth  ;  but  their  marching  and  distances  were  excellent. 

Forty-seventh  Regiment. — Col.  Edw.  F.  Gaylor.  Lieut.  W,  EL  Hubbell,  Adjt.  Field  and  Staff,  10.  Co.  A, 
Capt.  F.  J.  Veritzan  ;  Co.  B,  Lieut.  C.  H.  Mcllvane  ;  Co.  D,  Capt.  J.  B.  Christoffel,  Jr. ;  Co.  E,  Capt.  H.  H. 
Quick ;  Co.  F,  Capt.  F.  P.  Swazey  ;  Co.  G,  Capt.  W.  R.  Pettigrew  ;  Co.  I,  Capt.  W.  H.  Eddy  ;  Co.  K,  Capt 
F.  J.  Le  Count,  Jr.;  Co.  officers,  16;  enlisted  men,  411.  17th  Sep.  Co.,  Flushing  (attached),  Capt.  Thos. 
Miller.  Jr.    Officers,  4 ;  enlisted  men,  50.    Total  officers,  29  ;  enlisted  men,  411. — Total,  440. 

Every  front  was  very  fine  as  observed.  The  Seventeenth  Separate  Company,  on  the  left,  looked  and 
marched  especially  well. 

Fourteenth  Regiment. — Col.  H.  W.  Michell.  Lieut.  A.  B.  Campbell.  Adjt.  Field  and  Staff,  7.  Co.  A,  Capt. 
J.  J.  Dixon  ;  Co.  B,  Capt.  Jas.  M.  White  :  Co.  C,  Capt.  B.  S.  Steen ;  Co.  D,  Capt.  H.  Nutt ;  Co.  E,  Capt.  J.  R. 
K.  Barlow  ;  Co.  F,  Capt.  T.  D.  Henry  ;  Co.  G,  Capt.  Axel  Selen ;  Co.  H,  Capt.  John  Cutts ;  Co.  I,  Capt.  A.  O. 
Crane;  Co.  K,  Capt.  W.  F.  Morris.  Co.  officers,  26;  enlisted  men,  461.  Total  officers,  33;  enlisted  men. 
461. — Total,  494. 

Brooklyn's  war  regiment,  with  its  solid  fronts  and  splendid  alignment,  was  received  with  great  enthusiasm 
as  it  passed  the  President.    The  marching  of  the  companies  was  all  that  could  be  desired. 

Tu'enty-third  Regiment. — Col.  John  N.  Partridge.  Lieut.  T.  W.  Sillcocks,  Adjt.  Field  and  Staff,  8.  Co.  A. 
Capt.  H.  C.  Everdell  ;  Co.  B,  Capt.  W.  L.  Candee  ;  Co.  C,  Capt.  E.  De  Forest ;  Co.  D,  Capt.  J.  S.  Shepherd  ; 
Co.  E.  Capt.  C.  F.  Guyon  ;  Co.  F,  Capt.  B.  C.  Thorn  ;  Co.  G,  Capt.  G.  W.  Middleton  ;  Co.  H,  Capt.  A.  C. 
Saunders;  Co.  I,  Capt.  F.  L.  Holmes;  Co.  K,  Capt.  D.  R.  Aldridge.  Co.  officers,  27;  enlisted  men,  723. 
Total  officers,  35  ;  enlisted  men,  723. — Total,  758. 

The  Twenty-third,  as  always,  showed  superbly.  Many  observers  rated  the  Twenty-third  as  first  among 
the  New  York  commands,  and  it  was  certainly  surpassed  by  only  one. 

Third  Battery. — Capt.  H.  S.  Rasquin.    Officers,  4:  enlisted  men,  68. — Total,  72. 
Total  Second  Brigade. — Officers,  174;  enlisted  men,  2,711 — Total,  2,885. 

Third  Brigade  (Albany.) — Brig.-Gen.  Amasa  J.  Parker.  Col.  John  S.  McEwan,  A.  A.  G.,  S.  N.  Y. 
Acting  as  Asst.  Adjt. -Gen.    Staff,  10. — Total,  12. 

Second  Provisional  Regiment  (composed  of  separate  companies,  3d  Brigade). — Col.  Alex.  S.  Bacon,  Com- 
manding. Lieut.  Geo.  F.  Hamlin,  23d  Regiment,  Acting  Adjt.  Field  and  staff,  10.  3d  Sep.  Co.,  Oneonta, 
Capt.  Walter  Scott ;  6th  Sep.  Co.,  Troy,  Capt.  J.  W.  Cusack  ;  7th  Sep.  Co.,  Cohoes,  Capt.  P.  G.  Tymerson  ; 
9th  Sep.  Co.,  Whitehall,  Capt.  T.  A.  Patterson;  12th  Sep.  Co.,  Troy,  Capt.  Jos.  Egolf ;  iSth  Sep.  Co.,  Glens 
Falls,  Capt.  Jas.  S.  Garret ;  21st  Sep.  Co.,  Troy,  Capt.  Jas.  H.  Lloyd;  22d  Sep.  Co..  Saratoga,  Capt.  R.  C. 
McEwen  ;  27th  Sep.  Co.,  Malone,  Capt.  Geo.  W.  Crooks;  32d  Sep.  Co.,  Hoosick  Falls,  Capt.  C.  W.  Eddy. 
Co.  officers,  30;  enlisted  men,  795.    Total  officers,  40;  enlisted  men,  795. — Total,  835. 

Tenth  Battalion  (Albany). — Lieut. -Col.  Wm.  E.  Fitch.  Lieut.  Jas.  B.  Sanders,  Adjt.  Field  and  Staff,  5.  Co. 
A.  Capt.  A.  J.  Wing ;  Co.  B,  Capt.  H.  P.  Stacpole  ;  Co.  C,  Capt.  J.  L.  Hyatt ;  Co.  D,  Capt.  E.  V.  Denison. 
Co.  officers,  11  ;  enlisted  men,  284.    Total  officers,  16;  enlisted  men,  284. — Total,  300. 

First  Proi-isional  Regiment  (composed  of  Separate  Companies  3d  Brigade). — Lieut. -Col.  Wm.  J.  Harding, 
13th  Regiment,  Commanding.  First  Lieut.  H.  A.  Beneke,  22d  Regiment,  Acting  Adjt.  Field  and  Staff,  9. 
4th  Sep.  Co.,  Y'onkers,  Capt.  J.  I.  Pruyn  ;  5th  Sep.  Co.,  Newburg,  Capt.  Jas.  T.  Chase  ;  10th  Sep.  Co.,  New- 
burg,  Capt.  Jas.  M.  Dickey;  nth  Sep.  Co.,  Mt.  Vernon,  Capt.  I.  N.  Pressey  ;  14th  Sep.  Co.,  Kingston,  Capt. 
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J.  G.  Van  Etten  ;  15th  Sep.  Co.,  Poughkeepsie,  Capt.  B.  Myers;  1 6th  Sep.  Co.,  Catskill,  Capt.  A.  M.  Murphy; 
19th  Sep.  Co.,  Poughkeepsie,  1st  Lieut.  L.  Haubennestel  ;  23d  Sep.  Co.,  Hudson,  Capt.  C.  F.  T.  Beale  ;  24th 
Sep.  Co.,  Middletown,  Capt.  C.  B.  Wood.  Co.  officers,  32;  enlisted  men,  652.  Total  officers,  41;  enlisted 
men,  652. — Total,  693. 

The  First  Provisional  Regiment  appeared  very  well.  The  two  fronts  of  the  Nineteenth  Separate  Company 
were  very  good.     The  Twenty-fourth  marched  well.     The  Sixteenth  was  the  best  in  the  regiment.  The 

Fourteenth  was  excellent,  but  the  Fifth 
was  crowded,  although  its  first  front 
was  very  good,  and  the  second  good. 
The  Twenty-third  gained  distance  but 
was  in  good  line.  The  Eleventh  and 
Tenth  were  very  good.  The  first  front 
of  the  Fourth  gained  distance,  but  the 
second  front  was  good. 

Third  Provisional  Regiment  (com- 
posed of  Separate  Companies,  3d  Bri- 
gade).— Lieut. -Col.  James  A.  Dennison, 
71st  Reg't,  Commanding.  1st  Lieut. 
G.  James  Green,  10th  Batt.,  Act'g  Adjt. 
Field  and  Staff,  6.  20th  Sep.  Co  ,  Bing- 
hamton,  Capt.  H.  C.  Rogers  ;  28th  Sep. 
Co.,  Utica,  Lieut.  C.  F.  Clark  ;  31st  Sep. 
Co.,  Mohawk,  Capt.  A.  J.  Budlong;  33d 
Sep.  Co.,  Walton,  Lieut.  H.  B.  Moremus ; 
35th  Sep.  Co.,  Ogdensburg,  Capt.  Henry 
Holland ;  36th  Sep.  Co.,  Schenectady, 
Capt.  A.  A.  Yates;  37th  Sep.  Co., 
Schenectady,  1st  Lieut.  Thos.  Gregg; 
39th  Sep.  Co.,  Watertown,  Capt.  W.  R. 
Zimmerman ;  44th  Sep.  Co.,  Utica, 
Capt.  L.  E.  Goodier ;  46th  Sep.  Co., 
Amsterdam,  Capt.  D.  E.  Vunk.  Co.  offi- 
cers, 29;  enlisted  men,  814. — Total  offi- 
cers, 33  ;  enlisted  men,  814. — Total,  847. 

In  the  Third  Provisional  Regiment 
every  company  was  good  or  very  good, 
the  first  front  of  the  Thirty-sixth  Sep- 
arate being  the  best.  The  Thirty- 
seventh  Separate  Company  was  brought 
to  right  shoulder  arms  before  passing 
the  President. 


THE  SEVENTH  REGIMENT  OF  NEW  YORK, 
UNDER  COMMAND  OF  COLONEL  EMMONS  CLARK, 
passing  the  Grand  Stand  in  the  Military  Parade,  New  York,  April  30,  IS 


Sixth  Battery  (Binghamton). — Capt. 
Laurel  L.  Olmstead.  Officers,  3;  en- 
listed men,  75. — Total,  78. 


Total  Third  Brigade:  Officers,  127;  enlisted  men,  2,620. — Total,  2,747. 

Fourth  Brigade  (Buffalo). — Brig.-Gen.  Peter  C.  Doyle.  Lieut. -Col.  Chas.  Clifton,  A.  A.  G.  Staff,  8.— 
Total,  10. 

The  Staff  passed  in  excellent  form  and  saluted  in  unison.    They  were  well  mounted. 

Fourth  Provisional  Regiment  (composed  of  Separate  Companies,  4th  Brigade). — Col.  Samuel  M.  Welch, 
Jr.,  65th  Reg't,  Commanding.  Lieut.  Win.  H.  Chapin,  65th  Reg't,  Act'g  Adjt.  Field  and  Staff,  11.  2d  Sep. 
Co.,  Auburn,  Capt.  Wm.  M.  Kirby ;  8th  Sep.  Co.,  Rochester,  Capt.  H.  B.  Henderson  ;  26th  Sep.  Co.,  Elmira, 


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Capt.  Robt.  P.  Bush  ;  29th  Sep.  Co.,  Oswego,  Capt.  H.  H.  Herron  ;  30th  Sep.  Co.,  Elmira,  Capt.  Roscius 
Morse;  38th  Sep.  Co.,  Oswego,  Capt.  F.  J.  Stearns;  40th  Sep.  Co.,  Syracuse,  1st  Lieut.  James  Myall;  41st  Sep. 
Co.,  Syracuse,  Capt.  J.  G.  Butler  ;  45th  Sep.  Co.,  Cortland,  Capt.  B.  E.  Miller.  Co.  officers,  24  ;  enlisted  men, 
645.    Total  officers,  35  ;  enlisted  men,  645. — Total,  680. 

The  Fourth  Provisional  Regiment  compared  well  with  the  others.  The  Eighth  Separate  Company  made 
the  best  parade.    All  the  companies  passed  handsomely. 

Snenty-fourth  Regiment  {Buffalo). — Lieut. -Col.  Usual  S.  Johnson.  Lieut.  Wm.  E.  Otto,  Act'g  Adjt.  Field 
and  Staff,  8.  Co.  A,  Capt.  Robt.  M.  Harding;  Co.  B,  Capt.  H.  C.  Balcomb ;  Co.  C,  Lieut.  Wm.  J.  Sloan;  Co. 
D.  Capt.  Henry  L.  Fish,  Jr.;  Co.  E,  Capt.  Frank  X.  Farrar ;  Co.  F,  Capt.  Geo.  C.  Fox;  Co.  G,  Capt.  Peter 
Paulus.  Attached. —  1st  Sep.  Co.,  Penn  Yan,  Capt.  Abraham  Gridley  ;  34th  Sep.  Co.,  Geneva,  Capt.  William 
Wilson;  42d  Sep.  Co.  Niagara  Falls,  Capt.  Chas.  B.  Gaskill.  Co.  officers,  28;  enlisted  men,  573.  Total  offi- 
cers, 36  ;  enlisted  men,  573. — Total,  609. 

The  Seventy-fourth  Regiment  Staff  saluted  evenly,  and  its  appearance  was  excellent.  The  honors  be- 
longed to  the  second  and  tenth  companies,  while  the  first,  third,  and  fourth  were  nearly  as  good. 

Sixty-fifth  Regiment  {Buffalo). — Lieut. -Col.  John  E.  Robie.  Lieut.  Albert  J.  Meyer,  Act'g  Adjt.  Field 
and  Staff,  7.  Co.  A,  Capt.  George  J.  Haffa  ;  Co.  B,  Capt.  A.  K.  Hume  ;  Co.  C,  Lieut.  Walter  F.  Nurzey  ;  Co. 
D,  Capt.  J.  H.  Swanson  ;  Co.  F,  Capt.  C.  E.  P.  Babcock  ;  Co.  G,  Capt.  J.  B.  Rawson,  Jr. ;  Co.  H,  Capt.  O.  T. 
Langenbach  ;  Co.  I,  Capt.  A.  C.  Lewis.  Attached. —  13th  Sep.  Co.,  Jamestown,  Capt.  Henry  Smith ;  43d  Sep. 
Co.,  Olean,  Capt.  Culver  G.  Thyng.  Co.  officers,  28;  enlisted  men,  605.  Total  officers,  35  ;  enlisted  men, 
605. — Total,  640. 

The  fronts  of  the  Sixty-fifth  Regiment  were  in  general  very  good. 


DANIEL  GOULD  FOWLE,  GOVERNOR  OF  NORTH  CAROLINA. 
Military  Parade,  New  York,  April  30,  1889. 

Fifth  Battery  (Syracuse). — Capt.  Michael  Aner.    Officers,  5  ;  enlisted  men,  67. — Total,  72. 
Total  Fourth  Brigade:  officers,  122  ;  enlisted  men,  1,890. — Total.  2.012. 

Old  Guard  Veteran  Battalion  [TV.  V.  City). — Maj.  Geo.  Washington  McLean.    Lieut.  Isaac  E.  Hoagland, 


Tlfli  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


Adjt.  ist  Co.,  Capt.  Thus.  A.  Sloan.  2d  Co.,  Capt.  Abraham  Meade.  Co.  officers,  12;  enlisted  men,  80. — 
Total,  92. 

The  rear  of  the  New  York  column  was  brought  up  by  the  Old  Guard,  in  its  handsome  uniform,  including 
white  coats  and  big  bear-skin  hats.  If  these  veterans  stepped  a  trifle  gingerly  over  the  stones,  it  must  be  re- 
membered that  the  character  of  their  commissary  department  is  a  peculiar  one,  and  more  suited  to  those 
who  ride  in  carriages  than  to  those  who  march  on  foot.  They  certainly  made  a  picturesque  finish  for  the 
column. 

Total  New  York. — Governor  and  Staff :  officers,  23.  First  Brigade  :  officers,  259  ;  enlisted  men,  4,308. 
— Total,  4,567.  Second  Brigade:  officers,  174;  enlisted  men,  2,711. — Total,  2,885.  Third  Brigade  :  officers, 
127;  enlisted  men,  2,620. — Total,  2,747.  Fourth  Brigade:  officers,  122;  enlisted  men,  1,890. — Total,  2,012. 
On  Detached  Service:  officers,  13  ;  enlisted  men,  12. — Total,  25.  Old  Guard  :  officers,  12  ;  enlisted  men,  80. 
— Total,  92.    Aggregate,  officers,  730;  enlisted  men,  11,621. — Total,  12,351. 


NORTH  CAROLINA. 


Governor,  Daniel  G.  Fowle.    Brig.-Gen.  James  D.  Glenn,  Adj't.-Gen.    Staff,  6. 

Escort  to  Governor  Fowle. — Col.  J.  W.  Catton,  ist  Regiment,  Commanding.  Major  E.  G.  Howell,  ist  Regi- 
ment, A.  A.  G.  Co.  A,  ist  Regiment,  Capt.  W.  J.  Burnett.  Officers,  3  ;  enlisted  men,  50. — Total,  53.  Co.  C, 
ist  Regiment,  Capt.  J.  J.  Bernard.    Officers,  3  ;  enlisted  men,  50. — Total,  53. 

Total  North  Carolina. — Governor  and  Staff, 
8;  First  Regiment,  112. — Total,  120. 

The  Governor  of  North  Carolina  rode  in  a  car- 
riage. He  was  escorted  by  two  companies,  the  Gover- 
nor's Guard,  in  a  neat  dark-green  uniform,  and  the  Edge- 
combe Guards,  in  gray.  The  Governor's  Guard  marched 
very  well. 

RHODE  ISLAND. 

Governor,  Royal  C.  Taft.  Brig.-Gen.  Elisha  Dyer, 
Jr.,  Adjt. -Gen.    Staff,  1 1. 

Newport  Artillery. — Col.  Jere  W.  Horton,  Com- 
manding, ist  Lieut.  John  W.  Witherell,  Adjt.  Offi- 
cers, 11  ;  enlisted  men,  90. — Total,  101. 

Provisional  Regiment. — Col.  William  H.  Thornton, 
Commanding.  Lieut.  Arthur  V.  Warfield,  Adjt.  Field 
and  Staff,  10;  N.  C.  Staff,  4. — Total,  14.  Band,  30. 
Co.  B,  First  Regt.,  Providence,  Capt.  Henry  B.  Rose; 
Co.  D,  First  Regt.,  Providence,  Capt.  Edwin  Draper; 
Co.  G,  First  Regt.,  Providence,  Capt.  Geo.  A.  Forsyth; 
Co.  H,  First  Regt.,  Pawtucket,  Capt.  Gilis  W.  Easter- 
brooks  ;  Co.  C,  Second  Regt.,  Bristol,  Capt.  John  H. 
Morrissey  ;  Co.  D,  Second  Regt.,  Woonsocket,  Capt. 
Frank  M.  Cornell  ;  Co.  E,  Second  Regt.,  Providence, 
Capt.  Bernard  Hackett ;  Co.  F,  Second  Regt.,  Provi- 
dence, Capt.  Thos.  H.  Donahue.  Officers,  34;  enlisted 
men,  410.  — Total,  444. 

First  Machine-Giin  Battery  {Providence). —  ist  Lieut. 
Wm.  Ely,  Commanding.  Officers,  2  ;  enlisted  men,  17. 
— Total,  19. 

Total  Rhode  Island:  Governor  and  Staff,  13; 
Newport  Artillery,  101  ;  Provisional  Regiment,  444; 
Machine-Gun  Battery,  19. — Total,  577. 

First  came  the  Newport  Artillery,  four  companies  in  single 
rank.    They  were  gorgeous  with  red  horse-hair  plumes  and  red  facings,  and  marched  very  well,  and  were  fol- 


ROYAL  C.  TAFT,  GOVERNOR  OF  RHODE  ISLAND 
AND  BRIGADIER-GENERAL  ELISHA  DYER,  JR., 
ADJUTANT-GENERAL  OF  RHODE  ISLAND. 
Military  Parade,  New  York,  April  30,  1889. 

Rhode  Island  made  a  very  handsome  display. 


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lowed  by  a  provisional  regiment,  made  up  of  four  companies  from  the  First  and  four  from  the  Second  Regi- 
ments. They  showed  fronts  of  twenty  files,  and  few  commands  in  the  entire  parade  surpassed  them.  The 
companies  passed  in  faultless  style. 

VERMONT. 

Governor,  Wm.  P.  Dillingham.    Brig.-Gen.  Theo.  S.  Peck,  Adjt.-Gen.    Staff,  14. 

First  Brigade. — Brig.-Gen.  Wm.  L.  Greenleaf.    Major  M.  D.  Greene,  A.  A.  G.    Staff,  6.    Brigade  Band,  41. 

First  Regiment  (Brattleboro). — Col.  Julius  J.  Estey.  Lieut.  Jas.  A.  Lillis,  Adjt.  Field  and  Staff,  9  ;  N.  C. 
Staff,  11. — Total,  20.  Co.  A,  Rutland,  Capt.  J.  D.  Dominy,  51  ;  Co.  B,  St.  Albans,  Capt.  John  H.  Mimms,  57  ; 
Co.  C,  Brandon,  Capt.  J.  W.  Symons,  51  ;  Co.  D,  St.  Johnsbury,  Capt.  A.  W.  Roberts,  51  ;  Co.  E,  Barre,  Capt. 
B.  H.  Wells,  45  ;  Co.  F,  Northfield,  Capt.  G.  C.  Bates,  51  ;  Co.  G,  Bradford,  Capt.  J.  H.  Watson,  51  ;  Co.  H, 
Montpelier,  Capt.  O.  D.  Clark,  46  ;  Co.  I,  Brattleboro,  Capt.  F.  W.  Childs,  54  ;  Co.  K,  Bennington,  Capt.  C.  W. 
Evans,  51.    Officers,  39  ;  enlisted  men,  491. — Total,  530. 

First  Separate  Battalion. — Major  Joel  B.  Moulton.  Lieut.  Max  L.  Powell,  Adjt.  Staff,  3.  Co.  A,  New- 
port, Capt.  S.  C.  O'Connor,  47  ;  Co.  B,  Richford,  Capt.  A.  K.  Brown,  51.  Officers,  11  ;  enlisted  men,  10 1.— 
Total,  112. 

Fuller  Light  Battery  (Brattleboro). — Brev. -Col.  Levi  K.  Fuller.  Lieut.  E.  H.  Putnam,  Adjt.  Officers,  8 ; 
enlisted  men,  72. — Total,  80. 

Total  Vermont:  Governor  and  Staff,  16;  Brig.-Gen.  and  Staff,  8;  Brigade  Band,  41  ;  First  Regiment, 
530;  First  Sep.  Battalion,  112;  Fuller  Light  Battery,  80. — Total,  787. 

Governor  William  P.  Dillingham,  of  Vermont,  was  the  only  Governor  having  anything  of  a  military  ap- 
pearance. He  wore  a  military  cloak,  and  was  accorded  an  enthusiastic  welcome.  The  First  Regiment,  Colo- 
nel Estey,  uniformed  in  gray,  a  slight  variation  being  noticeable  among  the  companies,  some  being  slashed 
with  black,  was  more  observed  than  even  some  larger  commands,  by  reason  of  the  pine-tree  sprigs  worn  in 
their  hats.  A  stalwart  set  of  men,  the  command  made  a  very  creditable  appearance.  The  First  Battalion, 
Major  Moulton,  followed — alignments  being  excellent.  Fuller's  Battery,  Captain  Fuller,  next  passed  with 
good  alignment. 

KENTUCKY. 

Governor,  Simon  B.  Buckner.    Brig.-Gen.  Samuel  E.  Hill,  Adjt.-Gen.    Staff,  8. 

Louisrille  Legion. — Col.  John  B.  Castleman.  Lieut.  James  B.  Smith,  Adjt.  Field  and  Staff,  7  ;  N.  C.  Staff, 
10. — Total,  17.  Band,  Drum,  and  Bugle  Corps,  50.  Co.  A,  Capt.  J.  M.  Sohan  ;  Co.  B,  Capt.  Wm.  L.  Hunt; 
Co.  C,  Capt.  J.  F.  C.  Hegewald  ;  Co.  D,  Capt.  D.  W.  Gray  ;  Co.  E,  Lieut.  S.  McKee,  Jr. ;  Co.  F,  Capt.  W.  B. 
Wheeler.    Officers,  25  ;  enlisted  men,  289. — Total,  314. 

Total  Kentucky  :  Governor  and  Staff,  10  ;  Louisville  Legion,  314. — Total,  324. 

A  cordial  welcome  was  given  to  Governor  Buckner,  as  he  doffed  his  chapeau,  decorated  with  a  black 
plume,  in  saluting  the  President. 

A  fine  band,  playing  Old  Kentucky  Home,  led  the  famous  Louisville  Legion.  Finely  uniformed  in  dark 
blue  coats,  with  white  cross-belts,  dark  blue  trousers  and  dark  hats  with  flowing  white  plumes,  no  organization 
attracted  more  attention.    They  passed  with  twelve  companies  in  single  rank,  marching  perfectly. 

OHIO. 

Governor  Joseph  B.  Foraker.    Maj.-Gen.  Henry  A.  Axline,  Adjt.-Gen.    Staff,  14. 

Escort  to  Governor  Foraker  (First  Cleveland  Troop). — Capt.  Geo.  A.  Garretson.  Officers,  3  ;  enlisted  men, 
3o._ Total,  33. 

Governor  Foraker  received  an  ovation  ;  he  was  splendidly  mounted,  and  rode  considerably  in  advance 
of  his  troops.    Ohio's  contingent  was  among  the  largest  in  the  parade. 

The  Governor  was  escorted  by  the  First  Cleveland  Troop,  considered  one  of  the  best  volunteer  cavalry 
organizations  in  the  country.  Well  mounted,  they  made  an  excellent  appearance.  The  crowd  was  particularly 
attracted,  however,  by  a  horse  ridden  by  one  of  the  officers,  a  splendid  animal,  trained  to  dance  to  the  music. 


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Like  Pennsylvania,  the  Ohio  troops  were  fully  equipped  in  heavy  marching  order.  The  passage  was  made 
in  single  rank. 

First  Regiment  {Cleveland). — Col.  Frederick  W.  Moore.  Lieut.  Chas.  Z.  Reilly,  Adjt.  Field  and  Staff,  7  ; 
N.  C.  Staff,  7  ;  Band,  63. — Total,  77.  Co.  A,  Capt.  Chas.  Becht ;  Co.  B,  Ernest  P.  Deitz ;  Co.  C,  Capt.  Geo. 
Brenner;  Co.  D,  Capt.  Thos.  W.  Thomas;  Co.  E,  Capt.  W.  C.  Hunter;  Co.  F,  Capt.  Edw.  H.  Lovell ;  Co. 
H,  Capt.  John  W,  Carroll ;  Co.  I,  Capt.  John  Foellger.    Co.  officers,  23  ;  enlisted  men,  333. — Total,  433. 

The  First  Regiment  passed  with  sixteen  platoons,  and  with  well-kept  distances  and  almost  perfect 
alignments. 

Sixth  Regiment  {Chillicothe). — Col.  John  C.  Entrekin.  Lieut.  F.  Marion  Cline,  Adjt.  Field  and  Staff,  5  ; 
N.  C.  Staff,  6  ;  Band,  17.— Total,  28.  Co.  B,  Capt.  John  P.  Maynard  ;  Co.  C,  Capt.  Dan'l  R.  Shriver;  Co.  D, 
Capt.  Belden  Y.  Hicks  ;  Co.  E,  Capt.  Wm.  C.  Bostwick  ;  Co.  F,  Capt.  Lee  O.  Anderson  ;  Co.  G,  Capt.  Homer 
C.  Jones;  Co.  I,  Capt.  James  B.  Hyssell.    Co.  officers,  19;  enlisted  men,  193. — Total,  240. 

Third  Regiment  {Covington).— -Col.  Wm.  M.  Williamson.  Lieut.  W.  H.  Gross,  Adjt.  Field  and  Staff,  6; 
N.  C.  Staff,  3. — Total,  9.  Co.  A,  Capt.  Wm.  A.  Carson;  Co.  B,  Capt.  Wm.  H.  Eccles;  Co.  C,  Capt.  Luis  C. 
Garver ;  Co.  D,  Capt.  Geo.  W.  Bland;  Co.  E,  Capt.  Joseph  B.  McCoole ;  Co.  F,  Capt.  Harry  H.  Hunter;  Co. 

G,  Capt.  Samuel  D.  Palmer;  Co.  H,  Capt.  W.  Kautzman.    Co.  officers,  15  ;  enlisted  men,  191. — Total,  215. 

Second  Regiment  {Kenton). — Col.  James  C.  Howe.  Lieut.  Pearl  A.  Campbell,  Adjt.  Field  and  Staff,  7  ; 
N.  C.  Staff,  3;  Band,  12. — Total,  22.  Co.  A,  Capt.  Chas.  L.  Davis;  Co.  B,  Capt.  Frank  Tschanen  ;  Co.  C,  Capt. 
Frank  M.  Bell ;  Co.  D,  Capt.  John  Rison ;  Co.  E,  Capt.  Simon  Price ;  Co.  G,  Capt.  Willis  E.  Scott ;  Co.  H,  Capt. 
Edw.  F.  Bryant;  Co.  I,  Capt.  Hugh  E.  McClure ;  Co.  K,  Capt.  Wm.  H.  Dickman,  Jr.  Co.  officers,  21  ;  enlisted 
men,  207. — Total,  250. 

The  Second  Regiment  passed  in  good  form.  The  step  was  free  and  easy.  This  regiment  was  one  of 
the  best  from  Ohio. 

Thirteenth  Regiment  {Dayton). — Col.  Wm.  J.  White.  Lieut.  Carl  K.  Mower,  Act'g  Adjt.  Field  and  Staff,  5  ; 
N.  C.  Staff,  1  ;  Band,  20. — Total,  26.  Co.  A,  Capt.  Wm.  Wagner ;  Co.  B,  Capt.  Edw.  E.  Mullenix  ;  Co.  C,  Capt. 
John  A.  Miller  ;  Co.  L),  Capt.  R.  E.  Campbell ;  Co.  E,  Capt.  Dan'l  W.  Young;  Co.  G,  Capt.  Jos.  H.  Harris;  Co. 

H,  Capt.  Wm.  C.  Williams.    Co.  officers,  13;  enlisted  men,  191. — Total,  230. 

In  the  Thirteenth  the  alignments  were  excellent.    Several  of  the  companies  were  colored. 

Sixteenth  Regiment  {Sandusky). — Col.  Charles  M.  Keys.  Lieut.  Thos.  M.  Sloane,  Adjt.  Field  and  Staff,  6; 
N.  C.  Staff,  4. — Total,  10.  Co.  A,  Capt.  Jacob  M.  Weier;  Co.  B,  Capt.  Geo.  P.  Barker;  Co.  C,  Capt.  James  R. 
Wade;  Co.  D,  Capt.  Wm.  O.  Bulger;  Co.  E,  Capt.  Charles  P.  Newman;  Co.  F,  Capt.  C.  E.  Reynolds;  Co.  H, 
Capt.  A.  R.  Rogers;  Co.  I,  Capt.  Allen  G.  Winnie.    Co.  officers,  16  ;  enlisted  men,  174. — Total,  200. 

Fourteenth  Regiment  {Columbus). — Col.  Geo.  D.  Freeman.  Lieut.  C.  A.  Alexander,  Adjt.  Field  and  Staff, 
7  ;  N.  C.  Staff,  7  ;  Band,  34. — Total,  48.  Co.  A,  Capt.  Edwin  G.  Bailey;  Co.  B,  Capt.  Chas.  C.  Sleffel ;  Co.  C, 
Capt.  Henry  Schick  ;  Co.  D,  Capt.  Frank  F.  Ford  ;  Co.  E,  Capt.  Wm.  F.  Wieland  ;  Co.  F,  Capt  Chas.  Merion,  Jr.; 
Co.  G,  Capt.  Frank  S.  McMahon  ;  Co.  H,  Capt.  John  C.  Speaks;  Co.  I,  Capt.  Albert  Getz  ;  Co.  K,  Capt.  C.  Bar- 
ton Adams;  Co.  L,  Capt.  Will  W.  Holmes.    Co.  officers,  14;  enlisted  men,  298. — Total,  360. 

The  marching  and  step  were  evenly  good  throughout. 

Eighth  Regiment  {Columbus). — Col.  Geo.  R.  Gyger.  Lieut.  Albert  A.  Bartlett,  Adjt.  Field  and  Staff,  7  ; 
N.  C.  Staff,  5  ;  Band,  24.— Total,  36.  Co.  A,  Capt.  Edw.  Vollrath ;  Co.  B,  Capt.  Fred  C.  Bryan  ;  Co.  C,  Capt. 
W.  H.  Ambrose;  Co.  D,  Capt.  Horace  N.  Clemens;  Co.  E,  Capt.  Sam'l  H0011 ;  Co.  F,  Capt.  C.  Zimmermann ; 
Co.  G,  Capt.  Jacob  H.  Rickert.    Co.  officers,  13;  enlisted  men,  177. — Total,  226. 

Fifth  Regiment  {Cleveland).— Col.  Fred  H.  Flick.  Lieut.  Sam'l  W.  Williams,  Adjt.  Field  and  Staff,  3  ;  N.  C. 
Staff,  3;  Band,  11.— Total,  17.  Co.  A,  Capt.  Llewellyn  R.  Davis;  Co.  B,  Capt.  E.  M.  Whitney;  Co.  C,  Capt. 
H.  W.  Crittenden;  Co.  D,  Capt.  Newell  J.  Fuller;  Co.  E,  Capt.  Jas.  P.  Woodworth;  Co.  F,  Capt.  Dan'l  Fo- 
vargue;  Co.  G,  Capt.  C.  L.  Kennan  ;  Co.  H,  Capt.  John  A.  Freed,  Jr.  Co.  officers,  14;  enlisted  men,  195. — 
Total,  226. 

The  Fifth  equaled  the  best  from  the  State.  The  marching  of  all  the  companies  was  good,  the  align- 
ments excellent. 

Seventeenth  Regiment  {Columbus). — Col.  Edgar  J.  Pocock.  Lieut.  Robt.  M.  Davidson,  Adjt.  Field  and  Staff, 
3 ;  N.  C.  Staff,  7  ;  Band,  24. — Total,  34.    Co.  A,  Capt.  Thos.  J.  Smith  ;  Co.  B,  Capt.  Joseph  Beckhardt ;  Co.  C, 


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Capt.  M.  M.  Murphy  ;  Co.  D,  Capt.  Judson  H.  Hovey  ;  Co.  E,  Capt.  Wm.  L.  West ;  Co.  F,  Capt.  Sam'l  M.  Price; 
Co.  H,  Capt.  David  Collier;  Co.  K,  Capt.  Hamlin  D.  Burch.    Co.  officers,  27  ;  enlisted  men,  295. — Total,  356. 

First  Regiment  Light  Artillery  {Cleveland). — Col.  Louis  Smithnight.  Lieut.  Henry  M.  Clewell,  Adjt.  Field 
and  Staff,  7;  N.  C.  Staff,  3. — Total,  10.  Battery  A,  Capt.  Fred  A.  Gay;  Battery  B,  Capt.  Frank  I).  McCarthy; 
Battery  C,  Capt.  Henry  A.  Leslie;  Battery  D,  Capt.  Owen  J.  Hopkins;  Battery  F,  Capt.  Joseph  C.  Ewart.  Co. 
officers,  21  ;  enlisted  men,  234. — Total,  265. 

Ohio  showed  to  better  advantage  with  her  artillery  than  any  other  State.  Five  batteries  of  her  First 
Regiment,  Colonel  Smithnight,  passed  in  column  of  sections  well  aligned,  the  guns  and  accoutrements  being 
in  excellent  condition. 

Total  Ohio:  Governor  and  staff,  16;  cavalry,  60;  artiilery,  300;  infantry,  2,900. — Total,  3,276. 


LOUISIANA. 

Governor  Francis  T.  Nicholls.   Brig.-Gen.  W.  G.  Burt,  Adjt. -Gen. 

First  Brigade. — Brig.-Gen.  Adolph  Meyer.    Lieut. -Col.  C.  L.  Walker,  A.  A.  G.    Staff,  4. 

Washington  Artillery  (Nezv  Orleans). — Lieut. -Col.  J.  B.  Richardson.  Capt.  E.  I.  Kursheedt,  Adjt.  Field  and 
Staff,  7;  N.  C.  Staff,  3;  Band,  18. — Total,  28.  Battery  A,  Capt.  E.  M.  Underhill,  34.  Battery  B,  Capt.  E. 
May,  32.    Battery  C,  Capt.  H.  M.  Isaacson,  35.    Co.  officers,  n  ;  enlisted  men,  101. — Total,  140. 

Louisiana  Field  Artillery  {New  Orleans). — Battery  B,  Capt.  \V.  H.  Beanham.  Officers,  4  ;  enlisted  men,  46. 
— Total,  50. 

Total  Louisiana  :  Brig. -Commander  and  staff,  6  ;  Washington  Artillery,  140;  Louisiana  Field  Artillery, 
50. — Total,  200. 

Louisiana  was  represented  by  the  Washington  Artillery  and  the  Louisiana  Field  Artillery,  both  handsomely 
uniformed.  Dismounted  and  armed  as  infantry  they  passed  with  almost  faultless  alignments  and  perfect  dis- 
tances. 

ILLINOIS. 

Governor  Joseph  W.  Fifer.    Lieut. -Col.  Chas.  F.  Mills,  A.  A.  G. 

Fourth  Regiment  (Chicago). — Co.  E,  Capt.  Thomas  W.  Ford,  Chicago.  Officers,  3  ;  enlisted  men,  48. — 
Total,  51. 

Total  Illinois:  Officers,  3;  enlisted  men,  48. — Total,  51. 

Capt.  Ford's  Zouaves  made  a  splendid  appearance,  and  were  repeatedly  applauded. 


MISSOURI. 

Governor  David  R.  Francis.    Brig.-Gen.  J.  A.  Wickham,  Adjt.  Gen. 

Third  Regiment  (Kansas  City). — Col.  Milton  Moore.  Lieut.  Geo.  R.  Collins,  Act'g.  Adjt.  Field  and  Staff, 
4;  N.  C.  Staff,  2  ;  Band,  32.— Total,  48.  Co.  A,  Capt.  Henry  J.  Taylor  ;  Co.  B,  Capt.  Chas.  E.  Wager;  Co.  C, 
Capt.  John  S.  Perkins;  Co.  D,  Capt.  S.  E.  Kelsey  ;  Co.  E,  Capt.  C.  G.  Butterfield ;  Co.  F,  Lieut.  Chas.  E.  Knox; 
Co.  G,  Capt.  J.  D.  C.  Priest;  Carthage  L.  G.,  Capt.  Wm.  K.  Coffee.  Co.  officers,  19;  enlisted  men,  170. — 
Total,  227. 

First  Regiment  (St.  Louis). — Col.  Chas.  D.  Comfort.  Lieut.  Edwin  Batdorf,  Adjt.  Field  and  Staff,  3  ;  Band, 
30.— Total,  33.  Co.  A,  Lieut.  Swanston  ;  Co.  E,  Capt.  Edw.  A.  Warren;  Co.  F,  Lieut.  W.  H.  Scott;  Co.  G, 
Capt.  C.  A.  Sinclair.    Co.  Officers,  4;  enlisted  men,  159. — Total,  196. 

Total  Missouri:  Officers,  30;  enlisted  men,  393. — Total,  423. 

The  Third  Regiment  paraded  seven  small  companies,  in  single  rank,  and  all  marched  well.  The  First 
Regiment  had  the  same  number  of  fronts  and  the  same  formation.  This  regiment  was  halted  several  times, 
in  passing,  and  had  no  opportunity  to  show  its  soldierly  qualities. 


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MICHIGAN. 

Governor  Cyrus  G.  Luce.    Brig.-Gen.  Dan'l  B.  Ainger,  Adjt.-Gen. 

Orchard  Lake  Military  Academy. — Maj.  Geo.  Harvey.    Lieut.  G.  A.  Mansfield,  Adjt.    Co.  A,  Capt.  P.  J. 
Engleman  ;  Co.  B,  Capt.  C.  W.  Burt.    Officers,  8  ;  enlisted  men,  52. — Total,  60. 
Total  Michigan  :  Officers,  8;  enlisted  men,  52. — Total,  60. 

The  Governor  of  Michigan  was  escorted  by  two  companies  of  cadets  from  the  Orchard  Lake  Military 
Academy.  They  were  in  single  rank,  and  wore  gray  coats,  white  trousers,  and  white  helmets.  Nothing  in  the 
entire  parade  surpassed  their  marching  and  alignments,  and  they  were  applauded  to  the  echo. 


FLORIDA. 

Governor  Francis  P.  Fleming.    Maj. -Gen.  D.  Lang,  Adjt.-Gen. 

Second  Battalion. — Co.  D,  Capt.  G.  A.  Nash.  Officers,  3  ;  enlisted  men,  28. — Total,  31. 
Total  Florida  :  Officers,  3  ;  enlisted  men,  28. — Total,  31. 


TEXAS. 

Governor  Lawrence  S.  Ross.    Brig.-Gen.  W.  H.  King,  Adjt.-Gen. 

Third  Regiment. — Co.  B,  Belknap  Rifles,  Capt.  R.  B.  Green.    Officers,  3  ;  enlisted  men,  29. — Total,  32. 
Total  Texas:  Officers,  3  ;  enlisted  men,  29. — Total,  32. 

The  famous  Belknap  Rifles,  the  winners  of  scores  of  champion  drills,  escorted  their  Governor.  It  was 
uniformed  in  white  all  through,  and  caught  every  one's  eye  as  much  by  its  attractive  dress  as  by  its  fine  step 
and  alignment. 

WEST  VIRGINIA. 
Governor  E.  Willis  Wilson.    Brig.-Gen.  E.  L.  Wood,  Adjt.-Gen. 

Escort  to  Gcrvernor  Wilson. — Col.  J.  W.  A.  Ford,  2d  Regt.  Commanding.    Capt.  W.  Neill,  Act'g  Adjt. 
Governor's  Guard  [Charleston). — Capt.  Edward  Loyd.    Officers,  3  ;  enlisted  men,  50  ;  Band,  20. — Total,  73. 
Jefferson  Guards  (Charlestown). — Lieut.  Jas.  E.  Wyall.    Officers,  3;  enlisted  men,  40. — Total,  43. 
Goff  Guards,  Co.  A,  1st  Regiment  (LLarrisville). — Capt.  W.  S.  Hamilton.    Officers,  3  ;  enlisted  men,  32. — 
Total,  35. 

Monroe  Guards,  Co  B,  2d  Regiment  [Union). — Capt.  A.  S.  Johnston.  Officers,  3  ;  enlisted  men,  35. — 
Total,  38. 

Total  West  Virginia  :  Officers,  16  ;  enlisted  men,  187. — Total,  203. 


DISTRICT  OF  COLUMBIA. 

Col.  Wm.  G.  Moore,  Commanding  Detachment.    Capt.  C.  S.  Wallace,  Adjt.    Field  and  Staff,  3. 

First  Battalion. — Capt.  W.  N.  Dalton,  Commanding.  Field  and  Staff,  4;  Band,  21. — Total,  25.  Co.  A, 
Lieut.  John  A.  Cowie ;  Co.  B,  Capt.  Burton  R.  Ross;  Co.  C,  Capt.  Chas.  A.  Ourand  ;  Co.  D,  Capt.  John  S.  Mil- 
ler.   Co.  officers,  8;  enlisted  men,  139. — Total,  172. 

Second  Battalion. — Major  Garry  C.  Rodney,  Commanding.  Co.  A,  Capt.  E.  C.  Edwards  ;  Co.  C,  Capt.  C.  S. 
Domer.    Co.  officers,  6;  enlisted  men,  52  ;  Band,  10. — Total,  68. 

Third  Battalion. — Major  Thos.  B.  Harrison,  Commanding.  Co.  A,  Capt.  Frank  Thompson  ;  Co.  B,  Capt. 
M.  Mahony.    Co.  officers,  4  ;  enlisted  men,  83. — Total,  87. 

Fourth  Battalion. — Co.  A,  Capt.  R.  A.  O'Brien.    Co.  officers,  3;  enlisted  men,  38.    Total,  41. 

Fifth  Battalion. — Major  James  A.  Long,  Commanding.  Co.  A,  Capt.  E.  G.  Benson  ;  Co.  B,  Capt.  J.  J. 
Castinet  ;  Co.  C,  Capt.  A.  J.  Robinson  ;  Co.  D,  Capt.  W.  E.  Beagle.  Co.  officers,  9;  eniisted  men,  133  ;  Band, 
6.— Total,  148. 


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Sixth  Battalion. — Co.  A,  Capt.  J.  W.  F.  Williams.    Co.  officers,  3;  enlisted  men,  43;  Band,  7. — Total,  53. 
Eighth  Battalion. —  Major  F.  C.  Revells,  Commanding.    Field  and  Staff,  5  ;  Band,  25. — Total,  30.    Co.  A, 
Capt.  James  A.  Perry;  Co.  B,  Capt.  John  H.  Campbell.    Co.  officers,  6;  enlisted  men,  61. — Total,  97. 
Total  District  of  Columbia  :  Officers,  51  ;  enlisted  men,  618. — Total,  669. 

Last  in  the  military  column  were  the  troops  from  the  District  of  Columbia.  They  consisted  of  two  com- 
panies from  the  Washington  Light  Infantry,  two  from  the  Second  Battalion,  two  from  the  Third  Battalion, 
and  one  each  from  the  Fourth  and  Sixth  Battalions,  and  three  companies  from  the  Fifth  Battalion,  all  of  them 
marching  handsomely  and  making  a  brave  show  for  the  District.  Three  of  the  companies  were  colored  men. 
They  wore  a  fine  blue  uniform  trimmed  with  gold  lace,  and  big  bear-skin  hats.  Their  marching  was  espe- 
cially good. 

BATTALION  LOYAL  LEGION. 
Col.  Wm.  C.  Church,  Commanding:  200  companions. 

The  Companions  of  the  Legion,  all  ex-officers  of  the  Union  Army  during  the  civil  war,  made  a  grand 
display.  They  received  the  welcome  they  so  well  deserved  at  the  hands  of  the  multitude;  and  then  came 
the  long  procession  of  the  Grand  Army  Posts,  amounting  to  some  twelve  thousand  men,  who  closed 
the  parade.  The  old  soldiers  did  not  march  with  the  precision  of  the  uniformed  troops,  but  when  they  were 
well  under  way  they  swung  along  with  an  easy  gait  which  carried  them  through  with  few  halts  and  little 
delay.  Kept  in  line  as  they  were  to  the  last,  their  performance  showed  that  the  veterans  have  not  all 
yet  settled  into  the  immobility  of  age. 

GRAND  ARMY  OF  THE  REPUBLIC. 

Comrade  Wm.  P.  Walton,  J.  C.  Rice  Post  29,  Grand  Marshal.  Comrade  Elam  I.  Goodrich,  J.  C.  Rice  Post 
29,  Adjt.-Gen.  and  Chief  of  Staff.    Comrade  J.  N.  Syme,  J.  C.  Rice  Post  29,  Asst.  Adjt.-Gen. 

Officers  of  Memorial  Committee,  1889. — Comrades  George  M.  Van  Hoesen,  Chairman;  Theo.  Feldstein, 
First  Vice-Chairman  ;  Geo.  Chappelle,  Second  Vice-Chairman  ;  E.J.Atkinson,  Secretary;  N.  W.  Day,  Treas- 
urer; R.  S.  Heilferty,  Corresponding  Secretary. 

Escort  to  Grand  Marshal. — First  N.  Y.  Mounted  Rifles,  Comrade  Wm.  H.  Armstrong;  Fourth  N.  Y.  Cav- 
alry, Comrade  Wm.  H.  Oliver. 

First  Division. — Dahlgren  Post,  No.  113,  Wm.  McEntee,  Commander :  275  comrades.  John  McQuade 
Post,  No.  557,  C.  Lecshhour,  Commander:  125  comrades.  John  F.  McQuade  Post,  No.  14,  of  Utica,  Wm. 
Shaftoe,  Commander:  50  comrades.  Geo.  B.  McClellan  Post,  No.  552,  T.  Fitzpatrick,  Commander:  75  com- 
rades. John  A.  Rawlins  Post,  No.  80,  J.  J.  Bowes,  Commander:  75  comrades.  Wm.  G.  Mitchell  Post,  No. 
559,  John  S.  Ellison,  Commander:  75  comrades.  Horace  B.  Claflin  Post,  No.  578,  Louis  I.  West,  Commander: 
125  comrades. — Total  First  Division,  800  comrades. 

Second  Division. — John  A.  Dix  Post,  No.  135,  A.  W.  Colwell,  Commander:  100  comrades.  James  C. 
Rice  Post,  No.  29,  Wm.  Palmer,  Commander:  200  comrades.  Gilsa  Post,  No.  264,  J.  P.  Heintz,  Commander: 
150  comrades.  Sumner  Post,  No.  24,  James  M.  Smith,  Commander:  100  comrades.  Noah  L.  Farnham  Post, 
No.  458,  John  J-  Finn,  S.  V.  Commander,  commanding:  200  comrades. — Total  Second  Division,  750  com- 
rades. 

Third  Division. — Peter  Cooper  Post,  No.  582,  M.  H.  Whalen,  Commander:  100  comrades.  Cameron  Post, 
No.  79,  Jacob  Scheider,  Commander:  100  comrades.  Veteran  Post,  No.  436,  J.  J.  Keenan,  Commander:  100 
comrades.  Phil  Sheridan  Post,  No.  233,  S.  Dexter  Bingham,  Commander  :  75  comrades.  Lincoln  Post,  No.  13, 
J.  Boylan,  Commander  :  75  comrades.  Geo.  G.  Meade  Post,  No.  38,  Wm.  E.  White,  Commander  :  100  comrades. 
Vanderbilt  Post,  No.  136,  George  Chappelle,  Commander  :  100  comrades.  Wm.  L.  Kennedy  Post,  No.  42,  Wm. 
J.  Kent,  Commander  :  175  comrades. — Total  Third  Division,  825  comrades. 

Fourth  Division. — Judson  Kilpatrick  Post,  No.  143,  S.  H.  Bailey,  Commander  :  100  comrades.  Oliver 
Tilden  Post,  No.  96,  Geo.  W.  Brower,  Commander:  100  comrades.  Phil  Kearny  Post,  No.  8,  Charles  E. 
Hyatt,  Commander  :  100  comrades.  Adam  Goss  Post,  No.  330,  M.  F.  Conlin,  Cummander  :  200  comrades. 
Naval  Post,  No.  516,  F.  H.  Grove,  Commander:  100  comrades.  Edward  H.  Wade  Post,  No.  520,  James  Dele- 
hanty,  Commander  :  150  comrades. — Total  Fourth  Division,  750  comrades. 

Fifth  Division. — James  Shields  Post,  No.  69,  J.  O'Connell,  Commander:  150  comrades.  Edwin  D.  Mor- 
gan Post,  No.  307,  L.  Freeland,  Commander:  125  comrades.  Horace  Greeley  Post,  No.  577,  Geo.  H.  Moore, 
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346       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


Commander:  75  comrades.  Ellsworth  Post,  No.  67,  M.  Meehan,  Commander  :  75  comrades.  Koltes  Post,  No. 
32,  Fred  Letzieser,  Commander :  350  comrades. — Total  Fifth  Division,  775  comrades. 

Sixth  Division. — Fred  Hecker  Post,  No.  408,  S.  La  Grassa,  Commander:  100  comrades.  Reno  Post,  No. 
44,  P.  S.  Biglin,  Commander:  300  comrades.  Alexander  Hamilton  Post,  No.  182,  W.  T.  Wood,  Commander: 
100  comrades.  Wadsworth  Post,  No.  77,  R.  H.  Birmingham,  Commander  :  100  comrades.  Steinwehr  Post, 
No.  192,  Ferdinand  Levy,  Commander  :  150  comrades.  John  E.  Bendix  Post,  No.  402,  John  J.  Humphrey, 
Commander  :  75  comrades. — Total  Sixth  Division,  825  comrades. 

Seventh  Division. — Hans  Powell  Post,  No.  638,  T.  H.  C.  Kincaid,  Commander :  75  comrades.  Joe 
Hooker  Post,  No.  128,  Wm.  J.  Barry,  Commander  :  75  comrades.  Garfield  Post,  No.  4,  Department  of  New 
Jersey,  C.  Weller,  Commander:  75  comrades.  Farragut  Post,  No.  75,  R.  S.  Heilferty,  Commander:  125  com- 
rades. Thad  Stevens  Post,  No.  255,  Wm.  Johnson,  Commander  :  100  comrades.  John  A.  Andrew  Post,  No. 
234,  S.  E.  Saxton,  Commander:  100  comrades.  Gen.  M.  Corcoran  Post,  No.  427,  Wm.  De  Lacy,  Commander: 
100  comrades. — Total  Seventh  Division,  650  comrades. 

Eighth  Division. — Westchester  Co.  Association  of  Army  Veterans,  Henry  S.  Sproull,  Commander :  200 
comrades.  D.  L.  Downing  Post,  No.  365,  of  L.  I.,  John  Van  Bell,  Commander  :  50  comrades.  Richmond 
Post,  No.  524,  of  S.  I.,  Bernard  Mullen,  Commander:  75  comrades.  Ringold  Post,  No.  283,  of  L.  I.,  Alexander 
Simpson,  Commander:  75  comrades.  Edward  Huntting  Post,  No.  353,  of  L.  I.,  E.  W.  Taber,  Commander:  50 
comrades.  Farnsworth  Post,  No.  170,  M't  Vernon,  N.  Y.,  William  Wilson,  Jr.,  Commander:  75  comrades. — 
Total  Eighth  Division,  525  comrades. 

Ninth  Division. — Veteran  Zouaves,  Thos.  F.  Sheehan,  Commander :  125  comrades.  U.  S.  Army  and  Navy 
Association,  Wm.  E.  Morris,  Commander:  100  comrades.  G.  Van  Houten  Post,  No.  3,  of  N.  J.,  B.  F.  Newton, 
Commander:  150  comrades.-  Chas.  Russell  Lowell  Post,  No.  7,  of  Mass.,  Michael  O'Donnell,  Commander: 
125  comrades.  Chaplain  Butler  Post,  No.  35,  of  N.  J.,  Jacob  H.  Cole,  Commander  :  75  comrades.  O'Rourke 
Post,  No.  1,  of  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  A.  B.  Morse,  Commander  :  75  comrades. — Total  Ninth  Division,  650. 

Total  Grand  Army. — A  Division  composed  of  two  delegates  from  each  Post  in  the  Department  of  New 
York,  numbering  638  Posts,  1,276;  number  parading  with  Posts,  New  York,  6,550;  Brooklyn  Posts,  4,000; 
Grand  Marshal's  Staff,  50. — Grand  total,  11,876. 


RECAPITULATION. 


Officers. 

Chief  Marshal  and  Staff   85 

Escort  to  Marshal   8 

Brigade  U.  S.  Army   87 

Naval  Brigade   64 

Delaware   46 

Pennsylvania   502 

New  Jersey   307 

Georgia     6 

Connecticut   50 

Massachusetts   108 

Maryland   63 

South  Carolina   43 

New  Hampshire   no 

Virginia   70 

New  York   730 

North  Carolina   16 


Enlisted  Men.  Total. 


103 
1,063 

I.431 
45° 
6,569 
3,59i 

609 

1,203 

524 

175 
971 

732 
1 1,62 1 
104 


85 
■  1 1 1 

i,i5° 
!,495 
496 
7,o7i 
3,898 
6 

659 

587 
218 
1,081 
802 

I2,35! 
1 20 


Officers. 

Rhode  Island   60 

Vermont   82 

Kentucky   35 

Ohio   268 

Louisiana   28 

Illinois   3 

Missouri   30 

Michigan   8 

Florida   3 

Texas   3 

West  Virginia   13 

District  of  Columbia   51 

Battalion  Loyal  Legion   200 

Grand  Army  of  the  Republic  50 

Aggregate   3,139 


Enlisted  Men.  Total. 


5J7 

70S 
289 

2,754 
172 

48 

393 

52 
28 

29 

M5 
618 

n.826 


577 
787 

324 
3,022 
200 

5i 

423 
60 

31 
31 
^58 
669 
200 
11,876 


46,722  49,861 


In  concluding  its  criticism  on  the  marching  of  the  troops  from  the  several  States,  the 
"Army  and  Navy  Journal  "  says: 


Favored  by  good  weather,  and  with  smooth  streets  to  march  over,  the  parade,  in  general,  was  wonder- 
fully good.  The  large  bodies  of  troops  from  Pennsylvania  and  Ohio,  in  the  State  uniform,  could  hardly 
receive  the  credit  that  was  their  due,  because  the  monotony  of  their  appearance  wearied  the  spectators, 
and  they  soon  ceased  to  notice  whether  the  blue  lines  that  passed  them  were  straight  or  otherwise.  And 
herein  lies  a  strong  argument  in  favor  of  allowing  distinctive  uniforms  for  occasions  of  ceremony;  for 


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praise  and  appreciation  are  as  necessary  to  the  maintenance  of  a  healthy  esprit  de  corps  among  volunteers 
as  any  other  means  of  stimulating  emulation,  and  this  can  hardly  be  hoped  for  if  there  is  not  something 
to  catch  the  popular  eye  at  great  parades.  A  State  uniform  is  excellent  for  actual  work,  yet  the  great 
parade  would  have  been  dull  in  comparison,  but  for  the  bright  uniforms  that  were  supplied  from  the  South- 
ern and  some  of  the  New  England  States.  Too  much  praise  can  not  be  given  to  the  skillful  dispositions 
by  which  so  large  a  number  of  troops  was  passed  in  review  in  the  short  time  occupied — less  than  five  hours. 
It  was  a  great  tactical  feat.  It  should  be  considered  that  they  were  nearly  all  volunteers,  not  held  in 
the  bonds  of  rigid  regular  discipline.  There  was  no  great  place  of  arms  where  they  could  be  collected, 
and  from  which  they  could  debouch  to  their  assigned  places  in  the  column.  On  the  contrary,  they  were 
for  the  most  part  quartered  far  up  town,  and  were  compelled  to  move  separately  long  distances  down 
town,  through  the  streets  of  a  crowded  city,  before  entering  the  column.  Yet,  so  well  was  every  detail 
planned  and  executed  that  the  head  of  the  column  passed  Chambers  Street  at  10.25,  just  twenty-five  minutes 
after  the  time  appointed  for  the  start  from  Wall  Street.  When  the  President  reached  the  reviewing-point 
at  Madison  Square,  the  column  moved  promptly,  and  so  well  had  everything  been  planned  and  so  excel- 
lent were  the  police  arrangements  that  over  forty  thousand  men  passed  in  less  than  five  hours.  Very  much 
of  the  credit  of  this  is  due  to  Captain  Stanhope  E.  Blunt,  of  General  Schofield's  staff,  who  made  the  dis- 
position of  the  troops;  and  to  Inspector  Byrnes,  of  the  New  York  police,  who  made  possible  the  execu- 
tion of  Captain  Blunt's  plans. 

In  his  official  report  to  the  Secretary  of  War,  Major  General  John  M.  Schofield,  U.  S.  A., 
thus  speaks  of  the  great  parade : 

"  The  Celebration  of  the  Centennial  of  the  Inauguration  of  President  Washington,  in  the  City  of  New 
York,  on  the  30th  of  April,  gave  occasion  for  the  assembly  of  a  large  body  of  troops  from  many  of  the  States, 
together  with  a  small  contingent  from  the  regular  army.  This  afforded  a  favorable  opportunity  for  testing 
the  discipline  and  efficiency  of  the  troops  thus  assembled,  as  well  as  the  capacity  of  the  railroads  for  the  rapid 
transportation  of  large  bodies  of  men.  The  results  of  this  experiment  were  highly  satisfactory.  The  exe- 
cution of  the  compiicated  and  difficult  operations  required  of  these  troops  was  practically  faultless,  and 
fully  justifies  the  confidence  that  they  could  be  concentrated  at  any  point  and  made  an  effective  army  in 
an  exceedingly  short  time.  It  may  safely  be  said  that  at  no  previous  period  have  the  volunteer  militia  of 
the  country,  while  yet  untried  in  battle,  been  in  so  high  a  state  of  preparation  for  active  service." 

Captain  Daniel  M.  Taylor,  Ordnance  Department,  U.  S.  A.,  who  was  specially  detailed 
to  examine  into  and  report  the  condition  of  the  troops  of  the  several  States  during  their 
visit  to  New  York  city,  makes  the  following  complimentary  report  : 

War  Department,  Washington  City,  May  /6,  i88g. 

The  Adjutant-General,  U.  S.  Army,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Sir  :  I  have  the  honor  to  report  that,  in  obedience  to  the  instructions  contained  in  par.  2,  S.  O.,  No.  68, 
e.  s.,  from  Headquarters  of  the  Army,  A.  G.  O.,  I  proceeded  to  New  York  city  on  April  25th,  and  remained 
there  until  May  2d,  occupied  in  observing  the  concentration  of  the  National  Guard  of  the  State  of  New  York, 
and,  incidentally,  of  the  militia  of  the  other  States  there  assembled. 

The  weather  was  exceedingly  unpropitious,  as  it  rained  heavily  in  New  York  and  vicinity  on  the  25th, 
26th,  27th,  and  28th,  and  there  were  slight  rains  on  the  29th,  so  that  most  of  the  troops  from  outside  of  the 
city  of  New  York  were  concentrated  under  circumstances  which  in  discomfort  approximated  closely  to  an 
actual  war  mobilization.  The  movement  was  a  complete  success,  and  the  facility  with  which  the  troops  were 
brought  into  the  city,  quartered,  fed,  paraded,  and  dismissed,  could  not  fail  to  attract  the  attention  of  even  a 
casual,  and  to  elicit  the  admiration  of  a  military  observer.  All  the  railroads,  ferries,  and  steamboat  lines  afford- 
ing ingress  to  the  city  were  crowded  (the  Pennsylvania  Railroad,  it  is  reported,  handling  81,000  passengers  in 
one  day),  and  troop  trains  in  most  cases  being  made  to  yield  the  right  of  way  to  the  regular  passenger  trains, 


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and  yet  the  troops  came  in  with  but  little  delay  and  in  comfort.  They  were  well  quartered,  and  generally 
their  behavior  was  most  excellent.  I  am  informed,  and  take  it  for  granted  that  it  is  true,  that  there  were  indi- 
vidual cases  of  misbehavior,  but,  although  I  was  all  over  the  city  for  several  days  previous  to  and  during  the 
parade  of  April  30th,  I  did  not  personally  see  a  single  instance  of  misconduct.  When  it  is  remembered  that 
over  30,000  militia  (press  estimate  37,704)  were  suddenly  brought  from  their  homes,  into  a  strange  city  and  sub- 
jected to  all  the  temptations  of  a  holiday  time,  such  behavior  shows  either  great  power  of  command  exerted  by 
the  officers,  or,  what  is  equally  desirable,  great  character  and  self-restraint  on  the  part  of  the  men. 

The  orders  for  the  concentration  and  movements  of  the  troops,  especially  those  of  New  York,  New  Jersey, 
and  Ohio,  are  models  of  clearness,  and  their  excellent  construction  was  demonstrated  by  the  facility  and  exac- 
titude with  which  they  were  obeyed. 

The  majority  of  the  troops  arrived  in  the  city  within  sixteen  hours  of  leaving  their  armories,  and  in  most 
cases  this  time  could  have  been  considerably  shortened  had  necessity  required.  As  there  are  within  twenty-four 
hours'  ride,  by  rail,  of  New  York,  about  50,000  of  the  regularly  enrolled  militia,  it  is  not  unreasonable  to  sup- 
pose that  this  number  could  be,  in  case  of  an  emergency,  concentrated  there  within  less  than  forty-eight  hours, 
and,  if  a  more  liberal  annual  appropriation  were  made  by  the  General  Government  this  number  could  be 
largely  increased. 

The  first  year  that  the  appropriation  for  arming  and  equipping  the  militia  was  increased,  there  was  a  cor- 
responding expansion  of  nearly  10,000  men  in  the  regular  militia  force  of  the  country,  which,  as  the  increase  in 
money  was  only  $200,000,  was  remarkably  cheap  recruiting.  The  present  annual  appropriation  is  only  $400, 
000,  and  the  last  return  of  the  "regularly  enlisted,  organized,  and  uniformed  militia  "  shows  a  grand  aggregate 
of  106,814,  which  has  in  all  probability  been  increased  since  this  report  was  made.  The  General  Government 
then  pays,  for  a  well  disciplined  and  equipped  reserve  army,  something  under  $3.75  per  man  annually ;  and  as 
it  is  demonstrated  that  such  a  reserve  can  be  so  cheaply  maintained,  it  would  appear  to  be  well  worth  while  to 
try  whether  a  further  increase  in  the  annual  appropriation  would  not  result  in  such  an  increase  of  the  militia 
force  as  to  render  it  certain  that  a  force  of  from  50,000  to  75,000  men  could  be  concentrated,  in  case  of  neces- 
sity, within  forty-eight  hours  at  any  point  upon  our  Eastern  seaboard  or  lake  frontier.  An  annual  appropria- 
tion of  one  million  dollars  ($1,000,000),  would,  it  is  thought,  accomplish  this. 

The  discipline  of  the  troops  was  excellent.  A  superior  officer  was  at  all  times  and  places  recognized  with 
all  courtesy  and  deference,  and  all  orders  were  promptly  and  cheerfully  executed.  I  made  an  inspection  of 
several  of  the  New  York  regiments  after  they  had  gone  to  their  quarters  for  the  night,  and  found  their 
bivouac  characterized  by  cleanliness,  order,  and  decorum.  In  several  instances  1  had  knapsacks  unpacked 
and  found  them  to  be  neatly  packed,  and  containing  all  necessary  articles.  I  inspected  messing  arrangements, 
and  observed  the  posting  of  sentinels,  and  found  all  details  of  service  thoroughly  well  attended  to. 

It  is  of  vital  importance  that  the  jealousies  which  have  hitherto  existed  between  the  militia  and  the 
regular  army,  and  which  did  so  much  to  impede  the  organization  and  to  interfere  with  the  speedy  effectiveness 
of  our  armies  in  1861  should  be  extinguished  now  in  time  of  peace,  so  that  at  the  call  to  arms  there  shall  be 
nothing  to  prevent  the  immediate  formation  of  all  troops,  volunteer  and  regular,  into  harmonious  brigades, 
divisions,  and  army  corps,  and  I  am  convinced  by  observation  that  no  one  thing  will  do  more  to  promote  this 
than  a  judicious  distribution  of  a  few  carefully  selected  officers  of  the  Regular  Army  for  duty  with  the 
National  Guard  of  the  larger  States. 

For  the  same  reason  it  is  of  importance  that  the  movement  already  so  well  begun,  of  uniforming  the 
National  Guard  in  practically  the  uniform  of  the  Regular  Army,  and  arming  them  with  the  same  weapons, 
should  be  assisted  in  every  way  possible.  And  I  am  pleased  to  record  my  belief  that  the  recent  concentration 
in  New  York  has  had  a  powerful  effect  in  this  direction.  It  is  probably  useless  to  expect  some  of  the  old 
historic  organizations  which  are  not  properly  a  part  of  the  National  Guard,  such  as  the  Governor's  Guard  of 
Connecticut,  the  Massachusetts  Cadets,  and  the  Ancient  and  Honorable  Artillery  of  the  same  State,  to  abandon 
their  distinctive  uniforms,  but  the  general  opinion  of  even  non-military  observers  in  New  York  was  so  largely 
in  favor  of  the  uniforms  worn  by  the  greater  part  of  the  New  York,  New  Jersey,  Ohio,  and  Pennsylvania 
troops  in  the  Centennial  parade  (which  uniforms  are  all  practically  the  same,  even  when  not  identical  with  the 
United  States  uniform),  that  it  can  not  fail  to  have  an  effect.  The  solidity  and  soldierly  appearance  of  the 
troops  referred  to  was  conspicuous,  and  in  many  instances,  as  in  the  cases  of  Connecticut,  New  York,  and 


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Massachusetts,  the  difference  was  accentuated  by  the  appearance  of  the  plain  in  the  same  brigade  with  the 
ornate  uniforms.  I  regretted  to  notice  that  the  N'ew  York  troops  were  armed  throughout  with  the  Remington 
rifle  instead  of  the  army  gun,  the  Springfield.  Adjutant-General  Porter  informed  me  that  the  latter  would  be 
preferred,  but  that  owing  to  the  great  cost  of  re-arming,  and  in  view  of  the  probability  of  a  change  in  the 
armv  gun  before  very  long,  it  had  been  decided  to  take  no  steps  in  this  direction. 

It  was  gratifying  to  observe  the  numbers  of  the  troops,  particularly  from  New  York  and  New  Jersey,  who 
had  qualified  as  marksmen  and  sharpshooters,  and  the  familiarity  with  which  the  men  handled  their  pieces; 
taken  in  connection  with  this,  they  showed  a  vast  difference  between  this  reserve  army  and  the  army  called 
into  existence  under  the  proclamation  of  President  Lincoln  in  1861,  many  of  the  members  of  the  latter  force 
not  even  knowing  how  to  load  their  weapons  when  mustered  into  service.  In  fact,  but  for  the  necessity  of  a 
little  "  setting  up,"  the  larger  part  of  the  troops  which  paraded  in  New  York  needed  nothing  but  mustering 
into  the  service  to  become  an  effective,  well-equipped,  and  disciplined  army. 

When  the  massing  of  the  troops  in  the  narrow  streets  at  the  lower  end  of  New  York  city  was  first  spoken 
of,  many  persons  thought  that  the  order  directing  it  would  be  impracticable  on  account  of  the  inexperience  of 
the  troops,  but,  so  far  as  could  be  discovered,  nearly  all  orders  were  carried  out  promptly  and  intelligently, 
and  where  any  delay  or  impediment  prevented  this  being  done,  both  judgment  and  discretion  were  displayed. 

In  connection  with  this  concentration,  I  would  wish  to  invite  attention  to  the  fact  that  no  one  thing  is 
more  essential  for  the  success  of  mobilization,  as  well  as  for  the  comfort  of  the  troops,  en  route  than  that  there 
shall  be  rapidity  and  regularity  of  embarkation  and  disembarkation,  and  for  this  purpose  a  definite  plan  is 
needed,  which  will  allow  of  drill  being  had  with  regard  to  these  particulars. 

A  noticeable  feature  of  the  parade  was  its  poverty  as  regards  cavalry.  An  army  corps  of  infantry  and 
artillery  was  in  line,  while  the  cavalry  present  would  hardly  have  furnished  a  headquarters  guard.  This  was, 
it  is  true,  partly  due  to  the  difficulty  of  obtaining  horses  in  New  York,  and  partly  to  the  expense  of  transport- 
ing them,  but  it  is  none  the  less  true  that  the  cavalry  of  the  National  Guard  is  not  in  proportion  to  its  strength 
in  both  infantry  and  artillery.  As  it  is  an  arm  that  is  exceedingly  difficult  to  improvise,  it  would  appear  to  be 
wisdom  on  the  part  of  the  General  Government  to  encourage  the  formation  of  cavalry  companies,  whose  mem- 
bers, in  the  event  of  a  call  to  arms,  would  thus  be  ready  to  become  officers  and  instructors  of  the  regiments  of 
this  arm  to  be  formed. 

While  my  instructions  were  only  to  observe  and  report  upon  the  concentration  of  the  troops  of  New  York 
State,  I  can  not  close  this  report  without  referring  to  the  parade  of  May  1st  also,  for  here  was  to  be  found 
the  material  from  which  our  armies  of  the  next  generation  are  to  be  recruited.  Columbia  College,  the  College 
of  the  City  of  New  York,  and  the  battalions  of  the  public  schools  of  the  city,  some  2,500  to  3,000  in  all, 
showed  by  discipline,  physique,  and  marching,  that  there  was  yet  a  vast  reserve,  unorganized,  behind  the 
National  Guard;  and  while  it  was  gratifying  to  one  who  knows  the  weakness  of  our  Regular  Army  to  see  in 
the  National  Guard  the  reserve  army,  it  was  none  the  less  so  to  see  in  these  college  and  school  boys  the 
reserve  of  the  National  Guard. 

I  am,  sir,  very  respectfully,  your  obedient  servant, 

D.  M.  Taylor,  Captain  Ordnance  Dept. 


CHAPTER  XV. 


THE   MADISON   SQUARE  CONCERT. 


By  Louis  Windmuller, 

Chairman  of  the  Committee  of  Arrangements  of  the  German- American  Citizens. 


The  concert  in  Madison  Square  was  arranged  under  the  leadership  of  Mr.  Theodore 
Thomas,  the  following  forty-five  German  singing  societies  co-operating : 

Alemannia  Maennerchor,  Alemannia  Quartet  Club,  Apollo,  Arion,  Arminia,  Beethoven 
Maennerchor,  Bloomingdale  Liederkranz,  Concordia  Maennerchor  of  Brooklyn,  Cordialia, 
Deutscher  Liederkranz,  Ehrenritter  Gesangverein,  Eichenkranz,  Frankenberger  Maennerchor, 
Fritz  Reuter  Lyra,  Germania,  Harlem  Eintracht,  Harlem  Maennerchor,  Harugari  Lieder- 
kranz, Heinebund,  Helvetia,  Hudson  Maennerchor,  Humor,  Kreutzer  Quartet  Club,  Loreley 
Maennerchor,  Marschner  Maennerchor,  Mozart  Verein,  New-Yorker  Maennerchor,  New- 
Yorker  Liedertafel,  Oesterreich,  Orber  Gesangverein  Orlando,  Orpheus  Saengerbund,  Quar- 
tet Club  Eintracht,  Rheinischer  Saengerbund,  Rheingold,  Rheinpfaelzer  Maennerchor,  Saen- 
gerlust,  Saengerrunde,  Schillerbund,  Schotterner  Maennerchor,  Schwaebischer  Saengerbund, 
Theodor  Koerner  Liedertafel,  Uhland  Bund,  Washington  Heights  Liedertafel,  Yorkville 
Maennerchor,  Zoellner  Maennerchor  of  Brooklyn. 

Two  thousand  singers  selected  from  their  ranks  assembled  at  seven  o'clock  Tuesday 
evening,  April  30,  1889,  in  Steinway  Hall,  on  Fourteenth  Street,  and  fell  in  line  half  an 
hour  later.  They  marched  to  Madison  Square,  where  an  impatient  multitude,  estimated 
at  fifty  thousand  people,  received  them  with  cheers.  The  platform  around  the  Worth 
Monument  had  been  reserved  for  them ;  it  had  first  to  be  cleared  of  its  lingering  occu- 
pants. Then  the  orchestra  and  singers  ascended  and  these  were  grouped  according  to  their 
voices. 

About  9  p.  m.,  Reinhold  Schmelz,  leader  of  the  orchestra,  began  with  the  Grand  March 
from  Wagner's  Opera,  Tannhaeuser.  This  was  followed  by  the  Jubilee  Overture  of  P.  J 
Lindpaintner.     Then  the  chorus  sang  Hail  Columbia,  arranged  by  Max  Vogrich. 

Then  followed  the  impressive  Hallelujah  Chorus  from  Handel's  Messiah. 

The  chorus  then  sang  in  German  Ludwig  Uhland's  "  The  Lord's  Own  Day,"  composed  by 
C.  Kreutzer: 


Das  ist  der  Tag  des  Herrn, 
Ich  bin  allein  auf  weiter  Flur, 
Noch  eine  Morgenglocke  nur, 


This  is  God's  holy  day  ; 

I  stand  alone  on  far-stretched  moor; 
The  morning  bells  die  fast  away, 

And  silence  reigns  once  more. 


Nun  Stille  nah  und  fern. 


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Anbetend  knie  ich  hier, 
O  suesses  Graun,  geheimes  Wehn. 
Als  knieten  viele  ungesehn, 

Und  beteten  mit  mir. 

Der  Himmel  nah  und  fern, 
Er  ist  so  klar  und  feierlich, 
So  ganz  als  wollt  er  oeffnen  sich. 

Das  ist  der  Tag  des  Herrn. 


In  prayer  I  kneel  me  here, 
About  me  awe  and  mystery  ; 

Thousands  unseen  are  standing  near 
And  join  their  prayers  with  me. 

All  that  the  eye  can  see 

Is  heaven  clear  and  far  away, 

As  if  its  gates  would  ope  to  me; 
It  is  God's  holy  day. 


Then  the  "  Invocation  to  Battle"  from  Wagner's  opera  Rienzi  was  played,  followed  by  the 
chorus  singing  The  Star-spangled  Banner. 

Meyerbeer's  Fackeltanz  (Torchlight  Dance)  followed,  and  Gellert's  impressive  hymn,  com- 
posed by  Beethoven,  was  sung  in  German  : 


Die  Himmel  ruehmen  des  Ewigen  Ehre 
Ihr  Schall  pflanzt  seinen  Namen  fort. 

Ihn  ruehmt  der  Erdkreis,  ihn  preisen  die  Meere : 
Yernimm,  o  Mensch,  ihr  goettlich  Wort. 

AVer  traegt  der  Himmel  unzaehlbare  Sterne, 
Wer  fuehrt  die  Sonn  aus  ihrem  Zelt, 

Sie  kommt  und  leuchtet  uns  von  feme, 
Und  laeuft  den  Weg  gleich  als  ein  Held. 


The  heavens  are  telling  the  Mighty  One's  glory, 
They  sound  it  wide  as  stars  do  shine ; 

The  earth  sings  praise,  and  the  sea  swells  the  story 
Then  hear,  O  man,  this  voice  divine. 

Who  made  the  numberless  stars  of  the  heavens, 
Who  from  his  gates  leads  forth  the  sun  ? 

He  comes  to  shine  from  afar  with  rejoicing, 
A  hero,  glad  his  race  to  run. 


The  jubilee  overture  by  Carl  Maria  von  Weber  closed  the  professional  concert,  after  which 
two  verses  were  sung  from  our  national  hymn  "America"  in  which  the  public  joined.  The 
music  ended  at  eleven  o'clock. 

The  pure  green  of  the  foliage,  lit  up  by  electricity,  the  illuminated  houses,  and  the  starry 
sky  made  a  spectacle  rare  and  magical.  There  was  a  surging  sea  of  many  thousand  faces, 
turned  up  to  the  dark  forms  of  the  singers,  who  stood  above  them,  and  who  filled  the  square 
with  their  voices,  rendering  homage  to  God,  our  country,  and  our  freedom. 


CHAPTER  XVI. 


THE  FIREWORKS. 

By  S.  Van  Rensselaer  Cruger. 

Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Army, 

At  a  regular  meeting  of  the  sub-Committee  on  Army,  held  on  the  evening  of  April  2, 
1889,  it  was  decided  that,  for  the  benefit  and  amusement  of  the  general  public,  a  display  of 
fireworks  should  be  given  on  the  night  of  April  30th  in  different  parts  of  the  city,  from 
Bowling  Green  to  the  Twenty-fourth  Ward,  and  that  the  display  should  be  intrusted  to  the 
Unexcelled  Fireworks  Company  of  New  York  City.  These  exhibitions  were  located  as 
follows:  Bowling  Green;  Tompkins  Square;  Abingdon  Square;  Madison  Square;  Square, 
Eighty-sixth  Street  and  Avenue  A ;  Twenty-third  Ward ;  Paradise  Park ;  Washington 
Square;  Plaza,  Fifty-ninth  Street  and  Eighth  Avenue;  Mount  Morris  Square;  Washington 
Heights ;  Twenty-fourth  Ward.  That  the  Unexcelled  Fireworks  Company  carried  out  its 
contract  to  the  letter  may  be  judged  from  the  comments  of  the  daily  press  of  May  1st: 

"  The  pyrotechnic  display  at  Central  Park  Plaza,  Fifty-ninth  Street  and  Eighth  Avenue,  was  not  exceeded 
in  brilliancy  by  that  in  any  part  of  the  city.  The  long  lines  of  people  which  thronged  the  square  early  in  the 
evening  in  eager  anticipation  of  the  show  were  amply  rewarded  for  their  patience  and  discomfort.  The  rep- 
resentation of  the  figure  of  Washington  in  jets  of  gas-flame  formed  a  magnificent  spectacle,  and  merited  the 
prolonged  applause  which  it  received." 

"  Seldom  have  so  many  people  been  drawn  to  Battery  Park  as  were  attracted  there  last  night  to  see  the 
Centennial  fireworks.  The  pyrotechnic  display  was  given  on  the  walk  running  along  the  sea-wall  south  of 
Castle  Garden,  and  was  greatly  admired  by  all  who  witnessed  it.  It  was  estimated  that  fifteen  thousand 
people  saw  the  display." 

"A  big  crowd  witnessed  the  display  of  fireworks  in  Tompkins  Square  last  evening.  In  the  park  and  in 
Avenues  A  and  B,  and  from  Seventh  to  Tenth  Streets,  probably  ten  thousand  persons  enjoyed  the  sight.  The 
figure  of  Washington  taking  the  oath  of  office,  and  also  a  large  Centennial  wheel  containing  one  hundred 
smaller  wheels,  revolving  simultaneously,  were  especially  admired. 

"In  Washington  Square  there  was  a  magnificent  display  of  fireworks.  Over  two  hundred  rockets  were  sent 
up  with  the  best  of  pyrotechnic  effects.  The  flights  of  bombs  numbered  sixty,  and  the  discharge  of  these 
was  followed  by  Bengal  lights  that  for  brilliancy  have  not  been  equaled  since  the  pyrotechnic  display  of 
the  'Siege  of  Moscow'  at  Manhattan  Beach.  There  were  'cataracts  of  fire'  and  'cascades  of  diamond 
showers '  that  illuminated  the  vicinity  of  the  square  for  many  blocks.  There  were  some  delays  in  the  dis- 
charge of  the  different  kinds  of  fireworks,  but  the  beauty  of  the  designs  in  the  characters  represented  made 
full  compensation. 

"At  Union  Square  a  great  multitude  gathered  to  witness  the  display  of  fireworks,  the  show  lasting  from 
eight  o'clock  until  nine.  Nine  set  pieces  were  displayed,  and  three  hundred  rockets  and  three  flights  of 
two-dozen  bombs  each  were  fired.  The  set  pieces  were  such  as  were  shown  also  at  the  Battery,  concluding 
with  George  Washington  in  Continental  uniform.     The  entire  park,  except  a  small  space  within  a  wire 


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fence,  was  crowded  with  people,  and  the  upper  rows  of  the  stands  on  the  four  sides  were  also  occupied.  It 
was  estimated  that  twelve  thousand  or  fifteen  thousand  people  were  present,  but  the  crowd  maintained  its 
good  humor,  and  no  accidents  were  reported." 

"  A  great  crowd,  in  which  were  represented  all  the  nations  of  the  globe,  surged  to  and  fro  through  the 
three  streets  which  bound  the  little  triangular  park  at  the  foot  of  Canal  Street,  all  intently  watching  the  mag- 
nificent display  of  fireworks  which  were  from  there  sent  off.  There  w*as  the  rough  but  hearty  'longshoreman, 
the  begrimed  stoker,  the  sprightly  sailor,  the  mechanic  with  his  wife  and  children,  the  maid  with  her  escort, 
and  last,  but  not  least,  the  irresistible  small  boy.    And  all  enjoyed  the  spectacle  most  thoroughly. 

"  There  was  an  excellent  display  of  fireworks  at  the  East  River  Park  between  Eighty-fifth  and  Eighty- 
sixth  Streets.    The  neighboring  houses  were  nearly  all  illuminated. 

"At  Mount  Morris  Park  fourteen  set  pieces  were  set  off  and  the  adjoining  streets  were  illuminated. 

"  In  the  annexed  district  there  was  a  pyrotechnic  display  in  the  P  ulton  Avenue  Park  near  East  One 
Hundred  and  Sixty-ninth  Street." 

Not  a  single  accident,  not  a  premature  explosion,  marred  the  success  of  the  fireworks 
exhibition. 


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CHAPTER  XVII. 


THE   BANQUET   AT  THE   METROPOLITAN  OPERA-HOUSE. 


It  was  quarter  to  seven 
o'clock  when  the  President  left 
the  Grand  Stand  to  drive  to 
Vice-President  Morton's  house 
for  a  brief  rest.  As  the  Presi- 
dent drove  up  Fifth  Avenue  an 
hour  later,  an  immense  crowd 
had  already  assembled  in  Madi- 
son Square  for  the  free  open-air 
concert  and  the  fireworks.  Pub- 
lic buildings  and  private  houses 
were  elaborately  illuminated,  and 
the  streets  by  night  were  as 
brilliant  as  the  streets  by  day. 
At  the  Metropolitan  Opera- 
House,  the  Ball-room  of  Mon- 
day night  became  the  Banquet 
Hall  of  Tuesday.  The  tables 
were  arranged  in  two  sets 
Twelve  tables  in  the  auditorium 
and  twelve  tables  on  the  stage 
formed  six  immense  horseshoes. 
In  the  center  of  these  two  sets 
of  twelve  tables  were  two  other 
tables,  and  between  the  tables  on  the  stage  and  those  in  the  auditorium  was  the  presi- 
dential table.  On  the  tables  were  masses  of  red  and  white  flowers,  which  were  set  in  large 
mirrors,  so  as  to  resemble  miniature  lakes.  Lilies,  hydrangeas,  pink  and  white  roses,  and 
a  profusion  of  other  flowers  adorned  the  tables,  and  attracted  the  admiration  of  all.  The 
arrangement  of  the  tables  presented  a  brilliant  spectacle  and  looked  particularly  beautiful 
from  the  boxes. 

The  decorations  around  the  balconies  and  throughout  the  building  were  essentially  the 
same  as  at  the  ball  the  previous  evening.    Over  the  presidential  table  was  suspended  a  por- 


JAMES  MADISON. 

From  a  medallion  executed  by  Giuseppe  Ceracchi  in  1792,  owned  by  the  United  States  and 
deposited  in  the  Department  of  State,  Washington. 


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trait  of  President  Washington.  The  preparations  for  the  dinner  at  the  Banquet,  the  decora- 
tions of  the  Opera-House,  and  the  seating  of  the  guests  at  the  tables,  were  all  under  the 
direct  supervision  of  the  Committee  on  Entertainment. 

When  the  presidential  party  entered  the  Banquet  Hall,  at  five  minutes  after  eight  o'clock, 
they  were  greeted  with  a  storm  of  applause  and  the  band  played  Hail  to  the  Chief.  Mayor 
Grant  escorted  the  President  of  the  United  States,  and  Elbridge  T.  Gerry  the  Governor  of 
the  State  of  New  York.  The  Vice-President  of  the  United  States,  the  Chief-Justice  of  the 
United  States,  and  the  other  guests  who  occupied  the  presidential  table,  were  escorted  by 
Stuyvesant  Fish  and  other  members  of  the  committee.  When  the  applause  had  subsided, 
Mayor  Grant  called  upon  the  Right  Rev.  Henry  C.  Potter,  Bishop  of  New  York,  to  say 
grace.    All  remained  standing  while  the  Bishop  said  the  following  grace  : 

Almighty  God,  whose  are  all  good  gifts,  even  as  thine  are  all  the  greatness  and  the  glory  in  the  achieve- 
ments of  men,  accept  our  thanksgivings,  as  for  all  thy  gifts  to  this  nation,  so  for  these  thy  bounties.  Teach 
us  to  use  them  wisely  in  thy  fear  and  to  thine  honor,  and  as  thou  sendest  us  "  wine  that  maketh  glad  the  heart 
of  man,  and  oil  to  make  him  of  a  cheerful  countenance,"  so  send  courage  and  wisdom,  light  and  understand- 
ing! j°y  and  gladness  to  all  this  people  ;  through  Jesus  Christ  our  Lord.  Amen. 

Following  is  the  menu  at  the  banquet : 

HORS  D'CEUVRES. 

Varies.  Varies. 

POTAGE. 

Tortue  Verte. 

HORS  D'CEUVRE,  CHAUD. 

Petites  Timbales  a  la  Ministerielle. 
POISSON. 

Saumon  du  Kennebec,  Sauce  Hollandaise. 
Pommes  a  lAnglaise.  Salade  de  Concombres. 

RELEVE. 

Filet  de  Bceuf  Pique,  Sauce  Madere. 

ENTREES. 

Ris  de  Veau  a  la  Pengueux. 
Champignons  Sautes.  Haricots  Verts. 

Becassines  en  Caisse.  Flageolets. 
Aspics  de  Foies  Gras,  Parcele.  Sorbet  a  la  Presidence. 

ROTI. 

Poulets  du  Printemps  au  Cresson.  Salade  Russe. 

Glaces  Fantaisies. 

DESSERT. 

Petits  Fours.  Gateaux  Assortis.  Pieces  Montees. 

Mottoes.  Fruits.  Cafe.  Liqueurs. 

VINS. 

Haut  Sauterne.  Giesler,  Green  Seal. 

Thompson  Sherry.  Romane  Counti  Burgundy. 

Chateau  Leoville,  Barton  &  Guestier.  Fine  Cognac. 


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Moet  &  Chandon,  White  Label.  Russian  Kiimmel. 

Irroy.  Chartreuse  Jaune. 

G.  H.  Mumm,  Extra  Dry.  Apollinaris. 
Jules  Mumm,  Grand  Sec  (in  reserve). 

Hoffman  House,  le  30  Avril,  1889. 

There  were  eight  hundred  guests  at  the  banquet,  of  whom  four  hundred  were  specially 
invited — Governors  of  States,  Senators,  Congressmen,  Commissioners  from  the  States,  dip- 
lomats, college  presidents,  professors,  clergymen,  and  men  eminent  in  science,  art,  law,  and 
literature.  Another  two  hundred  were  the  members  of  the  General  Committee  and  the 
remaining  two  hundred  were  gentlemen  of  distinction,  to  whom  tickets  had  been  sold  at 
fifteen  dollars  each.  At  a  few  minutes  after  nine  o'clock,  when  Mrs.  Harrison,  Mrs.  Morton, 
and  the  ladies  accompanying  them  entered  the  presidential  box,  those  at  the  tables  arose 
and  greeted  them  with  applause.  The  boxes  on  the  stage  were  occupied  by  lady  members 
of  families  of  invited  guests,  and  all  the  other  boxes  in  the  house,  with  half  a  dozen  excep- 
tions, had  been  sold  to  those  who  used  them  on  the  night  of  the  ball.  All  these  boxes 
were  now  occupied  by  ladies  in  the  most  gorgeous  toilets,  who  conversed  with  their  gentle- 
men friends  during  the  banquet  and  listened  to  the  speeches  later  in  the  evening. 

Stage  Boxes. — The  President;  S,  the  Mayor;  T,  the  Governor;  U,  the  Vice-President;  A,  the  Chair- 
man; B,  General  Fitzgerald;  C,  General  Sherman;  D,  Mrs.  McElroy  ;  E,  Mrs.  Grant;  F,  Hon.  R.  B.  Hayes; 

G,  Hon.  Grover  Cleveland;  H,  Hon.  Thomas  F.  Bayard;  I,  ex-Governors  of  New  York;  J,  Hon.  Samuel 
Borrowe ;  K,  Hon.  John  H.  V.  Arnold;  L,  the  Secretary;  M,  the  Lieutenant-Governor;  N,  Admiral  Porter; 
O,  the  Committee  of  the  House  of  Representatives;  P,  the  Chief  Judge  of  the  Court  of  Appeals;  R,  the  Chief- 
Justice  of  the  United  States;  W,  the  Members  of  the  Cabinet ;  X,  the  Committee  of  the  United  States  Senate; 
Y,  General  Schofield  ;  Z,  Governors  of  States  other  than  New  York. 

South  Side  Boxes  on  Thirty -ninth  Street.  Parterre  Boxes. — r,  Thomas  Hitchcock;  3,  R.  T. 
Wilson;  5,  James  A.  Burden;  7,  George  L.  and  Ambrose  C.  Kingsland ;  9,  William  Astor ;  11,  Ogden  Goelet; 
13,  Henry  I.  Barbey ;  15,  H.  A.  C.  Taylor;  17,  William  D.  Sloane ;  19,  William  G.  Hamilton  and  James  M. 
Montgomery;  21,  H.  Victor  Newcomb ;  23,  Chauncey  M.  Depew ;  25,  Elbridge  T.  Gerry;  27,  C.  C.  Baldwin; 
29,  Stuyvesant  Fish;  31,  Robert  C.  Winthrop ;  33,  Peter  Cooper  Hewitt;  35,  Hamilton  Fish.  First-tier  Boxes. 
— 37,  S.  B.  Elkins;  39,  reserved  by  Opera-House  Company;  41,  Lispenard  Stewart;  43,  G.  G.  Haven;  45, 
James  A.  Hamilton;  47,  George  S.  Bowdoin ;  49,  Egerton  L.  Winthrop;  51,  Frederick  Sheldon;  53,  Edward 

H.  Harriman  ;  55,  S.  L.  M.  Barlow;  57,  S.  V.  R.  Cruger ;  59,  Mrs.  Paran  Stevens;  61,  A.  B.  Gardiner;  63, 
Hugh  J.  Grant;  65,  Samuel  D.  Babcock  ;  67,  Mrs.  Nathaniel  Baylies;  69,  H.  H.  Anderson;  71,  Theodore  W. 
Myers;  73,  W.  E.  D.  Stokes. 

North  Side  Boxes  on  Fortieth  Street.  Parterre  Boxes. — 2,  Clarence  A.  Seward;  4,  J.  Hampden 
Robb;  6,  C.  O.  Iselin ;  8,  James  M.  Varnum ;  10,  Byam  K.  Stevens;  12,  Ward  McAllister;  14,  Henry 
Clews;  16,  James  H.  Beekman  ;  18,  William  Jay;  20,  Robert  Goelet;  22,  W.  Bayard  Cutting;  24,  William 
W.  Astor;  26,  Luther  Kountze;  28,  James  P.  Kernochan  ;  30,  Samuel  F.  Barger ;  32,  W.  Seward  Webb;  34, 
Adrian  Iselin;  36,  L.  P.  Morton.  First-tier  Boxes. — 38,  John  Kean ;  40,  Frederic  J.  De  Peyster ;  42,  W.  C. 
Schermerhorn  ;  44,  Elliott  and  Theodore  Roosevelt;  46,  George  L.Schuyler;  48,  J.  P.  Morgan;  50,  Robert 
L.  Cutting;  52,  Seth  1!.  French;  54,  Frederick  S.  Tallmadge  ;  56,  Cornelius  N.  Bliss;  58,  Brayton  Ives;  60, 
Henry  G.  Marquand ;  62,  Orlando  B.  Potter;  64,  John  A.  King;  66,  George  W.  Kidd ;  68,  Smith  Clift ; 
70,  Clarence  W.  Bowen  ;  72,  Alexander  Brown. 

On  the  opposite  page  is  a  diagram  of  the  banquet  tables  and  boxes,  and  then  follows 
the  list  of  the  eight  hundred  guests : 


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subscribers.) 


358       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 

Pkk.si  di'.nti  ai.  Table. — i,  the  Mayor;  2,  the  Governor;  3,  the  President ;  4,  the  Lieutenant-Governor  ;  5, 
the  Vice- President  ;  6,  Judge  Charles  Andrews;  7,  the  Chief-Justice  of  the  United  States;  8,  Admiral  Porter; 
9,  General  Schofield ;  10,  Senator  Hiscock  ;  1 1,  Senator  Evarts  ;  1 2,  Mr.  Cleveland  ;  13,  Mr.  Hayes;  14,  Speaker 
Cole;  15,  Bishop  Potter;  16,  S.  S.  Cox;  17,  Secretary  Redfield  Proctor;  18,  Clarence  W.  Bowen ;  19,  General 
Sherman  ;  20,  Elbridge  T.  Gerry. 

Table  i. —  r,  R.  J.  Cross;  2,  J.  L.  De  Peyster;  3,  J.  Schuyler  Crosby;  4,  L.  L.  Delafield ;  5,  William  H. 
Russell;  6,  E.  Fawcett;  7,  T.  J.  Oakley  Rhinelander;  8,  J.  K.  Gracie ;  9,  Philip  L.  Livingston;  10,  Peter 
Cooper  Hewitt ;  1 1 ,  P.  F.  Collier;  12,  John  Hone,  Jr.;  13,  Amory  S.  Carhart ;  14,  D.  G.  Fowle ;  15,  Hallett 
Alsop  Borrowe;  lb,  E.  M.  Field;  17,  Howland  Pell;  18,  James  J.  Burns;  19,  D.  A.  Clarkson ;  20,  William  M. 
Polk;  21,  W.  L.  Bull;  22,  Charles  F.  Choate;  23,  James  Talcott ;  24,  S.  J.  Colgate;  25,  J.  H.  Whitehouse ;  26, 
Jules  J.  D.  Dreher  ;  27,  J.  D.  Jones;  28,  Robert  U.  Johnson;  29,  Robert  Lenox  Banks;  30,  P.  C.  Lounsbury; 
31,  Robbins  Little;  32,  John  T.  Lockman  ;  33,  Senator  Higgins ;  34,  Henry  G.  Marquand ;  35,  George  W. 
Boyd;  36,  W.  YV.  Ellsworth;  37,  Charles  F.  Mayer;  38,  W.  P.  St.  John;  39,  F.  W.  Jackson;  40,  Patrick  Cal- 
houn; 41,  A.  Iselin,  Jr.;  43,  Isaac  Iselin. 

Table  2. — 1,  Alexander  Knox;  2,  Percy  Alden  ;  3,  George  E.  Anderson;  4,  Lloyd  Aspinwall ;  5,  Finlay 
Anderson;  6,  E.  H.  Ammidown ;  7,  J.  L.  Anthony;  8,  W.  J.  Martin;  9,  Harrison  Clark;  10,  William  H.  Cald- 
well; 11,  George  E.  Armstrong;  12,  Thomas  J.  Brady;  13,  George  T.  Bliss;  14,  H.  D.  Auchincloss ;  15,  J.  J. 
Brown;  16,  H.  W.  Bibby ;  17,  J.  W.  Auchincloss;  18,  A.  W.  Drake;  19,  W.  C.  Buchanan;  20,  F.  J.  Bowman; 
21,  E.  W.  Donald;  22,  D.  Robinson;  23,  Joseph  L.  Brent;  24,  E.  E.  Eames ;  25,  S.  M.  Felton ;  26,  Robert 
Schell ;  27,  C.  H.  Parkhurst ;  28,  Francis  B.  Clark;  29,  W.  K.  Borrowe;  30,  S.  H.  Randall;  31,  George 
Gregory;  32,  George  H.  Hepworth ;  33,  D.  Houghtaling;  34,  J.  H.  Schiff ;  35,  W.  H.  Clark;  36,  Theodore  K. 
Gibbs ;  37,  W.  Kipp ;  38,  E.  W.  Seymour;  39,  George  W.  Smith;  40,  A.  Snow;  42,  Charles  Stanley  Stedman  ; 
44,  Charles  S.  Smith. 

Table  3. — 1,  C.  R.  Flint;  2,  F.  De  P.  Foster;  3,  J.  W.  Grace;  4,  G.  S.  Floyd-Jones;  5,  George  Richards; 
6,  E.  N.  Tailer ;  7,  C.  S.  Westcott ;  8,  John  Anthon  ;  9,  Francis  M.  Jencks;  10,  F.  S.  Witherbee ;  11,  Charles 
T.  Barney;  12,  H.  Le  G.  Cannon;  13,  John  M.  Bowers;  14,  J.  J.  Astor,  Jr.;  15,  S.  B.  Brownell ;  16,  J.  L. 
Montgomery;  17,  William  D.Guthrie;  18,  Clarence  McKim ;  19,  E.  H.  Harriman  ;  20,  E.  L.  Montgomery; 
21,  Alexander  Brown;  22,  Arthur  Gilman ;  23,  M.  L.  Ruth;  24,  J.  H.  Montgomery;  25,  F.  J.  Pierson ;  26,  E. 
T.  Lynch;  27,  W.  J.  Menzies;  29,  William  H.  Washington;  31,  Alfred  Wagstaff. 

Table  4. — 1,  E.  L.  Rogers;  2,  Cornelius  Vanderbilt ;  3,  H.  W.  T.  Mali;  4,  J.  G.  K.  Duer ;  5,  C.  A.  Pea- 
body;  6,  J.  Alfred  Davenport;  7,  Henry  Clews;  8,  Austin  Corbin  ;  9,  J.  B.  Talcott;  10,  John  A.  Stewart; 
11,  D.  Lang;  12,  George  C.  Magoun  ;  13,  D.  B.  Ainger  ;  14,  H.  V.  Newcomb ;  15,  E.  S.  Wood;  16,  Robert  F. 
Weir;  17,  H.  M.  Sprague ;  18,  Isaac  Seligman  ;  19,  M.  D.  Russell;  20,  W.  C.  Sanger;  21,  Paul  Dana;  22,  A. 
T.  Sullivan;  23,  F.  R.  Appleton  ;  24,  J.  C.  Jameson  ;  25,  B.  S.  Church  ;  26,  James  D.  Glenn  ;  28,  A.  P.  Mon- 
tant ;  30,  C.  L.  Perkins;  32,  L.  Fitzgerald. 

Table  5. — 1,  F.  Augustus  Schermerhorn  ;  2,  Lewis  G.  Morris;  3,  W.  Bayard  Cutting;  4,  James  S.  Van 
Cortlandt ;  5,  Adrian  Iselin  ;  6,  Johnston  Livingston  ;  7,  Banyer  Clarkson  ;  8,  Edward  F.  de  Lancey ;  9, 
Charles  B.  Hoffman  ;  10,  Thomas  H.  Newbold ;  11,  Frederick  Clarkson  ;  12,  Frederick  W.  Rhinelander  ;  13,  Dr. 
Morgan  Dix  ;  15,  Richard  T.  Auchmuty. 

Table  6. — 1,  Charles  F.  Robbins;  2,  Joseph  D.  Bryant;  3,  George  S.  Field;  4,  Emil  Schaefer;  5,  J.  M. 
Varian  ;  6,  R.  Brandreth  ;  7,  Walter  C.  Stokes;  8,  C.  A.  H.  Bartlett;  9,  F.  P.  Earle  ;  10,  E.  L.  Judson;  n,  H. 
O'Donoghue;  12,  A.  B.  Hilton;  14,  G.  B.  McClellan  ;  16,  William  F.  Lansing. 

Table  7. —  1,  F.  D.  Weekes ;  2,  P.  H.  Leonard;  3,  M.  C.  Michenor ;  4,  J.  W.  McLanahan  ;  5,  E.  F.  Martine; 
6,  J.  S.  Landon  ;  7,  S.  Goldberg;  8,  L.  M.  Lawson  ;  9,  H.  H.  Porter;  10,  Frank  R.  Lawrence;  11,  Charles  E. 
Simmons;  12,  Thomas  F.  Gilroy ;  13,  J.  McClave ;  14,  C.  F.  MacLean  ;  15,  William  Murray;  16,  John  R. 
Voorhis. 

Table  8. —  1,  Woodbury  G.  Langdon  ;  2,  James  V.  Parker ;  3,  A.  C.  Monson  ;  4,  William  Tuttle  ;  5,  J.  Ridg- 
way  Moore;  6,  L.  C.  Ledyard ;  7,  P.  S.  Miller;  8,  John  Lowery ;  9,  Julian  Potter;  10,  Douglas  Robinson; 
11,  Campbell  Steward;  12,  S.  F.  Morris;  13,  E.  G.  Miller;  14,  J.  O.  Moss;  15,  S.  L.  Morrison;  16,  George  S. 
Munzig. 

Table  9. —  1,  Richard  O'Gorman ;  2,  C.  H.  Truax ;  3,  John  J.  Freedman  ;  4,  G.  L.  Ingraham  ;  5,  P.  Henry 


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Dugro ;  6,  M.  J.  O'Brien;  7,  Rastus  S.  Ransom;  8,  Edward  Patterson;  9,  John  R.  Fellows;  10,  George  P. 
Andrews;  11,  Frederick  Smyth;  12,  A.  R.  Lawrence;  13,  S.  W.  Wood;  14,  John  R.  Brady;  15,  R.  B.  Martine ; 
16,  Charles  H.  Van  Brunt. 

Table  10.—  i,  Joel  B.  Erhardt ;  2,  J.  C.  Furman  ;  3,  Silas  W.  Burt ;  4,  H.  F.  Kean ;  5,  Ellis  H.  Roberts ;  6,  E. 
Dyer,  3d;  7,  James  T.  Kilbreth ;  8,  John  Kean,  Jr.;  9,  David  McAdam ;  10,  H.  A.  Gildersleeve ;  11,  Miles 
Beach;  12,  G.  M.  Van  Hoesen  ;  13,  H.  W.  Allen;  14,  H.  W.  Bookstaver ;  15,  J.  F.  Daly;  16,  R.  L.  Larremore. 

Table  ii. — 1,  G.  W.  Van  Nest;  2,  George  Gregory;  3,  Alderman  Fitzsimons;  4,  Alderman  Storm;  5, 
Alderman  Tait ;  6,  Richard  Croker ;  7,  H.  R.  Beekman  ;  8,  Stephen  B.  French;  9,  M.  C.  D.  Borden;  10,  T.  S. 
Brennan  ;  n,  Michael  Coleman;  12,  James  A.  Flack;  13,  E.  F.  Reilly ;  14,  J.  A.  Slevin  ;  15,  S.  A.  Walker; 
16,  J.  Bowers  Lee;  17,  J.  H.  V.  Arnold;  18,  T.  C.  T.  Crain. 

Table  12. — 1,  Edmund  C.  Stanton;  2,  Stephen  H.  Olin  ;  3,  Thomas  Maitland ;  4,  W.  E.  D.  Stokes;  5,  W. 
V.  Judson;  6,  Robert  Goelet ;  7,  Justice  Strong;  8,  William  B.  Beekman;  9,  R.  W.  Peckham ;  10,  S.  L.  M. 
Barlow;  n,  Charles  S.  Fairchild ;  12,  William  W.  Astor ;  13,  Justice  Bradley;  14,  Gouverneur  Morris;  15, 
Justice  Blatchford  ;  16,  William  Jay;  17,  Justice  Field;  18,  Stuyvesant  Fish. 

Table  13. — 1,  Frederick  Cook;  2,  Edward  Wemple  ;  3,  L.  J.  Fitzgerald;  4,  C.  F.  Tabor;  5,  John  Bogart ; 
6,  M.  C.  Murphy;  7,  John  J.  Linson  ;  8,  C.  P.  Vedder ;  9,  J.  F.  Pierce;  10,  Francis  Hendricks ;  11,  George  Z. 
Erwin  ;  12,  C.  A.  Stadler;  13,  Hamilton  Fish,  Jr. ;  14,  W.  H.  Mase  ;  15,  Joseph  Aspinall ;  16,  J.  C.  Adams;  17, 
W.  W.  Cheney;  18,  W.  F.  Sheehan  ;  19,  J.  Blumenthal ;  20,  John  Connelly;  21,  H.  J.  Coggeshall ;  22,  Bradford 
Rhodes;  23,  J.  Sloat  Fassett ;  24,  William  G.  Rice;  25,  George  B.  Sloan;  26,  J.  B.  Ireland;  27,  Frank  S. 
Lusk ;  28,  Luther  Kountze;  29,  John  E.  Dooley ;  30,  E.  L.  Winthrop,  Jr. ;  31,  Thomas  E.  Nowell;  32,  A.  E. 
Orr;  33.  E.  J.  Wendell;  34,  Henry  Parish;  35,  E.  W.  Wilson;  36,  Adolph  Ladenburg ;  37,  N.  Stetson;  38,  W. 
T.  Schaffer. 

Table  14. — 1,  John  J.  Ingalls  ;  2,  C.  F.  Manderson  ;  3,  J.  R.  Hawley ;  4,  Henry  L.  Dawes;  5,  J.  B.  Eustis; 
6,  W.  Luttgen ;  7,  Wade  Hampton;  8,  Shelby  M.  Cullom  ;  9,  A.  H.  Colquitt;  10,  Anson  G.  McCook ;  11,  Will- 
iam C.  Oates ;  12,  William  P.  Canaday  ;  13,  Charles  A.  Russell;  14,  John  B.  Pennington;  15,  R.  H.  M.  David- 
son; 16,  William  J.  Stone;  17,  Charles  A.  Boutelle ;  18,  Charles  H.  Gibson;  19,  William  Cogswell;  20,  J.  R. 
Whiting;  21,  A.  M.  Dockery ;  22,  G.  W.  E.  Dorsey ;  23,  Orren  C.  Moore;  24,  James  Buchanan;  25,  Charles  S. 
Baker;  26,  Z.  Smith;  27,  A.  Rowland;  28,  J.  H.  Outhwaite ;  29,  Binger  Hermann;  30,  Charles  O'Neill;  31, 
H.  J.  Spooner;  32,  William  Elliott;  33,  J.  D.  Richardson;  34,  W.  L.  Wilson;  35,  John  T.  Caine ;  36,  J.  B. 
Allen ;  37,  George  S.  Boutwell ;  38,  Le  Baron  Colt. 

Table  15. — 1,  Henry  S.  Walker  ;  2,  A.  S.  Colyar ;  3,  S.  B.  Elkins  ;  4,  Bishop  Quintard  ;  5,  H.  C.  Fahnestock  ; 
6,  Joseph  B.  Foraker ;  7,  Samuel  Maverick;  8,  Henry  A.  Barnum;  9,  C.  E.  Pratt;  10,  Horace  Russell;  11, 
John  L.Webster;  12,  Henry  Exall ;  13,  Job  A.  Cooper;  14,  Alvin  P.  Hovey  ;  15,  Cortlandt  Parker,  Jr. ;  16, 
A.  M.  Palmer;  17,  John  M.  Turner;  18,  T.  M.  Miller;  19,  Russell  B.  Harrison;  20,  R.  R.  Colgate;  21,  W.  D. 
Pickett;  22,  John  B.  Drake;  23,  Pleasant  Porter;  24,  R.  W.  Parker;  25,  Thomas  Shepard  Howell;  26,  Edwin 

C.  Burleigh  ;  27,  Daniel  Ruppaner ;  2S,  Artemus  Bibby  ;  29,  Henry  W.  LeRoy  ;  30,  David  R.  Francis ;  31,  James 
M.  Montgomery;  32,  David  B.  Armstrong;  33,  W.  R.  Stewart;  34,  James  W.  Tappin  ;  35,  Theodore  Roose- 
velt; 36,  Charles  W.  Fairbanks;  37,  J.  Tallmadge  Van  Rensselaer;  38,  C.  G.  Luce;  40,  H.  B.  Ledyard. 

Table  16. —  1,  G.  Creighton  Webb;  2,  William  G.  Hamilton;  3,  Chester  Griswold  ;  4,  Rabbi  Gottheil ;  5, 

D.  Fearing;  6,  B.  F.  Tracy;  7,  Bleecker  Banks;  8,  John  W.  Noble;  9,  Stephen  Peabody ;  10,  John  Wana- 
maker  ;  n,  John  Litter;  12,  William  H.  H.  Miller;  13,  Joseph  H.  Choate ;  14,  Jeremiah  M.  Rusk;  15,  J.  M. 
Toucey ;  16,  Henry  J.  Van  Dyke,  Jr. ;  17,  John  G.  Burbridge;  18,  Miles  C.  Moore;  19,  John  D.  Treadwell ;  20, 
R.  A.  McBride;  21,  William  Larrabee ;  22,  John  M.  Evans;  23,  James  Harlan;  24,  Frederick  T.  Dubois;  25, 
William  D.  Hoard;  26,  W.  Hyndman  ;  27,  Horace  Rubbe ;  28,  W.  H.  Webb;  29,  James  S.  Waterman;  30,  E. 
Ellery  Anderson;  31,  Jacob  Wendell;  32,  James  C.  Carter;  33,  William  R.  Merriam ;  34,  Floyd  Clarkson ;  35, 
Thomas  Lowry ;  36,  Jacob  A.  Cantor;  37,  Eugene  F.  Ware;  38,  James  W.  Husted ;  39,  W.  B.  Stone. 

Table  17. — 1,  James  M.  Varnum ;  2,  Cornelius  N.  Bliss;  3,  B.  T.  Biggs;  4,  James  Russell  Lowell;  5, 
Thomas  F.  Bayard;  6,  Charles  W.  Eliot;  7,  James  A.  Beaver;  8,  John  W.  Daniel;  9,  John  W.  Woodside ;  10, 
Chauncey  M.  Depew ;  n,  Robert  S.  Green;  12,  John  Hall;  13,  Alexander  T.  McGill ;  14,  Hannibal  Hamlin; 
15,  John  B.  Gordon;  16,  A.  C.  Chapin ;  17,  Charles  E.  Jones;  18,  J.  H.  Van  Amringe ;  19,  Morgan  G.  Bulke- 
ley ;  20,  Henry  Drisler;  21,  John  C.  Kinney;  22,  John  Jay;  23,  Oliver  Ames;  24,  C.  D.  Warner;  25,  William 


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A.  Tower;  26,  George  Gray;  27,  E.  E.  Jackson;  28,  Rutherfurd  Stuyvesant ;  29,  Albert  Ritche ;  30,  F.  Van 
Lennep. 

Table  18. —  1,  Frederick  S.  Tallmadge;  2,  Samuel  D.  Babcock ;  3,  Archbishop  Corrigan  ;  4,  John  P.  Rich- 
ardson ;  5,  Rev.  Thomas  J.  McCluskey ;  6,  James  A.  Hoyt ;  7,  George  Bancroft;  8,  C.  H.  Sawyer;  9,  Robert  C. 
Winthrop;  10,  Samuel  C.  Eastman  ;  n,  S.P.Nash;  12,  Fitzhugh  Lee ;  13,  C.  K.  Adams  ;  14,  W.  W.  Crump  ;  15, 
Timothy  Dwight  ;  16,  John  Hancock;  17,  William  Goddard ;  18,  Henry  C.  Bowen  ;  19,  G.  E.  Ellis;  20,  Royal 
C.  Taft ;  21,  R.  S.  Storrs;  22,  Elisha  Dyer,  Jr.;  23,  B.  C.  Washington;  24,  Simon  B.  Buckner ;  25,  Brayton 
Ives;  26,  John  C.  Latham;  27,  Henry  Marquand ;  28,  William  P.Dillingham;  29,  Orlando  B.  Potter;  30,  J 
Gregory  Smith. 

Table  19. —  1,  Francis  S.  Patton  ;  2,  John  C.  Calhoun  ;  3,  Le  G.  B.  Cannon  ;  4,  George  B.  Loring;  5,  Hamp 
ton  L.  Carson  ;  6,  Francis  A.  Walker ;  7,  George  Jones  ;  8,  Arthur  M.  Wheeler  ;  9,  John  W.  Burgess  ;  10,  George 
P.  Fisher;  11,  John  C.  Fremont;  12,  Daniel  C.  Gilman  ;  13,  Paul  Leicester  Ford;  14,  William  Stevens  Perry  ; 
15,  Joseph  H.  Taft;  16,  J.  H.  Washburn;  17,  Cyrus  W.  Field;  18,  Thomas  Stokes;  19,  Thomas  C.  Piatt;  20, 
Lloyd  S.  Bryce ;  21,  Daniel  Butterfield ;  22,  C.  Cotesworth  Pinckney ;  23,  Thomas  J.  Ducey ;  24,  Charles  F. 
Chandler;  25,  H.  H.  Cammann ;  26,  Cortlandt  Parker;  27,  E.  H.  Fitler;  28,  Henry  Hilton;  29,  Elijah  W.  Hal- 
ford;  30,  H.  C.  Duval;  31,  William  Wayne;  32,  William  C.  Wallace;  33,  Samuel  Crocker  Cobb;  34,  John  A. 
Cockerill ;  35,  Bishop  Littlejohn  ;  36,  Henry  Watterson  ;  37,  Henry  Cabot  Lodge  ;  38,  George  Cary  Eggleston  ; 
39,  Theodore  W.  Dwight;  40,  Henry  M.  Grady;  41,  Daniel  G.  Rollins;  42,  Robert  P.  Porter;  43,  Frank 
Thompson;  44,  Warner  Miller;  45,  E.  L.  Godkin ;  46,  S.  L.  Clemens;  47,  Elihu  Root;  48,  Charles  Page  Bryan; 
49,  Joseph  H.  Manley  ;  50,  Edward  H.  Peaslee ;  51,  Theodore  Irwin;  52,  S.  L.  Woodford;  53,  G.  G.  Williams; 
54,  Colonel  Barr;  55,  Elliott  F.  Shepard ;  56,  T.  B.  M.  Mason;  57,  Egbert  L.  Viele ;  59,  John  H.  Starin. 

Table  20. — 1,  George  S.  Bowdoin  ;  2,  Frederick  Cromwell ;  3,  William  Turnbull ;  4,  B.  G.  Arnold  ;  5,  Joseph 
Larocque;  6,  William  H.  Husted ;  7,  B.  H.  Bristow  ;  8,  M.  J.  Brophy ;  9,  J.  G.  McCullough ;  10,  T.  W.  Cham- 
bers; 11,  John  King;  12,  F.  M.  McAllister;  13,  Francis  L.  Stetson;  14,  J.  M.  King;  15,  P.  T.  Barlow;  16,  G. 
F.  Krotel;  17,  W.  G.  Choate ;  18,  W.  H.  Ward;  19,  A.  W.  Evarts ;  20,  R.  S.  MacArthur ;  21,  J.  Frederick  Ker 
nochan  ;  22,  Nathaniel  Niles  ;  23,  H.  E.  Howland  ;  24,  John  W.  Brown;  25,  Mr.  Legge;  26,  George  Wadding- 
ton;  27,  John  Duer;  28,  J.  T.  Hancock;  29,  T.  L.  Ogden  ;  30,  J.  V.  Rider;  31,  John  Schjyler  ;  32,  W.  P 
Large;  33,  Edward  Schell ;  34,  Robert  H.  Lanborn  ;  35,  Edward  King;  36,  J.  F.  Weir;  37,  F.  J.  De  Peyster  ; 
38,  R.  M.  Hunt;  39,  J.  W.  Beekman ;  40,  A.  St.  Gaudens ;  41,  Charles  A.  Schermerhorn  ;  42,  Eastman  Johnson; 
43,  George  G.  De  Witt;  44,  J.  Carroll  Beckwith  ;  45,  Austen  G.  Fox;  46,  W.  M.  Chase;  47,  John  B.  Pine;  48, 
John  Q.  A.  Ward;  49,  G.  E.  Taintor ;  50,  W.  A.  Coffin  ;  51,  Walter  Howe;  52,  C.  F.  McKim;  53,  J.  Kennedy 
Tod;  54,  E.  H.  Blashfield ;  55,  W.  H.  Williams;  56,  W.  H.  Low;  57,  C.  D.  Miller;  58,  G.  Beekman;  60, 
Myles  Standish. 

Table  21. —  1,  F.  Hopkinson  Smith  ;  2,  Charles  H.  Adams;  3,  Captain  Warren  C.  Beach  ;  4,  George  Clinton 
Genet;  5,  William  H.  Gedney ;  6,  Edmund  Hendricks;  7,  Frederick  A.  Benjamin;  8,  Edward  M.  L.  Ehlers; 
9,  Alvin  Saunders;  10,  William  H.  Bissell  ;  11,  Charles  Hauselt ;  12,  Jacob  B.  Moore;  13,  Robert  Rutter;  14, 
John  H.  Davis;  15,  Stephen  M.  Wright;  16,  John  J.  Tucker;  17,  William  L.  Strong;  18,  John  Austin  Stevens; 
19,  Theodore  W.  Myers;  20,  Arthur  Leary ;  21,  John  A.  Weekes;  22,  Edward  H.  Litchfield;  23,  Samuel  Bor- 
rowe;  24,  George  Bliss;  25,  John  H.  Bird;  26,  Howard  Crosby;  27,  Alexander  J.Clinton;  28,  E.  O.  Stan- 
ard  ;  29,  John  Claflin  ;  30,  James  M.  Constable;  31,  Robert  M.  Shannon;  32,  William  C.Smith;  33,  A.  C. 
Pickering;  34,  Frederick  Potter;  35,  William  Salomon;  36,  Wager  Swayne ;  37,  W.  A.  Read;  38,  Senor  Don 
Matias  Romero;  39,  F.  D.  Thompson  ;  40,  James  Stokes;  41,  Lawrence  Turnure,  Jr.;  43,  J.  M.  Waterbury. 

Table  22. —  t,  Jesse  Seligman  ;  2.  Gardiner  Sherman;  3,  Richard  Henry  Stoddard;  4,  William  Steinway ; 
5,  General  Di  Cesnola;  6,  John  H.  Inman  ;  7,  Charles  P.  Daly;  8,  Moncure  D.  Conway;  9,  Henry  Guy  Carle- 
ton;  10,  J.  G.  Wilson;  11,  Philip  Schuyler;  12,  C.  H.  Arnold;  13,  Clarence  A.  Seward;  14,  C.  A.  Peabody,  Jr.; 
15,  Richard  T.  Davies;  16,  Edwin  A.  Cruikshank ;  17,  Joseph  C.  Jackson;  18,  Chester  A.  Arthur;  19,  Charles 
Isham  ;  20,  Travis  C.  Van  Buren ;  21,  F.  S.  Mason;  22,  Buchanan  Winthrop;  23,  Franklin  Edson ;  24,  Alex- 
ander S.  Webb  ;  25,  Henry  L.  Slote  ;  26,  Thomas  Addis  Emmet ;  27,  George  Wilson  ;  28,  George  H.  Pendleton  ; 
29,  Washington  E.  Connor ;  30,  Charles  F.  Allen;  31,  A.  H.  Smith;  32,  Morris  J.  Asch  ;  33,  Logan  C.Murray, 
34,  C.  L.  Tiffany;  35,  K.  Twining;  36,  H.  J.  Holt;  37,  D.  N.  Cooley ;  39,  Leicester  Holme;  40,  Stanford 
White;  42,  F.  L.  Hall;  44,  Charles  J.  Harris;  45,  William  A.  Copp. 


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Table  23. — 1,  John  S.  Barnes;  2,  Frederic  R.  Coudert ;  3,  Alfred  C.  Cheney;  4,  Henry  Erben  ;  5,  Loyall 
Farragut ;  6,  D.  Willis  James;  7,  Ogden  Goelet ;  8,  S.  Nicholson  Kane;  9,  C.  C.  Baldwin;  10,  Jackson  S. 
Schultz ;  11,  Charles  W.  Dayton;  12,  Josiah  M.  Fiske ;  13,  James  Duane  Livingston;  14,  Thomas  S.  Moore; 
15,  Clifford  Stanley  Sims;  16,  Erastus  Wiman  ;  17,  H.  H.  Boyesen  ;  18,  William  E.  Dodge;  19,  Gordon  L. 
Ford;  20,  Richard  W.  Gilder;  21,  Daniel  Huntington;  22,  Charles  Henry  Hart;  23,  Francis  D.  Millet;  24, 
George  H.  Bend;  25,  C.  C.  Beaman ;  27,  Charles  H.  Russell,  Jr. 

Table  24. —  1,  Edward  Cooper;  2,  Peter  Marie;  3,  William  R.  Grace;  4,  Seth  Low;  5,  William  H.  Robert- 
son; 6,  J.  Hampden  Robb;  7,  Frederick  D.  Tappen  ;  8,  John  C.  Tomlinson;  9,  Locke  W.  Winchester;  10, 
Frederic  Gallatin;  n,  John  Cochrane;  12,  James  M.  Brown;  13,  Allan  Campbell;  14,  V.  Mumford  Moore; 
15,  J.  H.  Parker;  16,  John  Jay  Knox;  17,  Edward  V.  Loew ;  18,  Darius  O.  Mills;  19,  De  Lancey  Nicoll ;  20, 
John  F.  Plummer;  21,  J.  Edward  Simmons;  22,  John  Sloane ;  23,  James  1).  Smith;  24,  Walter  Stanton;  26, 
Richard  T.  Wilson  ;  28,  Lispenard  Stewart. 

Table  25. — 1.  Henry  Edwards;  2,  William  S.  Wells;  3,  Wayne  MacVeagh  ;  4,  Robert  xVdams;  5,  Carl 
Schurz ;  6,  J.  L.  M.  Curry;  7,  Edwards  Pierrepont ;  8,  Nicholas  Fish;  9,  Whitelaw  Reid ;  10,  Walker  Blaine; 
11,  A.  Thorndike  Rice;  12,  Baron  d'Almeirim ;  13,  Francisco  Antonio  Silva  ;  14,  Jose  A.  Ferreira  da  Costa; 
15,  Alfred  de  Claparede  ;  16,  Emilio  C.  Varas;  17,  Munemitsu  Mutsu  ;  18,  Herbert  W.  Bowen  ;  19,  Pak  Chung 
Yang;  20,  Francisco  Lainfiesta ;  21,  Jose  Marcelino  Hurtado ;  22,  Mavroyeni  Bey;  23,  Horacio  Guzman;  24, 
Stephen  Preston;  25,  S.  L.  Dowers;  26,  John  A.  King. 

Table  26. — 1,  S.  Van  Rensselaer  Cruger ;  2,  George  Crook;  3,  O.  O.  Howard  ;  4,  Samuel  Dalton;  5,  Com- 
modore Ramsay;  6,  Josiah  Porter;  7,  H.  A.  Axline ;  8,  D.  H.  Hastings;  9,  W.  S.  Stryker ;  10,  James  Howard; 
11,  L.  A.  Barbour;  12,  A.  D.  Ayling ;  13,  M.  S.  Bonham,  Jr.;  14,  William  Warner;  15,  J.  R.  Kinney;  16,  D. 
T.  Worden ;  17,  T.  S.  Peck;  18,  T.  M.  Vincent;  19,  Horace  Porter;  20,  R.  C.  Drum;  21,  R.  Summers  Hayes; 
22,  S.  B.  Luce ;  23,  George  G.  Haven  ;  24,  Asa  Bird  Gardiner  ;  25,  J.  E.  Jouett. 

As  some  of  the  guests  at  the  banquet,  at  the  last  moment  were  unavoidably  prevented 
from  being  present,  the  Entertainment  Committee  invited  a  few  gentlemen  from  the  boxes  to 
take  the  vacant  places.  The  galleries  were  occupied  by  spectators,  to  whom  tickets  had  been 
sold,  in  order  that  an  opportunity  might  be  given  to  listen  to  the  speeches. 

At  ten  o'clock  Mayor  Hugh  J.  Grant  arose  from  his  seat  at  the  head  of  the  presidential 
table  to  make  a  brief  speech  and  to  introduce  the  speakers  who  were  to  respond  to  the  toasts. 
Despite  the  fatigue  of  the  spectators,  the  speaking  was  listened  to  with  the  greatest  interest. 
Some  of  the  speeches  were  distinctly  audible  in  every  part  of  the  building.  Not  a  word  of 
President  Harrison's  speech  was  lost,  nor  of  ex-President  Cleveland's,  nor  of  Governor  Lee's. 
Ex-President  Cleveland,  Governor  Lee,  Senator  Daniel,  General  Sherman,  and  President 
Harrison  spoke  without  notes.  The  other  speakers  either  depended  upon  notes  or  read  their 
speeches.  President  Harrison's  speech  was  the  most  enthusiastically  received  of  all ;  and  of 
the  others  ex-President  Cleveland's  received  the  most  applause.  It  was  one  o'clock  when  the 
cheering  for  President  Harrison  ended.  Thereupon  all  arose  from  their  seats  and  remained 
standing  until  the  President  had  been  escorted  from  the  Banquet  Hall. 

President  Harrison  was  the  last  speaker  at  the  banquet  because  he  responded  to  the  toast 

"  The  United  States  of  America."    That  toast,  as  one  will  see  who  studies  the  programme 

which  had  been  provided  by  the  Committee  on  Literary  Exercises,  could  only  come  last,  and 

the  President  was  the  proper  person  to  respond  to  it,  whenever  it  might  come.    The  toasts 

follow  in  natural  sequence.    The  "  Address  of  Welcome,"  by  the  Governor  of  the  State  of 
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New  York  came  first,  and  then  followed  the  silent  toast  to  the  memory  of  George  Wash- 
ington. The  sequence  is  then  apparent:  the  "People"  compose  the  "States,"  which  create 
the  "  Constitution,"  which  establishes  "The  House  of  Representatives,"  "The  Senate,"  "  The 
Presidency,"  "The  Judiciary,"  and  "The  Army  and  Navy."  The  "Constitution"  also  fosters 
"Our  Schools  and  Colleges,"  which  in  turn  beget  "  Our  Literature" — all  together  constituting 
"  The  United  States  of  America."  There  were  the  accustomed  thirteen  toasts,  and  accom- 
panying each  toast,  with  the  exception  of  that  to  George  Washington,  was  a  sentiment  writ- 
ten for  the  occasion.  The  Mayor  in  introducing  each  speaker  read  the  original  sentiment. 
The  enforced  absence,  on  account  of  illness,  of  Hon.  James  G.  Blaine,  Secretary  of  State, 
who  was  to  respond  to  the  toast  "The  House  of  Representatives"  was  much  regretted. 
The  list  of  toasts  and  sentiments  was  as  follows : 

1.  Address  of  Welcome.  David  B.  Hill,  Governor  of  the  State  of  New  York. 

The  State  of  New  York  welcomes  to-day  the  Executive,  Legislative,  and  Judicial  branches  of  the  National 
Government,  and  the  representatives  of  forty-two  States ;  as  a  century  ago  she  welcomed  Washington,  his 
Cabinet,  and  the  Congress  of  the  old  Thirteen,  which  in  this  city  added  the  Bill  of  Rights  to  the  National  Con- 
stitution. May  our  fidelity  to  that  Constitution  so  guard  the  rights  of  both  the  States  and  the  people  to  civil 
and  religious  freedom,  and  to  republican  government  based  on  universal  education,  that  the  centuries  as  they 
pass  may  swell  our  acclaim,  God  save  the  American  Republic! — John  Jay. 

2.  George  Washington. 

3.  Our  People.  Grover  Cleveland,  ex-President  of  the  United  States. 

Not  a  mob,  nor  an  oligarchy,  nor  a  class  ;  but  the  great  force  of  American  patriotism,  conscience,  intel- 
ligence, energy,  and  industry,  the  only  sure  foundation  of  States,  the  sole  hope  of  the  Republic  ;  of  which 
George  Washington  and  Abraham  Lincoln  are  the  truest  types  in  American  history. — George  William 
Curtis. 

4.  The  States.  Fitzhugh  Lee,  Governor  of  the  State  of  Virginia. 

Daughters  of  Liberty,  born  amid  the  throes  of  Revolution,  thirteen  clinging  to  the  Atlantic  have  become 
forty-two  reaching  to  the  Pacific.  The  century  leaves  them  as  it  found  them,  an  indestructible  Union  of  inde- 
structible States. — William  Wirt  Henry. 

5.  The  Federal  Constitution.  Melville  W.  Fuller,  Chief-Justice  of  the  United  States. 

The  consummation  of  former  political  wisdom,  the  trust  of  the  present  age,  the  guide  for  all  coming  na- 
tions.— George  Bancroft. 

6.  The  House  of  Representatives.     James  G.  Blaine,  Secretary  of  State. 

The  first  branch  of  Congress  provided  for  in  the  Constitution,  and  the  subject  of  the  only  speech  in  the 
Convention  made  by  Washington.  In  the  language  of  George  Mason,  "  the  grand  depository  of  the  demo- 
cratic principle  of  the  Government,"  to  which  has  been  assigned  a  full,  coequal  share  in  the  National  Legisla- 
tion, together  with  the  sole  power  of  Impeachment,  the  origination  of  all  the  Bills  for  raising  Revenue,  and  in 
the  last  resort  the  choice  of  the  President  of  the  United  States.  The  vital  element  of  our  Republican  system, 
without  which  there  can  be,  in  the  words  of  Abraham  Lincoln,  no  "  Government  of  the  People,  by  the  People, 
for  the  People."  May  its  rightful  authority  and  dignity  ever  be  maintained  and  upheld  both  by  its  own 
officers  and  members  and  by  the  millions  of  voters  whom  they  are  privileged  to  respresent ! — Robert  C.  Win- 
throp,  senior  surviving  Speaker  of  the  U.  S.  House  of  Representatives. 

7.  The  Senate.  John  W.  Daniel,  United  States  Senator  from  Virginia. 

An  elective  body,  dependent  upon  no  prerogatives  of  Royalty,  Church,  or  Descent.  Able  in  its  statesman- 
ship, wise  and  practical  in  its  Legislative  and  Executive  functions,  the  most  distinguished  of  all  Legislative 


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bodies,  and  a  bulwark  in  defense  of  our  free  institutions. — Hannibal  Hamlin,  sole  surviving  Vice-President 
of  the  United  States. 

8.  The  Presidency.  Rutherford  B.  Hayes,  ex-President  of  the  United  States. 

May  the  good  people  of  these  United  States  never  weary  of  searching  for  a  second  Washington  to  fill  the 
place! — John  Quincy  Adams. 

9.  The  Judiciary.  William  M.  Evarts,  United  States  Senator  from  New  York. 

A  learned,  upright,  and  fearless  Judiciary  is  the  strong  bulwark  of  Constitutional  Government.  Without 
such  Judiciary  no  free  institutions  can  exist ;  with  it  they  will  not  perish.  So  long  as  the  spirit  and  example 
of  Marshall  and  Taney,  Kent  and  Shaw,  pervade  and  inspire  our  Courts,  liberty  in  law  shall  abide  with  and 
bless  the  land  of  Washington. — William  Henry  Harrison  Miller,  Attorney-General  of  the  United  States. 

10.  The  Army  and  Navy.  William  Tecumseh  Sherman,  General. 

In  four  wars  each  has  done  its  full  duty  in  the  creation,  defense,  enlargement,  and  preservation  of  our 
nation ;  but  the  dignity  of  our  country  requires  renewed  attention  to  the  farewell  counsel  of  Washington,  so 
that  international  emergencies  may  be  met  without  hasty  and  inadequate  preparation. — Robert  T.  Lincoln, 
Envoy  Extraordinary  and  Minister  Plenipotentiary  of  the  United  States  to  Great  Britain. 

11.  Our  Schools  and  Colleges.  Charles  W.  Eliot,  President  of  Harvard  University. 

Established  by  the  wisdom  and  foresight  of  the  Founders  of  our  Nation;  the  support  and  stay  of  civil  and 
religious  liberty  ;  they  should  be  jealously  guarded  and  fostered  as  the  dispensers  of  virtue  and  intelligence, 
on  which  depend  the  welfare  and  perpetuity  of  our  Republican  Institutions. — Henry  Drisler,  Acting  Presi- 
dent of  Columbia  College. 

12.  Our  Literature.  James  Russell  Lowell. 

The  welfare  of  a  people,  smail  or  great,  Their  glory  rests  on  letters,  which  create 

Depends  upon  the  State,  A  more  enduring  State  ; 

Whose  ample  laws  they  justify,  because  For  what  is  best  remembered  among  men 

They  help  to  shape  those  laws.  Is  not  the  Sword,  but  Pen. 

Richard  Henry  Stoddard. 

13.  The  United  States  of  America.      Benjamin  Harrison,  President  of  the  United  States. 

Scepters  and  thrones  the  morning  realms  have  tried ;  Long  as  the  watch-towers  of  our  crownless  Queen 

Earth  for  the  people  kept  her  sunset  side.  Front  the  broad  oceans  that  she  sits  between, 

Arts,  manners,  creeds,  the  teeming  Orient  gave;  May  her  proud  sons  their  plighted  faith  maintain. 

Freedom,  the  gift  that  freights  the  refluent  wave,  And  guard  unbroken  Union's  lengthening  chain — 

Pays  with  one  priceless  pearl  the  guerdon  due,  Union,  our  peaceful  sovereign,  she  alone 

And  leaves  the  Old  World  debtor  to  the  New.  Can  make  or  keep  the  Western  world  our  own  ! 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 


Following  is  the  report  of  the  speeches  at  the  banquet  : 


His  Honor  Hugh  J.  Grant,  Mayor  of  New  York. 

In  behalf  of  the  city  of  New  York  I  bid  you  welcome  to  this  Centennial  Banquet.  As  there  are  thirteen 
subjects  embraced  in  the  list  of  toasts,  which  include  an  address  of  welcome  by  the  Governor  of  the 
State,  a  toast  to  The  People,  and  then  toasts  which  comprise  the  constituent  parts  of  the  Constitution, 
which  will  be  responded  to  by  distinguished  guests,  with  an  original  sentiment  written  to  each  subject  by 
gentlemen  of  prominence,  the  presiding  officer  will  confine  himself  to  announcing  the  subjects  and  intro- 
ducing the  speakers. 

The  first  regular  toast  is  an  address  of  welcome.    The  sentiment  to  this  toast  is  : 


The  State  of  New  York  welcomes  to-day  the  Executive,  Legislative,  and  Judicial  branches  of  the  National  Govern- 
ment, and  the  representatives  of  forty-two  States ;  as  a  century  ago  she  welcomed  Washington,  his  Cabinet,  and  the  Congress 
of  the  old  Thirteen,  which  in  this  city  added  the  Bill  of  Rights  to  the  National  Constitution.    May  our  fidelity  to  that 


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Constitution  so  guard  the  rights  of  both  the  States  and  the  people  to  civil  and  religious  freedom,  and  to  republican  gov- 
ernment based  on  universal  education,  that  the  centuries  as  they  pass  may  swell  our  acclaim,  God  save  the  American 
Republic !  John  Jay. 

I  have  the  pleasure  to  introduce  to  you,  to  respond  to  the  address  of  welcome,  Governor  Hill,  of 
the  State  of  New  York. 

First  Toast. — Address  of  Welcome. 

By  Governor  David  B.  Hill. 

Fellow-Countrymen  :  As  the  Governor  of  the  State  within  whose  borders  were  heard  the  acclaims 
which  greeted  the  first  President's  oath  of  allegiance  to  the  Constitution,  I  extend  a  welcome  to  all 
here  assembled.  Welcome  to  you,  President  Harrison,  latest  of  the  line  of  those  distinguished  men 
who  have  given  the  same  guarantee  of  obedience  to  the  charter  of  our  liberties  and  faithfulness  to  the 
rights  of  the  people.  Welcome  to  your  honored  Cabinet,  and  to  those  chosen  representatives  of  all  the  sister 
States,  whose  presence  here  speaks  anew  the  grandeur  and  greatness  of  our  United  States.  Welcome 
to  all  in  authority — legislative,  executive,  or  judicial,  civil  and  military — who,  in  their  station,  with  honor 
and  justice,  are  daily  serving  our  common  country,  and  a  friendly  greeting  to  the  former  Presidents  of 


(Centennial  Celebration 
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the  nation  who  join  with  us  in  this  celebration.  Welcome  to  all  the  ambassadors  of  other  nations  who 
participate  with  us  in  these  festivities.  Welcome,  strong  and  brave  men,  sons  of  fathers  who  yielded 
life,  who  sacrificed  fortune,  who  endured  severest  privation,  that  we  might  rejoice  in  liberty.  Welcome,  fair 
and  true  women,  daughters  of  mothers  who  gave  patriotic  encouragement  in  days  of  darkest  distress ;  who 
willingly  devoted  themselves  to  suffering  that  the  infant  republic  might  be  sustained.  Welcome  those  from 
whatever  clime  who  have  become  part  of  our  people,  and  who  have  contributed  their  share  in  maintaining 
the  purposes  and  increasing  the  glory  of  our  commonwealth.    Welcome  to  all — citizens,  strangers,  friends ! 

Our  display  upon  the  ample  waters  of  this  harbor;  our  parades  in  the  broad  streets  of  this  city; 
our  rejoicings  in  this  banqueting  hall,  commemorate  not  only  the  fame  of  a  great  prince  among  men  ; 
not  only  the  victories  of  a  great  captain  among  warriors ;  not  only  the  deeds  of  a  great  statesman 
among  patriots.    These  exultant  sights  and  triumphant  sounds  commemorate  such  fame  and  victories 


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and  deeds,  but  they  commemorate  far  more.  They  commemorate  the  nativity  of  a  heaven-born  republic 
among  the  nations  of  the  earth.  They  commemorate  not  a  government  founded  upon  a  Magna  Charta 
extorted  from  a  King  John  by  a  compelling  band  of  nobles;  not  a  government  founded  upon  a  written 
freedom  bestowed  by  an  emperor  on  an  emancipated  race  of  slaves,  but  a  new  and  complete  creation 
of  government  resting  strong  and  secure  upon  foundations  that  shall  last  as  long  as  virtue,  honor,  and 
courage  live  among  our  people  ;  a  government  of  the  people,  by  the  people,  and  for  the  people,  which 
shall  not  perish  from  the  earth. 

The  doges  of  that  ancient  republic  of  Venice  espoused  with  ceremonious  rite  the  waters  of  the  Adriatic. 
Our  first  President,  in  this,  then  as  now,  chiefest  city  of  the  New  World,  with  hand  uplifted,  wedded  to 
the  free  air  of  heaven  his  vow  for  this  land  of  ours,  and  in  his  recorded  oath  pledged  that,  with  the 
help  of  the  God  of  nations,  he  would  uphold  the  liberty  once  proclaimed  and  now  established  for  all  the 
people. 

These  religious  ceremonies,  these  arches  of  triumph,  these  banners  unfurled,  these  treasures  of  art, 
these  songs  of  praise,  these  pageants  of  industry,  these  scenes  of  rejoicing,  in  which  we  of  this  generation 
have  now  a  part,  all  celebrate  the  giving  and  the  taking  of  that  solemn  pledge.  My  best  greeting  at  this 
hour  shall  be  a  tribute  to  the  character  of  him  whose  memory  we  honor.  I  give  you  these  expressive 
words  of  Thoreau  : 

"  The  character  of  Washington  has,  after  all,  been  undervalued,  because  not  valued  correctly.  He 
was  a  proper  Puritan  hero.  It  is  his  erectness  and  persistency  which  attract  me.  A  few  simple  deeds 
with  a  dignified  silence  for  a  background,  and  that  is  all.  He  never  fluctuated,  nor  lingered,  nor  stooped, 
nor  swerved,  but  was  nobly  silent  and  assured.  He  was  not  the  darling  of  the  people,  as  no  man  of  in- 
tegrity can  ever  be,  but  was  as  much  respected  as  loved.  His  instructions  to  his  steward,  his  refusal  of 
a  crown,  his  interview  with  his  officers  at  the  termination  of  the  war,  his  thoughts  after  his  retirement,  as 
expressed  in  a  letter  to  Lafayette,  his  remarks  to  another  correspondent  on  being  chosen  President,  his 
last  words  to  Congress,  and  the  unparalleled  respect  which  his  most  distinguished  contemporaries,  as  Fox 
and  Erskine  expressed  for  him,  are  refreshing  to  hear  in  these  unheroic  days.  His  behavior  in  the  field 
and  in  council,  and  his  dignified  and  contented  withdrawal  to  private  life  were  great.  He  could  advance 
and  he  could  withdraw." 

No  words  which  I  can  supplement  to  these  can  brighten  the  luster  environing  the  name  and  fame  of 
that  American  whose  virtues  we  to-day  affectionately,  justly,  and  proudly  exalt. 

What  visions  of  future  greatness  and  prosperity  for  this  broad  land  of  ours  open  up  before  us  as  we 
contemplate  the  growth  of  our  free  institutions  since  they  were  founded  by  the  patriots  of  a  century  ago ! 
Generations  yet  unborn  will  share  the  glories  and  blessings  of  the  beneficent  and  imperishable  government 
transmitted  to  us  and  them  by  our  Revolutionary  sires. 

What  glorious  memories  cluster  around  this  centennial  day  ! — 

"  Day  of  a  hundred  days, 
Day  of  a  hundred  years, 
One  cry  of  Welcome  all  our  voices  raise 

As  the  young  century  appears. 
Hail  greatness  yet  to  come, 
Hail  millions  yet  to  be !  " 

The  heroes  of  the  American  Revolution  are  now  departed.  That  age  of  pre-eminent  creative  genius 
has  passed  away.  But  the  country  which  their  valor,  statesmanship,  and  patriotism  saved  and  estab- 
lished still  proudly  exists,  enjoying  the  blessings  of  civil  and  religious  liberty,  augmenting  in  population, 
increasing  in  resources,  strengthening  in  power. 

It  is  a  prosperous,  happy,  indivisible  Union.  Its  contented  people  are  reaping  the  advantages  of  laws 
made  by  themselves,  well  and  honestly  administered. 

The  sentiments  of  every  true  American  are  expressed  in  the  hope  that  faction  may  not  destroy,  that 
pride  may  not  injure,  that  corruption  may  not  undermine,  and  that  sectionalism  may  not  divide  this  fair 
republic;  but  that  its  borders  may  still  further  be  extended,  its  commerce  may  float  upon  every  sea,  the 
stars  upon  its  flag  may  be  trebled,  its  free  institutions  may  live  on  and  flourish,  and  its  liberty-loving 


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people  may  continue  to  work  out  the  problem  of  self-government  so  long  as  freedom  itself  exists  and 
until  time  shall  be  no  more. 

"  Keep,  God,  the  fairest,  nobkest  land  that  lies  beneath  the  sun — 
Our  country,  our  whole  country,  and  our  country  ever  one  !  " 

Second  Toast. — "  George  Washington." 
This  was  announced  by  his  Honor  the  Mayor,  and  was  drunk  in  silence,  all  standing. 

Third  Toast. — "Our  People." 

By  Grover  Cleveland,  ex-President  of  the  United  States. 

Not  a  mob,  nor  an  oligarchy,  nor  a  class ;  but  the  great  force  of  American  patriotism,  conscience,  intelligence,  energy,  and 
industry,  the  only  sure  foundation  of  States,  the  sole  hope  of  the  Republic  ;  of  which  George  Washington  and  Abraham  Lincoln 
are  the  truest  types  in  American  history.— George  William  Curtis. 

Mr.  Chairman:  The  mention  of  a  people  may  well  suggest  sober  and  impressive  reflections.  The  sub- 
ject was  not  beneath  the  Divine  thought  when  the  promise  was  given  to  the  children  of  Israel,  "  I  will  take 
you  to  me  for  a  people  and  I  will  be  to  you  a  God."  This  idea  of  Divine  relationship  to  a  people  is  also  rec- 
ognized in  the  fervent  utterance,  "  Yea,  happy  is  that  people  whose  God  is  the  Lord."  [Applause.]  Wher- 
ever human  government  has  been  administered  in  tyranny,  in  despotism,  or  in  oppression,  there  has  been 
found  among  the  governed  a  yearning  for  a  freer  condition  and  the  assertion  of  man's  nobility.  These  are 
but  the  faltering  steps  of  human  nature  in  the  direction  of  the  freedom  which  is  its  birthright;  and  they  pre- 
sage the  struggle  of  men  to  become  a  free  people  and  thus  reach  the  plane  of  their  highest  and  best  aspira- 
tions. In  this  relation  and  in  their  cry  for  freedom,  it  may  be  truly  said,  the  voice  of  the  people  is  the  voice 
of  God.  [Applause.]  The  influence  of  these  reflections  is  upon  me  as  I  speak  of  those  who,  after  darkness  and 
doubt  and  struggle,  burst  forth  in  the  bright  light  of  independence  and  liberty,  and  became  "  our  people  " 
[applause] — free,  determined,  and  confident — challenging  the  wonder  of  the  universe,  proclaiming  the  dignity 
of  man,  and  invoking  the  aid  and  favor  of  Almighty  God.  [Applause.]  In  sublime  faith  and  rugged  strength, 
our  fathers  cried  out  to  the  world,  "  We,  the  people  of  the  United  States,  in  order  to  form  a  more  perfect 
union,  establish  justice,  insure  domestic  tranquillity,  provide  for  the  common  defense,  promote  the  general  wel- 
fare, and  secure  the  blessings  of  liberty  to  ourselves  and  our  posterity,  do  ordain  and  establish  this  Constitu- 
tion for  the  United  States  of  America."  [Applause.]  Thus  "  our  people  "  in  a  day  assumed  a  place  among 
the  nations  of  the  earth.  Their  mission  was  to  teach  the  fitness  of  man  for  self-government,  and  their  destiny 
was  to  outstrip  every  other  people  in  national  achievement  and  material  greatness.  [Applause.]  One  hundred 
years  have  passed.  We  have  announced  and  approved  to  the  world  our  mission  and  made  our  destiny  secure. 
[Applause.]  I  will  not  tamely  recite  our  achievements.  They  are  written  on  every  page  of  our  history,  and 
the  monuments  of  our  growth  and  advancement  are  all  about  us.  But  the  value  of  these  things  is  measured 
by  the  fullness  with  which  our  people  have  preserved  their  patriotism,  their  integrity,  and  their  devotion  to 
free  institutions.  [Applause.]  If  engrossed  in  material  advancement  or  diverted  by  the  turmoil  of  business 
and  activity,  they  have  not  held  fast  to  that  love  of  country  and  that  simple  faith  in  virtue  and  enlightenment 
which  constituted  the  hope  and  trust  of  our  fathers,  all  that  we  have  built  rests  upon  foundations  infirm  and 
weak.  Meeting  this  test,  we  point  to  the  scattered  graves  of  many  thousands  of  our  people  who  have  bravely 
died  in  defense  of  our  national  safety  and  perpetuity,  mutely  bearing  testimony  to  their  love  of  country,  and 
to  an  invincible  living  host  standing  ready  to  enforce  our  national  rights  and  protect  our  land.  [Applause.] 
Our  churches,  our  schools,  and  universities,  and  our  benevolent  institutions,  which  beautify  every  town  and 
hamlet  and  look  out  from  every  hillside,  testify  to  the  value  our  people  place  upon  religious  teaching,  upon 
advanced  education,  and  upon  deeds  of  charity.  That  our  people  are  still  jealous  of  their  individual  rights 
and  freedom  is  proved  by  the  fact  no  one  in  place  or  power  has  dared  openly  to  assail  them.  The  enthusiasm 
which  marks  the  celebration  of  the  centennial  of  the  inauguration  of  their  first  Chief  Magistrate  shows  the 
popular  appreciation  of  the  value  of  the  office  which  in  our  plan  of  government  stands  above  all  others  for  the 


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sovereignty  of  the  people,  and  is  the  repository  of  their  trust.  [Applause.]  Surely  such  a  people  can  be  safely 
trusted  with  their  free  government ;  and  there  need  be  no  fear  that  they  have  lost  the  qualities  which  fit  them 
to  be  its  custodians.  If  they  should  wander,  they  will  return  to  duty  in  good  time.  [Applause.]  If  they  should 
be  misled,  they  will  discover  the  true  landmarks  none  too  late  for  safety,  and  if  they  should  even  be  corrupted, 
they  will  speedily  be  found  seeking  with  peace-offerings  their  country's  holy  altar.  [Applause.]  Let  us  then 
have  an  abiding  faith  in  "our  people."  Let  petulance  and  discontent  with  popular  action  disappear  before  the 
truth  that,  in  any  and  all  circumstances,  the  will  of  the  people,  however  it  may  be  exercised,  is  the  law  of  our 
national  existence — the  arbiter  absolute  and  unchangeable  by  which  we  must  abide.  [Applause.]  Other  than 
existing  situations  or  policies  can  only  justify  themselves  when  they  may  be  reached  by  the  spread  of  political 
intelligence  and  the  revival  of  unselfish  and  patriotic  interest  in  public  affairs.  Ill-natured  complaints  of 
popular  incompetency  and  self-righteous  assertion  of  superiority  over  the  body  of  the  people  are  impotent  and 
useless.  [Applause.]  But  there  is  danger,  I  fear,  that  the  scope  of  the  words  "  our  people  "  and  all  they  import 
are  not  always  fully  apprehended.  It  is  only  natural  that  those  in  the  various  walks  of  life  should  see  "  our 
people  "  within  the  range  of  their  own  vision,  and  find  just  about  them  the  interests  most  important  and  most 
worthy  the  care  of  the  Government.  The  rich  merchant  or  capitalist,  in  the  center  of  wealth  and  enterprise, 
hardly  has  a  glimpse  of  the  country  blacksmith  at  his  forge  or  the  farmer  in  his  field  ;  and  these  in  turn  known 
but  little  of  the  laborers  who  crowd  our  manufactories  and  inhabit  their  own  world  of  toil,  or  of  the  thousands 
who  labor  in  our  mines.  If  representatives  of  every  element  of  our  population  and  industries  should  be  gath- 
ered together,  they  would  find  but  little  of  purely  selfish  and  personal  interest  in  common  ;  and  upon  a  su- 
perficial glance  but  little  would  be  seen  to  denote  that  only  one  people  was  represented.  Yet  in  the  spirit  of 
our  institutions  all  these,  so  separated  in  station  and  personal  interest,  are  a  common  brotherhood  and  are 
"our  people"  [applause],  all  of  equal  value  before  the  law,  all  having  by  their  suffrage  the  same  voice  in 
governmental  affairs,  all  demanding  with  equal  force  protection  and  defense,  and  all  in  their  persons  and  prop- 
erty equally  entitled  to  their  Government's  scrupulous  care.  [Applause.] 

The  diversity  of  our  interests,  though  the  source  of  boundless  wealth  and  prosperity,  has  a  tendency 
to  press  our  people  apart.  This  condition  demands  of  us  a  counter-force  of  liberality  and  toleration 
toward  each  other  and  an  enlightened  regard  for  the  condition  of  every  individual  who  contributes  to 
the  aggregate  of  our  national  greatness.  This  aggregate,  fostered  and  increased  by  united,  earnest,  and 
unselfish  effort,  will  yield  a  full  return  for  individual  enterprise  and  labor  without  drying  up  the  fountains 
of  brotherly  kindness  and  forbearance  upon  which  the  political  health  of  our  people  depends.  [Applause.] 

This  centennial  time,  which  stirs  our  pride  by  leading  us  to  the  contemplation  of  our  tremendous 
strides  in  wealth  and  greatness,  also  recalls  to  our  minds  the  virtues  and  the  unselfish  devotion  to  prin- 
ciple of  those  who  saw  the  first  days  of  the  republic.  Let  there  now  be  a  revival  of  our  love  for  the 
principles  which  our  country  represents ;  let  there  be  at  this  time  a  new  consecration  to  the  cause  of 
man's  freedom  and  equally  a  quickened  sense  of  the  solemn  responsibility  assumed  before  the  world  by 
every  man  who  wears  the  badge  of  "our  people." 

The  future  beckons  us  on.  Let  us  follow  with  an  exalted  and  ennobling  love  of  country  and  with 
undaunted  courage.  Though  clouds  may  sometimes  darken  the  heavens,  they  shall  be  dispelled  ;  and  we 
shall  see  the  bow  of  God's  promise  set  clearly  in  the  sky  and  shall  read  beneath  it,  blazing  in  radiant 
characters,  the  words  "  our  people."  [Applause.] 

Fourth  Toast. — The  States. 

By  Fitzhugh  Lee,  Governor  of  the  State  of  Virginia. 

Daughters  of  Liberty,  born  amid  the  throes  of  Revolution,  thirteen  clinging  to  the  Atlantic  have  become  forty-two 
reaching  to  the  Pacific.     The  century  leaves  them  as  it  found  them,  an  indestructible  Union  of  indestructible  States. 

William  Wirt  Henry. 

His  Excellency  the  President  of  the  United  States, 

Mr.  Chairman,  and  Gentlemen  :  The  inauguration  of  George  Washington  as  the  first  President  of 
the  United  States  is  the  event  in  American  history  we  are  celebrating  to-night.  It  so  happens  that  I  am 
at  present  the  Governor  of  the  State  in  which  he  was  born,  lived,  and  is  now  sleeping  his  last  sleep  so 


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quietly  and  calmly  that  no  sound  will  ever  awake  him  to  glory  again.  Owing  to  that  circumstance,  and  from 
no  merit  of  mine,  1  feel  I  have  been  honored  by  the  request  to  make  a  response  to  the  toast  just  read. 

Virginia,  in  giving  this  illustrious  patriot  to  the  whole  country,  recognizes  the  fact  that  though  one 
State  may  contain  the  locality  of  his  birth,  and  the  place  of  his  burial,  no  one  State  can  bound  his  boundless 
fame,  but  that  on  the  wings  of  renown  his  glory  has  been  wafted  to  all  parts  of  the  known  world,  and 
now  each  State  in  the  American  Union  is  equally  interested  in  all  that  pertains  to  the  hero's  life,  services, 
and  character. 

The  national  crown  which  binds  the  brows  of  the  States  is  indeed  brilliant  with  the  military  and  civic 
deeds  of  his  splendid  career;  for  "  called  by  his  country  to  the  defense  of  her  liberties  he  triumphantly 
vindicated  the  rights  of  humanity,  and  on  the  pillars  of  national  independence  laid  the  foundation  of  a 
great  republic." 

Twice  invested  with  the  supreme  magistracy  by  the  unanimous  voice  of  a  free  people,  he  surpassed  in 
the  cabinet  the  glories  of  the  field,  and,  voluntarily  resigning  scepter  and  sword,  retired  to  the  shades  of 
Mount  Vernon. 

Magnanimous  in  youth,  glorious  through  life,  great  in  death,  his  highest  ambition  was  the  happiness 
of  mankind,  his  noblest  victory  the  conquest  of  himself.  [Applause.] 

In  considering  the  States,  therefore,  we  must  remember  the  father  of  our  country,  not  only  for  the 
services  of  his  sword,  not  only  because  he  was  President  of  the  Convention  in  1787  which  framed  the 
Constitution,  but  because  it  was  due  to  his  great  influence  that  the  constitutional  helm  of  our  govern- 
ment was  attached  to  the  ship-of-state  when  first  launched  on  her  great  experimental  voyage. 

We  gaze  with  patriotic  pride  upon  the  grand  rivers  which  flow  from  State  to  State,  as  they  bear 
upon  their  bright,  broad  bosoms  the  white-winged  messengers  of  commerce,  but  how  seldom  do  our 
thoughts  dwell  upon  the  sources  from  which  these  blessings  flow  ! 

We  see  the  fiery  steeds  of  heaven  flying  with  electric  hoofs,  placing  in  close  communication  State  with 
State,  but  who  thinks  of  the  inventor  of  the  telegraph  ?  Great  parallel  lines  of  steel  make  the  track 
for  the  iron  horse  that  rushes  heedless  of  danger  and  fearless  of  opposition,  leaping  rivers  and  diving 
under  mountains,  bringing  together  the  surging  billows  of  the  Atlantic  and  the  golden  sands  of  the 
Pacific,  making  possible  the  realization  of  Benton's  dream  of  a  statue  of  Christopher  Columbus  placed 
upon  the  highest  peak  of  the  Rocky  Mountains,  with  the  whole  mountain  as  the  pedestal,  while  with  face 
and  arm  turned  toward  the  west  it  should  seem  to  say  to  the  flying  traveler: 

"  Lo  !  There  is  the  East — there  is  India."  [Applause.]  But  who  thinks  of  the  originator  of  the 
steam-engine  ?  Great  discoveries  in  applied  sciences  are  almost  daily  being  utilized  for  the  benefit  of 
man,  but  whose  thoughts  turn  to  the  discoverer  ? 

Great  problems  of  human  government  have  been  worked  out  by  the  brain  of  man,  constitutional 
liberty  has  been  discovered,  freedom  has  come  to  dwell  in  our  midst,  and  it  seems  now  as  if  the  science 
of  popular  government  would  be  proved  upon  a  scale  to  which  the  Roman  Republic  was  but  a  mere 
province,  for  already  the  national  banner  floats  over  more  square  leagues  of  land  than  did  that  of  Rome 
after  seven  centuries  of  growth ;  but  who  thinks  often  enough  of  Washington,  Adams,  Hamilton,  Franklin, 
Madison,  and  their  distinguished  colleagues  through  whose  patient  intellectual  labors  this  great  republic 
was  founded  ? 

To-night  it  is  our  duty  to  look  back  over  the  century's  growth,  and  to  reflect  upon  the  path  the  Republic 
has  been  following  for  a  hundred  years — from  the  period  of  President  Washington  to  the  times  of  President 
Harrison — from  the  inauguration  of  the  ruler  of  thirteen  States,  whose  President  was  installed  in  office  here 
a  hundred  years  ago  with  a  ceremony  of  five  hundred  marching  troops,  to  this  magnificent  celebration  of  the 
centennial  of  that  inauguration  by  forty-two  States  and  a  marching  column  of  over  fifty  thousand  troops! 
[Applause  and  cheers.] 

Let  us,  then,  with  grateful  emotion,  greet  the  memories  of  the  men  whose  profound  knowledge  enabled 
them  to  construct  a  government  of  States,  which  in  turn,  by  their  representatives,  encircled  the  States  them- 
selves by  a  National  Constitutional  girdle.  The  rights  of  the  States  and  the  powers  of  the  General  Govern- 
ment were  defined,  so  that  the  security  of  the  States  is  the  safety  of  the  Union,  and  the  safety  of  the  Union  is 
the  security  of  the  States.  [Applause.] 


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Upon  yon  star-spangled  banner  each  State  is  a  star,  so  similar  in  appearance  and  right  of  presence  there, 
that  no  man  in  this  splendid  audience  can  go  to  their  beds  of  blue  and  point  out  the  star  that  represents  Indi- 
ana from  that  representing  the  great  Empire  State  of  New  York.  [Applause.]  In  the  great  blue  dome 
above,  the  heavenly  orbs  may  differ  in  magnitude,  motion,  and  periodic  revolution,  but  the  paths  are  fixed  and 
their  laws  immutable.  The  States  differ  in  size,  in  commercial  prosperity,  and  I  may  say  in  their  periods  of 
revolution,  but  the  laws  of  the  United  States  are  the  same  for  each,  and  their  motions,  though  in  some  of  the 
States  at  times  eccentric,  must  always  be  equal,  if  we  desire  to  preserve  intact  our  American  Constellation  of 
States.  [Applause.]  Should  the  central  orb  whose  light  is  day.  and  its  absence  night,  around  which  the 
earth  and  the  planets  revolve,  and  by  which  they  are  held  in  their  orbits,  and  from  which  comes  light  and 
heat,  "do  move,"  as  Brother  Jasper,  of  Richmond,  says,  and,  moving  too  much,  march  into  the  realms  of  the 
planets,  eternal  chaos  would  follow  ;  or,  should  the  planets  depart  from  their  routes,  and  break  well-known 
laws,  eternal  ruin  would  result.  [Applause.] 

The  Federal  head  in  our  system  of  government  is  the  sun  ;  the  States,  the  planets;  the  first  is  regulated 
by  delegated  powers;  the  second  exercises  all  rights  not  given  to  the  first,  except  those  specifically  prohibited. 
If  the  States  break  from  their  orbits  and  encroach  upon  the  National  Government,  disaster  and  ruin  follow ; 
if  the  National  Government  invades  the  reserved  rights  of  the  States,  calamity  comes  ;  so  that  observance  on 
the  part  of  both,  of  this  Article  X  of  the  Amendments  to  the  Constitution  secures  the  liberties  of  the  people. 
The  Republic  of  to-day  should  be  the  Republic  of  the  fathers — the  United  States  of  1889,  under  our  present 
distinguished  Chief-Magistrate,  will  then  be  the  United  States  of  1841  and  1789,  when  the  scepter  was  in  the 
hands  of  a  William  Henry  Harrison  and  a  George  Washington.  May  it  so  continue,  and  may  the  contest 
hereafter,  between  the  States,  be  for  the  promotion  of  commerce  and  civilization,  the  progress  of  agricultural 
and  manufacturing  wealth,  and  the  development  of  the  arts  and  sciences,  while  each  State  is  laboring  at  the 
same  time  to  promote  the  common  glory  of  the  United  States!  Then  may  we  hear  the  harmonious  invoca- 
tions from  forty-two  hearts,  ascending  to  our  fathers'  God,  sweeping  into  the  heavens  and  rising  above  the 
stars,  that  State  shall  not  lift  up  its  sword  against  State,  neither  shall  they  know  war  any  more,  and  that  the 
reign  of  peace,  union,  and  fraternity  shall  be  as  lasting  as  the  home  of  the  stars — as  eternal  as  the  founda- 
tions of  the  everlasting  hills ;  and  in  your  splendid  harbor  here  may  "  Liberty  enlightening  the  world  "  join 
the  swelling  anthem,  and  proclaim  to  her  subjects  everywhere  that  the  problem  of  free,  popular,  and  consti 
tutional  government  has  been  solved  upon  the  American  Continent  !    [Prolonged  applause.] 

Fifth  Toast. — "  The  Federal  Constitution." 

By  Melville  W.  Fuller,  Chief-Justice  of  the  United  States. 

The  consummation  of  former  political  wisdom,  the  trust  of  the  present  age,  the  guide  for  all  coming  nations. — George 
Banxroft. 

It  was,  indeed,  a  consummation,  the  result  not  simply  of  the  particular  exigency,  but  of  that  gradual 
growth  which,  having  its  roots  in  the  past,  develops  into  the  product  that  endures.  The  men  of  the  Conven- 
tion knew  that  the  realization  of  ideals  is  the  work  of  time,  and  whatever  speculative  views  of  government  or 
of  freedom  they  entertained,  they  did  not  attempt  to  carry  them  in  expression  to  their  logical  conclusions. 
They  had  confidence  that  the  general  principles  they  regarded  as  fundamental,  being  declared,  might  safely 
be  relied  on  to  work  out  the  practical  ends  desired.  They  were  familiar  with  the  leagues,  the  confederacies, 
and  the  councils  of  the  ancients;  the  associations  of  communities  of  more  modern  times;  the  great  steps  in 
the  progress  of  English  liberty,  from  Magna  Charta  to  the  Act  of  Settlement  ;  and  still  more  thoroughly  with 
the  experience  of  the  colonies  and  of  the  States,  of  the  New  England  confederation,  the  various  Congresses, 
and  the  confederation  of  the  United  States,  a  part  of  which  they  had  been,  while  years  of  keen  discussion  of 
the  science  of  government  and  of  ardent  devotion  to  the  cause  of  liberty  had  stored  their  minds  with  doc- 
trines and  fitted  them  for  their  great  task. 

A  union  already  existed,  based  on  common  origin  and  aims,  but  the  ties  that  bound  the  States 
together  were  too  weak  to  compel  that  subordination  of  the  supposed  interests  of  one  portion  of  the 
people  to  a  line  of  action  required  by  the  actual  interests  of  all.  The  destiny  of  the  country  was  mani- 
4S 


l7o      THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


fest,  if  its  parts  could  be  welded  into  one,  hut  the  problem  to  be  solved  was  how  to  accomplish  this 
without  sacrificing  local  independence  and  so  parting  with  liberty  in  exchange  for  power.  In  under- 
taking that  solution  they  represented  in  themselves  every  shade  of  opinion,  from  intense  faith  in  the 
ultimate  good  sense  of  the  people,  to  large  distrust  of  their  capacity  for  self-government,  and  thev 
were  acutely  alive  to  ail  the  jealousies,  the  passions,  and  the  conflicts  of  the  hour.  The  self-restraint 
they  practiced  in  their  own  action  was  the  self-restraint  they  sought  to  secure  ;  and  the  spirit  of  com- 
promise which  finally  harmonized  their  deliberations  was  the  spirit  of  compromise  which  is  of  the 
essence  of  all  lasting  human  governments.  To  determine  a  form  of  government  by  written  funda- 
mental law  was  no  novelty  to  them.  The  covenant  of  the  Mayflower  had  set  the  example,  and  all  the 
States  but  two  then  had,  as  all  have  now,  Constitutions  defining  the  respective  rights  and  duties  of  the 
citizen  and  of  the  authority  over  him.  But  to  fashion  the  instrument  which  was  to  create  a  nation  out 
of  the  people  of  free  and  independent  States,  and  at  the  same  time  in  terms  to  interpose  barriers  against 
the  invasion  of  rights,  and  reserve  to  the  people  and  to  the  States,  respectively,  the  powers  deemed 
essential  to  their  preservation,  without  impairing  the  efficiency  of  the  central  authority,  this  demanded 
unequaled  patience,  sagacity,  moderation,  and  wisdom.  That  patience,  that  sagacity,  that  moderation, 
that  wisdom,  signally  exhibited  in  general,  was  especially  illustrated  in  his  character  and  conduct  whose 
inauguration  we  celebrate  to-day,  the  swelling  theme  of  the  launching  of  the  great  Republic  being  well- 
nigh  lost  in  the  recollection  and  contemplation  of  the  virtues  of  its  first  and  grandest  leader.  [Applause.] 

To  Washington's  prophetic  eye  the  glories  of  the  future  had  long  been  unveiled,  dependent  for 
realization  upon  the  success  of  statesmanship  in  the  work  of  construction,  entered  on  at  his  suggestion, 
and  carried  to  completion  under  his  direction.  His  full  anticipations  he  was  not  called  on  to  disclose. 
The  equable  and  steadfast  tenor  of  his  mind  was  exemplified  in  his  well-known  exclamation  :  "  Let  us 
raise  a  standard  to  which  the  wise  and  honest  can  repair ;  the  event  is  in  the  hand  of  God."  [Applause.] 

Under  such  guidance,  in  that  temper,  with  that  reliance,  the  work  went  forward  to  its  culmination  in  this 
masterpiece  of  political  science.  The  great  English  statesman  declared  it  "  the  most  wonderful  work  ever 
struck  off  at  a  given  time  by  the  brain  and  purpose  of  man,"  but  in  its  main  features  it  as  much  proceeded 
"from  progressive  history"  as  any  governmental  organism  mankind  has  ever  seen.  Like  the  action  of  Na- 
ture, the  forces  had  been  long  accumulating  before  they  burst  into  expression.  The  careful  division  of  pow- 
ers, the  checks  and  balances,  the  representation  of  States  and  people,  the  safeguards  against  the  exercise  of 
arbitrary  will,  the  immense  power  to  protect  and  the  powerlessness  to  oppress,  were  but  the  concentrated  re- 
sults of  prior  experience,  while  the  plan  of  a  government  absolutely  sovereign  in  its  own  sphere,  leaving  the 
States  without  a  political  superior  in  their  own,  was  the  natural  outcome  of  the  necessity  of  reconciling  im- 
perial sway  over  a  vast  extent  of  country  to  be  peopled  by  coming  myriads,  with  republican  rule  resting  on 
the  representative  system  and  the  principle  of  local  government  for  domestic  purposes.  [Applause.] 

No  Rubicon  needed  to  be  or  was  defined,  to  cross  which  was  revolution,  for  a  Supreme  Tribunal  was  part 
of  the  noble  scheme,  to  which  was  committed  the  duty  of  determining  when  Federal  or  State  actions  exceeded 
the  boundaries  by  which  each  was  circumscribed. 

For  the  flexibility  of  unwritten  constitutions,  there  was  substituted  here  not  merely  a  mode  of  alteration 
when  sanctioned  as  prescribed,  but  through  the  simple  generality  of  the  terms  employed,  an  elasticity  ena- 
bling the  fundamental  law  to  develop  with  the  progress  of  the  people,  as  the  inexorable  logic  of  events  influ- 
enced its  provisions,  or  judicial  interpretation  expanded  them,  not  so  as  to  impair  the  vital  rule  but  to  permit 
its  adaptation  to  the  new  conditions. 

Thus  keeping  pace  with  the  onward  sweep  of  the  empire  which  it  rendered  possible,  this  matchless  instru- 
ment vindicates  its  title  to  immortality.  The  conservative  evolution  that  characterizes  it  has  enabled  it  to 
pass  the  century  since  its  birth  with  its  machinery,  no  cog  or  wheel  displaced,  still  noiselessly  and  easily  work- 
ing ;  to  receive  direct  amendment ;  to  accept  and  absorb  the  results  of  frequent  construction  ;  to  emerge  from 
civil  war,  drawing  new  vigor  from  the  strain  to  which  it  had  been  subjected  : 

"  J'er  dam na,  per  etedes,  ab  ipso 
Due  it  opes  aniinumqite  ferro." 

Wi  ll  may  the  venerable  historian,  whose  years  nearly  equal  those  of  the  nation,  describe  the  Constitution 
as  not  only  the  consummation  of  political  wisdom  in  the  past,  but  the  trust  of  the  present;  and  well  may  we 


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hope  with  him  that  coming  nations  will  avail  themselves  of  the  teaching  that  its  century  of  successful  opera- 
tion affords — as  will,  we  trust,  succeeding  centuries  of  progress — and  in  the  recognition  of  man's  capacity  to 
observe  self-imposed  limitations,  accelerate  the  time  when  the  whole  world  shall  be  wrapped  in  the  peace  of 
one  dominion.  [Applause.] 

Sixth  Toast. — "The  House  of  Representatives." 

By  James  G.  Blaine,  Secretary  of  State. 

The  first  branch  of  Congress  provided  for  in  the  Constitution,  and  the  subject  of  the  only  speech  in  the  Convention  made  by 
Washington.  In  the  language  of  George  Mason,  "the  grand  depository  of  the  Democratic  principle  of  the  Government,"  to 
which  has  been  assigned  a  full,  coequal  share  in  the  National  Legislation,  together  with  the  sole  power  of  impeachment,  the  origi- 
nation of  all  the  bills  for  raising  revenue,  and,  in  the  last  resort,  the  choice  of  the  President  of  the  United  States.  The  vital  ele- 
ment of  our  Republican  System,  without  which  there  can  be,  in  the  words  of  Abraham  Lincoln,  no  "  Government  of  the  People, 
by  the  People,  for  the  People." 

May  its  rightful  authority  and  dignity  ever  be  maintained  and  upheld,  both  by  its  own  officers  and  members,  and  by  the 
millions  of  voters  whom  they  are  privileged  to  represent! — Robert  C.  Wixthrop,  senior  surviving  Speaker  of  the  United 
States  House  of  Representatives. 

As  Mr.  Blaine  was  detained  in  Washington  by  illness,  the  Mavor  read  the  toast,  and  the 
response  was  omitted. 

Seventh  Toast.—"  The  Senate." 

By  John  W.  Daniel,  United  States  Senator  from  Virginia. 

An  elective  body  dependent  upon  no  prerogatives  of  Royalty,  Church,  or  Descent.  Able  in  its  statesmanship,  wise  and  prac- 
tical in  its  legislative  and  executive  functions,  the  most  distinguished  of  all  legislative  bodies,  and  a  bulwark  in  defense  of  our 
free  institutions. — Hannibal  Hamlin,  sole  surviving  ex-Vice- President  of  the  United  States. 

Mr.  Mayor  of  New  York  :  The  first  thought  that  springs  to  my  lips  as  I  rise  to  address  you  is  one  of 
gratitude  and  admiration  for  the  magnificent  hospitality  with  which  the  Empire  State  has  welcomed  here  its 
brethren  of  the  Union  ;  and  had  I  the  power  I  would  offer  and  declare  carried  the  unanimous  resolution,  that 
it  has  been  eminently  worthy  of  "  Our  People."  [Applause.] 

Upon  the  flag  of  the  Union,  which  bends  over  you,  there  is  a  star  for  every  State.  In  the  Senate  there  is 
an  equal  State  for  every  star — no  star  differing  there  from  another  star  in  glory;  for  by  the  Constitution  it  is 
provided  that  each  State  shall  have  two  Senators,  and  each  Senator  one  vote.  And,  however  it  may  be 
amended  in  other  respects,  by  three  fourths  of  the  States,  it  is  provided  that  no  State,  without  its  consent, 
"shall  be  deprived  of  its  equal  suffrage  in  the  Senate."  The  States  present  countless  diversities  of  territory, 
population,  wealth,  soil,  climate,  race,  creed,  and  history.  They  differ  in  all  things,  save  in  one;  each  is  sov- 
ereign in  its  equality,  and  that  equality  is  represented  only  in  the  Senate.  [Applause.]  A  group  of  thirteen 
trees  was  planted  by  New  York's  greatest  statesman,  Alexander  Hamilton,  to  symbolize  the  Union  of  the 
States;  as  one  as  the  forest,  as  distinct  as  the  trees.  The  fathers  planted  the  Senate  in  the  Constitution,  not 
as  a  symbol,  but  as  the  word  made  flesh,  that  mankind  might  see  with  their  eyes,  and  hear  with  their  ears,  the 
ideality  of  sovereign  statehood  translated  into  manhood,  there  to  stand  for  it,  and  vouch  it  and  make  it  felt. 
The  Senate  is  a  co-ordinate  legislative  body  with  the  House  of  Representatives,  and  so  made  that  equal  States 
may  have  therein  an  equal  voice  in  making  laws  to  govern  them.  The  Senate  is  a  judicial  body,  and  so  made 
that  equal  States  may  sit  in  judgment  upon  their  officers  ;  and  condemn  and  dismiss,  if  need  be,  even  the  Su- 
preme Judge,  or  the  President.  The  Senate  is  an  executive  body ;  and  so  constituted  that  the  President  may 
make  no  treaty  with  foreign  nations,  and  may  appoint  no  public  officer  "  save  by  the  advice  and  consent  "  of 
equal  sovereign  States  through  their  Senators  delivered. 

More  exalted  constituencies  than  those  of  the  Senate  can  not  be  conceived.  More  exalted  trusts  can 
not  be  reposed  in  man.  More  exalted  functions  can  not  be  exercised.  LTnited  in  one  body  as  the  States  are 
united  in  one  Constitution,  yet,  each  Senator  deriving  title  from  a  separate  source,  the  Senate  is  a  mirror  of 


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the  indestructible  union  of  States  indestructible  in  their  equality.  And  more  exalted  honor  can  not  be  con- 
ferred than  that  of  Senator  of  the  United  States,  created  such  by  one  commonwealth  to  become  the  trusted 
servant  of  thirty-eight  commonwealths,  who  have  united  their  purses  for  the  general  welfare,  and  given  their 
swords  for  the  common  defense. 

The  House  of  Representatives  has  the  sole  power  of  originating  bills  for  raising  revenue,  they  being 
the  immediate  representatives  of  the  people,  who  must  bear  the  burden.  But  the  Senate  may  "  propose 
or  concur  with  amendments  as  on  other  bills,"  thus  exercising  revision  by  States  of  propositions  emanat- 
ing from  their  fragmentary  constituencies. 

The  Senate  is  neither  usurpatory  nor  refractive  when  it  declines  to  ratify  treaties  proposed  or  to 
confirm  nominations  made  by  the  President.  Him  they  will  ever  treat  with  the  respect  due  to  the  Chief 
Magistrate  of  the  United  States,  but  it  is  as  much  a  part  of  the  treaty-making  and  the  appointing  power, 
created  by  the  Constitution,  as  he  is;  and  it  has  the  same  duty  and  discretion  to  decline  to  confirm 
that  the  President  has  to  decline  to  propose  or  nominate.  It  may  err  in  judgment,  but  it  does  not  infringe 
on  his  prerogatives  or  transcend  its  own  when  it  differs  from  him.  It  simply  makes  revision  by  all  the 
States  of  the  action  of  a  President,  who  can  only  be  from  one. 

What  is  known  as  "  the  courtesy  of  the  Senate  "  grows  out  of  its  representative  character.  Its 
rationale  is  not  that  of  the  courtier  who  "kissed  away  his  hand  in  courtesy."  It  has  deeper  root  than 
politeness  and  refinement.  It  is  the  spirit  of  the  Constitution  ;  the  deference  of  States  to  their  equals 
expressed  by  ambassadors.  It  is  the  salute  of  all  to  the  star  of  the  State  that  glistens  in  the  galaxy  of 
the  United  States.  "  High  thoughts  seated  in  a  heart  of  courtesy  "  was  Sidney's  notion  of  what  con- 
stituted a  gentleman,  and  such  qualities  are  doubly  enjoined  by  the  personal  and  representative  relations 
of  a  Senator. 

Thus,  sir,  I  have  sought  to  sketch  the  structure  and  spirit  of  the  Senate.  Neither  Roman  nor  Greek 
furnished  its  model,  nor  was  it  drawn  from  the  institutions  of  our  mother-country.  It  is  purely  Ameri- 
can in  its  origin,  and  was  the  design  of  a  great  people  under  the  inspiration  of  a  great  age. 

In  the  Federal  Convention,  which  framed  the  Constitution  at  Philadelphia,  the  question  which  most 
disturbed  its  deliberations  was  that  of  congressional  representation,  and  Madison  said,  "  If  this  could  be 
adjusted  all  else  would  be  surmountable."  I  can  not  claim  for  my  own  State  that  she  through  any  of 
her  statesmen  suggested  the  resolvent  of  the  difficulty  presented.  The  Virginia  plan,  outlined  by  Madi- 
son and  proposed  by  Randolph,  contemplated  representation  in  both  Houses  on  the  basis  of  free  inhab- 
itants or  of  tax  contribution,  and,  being  then  the  most  wealthy  and  populous,  Virginia  was  loath  to  discard 
these  elements  of  influence.  Put  the  smaller  States,  New  Hampshire,  New  Jersey,  Connecticut,  Delaware, 
Maryland,  and  New  York,  demurred;  and  at  last  a  suggestion  of  Benjamin  Franklin,  of  Pennsylvania, 
worked  out  by  the  committee,  of  which  Elbridge  Gerry,  of  Massachusetts,  was  chairman,  led  to  the 
compromise  by  which  the  population  of  States  was  represented  in  the  House  and  equal  statehood  repre- 
sented in  the  Senate. 

When  the  throne  of  their  power  was  thus  turned  into  an  altar  of  sacrifice,  the  three  great  States,  Vir- 
ginia, Massachusetts,  and  Pennsylvania  made  themselves  that  sacrifice  for  the  constitutional  union.  When 
the  world  is  ripe  for  the  universal  nation,  this  conduct  will  furnish  sovereign  governments  an  example, 
and  the  parliament  of  man  will  take  the  United  States  Senate  model  for  its  senate. 

"This  is  a  Senate,"  exclaimed  Webster,  "a  Senate  of  equals;  of  men  of  individual  character  and  of 
personal  honor  and  absolute  independence."  And  so  should  it  fitly  be  ;  for  it  alone  of  the  agencies  of 
our  Government  represents  in  one  the  States  in  their  entireties  and  the  Union  in  its  entirety;  and 
neither  one  State  nor  all  can  suffer  detriment  if  the  States  themselves  see  to  it  that  no  one  shall  fill  a 
Senator's  seat  who  is  not  true  alike  to  State  and  country  and  who  does  not  stand  through  good  and  ill 
report  for  the  rights  of  the  States  separately,  and  for  the  rights  of  the  people  and  the  rights  of  the 
States  united — holding,  as  it  were,  the  equilibrium  of  the  nation. 

The  Senate  has  preserved  its  absolute  freedom  of  debate.  The  call  of  the  previous  question  is  un- 
known to  its  parliamentary  usages.  It  has  been  true  to  its  design  and  its  traditions;  nor  could  the 
commanding  genius  of  Clay  induce  it  to  abandon  its  prerogative  against  the  protest  of  the  minority  led 
by  Calhoun  and  Benton.     The  sovereign  State  can  ever  be  heard  through  its  Senator  in  the  council- 


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chamber  of  the  Senate.  And  as  long  as  this  noble  tradition  is  preserved,  and  this  noble  liberty  is  exercised, 
the  States  and  the  United  States  may  exclaim  in  hours  of  peril,  with  better  right  than  the  Roman,  "  Look 
to  the  Senate  !  "  [Applause.] 

Eighth  Toast. — "  The  Presidency." 

By  Rutherford  B.  Hayes,  ex-President  of  the  United  States. 

May  the  good  people  of  these  United  States  never  weary  of  searching  for  a  second  Washington  to  fill  the  place  ! — JOHN 
Quincy  Adams. 

Mr.  President  and  Gentlemen:  In  this  city,  in  1839,  on  tne  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  inauguration 
of  Washington  as  President,  John  Quincy  Adams  delivered  a  memorable  discourse.  In  it  he  set  forth  what 
he  deemed  the  true  principles  of  the  Constitution  on  the  then  unsettled  question  of  the  relation  between  the 
States  and  the  General  Government.  With  a  fullness  of  information,  which  perhaps  no  other  man  could  mar- 
shal, and  with  a  faultless  logic,  he  showed  that  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  in  terms  and  in  fact,  was  the 
act  of  a  single  people  dwelling  in  thirteen  colonies,  but  who  united  together,  and,  out  of  a  decent  respect  to 
the  opinions  of  mankind,  declared  the  causes  which  impelled  them  as  "  one  people  to  dissolve  the  political 
bands  which  had  connected  them  with  another."  He  showed  that  the  Articles  of  Confederation  departed 
from  the  firm  and  safe  concord  with  which  independence  was  declared,  and  "  relaxed  their  union  into  a  mere 
league  of  friendship  between  sovereign  and  independent  States."  In  spite  of  the  defects  of  the  Articles  of 
Confederation,  the  spirit  of  liberty  and  the  popular  impulse  to  unity  carried  the  Americans  through  the  war 
as  one  people,  and  the  cause  of  independence  was  triumphant.  But  now  came  the  gravest  perils.  The 
danger  of  conquest  by  British  despotism  removed,  "the  Union  languished,"  says  Mr.  Adams,  "to  the  point 
of  death.  .  .  .  There  was,"  he  says,  "avowedly  no  executive  power."  Indeed,  he  went  further  and  declared 
that  "the  one  united  people  had  no  government."  And  he  was  altogether  right.  Where  there  is  no  executive 
power,  whatever  else  there  may  be,  there  is  no  government.  Hence,  when  the  fathers  met  in  that  great  Con- 
vention which  Washington  suggested,  and  which  he,  in  truth,  more  than  any  other  man,  called  into  being,  no 
more  difficult  or  weighty  duty  devolved  upon  them  than  wisely  to  constitute  the  chief  magistracy — the  presi- 
dency— for  the  republic  they  were  about  to  establish.  Now,  what  shall  be  said  of  their  work  ?  Speaking 
under  the  necessary  limitations  of  this  occasion,  one  must  avoid  details  and  all  attempts  at  elaborate  dis- 
cussion. No  candid  and  intelligent  retrospect  of  the  century  that  is  gone  will  fail  to  discover  transcendent 
merit  in  the  executive  authority  contrived  by  Washington,  Hamilton,  Madison,  and  their  immortal  associates. 
[Applause.]  The  tree  is  known  by  its  fruit.  Experience  has  shown  that  in  ordinary  times  the  executive 
power  is  of  no  greater  importance — perhaps  it  is  less  vital — than  the  legislative  or  judicial  power.  Indeed, 
so  happily  constituted  is  the  presidency  that  we  must  say  of  each  of  the  twenty-six  presidential  elections 
under  the  Constitution — with,  perhaps,  a  single  exception — that,  had  either  candidate  been  elected,  the  good 
citizen  whose  partisan  feeling  was  strongest  and  whose  disappointment  was  bitterest  might  have  reposed  on  his 
pillow  consoled  by  the  reflection,  "Although  my  party  is  beaten,  my  country  is  safe."  [Applause.]  Is  it  not 
true  that  our  executive  authority  is  so  fashioned  that  in  ordinary  times  it  has  always  been  so  administered 
that  the  republic  has  received  no  detriment  ?  When  gigantic  perils  and  disasters  threaten,  when  extraordi- 
nary character  and  powers  are  demanded,  these  great  occasions  have  always  found  strong  hands  to  deal  with 
them.  To  pilot  the  untried  Government  in  its  first  voyage  over  an  unknown  and  stormy  sea,  without  a  whis- 
per of  dissent  in  any  quarter,  Washington  was  called  to  the  helm,  and  under  him  the  first  voyage  gave  the 
world  assurance  that  the  prospect  of  the  new  nation  for  growth  and  power  and  prestige  and  happiness  was 
unmatched  by  that  of  any  people  the  world  had  seen  before. 

Only  twice  within  the  century  since  our  Government  was  established  has  deadly  peril  seemed  to  draw 
near  to  the  people  of  the  United  States.  At  the  beginning,  as  we  have  seen,  armed  with  the  orderly  and 
clearly  expressed  powers  of  the  presidency,  the  threatened  danger  was  met  and  overcome  by  Washington. 

Again,  as  we  were  approaching  the  middle  of  the  second  half-century  of  the  Constitution,  it  did  seem 
as  if  we  were  drifting — nay,  as  if  we  were  swept  on — toward  destruction.  Our  friends  in  other  lands — 
the  few  we  had— lost  hope.    John  Bright  was  almost  alone  among  great  statesmen  [applause]  with  his  in- 


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spiring  confidence — John  Bright,  that  glorious  orb  now  just  passed  below  the  horizon,  with  whose  mellow 
light  all  the  world  is  yet  aglow,  whose  voice,  the  most  eloquent  voice  of  all  England,  from  the  beginning  to 
the  end  of  our  great  conflict  was  always  for  the  Union  and  the  liberty  of  America.  [Applause.]  Ever 
blessed  in  America  shall  be  the  memory  of  John  Bright !  Those  not  our  friends,  and  yet  not  quite  our  ene- 
mies, shook  their  heads  and  thought  it  strange  that  we  could  not  see  the  inevitable  end.  Our  enemies 
abroad,  jubilant  beyond  expression,  declared  "the  bubble  republic  bursted." 

In  that  dread  time  to  what  department  of  our  Government  did  we  look  ?  The  judge,  calm,  impartial, 
and  wise,  could  interpret  the  Constitution  and  the  laws ;  but  the  sectional  passion  and  madness  of  the  hour 
— would  it  heed  him  ?  The  Senator  and  Representative,  the  legislative  department,  far-seeing,  patriotic, 
and  solicitous,  what  laws  could  they  propose  to  meet  the  emergent  need  of  the  time  ?  In  the  legislative  halls 
as  in  the  court-rooms,  everywhere  was  clearly  written  the  awful  sentence  "Inter  arma  silent  leges"  (in  the 
midst  of  war  laws  are  silent). 

Happily  for  America,  in  conformity  with  the  Constitution  and  by  the  gracious  favor  of  Almighty  God, 
the  presidency  of  the  United  States  was  held  by  Abraham  Lincoln  [great  applause],  and  by  him  so  executed 
and  administered  that  the  American  Republic  was  saved.  [Applause.] 

We  can  truly  say  of  the  presidency  that  the  results  of  twenty-five  consecutive  terms  have  vindicated  the 
wisdom  of  the  fathers  who  established  it.  Of  twenty-two  terms  there  are  two  things  which  may  be  said: 
One  is,  that  no  great  remediless  harm  came  through  the  executive  power  to  the  people  it  was  intended  to 
serve.  The  other  is,  that  if  no  eminent  historical  benefit,  lasting  through  the  ages,  was  conferred  by  most 
of  them,  it  was  perhaps  because  the  opportunity  for  illustrious  achievement  did  not  occur.  But  during 
them  all  the  nation,  by  its  inherent  resources  and  energy,  pushed  rapidly  forward  in  a  career  of  unparalleled 
prosperity  and  happiness,  unimpeded  by  executive  crimes  or  blunders. 

Finally,  during  the  critical  and  anxious  years  of  the  other  three  presidential  terms  the  opportunity  came 
to  America,  and  she  gave  to  the  world  two  Chief  Magistrates  whose  character  and  deeds,  unrivaled  in  human 
annals,  were  crowned  by  a  devotion  to  country  and  mankind  which  enabled  them  to  furnish  an  example  of 
independence  of  personal  advantage  and  of  selfish  love  of  power,  of  wealth,  and  of  title,  either  for  themselves 
or  their  families,  absolutely  unknown  before  in  the  history  of  the  world.  By  their  administration  of  the 
presidency  Washington  and  Lincoln  made  the  great  office  and  the  century  whose  completion  we  celebrate 
forever  illustrious — illustrious  forever  and  forever  !  [Applause.] 

Ninth  Toast. — "  The  Judiciary." 

By  William  M.  Evarts,  United  States  Senator  from  New  York. 

A  learned,  upright,  and  fearless  Judiciary  is  the  strong  bulwark  of  Constitutional  Government.  Without  such  Judiciary  no 
free  institutions  can  exist ;  with  it  they  will  not  perish.  So  long  as  the  spirit  and  example  of  Marshall  and  Taney,  Kent  and 
Shaw,  pervade  and  inspire  our  courts,  liberty  in  law  shall  abide  with  and  bless  the  land  of  Washington. — William  Hentrv 
Harrison  Miller,  Attorney-General  of  the  United  States. 

Mr.  President  :  Whoever  might  receive  the  honor  from  your  committee  to  speak  in  this  presence  and 
upon  this  occasion,  might  well  wish  that  he  could  command  some  treatment  of  his  theme  that,  in  thought  and 
phrase,  would  comport  in  some  degree  with  the  grandeur  of  this  celebration  and  the  dignity  of  the  topics  that 
should  merit  our  attention.  But  this  hope  would  be  vain  ;  the  concourse  of  these  vast  crowds  of  our  coun- 
trymen that  have  filled  the  great  city  through  these  successive  festal  days,  the  pomp  and  splendor  of  the 
pageants  of  the  bay  and  of  the  streets,  the  illustrious  assemblage  of  the  great  heads  of  Government  of  the 
nation  and  the  States ;  the  collected  multitude  of  eminent  men  of  all  pursuits  and  all  opinions  of  a  popu- 
lous, a  prosperous,  and  a  powerful  people — these  are  the  true  orators  and  interpreters  of  the  nation's  senti- 
ments, of  the  nation's  joys  and  hopes  at  an  epoch  which  recalls  the  past  of  a  century  and  suggests  the  fore- 
casts of  another.  Still,  Mr.  President,  the  noble  company  of  the  banquet  table  are  gracious  enough  to  allot  a 
few  moments  to  each  of  your  generous  list  of  speakers  for  some  fleeting  illustration  or  enlivenment  of  the 
urgent  motives  and  the  profound  views  of  human  affairs  which  concurred  to  build  up  and  confirm  the  con 
stituted  liberties  of  this  people.  [Applause.] 


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It  might  be  thought  that  the  judicial  establishment  of  the  new  Government  might  easily  find  in  the 
method  and  example  of  English  judicature  and  jurisprudence  a  ready  and  complete  frame  and  system  for  the 
young  nation.  The  great  steps  already  secured  in  the  mother-country,  by  which  an  independent  and  perma- 
nent and  upright  judiciary  was  our  rightful  inheritance,  the  trial  by  jury,  the  public  conduct  of  all  judicial 
proceedings,  the  habeas  corpus  and  amenability  of  all  judges  to  impeachment  for  their  misbehavior — these 
seem  to  have  supplied  defenses  against  irresponsible  and  oppressive  power  with  which  our  people  might  well 
be  satisfied.  No  one  should  misunderstand  these  lessons  in  justice  and  liberty  which  our  English  ancestry  had 
taught  their  rulers  at  home  and  which  followed  the  emigrants  to  America. 

The  new  features,  however,  in  our  political  establishments  and  their  wide  departure  from  the  fundamental 
theory  of  the  English  monarchy  and  the  English  Parliament,  needed,  and  obtained  in  the  frame  of  the  Consti- 
tution, new  functions  for  the  judiciary,  and  stupendous  exaltation  of  those  functions  in  the  co-ordinate  powers 
of  government  which  have  never  before  been  thought  possible.  The  undisputed  and  indisputable  maxims  of  the 
English  Constitution,  that  the  king  could  do  no  wrong  and  that  Parliament  was  omnipotent,  were  limits  upon 
the  rights  of  the  people  and  upon  judicial  authority  in  their  protection,  which  disappeared  with  our  grand  con- 
ception of  the  supremacy  of  a  written  Constitution.  By  this  one  step  all  magisterial  authority  from  the  high- 
est to  the  lowest,  all  legislative  power,  however  august  the  lawgivers  in  whom  it  was  vested,  were  circum- 
scribed and  subordinated  to  the  all-prevalent  law  and  power  of  the  Constitution.  And  thus  there  came  to  be 
what  had  not  been  attempted  before,  under  our  Constitution,  an  ever-present  and  ever-active  energy  of  law, 
which  qualified  every  act  of  power,  executive  and  legislative.  This  energy  was  no  longer  a  mere  persuasive 
sentiment  of  justice,  or  a  vague  menace  of  resistance  to  injustice,  but  an  energy  that  thwarted  and  paralyzed 
any  encroachments  upon  the  constituted  liberties  of  the  people  ;  and  thus  the  judiciary  was  made  not  only  a 
judge  and  divider  between  the  suitors  in  respect  of  private  rights  and  private  wrongs,  but  a  judge  and  divider 
between  the  great  departments  of  Government,  and  a  judge  and  divider  between  the  people  and  the  collective 
powers  of  the  Government.  [Applause.] 

It  is  no  wonder,  Mr.  President,  that  this  consummate  product  of  the  wisdom  and  courage  of  the  framers 
of  our  Constitution — I  mean  this  exaltation  of  deliberate  reason,  as  the  final  arbiter  of  the  rights  of  the  peo- 
ple and  the  powers  of  Government  into  an  every-day  working  force,  in  the  orderly  administration  of  the  affairs 
of  a  great  nation — should  have  challenged  the  admiration  of  philosophers  and  statesmen  alike  in  every  nation 
that  has  studied  its  mechanism  and  its  resistless  and  its  unresisting  power. 

Quis  custodiet  custodes  f  Who  shall  watch  the  watchmen — who  shall  guard  the  guardians  ?  This  is  the 
great  problem  of  civil  society  in  all  the  distributions  and  all  the  administrations  of  public  trust  and  power. 
The  framers  of  our  Government  have  not  quailed  before  the  difficulties  of  its  solution.  Let  the  homage  of  a 
hundred  years  to  the  working  of  this  august  judicial  scheme  attest  the  wisdom  of  this  feature  of  our  Constitu- 
tion. And  let  a  law-abiding  people  for  the  future  exalt  and  uphold  our  great  judiciary  as  the  protection  of 
the  Constitution  and  the  safeguard  of  our  liberties. 

Mr.  President,  if  justice  is  the  great  interest  of  all  civilized  society,  if  its  administration  is  the  nearest,  the 
dearest,  and  most  permanent  and  most  universal  desire  of  a  free  and  instructed  people,  let  us  see  to  it  that  the 
great  lecord  of  our  judicature  and  our  jurisprudence  should  be  cherished  with  an  enthusiastic  reverence. 
The  names  and  fames  of  our  great  judges  must  never  fade  from  our  memories,  but  with  those  of  our  great 
soldiers  and  our  great  statesmen  be  preserved  in  our  hearts  from  generation  to  generation.  [Applause.] 

Tenth  Toast. — "  The  Army  axd  Navy." 

Bv  William  Tecumseh  Sherman,  General. 

In  four  wars  each  has  done  its  full  duty  in  the  creation,  defense,  enlargement,  and  preservation  of  our  Nation  ;  but  the  dig- 
nity of  our  country  requires  renewed  attention  to  the  farewell  counsel  of  Washington,  so  that  international  emergencies  may  be 
met  without  hasty  and  inadequate  preparation. — Robert  T.  Lincoln,  Envoy  Extraordinary  and  Minister  Plenipotentiary  of 
the  United  States  to  Great  Britain. 

Mr.  President  and  Kind  Friends  :  When  notified  by  your  committee  that  I  was  detailed  to  respond 
to  this  double  toast,  I  begged  them  to  divide  it,  promising  to  limit  myself  to  my  own  special  branch  of 


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service  in  less  than  half  the  time  allotted  ;  but  no  !  1  must  do  double  duty.  I  therefore  bespeak  your  indul 
gence. 

One  hundred  years  ago  in  this  goodly  city  of  New  York,  our  first  President,  General  George  Washington, 
took  his  solemn  oath  "  to  the  best  of  his  ability  to  preserve,  protect,  and  defend  the  Constitution  of  the  United 
States,"  and  thereby  became  Commander-in-Chief  of  the  Army  and  Navy,  and  of  the  Militia,  when  called  into 
service.  Seventy-two  years  after,  his  most  worthy  successor,  Abraham  Lincoln,  took  the  same  identical  oath, 
and,  addressing  his  dissatisfied  countrymen  from  the  portico  of  the  Capitol  in  Washington,  reminded  them 
that  they  had  no  oath  registered  in  heaven  to  destroy  the  Government,  while  he  had  the  most  solemn  one  to 
preserve,  protect,  and  defend  it.  In  like  manner,  the  Army  and  Navy  have  their  oath  registered  in  heaven 
to  support  and  defend  the  Constitution,  to  obey  the  President  and  all  appointed  over  them,  for  they  are  the 
very  instruments  provided  by  the  Constitution  to  enable  him  to  protect  and  defend  it  whenever  force  is 
necessary ;  and  no  Government  on  earth  has  yet  been  devised  when,  at  times,  force  has  not  been  necessary. 

On  such  an  occasion  as  this,  you,  the  citizens  of  America,  have  a  perfect  right  to  inquire  of  your  knightly 
servants,  Have  you  been  true  and  faithful  to  your  oaths  during  the  past  century  ?  Making  due  allowance  for 
the  usual  infirmities  of  human  nature,  I  answer  emphatically,  yes!  Fortunately,  we  are  not  compelled  to  look 
back  into  Grecian,  Roman,  or  European  history  for  illustration.  Washington  himself  was  the  best  type  of 
the  citizen-soldier  this  world  has  yet  produced.  As  a  boy,  a  surveyor  of  land ;  as  an  aide  to  General  Brad- 
dock  ;  and  an  explorer  as  far  west  as  was  then  prudent,  he  was  educated  in  the  best  possible  school  of  a  sol- 
dier. He  read  much — he  thought  more;  always  shared  the  labors  and  dangers  of  his  command,  sympathized 
with  them  in  their  distresses  and  wrongs,  and,  during  the  War  of  Independence  and  after,  was  always  their 
advocate  with  Congress  and  the  people.  Apart  from  his  public  history,  he  has  left  an  extensive  correspond- 
ence, which  has  been  faithfully  preserved  by  Sparks,  which  contains  a  mass  of  knowledge  which  every  Ameri- 
can youth  should  study,  and  even  members  of  Congress  might  consult  with  profit. 

On  the  24th  of  September,  1776,  he  wrote  to  the  President  of  Congress  his  judgment  of  the  com- 
parative value,  in  an  economical  sense,  of  the  regulars  and  militia.  Again,  on  the  21st  of  April,  1778, 
from  Valley  Forge,  he  wrote  to  John  Bannister,  then  a  delegate  in  Congress,  a  letter  full  of  wisdom  and 
foresight.  I  would  like  to  quote  largely  from  this  letter,  but  time  and  the  occasion  do  not  warrant  it, 
and  I  will  limit  myself  to  a  short  quotation. 

Writing  of  the  jealousy  on  the  part  of  Congress  toward  the  army,  he  says  :  "  It  is  unjust,  because  no 
order  of  men  in  the  thirteen  States  has  paid  a  more  sacred  regard  to  the  proceedings  of  Congress  than 
the  army,  for,  without  arrogance  or  the  smallest  deviation  from  truth,  it  may  be  said  that  no  history  now 
extant  can  furnish  an  instance  of  an  army's  suffering  such  uncommon  hardships  as  ours  has  done,  and 
bearing  them  with  the  same  patience  and  fortitude.  To  see  men  without  clothes  to  cover  their  nakedness, 
without  blankets  to  lie  on,  without  shoes  (for  the  want  of  which  their  marches  might  be  traced  by  the 
blood  from  their  feet),  and  almost  as  often  without  provisions  as  with  them,  marching  through  the  frost 
and  snow,  and,  at  Christmas,  taking  up  their  winter  quarters  within-  a  day's  march  of  the  enemy,  without  a 
house  or  hut  to  cover  them  till  they  could  be  built,  and  submitting  without  a  murmur,  is  a  proof  of 
patience  and  obedience  which,  in  my  opinion,  can  scarce  be  paralleled.  There  may  have  been,"  he  con- 
tinues, "  some  remonstrances  or  applications  to  Congress  in  the  style  of  complaint  from  the  army  (and 
slaves  would  we  be  if  this  privilege  were  denied)  on  account  of  their  proceedings  in  particular  instances; 
but  these  will  not  authorize  nor  even  excuse  a  jealousy  that  they  are  aiming  at  unreasonable  powers,  or 
making  strides  dangerous  to  or  subversive  of  civil  authority." 

Finally,  on  the  7th  of  December,  1796,  but  a  few  months  before  he  voluntarily  relinquished  office,  in 
addressing  both  Houses  of  Congress,  as  was  his  custom,  he  urged  the  establishment  of  a  national  university 
expressly  "  to  bring  together  the  youth  from  every  quarter,  to  assimilate  the  principles,  opinions,  and 
manners  of  our  countrymen,  and  thereby  increase  the  prospect  of  a  permanent  Union,"  an  object  ever 
dear  to  his  heart,  which  he  aimed  to  accomplish  by  wise  forethought,  but  failed  by  reason  of  local  jealous- 
ies and  mean  economy.  Who  will  now  say  that,  if  his  wise  counsel  had  been  heeded,  we  might  not  have 
escaped  the  horrors  and  great  expense  of  our  civil  war  ? 

On  the  same  occasion  President  Washington  renewed  his  recommendation,  often  made  before,  for  the 
establishment  of  the  National  Military  Academy,  to  teach  the  science  of  war,  the  want  of  which  he  had  so 


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often  felt  in  his  previous  experience.  Even  this  was  not  begun  till  1802,  rather  to  utilize  the  old 
barracks  at  West  Point  left  over  by  the  Revolutionary  army  than  as  a  school  of  science,  and  it  was  not 
till  1818  that  it  assumed  the  dimensions  of  a  National  Military  Academy,  with  results  which  have  excited 
the  admiration  of  the  world.  Still  occasionally  breaks  out  the  same  spirit  of  jealousy  toward  the  army 
based  on  the  old  English  doctrine  that  a  standing  army  is  a  threat  to  a  free  people,  a  doctrine  which 
may  have  some  force  where  that  army  is  commanded  by  a  prince  claiming  to  govern  by  divine  right,  but 
is  simply  ridiculous  when  our  sovereignty  remains  with  the  people  themselves,  whose  Chief  Magistrate  is 
one  of  us,  clothed  with  temporary  and  responsible  power.  After  a  hundred  years'  experience  the  time 
has  come  for  this  jealousy  to  disappear. 

When  Washington  took  his  oath  his  army  was  composed  of  the  wrecks  and  remainders  of  his  old 
Revolutionary  army,  amounting  to  2,232  men,  which  he  organized  into  a  battalion  of  infantry.  When 
in  1797  he  relinquished  his  command  to  a  constitutional  successor,  that  army  had  grown  to  be  3,353  men, 
consisting  of  a  general  staff,  a  squadron  of  dragoons,  a  battalion  of  artillerists  and  engineers,  and  three 
regiments  of  infantry.  On  this  basis  has  been  built  up  the  present  military  establishment  of  the  United 
States,  admitting  of  28,764  officers  and  men,  many  of  whom  are  non-combatants,  and  a  militia  force  in 
reserve  of  7.921,482  men  capable  of  bearing  arms.  I  will  not  even  attempt  to  trace  the  many  changes  in 
organization  meantime  further  than  to  assert  that,  according  to  the  state  of  the  nation  and  demands  of 
the  occasion,  it  has  fallen  at  times  to  a  mere  skeleton,  and  risen  again  to  a  million  of  men,  for  in  this 
category  I  include  the  volunteers  of  the  Mexican  and  civil  wars.  These  were  as  much  regulars  as  the 
First  Infantry  or  the  Fifth  Artillery  ;  they  wore  the  same  uniform,  used  the  same  arms,  shared  the  same 
dangers,  were  bound  by  the  same  laws,  and  followed  the  same  flag.  How  different  from  the  time  when, 
in  the  cold  winter  of  1777,  General  Washington  had  to  import  Baron  Steuben,  a  soldier  reared  in  the  school 
of  the  great  Frederick,  to  teach  his  army  at  Valley  Forge  the  first  rudiments  of  organization,  subordination, 
and  discipline — lessons  which  took  deep  root  and  enabled  his  great  chief  to  lead  that  army  from  victory 
to  victory  up  to  the  end  at  Yorktown  ! 

The  force  of  Baron  Steuben's  teaching  was  transmitted  down  after  the  War  of  the  Revolution  from 
generation  to  generation,  and  is  felt  even  unto  this  day ;  but  to  General  Washington  chiefly  all  the  soldiers 
of  this  land  turn  with  reverential  awe  because  they  realize  that  he  loved  order,  system,  economy,  and 
faithful  service ;  that  by  his  own  example,  by  his  teachings  and  writings,  he  impressed  on  everybody  the 
value  of  discipline  and  subordination  to  rightful  authority  perfectly  consistent  with  American  citizenship. 
In  this  spirit  has  the  present  army  of  the  United  States  been  trained,  and,  though  predicted  by  Europeans, 
there  is  no  instance  in  our  military  history  of  the  usurpation  of  civil  power — not  warranted  by  the  law  of 
the  land.  Of  the  labors,  toils,  and  sufferings  of  our  little  army  on  our  remote  frontiers,  I  could  paint 
many  a  picture  as  true  and  touching  as  that  given  by  the  Father  of  his  Country  about  his  own  army  at 
Valley  Forge,  and  I  answer  again  the  army  of  the  United  States  has  been  as  true  to  their  oaths  as  the 
needle  to  the  pole. 

Men,  horses,  and  the  fundamental  principles  of  the  military  science  remain  the  same  to-day  as  when 
Washington  led  and  taught  his  Revolutionary  army — the  same  patient  endurance  of  the  labor  and  hard- 
ships of  war,  the  same  submission  to  discipline  and  authority,  the  same  patriotic  devotion  to  our  country's 
honor  and  its  flag  which  is  the  symbol  of  all  that  is  glorious  and  good  in  our  national  character ;  but  the 
instruments  of  war  have  changed,  and  are  still  changing  with  a  rapidity  which  confounds  the  ancients, 
and  calls  for  new  and  younger  men.  Should  unhappily  an  occasion  arise,  I  am  sure  these  will  come  forth, 
worthy  successors  to  their  noble  sires.  Tear  from  your  histories  the  annals  of  heroic  valor,  patient  en- 
durance, and  devotion  to  the  flag  by  the  soldiers  of  your  country  during  the  past  century,  and  you  will 
leave  a  void  indeed. 

I  can  with  equal  confidence  speak  of  our  navy — for  I  claim  to  be  somewhat  of  a  web-foot  myself,  having 

crossed  the  line  twice  in  a  man-of-war,  and  seen  old  Neptune  come  over  the  side  with  his  brush  and 

bucket — but  in  the  presence  of  the  veterans  here  I  feel  unsuited  to  the  task  assigned  me,  because  I  yield  to 

them,  yea  to  any  midshipman  who  has  graduated  at  our  most  valuable  Naval  Academy  at  Annapolis,  and  who 

has  done  his  first  cruise  at  sea,  a  better  knowledge  of  their  profession  than  I  possess.    We  are  brothers  in  the 

same  cause,  follow  the  same  flag,  and  share  the  same  destiny.    They  have  to  combat  not  only  the  dangers  of 
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war,  but  those  of  the  shoals,  storms,  and  tempests  of  the  sea.  Their  deeds  of  gallantry,  of  heroism,  of  devo- 
tion to  their  country  and  its  honored  flag,  from  the  Revolutionary  War  to  the  present  moment,  irradiate 
American  history  with  annals  which  will  stimulate  the  youth  of  our  country  to  follow  their  examples  for  ages 

to  come. 

Steel,  steam,  electricity,  and  nitro-glycerine  have  revolutionized  the  navies  of  the  world,  have  banished 
from  the  high  seas  the  majestic  line-of-battle  ship,  the  handsome  frigate,  and  speedy  sloop,  and  in  their  stead 
have  substituted  monitors  and  steel-clads,  real  monsters,  of  the  most  uncouth  patterns,  so  that  were  Nelson 
and  Collingwood,  John  Paul  Jones  and  Stewart  recalled  to  earth,  they  would  find  themselves  strangers  on 
their  own  decks.  The  world  will  go  ahead,  and  I  have  abundant  faith  that  the  heroic  youth  of  our  navy  will 
keep  well  abreast  in  these  modern  inventions;  and  should  the  occasion  arise,  they  too  will  prove  equal  to  it, 
as  they  have  ever  done  in  the  past.  Therefore,  let  me  conclude  with  what  I  might  have  begun  and  finished 
with  : 

"  The  Army  and  Navy  forever  ! 

Three  cheers  for  the  red,  white,  and  blue.-' 

Eleventh  Toast. — "  Our  Schools  and  Colleges." 

By  Charles  W.  Eliot,  President  of  Harvard  University. 

Established  by  the  wisdom  and  foresight  of  the  founders  of  our  Nation  ;  the  support  and  stay  of  civil  and  religious  liberty  ; 
they  should  be  jealously  guarded  and  fostered  as  the  dispensers  of  virtue  and  intelligence,  on  which  depend  the  welfare  and  per- 
petuity of  our  Republican  institutions. — Henry  Drisler,  Acting  President  of  Columbia  College. 

Your  Excellency  the  President  of  the  United  States,  Ladies  and  Gentlemen  :  That  brief  phrase 
— the  schools  and  colleges  of  the  United  States — is  a  formal  and  familiar  one;  but  what  imagination  can 
grasp  the  infinitude  of  human  affections,  powers,  and  wills  which  it  really  comprises?  Not  the  liveliest  and 
most  far-reaching.  But  let  us  try.  Let  us  forget  the  outward  things  called  schools  and  colleges  and  summon 
up  human  beings. 

Imagine  the  eight  million  children,  actually  in  attendance  at  the  elementary  schools  of  the  country, 
brought  before  your  view.  They  would  fill  this  great  house  sixteen  hundred  times,  and  every  time  it  would 
be  packed  with  boundless  loves  and  hopes.  Each  unit  in  that  mass  speaks  of  a  glad  birth,  a  brightened  home, 
a  mother's  pondering  heart,  a  father's  careful  joy.  In  all  that  multitude,  every  little  heart  bounds,  and  every 
eye  shines  at  the  name  of  Washington.  They  all,  of  whatever  race — British,  Irish,  French,  Scandinavian,  Ital- 
ian, Spanish,  Greek,  African,  Indian — and  of  whatever  religious  communion — Jewish,  Mormon,  Roman  Catho- 
lic, Anglican,  Lutheran,  Wesleyan,  Presbyterian,  Congregational — all  have  learned  that  he  was  the  brave  and 
steadfast  soldier,  the  wise  statesman,  and  the  patriotic  ruler,  who  made  their  country  free,  strong,  and  just. 
They  all  knew  his  figure,  dress,  and  features,  and,  if  asked  to  name  their  country's  hero,  every  voice  would 
answer,  Washington.  [Applause.] 

The  two  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  girls  and  boys  in  the  secondary  schools  are  getting  a  fuller  view  of 
this  incomparable  character  than  the  younger  children  can  reach.  They  are  old  enough  to  understand  his 
civil  as  well  as  his  military  achievements.  They  learn  of  his  great  part  in  that  immortal  Federal  Convention 
of  1787,  of  his  inestimable  services  in  organizing  and  conducting  through  two  presidential  terms  the  new  Gov- 
ernment— services  of  which  he  alone  was  capable — and  of  his  firm  resistance  to  misguided  public  clamor. 
They  see  him  ultimately  victorious  in  war  and  successful  in  peace,  but  only  through  much  adversity  and 
over  many  obstacles. 

Next  picture  to  yourself  the  sixty  thousand  students  in  colleges  and  universities — selected  youth  of  keen 
intelligence,  wide  reading,  and  high  ambition.  They  are  able  to  compare  Washington  with  the  greatest  men 
of  other  times  and  countries,  and  to  appreciate  the  unique  quality  of  his  renown.  They  can  set  him  beside 
the  heroes  of  romance  and  history — beside  David,  Alexander,  Pericles,  Csesar,  Saladin,  Charlemagne,  Gus- 
tavus  Adolphus,  John  Hampden,  William  the  Silent,  Peter  of  Russia,  and  Frederick  the  Great,  only  to  find  him 
a  nobler  human  type  than  any  one  of  them  [applause],  completer  in  his  nature,  happier  in  his  cause,  and  more 
fortunate  in  the  great  issues  of  his  career.    They  are  taught  to  see  in  him  a  soldier  whose  sword  wrought  only 


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mercy  and  justice  for  mankind ;  a  statesman  who  steadied  a  remarkable  generation  of  public  men  by  his  men- 
tal poise,  and  exalted  them  by  his  singleness  of  heart,  and  a  ruler  whose  exercise  of  power  established  for  the 
first  time  on  earth  a  righteous  Government  by  all  for  all.  [Applause.]  They  recognize  in  him  a  simple, 
stainless,  and  robust  character,  which  served  with  dazzling  success  the  precious  cause  of  human  progress 
through  liberty,  and  so  stands  like  the  sunlit  peak  of  the  Matterhorn,  unmatched  in  all  the  world.  [Ap- 
plause.] 

And  what  shall  I  say  in  behalf  of  the  three  hundred  thousand  teachers  of  the  United  States  ?  They  de- 
serve some  mention  to-day.  None  of  them  are  rich  or  famous;  most  of  them  are  poor,  retiring,  and  unno- 
ticed; but  it  is  they  who  are  building  a  perennial  monument  to  Washington.  It  is  they  who  give  him  a  mill- 
ion-tongued  fame.  [Applause.]  They  make  him  live  again  in  the  young  hearts  of  successive  generations, 
and  fix  his  image  there  as  the  American  ideal  of  a  public  servant. 

It  is  through  the  schools  and  colleges  of  the  country  and  the  national  literature  that  the  heroes  of  any 
people  win  lasting  renown  ;  and  it  is  through  the  same  agencies  that  a  nation  is  molded  into  the  likeness  of 
its  heroes.  This  local  commemoration  of  one  great  event  in  the  life  of  Washington  and  of  the  United  States 
is  well;  but  it  is  as  nothing  compared  with  the  incessant  memorial  of  him  which  the  schools  and  colleges  of 
the  country  maintained  from  generation  to  generation.  [Applause.]  I  have  mentioned  only  the  pupils  and 
teachers  now  in  school  and  college;  but  all  the  generations  for  a  hundred  years  past  have  sounded  the  praise 
of  this  Virginia  country  gentleman,  and  countless  generations  to  come  will  swell  the  loud  acclaim.  What  a 
reward  is  Washington's !  What  an  influence  is  his,  and  will  be !  One  mind  and  will  transfused  by  sympathetic 
instruction  into  millions;  one  character,  a  standard  for  millions;  one  life  a  pattern  for  all  public  men,  teach- 
ing what  greatness  is,  and  what  the  pathway  to  undying  fame.    [Long-continued  applause.] 

Twelfth  Toast. — "  Our  Literature." 

By  James  Russell  Lowell. 

The  welfare  of  a  people,  small  or  great, 

Depends  upon  the  state, 

Whose  ample  laws  they  justify,  because 

They  helped  to  shape  those  laws. 

Their  glory  rests  on  letters,  which  create 

A  more-enduring  state  ; 

For  what  is  best  remembered  among  men 

Is  not  the  sword,  but  pen. 

Richard  Henry  Stoddard. 

Mr.  Mayor,  your  Excellency  the  President  of  the  United  States,  Ladies  and  Gentlemen  : 
On  an  occasion  like  this  a  speaker  lies  more  than  usually  open  to  the  temptation  of  seeking  the  acceptable 
rather  than  the  judicial  word.  National  anniversaries,  like  those  of  persons,  while  mainly  seasons  of  con- 
gratulations, suggest  self-criticism  no  less  than  self-satisfaction.  I  shall  not  listen  for  any  such  suggestions, 
though  I  may  not  succeed  in  altogether  concealing  that  I  hear  them.  I  am  speaking  for  literature,  and  for 
American  literature,  as  now  admitted  to  share  in  the  general  distinction  of  that  name.  This  is  not  the  place, 
nor  is  the  time  allotted  me  sufficient,  for  any  critical  examination  of  what  we  have  done  or  of  what  we  have 
left  undone  in  our  part  of  this  field.  Exaggerated  estimates,  with  indiscriminate  praise,  which  implies  a  fear 
to  look  facts  in  the  face,  would  be  unworthy  of  the  occasion — would  be  unworthy  of  myself  and  of  you. 
American  literature  would  not  be  worth  speaking  for  unless  it  were  now  fully  able  to  speak  for  itself,  as 
other  literatures  are  expected  to  do.  [Applause.]  It  would  be  more  profitable  to  believe  that  we  had  pro- 
duced no  literature  in  the  highest  sense  of  the  word  than  to  sit  down  content  that  we  have  produced  the 
best  literature  of  which  we  are  capable. 

This  is  a  commemoration  in  which  it  is  particularly  fitting  that  literature  should  take  part ;  for  we  are 
celebrating  to-day  the  true  birthday  of  our  nation.  We  are  celebrating  the  day  on  which  it  first  became  pos- 
sible for  us  to  have  larger  interests  and  a  sense  of  higher  possibilities,  and  the  occasion  also  recalls  to  us  the 
fact  of  our  national  continuity,  our  historic  continuity,  a  fact  to  which  we  are  sometimes,  it  seems  to  me, 


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too  indifferent,  for  there  is  nothing  like  this  historical  continuity  in  individualizing  the  character  of  a  nation 
and  giving  it  force.  Without  a  national  consciousness  no  literature  could  come  into  being,  and  at  the  time 
when  ours  began  no  literature  was  possible  that  was  not  parasitic  and  dependent.  Without  the  national  con- 
tinuity continually  molding  itself  into  our  life  and  thought  no  literature  could  have  acquired  strength  to 
detach  itself  and  to  live  a  life  of  its  own.  In  the  hundred  years  which  have  passed  since  we  have  become  a 
nation,  we  have  certainly,  under  great  difficulties,  produced  a  literature  of  which  we  may  honestly  be  proud. 
Let  me  mention  a  few  of  those  difficulties.  Our  reading  class,  small  in  itself,  scattered  sparsely  along  the 
seaboard  and  supplied  jnainly  from  abroad,  our  literary  class,  or  rather  our  men  with  an  impulsion  toward 
a  life  of  letters  were  few  and  isolated,  and  isolation  produces,  1  think,  no  great  literature.  Of  criticism  we 
absolutely  had  none,  and  that  which  professed  to  perform  its  function  was  a  feeble  mixture  of  approval  and 
compassion,  with  a  desire  to  make  the  best  of  everything.  Under  these  circumstances  it  was  almost  impos- 
sible that  we  should  not  be  long  in  producing  a  literature  that  could  be  called  our  own.  We  have  succeeded 
in  producing  such  a  literature  which  now  has  a  spirit  and  a  turn  of  thought  in  which  we  recognize  something 
more  grateful  to  us  than  that  which  we  feel  in  any  foreign  literature.  And  perhaps  there  is  one  other  con- 
sideration to  which  I  should  allude  here  as  a  preventive,  and  that  was  the  fact  that  we  had  no  capital, 
toward  which  all  the  streams  of  mental  and  moral  energy  converged,  to  serve  as  a  reservoir  upon  which  all 
might  draw.  Scarcely  had  we  become  a  nation  when  the  only  part  of  the  Old  World  whose  language  we 
could  understand  began  to  ask  us,  in  various  tones  of  despondency,  where  was  our  literature.  Virgils  and 
Miltons  could  not  be  improvised,  though  we  made  a  very  obliging  attempt  to  do  it.  Failing  in  this,  we 
considered  the  question  partly  unfair  and  wholly  disagreeable.  It  certainly  was  untimely — perhaps  it  was  not 
unnatural,  for  no  nation  without  a  literature  is  properly  represented  in  the  parliament  of  mankind.  We  do 
not  even  yet,  I  think,  attribute  so  much  importance  to  our  literature  as  perhaps  we  do  to  some  other  form  of 
our  manhood  and  our  development ;  and  yet  I  can  not  help  thinking  that  literature  has  an  influence,  whether 
for  good  or  evil,  more  durable  than  that  exerted  by  any  other  form  in  which  human  genius  has  found  ex- 
pression. There  have  been  books  which  kept  alive  the  spark  which  has  resuscitated  a  nation.  It  is  an  old 
wives'  tale  that  Virgil  was  a  great  magician,  yet  on  that  tradition  survives  a  memory  of  the  influence  which 
made  him,  through  Dante,  a  chief  factor  in  the  regeneration  of  Italy  after  the  one  had  been  eighteen  hun- 
dred and  Dante  five  hundred  years  in  his  grave.  It  is  no  idle  superstition  which  has  kept  the  name  of  Homer 
sacred  through  all  those  centuries.  As  the  special  distinction  of  man  is  speech,  so  it  should  seem  that  there 
can  be  no  higher  achievement  of  civilized  men — no  more  conclusive  proof  that  they  are  civilized  men — than 
the  power  of  molding  words  into  such  fair  and  noble  forms  as  shall  people  the  human  mind  forever  with 
images  that  inspire,  console,  and  refine.  I  can  not  but  feel  the  exhilaration  of  this  rush  of  our  existence;  I 
could  not  help,  this  morning,  when  we  heard  so  eloquent  a  statement  of  our  material  development — I  could 
not  avoid  the  influence  of  some  other  thoughts.  I  value  as  highly  as  any  man  the  energy,  inventiveness,  and 
versatility  of  our  people.  I  share  in  the  wonder  at  this  growth,  or  I  should  prefer  to  choose  an  American 
word,  this  "boom"  of  our  development  and  our  prosperity;  but  I  could  not  help  feeling  also  the  presence 
of  some  forebodings  of  social  and  political  dangers  which  underlie  this  pleasing  surface;  and,  as  a  literary 
man,  I  could  not  help  feeling  that  we  have  promoted  those  material  ends  which  have  been  one  of  the  great 
hindrances  to  the  development  of  a  national  literature  such  as  we  should  wish  for.  That  thought  occurred 
to  my  mind;  I  will  not  follow  it  out.  "Rejoice,  young  man,  again  I  say  rejoice;  let  thy  heart  cheer  thee  in 
the  days  of  thy  youth  ;  but  remember  that  for  all  these  things  God  will  call  thee  into  judgment."  [  Applause.] 
But  yet  I  remain  persuaded  that  the  true  distinction  of  a  nation  is  intellectual  distinction.  That  distinction 
we  feel  quite  as  keenly  in  the  exploits  of  the  great  soldier  who  sat  down  a  little  while  ago  and  those  of 
the  great  admiral  who  sat  opposite  him.  [Applause.] 

Railways  and  telegraphs,  measured  by  the  thousand  miles,  are  excellent  things;  but  it  is  not  of  their 
poles  and  sleepers  that  the  rounds  of  that  ladder  are  made  by  which  men  and  nations  scale  the  cliffs  whose 
benign  obstacle  rises  between  them  and  the  fulfillment  of  their  highest  purpose  and  function.  [Applause.] 

The  literature  of  a  nation  should  be  the  diary  and  note-book  of  its  mind  and  heart,  the  confidant  of  its 
very  soul.  Our  own  can  not  yet  bethought  to  fulfill  this  office;  but  it  has  filled  many  leaves  and  it  has 
many  blank  leaves  in  reserve.  I  believe  that  he  who,  a  hundred  years  hence,  shall  stand  where  I  am 
standing  now  will  speak  to  the  most  prosperous  and  powerful  commonwealth  ever  devised  and  developed 


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by  men,  with  the  assured  accent  of  one  who  sees  but  what  we  can  hope  for  and  aspire  after,  a  possession  and 
a  reality  forever.    [Great  applause.] 

« 

Thirteenth  Toast.—"  The  United  States  of  America." 

By  Benjamin  Harrison,  President  of  the  United  States. 

Scepters  and  thrones  the  morning  realms  have  tried  ; 
Earth  for  the  people  kept  her  sunset  side. 
Arts,  manners,  creeds  the  teeming  Orient  gave  ; 
Freedom,  the  gift  that  freights  the  refluent  wave, 
Plays  with  one  priceless  pearl  the  guerdon  due, 
And  leaves  the  Old  World  debtor  to  the  New. 

Long  as  the  watch-towers  of  our  crownless  Queen 
Front  the  broad  oceans  that  she  sits  between. 
May  her  proud  sons  their  plighted  faith  maintain. 
And  guard  unbroken  Union's  lengthening  chain — 
Union,  our  peaceful  sovereign,  she  alone 
Can  make  or  keep  the  Western  world  our  own  ! 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

Mr.  President  and  Fellow-Citizens:  I  should  be  unjust  to  myself,  and,  what  is  more  serious,  I 
should  be  unjust  to  you,  if  I  did  not  at  this  first  and  last  opportunity  express  to  you  the  deep  sense  of 
obligation  and  thankfulness  which  I  feel  for  those  many  personal  and  official  courtesies  which  have  been 
extended  to  me  since  I  came  to  take  part  in  this  great  celebration.  [Applause.]  The  official  representa- 
tives of  the  State  of  New  York,  and  of  this  great  city,  have  attended  me  with  the  most  gracious  kind- 
ness, omitting  no  office  or  attention  that  could  make  my  stay  among  you  pleasant  and  gratifying.  [Applause.] 
From  you  and  the  hundreds  of  thousands  who  have  thronged  the  streets  of  this  great  commercial 
metropolis  I  have  received  the  most  cordial  expressions  of  good-will.  I  would  not,  however,  have  you 
understand  that  these  loud  acclaims  have  been  in  any  sense  appropriated  as  a  personal  tribute  to  myself. 
I  have  realized  that  there  was  that  in  this  occasion  and  in  all  these  incidents,  which  have  made  it  so  pro- 
foundly impressive  to  my  mind,  which  was  above  and  greater  than  any  living  man.  [Great  applause.] 
I  have  realized  that  that  tribute  of  cordial  interest  which  you  have  manifested  was  rendered  rather  to 
that  great  office  which  by  the  favor  of  a  great  people  I  now  exercise  than  to  me.  [Applause.] 

The  occasion  and  all  its  incidents  will  be  memorable,  not  only  in  the  history  of  your  State,  but  in 
the  history  of  our  country.  New  York  did  not  succeed  in  retaining  the  seat  of  national  government 
here,  though  she  made  liberal  provision  for  the  assembling  of  the  First  Congress,  in  the  expectation 
that  the  Congress  might  find  its  permanent  home  here  ;  but,  though  you  lost  that  which  you  coveted,  I 
think  the  representatives  here  of  all  the  States  will  agree  that  it  was  fortunate  that  the  first  inauguration 
of  Washington  took  place  in  the  State  and  in  the  city  of  New  York.  [Applause.]  For  where  in  our 
country  could  the  centennial  of  the  event  have  been  so  worthily  celebrated  as  here  ?  [Applause.]  What 
seaboard  offered  so  magnificent  a  bay  upon  which  to  display  our  naval  and  merchant  marine  ?  [Applause.] 
What  city  offered  thoroughfares  so  magnificent  or  a  population  so  great  and  so  generous  as  New  York 
has  poured  out  to-day  to  celebrate  that  event  ?  [Applause.] 

I  have  received  at  the  hands  of  the  committee  who  have  been  charged  with  the  details— onerous,  ex- 
acting, and  too  often  unthankful — of  this  demonstration,  an  evidence  of  their  confidence  in  my  physical 
endurance  which  is  flattering  to  me.  [Great  laughter.]  But  I  must  also  acknowledge  still  one  other 
obligation.  The  committee  having  in  charge  the  exercises  of  this  evening  have  also  given  me  an  evidence 
of  their  confidence  which  has  been  accompanied  with  some  embarrassment.  As  I  have  noted  the  progress 
of  this  banquet,  it  has  seemed  to  me  that  each  of  these  distinguished  speakers  has  been  made  acquainted 
with  his  theme  before  he  took  his  seat  at  the  banquet-table  (laughter)  ;  and  that  I  alone  was  left  to  make 
acquaintance  with  my  theme  when  I  sat  down  at  the  table.  [Laughter.]  I  prefer  to  substitute  for  the 
official  title  which  is  upon  the  programme  that  familiar  fireside  expression,  "  Our  Country."  [Applause.] 

I  congratulate  you  to-day  as  one  of  the  instructive  and  interesting  features  of  this  occasion  that 


382      THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


these  great  thoroughfares,  dedicated  to  trade,  have  closed  their  doors  and  have  covered  the  insignia  of 
commerce  with  the  Stars  and  Stripes  [loud  cheers];  that  your  great  exchanges  have  closed;  that  in  the 
very  heart  of  Wall  Street  the  flag  has  been  carried,  and  upon  the  old  historic  spot  men  who  give  their 
time  and  energies  to  trade  have  given  these  days  to  their  country,  to  thoughts  of  her  glory,  and  to 
aspirations  of  her  honor  and  prosperity.    [Loud  cheers.] 

I  have  great  pleasure  in  believing  that  love  of  country  has  been  intensified  in  many  hearts  here — not 
only  of  you  who  might  be  called,  and  some  of  whom  have  been  called,  to  give  the  witness  of  your  love 
of  the  flag  upon  battle-fields  both  of  sea  and  land  [applause],  but  of  these  homes,  and  among  these 
fair  women  who  look  down  upon  us  to-night  [applause],  and  in  the  hearts  of  these  little  children  who 
mingled  their  piping  cries  with  the  hoarser  acclaims  of  men  as  they  moved  along  your  streets  to-day,  and 
I  believe  that  patriotism  has  been  blown  into  a  higher  and  holier  flame  in  many  hearts.  [Applause.] 
These  banners  with  which  you  have  covered  your  walls,  these  patriotic  inscriptions,  must  come  down,  and 
the  ways  of  commerce  and  of  trade  be  resumed  again  here  ;  but  may  I  not  ask  you  to  carry  these  banners 
that  now  hang  on  the  walls  into  your  homes,  into  the  public  schools  of  your  city  [applause],  and  into 
all  your  great  institutions  where  children  are  gathered,  and  to  drape  them  there,  that  the  eyes  of  the 
young  and  of  the  old  may  look  upon  that  flag  as  one  of  the  familiar  adornments  of  every  American  home  ? 
[Applause.] 

Have  you  not  learned  that  not  stocks  or  bonds  or  stately  houses,  or  lands,  or  products  of  mill,  or  field, 
are  our  country?  It  is  a  spiritual  thought  that  is  in  our  minds.  [Applause.]  It  is  the  flag  and  what  it 
stands  for,  it  is  its  glorious  history,  it  is  the  fireside  and  the  home,  it  is  the  high  thoughts  that  are  in  the 
heart,  born  of  the  inspiration  which  comes  of  the  story  of  the  fathers,  the  martyrs  to  liberty — it  is  the 
graveyard  into  which  our  grateful  country  has  gathered  the  unconscious  dust  of  those  who  died.  Here  in 
these  things  is  that  thing  we  love  and  call  our  country — rather  than  anything  that  can  be  touched  or 
handled.    [Great  applause.] 

Let  me  add  the  thought  ;  That  we  owe  a  duty  to  our  country  in  peace  as  well  as  in  war.  Perhaps 
never  in  the  history  of  our  nation  have  we  been  so  well  equipped  for  war  upon  the  land  as  now  [cries  of 
"  Good  !  good !  "]  ;  and  yet  we  have  never  seen  a  time  in  our  history  when  our  people  were  more  smitten 
with  a  love  of  peace. 

To  elevate  the  morals  of  our  people  ;  to  hold  up  the  law  as  that  sacred  thing  which,  like  the  ark  of  God 
of  old,  may  not  be  touched  by  irreverent  hands;  to  frown  upon  every  attempt  to  dethrone  its  supremacy; 
to  unite  our  people  in  all  that  makes  the  home  pure  and  honorable,  as  well  as  to  give  our  energies  in 
the  direction  of  our  material  advancement — this  service  we  may  render,  and  out  of  this  great  demonstration 
do  we  not  feel  like  reconsecrating  ourselves  to  the  love  and  to  the  service  of  our  country  ?  [Prolonged 
and  loud  applause.] 

At  the  close  of  the  banquet,  and  before  leaving  the  Metropolitan  Opera-House,  the  Presi- 
dent of  the  United  States  received  a  Committee  from  St.  Francis  Xavier's  College.  The 
Vice-President  of  the  College,  the  Rev.  J.  F.  X.  O'Conor,  S.  J.,  in  the  name  of  the  Faculty, 
presented  the  President  with  a  tribute  to  Washington,  a  work  written  solely  by  the  Professors 
of  the  College  in  twenty-seven  languages,  including  Babylonian,  Assyrian,  Arabic  figures, 
African  dialect,  Algerian,  Ethiopic,  Ecclesiastical  Arabic,  Diwani  (literary  Arabic),  Syriac, 
African  Arabian,  Arabic,  Carshoony,  Cufic  characters,  Egyptian,  Syrian,  Persian,  Irish,  Rus- 
sian, Greek,  Latin,  Spanish,  Italian,  Portuguese,  French,  German,  Dutch,  and  English.  In 
English  the  verse  ran  : 

"  O  Washington  !  thy  name  like  music  falls 
O'er  all  our  land  of  freedom  and  of  peace  ; 
'Tis  heard  in  busy  mart,  in  festive  halls — 
No  tongue  its  praise  to  sing  will  ever  cease." 


CHAPTER  XVIII. 


THE  CIVIC  AND   INDUSTRIAL  PARADE. 

By  S.  Van  Rensselaer  Cruger, 

Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Army. 

The  pageant  of  April  30th,  which  demonstrated  to  the  world  the  effectiveness  of  the 
citizen  soldiery  of  the  United  States  and  the  ease  and  rapidity  with  which  fifty  thousand 
men  could  be  mobilized  at  any  given  point,  was  followed  on  May  1st  by  a  pageant  of  peace, 
which  exhibited  the  progress  of  a  century  in  the  industrial  arts.  The  arrangement  and  com- 
pletion of  this  demonstration  was,  by  the  Committee  on  Army,  intrusted  to  Major-General 
Daniel  Butterfield,  who,  with  his  usual  thoroughness,  carried  out  every  detail.  So,  on  May 
1  st,  every  trade,  every  art,  every  nation,  and  every  representative  body  of  men  contributed 
its  brightest  and  best  to  make  the  civic  parade  an  honor  to  the  city  of  New  York.  The  pro- 
cession was  divided  into  ten  divisions,  each  under  a  marshal,  whose  aides  kept  the  column 
in  motion  and  prevented  gaps  and  delays  in  that  moving  mass  of  humanity. 

At  7  a.  m.  General  Butterfield,  his  staff,  marshals,  and  aides  were  at  the  point  of  assem- 
blage, the  Plaza,  Fifty-ninth  Street  and  Fifth  Avenue,  the  route  of  march  being  from  Fifty- 
ninth  Street  down  Fifth  Avenue  to  Fifteenth  Street,  through  Fifteenth  Street  to  Union 
Square,  around  Union  Square  to  Fourteenth  Street,  through  Fourteenth  Street  to  Fifth 
Avenue,  down  Fifth  Avenue  to  Waverly  Place,  through  Waverly  Place  to  Broadway,  and 
down  Broadway  to  Canal  Street.  The  start  of  the  column  was  announced  for  8.30,  but, 
owing  to  the  delay  of  many  organizations  to  report  on  time,  the  signal  to  move  was  not 
given  until  ten  o'clock. 

His  Honor  the  Mayor  of  the  City  of  New  York,  with  the  representative  delegates  from 
the  civic,  industrial,  and  commercial  societies  and  organizations  of  New  York,  preceded  the 
column.     On  arriving  at  the  stand  the  Mayor  stepped  to  the  presidential  box  and  said  : 

"  Mr.  President  :  I  have  the  honor  as  Mayor  of  the  City  of  New  York,  to  deliver  to  you,  an  address 
signed  by  over  one  hundred  individuals,  in  which  they  congratulate  you  on  this  occasion." 

Then  he  handed  to  President  Harrison  a  silver  cylinder,  about  fourteen  inches  long, 
beautifully  chased,  and  bearing  this  inscription  : 

CENTENNIAL 
1789  1889 
CELEBRATION. 

Civic  and  Industrial  Parade.    Addressed  to  the  President  of  the  United  States 
by  the  Civic,  Industrial,  and  Commercial  bodies  of  New  York  City. 

Daniel  Butterfield,  Chief  Marshal. 

Hugh  J.  Grant,  Mayor. 


384       THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


The  cylinder  opened  by  a  cap  at  one  end.  It  contained  a  scroll  of  parchment,  several 
feet  long,  on  which  was  engrossed  this  address: 

Aptil  jo,  1889. 

To  Benjamin  Harrison,  President  of  the  United  States: 

The  undersigned  representatives  of  the  civic,  commercial,  industrial,  and  educational  organizations  and 
bodies  of  the  city  of  New  York  on  the  occasion  of  this  Centennial  Celebration  of  the  Inauguration  of  Wash- 


BENJAMIN  HARRISON,  PRESIDENT  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES,  VIEWING  FROM  THE  GRAND  STAND 

THE  CIVIC  AND  INDUSTRIAL  PARADE. 
New  York,  May  1,  1889. 

ington,  the  first  President,  present  anew  to  the  President  of  the  United  States,  in  his  official  capacity,  their 
allegiance  to  the  Government,  Constitution,  and  the  laws,  with  their  congratulations  upon  the  completion  of 
a  century  of  a  constitutional  Government  and  the  progress  made  in  that  century. 

This  ceremony  over,  the  Mayor  and  his  escort  assumed  places  on  the  grand  stand,  and 
the  Civic  and  Industrial  parade  moved  forward.  The  following  programme  represents  the 
bodies  of  which  it  was  composed : 

Detail  of  mounted  and  dismounted  men  from  the  Metropolitan  Police  Force. 

Chief  Marshal,  General  Daniel  Butterfield. 
Staff  and  aides  mounted  and  wearing  yellow  sashes. 

Chiefs  of  organizations  of  Veteran  Regiments,  New  York  State  Militia  and  Volunteers,  Special  Escort  to 


THE  CIVIC  AND  INDUSTRIAL  PARADE. 


385 


Alexander  B.  Butts,  Commander-in-Chief  Society  of  Veterans  of  the  Regular  Army  and  Navy  of  the  United 
States. 

Society  of  Veterans,  United  States  Army  and  Navy. — 100. 

Twenty-fifth  Regiment,  New  York  Volunteer  Veteran  Association,  ununiformed,  Major  P.  Connolly. — 40. 
Special  escort  to  the  first  tableau — 

The  Declaration  of  Independence. — This  tableau  was  intended  to  represent  the  reading  of  the  Decla- 
ration of  Independence  by  John  Nixon,  in  State-House  Yard,  Philadelphia,  July  8,  1776;  portion  of  State- 
House  Building,  with  Nixon  standing  on  a  chair,  the  Declaration  in  his  hand,  groups  of  people  near,  etc.;  old 
bell-ringer  standing  ready  to  sound  the  bell :  "  Proclaiming  liberty  throughout  all  the  land,  unto  all  the  inhabi- 
tants thereof." 

STAR  DIVISION. 
Marshal,  General  A.  P.  Ketchum.    Staff  and  escort. 

Columbia  College  of  the  City  of  New  York. — 400.    Commanded  by  John  A.  Dempsey. 
College  of  the  City  of  New  York. — 300.    Tableau — 

Washington  and  his  Generals,  mounted. — Washington,  as  Commander-in-Chief,  occupied  center  of 
line,  Major-Generals  Artemas  Ward,  Israel  Putnam,  Philip  Schuyler,  and  Charles  Lee,  on  either  side;  closely 


HTS  HONOR  MAYOR  HUGH  J.  GRANT  DELIVERING  TO  PRESIDENT  HARRISON 
AN  ADDRESS  IN  BEHALF  OF  THE  CIVIC  AND  INDUSTRIAL  ORGANIZATIONS  OF  NEW  YORK. 
On  the  right  of  President  Harrison  are  Levi  P.  Morton,  Vice-President  of  the  United  States,  and  William  YVindom,  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  ; 
on  the  left,  Frederick  D.  Tappen,  of  the  Army  Committee  ;  in  the  rear  Myles  Standish,  James  M.  Montgomery, 

and  other  members  of  the  Centennial  Committee. 
Civic  and  Industrial  Parade,  New  York,  May  I,  1889. 

following  were  the  nine  brigadier-generals,  the  number  appointed  by  the  Continental  Congress  at  Philadelphia 
in  1775,  al«o  Marquis  de  Lafayette,  Baron  Steuben,  Inspector-General;  Count  Rochambeau,  and  others. 
50 


3  86       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHING  TONS  INAUGURATION 


Escorted  by  Weir  Battalion,  School  No.  10,  Brooklyn,  uniformed. — 75.  Major  F.  A.  Nichols,  Com- 
manding. 

Hebrew  Benevolent  and  Orphan  Asylum,  No.  150. 
Columbia  Institute  Cadets,  Charles  F.  Stone,  Commanding. 

Bartholdi  Battalion,  Grammar  School,  No.  15,  Brooklyn;  H.  S.  Johnson,  Commanding. — 200.  Special 
escort  to  tableau — 

Washington  crossing  the  Delaware  on  the  Night  of  December  25,  1776. 

Public  schools,  eight  battalions,  four  hundred  each,  under  command  of  John  D.  Robinson,  escorting  tableau— 

Washington  at  Valley  Forge,  Winter  of  1777  and 
1778. — Represents  winter  quarters  at  Valley  Forge,  and  meet- 
ing of  General  Washington  with  Baron  Steuben.  Sick  and 
wounded  soldiers. 

The  marching  and  discipline  of  the  column  of  school-boys 
were  greeted  with  great  enthusiasm.  They  well  deserved  the 
position  of  honor,  the  right  of  the  column. 

DIVISION  A. 

Marshal,  Colonel  Thomas  H.  Barber.    Aides  and  Escort. 
Guard  Lafayette,  with  the  old  Lafayette  flag,  August 
Gross,  Commanding. — 100. 

Liberty  Guards,  S.  L.  d'Autresne,  Commanding. — 50. 
Second    Battalion,   Irish  Volunteers,  William    F.  Kelly, 
Commanding. — 60.    Escort  to  tableau  representing 

Washington's  Farewell  to  his  Officers.. — New  York, 
December  4,  1783;  the  picture  represented  room  in  "  Fraunce's 
Tavern,"  with  General  Washington,  General  Knox,  Generals 
Hamilton,  Lafayette,  Steuben,  and  others. 

Knights  of  Temperance,  Robert  Graham,  Grand  Com- 
mander ;  John  A.  Davis,  Corps  Commander. — 500  men. 

Knights  of  Pythias,  uniformed,  William  H.  Bowlsby,  Com- 
manding.— 200.    Escort  to  tableau — 

Washington  resigning  his  Commission  at  Annapolis, 
December    23,   1783.  —  Representing   Washington,  different 
Members  of  House  of  Delegates,  and  Members  of  Congress. 
Lafayette  Conclave,  Samuel  Ladd,  Commanding. — 50. 
King's  Bridge  and  Spuyten  Duyv.il  Cadet  Corps,  uniformed,  Captain  Cortlandt  Godwin. — 40. 
Yonkers  Continental  Guards,  H.  Stein,  Commanding. — 50.    Special  escort  to  tableau — 
Inauguration  of  General  Washington  as  First  President  of  the  United  States  of  America. 
— Representing  section  of  Federal  Hall,  with  gallery  facing  Broad  Street ;  Chancellor  Robert  R.  Livingston 
administering  the  oath  to  the  newly  elected  President;  Generals  Knox  and  Hamilton,  the  Hon.  John  Jay,  and 
others  making  up  the  group.    The  guard  of  honor  were  mounted  men,  representing  the  eleven  States  which  had 
already  ratified  the  Constitution. 

Phelps  Guard,  Major  James  Parker. — 100. 

Washington  Continental  Guards,  Captain  John  G.  Norman. — 200. 

Excelsior  Light  Infantry,  Washington,  uniformed,  Captain  Thomas  S.  Kelly. — 100. 

Washington  Continentals,  Captain  W.  W.  Mills. — 40.    Special  escort  on  either  side  of  tableau. 

State  of  Virginia. — Exhibited  miniature  representation  of  ship-model  of  sixteenth  and  seventeenth 
centuries,  with  adventurers,  costumed  in  Elizabethan  style,  grouped  on  high  poop-deck,  descrying  the  land; 
Captain  John  Smith  and  the  seven  members  of  council  standing  in  a  group. 

Sons  of  Veterans,  1,000  strong,  Commander  W.  W.  Hyde.  Under  command  of  the  Commander  of  the  New 
York  Division.  Escorting  tableau  representing  New  York,  Massachusetts,  Delaware,  Maryland,  and  Pennsylvania. 

New  York,  1614. — A  tableau  showing  boat-load  of  Dutch  sailors  and  voyagers;  in  the  midst  a  sailor 
throwing  a  line  to  make  fast  to  a  post  planted  by  Henry  Hudson,  1609.  New  Jersey  was  the  offspring  of 
New  York,  and  Burlington  is  claimed  to  be  the  first  settlement. 

Massachusetts. — Anchoring  of  the  Mayflower  at  Plymouth  in  1620.  Picture  depicting  Pilgrim  Fathers, 
who  had  not  received  a  charter  from  the  crown,  signing  a  compact  to  submit  to  whatever  just  and  equal  laws 
and  ordinances  might  be  thought  convenient  for  the  general  good.  The  design  of  the  Plymouth  tableau  was 
cumulative,  by  placing  banners  and  mottoes  for  New  England  on  one  float. 


MAJOR-GENERAL  DANIEL  BUTTERFIELD, 
LATE  UNITED  STATES  VOLUNTEERS, 
CHIEF  MARSHAL. 
Civic  and  Industrial  Parade,  New  York,  May  i,  1889. 


THE  CIVIC  AND  INDUSTRIAL  PARADE. 


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Delaware,  1627. — Represented  the  object  stated  in  Delaware's  formation,  which  was  to  Christianize  sav- 
ages, and  the  mode  in  which  it  was  done,  teaching  Indians  the  art  of  trading;  Indians  receiving  cotton  goods, 
etc.,  in  exchange  for  stores  and  pelts,  but  quickly  learning  the  art  of  measuring  a  yard  by  extending  the  cloth 
two  arms'-length.    Picture  disclosed  the  settlers,  with  wives  and  children,  and  the  Indians. 

Maryland. — Settled  1633,  by  George  Calvert,  Lord  Baltimore,  and  his  brother  Leonard.  Charter  granted 
in  1639,  by  Charles  I.  Lord  Baltimore  was  an  eminent  scholar  and  a  Roman  Catholic.  This  colony  was 
named  after  the  Queen  of  King  Charles.  Many  Puritans  arrived  soon  after;  also,  Church-of-England  Protest- 
ants were  invited,  freedom  of  worship  being  guaranteed. 

Pennsylvania,  1682. — The  design  of  this  float  was  to  represent  William  Penn's  Treaty  with  the  Indians.  Ex- 
hibits William  Penn  putting  aside  the  unsigned  treaty,  which  was  never  broken,  an  Indian  holding  the  calumet 
toward  him,  and  the  picturesque  appearance  of  the  groups ;  also,  the  buildings  being  put  up  for  the  proprietors. 

United  Order  of  Foresters,  uniformed,  Commander  Charles  Ring. — 600. 

State  of  Georgia,  1732. — The  last  colony  settled  in  North  America  previous  to  the  Revolutionary 
struggle,  was  founded  by  James  Edward  Oglethorpe,  a  religious  but  independent  enthusiast,  who  brought 


STAFF  AND  AIDES  OF  MAJOR-GENERAL  DANIEL  BUTTERF1ELD,  CHIEF  MARSHAL, 

passing  the  Grand  Stand. 

Civic  and  Industrial  Parade,  New  York,  May  I,  1889. 


with  him  a  number  of  self-exiled  persons  who  sought  freedom  for  sectarian  views.  Scotch  Covenanters,  Irish 
Presbyterians,  and  others  were  his  voyagers.    "  Hope  "  was  ready  to  welcome  them  on  their  arrival. 

Caledonian  Club,  New  York,  uniformed  in  Highland  costume,  with  pipers,  accompanied  by  veterans  of  the 
Seventy-ninth  Highland  Regiment,  New  York  militia,  under  command  of  Colonel  Andrew  I).  Baird. — 300. 

They  carried  the  old  battle-flag  of  the  Seventy-ninth  which,  during  the  late  war,  had  been  with  the 
regiment  through  every  State  in  rebellion.  The  veterans  were  greeted,  as  they  deserved,  with  a  spontaneous 
outburst  of  cheers. 


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Rheinischer  Scluitzen  Bund. — 50.    Centennial  Sharpshooters. — 50.    F.  M.  Matt,  Commanding. 
Special  escort  to  the  Swiss  Centennial  Committee. — 80.    And  tableau — 

Representing  Switzerland.    It  carried  the  legend,  "  Switzerland,  the  Oldest  Living  Republic;  518  Years 
of  Independence."    On  the  float  was  a  group  of  men  and  women  in  brilliant  Swiss  costumes. 
First  Hungarian  Scheutzen  Bund,  Major  Freund. — 200. 

DIVISION  B. 

Was  composed  entirely  of  our  volunteer  firemen,  under  the  command  of  the  Veteran  James  F. 
Wenman,  and  was  formed  in  nine  divisions,  marching  in  double  column,  commanded  by  John  Decker, 


THE  STUDENTS  OF  COLUMBIA  COLLEGE  OF  THE  CITY  OF  NEW  YORK, 
four  hundred  strong,  passing  under  the  temporary  Arch  at  the  foot  of  Fifth  Avenue,  near  Washington  Square. 
Civic  and  Industrial  Parade,  New  York,  May  r,  l88g. 


Elisha  Kingsland,  Thomas  Cleary,  Robert  McGinnis,  O.  H.  Perry,  Peter  Fagan,  W.  H.  Fury,  J.  T.  Savage, 
and  Albert  E.  Smith,  viz.  : 

Marshal,  Jam ks  F.  Wenman.  Staff  and  Escort.  Visiting  Chief  Engineers.  Visiting  Assistant  En- 
gineers. 

Trustees  Exempt  Firemen's  Benevolent  Fund.  Exempt  Fireman's  Association,  N.  Y.,  200.  Volunteer 
Firemen's  Association,  N.  Y.  City,  600.  Veteran  Firemen's  Association,  N.  Y.  City,  150.  Cornell  Hose, 
Rondout,  35.  Cornell  H.  and  L.  Co.,  20.  Volunteer  Firemen's  Association,  Philadelphia,  75.  Clinton 
Engine  Co.,  41,  100.  Protection  Engine  Co.,  Long  Island  City,  150.  Tiger  Hose  Co.,  Long  Island  City, 
25.  Astoria  H.  and  L.  Co.,  Astoria,  40.  Live  Oak  Engine  Co.,  44,  75.  Live  Oak  H.  and  L.  Co.,  Long 
Island  City,  50.    Steinway  Hose,  Long  Island  City,  30.    Exempt  Firemen's  Association,  Long  Island  City, 


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389 


150.  Putnam  Hose  Co.,  31,  60.  Wandowannack  H.  and  L.  Co.,  Newtown,  Long  Island,  40.  Whitestone  Engine 
Co.,  30.  Protection  Engine,  Fort  Lee,  40.  Volunteer  Association,  Brooklyn,  500.  Independence  Engine, 
Philadelphia,  40.  Coney  Island  Fire  Department,  100.  Friendship  Engine  Co.,  Sheepshead,  50.  Protective 
Engine,  23d  Ward,  75.  Columbia  Hose  Co.,  Peekskill,  50.  Americus  H.  and  L.  Co.,  Hoboken,  60.  Storm 
Engine,  Birmingham,  Conn.,  80.  New  Lots  Exempt  Association,  150.  Wyandotte  Hose  Co.,  Long  Island 
Citv,  25.  Hope  Steamer  Engine  Co.,'  Burlington,  N.  J.,  75.  Volunteer  Firemen's  Sons,  150.  Veteran  Fire- 
men's Sons,  New  Haven,  25.  Friendship  Engine,  Alexandria,  Va.;  50.  Hudson  Engine,  Bayonne,  75.  Veteran 
Firemen's  Association,  Brooklyn,  100.  Washington  Engine,  20,  100.  Hibernia  Engine  Co.,  Staten  Island,  27. 
Wyandotte  H.  and  L.,  Staten  Island,  25.  Neptune  Engine  Co.,  Staten  Island,  40.  Lafayette  Engine  Co.  19, 
50.  Robinson  Hose  Co.,  Staten  Island,  45.  Exempt  Firemen's  Association,  Jersey  City,  100.  Hook  and 
Ladder  3,  Blissville,  Long  Island  City,  40.  Mazeppa  Hose  Co.,  42,  100.  Meadows  Engine,  Hoboken,  80. 
Empire  Hook  and  Ladder,  Hoboken,  Washington  Chemical,  Guttenberg,  25.  Exempt  Firemen,  E.  I).,  200. 
Patchogue  Engine  Co.,  100.    Flatbush  Fire  Department,  200.    Vigar  Hose  Co.,  Long  Island  City,  40.  Pro- 


THE  OLD  VOLUNTEER  FIREMEN, 
under  command  of  James  F.  Wenman,  passing  the  Grand  Stand. 
Civic  and  Industrial  Parade,  New  York,  May,  I,  18S9. 

tection  Engine  Co.,  Long  Island  City,  75.  C.  E.  and  D.  E.  Engine,  Bridgeport,  100.  Hope  Hose,  Phila- 
delphia, 70.  Empire  Engine,  West  Hoboken,  60.  Washington  Hose,  Peekskill,  50.  Niagara  Hose,  Phila- 
delphia, 40.  Washington  Engine,  Peekskill,  40.  Columbia  Hose  Co.,  Union,  N.  J.,  35.  Montclair  Hose 
Co.,  25.    Veteran  Firemen's  Sons,  200.    Volunteer  Firemen's  Sons,  E.  D.,  100. 

Brooklyn  Battalion  Fire  Department,  100  men,  3  engines,  3  tenders,  3  hook-and-ladder  trucks. 

Sixty-four  companies  New  York  Fire  Department,  in  columns  of  fours,  companies  two  abreast. 


39Q      THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


DIVISION  C. 

Marshal,  General  John  Cochrank.    Aides  and  escort. 
Tammany  Society  (13  Tribes),  2,500. 

Arranged  according  to  the  Assembly  Districts  of  New  York  city.  Every  man  in  the  parade  wore  a 
blue  satin  badge,  dark  suit  and  a  silk  hat,  and  carried  a  cane. 


TAMMANY  SOCIETY. 

Thirteen  tribes,  twenty-five  hundred  strong,  under  command  of  General  John  Cochrane,  Marshal,  passing  the  Grand  Stand. 

Civic  and  Industrial  Parade,  New  York,  May  I,  1S89. 


DIVISION  D. 

Marshal,  Captain  Charles  S.  Burns.    Staff  and  escort. 
Brooklyn  Police,  400.    Commanded  by  Commissioner  J.  D.  Bell. 

Manhattan  Ship  Joiners,  300.  Commanded  by  Richard  L.  Raleigh.  Accompanied  by  floats,  bearing 
exhibits  of  the  handicraft  of  this  trade. 

The  ship-joiners'  two  floats  attracted  general  attention.  In  the  first  wagon,  drawn  by  four  horses  and 
finely  decorated,  was  the  old  mechanics'  bell,  which  has  called  the  citizens  of  the  Eleventh  Ward  to  work  for 
many  years.  I'eter  Haulenbeek,  who  has  worked  by  the  signal  of  the  bell  for  forty  years  at  least,  had 
charge  of  the  float.     With  him  were  Frank  Terry  and  Patrick  Cronin,  also  veteran  ship-builders. 

The  second  float  was  a  striking  example  of  the  ship-joiner's  art.  It  was  a  topsail  schooner,  twenty- 
eight  feet  long  on  the  load-line  and  thirty-one  feet  over  all.  From  the  ends  of  the  yard-arms  and  at  the 
fore  and  main  trucks  floated  American  flags.  A  line  of  signal  flags  was  run  from  the  main  topmast  head 
to  the  end  of  the  main-boom,  and  at  the  head  of  the  bowsprit  was  a  jack  with  six  stars. 


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The  boat  was  called  the  Liberty,  and  was  under  command  of  Captain  William  Stebbins,  one  of  the 
oldest  members  of  the  organization.  He  was  dressed  in  the  undress  uniform  of  an  American  steamship 
captain.  His  crew  consisted  of  John  La  France,  Charles  Thompson,  William  Coughlin,  Moses  Tafft,  with 
John  La  France,  Jr.,  as  midshipman. 


THE  SHIP-JOINERS'  TWO  FLOATS, 
one  carrying  the  old  mechanics'  bell  of  the  Eleventh  Ward, 
and  the  other  carrying  the  topsail  schooner  "  Liberty,"  twenty-eight  feet  long. 
In  the  rear  the  Operative  Plasterers'  Society,  twelve  hundred  strong,  with  two  floats, 
one  containing  life-size  bust  of  Washington  in  plaster,  and  showing  men  at  work  casting  heads  of  Washington  and  Lincoln  in  plaster, 

the  other  float  showing  men  at  work  on  a  bust  of  Washington  of  heroic  size. 
Civic  and  Industrial  Parade,  New  York,  May  1,  1889. 

Operative  Plasterers'  Society,  1,200.  Commanded  by  Michael  Buckley.  Members  of  this  society  engaged 
in  their  art. 

The  two  floats  of  the  plasterers  were  worthy  of  the  fine  showing  made  by  the  men.  Each  float  was 
drawn  by  four  horses.  The  first  wagon,  devoted  to  the  ordinary  work  of  the  men,  was  adorned  with  a 
life-size  bust  of  George  Washington,  in  plaster.  On  the  truck  itself  was  built  the  interior  of  a  room. 
The  lathing  and  rough  plastering  had  all  been  done,  and  during  the  march  members  of  the  union  finished 
up  the  job.  The  men  had  to  work  slowly,  so  as  to  give  the  public  a  chance  to  see  how  they  earned 
a  living.  Two  men  on  this  float  were  busy  casting  heads  of  Washington  and  Lincoln  in  plaster,  which 
they  threw  to  the  crowds  as  fast  as  the  plaster  had  set. 

The  other  float  was  devoted  to  the  ornamental  branch  of  the  trade.  Decorative  moldings  of  all  sorts 
were  finished  up.  In  honor  of  the  day  some  of  the  men  worked  on  a  bust  of  George  Washington  of 
heroic  size. 


392       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


Cloak  and  Suit  Industry,  500.    Commanded  by  W.  J.  Geraghty.    Men  employed  at  the  cutting-table. 
Mutual  Benefit  Society  of  Painters,  500.    Commanded  by  R.  P.  Davis. 

Marble  Cutters  of  New  York,  600.     Commanded  by  Charles  Rogers.     Float  exhibiting  working  of 
the  marble  industry,  steam-cutting,  etc. 

The  marble-cutters  had  one  of  the  finest  floats  in  the  division.  On  the  front  part  of  a  big  four-horse 
truck  had  been  placed  a  small  steam-engine,  which  worked  one  of  the  new  pneumatic  tools  that  has  sup- 
planted the  mallet  and  chisel.  It  makes  three  thousand  strokes  a  minute.  A  big  block  of  Sienna  was 
chiseled  into  a  handsome  bust  of  George  Washington  during  the  parade.  To  show  the  difference  between 
the  old  and  the  new  styles  of  work,  two  men  with  mallet  and  chisel  manipulated  a  piece  of  white  marble 
while  the  bust  was  being  carved  with  the  pneumatic  tools. 

Brooklyn  Plumbers'  and  Gas-fitters'  Union,  600.    Commanded  by  M.  J.  Driscoll. 

DIVISION  E. 

Marshal,  Nathaniel  McKay.    Aides  and  escort. 

Carpenters  of  Brooklyn,  800.    Commanded  by  Thomas  G.  O'Connor. 

Carpenters  and  Joiners  of  America,  3,000.    Commanded  by  W.  A.  Trotter. 

This  division  carried  a  remarkable  relic.  It  was  a  faded  silk  banner  with  a  history.  The  poor  old 
tattered  piece  of  silk  was  one  of  the  oldest  trade-union  banners  in  America.  On  one  side  it  bore  an 
oil-painting  of  a  carpenter  at  work  at  his  bench,  with  an  apprentice  boy  tapping  on  his  shoulder  with 
one  hand  and  with  the  other  pointing  through  the  open  shop-window  to  the  town-clock,  which  marked  the 
hour  of  six,  the  time  to  quit  work.  Beneath  the  picture  were  the  words,  "  Journeymen  House  Carpen- 
ters' Association,  instituted  1835."  On  the  other  side  of  the  banner  was  a  painting  representing  Columbia 
showing  a  group  of  Indians  the  necessity  for  industry,  and  underneath  the  picture  the  inscription,  "  Union 
and  Intelligence  the  Path  of  Independence."  It  was  carried  by  the  Secretary  of  the  Brotherhood,  P.  J.  * 
McGuire. 

DIVISION  F. 

First  Subdivision. — Marshal,  Colonel  David  Morrison.    Aides  and  escort. 
The  United  Italian  Societies.    Marshal,  Antonio  Carrara. 

First  Division, — Italian  Military  Association.  Marshals,  A.  Demardri,  M.  Petroleo  and  Cordano.  Re- 
duci  Patrie  Battaglie,  36.  Columbus  Guard,  Giovanni  Muxxio,  Capt.,  36.  Garibaldi  Legion,  Michele 
Landi,  Capt.,  36.  Victor  Emanuel  Guard,  Victoria  Bianchi,  Capt.,  36.  Tongueto  Tasso,  Donato  Fina, 
Capt.,  36.  Potenja  Lucarria,  Rafaele  Guidetti,  Capt.,  36.  Umbesto  Primo,  Carione  Giacomo,  Capt.,  36. 
Stella  A'ltalia,  Domenico  D'Incastro,  Capt.,  36.  Corona  A'ltalia,  Luigi  B.  Bellarosa,  Capt.,  36.  Principe 
di  Napoli,  36.  Societa  Carous,  Antonio  Carrara,  Capt.,  36.  Guardia  Saroia,  Antonio  Dondero,  Capt.,  36. 
Carabinieri  Reali,  Francesco  Capobianco,  36.  Two  floats,  four  horses  each.  First  float,  large  boat,  repre- 
senting Columbus  and  Washington,  discoverer  and  father.  Second  float,  representing  Italy  and  America 
sitting  among  flowers. 

The  national  illustrative  float  consisted  of  a  barge  drawn  by  four  horses,  and  the  occupants  were  in- 
tended to  represent  Columbus  and  Washington,  the  Discoverer  and  the  Father  of  America.  The  barge 
was  about  twelve  feet  long,  painted  white  and  gold,  and  plush  velvet  fell  over  the  seats  about  the  stern- 
sheets.  Painted  canvas  hanging  from  the  keel  represented  waves,  which  were  touched  by  imitation  oars. 
At  the  prow  of  the  boat  was  painted  in  bright  colors  the  Italian  coat-of-arms,  and  with  it  was  that  of 
the  United  States.  At  the  stern  in  gold  letters  was  the  following  inscription  :  "  Columbus  discovered 
America.    Washington  gave  her  liberty." 

Second  Subdivision. — Italian  Civic  Organizations.  Marshals,  Carlo  Lamaida  and  Antonio  Criscuolo. 
Unione  e  Fratellauza,  Bartolonco  Bertini,  Prest.,  36.  Societa  Operaia,  Giovanni  Caragnasa,  Prest.,  36.  La 
Concordia,  Antonio  Podesta,  Prest.,  36.  Societa  Fraterna,  Achillo  D'Angelo,  Prest.,  36.  Fratellanza  Cabrel- 
lesse,  Antonio  Aliano,  Prest.,  36.  Rimembranza  Saati,  Nicola  Snilla,  Prest.,  36.  Scandinavian  American 
Societies.  Commanded  by  Edw.  Sorenson.  Swedish  Society.  Scandinavian  Society  of  1844.  Norwegian 
Society.  Dana  Society.  Danish  Veteran  Society.  Swedish  and  Norwegian  Society.  Bertel  Thorwald- 
sen's  Association.    Danish  Society  of  Brooklyn.    Scandinavian  Democratic  Association.    Switzer  Council, 


THREE  HUNDRED  STUDENTS  OF  THE  COLLEGE  OF  THE  CITY  OF  NEW  YORK  PASSING  THE  GRAND  STAND. 
CIVIC  AND  INDUSTRIAL  PARADE,  NEW  YORK,  MAY  i,  1889. 


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No.  62,  Chosen  Friends.  Total  Abstainer  Society.  Menneskevenner,  Scandinavian  Sick  and  Help  Society, 
Brooklyn.  Norden  Society  of  Jersey  City.  Scandinavian  Society  of  Long  Island  City.  Scandinavian 
Machinist  Society,  New  York  and  Brooklyn.  Manham  Association  Odd-Fellows.  Swedish  Dramatic  Society. 
Swithiod  Singing  Society.    "  Thule  "  Society. 

DIVISIONS  G.  TO  M. 
Marshal,  General  E.mil  Schaefer.    Staff  and  escort. 

First  Subdivision. — German- American  Sharpshooters,  Concordia  Sharpshooters,  350.  German-Ameri- 
can Sharpshooters,  1,300.  Harlem  Independent  Sharpshooters,  100.  United  German  Washington  Rifles,  700. 
Brooklyn  Independent  Rifles,  70.  Schuetzen  Guilde,  50.  South  Brooklyn  Rifle  Club,  60.  South  Brooklyn 
Sharpshooters,  30.  United  German-American  Sharpshooters,  500.  1st  Hungarian  Sharpshooters,  200.  1st 
Austro-Hungarian  Sharpshooters,  40. 

Singing  Societies. — Schillerbund,  250.  Oesterreich,  50.  Cordialia,  75.  Germania,  50.  Orlando,  40.  New 
York  Turn  Bezirk,  20  pieces.  New  York  Maennerchor,  200.  Harlem  Maennerchor,  40.  Schwabischer  San- 
gerbund,  60.    Alemannia  Quartett  Club,  25.    Loreley,  50,  1,  20. — 375. 

The  second  subdivision  was  devoted  to  emblematic  floats  under  the  escort  of  the  Brooklyn  Riding  Club, 
Nineteenth  Ward  Cavalry  Veterans,  Third  New  York  Cavalry,  Bavarian  Schuetzen  Corps,  and  the  Brooklyn 
and  German  Landwehr-Verein. 

The  description  of  the  floats  of  this  division,  prepared  by  Louis  Windmuller,  chairman  of  the  Commit- 
tee of  arrangements  of  the  German-American  Citizens,*  is  as  follows: 

1.  A  Dutch  ship  setting  sail  from  Rotterdam.  On  deck  emigrants  from  the  Palatinate  were  seen,  clad  in 
the  picturesque  costumes  of  the  seventeenth  century,  in  the  act  of  stowing  away  their  agricultural  implements 
and  household  goods. 

2.  Some  of  the  earlier  events  of  German  immigration  represented  by  Jacob  Leisler  as  he  arrived  with  his 
sturdy  band  of  adventurers  at  Albany  ;  by  F.  D.  Pastorious  at  Germantown ;  by  Count  Zinzendorf  among  the 
Indians  ;  and  by  David  Zeisberger  with  his  Moravian  brothers  pitching  their  tents  on  the  Alleghany  River. 

3.  In  a  train  of  the  first  pioneers  to  the  West,  strong  men  were  seen  driving  teams  of  oxen.  A  "  Prairie 
Schooner  "  carried  their  families  and  necessities  of  life,  guarded  by  Spitz  dogs. 

4.  The  Generals  Steuben  and  De  Kalb,  represented  as  they  held  a  council  of  war  in  an  open  tent,  a  map  of 
the  country  spread  before  them.  Herkimer,  Muhlenberg,  and  Ziegler  were  seen  in  earnest  consultation  while 
surrounded  by  sentinels  in  Continental  uniforms.    The  "  Krieger  Bund  "  acted  as  escort. 

5.  The  goddess  of  liberty  surrounded  by  figures  who  represented  free  speech,  a  free  press,  and  free  exer- 
cise of  religious  opinion,  guarded  the  immigrants  of  1848,  when  Carl  Schurz,  Franz  Sigel,  and  Friederich 
Hecker  took  refuge  here.  Their  flying  colors  were  black,  red,  and  yellow,  their  device  "  Through  dark  night 
and  bloodshed  to  golden  liberty." 

6.  Abraham  Lincoln  presided  over  the  float  on  which  the  Generals  Osterhaus,  Weber,  Stahel,  and  Blenker 
were  grouped  with  other  officers,  who  distinguished  themselves  during  our  civil  war.  Veterans  guarded  the 
torn  battle-flags  and  tattered  banners  of  German  regiments.  The  Third  Cavalry  and  the  "  Landwehr 
Verein  "  escorted. 

7.  Immigrants  of  our  times  were  seen  on  deck  on  the  huge  ocean  steamer  "  Columbia  "  as  they  landed  in 
Hoboken.  They  looked  with  wistful  eyes  on  a  long  file  of  hungry  revenue  officers,  while  dapper  Hamburg 
stewards  pointed  out  their  baggage  to  them. 

8.  Type-setters  were  engaged  in  printing  the  inaugural  address  of  George  Washington  on  a  quaint  hand- 
press  of  his  time,  copies  of  which  were  given  to  the  public;  Johann  Guttenberg,  Peter  Schoffer,  and  Johann 
Fust  presided. 

9.  An  improved  steam-cylinder  press  printed  copies  of  this  celebration  for  equal  distribution.  The  office 
of  a  newspaper  represented  editors  and  compositors  in  their  daily  occupation.  Some  of  the  former  had  their 
watchful  eyes  riveted  on  a  colossal  figure,  "  Public  Opinion,"  while  others  received  and  wrote  notes. 


*  Public-spirited  German-American  citizens  assembled  at  Arion  Hall  in  March,  1889,  to  make  preparations  in  order  to  take 
part  in  the  celebration.  They  organized,  making  Carl  Schurz  President  and  Edward  Grosse,  Secretary.  The  following  com- 
mittees were  formed,  and  chairman  selected,  to  develop  plans  and  find  ways  and  means  to  carry  them  out  :  on  Art,  Joseph  Kep- 
pler ;  Executive,  William  Steinvvay  ;  Arrangements,  Louis  Windmuller ;  Music,  Paul  Goepel  ;  Finance,  Henry  Villard  ;  Treas- 
urer, Jacob  H.  Schiff.  It  was  decided  to  demonstrate  in  a  worthy  manner  the  influence  which  the  German  element  has  exer- 
cised in  the  development  of  our  national  progress  ;  how  the  Germans  assisted  to  advance  art  and  science,  and  stimulate  our  taste 
for  social  pleasure. 

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10.  A  portable  steam-engine  of  improved  construction,  and  a  representation  of  the  Brooklyn  Bridge,  with 
the  familiar  figure  of  Roebling,  showed  our  progress  in  steam-engineering  and  bridge-building. 

1 1.  Miners,  as  they  handled  their  tools  and  machinery  in  the  colleries  of  Pennsylvania  and  in  the  shafts  of 
silver-mines  in  Nevada,  gave  a  vivid  picture  of  this  useful  industry. 

12.  A  figure  representing  Science  presided  over  a  chariot  on  which  Humboldt  was  the  center.  Around 


him  maps  and  globes  were  spread  on  tables  together  with  volumes  of  his  Cosmos;  rare  tropical  plants  adorned 
his  study. 

13.  German  beer  was  represented  on  several  floats  led  by  Gambrinus,  escorted  by  dancing  Bachantes. 
Women  and  children  were  gathering  hops,  a  barley-field  seen  in  the  distance.  The  process  of  making  beer  in 
the  primitive  style  of  the  last  century,  and  as  made  now  with  the  aid  of  improved  machinery  and  steam,  were 
illustrated. 

14.  California  wine  filled  a  large  cask,  astride  of  which  rode  a  youthful  Bacchus  under  vine-covered  trel- 
lises. Vintners  were  seen  in  the  act  of  gathering  and  pressing  grapes,  while  coopers  drew  the  juice  from 
vats  into  barrels. 

15.  A  spinnet  on  which  Mozart  played,  while  Beethoven  and  Schumann  listened,  represented  a  musical  in- 
strument of  the  past.  Another  tableau  showed  Rubinstein's  masterly  hands  on  the  keys  of  a  modern  grand 
piano. 

16.  The  music  of  Wagner  was  illustrated  on  the  next  chariot  by  nymphs  as  they  appear  in  the  first  act  of 
Rheingold.  To  the  right  were  seen  Wotan  and  Brunhilde  from  the  Walktire,  to  the  left  Hans  Sachs  and  Eva 
from  the  Meistersinger ;  forward  Venus  and  Tannhauser,  in  the  rear  Lohengrin  with  Elsa.  The  Maestro 
presided. 

17.  Characters  from  other  German  operas  followed.  Dona  Anna  with  Elvira  and  I.eporello  reminded  us  of 


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Don  Juan  ;  Agathe  with  Max,  of  the  Freischiitz  ;  Leonore  with  Rocco,  of  Fidelio.  Busts  of  the  composers 
named  and  those  of  Carl  Maria  von  Weber,  Bach,  Meyerbeer,  and  Mendelssohn,  completed  this  scene.  The 
Beethoven  Society  escorted. 

18.  Lyric  Song  was  represented  by  the  chariot  of  the  Liederkranz  Society.  Loreley  was  seen  seated  on 
her  rock  with  an  immense  wreath  of  roses,  interwoven  with  ribbons.  On  these  the  titles  appeared  of  many 
popular  songs,  with  the  names  of  their  composers.  A  jolly  crowd  of  Heideiberg  students,  in  tight-fitting  cos- 
tumes, colored  caps  and  top  boots,  sang  them  in  chorus.  The  river  Rhine  with  the  ruins  of  a  castle  was  seen 
in  the  distance.    Members  of  the  Liederkranz  adorned  with  red.  white,  and  blue  sashes,  escorted. 

19.  Arion  rode  on  the  back  of  his  Dolphin,  surrounded  by  Tritons,  and  accompanied  by  "  Poetry  "  and 
"  Fiction,"  "  Dance  "  and  "  Song."    The  Arion  Society,  clad  in  costumes  of  Greek  soldiers,  followed. 

20.  Melpomene  presided  over  the  chariot  of  the  German  drama.  Foremost  the  familiar  figure  of  Freder- 
ick Barbarossa  with  his  standard-bearer.  Then  were  visible :  Schiller's  Maria  Stuart  as  she  listened  to  Bur- 
leigh, reading  her  death-warrant;  Lessing's  Nathan,  as  he  told  Saladin  the  story  of  the  three  rings;  finally, 
Goethe's  Faust  offering  his  arm  to  Gretchen  as  she  came  from  church.    The  Melpomene  Society  escorted. 

21.  A  genius  of  Art  presided  over  the  painters  Hans  Holbein,  Peter  Paul  Rubens,  and  Albrecht  Diirer, 
the  sculptors  Vischer,  Rauch,  and  Schadow,  Emanuel  Leutze,  and  R.  E.  Launitz,  occupying  places  of  honor 
among  them.    German  artists  followed. 

22.  Figures  representing  the  four  seasons  adorned  a  float,  on  which  a  Swabian  harvest  festival  ("  Ernte- 
fest  ")  was  enacted.  Farmers,  gardeners,  and  vintners  enjoyed  with  their  families  the  fruits  of  their  labor  under 
green  boughs  adorned  by  a  profusion  of  flowers.    The  "  Cannstadt  Yolksfest "  Society  acted  as  escort. 

23.  A  neat  German  cook,  deftly  swinging  ladle  and  fork,  presided  over  a  roomy  kitchen  with  its  varied 
appurtenances,  while  her  pretty  young  assistants  in  white  aprons  stirred  the  fire  in  a  large  range,  from  which 
soup,  fish,  and  roast  exhaled  delicious  odors. 

24.  Sharpshooters  came  next,  of  old  and  of  modern  times,  armed  with  their  favorite  weapons.  Archers  and 
arquebusier  followed  William  Tell;  foresters,  clad  in  dark  green,  rallied  with  their  breech-loaders  around  the 
king  of  their  "  Schiitzenfest,"  while  marksmen  aimed  with  Winchester  rifles  at  a  Creedmoor  target.  The 
"  Schiitzenbund  "  were  the  escort. 

25.  German  fairy  tales  were  illustrated  by  "  Sleeping  Beauty  "  with  her  prince  ;  the  wolf  following  "  Red 
Riding  Hood";  "  Riibezahl  "  counting  his  turnips;  "Puck"  teasing  Oberon  ;  while  Grimm  and  Musaeus 
watched  tenderly  over  these  their  creations. 

26.  Frederick  Froebel  was  seen  next,  trying  to  keep  order  in  his  Kindergarten  among  a  crowd  of  romping 
children. 

27.  Father  Jahn  presided  over  his  Turners,  who  gave  exhibitions  of  their  skill  in  manifold  gymnastic  ex- 
ercises ;  a  regiment  of  them  followed. 

28.  Prince  Carnival,  seated  on  a  throne,  formed  of  champagne-bottles,  appeared  next,  crowned  with  a  fool's 
cap.  Jesters  and  clowns  played  their  customary  antics.  Masked  boys  and  girls  danced  in  picturesque  and 
fanciful  costumes  merrily  around  a  rostrum  from  which  Comus,  the  Fool's  King,  proclaimed  his  jokes. 

29.  Christmas  was  illustrated  by  the  figure  of  Santa  Claus  on  the  chimney  of  a  farm-house,  which  he  is  en- 
tering in  this  his  usual  fashion.  Hampered  by  a  load  of  presents,  he  finds  it  difficult  to  squeeze  in.  Happy 
children  were  seen  in  the  roomy  hall  dancing  around  a  tall  pine-tree  tastefully  decorated.  Their  silvery  voices 
were  heard  singing  "  Liebes  Christkindlein  "  and  other  Christmas  carols. 

30.  Columbia,  with  outstretched  arms  bidding  welcome  to  her  sister  Germania,  closed  this  procession.  The 
flags  of  the  two  nations  floated  over  them  in  the  breeze.  All  the  German  communities  or  tribes,  in  their  varied 
picturesque  costumes,  followed. 

An  entire  subdivision  was  formed  by  numerous  other  societies  :  Saengerrunde,  Eichenkranz,  Alemannia. 
Liedertafel,  Harmonia,  Plattdeutsche  Vereine,  Concordia,  Soldatenbund,  Harugari,  and  last  but  not  least  the 
German  Catholic  Societies.  All  these  marched,  full  of  devotion  to  their  adopted  country,  celebrating  the  one 
hundredth  anniversary  of  its  independent  existence.  Too  much  praise  can  not  be  given  to  their  artists  to 
whom  this  successful  issue  was  largely  due.  A  long  procession  of  German  tradesmen  followed — butchers  and 
bakers,  gardeners  and  basket-makers,  upholsterers,  shoemakers,  etc. 

DIVISIONS  N  TO  T. 
Marshal,  General  J.  R.  O'Beirne.    Staff  and  Escort.    Hibernian  Guard,  uniformed. 

Ancient  Order  of  Hibernians,  commanded  by  E.  L.  Carey,  10,000,  partially  uniformed.  Accompanying 
them  the  float,  "  The  World  Moves  On." 

Irish  American  League,  commanded  by  Michael  O'Farrell,  200.  Escort  to  floats.  The  first  represents  a 
Southern  negro  home,  tobacco  growing,  negroes  working  in  the  field,  singing  old  plantation  songs.    The  sec- 


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ond,  the  manufacture  of  tobacco.  The  third,  a  Russian  scene — teas  transported  over  the  deserts  of  Russia  by 
caravans  of  camels,  a  picturesque  combination  of  camels,  drivers,  ruins,  palms,  and  desert  sands. 

Ninth  Ward  Pioneer  Corps,  commanded  by  Robert  B.  Miller,  75.  Accompanied  by  250  iron-workers,  with 
exhibitions  of  their  skill  arranged  on  trucks. 

Bricklayers'  Union,  No.  1,  of  Brooklyn,  commanded  by  M.  J.  Murray,  1,000.  Escorting  two  trucks,  with 
men  working  at  forge  and  iron-work. 

Bricklayers'  Union,  No.  40,  Long  Island  City,  commanded  by  J.  B.  McKeever,  70,  accompanied  by  two 
floats  ;  upon  one,  a  large  copper  lion,  and  on  another  the  culture  of  the  plant  and  manufacture  of  chocolate. 

Loyal  Orange  Institution,  commanded  by  J.  W.  Short,  1,000.  Escorting  two  tracks,  upon  one,  metal  fig- 
ures and  on  the  other  steam  radiators  ;  men  working. 


TWO  TABLEAUX. 

One  representing  Fraunce's  Tavern,  the  scene  of  Washington's  Farewell  to  his  Officers,  December  4,  1783, 
and  the  other  representing  the  balcony  of  Federal  Hall,  where  Washington  was  inaugurated  President  of  the  United  States, 

April  30,  1789. 
Civic  and  Industrial  Parade,  New  York,  May  I,  1889. 


Grand  United  Order  of  Odd-Fellows,  commanded  by  Charles  W.  McKie,  1,000.  Accompanied  by  a  float, 
exhibiting  the  ice  industry,  with  500  men,  armed  with  axes,  tongs,  hooks,  and  other  tools  of  this  trade. 

U.  S.  Grant  Hose  Co.,  9th  Ward,  commanded  by  Thomas  Dryburgh,  60  men,  escorting  "Original  Overland 
Coach,"  driven  by  one  of  the  old-time  drivers  from  the  Missouri  River  to  California ;  also  representations  of 
pony  express,  pony  ridden  by  Haslan,  known  on  the  frontier  as  "Pony  Bob." 

United  Polish  Societies,  commanded  by  Colonel  F.  Debrowski,  500.  Accompanied  by  four-horse  trucks, 
and  showing  the  manufacture  of  paper  boxes. 

Arlington  League  Club,  commanded  by  J.  C.  Park,  125,  and  truck  with  Gold-Beating  Industry. 

Bohemian  National  Association,  commanded  by  Joseph  Jamack,  1,000  men,  and  escorting  trucks,  "Tram- 
way Car,"  and  manufacture  of  fancy  leather  articles. 


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Colored  Centennial  Committee,  commanded  by  George  W.  Lattimore,  1,500.  An  organization  of  several 
associations  and  committees,  some  uniformed,  accompanying  one  of  George  Washington's  coaches  (or  at  least 
a  very  old  coach,  similar  to  one  owned  by  Washington),  drawn  by  four  horses. 


(Fac-simile  of  red-colored  ticket  to  the  Grand  Stand  to  witness  the  Civic  and  Industrial  Parade,  May  1,  1889.) 


DIVISIONS  U  TO  Z. 
Marshal,  General  Martin  T.  McMahon.    Staff  and  Aides. 

The  United  Irish-American  and  Catholic  Societies.  Association  Irish  Papal  Veterans,  Captain  P.  C. 
Dooley.  Holy  Name  Societies  of  New  York,  8,000;  Jeremiah  Fitzpatrick.  Ancient  Order  of  Hibernians, 
6,000 ;  Michael  Kennedy.  Provincial  Council  Temperance  Societies,  4,000  ;  William  H.  Dowries.  Catholic 
Young  Men's  National  Union,  1,500  ;  Bernard  H.  Koehling.  Catholic  Benevolent  Division,  1,200  ;  Victor  J. 
Dowling.  Catholic  Knights,  500;  Terence  J.  Larkin.  St.  Patrick's  Alliance,  500 ;  John  Henry  McCarthy. 
Catholic  Mutual  Benefit  Association,  300 ;  T.  S.  McEvoy. 

Followed  by  twelve  floats  representing :  First. — Four  trucks,  with  safe-manufacturing  industry ;  one  an 
old  Dutch  chest  imported  in  1789;  the  second  representing  the  manufacture  of  a  fire-proof  safe  ;  the  remain- 
ing two  exhibited  some  fine  specimens  of  large  fire-proof  vaults.  Fifth,  float. — The  industry  of  carriage-mak- 
ing. Sixth  and  seventh,  floats. — The  manufacture  of  wrought-iron  work.  Eighth  and  ninth. — Two  hand- 
somely decorated  floats  showing  the  manufacture  of  cigar-boxes.  Tenth,  float. — The  manufacture  of  belting. 
Eleventh,  truck. — Showing  men  manufacturing  skylights.  Twelfth,  float. — Showing  a  very  handsome  portable 
building.  St.  Patrick's  Benevolent  Association,  250;  M.  J.  Ahearn.  St.  Paul's  United  Societies,  800 ;  J.  E. 
Kehoe.    St.  James's  Young  Men's  T.  A.  B.  Society,  300  ;  P.  O'Toole. 

Followed  by  four  trucks  representing  :  r.  The  manufacture  of  washing-machines,  with  the  inscription 
"The  Wash-Boards  Must  Go."  2.  Large  truck. — The  manufacture  of  fancy  brick.  3.  Truck  showing  men  in 
the  act  of  placing  patent  roof  on  a  house.  4.  Large  trucks  showing  the  manufacturing  of  fire-proof  safes. 
Daniel  O'Connell  Patriotic  Benevolent  Association,  200  ;  Bernard  Byrne.  Kerry  men's  Patriotic  and  Benevo- 
lent Association,  200;  John  P.  Sheehan.  County  Fermanagh  Association,  200;  W.  McLaughlin.  Holy  Cross 
Temperance  Society,  150;  P.  J.  Mulcahy.    St.  Paul's  League  of  the  Cross,  100;  John  Dillon. 


CHAPTER  XIX. 


the  finances  of  the  celebration. 
By  Brayton  Ives, 

Chairman  of  the  Finance  Committee. 

The  following  report  of  the  operations  of  the  Finance  Committee  on  the  Centennial 
Celebration  of  Washington's  Inauguration  is  herewith  submitted.  The  names  of  that  com- 
mittee, as  appointed,  were  as  follows:  James  M.  Brown,  Allan  Campbell,  Louis  Fitzgerald, 
Henry  B.  Hyde,  Brayton  Ives,  Chairman;  Eugene  Kelly,  John  Jay  Knox,  Edward  V. 
Loew,  Darius  O.  Mills,  De  Lancey  Nicoll,  Secretary  ;  John  F.  Plummer,  J.  Edward  Simmons, 
John  Sloane,  James  D.  Smith,  Walter  Stanton,  William  L.  Strong,  and  Richard  T.  Wilson. 

The  committee  elected  General  Louis  Fitzgerald  to  act  as  its  treasurer,  and  are  indebted 
to  him  for  the  zealous  and  efficient  manner  in  which  he  discharged  his  duties.  It  was  esti- 
mated that  it  would  be  necessary  to  raise  by  private  subscription  about  $50,000,  and  that 
this  amount,  together  with  an  equal  sum  which  had  been  appropriated  by  the  State  and 
$75,000  which  had  been  voted  by  the  city,  would  be  sufficient,  in  connection  with  the  re- 
ceipts from  other  sources,  to  defray  all  the  expenses  of  the  celebration.  The  attention  of 
the  committee  was  therefore  first  directed  to  securing  $50,000  by  voluntary  subscription ;  and, 
as  a  result,  $42,492  were  contributed,  in  sums  ranging  from  $2  to  $2,000.  The  names  of  the 
subscribers,  together  with  the  amounts  contributed  by  them,  are  given  below. 

The  following  resolution  was  adopted  by  the  committee : 

"Resolved,  That,  for  the  purpose  of  establishing  a  uniform  system  of  receipts  and  disbursements  of  the 
moneys  necessary  to  defray  the  expenses  of  the  celebration,  it  is  expedient  that  all  moneys  collected  hereto- 
fore by  any  of  the  sub-committees  should  be  immediately  turned  over  to  the  Treasurer  of  the  Finance  Com- 
mittee;  and  hereafter  all  moneys  collected  by  each  of  the  sub-committees,  from  whatever  source,  should 
be  turned  over  to  the  Treasurer  of  the  Finance  Committee  on  the  day  following  their  collection." 

This  plan  of  procedure  did  not,  however,  meet  the  approval  of  the  Executive  Commit- 
tee, and  it  therefore  did  not  go  into  effect.  Consequently  the  duties  of  the  Finance  Com- 
mittee were  confined  to  the  collection  of  private  contributions  and  to  the  disbursement  of 
this  sum  and  the  amounts  received  from  the  city  and  the  State.  The  money  was  paid  out 
on  vouchers  duly  approved  by  the  chairmen  of  the  various  sub-committees,  and  in  those 
cases  where  the  sub-committees  received  money  themselves  they  made  their  own  disburse- 
ments and  turned  over  the  balances  to  the  Finance  Committee.  That  committee  was  fortu- 
nate in  having  sufficient  money  to  meet  all  expenses,  and  it  was  enabled  to  report  eventually 
to  the  Committee  on  Plan  and   Scope  that  it  had  submitted  satisfactory  vouchers  to  the 


THE  FINANCES  OF  THE  CELEBRATION. 


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Treasurer  of  the  State  and  the  Comptroller  of  the  city  for  the  amounts  respectively  received 
from  them.  After  the  payment  of  all  bills  the  sum  of  $4, 741.09  remained  in  the  hands 
of  the  treasurer,  and  the  Finance  Committee  recommended  that  so  much  of  this  sum  as 
might  be  necessary  should  be  used  for  the  publication,  under  the  direction  of  the  Chairman 
of  the  Executive  Committee,  of  a  memorial  of  all  the  work  done  by  the  various  committees 
in  connection  with  the  Centennial  Celebration,  and  that  any  balance  remaining  should  be  then 
turned  over  to  the  committee  in  charge  of  the  Memorial  Arch.  It  is  proper  to  state  fur- 
ther that  the  committee  resolved  that  no  part  of  the  money  contributed  by  the  State  of  New 
York  or  by  the  city  of  New  York  for  the  purposes  of  the  Centennial  Celebration  should  be 
expended  either  upon  the  banquet  or  upon  the  ball,  but  that  the  expenses  attending  the 
banquet  and  the  ball  should  be  paid  from  the  sale  of  the  tickets  and  from  the  funds  raised 
by  private  subscription.  This  was  done,  and  no  part  of  the  money  received  from  the  State 
or  the  city  was  devoted  to  the  ball  or  the  banquet.  Not  only  were  the  expenses  of  these 
features  of  the  celebration  defrayed  from  the  receipts  from  tickets,  but  the  Treasurer  of  the 
Entertainment  Committee  turned  over  to  Treasurer  Fitzgerald  the  sum  of  Si, 865.95,  that 
amount  being,  according  to  the  report  of  that  committee,  the  excess  of  receipts  above  ex- 
penditures. I  beg  to  add  hereto  a  copy  of  the  report  of  the  treasurer,  which  was  approved 
by  the  members  of  the  Finance  Committee  whose  names  are  attached  thereto  : 

REPORT  OF  LOUIS  FITZGERALD    Treasurer  Centennial  Committee. 

Executive  Committee  : 

Disbursements — general  expense   $34. 642  95 

Receipts — sale  of  furniture,  etc   1,147  77     $33,495  18 

Finance  Committee : 

Disbursements — clerical  work,  etc   ',517  79 

Committee  on  States  : 

Disbursements — entertainments,  etc   10,360  46 

ffasiy  Committee  : 

Disbursements — vessels,  entertainments,  etc   3,360  35 

A  rmy  Committee  : 

Disbursements — general   127,781  91 

Amount  reserved  by  committee  for  publication  of  report   I.95°  00 

129,73!  91 

Receipts — tickets,  etc   45.844  32      83,887  59 

Art  Committee  : 

Disbursements — rent  and  general  expenses   24,300  64 

Receipts — tickets,  souvenirs,  etc   12.608  05       11,692  59 

Entertainment  Committee  : 

Disbursements  on  account  of  ball  and  banquet   88,941  99 

Receipts  for  tickets   $83,207  94 

Less  amount  advanced  by  Mr.  Bowen,  on  account  of  tickets 

distributed  by  the  Executive  Committee,  with  interest .     15,702  90*  67,505  04      21,436  95 

Si65,75°  91 


*  This  sum,  which  was  used  by  the  Executive  Committee  in  buying  tickets  of  the  Entertainment  Committee  for  invited 
guests  to  the  ball  and  banquet,  might  with  propriety  have  been  charged  to  the  expenses  of  the  Executive  Committee.  (See 
page  257.) — Editor. 


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Cash  Statement. 

To  cash,  New  York  State  appro- 
priation  $55,000  00 

"         New  York  city  do   73,°oo  00 

"        subscription   42,492  00 


$170,492  00 

To  balance  on  hand   $4,74'  09 

(Signed) 
Examined  and  found  correct : 


Approved : 


LIST  OF  SUBSCRIBERS  TO  THE  WASHINGTON  CENTENNIAL  CELEBRATION. 

$2,000.    Drexel,  Morgan  &  Company. 

$1,000.  J.  J.  Astor,  Brown  Brothers  &  Company,  First  National  Bank,  Hamilton  Fish,  Elbridge  T.  Gerry, 
Henry  Hilton,  Morton,  Bliss  &  Company,  Orlando  B.  Potter,  Cornelius  Vanderbilt,  Wm.  Seward  Webb. 

$500.  Arnold,  Constable  &  Company,  Samuel  D.  Babcock,  Cornelius  N.  Bliss,  H.  B.  Claflin  &  Company, 
William  E.  Dodge,  Hawk  &  Wetherbee,  Hitchcock,  Darling  &  Company,  Henry  B.  Hyde,  Brayton 
Ives  &  Company,  D.  Willis  James,  Morris  K.  Jesup,  Eugene  Kelly,  John  S.  Kennedy,  John  A.  King, 
Darius  O.  Mills,  Park  &  Tilford,  W.  &  J.  Sloane,  Charles  L.  Tiffany. 

$400.    John  D.  Jones. 

$250.  James  C.  Carter,  William  B.  Cutting,  Stuyvesant  Fish,  Josiah  M.  Fiske,  Robert  Goelet,  Ogden  Goelet, 
Gorham  Manufacturing  Company,  Inman,  Swann  &  Company,  Kountze  Brothers,  Johnston  Living- 
ston, Lord  &  Taylor,  Maxwell  &  Graves,  C.  H.  Read  &  Company,  James  D.  Smith,  Speyer  &  Com- 
pany, Steinway  &  Sons,  Stern  Brothers,  Lispenard  Stewart,  William  E.  D.  Stokes,  Tefft,  Weller  <x: 
Company,  Vermilye  &  Company. 

$200.  John  L.  Cadwalader,  Allan  Campbell,  Chauncey  M.  Depew,  Frederic  Gallatin,  Grand  Union  Hotel, 
C.  G.  Gunther's  Sons,  Adrian  Iselin,  Henry  G.  Marquand,  J.  Edward  Simmons,  Henry  Milford  Smith 
&  Son,  Richard  T.  Wilson. 

$150.    E.  A.  Cruikshank,  E.  H.  Harriman. 

$100.  C.  H.  Adams,  Aitken,  Son  &  Company,  Ammidown  &  Smith,  E.  Ellery  Anderson,  Daniel  Appleton  & 
Company,  Archer  &  Pancoast  Manufacturing  Company,  H.  O.  Armour,  Auchincloss  Brothers,  The 
Barbour  Brothers  Company,  Samuel  L.  M.  Barlow,  John  S.  Barnes,  Beadleston  &  Woerz,  J.  Wm. 
Beekman,  R.  L.  Belknap,  Edwin  Booth,  Simon  Borg  &  Company,  Clarence  W.  Bowen,  Brooks 
Brothers,  Andrew  Carnegie,  Case,  Dudley  &  Battelle,  Frederick  Clarkson,  Banyer  Clarkson,  A.  J. 
Clinton,  Wm.  P.  Clyde  &  Company,  John  Cochrane,  W.  E.  Connor,  Cooper,  Hewitt  &  Company,  F.  R. 
Coudert,  John  D.  Crimmins,  S.  Van  Rensselaer  Cruger,  Chas.  W.  Dayton,  Frederick  de  Bary  &  Com- 
pany, Deering,  Milliken  &  Company,  Frederic  J.  de  Peyster,  Devlin  &  Company,  Rev.  Dr.  Morgan 
Dix,  Dominick  &  Dickerman,  R.  Dunlap  &  Company,  Thomas  Addis  Emmet,  M.  D.,  Fahnestock  & 


By  cash,  paid  on  account  of  Ex- 
ecutive Committee. .  .  $33,495  18 

"         finance   1,517  79 

"         States   10,360  46 

navy   3,360  35 

army   83,887  59 

"        art   1 1,692  59 

"         entertainment   21,436  95 

"         balance   4,74i  09 

$170,492  00 


New  York,  November  29,  it 

Louis  Fitzgerald,  Treasurer. 


J.  Edward  Simmons, 
John  Jay  Knox, 
James  D.  Smith, 


A  uditing  Committee. 


Brayton  Ives, 
D.  O.  Mills, 
James  M.  Brown, 
Eugene  Kelly, 
Edward  V.  Loew, 
John  F.  Plummer, 
Allan  Campbell, 
De  Lancey  Nicoll, 


>  Of  Finance  Committee. 


THE  FINANCES  OF  THE  CELEBRATION. 


401 


Company,  General  Louis  Fitzgerald,  Richard  Watson  Gilder,  Theodore  K.  Gibbs,  Hon.  Hugh  J. 
Grant,  William  G.  Hamilton,  Charles  Hauselt,  George  G.  Haven,  Dewitt  C.  Hays,  Edmund  Hendricks, 
H.  L.  Hoyt  &  Company,  John  Jay,  William  Jay,  Joy,  Langdon  &  Company,  A.  I).  Juilliard  &  Com- 
pany, S.  Nicholson  Kane,  Sheppard  Knapp  &  Company,  John  Jay  Knox,  Kuhn,  Loeb  &  Company, 
W.  C.  Langley  &  Company,  Lawrence  &  Company,  John  Benjamin  Lee  &  Company,  Henry  W. 
LeRoy,  Lewis  Brothers  &  Company,  Edward  V.  Loew,  Seth  Low,  Lewis  G.  Morris,  Thomas  H.  New- 
bold,  De  Lancey  Nicoll,  Stephen  H.  Olin,  Parker,  Wilder  &  Company,  John  Baton  &  Company,  John 
F.  Plummer  &  Company,  Horace  Porter,  Randel,  Baremore  &  Billings,  Frederick  W.  Rhinelander, 
Archibald  Rogers,  Chas.  H.  Russell,  Jr.,  Alden  Sampson  &  Sons,  Edward  Schell,  William  G.  Schenck, 
F.  Augustus  Schermerhorn,  Jackson  S.  Schultz,  Clarence  A.  Seward,  Richard  C.  Shannon,  Roswell 
Smith,  Walter  Stanton,  John  A.  Stewart,  William  L.  Strong,  Rutherfurd  Stuyvesant,  Sullivan,  Vail  & 
Company,  Edward  Sweet  c\r  Company,  Frederick  S.  Tallmadge,  John  T.  Terry,  J.  Kennedy  Tod  & 
Company,  Travis  C.  Van  Buren,  L.  Von  Hoffmann  &:  Company,  E.  H.  Van  Ingen  c\;  Company,  Alfred 
Van  Santvoord,  A.  A.  Vantine  &  Company,  James  M.  Varnum,  G.  Creighton  Webb,  W.  H.  Webb, 
Jacob  Wendell,  Wendell,  Fay  &:  Company,  Loomis  L.  White  &  Company,  Whiting  Manufacturing 
Company,  Erastus  Wiman,  Buchanan  Winthrop. 
Frederick  A.  Benjamin. 

A.  L.  Ashman  &:  Son,  John  W.  Auchincloss,  Captain  Warren  C.  Beach,  Charles  C.  Beaman,  J.  W.  Bell, 
George  Blagden,  J.  B.  Bowden  Company,  Brewster  &  Company,  Walston  H.  Brown  &  Brother, 
George  S.  Coe,  J.  S.  Conover  &  Company,  George  Coppell,  George  G.  De  Witt,  Jr.,  Franklin  Edson 
&  Company,  Loyall  Farragut,  F.  P.  Freeman  &  Company,  Asa  Bird  Gardiner,  Grand  Central  Hotel, 
Grant  &  Company,  Herts  Brothers,  Hinck  &  Ould,  Wilson  G.  Hunt,  Wm.  H.  Jackson  &  Company, 
Kessler  &  Company,  Francis  H.  Leggett  &  Company,  H.  W.  T.  Mali  &  Company,  Thomas  Maitland 
&:  Company,  James  M.  Montgomery,  John  J.  Pierrepont,  A.  &  M.  Robbins,  Theodore  Roosevelt,  Horace 
Russell,  William  Schaus,  Timothy  G.  Sellew,  Gardiner  Sherman,  B.  H.  Smith  &  Company,  Wm.  Alex- 
ander Smith,  Sypher  &  Company,  E.  N.  &  W.  H.  Tailer  &  Company,  Warren,  Lange  &  Company, 
Joseph  Wild  &  Company,  Wetherbee  &:  Fuller. 

Bartholdi  Hotel  Company,  Benedict  Brothers,  Simon  Brentano,  Daniel  Huntington,  John  S.  Huyler, 
Theodore  W.  Myers,  Wm.  Ottmann  &  Company,  Howland  Pell,  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons,  J.  Ruszits,  Henry 
L.  Slote,  Samuel  Thomas,  J.  Tallmadge  Van  Rensselaer. 

Hjalmar  H.  Boyesen,  William  H.  Crosby,  Edward  M.  L.  Ehlers,  Gilman  Collamore  &  Company, 

George  E.  Hamlin,  Wm.  L.  Keese. 

Cash. 


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CHAPTER  XX. 


THE  CELEBRATION   THROUGHOUT  THE   UNITED  STATES. 

The  Centennial  Celebration  of  Washington's  Inauguration  was  observed  in  New  York  in 
many  ways  not  indicated  in  the  official  programme.  Besides  religious  services  which  were 
held  in  many  of  the  churches,  at  nine  o'clock  on  the  morning  of  April  30,  1889,  there 
was  organized  the  same  day  and  hour  in  the  historic  Fraunce's  Tavern  on  Broad  Street 
a  national  society  of  "  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution,"  with  delegates  present 
from  New  Jersey,  Ohio,  Connecticut,  Missouri,  Delaware,  Alabama,  Pennsylvania,  Illinois, 
Massachusetts,  New  Hampshire,  and  South  Carolina.  The  meeting  was  opened  with  prayer 
by  President  Timothy  Dwight,  of  Yale  University.  A  large  public  dinner,  organized  by 
Bryan  G.  McSwyny,  was  held  at  Delmonico's  on  the  evening  of  April  30th.  On  Wednesday 
evening,  May  1st,  the  Bar  Association  of  the  City  of  New  York  gave  a  reception  to  the 
Chief-Justice  and  the  Justices  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States.  Chief-Justice 
Melville  WT.  Fuller  and  Associate  Justices  Samuel  Blatchford  and  Stephen  J.  Field  were 
present.  There  were  also  present  at  this  reception  Joseph  H.  Choate,  President  of  the  Bar 
Association  ;  William  Allen  Butler  and  James  C.  Carter,  members  of  the  Reception  Com- 
mittee ;  Justices  Lawrence,  Patterson,  and  Lewis,  of  the  New  York  Supreme  Court ;  Justices 
Ingraham,  Freedman,  and  O'Gorman,  of  the  Superior  Court ;  Surrogate  Ransom  ;  Chief-Justice 
McAdam,  of  the  City  Court;  Judge  Randolph  B.  Martine;  ex-Judges  Noah  Davis,  John 
F.  Dillon,  and  Charles  A.  Peabody,  Frederic  R.  Coudert,  ex-Surrogate  Daniel  G.  Rollins, 
Grover  Cleveland,  Senator  Frank  Hiscock,  Elihu  Root,  Elbridge  T.  Gerry,  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Marvin  R.  Vincent,  Charles  C.  Beaman,  Charles  W.  Bangs,  Dwight  H.  Olmstead,  Assistant 
District-Attorney  David  J.  Dean,  Artemas  H.  Holmes,  Theodore  W.  Dwight,  General 
James  M.  Varnum,  William  B.  Hornblower,  Stephen  H.  Olin,  Francis  Lynde  Stetson,  Henry 
E.  Tremain,  Charles  M.  Da  Costa,  ex-Judge  Gilbert  M.  Speir,  Frederick  S.  Wait,  Edward  S. 
Rapallo,  Austen  G.  Fox,  Austin  Abbott,  United  States  District-Attorney  Stephen  A.  Walker, 
John  E.  Parsons,  ex-Judge  William  G.  Choate,  Charles  B.  Alexander,  William  Mitchell, 
Ernest  H.  Crosby,  and  many  others. 

The  same  evening  a  dinner  was  held  at  the  Hotel  Brunswick,  given  by  the  Spanish-Ameri- 
can Commercial  Union  ;  and  on  Thursday  evening  a  dinner  was  given  and  reception  held  by 
the  Southern  Society  on  the  occasion  of  the  opening  of  the  new  club-house,  at  which  many  of 
the  Governors  of  the  Southern  States  were  present.  Speeches  were  made  by  Henry  W.  Grady, 
Chauncey  M.  Depew,  Vice-President  Morton,  John  C.  Calhoun,  the  President  of  the  Southern 
Society,  and  others.    Other  public  entertainments  as  well  as  many  private  entertainments  were 


THE  CELEBRATION  THROUGHOUT  THE  UNITED  STATES.  403 


held  in  New  York  during  Centennial  week,  at  which  Governors  of  States,  prominent  officials, 
and  distinguished  citizens  from  different  parts  of  the  country  were  present.  After  President 
Harrison  had  returned  to  Washington,  the  ladies  of  the  President's  family  were  entertained  at 
dinner  one  evening  by  Mrs.  Elliott  F.  Shepard,  in  New  York,  and  another  evening  by  Mrs. 
John  Yan  Nostrand,  on  Brooklyn  Heights. 

But  it  was  not  in  New  York  alone  that  the  Centennial  of  the  Inauguration  of  Washing- 
ton was  celebrated.  All  sections  of  the  country  did  equal  honor  to  the  name  of  Washington. 
In  Brooklyn  a  banquet  was  given  on  the  evening  of  Wednesday,  May  1st,  in  the  Academy  of 
Music,  under  the  auspices  of  the  city  authorities.  His  Honor  Mayor  Alfred  C.  Chapin  pre- 
sided. Five  hundred  guests  were  present.  In  New  England,  Centennial-day,  or  April  30th, 
was  observed  as  a  holiday.  At  the  religious  services  held  in  King's  Chapel,  Boston,  Rev. 
Brooke  Herford,  Rev.  G.  W.  Briggs,  D.  D.,  Rev.  A.  P.  Peabody,  D.  D ,  and  Rev.  Charles  G. 
Ames  conducted  the  services  ;  and  in  Christ  Church,  Boston,  the  officiating  clergymen  pres- 
ent were  Bishop  Benjamin  H.  Paddock,  of  the  Diocese  of  Massachusetts,  Rev.  Phillips 
Brooks,  D.  D.,  Rev.  W.  B.  Frisby,  Rev.  George  S.  Converse,  Rev.  W.  H.  Munroe,  Rev.  F. 
B.  Allen,  and  Rev.  W.  C.  Winslow,  D.  D.  The  historical  address  was  delivered  by  Dr. 
Samuel  Eliot.  In  the  Roman  Catholic  churches  and  in  the  orthodox  Jewish  Synagogue  in 
Boston  services  were  also  held ;  and  addresses  were  delivered  in  Tremont  Temple,  Berke- 
ley Temple,  and  in  the  suburbs.  Justin  Winsor,  LL.  D.,  delivered  an  historical  address  at 
Harvard  University.  In  Worcester,  Massachusetts,  Protestants,  Hebrews,  and  Roman  Catho- 
lics held  services  at  nine  o'clock  on  the  morning  of  April  30th  in  their  respective  places 
of  worship.  At  a  solemn  high  mass,  celebrated  at  St.  John's  Church,  Worcester,  Rt.  Rev. 
Thomas  Griffin,  D.  D.,  said : 

"  This  centennial  celebration  commemorates  a  great  era  in  the  country  and  in  the  world,  and  the  Catholics 
of  the  country  are  foremost  in  their  devotion  to  those  principles  that  guided  the  fathers.  Nowhere  else  is 
there  such  enthusiasm  found  as  among  the  Catholics  as  a  body  in  obeying  the  commands  of  their  country. 
This  has  always  characterized  them.  This  land  was  discovered  by  Catholics,  and  Catholic  blood  and  treasure 
were  poured  out  in  defense  of  our  liberties.  Among  the  signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence  there 
was  no  one  more  zealous  or  patriotic  than  Charles  Carroll  of  Carrollton,  a  fervent  Catholic;  and  no  one  did 
greater  service  than  the  Catholic  Archbishop  of  Baltimore,  John  Carroll.  From  these  events  the  lesson  to  be 
learned  to-day  is  patriotism  and  love  of  country.  We  learn  to  be  subject  to  higher  power,  as  there  is 
no  power  except  what  comes  from  God.  Washington  appreciated  the  sacrifices  of  the  Catholic  population 
and  their  efforts  in  the  War  of  the  Revolution,  and  expressed  his  gratitude  to  them,  and  also  for  the  friendli- 
ness of  Catholic  nations.     It  is  refreshing  to  read  these  noble  words  of  Washington." 

In  Pittsfield,  in  the  same  State,  the  orator  of  the  day  was  ex-Governor  John  D.  Long,  and 
in  Springfield,  Northampton,  and  in  hundreds  of  other  cities,  towns,  and  villages  in  New  Eng- 
land the  day  was  appropriately  celebrated  by  services  in  the  churches  at  nine  o'clock  in  the 
morning,  by  addresses  and  processions  in  the  afternoon,  and  by  fireworks  and  illuminations 
in  the  evening.  The  following  poem,  written  by  one  of  the  most  eminent  citizens  of  New 
England,  Hon.  Robert  C.  Winthrop,  of  Boston,  was  widely  read : 


404       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


TO  GEORGE  WASHINGTON. 
April  jo,  i88g. 

"Washington  is  in  the  clear,  upper  sky." — (Daniel  Webster's  Eulogy  on  Adams  and  Jefferson.') 

"  Christianity — the  key  to  the  character  and  career  of  Washington." — (Rev.  Dr.  Slaughter's  discourse  at  Pohick  Church,  Vir- 
ginia, /SS6.) 

"  Labor  to  keep  alive  in  your  breast  that  little  spark  of  celestial  fire,  Conscience." — (Rule  from  the  copy-book  of  Washington 

■when  a  schoolboy.) 

I.  II. 

Illustrious  names  in  each  successive  age,  Yes,  century  after  century  may  roll, 

Vying  in  valor,  virtue,  wisdom,  power,  And  bury  in  oblivion  many  a  name 

One  with  another  on  the  historic  page,  Which  now  inspires  the  lip  or  stirs  the  soul, 

Have  won  the  homage  of  the  little  hour  Giving  brave  promise  of  an  endless  fame; 

Which  they  adorned,  and  will  be  cherished  still  Yet  still  the  struggling  nations  from  afar, 

By  grateful  hearts  till  time  shall  be  no  more;  And  all  in  every  age  who  would  be  free, 

But,  peerless  and  supreme,  thy  name  shall  fill  Shall  hail  thy  great  example  as  the  star 

A  place  apart,  where  others  may  not  soar,  To  guide  and  cheer  their  way  to  Liberty  ; — 

In  "  the  clear  upper  sky,"  beyond  all  reach  A  Star  which  ever  marks,  with  ray  serene, 

Or  rivalry,  where,  not  for  us  alone  The  path  of  one  who,  from  his  earliest  youth, 

But  for  all  realms  and  races,  it  shall  teach  Renounced  all  selfish  aims,  whose  hands  were  clean, 

The  grandest  lesson  History  hath  known —  Whose  heart  was  pure,  who  never  swerved  from  truth; 

Of  conscience,  truth,  religious  faith  and  awe,  To  serve  his  country  and  his  God  content, 

Leading  the  march  of  Liberty  and  Law !  Leaving  our  UNION  as  his  monument ! 

The  day  was  no  less  patriotically  observed  in  cities  outside  of  New  England.  In  Phila- 
delphia, services  were  conducted  in  Christ  Church,  on  Second  Street  above  Market,  where 
George  Washington,  Benjamin  Franklin,  and  other  patriots  worshiped.  Special  attention  at 
these  services  was  directed  to  Washington's  pew,  No.  58,  and  pew  No.  68,  which  was  once 
owned  by  Franklin.  The  Bible  and  Prayer-Book  used  in  Christ  Church  before  and  after  the 
Revolutionary  War  were  admired  by  the  crowds  who  attended  these  services.  At  the  services 
held  in  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  in  Washington  Square,  Philadelphia,  allusion  was  made 
by  Samuel  C.  Perkins  to  the  fact  that  Charles  Thomson,  the  messenger  who  carried  the  notice 
of  Washington's  election  to  Mount  Vernon,  was  an  elder  in  the  First  Church,  and  had  come 
to  this  country  a  poor  Irish  boy,  and  was  taken  in  charge  by  Rev.  Dr.  Alison,  and  became,  in 
time,  one  of  the  most  eminent  of  Pennsylvania's  citizens.  Services  in  Philadelphia  were  also 
held  at  the  Cathedral  by  Archbishop  Ryan,  and  at  St.  Joseph's  Church  in  Willing's  Alley, 
where  Washington  worshiped  several  times  when  he  lived  in  Philadelphia.  The  Catholic 
Historical  Society  also  held  a  special  meeting.  In  Washington,  all  business  was  suspended, 
the  public-school  children  were  given  a  holiday,  and  the  Presbyterian  churches  held  a  union 
service,  over  which  Rev.  Dr.  Sutherland  presided.  In  the  Catholic  churches  special  thanks- 
giving masses  were  celebrated,  and  the  Baptist  and  Methodist  churches  also  held  union  serv- 
ices. In  the  evening  the  German-American  citizens  held  a  celebration.  At  Alexandria, 
Virginia,  the  scene  of  the  ovation  to  Washington  while  cn  route  to  New  York  to  be  inaugu- 
rated, commemorative  services  were  held  in  Christ  Church,  where  Washington  once  wor- 
shiped.   In  Lexington,  Virginia,  the  national  holiday  was  strictly  observed.    Services  were 


THE  CELEBRATION  THROUGHOUT  THE  UNITED  STATES.  405 


held  at  the  historic  Washington  and  Lee  University,  which  before  the  civil  war  was  known 
as  Washington  College,  having  been  named  in  honor  of  George  Washington,  and  which 
after  the  civil  war  received  the  additional  name  of  Lee,  on  account  of  its  president, 
General  Robert  E.  Lee.  At  these  services  Generals  W.  H.  F.  Lee  and  G.  W.  C  Lee 
were  present.  At  Birmingham,  Alabama,  United  States  Senator  John  T.  Morgan  deliv- 
ered an  address  on  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States ;  and  in  Selma,  in  the  same 
State,  and  in  fact  in  every  section  of  the  South,  local  celebrations  were  held.  In  Charles- 
ton, South  Carolina,  public  and  private  buildings  were  decorated,  services  were  held  in 
the  churches,  and  the  Government  and  merchant  vessels  in  port  displayed  their  colors. 
A  notable  celebration  was  held  in  New  Orleans.  Fourteen  Episcopal  clergymen  assisted 
in  the  services  in  Christ  Church,  and  there  were  also  services  in  the  other  churches  in  the 
morning.  In  the  afternoon  a  public  meeting  was  held  at  Lafayette  Square,  which  was 
presided  over  by  the  mayor  and  attended  by  the  Judges  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  State, 
and  other  members  of  the  Judiciary,  by  foreign  consuls,  United  States,  State,  and  city  officials 
and  by  thousands  of  patriotic  citizens.  An  address  was  given  by  Hon.  J.  R.  G.  Pitkin,  and 
the  formal  oration  was  delivered  by  Judge  Charles  E.  Fenner.  The  historic  day  in  New  Or- 
leans closed  by  most  elaborate  services  at  the  St.  Louis  Cathedral  in  the  evening.  In  Masonic 
Hall,  New  Orleans,  a  banquet  was  given  by  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Masons,  attended  by 
four  hundred  guests.  Even  more  elaborate  was  the  celebration  in  the  city  of  St.  Louis. 
The  longest  and  largest  procession  ever  given  in  the  city  was  seen  on  April  30,  1889. 
Nearly  fifty  thousand  men  were  in  line.  The  procession,  which  was  seven  miles  long,  was 
divided  into  sixteen  divisions,  and  was  seen  by  nearly  three  hundred  thousand  people.  It 
was  composed  of  civil  and  military  organizations,  social  and  literary  societies,  citizens,  chil- 
dren from  public  and  private  schools,  and  industrial,  musical,  benevolent,  commercial,  and 
labor  organizations.    It  took  four  hours  for  the  procession  to  pass  a  given  point. 

The  largest  celebration,  however,  outside  of  New  York  was  held  in  Chicago.  At  nine 
o'clock  services  were  held  in  all  the  churches.  Governor  Fifer,  of  Illinois,  and  staff  attended 
in  uniform  the  services  at  Plymouth  Church.  At  eleven  o'clock  the  children  held  their 
celebrations  in  the  public  and  parochial  schools,  and  speeches  were  made  by  prominent 
men  at  each  school.  Flags  and  Centennial  medals  were  distributed  to  the  children.  At 
half-past  twelve  o'clock  a  salute  of  forty-two  guns  was  fired.  Public  buildings  and  private 
residences  throughout  the  city  and  suburbs  were  profusely  decorated.  At  three  o'clock  in 
the  afternoon  eight  mass-meetings  were  held  simultaneously  in  different  parts  of  the  city. 
The  programme  in  all  was  identical  except  as  to  speakers,  and  consisted  of  instrumental 
and  vocal  music,  the  latter  being  rendered  by  a  chorus  of  from  five  hundred  to  eight  hun- 
dred voices  at  each  place.  Letters  and  messages  were  also  read,  appropriate  resolutions  were 
passed,  and  patriotic  and  historical  addresses  delivered.  At  the  Union  League  Club  a  nota- 
ble banquet  was  given  in  the  evening,  at  which  Judge  Walter  Q.  Gresham  presided.  The 
toasts  and  speakers  at  this  banquet  were  as  follows : 


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George  Washington — John  M.  Harlan,  Associate  Justice  of  the  United  States  Supreme  Court,  fames 
Madison — Bishop  John  Lancaster  Spalding,  of  Peoria,  Illinois.  Thomas  Jefferson — Hon.  L.  I).  Thoman,  of 
Indiana.  John  Marshall — Hon.  Robert  T,  Lincoln.  Benjamin  Franklin — Rev.  C.  C.  Albertson,  of  Indianapo- 
lis. Alexander  Hamilton — Hon.  John  S.  Runnells.  Abraham  Lincoln — Hon.  John  M.  Langston,  of  Virginia. 
U.  S.  Grant — Hon.  John  M.  Thurston,  of  Nebraska.  Rev.  John  H.  Barrows,  D.  D.,  pastor  of  the  First  Pres 
bvterian  Church  in  Chicago,  pronounced  the  benediction. 

In  nearly  all  of  the  towns  in  the  State  of  Illinois  the  day  was  appropriately  observed 
and  in  cities  in  the  far  Western  States  and  on  the  Pacific  coast  the  celebration  of  the 
day  was  no  less  memorable.  At  Ogden,  Utah,  a  vast  assemblage  of  Gentiles  and  Mormons 
filled  Lester  Park  Pavilion  in  the  evening.  Ex-Judge  Orlando  W.  Powers  delivered  the 
oration,  Rev.  J.  Wesley  Hill  made  an  address,  and  Dr.  Amasa  S.  Condon  read  a  poem. 
In  the  Mormon  Tabernacle,  Salt  Lake  City,  ex-Chief-Justice  Rufus  K.  Williams,  of  Ken- 
tucky, delivered  a  patriotic  address,  and  union  services  were  held  in  the  Methodist  church. 
In  Virginia  City,  Nevada,  guns  were  fired,  the  houses  were  decorated,  and  a  parade  took 
place.  At  Tucson,  Arizona  Territory,  there  was  a  parade  in  the  afternoon  and  a  mass- 
meeting  in  the  evening.  At  Portland,  Oregon,  nearly  the  entire  National  Guard  of  the  State 
took  part  in  the  procession,  which  was  viewed  by  forty  thousand  people,  and  Attorney-Gen- 
eral George  H.  Williams  and  ex-Judge  Deady  delivered  addresses.  At  Los  Angeles,  Eu- 
reka, and  other  points  in  California,  the  day  was  in  like  manner  observed.  In  San  Fran- 
cisco the  celebration  was  particularly  noteworthy.  In  the  morning  Episcopalians,  Meth- 
odists, Roman  Catholics,  Presbyterians,  Hebrews,  and  Congregationalists  held  services  in 
their  respective  places  of  worship.  In  the  afternoon  over  six  thousand  five  hundred  men 
marched  in  procession,  including  the  Governor  of  the  State,  United  States  Artillery  and 
Infantry,  part  of  the  State  militia,  firemen,  and  organizations  of  different  kinds.  In  the  even- 
ing at  the  Mechanics'  Pavilion  ten  thousand  people  were  gathered  to  listen  to  the  oration  by 
Hon.  Frank  M.  Pixley  and  the  poem  by  John  Vance  Cheney.  Among  the  vessels  in  the 
harbor  of  San  Francisco  which  attracted  attention  on  account  of  their  decorations  were 
the  Russian  man-of-war  Kreysser,  the  Mexican  man-of-war  Democrata,  and  the  United 
States  cruiser  Charleston.  The  British  vessels  in  the  harbor  were  also  well  dressed.  From 
one  end  of  the  United  States  to  the  other  the  Centennial  of  Washington's  Inauguration 
was  more  grandly  and  sacredly  observed  than  the  celebration  of  any  other  event  in  the  his- 
tory of  the  country.    The  celebration  was  national  in  character. 

At  the  American  Church  in  Paris,  France,  the  American  residents  attended  services, 
and  the  church  was  beautifully  decorated  with  flags  and  flowers.  President  Harrison's 
proclamation  regarding  the  proper  observance  of  the  day  was  read  by  Rev.  Mr.  Thurber, 
and  United  States  Minister  McLane  delivered  the  historical  address.  In  Rome,  Italy,  the 
day  was  observed  in  the  American  College,  at  which  the  Rt.  Rev.  Bernard  J.  McQuaid, 
Bishop  of  Rochester,  New  York,  and  many  other  Americans  were  present.  An  eloquent 
address  was  delivered  by  Bishop  McQuaid. 


CHAPTER  XXI. 


the  washington  memorial  arch. 
By  Richard  Watson  Gilder, 

Secretary  of  the  Committee  on  Art  and  Exhibition,  and  Secretary  of  the  Memorial  Arch  Committee. 

Of  the  arches  which  formed  part 
of  the  city's  decoration  during  the 
Washington  Centennial  Celebration, 
the  only  one  which  had  any  claim 
to  artistic  value  was  that  designed 
by  Mr.  Stanford  White,  and  placed 
at  the  foot  of  Fifth  Avenue,  north 
of  Washington  Square.  The  proj- 
ect of  erecting  this  temporary  arch 
was  originated  by  Mr.  William  R. 
Stewart,  and  its  cost  was  defrayed 
by  subscriptions  obtained  by  him 
from  sixty  -  five  residents  of  the 
neighborhood.  The  structure  was 
of  wood  with  decorations  of  papier-mackd.  It  was  built  in  accord  with  the  neighboring 
residences,  and  in  a  style  which,  with  its  classical  reminiscence,  has  been  called  American 
colonial.  The  structure  was  surmounted  by  a  colossal  wooden  statue  of  Washington,  of  an- 
cient workmanship,  and  was  appropriately  decorated  with  flags.  It  was  painted  white,  and  at 
night  was  illuminated  with  electric  lights.  Notwithstanding  the  rapidity  and  sketchiness 
of  its  execution,  this  arch  was  a  really  beautiful  object,  and  excited  general  interest  both 
on  and  after  the  days  of  the  parades.  It  was  visited  at  night  by  many  thousands  of 
spectators,  and  its  unexpected  beauty  created  a  sentiment  in  favor  of  perpetuating  so  fine 
a  monument  as  a  memorial,  not  only  of  Washington  himself  and  of  the  beginning  of  our 
Government,  but  of  the  imposing  ceremonies,  and  especially  the  great  parades,  which  com- 
memorated the  one-hundredth  anniversary  of  Washington's  inauguration. 

The  Centennial  Committee  on  Art  and  Exhibition,  at  a  meeting  held  at  the  office  of 
the  committee  in  the  Metropolitan  Opera-House,  on  the  afternoon  of  May  2,  1889,  passed 
the  following  resolution,  on  motion  of  Mr.  Millet,  seconded  by  Mr.  Cadwalader : 

Resolved,  That  the  Committee  on  Art  and  Exhibition  recommend  to  the  Committee  on  Plan  and 
Scope  the  formation  of  a  special  committee  for  the  purpose  of  erecting  in  permanent  form  in  Washington 


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THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


Square,  at  the  entrance  of  Fifth  Avenue,  the  arch  designed  by  Stanford  White  for  the  Centennial  Cele- 
bration of  the  Inauguration  of  Washington. 

Mr.  Marquand,  chairman,  presented  this  resolution  in  person  to  the  Committee  on 
Plan  and  Scope,  which  committee,  on  May  4,  1889 — 

Resolved.  That  the  question  brought  up  by  the  Chairman  of  the  Art  Committee  regarding  a  permanent 
arch  in  or  near  Washington  Square  be  referred  to  the  individual  members  of  the  Art  Committee,  for  them 
to  organize  a  special  committee,  if  they  see  fit  in  order  to  carry  out  the  object  proposed,  as  a  permanent 
recognition  of  the  event  commemorated. 

In  pursuance  of  the  above  a  meeting  was  called  by  Mr.  Marquand,  on  the  afternoon 
of  the  6th  of  May,  consisting  of  the  members  of  the  Art  Committee  and  of  certain 
gentlemen  selected  by  him  for  their  supposed  interest  in  the  new  movement.  Mr.  Mar- 
quand was  elected  chairman,  General  Fitzgerald  vice-chairman,  Mr.  Gilder  secretary,  and  Mr. 
William  R.  Stewart  treasurer  of  the  new  committee.    It  was 

Resolved,  That  the  committee  for  the  erection  of  the  Washington  Memorial  Arch  should  at  present 
consist  of  the  Committee  on  Art  and  Exhibition,  numbering  seventeen  in  all,  with  seventeen  additional 
members  ;  and  that  the  Finance  Committee  proceed  at  once  to  collect  subscriptions  amounting  to  $100,000, 
to  construct,  with  permission  of  the  proper  authority,  a  marble  arch  to  be  designed  by  Stanford  White,  and 
to  be  placed  near  the  site  of  the  present  temporary  arch  designed  by  him;  and  the  further  sum  of  $ 50, 000, 
to  place  upon  the  same  appropriate  decorations  in  sculpture. 

It  was  furthermore 

Resolved,  That  the  Chairman  of  the  Finance  Committee  be  requested  to  invite  the  co-operation  of 
the  daily  press  in  raising  popular  subscriptions. 

The  work  of  obtaining  subscriptions  began  at  once,  and  was  carried  on  with  gratify- 
ing success,  with  the  cordially  expressed  approval  of  the  daily  and  other  papers  and  of 
numerous  art  societies  and  other  organizations.  The  site  chosen  for  the  permanent  arch 
was  in  Washington  Square,  on  the  north  side,  at  the  entrance  to  Fifth  Avenue,  and  as 
near  as  was  considered  expedient  to  the  site  of  the  temporary  arch.  Borings  at  the  new 
site  proved  that  the  earth  foundation  was  good  ;  and  permission  having  been  given  by  the 
Board  of  Parks,  on  April  24,  1890,  to  proceed  with  the  work,  the  committee  assembled 
at  the  site  of  the  arch,  at  four  o'clock  on  the  afternoon  of  April  30th — one  year  from 
the  date  of  the  celebration — for  the  purpose  of  breaking  ground  ;  and  the  corner-stone 
was  laid,  with  proper  ceremonies,  on  May  30,  1890,  at  which  time  the  subscriptions  for 
the  arch  amounted  to  about  the  sum  of  $83,000.  The  plan  of  the  permanent  arch  was,  by 
authority  of  the  committee,  considerably  altered  from  that  of  the  temporary  arch,  the  com- 
mittee authorizing  the  architect  to  make  such  changes  as  he  might  deem  necessary  by 
reason  of  change  of  material  and  locality — the  altered  plans  to  receive  the  approval  of  the 
sub-Committee  on  Building,  consisting  of  Messrs.  Richard  M.  Hunt,  chairman ;  Russell 
Sturgis,  and  F.  Hopkinson  Smith. 


THE  WASHINGTON  MEMORIAL  ARCH. 


The  following  is  a  list  of  the  members  of  the  committee  as  finally  constituted  : 

Committee  on  Erection  of  the  Memorial  Arch  at  Washington  Square. — Officers:  Henry  G.  Marquand,  Chair- 
man ;  Louis  Fitzgerald,  Vice-Chairman ;  Richard  W.  Gilder,  Secretary  ;  William  R.  Stewart,  Treasurer. 
Finance  Committee. — Edward  D.  Adams,  Chairman  ;  William  R.  Stewart,  Treasurer  ;  David  Banks  ;  Edward 
Cooper  ;  Louis  Fitzgerald  ;  Charles  S.  Smith.  Members  of  the  Centennial  Committee  on  Art  and  Exhibition. — 
Hjalmar  H.  Boyesen,  John  L.  Cadwalader,  William  A.  Coffin,  William  E.  Dodge,  Alexander  W.  Drake, 
Gordon  L.  Ford,  Richard  W.  Gilder,  Daniel  Huntington,  Henry  G.  Marquand,  Francis  D.  Millet,  Oliver  H. 
Perry,  Charles  H.  Russell,  Jr.,  F.  Hopkinson  Smith,  Lispenard  Stewart,  Rutherfurd  Stuyvesant.  Additional 
Members. — Edward  D.  Adams,  John  Jacob  Astor,  Jr.,  Samuel  D.  Babcock,  David  Banks,  Clarence  W.  Bowen, 
Grover  Cleveland,  Edward  Cooper,  Robert  W.  de  Forest,  Louis  Fitzgerald,  Hugh  J.  Grant,  William  G. 
Hamilton,  Richard  M.  Hunt,  Eugene  Kelly,  Levi  P.  Morton,  Theodore  W.  Myers,  J.  Edward  Simmons, 
Charles  S.  Smith,  William  R.  Stewart,  William  L.  Strong,  Russell  Sturgis,  Jenkins  Van  Schaick. 

The  exercises  at  the  laying  of  the  corner-stone  were  very  impressive,  and  were  witnessed 
by  thousands  of  our  fellow-citizens. 

The  arrangements  of  the  ceremonies  were  under  a  sub-committee,  consisting  as  follows  : 
Messrs.  Marquand,  chairman  ;  De  Forest,  Dodge,  Coffin,  Gilder,  and  Russell — Mr.  Coffin 
having  immediate  charge  of  the  preparation  of  the  plans  for  this  very  successful  celebration. 

The  following  is  the  programme  of  the  exercises  on  that  occasion  : 

1.  Arrival  of  Memorial  Arch  Committee,  escorted  by  the  First  Brigade,  N.  G.  S.  N.  V.  Brigadier-General 
Louis  Fitzgerald,  commanding. 

2.  Prayer.    Right  Rev.  Henrv  C.  Potter. 

3.  Hymn.  Arranged  from  Haydn.  Robert  Underwood  Johnson. — Chorus  conducted  by  Frank.  H. 
Damrosch. 


Praise  to  Thee,  O  God  of  Freedom; 

Praise  to  Thee,  O  God  of  Law  ; 
Thee,  the  goal  of  Israel's  dreaming  ; 

Thee,  the  flame  that  Moses  saw. 
Light  of  every  patriot  dungeon, 

Home  of  exile,  hope  of  slave ; 
Loved  by  just  and  feared  by  tyrant, 

Comrade  of  the  true  and  brave. 


Would  we  pray  for  new  defenders, 

Thou  art  with  us  e'er  we  call ; 
Thou  wilt  find  new  ranks  of  heroes 

For  the  heroes  yet  to  fall. 
Back  we  look  across  the  ages, 

Forward  Thou  beyond  the  sun  ; 
Vet  no  greater  gift  we  ask  thee 

Than  another  Washington. 


4.  Address.    Hexrv  G.  Marquand,  Chairman  of  the  Washington  Memorial  Arch  Committee. 

5.  Address.    Waldo  Hutchins,  President  of  the  Department  of  Public  Parks. 

6.  Address.    George  William  Curtis. 

7.  Laying  of  the  Corner-stone.  By  John  W.  Vrooman,  Grand  Master  of  Masons  in  the  State  of  New 
York. 

8.  Hvmn.    "America."  Chorus. 


The  following  are  the  contents  of  the  corner-stone  : 

St.  Gaudens  Washington  Centennial  Medal,  April  30,  1889.  Souvenir  of  Washington  Centennial  Celebra- 
tion of  1889,  with  designs  by  Blashfield  and  Low.  Catalogue  of  Centennial  Loan  Exhibition  of  historical  por- 
traits and  relics,  1889.  Souvenir  of  the  Committee  on  States  of  the  Centennial  Celebration.  Invitations, 
tickets,  and  circulars  of  the  various  committees  on  the  Centennial  Celebration,  1889.  Silver,  nickel,  and  cop- 
per United  States  coins  of  1890.  United  States  silver  dollar  of  1799.  Souvenir  of  the  Centennial  Judiciary 
Banquet,  1890.  Constitution,  etc.,  of  the  Society  of  Sons  of  the  Revolution.  Constitution,  etc.,  of  St.  Nicholas 
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Club.  Directory  of  New  York  Board  of  Education,  presented  by  the  Patriotic  Order  of  Sons  of  America. 
List  of  officers  of  Grand  Lodge  F.  and  A.  M.  of  the  State  of  New  York.  Subscription  blank  of  the  Washing- 
ton Memorial  Arch.  A  shilling.  New  York  newspapers  of  May  29  and  30,  1890,  and  April  27  and  29,  1889, 
also  a  copy  of  the  Chimney  Seat,  published  for  the  benefit  of  the  fund.  The  personal  card  of  Mr.  William  R. 
Stewart,  Treasurer  of  the  Committee,  and  one  of  the  chief  promoters  of  the  enterprise  (then  absent  in  Europe). 
A  coin  contributed  by  Vice-President  Morton,  but  which  came  too  late  to  be  inclosed  in  the  box,  was  placed 
under  it. 

In  the  course  of  the  Masonic  ceremonies,  the  Rev.  Robert  Collyer,  Grand  Chaplain, 
read  a  few  verses  from  the  very  Bible  on  which  Washington's  hand  rested  when  he  took 


the  oath  of  office,  this  book  being  loaned  for  the  purpose  by  St.  John's  Lodge,  No.  1, 
of  New  York. 

The  following  is  the  text  of  the  address  by  Chairman  Marquand  : 

Fellow-Citizens,  Patriots:  The  service  which  calls  us  together  to-day  seems  but  a  trifling  matter,  but 
the  significance  is  great  and  far-reaching.  It  is,  as  it  were,  a  reflection  of  the  laying  of  the  real  corner-stone 
of  our  constitutional  liberties  by  Washington  and  his  fellow-patriots.  It  signifies  that  the  spark  of  patriotism 
has  not  been  quenched  in  New  York  ;  that  amid,  the  pressure  of  commercial  activity  and  the  idolatry  of 
money  in  our  times,  there  are  thousands  who  can  turn  their  thoughts  to  the  past  with  gratitude  and  unite  to 
set  up  a  monument  which  shall  be  historical  and  instructive,  and  prove  a  proper  expression  of  their  feeling 
of  civic  pride. 


THE  WASHINGTON  MEMORIAL  ARCH. 


It  signifies,  also,  the  beginning  of  a  new  and  purer  state  in  the  art  of  architecture.  It  signifies  that  it  is 
more  desirable  to  rely  on  a  popular  movement  in  useful  and  educational  enterprises  than  to  trust  the  impulses 
of  a  few  munificent  givers. 

The  spot  has  been  aptly  chosen,  and  not  a  valid  objection  can  be  urged  against  it.  It  is  true  some  one 
has  remarked,  "  The  neighborhood  in  a  few  years  will  be  all  tenement  houses."  Even  should  this  prove  true, 
no  stronger  reason  could  be  given  for  the  arch  being  placed  here.  Have  the  occupants  of  tenement  houses  no 
sense  of  beauty  ?  Have  they  no  patriotism  ?  Have  they  no  right  to  good  architecture  ?  Happily,  there  is  no 
monopoly  of  the  appreciation  of  things  that  are  excellent  any  more  than  there  is  of  fresh  air,  and  in  our 
mind's  eye  we  can  see  many  a  family  that  can  not  afford  to  spend  ten  cents  to  go  to  the  park,  taking  great 
pleasure  under  the  shadow  of  this  arch.  It  is  the  arch  of  peace  and  good-will  to  men.  It  will  bring  the  rich 
and  poor  together  in  one  common  bond  of  patriotic  feeling,  and  prove  a  poem  in  stone  for  our  fellow-citizens 
for  all  time." 

Mr.  Curtis  spoke  as  follows  : 

This  is  a  day  of  proud  and  tender  memories.  With  malice  toward  none,  with  charity  for  all,  it  commem- 
orates the  triumph  of  American  patriotism  and  the  assured  integrity  of  the  American  Union.  Its  associa- 
tions blend  naturally  with  those  of  the  Revolution  and  of  the  inauguration  of  the  national  Government.  The 
garlanded  graves  of  the  boys  in  blue  recall  the  memory  of  the  old  Continentals.  When  a  soldier  of  New  Eng- 
land in  the  war  for  the  Union  was  marching  through  New  York  to  the  front,  and  was  asked  from  what  place 
he  came,  still  keeping  step  to  the  drum-beat  he  answered,  "  From  Bunker  Hill,  from  Bunker  Hill."  When 
Theodore  W'inthrop  fell,  we  said,  Joseph  Warren  dies  again  for  his  country.  The  march  of  Sherman  to  the 
sea  echoes  the  tread  of  Ethan  Allen  marching  to  Ticonderoga  and  demanding  its  surrender,  as  Sherman  would 
have  demanded  it,  in  the  name  of  the  great  Jehovah  and  the  Continental  Congress.  To  hear  Paul  Jones  on 
his  shattered  ship  answering  the  British  captain's  summons  to  yield,  by  shouting  that  he  had  not  yet  begun  to 
fight,  is  to  see  our  Farragut,  in  the  fiery  storm  of  battle,  lashed  to  the  rigging  of  the  Hartford — 

"  The  sea-king  of  the  sovereign  W'est 
Who  made  his  mast  a  throne." 

We  can  not  speak  of  Grant  at  Appomattox  but  we  remember  the  crowning  mercy  at  Yorktown.  We  can  not 
mention  Abraham  Lincoln  but  we  think  of  George  Washington. 

What  day  in  the  year  could  be  more  fitting  than  the  day  consecrated  by  such  memories  on  which  to  lay 
the  corner-stone  of  a  monument  which  shall  recall  alike  the  beginning  of  the  Union  and  the  glory  of  its  great- 
est citizen  ?  Never  before  could  this  duty  have  been  performed  with  greater  joy  and  gratitude,  because  now 
the  national  Union,  the  great  result  of  the  Revolution  and  of  the  devotion  of  Washington,  has  been  tried  by 
fire,  and  its  dross  is  burned  away.  Whether  the  flowers  fall  to-day  upon  the  graves  of  the  blue  or  the  gray, 
they  fall  upon  the  dust  of  Americans.  As  nothing  but  American  valor  could  have  hoped  successfully  to  assail 
the  Union,  so  nothing  but  American  valor  could  have  successfully  maintained  it.  Thank  God  !  whatever  col- 
ors we  may  have  worn  in  the  past,  to-day  the  sun  shines  upon  a  nation  which  is  all  true  blue. 

In  beginning  this  memorial  work,  if  New  York  is  justly  proud  she  does  not  forget  that  all  the  American 
cities  of  the  Revolution  have  their  distinctive  patriotic  renown.  In  Boston  was  rocked  the  cradle  of  liberty. 
In  Philadelphia  independence  was  declared  and  the  Constitution  adopted.  In  Baltimore  sat  the  Continental 
Congress  when  it  was  driven  from  Philadelphia;  and  in  Charleston  Harbor  the  great  fleet  of  Sir  Peter  Parker 
was  dispersed  and  destroyed.  But  New  York  was  the  scene  of  the  last  act  of  the  Revolution,  and  of  the  open- 
ing drama  of  constitutional  union.  In  New  York  the  flag  of  England  was  lowered.  From  these  shores  the 
proud  sovereignty  of  Great  Britain  sailed  away.  Here  the  first  Congress  of  the  United  States  assembled. 
Here  the  first  President  was  inaugurated,  and  here  the  national  Government  of  the  Union  began.  From  the 
day,  two  hundred  and  eighty-one  years  ago,  when  Hendrik  Hudson  first  saw  the  island  on  which  the  city 
stands,  to  the  present  hour,  these  closely  related  events  are  by  far  the  greatest  and  most  momentous  in  the 
annals  of  New  York.  Until  now  the  part  taken  in  them  by  the  city  has  wanted  a  monument.  Henceforth  the 
monument  that  we  raise  will  tell  the  glorious  story. 


4i2      THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 


In  older  lands  monumental  arches  and  columns  of  victory  celebrate  territorial  conquest,  personal  ambi- 
tion, and  the  armed  march  of  empire.  But  in  this  younger  land  of  liberty  and  law,  where  the  army  is  but  a 
policeman  and  the  navy  a  watchman  of  the  coast,  we  build  an  arch  of  peace,  the  symbol  of  the  republic  in 
which  the  guaranteed  right  of  every  citizen  is  the  security  of  the  commonwealth,  and  whose  first  Chief  Magis- 
trate is  the  perpetual  illustration  and  inspiration  of  American  citizenship.  It  is  him,  especially,  the  dominating 
figure  of  his  time,  the  individual  personal  force  that  has  so  largely  molded  our  history — him  who  refused  the 
crown  and  made  the  Constitution  live  and  move,  who  found  his  country  a  cluster  of  dependent  colonies  and 
left  it  an  independent  nation,  that  this  monument  especially  commemorates. 

That  in  the  perilous  tumult  of  the  time,  the  jealous  clash  of  doubtful  communities,  and  the  hot  con- 
flict of  selfish  interests  and  passions,  the  Constitution  should  have  been  harmoniously  drawn  and  peacefully 
ratified,  was  in  itself  a  miracle.  Against  probability,  despite  apprehension,  beyond  hope,  so  much  was 
achieved.  But  still  the  great  question  remained.  There  was  the  potential  nation,  the  aspirations  of  liberty, 
the  hope  of  humanity  hidden  within  it.  There  lay  the  statue  completely  wrought.  Should  it  lie  there 
always  like  those  huge  Egyptian  columns  that  were  quarried  but  never  raised?  Where  was  the  personal 
power,  so  sovereign,  so  calm,  so  pure,  so  acknowledged,  that  like  the  blessed  might  which  stilled  the 
raging  waters  of  the  sea,  it  should  pacify  the  weltering  passions  of  a  continent,  and,  raising  the  motionless 
form  of  the  nation,  send  it  alive,  indomitable,  resistless  upon  its  radiant  and  beneficent  way  ? 

We  always  gladly  concede  that  Washington  was  good,  but  we  are  not  always  so  sure  that  he  was 
great.  But  a  man's  greatness  is  measured  by  his  service  to  mankind.  If  without  ambition  and  without 
a  crime,  righteously  to  lead  a  people  to  independence  through  a  righteous  war  ;  then,  without  precedent 
and  amid  vast  and  incalculable  hostile  forces  to  organize  their  Government  and  establish  in  every  depart- 
ment the  fundamental  principles  of  the  policy  which  has  resulted  in  marvelous  national  power  and  pros- 
perity and  untold  service  to  liberty  throughout  the  world,  and  to  do  all  this  without  suspicion  or  reproach, 
with  perfect  dignity  and  sublime  repose — if  this  be  greatness,  do  you  find  it  more  in  Alexander  or  Peri- 
cles, Cresar  or  Alfred,  Charlemagne  or  Napoleon  Bonaparte,  or  in  George  Washington  ?  As  this  majestic 
arch  will  stand  here  through  the  long  succession  of  years  in  the  all-revealing  light  of  day  visible  at  every 
point  and  at  every  point  exquisitely  rounded  and  complete,  so  in  the  searching  light  of  history  stands 
Washington,  strong,  simple,  symmetrical,  supreme,  beloved  by  a  filial  nation,  revered  by  a  grateful  world. 

To  the  memory  of  such  a  character  and  of  such  events  we  dedicate  this  monument.  But,  fellow- 
citizens,  to  what  does  this  monument  dedicate  us  ?  Arching  this  thronged  highway  of  the  city,  bending 
in  silent  benediction  over  the  ceaseless  flood  of  multitudinous  life  which  pours  beneath,  what  will  it  say  to 
the  endless  procession  of  Washington's  fellow-countrymen  ?  What  is  the  voice  which,  by  erecting  this 
monument,  we  make  our  own  ?  In  his  eulogy  upon  Washington,  Gouverneur  Morris  said  that  as  the  Con- 
stitutional Convention  was  about  to  organize  when  success  seemed  hopeless  and  despair  suggested  fatal 
compromise,  Washington  said :  "  If  to  please  the  people  we  offer  what  we  ourselves  disapprove,  how  can 
we  afterward  defend  our  work  ?  Let  us  raise  a  standard  to  which  the  wise  and  honest  can  repair — the 
event  is  in  the  hands  of  God."  There  spoke  the  good  genius  of  America.  If  any  words  were  to  be 
inscribed  upon  this  arch,  these  words  of  Washington  would  be  apples  of  gold  in  pictures  of  silver. 
What  he  said  to  the  Convention  he  says  to  us.  It  is  the  voice  of  the  heroic  spirit  which,  in  council 
and  in  the  field,  has  made  and  alone  will  preserve  our  America.  It  is  the  voice  that  will  speak  from 
this  memorial  arch  to  all  coming  generations  of  Americans.  Whatever  may  betide,  whatever  war,  foreign 
or  domestic,  may  threaten,  whatever  specious  sophistry  may  assail  the  political  conscience  of  the  country, 
or  bribery  of  place  or  money  corrupt  its  political  action,  above  the  roar  of  the  mob  and  the  insidious 
clamor  of  the  demagogue,  the  voice  of  Washington  will  still  be  the  voice  of  American  patriotism  and  of 
manly  honor  :  "  Let  us  raise  a  standard  to  which  the  wise  and  honest  can  repair — the  event  is  in  the 
hands  of  God  !  " 

The  subscriptions  to  the  arch  fund  on  July  24,  1891,  had  reached  $106,021.26,  and 
the  balance  needed  to  complete  the  arch  was  $9,978.74.  The  subscriptions  are  as 
follows  : 


THE  WASHINGTON  MEMORIAL  ARCH. 


4i3 


$1,550.    George  I.  Seney. 

$1,000.  A  Citizen,  Anonymous  Friend,  Brown  Bros.  &  Co.,  H.  B.  Claflin  &  Co.,  Edward  Cooper,  Drexel, 
Morgan  &:  Co.,  Alexander  Duncan,  John  Taylor  Johnston,  Eugene  Kelly,  Kidder,  Peabody  &  Co., 
Morton,  Bliss  &  Co.,  Miss  Julia  Rhinelander,  Miss  Serena  Rhinelander,  J.  &  W.  Seligman  &  Co., 
Mrs.  Lispenard  Stewart,  St.  Nicholas  Club,  William  L.  Strong,  Tammany  Hall  General  Committee, 
Mrs.  Mary  S.  Van  Beuren,  Cornelius  Vanderbilt,  George  W.  Vanderbilt,  Mrs.  William  H.  Vanderbilt, 
Winslow,  Lanier  &  Co. 
$750.    William  E.  Dodge. 

$612.30.    Net  proceeds  of  Benefit  Performance,  at  the  Madison  Square  Theatre,  May  19,  1 891 . 

$500.  Edward  D.  Adams,  William  Astor,  Alfred  Corning  Clark,  Mrs.  William  E.  Dodge,  Sr.,  Mrs.  John  C. 
Green,  D.  Willis  James,  Mrs.  Mary  Mason  Jones,  A.  D.  Juilliard  &:  Co.,  Charles  Lanier,  Henry  G 
Marquand,  Merchants'  Club,  Junius  S.  Morgan,  Joseph  Pulitzer,  John  I).  Rockefeller,  William  C. 
Schermerhorn,  Charles  S.  Smith,  William  R.  Stewart,  Rutherfurd  Stuyvesant,  Tiffany  &  Co. 


THE  LAYING  OF  THE  CORNER-STONE  OF  THE  WASHINGTON  MEMORIAL  ARCH,  MAY  30,  1890. 
The  gentleman  at  the  extreme  right  is  Daniel  Huntington,  and  the  one  at  the  extreme  left  is 
Most  Worshipful  Grand  Master,  John  W.  Vrooman. 
At  the  right  of  Bishop  Potter,  in  the  order  named,  are  George  William  Curtis,  Henry  G.  Marquand,  Edward  Cooper,  Theodore  W.  Myers, 
Samuel  D.  Babcock,  Mrs.  Frank  S.  Witherbee,  Grover  Cleveland,  and  Frank  S.  Witherbee. 
Standing  in  front  near  the  reporters'  table  is  Senator  Lispenard  Stewart.    On  his  right  are  Stanford  White  and  Richard  Watson  Gilder. 
The  reporters  on  Senator  Stewart's  left  in  the  order  named  are  :  Henry  Oviatt  ("Star"),  Van  Cullen  Jones  ("Tribune"), 
H.  R.  Chamberlin  1 "  Sun  "),  Earl  Berry  ("Times"),  and  H.  O.  Koenig  ("Staats  Zeitung  "). 

$443.25.    Seventh  Regiment,  N.  G.  S.  N.  Y. 

S372.74.    Society  of  Amateur  Photographers  of  New  York. 

$335-84.    Thomas  Concert  Proceeds. 

$350.    Samuel  D.  Babcock,  William  Steinway  &:  Sons. 

$300.    Ladies'  Committee  (Delmonico  Dances). 

$250.  A  Friend,  John  Jacob  Astor,  Jr.,  Simon  Borg  &  Co.,  John  L.  Cadwalader,  Andrew  Carnegie, 
Mrs.  Alfred  Corning  Clark,  Edward  Severini  Clark,  Charles  P.  Daly,  Robert  W.  De  Forest,  Robert 
Dunlap  &  Co.,  Hamilton  Fish,  Josiah  H.  Gautier,  Ogden  Goelet,  Robert  Goelet,  Hector  C.  Have- 
meyer,  J.  M.  L.,  Morris  K.  Jesup,  John  A.  King,  Kountze  Bros.,  George  Lewis,  Jr.,  Mrs.  George 


4'4 


THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


Lewis,  Jr.,  R.  H.  Macy  &  Co.,  Mrs.  John  W.  Minturn,  Oswald  Ottendorfer,  Paris,  Allen  &  Co.,  John 
Paton  &  Co.,  Charles  Pratt  &  Co.,  Charles  F.  Roe,  Charles  H.  Russell,  Jr.,  Jacob  H.  Schiff,  Augustus 

D.  Shepard,  Daniel  E.  Sickles,  William  I).  Sloane,  David  Stewart,  Lispenard  Stewart,  Mrs.  R.  L. 
Stuart,  Edward  N.  Tailer,  Tefft,  Wellcr  &  Co.,  Jenkins  Van  Schaick,  Vermilye  &  Co.,  Jerome  B. 
Wheeler,  Mrs.  John  C.  Work,  William  Ziegler. 

$200.  Arnold,  Constable  &  Co.,  Cornelius  N.  Bliss,  Alfred  J.  Cammeyer,  R.  Fulton  Cutting,  W.  Bayard 
Cutting,  John  H.  Davis,  Charles  De  Rham,  H.  C.  Fahnestock,  A.  Iselin  &  Co.,  James  H.  Jones, 
Sheppard  Knapp  &  Co.,  Octavius  B.  Libbey,  Moore  &  Schley,  Otis  Bros.  &  Co.,  John  E.  Parsons, 
Miss  Pearsall,  Lloyd  Phoenix,  J.  Hampden  Robb,  Elihu  Root,  F.  Augustus  Schermerhorn,  Philip 
Schuyler,  James  Slater,  Henry  F.  Spaulding,  J.  Kennedy  Tod  &  Co.,  John  B.  Trevor,  Henry  Villard, 
Alfred  R.  Whitney,  Robert  Winthrop,  Frank  S.  Witherbee,  Mrs.  Frank  S.  Witherbee,  John  H.  Wyman. 

$150.  Charles  Delmonico,  Abram  Dubois,  Edward  B.  Harper,  John  B.  Ireland,  Gordon  Norrie,  James  Ren- 
wick,  Mrs.  Mary  C.  Scrymser,  Society  of  American  Artists,  Sweetser,  Pembrook  &  Co. 

$135.    Charles  T.  Barney. 

$125.    Terrace  Bowling  Club,  S.  V.  White. 

$100.  A  Friend,  Adams  Express  Co.,  Aldrich  Estate,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  W.  Aldrich,  Anderson  &  Howland, 
Daniel  F.  Appleton,  D.  Appleton  eV  Co.,  Auchincloss  Bros.,  R.  T.  Auchmuty,  Samuel  P.  Avery,  F.  F. 
Ayer,  Mrs.  B.  T.  Babbitt,  George  F.  Baker,  Baker,  Smith  &  Co.,  C.  C.  Baldwin,  A.  L.  Barber,  Bar- 
bour Brothers  Company,  Henry  I.  Barbey,  Lawrence  Barrett,  Arthur  E.  Bateman,  Gerard  Beekman, 
J.  William  Beekman,  Isaac  Bell,  E.  J.  Berwind,  Frederick  H.  Betts,  Frederick  Billings,  Bliss,  Fabyan  & 
Co.,  Edwin  Booth,  Clarence  W.  Bowen,  Frederic  Bronson,  James  A.  Burden,  Charles  Butler,  Charles 

E.  Butler,  Fred.  W  Butterfield,  John  C.  Calhoun,  R.  W.  Cameron  &  Co.,  Le  Grand  B.  Cannon,  Cash, 
Cash,  Cash,  Mr.  Cash,  Chester  W.  Chapin,  Charles  F.  Chickering,  Joseph  H.  Choate,  George  A.  Clark  & 
Brother,  Benjamin  G.  Clarke,  Grover  Cleveland,  Henry  Clews,  William  P.  Clyde  &  Co.,  Commercial  Ad- 
vertiser, Washington  E.  Connor,  Henry  H.  Cook,  Misses  Cooper,  George  Coppell,  Archbishop  Corrigan, 
Edward  H.  Coster,  Henry  Cranston,  Robert  L.  Crawford,  John  D.  Crimmins,  Paul  Dana,  D.  C,  R.  J. 
Dean  &  Co.,  Miss  De  Rham,  Arthur  M.  Dodge,  Mrs.  Joseph  W.  Drexel,  R.  G.  Dun  &  Co.,  James  H. 
Dunham,  E.  P.  Dutton  &  Co.,  Theodore  W.  Dwight,  Earl  &  Wilson,  Thomas  Egleston,  George  Ehret, 
John  W.  Ellis,  Amos  R.  Eno,  William  M.  Evarts,  Evening  Post,  Charles  S.  Fairchild,  James  C.  Fargo, 
Josiah  M.  Fiske,  Louis  Fitzgerald,  Anson  R.  Flower,  Roswell  P.  Flower,  Gordon  L.  Ford,  Frederic  de 
P.  Foster,  Charles  G.  Francklyn,  Francis  O.  French,  James  A.  Garland,  Elbridge  T.  Gerry,  Theodore 
Kane  Gibbs,  Richard  Watson  Gilder,  Frederick  Goodridge,  Gorham  Manufacturing  Co.,  William  R. 
Grace,  Hugh  J.  Grant,  Norvin  Green,  John  N.  A.  Griswold,  Mrs.  W.  S.  Gurnee,  R.  H.  H.,  William  Gas- 
ton Hamilton,  Harper  Bros.,  Mrs.  Samuel  C.  Harriot,  Marcellus  Hartley,  Hawk  &:  Wetherbee,  Aaron 
Healy,  James  A.  Hearn  &  Son,  John  Herriman,  H.  Herrmann,  Sternbach  &  Co.,  Hitchcock,  Dar- 
ling &  Co.,  George  Hoadley,  R.  Hoe  &  Co.,  Rev.  Eugene  Augs.  Hoffman,  D.D.,  D.  C.  L.,  LL.  D., 
H.  B.  Hollins  &  Co.,  Hoyt  Brothers,  Frederick  Humphreys,  Richard  M.  Hunt,  Henry  B.  Hyde, 
Ivison,  Blakeman  &  Co.,  Joseph  Jefferson,  Frederic  B.  Jennings,  J.  Herbert  Johnston,  Miss  Frances 
Jones,  John  D.  Jones,  Miss  Rebecca  M.  Jones,  Keck,  Mosser  &  Co.,  Eugene  Kelly,  Jr.,  Edward 
Kemp,  George  Kemp,  Edward  King,  George  Gordon  King,  John  King,  Richard  King,  William  M. 
Kingsland,  George  G.  Kip,  Edward  R.  Ladew,  Woodbury  G.  Langdon,  Mrs.  Woodbury  Langdon, 
Mrs.  James  F.  D.  Lanier,  Joseph  Larocque,  Freres  Lazard,  Miss  Josephine  Lazarus,  Miss  Sarah  Laz- 
arus, Francis  H.  Leggett,  Mrs.  Daniel  Le  Roy,  Lesher,  Whitman  &  Co.,  Lincoln  Club,  Herman  T. 
Livingston,  Abiel  A.  Low,  Bradley  Martin,  Mrs.  W.  N.  McCready,  James  McCreery  &  Co.,  William 
Man,  Theodore  W.  Myers,  Darius  O.  Mills,  Mills  &  Gibb,  Mrs.  Cornelia  Post  Mitchell,  Edward  I). 
Morgan,  Mrs.  P.  A.  Morgan,  George  A.  Morrison,  Joseph  J.  O'Donohue,  Oelrichs  &  Co.,  Hugh 
O'Neill,  John  Osborn,  Son  &  Co.,  Park  &  Tilford,  George  Foster  Peabody,  Phillips  Phoenix,  James 
N.  Piatt,  Thomas  C.  Piatt,  Piatt  &  Bowers,  Henry  W.  Poor,  Bruce  Price,  Red  I)  Line  of  S.  S., 
James  Renwick,  Renwick,  Aspinwall  &  Renwick,  Frederick  W.  Rhinelander,  T.  J.  Oakley  Rhine- 
lander,  Mrs.  Josephine  A.  Roe,  Roosevelt  &  Son,  Albert  S.  Rosenbaum,  Charles  B.  Rouss,  Jacob 
Ruppert,  Horace  Russell,  Mrs.  Archibald  Russell,  William  H.  Russell,  Samuel  S.  Sands,  Edward 
Schell,  Henry  K.  Sheldon,  Elliott  F.  Shepard,  George  Sherman,  John  1).  Slayback,  John  Sloane, 
Samuel  Sloan,  Smith,  Hogg  &  Gardner,  Roswell  Smith,  Speyer  &  Co.,  William  H.  Starbuck,  Stern 
Brothers,  Miss  Anita  Stewart,  Mrs.  William  R.  Stewart,  William  R.  Stewart,  Jr.,  Joseph  Stickney, 
Anson  Phelps  Stokes,  Edward  S.  Stokes,  Charles  E.  Strong,  Mrs.  Benjamin  L.  Swan,  Jr.,  Charles 
H.  Tenney,  John  T.  Terry,  The  J.  L.  Mott  Iron  Works,  The  Recorder,  Samuel  Thomas,  Spencer 
Trask,  Mrs.  Henry  G.  Trevor,  Lucius  Tuckerman,  estate  of,  Lawrence  Turnure,  Henry  Van  Schaick, 
I).  S.  Walton  &  Co.,  James  E.  Ward  &  Co.,  James  M.  Waterbury,  William  II.  Webb,  W.  Seward 
Webb,  Miss  Harriet  A.  Weed,  Mrs.  Samuel  Wetmore,  Mrs.  M.  B.  Wheeler,  the  Misses  Wheeler,  White 


4i6       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


Star  Line,  William  C.  Whitney,  Miss  Maria  Willets,  Richard  T.  Wilson,  Edward  F.  Winslow,  Mrs. 
C.  F.  Woerishoffer,  John  Wolfe,  L.  G.  Woodhouse,  James  F.  Woodward,  J.  Henry  Work,  Henry  R. 
Worthington,  Wyckoff,  Seamans  &  Benedict. 
$79,949-I3- 

§21,432.69.    Received  in  sums  of  less  than  $100. 
$4,639.44.    Pro  rata  shares  of  unexpended  surplus  of  seventy-five  contributors  to  Preliminary  Expense 
Fund  of  World's  Fair. 

$106,02 1.26 


CHAPTER  XXII. 


NOTES  ON  PORTRAITS. 


There  are  five  hundred  and 
fifty-seven  portraits  reproduced 
in  this  volume,  including  one 
statue,  one  statuette,  fifteen 
busts,  and  three  silhouettes.  In 
different  parts  of  this  country  as 
well  as  in  England,  France,  and 
Spain,  negatives  have  been  taken 
direct  from  the  original  pict- 
ures. Thirty  copies  have  been 
inserted,  as  the  originals  have 
been  destroyed  or  lost,  or  for 
some  other  special  reason,  but 
this  has  only  been  done  after 
a  most  thorough  search  has 
been  made  for  the  originals. 
There  are  ninety-eight  pictures 
of  which  the  artists  are  un- 
known. Every  effort  has  been 
made  to  reduce  this  number, 
and  the  authorship  of  many  of 
the  doubtful  ones  might  be  de- 
termined ;  but  unless  the  evi- 
dence was  satisfactory,  a  portrait 
has  been  marked  doubtful. 
Tradition  as  to  the  names  of 
artists  has  been  followed  unless 
there  were  strong  reasons  against 
such  acceptance.  In  this  vol- 
ume, John  Trumbull  has  eighty-six  portraits  ;  Gilbert  Stuart,  fifty-nine  ;  C.  W.  Peale,  forty- 
four  ;  St.  Memin,  fourteen  ;  Sharpless,  fifteen ;  Sully,  fourteen  ;  Ramage,  ten  ;  and  nearly  even- 
other  well-known  artist  who  lived  in  this  country  in  the  latter  part  of  the  last  century 
or  the  first  part  of  the  present  is  represented  by  one  or  more  portraits;  while  Sir  Joshua 

54 


GEORGE  WASHINGTON. 
From  a  bust  executed  by  Giuseppe  Ceracchi  in  1792. 
Owned  by  the  estate  of  Gouvemeur  Kemble,  Cold  Spring,  New  York, 
and  deposi'ed  in  the  Metropolitan  Museum  of  Art,  New  York. 
(Loan  Exhibition.  No.  294.1 


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Reynolds,  Sir  Henry  Raeburn,  Gainsborough,  Zoflany,  Duplessis,  Greuze,  Elmer,  and  other 
foreign  artists  are  likewise  represented.  There  has  been  no  attempt  to  insert  all  of  the 
original  portraits  of  George  Washington,  but  a  special  effort  was  made  to  obtain  por- 
traits of  all  the  members  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution.  Of  the  nine- 
ty-six members,  including  Benjamin  West,  who  was  elected  from  New  Hampshire  but 
failed  to  take  his  seat,  portraits  of  seventy-eight  were  found.  A  most  thorough  search 
failed  to  find  portraits  of  the  following  eighteen  members  of  the  First  Congress,  namely: 
Thomas  Fitzsimons,  Thomas  Hartley,  and  Thomas  Scott,  of  Pennsylvania;  Jonathan  Elmer 
and  Thomas  Sinnickson,  of  New  Jersey  ;  James  Gunn  and  George  Mathews,  of  Georgia  ; 
Jonathan  Sturges,  of  Connecticut;  John  Henry  and  Daniel  Carroll,  of  Maryland;  William 
Grayson,  John  Walker,  Theodorick  Bland,  and  Alexander  White,  of  Virginia  ;  John  Hathorn 
and  Jeremiah  Van  Rensselaer,  of  New  York  ;  Timothy  Bloodworth,  of  North  Carolina;  and 
Joseph  Stanton,  Jr.,  of  Rhode  Island.  Portraits  of  all  the  members  from  Delaware,  Massa- 
chusetts, South  Carolina,  and  New  Hampshire  were  discovered.  Of  the  two  hundred  and 
eight  negatives  from  portraits  of  the  members  of  Congress,  twelve  are  from  portraits  of 
Charles  Carroll,  which  were  painted  by  eleven  different  artists  at  distinct  periods  in  Carroll's 
life ;  thirteen  negatives  are  from  portraits  of  James  Monroe,  painted  by  nine  different  artists ; 
and  seventeen  negatives  are  from  portraits  of  James  Madison,  painted  by  eleven  different 
artists.  Ralph  Izard  and  William  B.  Giles  are  represented  by  five  artists  each;  Robert 
Morris  and  William  S.  Johnson  by  four  ;  and  the  following  members  of  Congress  were 
painted  by  three  artists  each,  namely  :  Fisher  Ames,  Elbridge  Gerry,  George  Partridge,  Theo- 
dore Sedgwick,  and  Caleb  Strong,  all  members  from  Massachusetts  ;  Jeremiah  Wadsworth, 
of  Connecticut ;  Elias  Boudinot,  of  New  Jersey  ;  and  Thomas  Sumter,  of  South  Carolina. 
All  the  other  members  of  Congress,  with  the  exception  of  the  eighteen  whose  names  are 
given  above,  are  represented  by  one  or  two  portraits.  Of  the  two  hundred  and  eight 
portraits  of  members  of  Congress,  the  names  of  forty  of  the  artists  are  not  positively 
known.  This  number  includes  the  silhouettes  of  Jonathan  Grout  and  Benjamin  Bourne. 
Although  the  miniature  of  Jeremiah  Wadsworth  was  probably  painted  by  Trumbull,  and 
that  of  John  Sevier  by  C.  W.  Peale,  and  the  portrait  of  George  Read,  at  New  Castle,  Dela- 
ware, by  R.  E.  Pine,  it  is  not  known  who  painted  the  miniatures  of  the  following-named 
members  of  Congress:  John  Baptista  Ashe,  Elias  Boudinot,  John  Brown,  Pierce  Butler,  Ben- 
jamin Contee,  George  Gale,  William  B.  Giles,  Nicholas  Gilman,  Samuel  Griffin,  Daniel  Hies- 
ter,  Benjamin  Huntington,  Ralph  Izard,  William  Maclay,  James  Madison  (2),  James 
Monroe,  F.  A.  Muhlenberg,  Joshua  Seney,  and  Roger  Sherman.  Nor  are  the  artists 
known  who  painted  the  portraits  of  the  following:  ^Edanus  Burke,  Abie!  Foster,  Nicho- 
las Gilman,1  Daniel  Huger,  John  Laurance,  R.  H.  Lee,a  Peter  Muhlenberg,  George  Par- 


1  The  pencil  sketch  is  referred  to.  The  panel  portrait  was  probably  painted  by  Henry  Williams  after  the  pencil  sketch. 
'  The  portrait  owned  by  C.  F.  Lee.  Jr. 


NOTES  ON  PORTRAITS. 


419 


tridge,1  William  Paterson,  James  Schureman,  John  Vining,  and  Benjamin  West.  Six  of 
the  portraits  of  members  of  Congress  are  copies.  The  portrait  of  William  Few,  copied  by 
C.  L.  Brandt,  is  inserted,  because  the  original  by  John  Paradise  was  lost  many  years  ago.  As 
the  only  original  portrait  of  George  Leonard  was  likewise  lost,  and  an  exhaustive  search 
failed  to  find  it,  it  was  necessary  to  photograph  from  an  engraving  of  that  portrait;  and  as 
the  original  silhouette  of  Jonathan  Grout  was  destroyed  in  the  Chicago  fire,  a  copy  of  it  was 
photographed.  As  it  has  been  impossible  to  discover  the  original  sketch  which  Robert  Fulton 
made  of  Abraham  Baldwin,  the  drawing  by  Fmanuel  Leutze,  after  the  Fulton  sketch,  is  in- 
serted. For  the  same  reason  a  copy  of  the  St.  Memin  portrait  of  Peter  Silvester  in  the  State 
Library  at  Albany  has  been  photographed.  The  original  of  the  large  portrait  of  James  Jack- 
son, of  Georgia,  is  the  small  engraving  on  copper  by  St.  Memin,  from  which  the  artist  copied. 
These  two  pictures  have  been  placed  side  by  side,  to  illustrate  how  great  may  be  the  differ- 
ence between  an  original  portrait  and  a  copy  of  the  original.  The  miniature  of  Benjamin 
Huntington,  of  Connecticut,  is  very  poor  and  much  damaged,  and  the  beautiful  portrait  which 
Daniel  Huntington  painted  of  his  grandfather  is  inserted,  as  the  artist,  in  painting  the  por- 
trait, received  suggestions  from  those  who  remembered  Benjamin  Huntington.  In  this 
volume  are  thirty-nine  portraits  by  John  Trumbull  of  members  of  the  First  Congress  under 
the  Constitution,  which  include  thirty  members.  The  twenty-one  portraits  by  Gilbert  Stuart 
represent  fourteen  members  of  Congress  ;  the  fifteen  portraits  by  C.  W.  Peale,  thirteen  mem- 
bers ;  the  nine  portraits  by  Thomas  Sully,  seven  members  ;  and  the  eleven  portraits  by  St. 
Memin,  ten  members  of  Congress.  Several  portraits  by  the  same  artist  of  the  same  mem- 
ber of  Congress,  as  well  as  of  others,2  are  introduced  to  show  differences  even  though  slight ; 
and  for  the  same  reason  the  crayon  drawing  and  engraving  on  copper  which  St.  Memin  made 
of  a  member  of  Congress  are  placed  side  by  side.  Sharpless,  Vanderlyn,  James  Peale,  R.  E. 
Pine,  Chester  Harding,  Ralph  Earle,  and  John  Ramage  painted  from  three  to  six  members 
of  Congress;  and  the  following  artists  have  one  or  two  portraits  of  members  of  Congress : 
Blackburn,  Catlin,  Ceracchi  (bust),  Copley,  Doyle,  Durand,  R.  Field,  Hathaway,  Hubard,  J. 
W.  Jarvis,  Jouett,  C.  B.  King,  Liebbers,  Marston,  Mitchell,  Morse,  Otis,  Paradise,  Rembrandt 
Peale,  Reynolds,  Archibald  Robertson,  Savage,  Sene,  Waldo  and  Jewett,  Benjamin  West, 
Henry  Williams,  Joseph  Wright,  and  Zoffany. 

Eighty  portraits  of  ladies  appear,  representing  forty-five  different  women,  who  were  well 
known  during  the  last  decade  of  the  eighteenth  century.  Thirteen  of  these  portraits  are 
marked  doubtful,  and  of  the  others  Trumbull  painted  thirteen ;  Stuart,  eleven ;  Ramage 
and  C.  W.  Peale,  four;  Copley,  Sharpless,  St.  Memin,  and  Ralph  Earle,  three  each;  Rem- 
brandt Peale,  Benjamin  West,  and  John  Woolaston,  two  each  ;  and  the  following  artists  one 


1  The  small  profile  portrait. 

*  For  example,  the  several  portraits  of  Jay,  Madison,  Monroe,  Jefferson,  and  Mrs.  Livingston  of  Clermont,  by  Stuart  ;  the 
several  Madisons,  by  Catlin,  and  the  two  portraits  of  John  Brown,  taken  some  years  apart,  by  Jouett,  etc. 


42o       THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


portrait  each  :  Blyth,  Mather  Brown,  Gainsborough,  Harding,  Inman,  Kilbrun,  Liebbers, 
Malbone,  Charles  Martin,  Pine,  Archibald  Robertson,  Savage,  Sene,  Sully,  and  Wright. 

Lady  Temple,  Mrs.  Oliver  Ellsworth,  Mrs.  Jonathan  Trumbull,  and  Mrs.  Ralph  Izard,  are 
in  portrait  groups  with  their  husbands.  There  are  seven  portraits  of  Martha  Washington  by 
seven  different  artists.  Mrs.  James  Madison  has  six,  and  Mrs.  Robert  Morris  four  distinct 
portraits,  and  there  are  three  different  portraits  of  Mrs.  Alexander  Hamilton.  In  addition  to 
portraits  of  women,  and  of  members  of  Congress,  there  are  two  hundred  and  sixty  other 
portraits  in  the  Memorial  Volume,  which  include  of  George  Washington,  twenty-nine ; 
Thomas  Jefferson,  twenty-one  ;  John  Adams,  fourteen  ;  Benjamin  Franklin,  fifty-three ; 
Alexander  Hamilton,  sixteen  ;  John  Jay,  ten ;  and  Chancellor  Livingston,  five.  Out  of 
these  two  hundred  and  sixty  miscellaneous  portraits,  the  names  of  the  artists  of  forty- 
three1  are  in  doubt.  In  this  list  are  included  the  portrait  of  Judge  Livingston,  father  of 
Chancellor  Livingston,  which  is  attributed  to  Copley  and  the  portrait  of  Lord  Stirling, 
attributed  to  Benjamin  West.  Twenty-one  portraits  of  the  two  hundred  and  sixty  are  copies. 
Three  are  of  Edmund  Randolph  (the  original  was  burned  in  Richmond  during  the  war)  ; 
two  copies  are  of  Patrick  Henry,  as  it  was  impossible  to  find  the  original  miniature  from 
which  they  were  made ;  and  also  included  among  the  copies  are  a  miniature  of  George 
Washington,  marked  "  W.  V.",  which  is  evidently  after  the  well-known  portrait  by  Savage,  a 
portrait  by  Gilbert  Stuart  after  Trumbull's  portrait  of  Sir  John  Temple,  and  a  copy  of  the 
Chamberlain  portrait  of  Benjamin  Franklin.  The  engravings  of  Jay,  Steuben,  and  Charles 
Thomson,  from  life-drawings  by  Du  Simitiere,  six  engravings  of  Franklin,  and  two  of  Jeffer- 
son, were  likewise  photographed,  as  it  was  impossible  to  find  the  originals  from  which  they 
were  taken.  Of  the  miscellaneous  portraits,  Trumbull  did  thirty-two;  Stuart,  twenty-eight ; 
C.  W.  Peale,  twenty-seven  ;  Houdon,  nine  (eight  busts  and  one  statue) ;  Ceracchi  (busts) 
and  Duplessis,  six;  Sharpless,  James  Peale,  and  Inman,  five;  Jarvis  and  Sully,  four  each; 
Copley,  Ramage,  Joseph  Wright,  Greuze,  and  Savage,  three  each  ;  Ames,  Earle,  Malbone, 
Rembrandt  Peale,  Pine,  Vanderlyn,  Liebbers,  Doyle,  Duche,  Harding,  Morse,  and  Mather 
Brown,  two  each ;  and  five  original  engravings  on  copper  are  by  St.  Memin.  The  follow- 
ing artists  are  likewise  represented  in  the  list  of  miscellaneous  portraits  with  one  portrait  each  : 
Blyth,  Baricolo,  Chamberlain,  Champlain,  Robert  Fulton,  Janinet,  Liebbers,  Matthew  Pratt, 
Thouron,  Boucher  (Baron  Desnoyers),  Burlin,  Danloux,  Dunlap,  Elmer,  Mrs.  Robert  Fulton, 
Gainsborough,  Goodridge,  Herring,  Lucientes.  David  Martin,  Morse,  Morton,  Otis,  Rubens  or 
Raphael  Peale,  Raeburn,  Lawrence  Sully,  Waldo  and  Jewett,  West,  Winstanley,  and  Woolaston. 

A  list  is  added  of  all  the  artists  and  of  all  the  portraits  : 

Ezra  Allies: :  George  Clinton  (2). 
Francois  Baricolo:  Benjamin  Franklin. 

Jonathan  />'.  Blackburn:  Tristram  Dalton,  William  Samuel  Johnson. 
Blyth:  John  Adams,  Mrs.  John  Adams. 


1  Seventeen  of  this  number  are  portraits  of  Franklin,  including  thirteen  in  the  Metropolitan  Museum  of  Art.    See  page  462. 


NOTES  ON  PORTRAITS. 


421 


Auguste  Gaspard  Louis  Boucher,  Baron  Dcsnoycrs  :  Thomas  Jefferson. 

Mather  Brown  :  Thomas  Jefferson,  Colonel  William  S.  Smith,  Mrs.  Colonel  William  S.  Smith. 
Richard  Bur/in  :  Morgan  Lewis. 
George  Cat/in  :  James  Madison  (3). 

Giuseppe  Ccracchi  (busts)  :  George  Clinton,  Benjamin  Franklin  (2),  Alexander  Hamilton,  John  Jay,  James 
Madison,  and  George  Washington. 

Mason  Chamberlain  :  Benjamin  Franklin. 
Mrs.  Oliver  Chan/plain  :  Benjamin  Franklin. 

John  Singleton  Copley:  John  Adams,  James  Duane,  Ralph  Izard  and  Mrs.  Ralph  Izard,  Mrs.  Samuel  A. 
Otis,  Sir  John  Temple,  Lady  Temple. 
Pierre  Danloux  ;  Comte  de  Moustier. 
William  M.  S.  Doyle:  John  Adams,  Caleb  Strong. 
Thomas  Spence  Duche :  Bishop  Provoost  (2). 
William  Dunlap :  David  Van  Horn. 
Joseph  Si/ rede  D 11  pics  sis  :  Benjamin  Franklin  (6). 
Asher  B.  Durand :  James  Madison. 

Ralph  Earle :  Oliver  Ellsworth,  Mrs.  Oliver  Ellsworth,  William  Floyd,  Mrs.  Alexander  Hamilton,  Mrs. 
Theodore  Sedgwick,  Roger  Sherman,  Baron  Steuben,  Richard  Varick. 
Stephen  Elmer  :  Benjamin  Franklin. 
Gideon  Fairman :  Alexander  Hamilton. 
Robert  Field :  Charles  Carroll. 
Robert  Fulton:  Benjamin  Franklin. 
Mrs.  Robert  Fulton  :  Walter  Livingston. 

Thomas  Gainsborough:  Benjamin  Franklin,  Mrs.  Ralph  Izard. 

Sarah  Good  ridge  :  Gilbert  Stuart. 

Jean  Baptistc  Greuze  :  Benjamin  Franklin  (3). 

Chester  Harding  :  Charles  Carroll,  William  B.  Giles,  James  Madison,  Mrs.  Josiah  Quincy,  John  Randolph. 
Dr.  Ru/us  Hathaway :  George  Partridge. 
James  Herring :  Morgan  Lewis. 

[can  Antoine  Houdon  (busts) :  Benjamin  Franklin  (5),  Thomas  Jefferson,  Marquis  de  Lafayette,  George 
Washington  (2,  including  statue). 

William  J.  Hubard :  Charles  Carroll. 

Henry  Inman  :  Nicholas  Fish,  Mrs.  Alexander  Hamilton,  Morgan  Lewis,  Richard  Varick  (3). 
Janinet :  Benjamin  Franklin. 

John  Wesley  Jarvis  :  Pierrepont  Edwards,  William  Samuel  Johnson,  Jacob  Morton,  John  Randolph,  Pierre 
Van  Cortlandt. 

Matthew  H.  Jouett :  John  Brown  (2). 
Lawrence  Kilbrun  :  Mrs.  James  Beekman. 
Charles  B.  King  :  Charles  Carroll. 

T.  C.  Liebbers :  James  Madison,  Mrs.  James  Madison. 
Francisco  Goya  y  Lucientes  :  Don  Diego  de  Gardoqui. 

Fdivard  G.  Malbone  :  Nicholas  Fish,  Mrs.  Ralph  Izard,  William  Malcom. 

J.  B.  Marston  :  Caleb  Strong. 

Charles  Martin:  Mrs.  Alexander  Hamilton. 

David  Martin  :  Benjamin  Franklin. 

Harvey  Mitchell :  Thomas  Sumter. 

Samuel  F.  B.  Morse  :  John  Adams,  Marquis  de  Lafayette,  James  Monroe. 

John  L.  Morton  :  General  Jacob  Morton. 

Jean  Baptiste  Nini :  Benjamin  Franklin  (medallion). 

Bass  Otis:  William  B.  Giles,  Thomas  Jefferson. 

John  Paradise  :  James  Monroe. 


42  2       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 


Charles  Wilhon  Peale :  John  Adams,  Elias  Boudinot  (2),  Mrs.  Elias  Boudinot,  Lambert  Cadwalader,  Charles 
Carroll,  Arthur  St.  Clair,  George  Clymer,  James  Duane,  Mrs.  James  Duane,  Benjamin  Franklin  (2),  Alexander 
Hamilton  (2),  William  Jackson,  John  Jay,  Thomas  Jefferson,  Rufus  King,  Henry  Knox,  Arthur  Lee,  Richard 
Henry  Lee,  Chancellor  Livingston,  Thomas  Mifflin,  Andrew  Moore,  Robert  Morris  (2),  Mrs.  Robert  Morris  (2), 
General  John  Peter  Muhlenberg,  John  Page,  John  Sevier,  William  Smith,  Baron  Steuben,  Thomas  Sumter, 
Charles  Thomson,  George  Washington  (7),  General  Samuel  B.  Webb. 

fames  Peale :  Isaac  Coles,  Alexander  Hamilton  (2),  Samuel  Johnston  (2),  Mrs.  James  Monroe,  John 
Steele,  George  Washington  (3),  Martha  Washington. 

Rembrandt  Peale:  Charles  Carroll,  David  Humphreys,  Thomas  Jefferson,  Henry  Wynkoop. 

Rubens  {or  Raphael)  Peale  ;  Thomas  Jefferson. 

Robert  Edge  Pine  :  Leonard  Bleecker,  Charles  Carroll,  Mrs.  John  Jay,  William  Samuel  Johnson  (2),  Robert 
Morris,  George  Read,  George  Washington. 
Matthew  Pratt :  Benjamin  Franklin. 

John  Parnate:  George  Clinton,  Isaac  Coles,  Mrs.  Isaac  Coles,  William  Few,  Mrs.  William  Few,  Elbridge 
Gerry,  Mrs.  Elbridge  Gerry,  Alexander  Macomb,  Mrs.  Alexander  Macomb,  George  Washington. 
Sir  Henry  Raeburn  :  James  Chrystie. 
Sir  Joshua  Reynolds  :  Charles  Carroll. 

Archibald  Robertson:  Jonathan  Trumbull,  George  Washington,  Martha  Washington. 

Charles  B.  J.  Ferret  dc  Saint- Memin  :  Richard  Bassett,  Elias  Boudinot,  John  Brown,  Charles  Carroll, 
George  Clinton,  Mrs.  George  Clinton,  James  Jackson,  Thomas  Jefferson,  Chancellor  Livingston,  Alexander 
Macomb,  Mrs.  Alexander  Macomb,  James  Madison,  Josiah  Parker,  Mrs.  Josiah  Quincy,  Theodore  Sedgwick, 
Thomas  Tudor  Tucker  (crayon  and  engraving),  George  Washington. 

Edward  Savage  :  General  Henry  Knox,  John  Langdon,  George  Washington  (2),  Martha  Washington. 

Sene :  James  Monroe,  Mrs.  James  Monroe. 

/nines  Sharpless  :  John  Adams,  Fisher  Ames,  John  Brown,  Eleanor  Custis,  Alexander  Hamilton  (2), 
Ebenezer  Hazard,  Mrs.  Ebenezer  Hazard,  Thomas  Jefferson,  John  Langdon,  Samuel  Livermore  (2),  Mrs. 
James  Madison,  James  Monroe,  Jeremiah  Wadsworth. 

Gilbert  Stuart :  John  Adams  (4),  Mrs.  John  Adams,  Fisher  Ames  (2),  Egbert  Benson  (3),  Lambert  Cad- 
walader, Matthew  Clarkson,  Eleanor  Custis,  William  B.  Giles,  Samuel  Griffin,  David  Humphreys,  Mrs.  William 
Jackson,  John  Jay  (4),  Thomas  Jefferson  (5),  William  Samuel  Johnson,  Rufus  King,  General  Henry  Knox, 
Chancellor  Robert  R.  Livingston,  Mrs.  Livingston  of  Clermont  (3),  James  Madison  (4),  Mrs.  James  Madison, 
Thomas  Mifflin,  James  Monroe  (3),  Robert  Morris,  Mrs.  Robert  Morris,  Samuel  Alleyne  Otis,  Mrs.  Josiah 
Quincy,  John  Randolph,  Theodore  Sedgwick,  Colonel  William  S.  Smith,  William  Loughton  Smith,  Caleb 
Strong,  Lady  Temple,  George  Washington  (6),  Martha  Washington. 

Lawrence  Sully :  Cyrus  Griffin. 

Thomas  Sully:  Elias  Boudinot,  Charles  Carroll  (2),  Thomas  Jefferson  (3),  James  Madison,  James  Mon- 
roe (2),  Gouverneur  Morris,  George  Read,  Thomas  Sumter,  Jonathan  Trumbull,  Mrs.  Jeremiah  Wadsworth. 
T hour  on  :  Benjamin  Franklin. 

John  Trumbull:  John  Adams  (3),  Fisher  Ames,  Egbert  Benson  (2),  John  Brown,  Charles  Carroll,  Harriet 
Chew,  Sophia  Chew,  George  Clinton,  Eleanor  Custis,  Tristram  Dalton,  Philemon  Dickinson,  Oliver  Ellsworth. 
Nicholas  Fish,  William  Floyd,  Abiel  Foster,  Benjamin  Franklin,  Elbridge  Gerry,  Alexander  Hamilton  (6),  David 
Humphreys,  Ralph  Izard,  William  Jackson,  John  Jay  (2),  Thomas  Jefferson  (2),  Rufus  King  (2),  Mrs.  Rufus 
King,  Henry  Knox  (2),  John  Langdon,  John  Laurance,  Arthur  Lee,  Richard  Henry  Lee,  Morgan  Lewis,  Samuel 
Livermore  (2),  Chancellor  Livingston,  James  Madison,  Thomas  Mifflin,  James  Monroe,  Robert  Morris  (2),  Mrs. 
Robert  Morris,  John  Peter  Muhlenberg,  Colonel  Samuel  Osgood,  Mrs.  Samuel  Osgood,  Josiah  Parker,  George 
Partridge,  George  Read,  Cornelia  Schuyler,  Philip  Schuyler  (2),  Theodore  Sedgwick,  Mary  Julia  Seymour, 
Roger  Sherman,  William  Loughton  Smith  (2),  Colonel  William  Stephens  Smith  (2),  Baron  Steuben,  Sir  John 
Temple  and  Lady  Temple  (family  group),  Charles  Thomson,  Faith  Trumbull,  Jonathan  Trumbull  (2),  Jona- 
than Trumbull  and  family,  Mrs.  Jonathan  Trumbull,  Catharine  Wadsworth,  Harriet  Wadsworth,  Jeremiah 
Wadsworth,  George  Washington  (3),  Martha  Washington,  Hugh  Williamson  (2). 

John  Vanderlyn  :  Elbridge  Gerry,  Chancellor  Robert  R.  Livingston,  John  R.  Livingston,  James  Madison, 
James  Monroe  (3). 


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423 


Samuel  L.  Waldo  :  Alexander  Macomb. 

Samuel  L.  Waldo  and  William  Jewett :  Elias  Boudinot. 

Benjamin  West:  Ralph  Izard  and  friends,  John  Jay,  John  Adams,  Benjamin  Franklin,  William  Temple 
Franklin  and  Henry  Laurens  (in  group),  Mrs.  James  Monroe,  John  Page,  Lady  Stirling. 
Henry  Williams:  George  Thacher. 
William  Winstanley :  John  Adams. 

John  Woolaston :  Colonel  Fielding  Lewis,  Mrs.  Fielding  Lewis,  Martha  Custis  (afterward  Mrs.  Washington). 
Joseph  Wright :  George  Clinton,  Benjamin  Goodhue,  John  Jay,  Frederick  A.  Muhlenberg,  George  Wash- 
ington (2),  Martha  Washington. 
Johan  Zoffany  :  Ralph  Izard. 

The  artists  of  one  or  more  portraits  of  the  following-named  persons  are  unknown  : 

John  Baptiste  Ashe,  Mrs.  John  Baptiste  Ashe,  Leonard  Bleecker,  Elias  Boudinot,  Mrs.  Elias  Boudinot, 
Benjamin  Bourne,  John  Brown,  Pierce  Butler  (2),  .-Edanus  Burke,  Daniel  Carroll,  George  Clinton,  Benjamin 
Contee,  James  Duane,  Mrs.  James  Duane,  Colonel  William  Duer  (2)^  Lady  Kitty  Duer,  Theodore  Foster  (2), 
Benjamin  Franklin  (19),  George  Gale  (2),  Mrs.  Elbridge  Gerry,  William  B.  Giles  (2),  Nicholas  Gilman  (3), 
Samuel  Griffin,  Jonathan  Grout,  Alexander  Hamilton  (4),  Ebenezer  Hazard,  Daniel  Hiester,  Daniel  Huger, 
Benjamin  Huntington,  Ralph  Izard,  Mrs.  Ralph  Izard,  John  Jay,  Thomas  Jefferson,  Henry  Knox,  John  Lau- 
rance,  Tobias  Lear,  Richard  Bland  Lee,  Richard  Henry  Lee,  William  Linn,  John  R.  Livingston  (2),  Judge 
Robert  R.  1  ivingston  (2),  Mrs.  Livingston  of  Clermont,  Walter  Livingston,  William  Maclay,  James  Madison, 
Mrs.  James  Madison,  James  Homer  Maxwell,  Mrs.  James  Homer  Maxwell,  James  Monroe,  John  Peter  Muhl- 
enberg, James  Nicholson,  George  Partridge,  William  Paterson,  George  Read,  James  Schureman,  Mrs.  Philip 
Schuyler,  George  Scriba,  Joshua  Seney,  John  Sevier,  Roger  Sherman,  Lord  and  Lady  Stirling,  Christopher 
Toppan,  Richard  Varick,  John  Vining  and  wife,  Jeremiah  Wadsworth,  Lady  Mary  Watts,  and  Benj.  West. 

Adams,  John. — The  late  Charles  Francis  Adams  wrote  as  follows  regarding  the  portrait 
of  John  Adams,  Vice-President  of  the  United  States  in  1  789,  which  was  painted  by  Copley, 
and  was  given  to  Harvard  College  in  1828  by  Ward  Nicholas  Boylston,1  and  which  was 
engraved  for  C.  F.  Adams's  "  Life  and  Works  of  John  Adams  " : 8  "  The  picture  is  a  full- 
length  portrait  painted  in  London  in  the  latter  part  of  the  year  1783.  It  is  now  in  pos- 
session of  Harvard  College.  He  is  attired  in  a  brown  velvet  court  dress,  standing  by  a 
table,  underneath  which  is  a  globe.  The  upper  half  was  engraved  in  London,  and  prefixed  to 
the  title-page  of  the  '  Defense  of  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States,'3  published  by  Stock- 
dale,  1794.  The  entire  picture  was  engraved  under  my  direction,  and  prefixed  to  the  fifth  vol- 
ume of  my  publication  of  the  works  of  John  Adams  in  1 85 1 ."  Gilbert  Stuart  painted  at  least 
six  portraits  of  John  Adams,  four  of  which  are  reproduced  in  this  volume.  Of  the  two  not 
reproduced,  one  was  given  by  Thomas  J.  Bryan  to  the  New  York  Historical  Society,  and  the 
other  was  burned  in  the  Congressional  Library  in  the  Capitol  at  Washington  in  1851.4  Of 
the  other  four,  the  one  finished  in  18 12,3  which  was  exhibited  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  in  1889 
(No.  56),  descended  to  John  Adams's  grandson,  Charles  Francis  Adams,  and  is  now  owned 


1  "  A  Sketch  of  the  Life  and  a  List  of  some  of  the  Works  of  John  Singleton  Copley,"  by  Augustus  Thorndike  Perkins,  p.  27. 
a  Vol.  v,  frontispiece.  3  By  John  Adams. 

*  See  "  Notes  on  Portraits  "  of  James  Madison. 

6  This  portrait,  and  the  companion  portrait  of  his  wife,  "  were  begun  in  1798.  but  were  not  out  of  Stuart's  studio  till  1 81 2." 
—  (Mason's  "  Life  and  Works  of  Gilbert  Stuart,"  p.  125.) 


424       THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 

by  John  Adams's  great-grandson,  Brooks  Adams,  Ouincy,  Massachusetts,  the  fourth  son  of 
the  late  Charles  Francis  Adams.  The  portrait  belonging  to  Thomas  Jefferson  Coolidge,  of 
Boston,  is  one  of  the  only  full  set  of  the  first  five  Presidents,  by  Stuart,  now  extant.1  Refer- 
ring to  the  well-known  portrait  of  Adams,  in  middle  life,  by  Stuart,  John  Adams  said,  in  1804: 
"  1  know  nothing  of  Stuart's  success.  I  sat  to  him  at  the  request  of  the  Massachusetts  Legis- 
lature, but  have  never  seen  anything  of  the  picture  but  the  first  sketch.'""  A  most  interest- 
ing portrait  of  Adams  is  the  one  which  Stuart  painted  in  1823,  representing  him  at  the 
age  of  eighty-eight,  seated,  and  with  his  hand  resting  upon  a  cane.  This  portrait  descended  to 
the  late  Charles  Francis  Adams,  and  is  now  in  the  possession  of  John  Adams's  great-grand- 
son, John  Ouincy  Adams,  Boston.  President  John  Quincy  Adams,  in  his  diary,3  says  of  this 
portrait  :  "  I  called,  with  Mr.  Cruft,  upon  Stuart,  the  painter,  and  engaged  him  to  go  out  to 
Ouincy  and  there  paint  a  portrait  of  my  father.  More  than  twenty  years  have  passed  since  he 
painted  the  former  portrait,  and  time  has  wrought  so  much  of  change  on  his  countenance  that 
I  wish  to  possess  a  likeness  of  him  as  he  is  now.  Stuart  started  some  objections  of  trivial 
difficulties — the  want  of  an  easel,  of  a  room  properly  adapted  to  the  light ;  but  finally  prom- 
ised that  he  would  go,  and  take  with  him  his  best  brush,  to  paint  a  picture  of  affection  and  of 
curiosity  for  future  times."  Charles  Henry  Hart  says  of  this  picture:4  "The  work  bears  the 
unmistakable  stamp  of  genius.  The  realistic  power  with  which  the  complexion  and  texture 
of  the  skin  in  age  are  rendered  is  truly  marvelous,  while  the  strong  light  falling  upon  the 
top  of  the  forehead  is  quite  remarkable  and  also  unusual  in  Stuart's  work."  More  than  two 
years  afterward,  when  Adams  was  over  ninety  years  of  age,  Stuart  painted  a  replica  of  the 
last-named  portrait,  which  was  unfinished  at  the  time  of  Adams's  death.  It  became  the 
property  of  President  John  Ouincy  Adams,  through  whom  it  descended  to  John  Adams's  great- 
grandson,  William  C.  Johnson,  Nevvburyport,  Massachusetts.  The  portraits  of  John  Adams 
owned  by  his  great-grandsons,  Brooks  Adams  and  John  Ouincy  Adams,  are  the  only  two  por- 
traits that  Stuart  actually  painted  from  life.  All  others  are  replicas  ;  no  portrait  is  owned  by 
the  State  of  Massachusetts.  There  are  numerous  copies  of  the  portrait  of  John  Adams  first 
painted  by  Gilbert  Stuart,  including  those  executed  by  Gilbert  Stuart's  nephew,  G.  Stuart 
Newton,  one  of  which  is  owned  by  the  Boston  Athenaeum,  and  deposited  in  the  Museum  of 
Fine  Arts,  Boston  (catalogue  No.  131),  and  another  which  is  owned  by  the  Massachusetts 
Historical  Society;  one  copied  by  Jonathan  Mason,  and  owned  by  the  New  England  Historic 
Genealogical  Society;  one  by  Andrews,  in  the  national  Capitol,  and  one  by  G.  P.  A.  Healv, 
in  the  Corcoran  Gallery  of  Art,  Washington  ;  and  another  copied  by  Asher  B.  Durand,  and 
presented  by  Luman  Reed  to  the  New  York  Historical  Society  (catalogue  No.  11).  Copies 


1  Cf.  "Notes  on  Portraits"  of  Thomas  Jefferson.  4  "American  Art  Review,"  Boston,  October,  1880. 

'  "The  Life  and  Works  of  John  Adams,"  by  his  grandson  C.  F.  Adams,  vol.  ix,  p.  589. — (Letter  of  Adams  from  Quincy, 
March  3,  1804,  to  F.  A.  Vanderkemp.) 

3  September  3,  1823. — "Memoirs  of  John  Quincy  Adams,"  edited  by  Charles  Francis  Adams,  vol.  vi,  p,  175.— Mason's 
"  Life  of  Gilbert  Stuart,"  p.  125,  gives  the  date  from  J.  Q.  Adams's  journal  as  September  3.  1824. 


From  Painting:  "  Declaration  of  Independence."  by  John  Trumbull. 
Owned  bv  Yale  University. 


Artist,  C.  W.  Peai.e 


Owned  BY  Mrs.  Joseph  Harrison,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
(Loan  Exhibition  No.  99.) 


NOTES  ON  PORTRAITS. 


425 


of  the  portrait  by  Stuart  of  John  Adams  at  eighty-eight  are  owned  by  Tulane  University,' 
New  Orleans,  and  by  the  Redwood  Library,  Newport,  Rhode  Island.  It  is  likewise 
reproduced  in  C.  F.  Adams's  "  Life  and  Works  of  John  Adams."2  The  Redwood  Library 
also  owns  another  copy  of  one  of  Stuart's  portraits  of  John  Adams.  The  copy  by  Bass 
Otis  of  the  portrait  owned  by  Brooks  Adams  was  engraved  by  J.  B.  Longacre  for  San- 
derson's "  Signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence,"  and  is  also  reproduced  in  the  "  Na- 
tional Portrait  Gallery,"  vol.  iv,  and  in  C.  F.  Adams's  "  Life  and  Works  of  John  Adams."  3  Of 
the  portraits  which  John  Trumbull  painted  of  John  Adams,  one  is  an  oil  miniature  painted  in 
1793,  and  is  owned  by  Yale  University;  and  another  in  the  group,  entitled  "Signers  of  the 
Declaration  of  Independence,"  is  also  owned  by  Yale  University,4  and  a  rep]  ica  of  it  is  in  the 
national  Capitol  at  Washington.  A  third  portrait  by  Trumbull  of  John  Adams  hangs  in 
Memorial  Hall  at  Harvard  University.5  Portraits  of  Adams  were  also  painted  by  C.  W. 
Peale  and  James  Sharpless,  which  are  owned  by  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  the  first  being  depos- 
ited in  Independence  Hall,  and  the  other  in  the  National  Museum  (old  State-House).  The 
Peale  portrait  was  in  Peale's  Museum  in  1795,  and  was  sold  at  the  Peale  sale  in  1854.  Another 
portrait  of  Adams  was  painted  by  S.  F.  B.  Morse,  which  was  exhibited  in  the  Loan  Exhibi 
tion  in  1889  (No.  55),  and  is  owned  by  Alexander  M.  White,  Brooklyn,  New  York.  It  is 
reproduced  in  Delaplaine's  gallery.  A  pastel  portrait  of  John  Adams,  said  to  have  been 
painted  in  1765  by  an  English  artist  named  Blyth,6  an  engraving  of  which  is  in  Ban 
croft's  "History  of  the  United  States," 7  and  in  C.  F.  Adams's  "Life  and  Works  of  John 
Adams,"8  was  owned  by  John  Adams's  only  living  granddaughter,  Miss  E.  C.  Adams,  but 
is  now  the  property  of  Charles  Francis  Adams,  great-grandson,  Quincy,  Massachusetts,  who 
says  of  this  portrait  and  its  companion  Mrs.  John  Adams :  "  We  have  heard  but  little 
more  than  mere  tradition  that  the  two  portraits  in  question  were  painted  by  Blyth.  We 
do  not  even  know  how  his  name  would  be  spelt.  It  has  been  written  on  the  back  of 
one  of  the  portraits  recently,  on  the  authority  of  Mr.  Cranch,  long  since  dead."  A  por- 
trait by  William  Winstanley,  painted  when  Adams  was  minister  at  the  Hague  (1782-85), 
is  owned  by  the  Boston  Museum.9    In  the  painting  entitled  "  Signers  of  the  Declaration 


1  Given  by  Mrs.  C.  B.  Sarget,  Bordeaux,  France,  who  also  gave  the  two  portraits  of  Madison  by  Catlin. — (See  "Notes  on 
Portraits  "  of  James  Madison.) 

*  Vol.  x,  frontispiece.    Cf.  Winsor's  "Memorial  History  of  Boston,"  vol.  iii,  p.  192,  and  "Century  Magazine,"  July,  1887. 
s  Vol.  i,  frontispiece. 

*  "  In  the  course  of  the  summer  of  1787  Mr.  Adams  took  leave  of  the  court  of  St.  James,  and  preparatory  to  the  voyage  to 
America  had  the  powder  combed  out  of  his  hair.  Its  color  and  natural  curl  were  beautiful,  and  I  took  that  opportunity  to  paint 
his  portrait  in  the  small  Declaration  of  Independence." — ("  Reminiscences  of  his  Own  Times,'"  by  Colonel  J.  Trumbull,  pp. 
147,  148.) 

s  Given  by  Andrew  Craigie  in  1794. — (Winsor's  "Memorial  History  of  Boston,"  vol.  iii,  p.  192.) 

6  An  engraver  named  Robert  Blyth  was  born  in  1750,  and  committed  suicide  January  19,  1784. — (Redgrave's  "Dictionary 
of  English  Artists.") 

7  Vol.  iv,  frontispiece  to  edition  of  1874.  8  Vol.  ii,  frontispiece. 

'  On  the  inscription  attached  to  the  portrait  are  these  words :  "  John  Adams,  when  minister  from  the  United  States  to 
Holland  at  the  court  of  the  Hague  from  1782  to  1785,  where  this  picture  was  painted  by  Winstanley." — (Cf.  Dunlap's  "  His- 
55 


426       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


of  Independence,"  painted  by  Edward  Savage  and  owned  by  the  Boston  Museum,  is  a 
portrait  of  John  Adams.  The  Boston  Museum  also  owns  a  portrait  of  Adams  painted  by 
William  M.  S.  Doyle.1  The  unfinished  portrait  of  John  Adams,  in  the  group  of  the  Peace 
Commissioners,  by  Benjamin  West,  is  spoken  of  in  the  "  Notes  on  Portraits  "  of  John  Jay. 
In  i  783,  before  the  portrait  by  Copley  was  finished,  there  was  in  the  possession  of  Edward 
Jennings,  of  London,  an  original  portrait  of  John  Adams.2  In  Faneuil  Hall,  Boston,  is 
a  bust  of  John  Adams  by  Binon,  a  French  sculptor;3  and  Guiseppe  Ceracchi,  the  Italian 
sculptor,  likewise  made  a  bust  of  him.4  There  is  a  medal  bust  of  John  Adams  in  the 
United  States  Mint.3     The  Boston  Athenaeum  likewise  owns  a  bust. 

Adams,  Mrs.  John. — The  portrait  of  Mrs.  John  Adams,  which  was  painted  by  Gilbert 
Stuart  in  1804,  and  exhibited  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  in  1889  (No.  57),  is  owned  by 
Mrs.  John  Adams's  great-grandson,  Brooks  Adams,  Quincy,  Massachusetts.  It  is  repro- 
duced in  the  "  National  Portrait  Gallery,"  vol.  iv,  and  in  C.  F.  Adams's  "  Life  and  Works 
of  John  Adams."6  Another  portrait  of  Mrs.  Adams,  painted  in  1765,  is  ascribed  to  an 
English  artist  named  Blyth,  and  is  owned  by  Mrs.  John  Adams's  great-grandson,  Charles 
Francis  Adams,  Quincy,  Massachusetts.  This  portrait  represents  Mrs.  Adams  at  the  age  of 
twenty-one,  and  was  reproduced  in  the  "Century  Magazine"  for  April,  1889.  It  was  also 
engraved  by  O.  Pelton  for  the  frontispiece  of  "  Letters  of  Mrs.  Adams,  Wife  of  John 
Adams,"  by  her  grandson,  Charles  Francis  Adams. 

Ames,  Fisher. — The  portrait  of  Fisher  Ames,  member  from  Massachusetts  of  the  First 
Congress  under  the  Constitution,  by  Gilbert  Stuart,  belongs  to  Mrs.  John  E.  Lodge,  of 
Boston,  the  mother  of  Henry  Cabot  Lodge,  who  writes  as  follows  regarding  the  portrait : 
"The  original  was  given  to  my  great-grandfather,  Mr.  George  Cabot,  by  Mrs.  Ames  after 
the  death  of  her  husband.  Mr.  Cabot  was  Ames's  most  intimate  friend  and  executor  of  his 
will,  and  wrote  the  preface  to  the  '  Life  of  Ames,'  by  Dr.  Kirkland.  The  portrait  has  been 
in  our  family  ever  since,  and  is  an  extremely  fine  example  of  Stuart."  A  replica  of  this 
portrait  was  painted  by  Stuart,  and  purchased  by  subscription  in  18 10  and  presented  to 
Harvard  College.  Of  copies  of  the  original  Stuart  portrait  of  Fisher  Ames,  one  is  owned 
by  the  descendants  of  Fisher  Ames,  another  is  in  the  Dedham  Court-House  in  Massachu- 


tory  of  the  Arts  of  Design,"  vol.  i,  p.  394;  and  Miss  Elizabeth  Bryant  Johnston's  "Original  Portraits  of  Washington,"  pp.  92, 
93.)    Winstanley  exhibited,  at  the  British  Institution,  London,  in  1806,  five  pictures,  of  which  three  were  Virginia  landscapes. 
1  See  "  Notes  on  Portraits  "  of  Caleb  Strong. 

a  Print  of  the  same  appeared  in  Amsterdam  in  1782,  in  John  Adams's  account  of  the  troubles  with  Great  Britain,  and  is 
reproduced  in  "Narrative  and  Critical  History  of  America,"  edited  by  Justin  Winsor,  LL.  D.  (vol.  vi,  p.  36),  and  in  "The  Euro- 
pean Magazine  and  London  Review,"  August,  1783. 

3  Tuckerman's  "Book  of  the  Artists,"  p.  248. 

1  "Massachusetts  Historical  Society  Proceedings,"  vol.  xii  C 1 87 1— *73).  P-  81. 

6  "  The  Medallic  History  of  the  United  States  of  America,"  by  J.  F.  Loubat,  LL.  D. 

0  Vol.  ix,  frontispiece. 


NOTES  ON  PORTRAITS. 


427 


setts,  and  a  third,  painted  by  Gilbert  Stuart's  nephew,  Gilbert  Stuart  Newton,  is  the  prop- 
erty of  the  Boston  Athenaeum,  and  is  deposited  with  the  Museum  of  Fine  Arts,  Boston.1 
The  Stuart  portrait  of  Ames  is  reproduced  in  the  "  National  Portrait  Gallery,"  vol.  iii,  and 
an  engraving  by  Boyd  appeared  in  Delaplaine's  Repository  in  18 16.  Besides  the  oil  minia- 
ture of  Fisher  Ames,  painted  by  Trumbull  in  1792  and  owned  by  Yale  University,  and  the 
portrait  by  Sharpless  in  the  National  Museum  (old  State-House),  Philadelphia,  no  other 
originals  are  known.    The  portrait  in  the  old  State-House,  Boston,  is  a  copy. 

Ashe,  John  Baptista. — The  only  known  original  portrait  of  John  Baptista  Ashe,  mem- 
ber from  North  Carolina  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  is  a  miniature  on 
ivory  owned  by  his  great-granddaughter,  Mrs.  Mary  Sheppard  Crawford,  Little  Rock,  Arkan- 
sas. The  miniature  is  inclosed  in  a  locket  of  old  North  Carolina  gold,  and  is  beautifully 
executed.  The  name  of  the  artist  is  unknown.  Miss  Mary  L.  Ashe,  of  Memphis,  Tenn., 
owns  an  oil-portrait  copied  from  this  miniature  by  her  sister,  Miss  Margaret  L  Ashe. 

Ashe,  Mrs.  John  Baptista. — The  only  known  portrait  of  Mrs.  John  Baptista  Ashe,  a 
great-grandniece  of  Oliver  Cromwell,  is  a  miniature  on  ivory  in  the  possession  of  her 
great-granddaughter,  Mrs.  Mary  Sheppard  Crawford,  Little  Rock,  Arkansas.  Miss  Mary  L. 
Ashe,  Memphis,  Tennessee,  a  great-granddaughter  of  Mrs.  John  Baptista  Ashe,  owns  a  por- 
trait copied  from  the  miniature.  Miss  Ashe  writes:  "By  referring  to  Wheeler's  History 
of  North  Carolina,  vol.  ii,  pages  199-281,  you  will  see  Mrs.  Ashe's  relationship  to  the 
Cromwells.  On  page  186,  in  the  same  history,  Mrs  Ashe  is  mentioned  as  having  given  a 
very  witty  reply  to  Colonel  Tarleton.  Colonel  Tarleton  said  that  '  he  would  be  happy  to 
see  Colonel  Washington,  for  he  had  understood  he  was  diminutive  and  ungainly  in  person.' 
Mrs.  Ashe  replied:  'If  you  had  looked  behind  you,  Colonel  Tarleton,  at  the  battle  of  the 
Cowpens,  you  would  have  enjoyed  that  pleasure.'"  Engravings  on  copper  of  a  Mrs.  Ashe, 
made  by  St.  Memin  in  1807,  are  owned  by  the  Corcoran  Gallery  of  Art,  Washington,  and 
by  Edward  Dexter,  New  York. 

Baldwin,  Abraham. — The  portrait  of  Abraham  Baldwin,  member  from  Georgia  of  the 
First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  is  from  a  drawing  by  Emanuel  Leutze,  after  the  origi- 
nal sketch  by  Robert  Fulton.  The  drawing  by  Leutze  is  a  sepia-drawing,  which  belonged 
to  the  firm  of  Rice  &  Hart,  the  publishers  of  the  "  National  Portrait  Gallery,"  and  was  used 
by  J.  B.  Forrest  in  engraving  the  portrait  for  the  "  National  Portrait  Gallery,"  vol.  iv.  Rice 
&  Hart  came  into  possession  of  many  paintings  and  drawings  used  by  Longacre  and  Herring 
in  bringing  out  the  "  National  Portrait  Gallery."  The  Leutze  drawing  was  obtained  from 
the  estate  of  Mr.  Rice,  of  the  firm  of  Rice  &  Hart,  by  Albert  Rosenthal,  the  Philadelphia 


]  Mason's  "  Life  and  Works  of  Gilbert  Stuart,"  p.  127  ;  and  statement  of  General  Charles  G.  Loring,  Curator  of  Museum 
of  Fine  Arts,  Boston.    The  Chappel  portrait  is  a  made-up  picture. 


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artist,  who  presented  the  same  to  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania.  Where  the 
original  sketch  by  Robert  Fulton  is  is  unknown,  though  diligent  search  has  been  made  for 
the  same.  lion.  C.  C.  Baldwin,  of  Cleveland,  Ohio,  says  that  some  years  ago  he  asked  a 
nephew  of  Abraham  Baldwin,  the  late  Judge  William  Baldwin,  of  Columbus,  Ohio,  regard- 
ing the  likeness  of  his  uncle.  Judge  Baldwin  knew  of  none,  and  jocularly  intimated  that 
there  was  an  old  prejudice  in  the  family  against  "likenesses"  and  "graven  images." 

Bassett,  Richard. — R.  H.  Bayard,  of  Baltimore,  great-great-grandson  of  Richard  Bassett, 
member  from  Delaware  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  and  the  owner  of 
the  original  crayon  drawing,  writes  :  "  It  was  the  custom  of  St.  Memin  to  execute  with 
the  larger  drawing  a  replica  on  a  small  copper  plate  about  two  inches  square,  which  was 
also  given  to  the  purchaser  of  the  portrait.  I  have  also  in  my  possession  this  small  cop- 
per plate."  In  the  engraving  of  Richard  Bassett  in  the  Corcoran  Gallery  of  Art,  Wash- 
ington, and  also  in  the  one  owned  by  Edward  Dexter,  of  New  York,  it  is  seen  that  the 
engraving  was  executed  in  Philadelphia  by  St.  Memin  in  1802. 

Beekman,  Mrs.  James. — The  portrait  of  Mrs.  James  Beekman  (born  Jane  Ketaltas)  was 
painted  in  1761  by  the  artist  Lawrence  Kilbrun,1  and  is  owned  by  Mrs.  Beekman's  great- 
grandson,  Gerard  Beekman,  of  New  York.  There  is  a  steel  engraving  of  this  portrait  at 
page  155  in  Grisvvold's  "  Republican  Court."  The  portrait  bears  the  following  indorse- 
ment :  "  L.  Kilbrun,  pinx',  1761,  Jane  Beekman,  born  October  8,  1734."  Mrs.  Beekman  was 
married  at  eighteen,  and  was  twenty-seven  years  of  age  when  the  portrait  was  painted. 
Dunlap 2  is  evidently  mistaken  when  he  speaks  of  the  portrait  as  being  that  of  the  wife 
of  Dr.  William  Beekman.  An  old  drawing  of  the  Kilbrun  portrait  of  Mrs.  Beekman  is 
in  the  possession  of  Samuel  Borrowe,  of  New  York,  and  was  reproduced  in  the  "  Century 
Magazine"  for  April,  1889. 

Benson,  Egbert. — The  portrait  of  Egbert  Benson,  member  from  New  York  of  the  First 
Congress  under  the  Constitution,  which  belongs  to  the  New  York  Historical  Society,  of 
which  Benson  was  the  first  president,  was  presented  to  the  society  by  Robert  Benson,3  and  was 
painted  by  Stuart  from  life  in  1807.  The  portrait  is  painted  on  a  mahogany  panel.  A  photo- 
gravure of  this  portrait  appears  in  Mason's  "  Life  and  Works  of  Gilbert  Stuart,"  an  etching 
was  made  in  1871  by  H.  B.  Hall  for  a  small  association  of  Philadelphia  gentlemen,  and  a 
copy  in  oil  by  John  Wesley  Jarvis  is  owned  by  the  New  York  Historical  Society.  Another 


1  Lawrence  Kilbrun,  also  spelled  Killbrun  and  Kilbrunn  and  Killbrunn  and  Kilburnn,  came  to  New  York  from  London 
in  May  of  1754,  and  advertised  in  that  year  in  the  New  York  Gazette  and  the  New  York  Mercury  that  he  was  ready  to  paint 
portraits.  He  was  married  to  Judith  Eyraud  in  1761,  and  died  in  1775. — "  Marriage  bond,  vol.  iv,  p.  258.  June  24,  1761,  of 
Lawrence  Killbrunn  and  Judith  Eyraud."  in  the  State  Library,  Albany,  New  York,  and  "  Notes  on  Art  and  Artists  in  New 
York,"  by  William  Kelby.— (Historical  Magazine,  vol.  x,  Supplement,  page  74.)  Kilbrun  also  painted  a  companion  portrait 
of  James  Beekman,  which  is  reproduced  in  the  "Chamber  of  Commerce  Records,"  large-paper  edition,  p.  122. 

5  Dunlap's  "  History  of  the  Arts  of  Design,"  vol.  i,  p.  161. 

3  In  Mason's  "Life  and  Works  of  Gilbert  Stuart,"  it  is  stated  that  Egbert  Benson  gave  the  portrait. 


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portrait  of  Egbert  Benson  by  Gilbert  Stuart  is  owned  by  Hon.  John  Jay,  and  was  in  the  Loan 
Exhibition  in  New  York  in  1889  (No.  65).  A  third  portrait  of  Benson,  said  to  have  been 
painted  by  Gilbert  Stuart,  was  bought  in  1864  by  the  Long  Island  Historical  Society  with 
money  given  by  George  S.  Stephenson.  Besides  the  miniature  of  Egbert  Benson  which 
Trumbull  painted  in  1792,  and  which  is  owned  by  Vale  University,  there  is  another  miniature 
by  Trumbull  which  belongs  to  John  Jay,  the  gift  of  Benson  to  Chief-Justice  Jay.  The 
Stuart  portrait  and  Trumbull  miniature  owned  by  Mr.  Jay  are  at  his  residence,  Bedford  House, 
Katonah,  New  York.    The  Italian  sculptor,  Ceracchi,  made  a  bust  of  Egbert  Benson.1 

Bland,  Theodorick. — There  is  said  to  be  a  portrait  of  Theodorick  Bland,  but  it  is  not  a 
portrait  of  the  member  from  Virginia  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution.  The 
portrait  by  St.  Memin  was  made  in  1804,  of  Theodorick  Bland,  Chancellor  of  Maryland,  who 
died  at  Annapolis,  November  16,  1846,  aged  sixty-nine.  No  portrait  of  the  member  of  Con- 
gress is  known  to  be  in  existence. 

Bleecker,  Leonard. — There  are  two  portraits  of  Major  Leonard  Bleecker,  one  of  the 
masters  of  ceremony  at  Washington's  Inauguration,  one  a  miniature  and  the  other  a  crayon 
by  R.  E.  Pine,  both  owned  by  Major  Bleecker's  great-granddaughter,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Bleecker 
Warfield,  of  New  York. 

Bloodworth,  Timothy. — There  is  no  portrait  of  Timothy  Bloodworth,  member  from 
North  Carolina  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution.  His  only  descendant,  a 
grandson,  Robert  N.  Bloodworth,  Burgard,  Pender  County,  North  Carolina,  knows  of  no 
portrait. 

Boudinot,  Elias. — The  full-length  life-size  portrait  of  Elias  Boudinot  belonging  to  the 
American  Bible  Society  and  exhibited  at  the  Loan  Exhibition  in  1889  (No.  66),  has  for  many 
years  been  ascribed  to  Waldo  and  Jewett,  but  Thomas  Sully  was  the  artist.  Miss  Blanche  Sully, 
of  Philadelphia,  the  aged  daughter  of  the  artist,  who  owns  her  father's  journal,  says :  "  My 
father  painted  Dr.  Boudinot,  of  New  Jersey,  in  1 816,  and  Elias  Boudinot  in  181  7,  October 
9th."2  From  the  catalogue3  of  the  exhibition  in  18 18  at  the  American  Academy  of  Fine  Arts 
in  New  York  are  taken  these  words  :  "  No.  165.  Portrait  of  the  Honorable  Elias  Boudinot, 
President  of  the  American  Bible  Society.  Full  length,  size  of  life.  Lent  by  the  American 
Bible  Society.  Artist,  T.  Sully."  The  Sully  portrait  of  Boudinot  engraved  by  J.  Boyd,  and 
published  by  Harrison  Hall,  Philadelphia,  is  in  no  way  like  the  Bible  House  painting  and 
other  portraits  of  Boudinot.    Charles  Henry  Hart  says:  "If  Sully  painted  the  Bible  House 


1  "  History  of  the  Rise  and  Progress  of  the  Arts  of  Design  in  the  United  States,"  by  William  Dunlap,  vol.  i,  p.  408. 
3  "  The  dates  refer  to  when  portraits  were  finished,  and  the  two  pictures  mentioned  are  the  bust  and  full-length  portraits 
of  Boudinot."— (Miss  Sully.) 

1  Owned  by  the  New  York  Historical  Society. 


THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


picture,  his  signature  is  sure  to  be  on  it  somewhere,  back  or  front."  A  portrait  of  Elias  Boudi- 
not  was  painted  by  Waldo  and  Jewett  for  the  Czar  of  Russia,  who  was  much  interested  in  the 
work  of  the  American  Bible  Society;  but  the  Czar  died,  and  the  portrait  remained  for  many 
years  in  the  hands  of  the  artists,  and  was  finally  sold  by  their  executors  to  the  present  owner, 
B.  Bakewell  Atterbury,  of  New  York,  a  grand-nephew  of  Elias  Boudinot.1  This  portrait  in 
detail,  background,  and  size  is  like  the  Sully  portrait  at  the  Bible  House.  Waldo  and  Jewett 
painted  another  portrait  of  Elias  Boudinot,  which  is  now  owned  in  New  York  by  Boudi- 
not Keith,  Mrs.  John  Brooks  Leavitt,  and  Miss  Jennie  B.  Keith,  heirs  of  Mrs.  Ormes  B. 
Keith  (born  Julia  Boudinot),  the  grandniece  of  Elias  Boudinot.  An  engraving  of  this 
last-named  portrait  by  A.  B.  Durand  was  made  in  1822.  J.  W.  Paradise  also  engraved 
the  Waldo  and  Jewett  portrait  belonging  to  the  heirs  of  Mrs.  Keith  for  the  "  National 
Portrait  Gallery,"  vol.  iii.  Charles  Henry  Hart  says :  "  I  do  not  think  the  Waldo  and  Jew- 
ett picture  is  a  Sully  or  a  copy  of  a  Sully.  I  am  very  sure  that  A.  B.  Durand  would  not 
have  engraved  a  copy  by  Waldo  and  Jewett  and  ascribed  it  to  them.  Waldo  gave 
Durand  his  first  instruction  in  art."  A  copy  of  the  Waldo  and  Jewett  portrait  is  in 
the  cabinet  of  the  Mint  of  the  United  States  at  Philadelphia.  The  portrait  of  Boudinot, 
which  is  owned  by  Boudinot's  grandniece,  Miss  J.  J.  Boudinot,  of  Bernardsville,  New 
Jersey,  was  painted  by  C.  W.  Peale  in  1784,  and  exhibited  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  of 
1889  (No.  68).  Near  the  margin  on  the  canvas  are  the  words:  "  C.  W.  Peale,  pinxt  1784," 
and  Boudinot,  as  President  of  the  Continental  Congress,  is  seen  to  hold  in  his  hand  a 
paper  indorsed,  "  Proclamation  of  Peace  with  Great  Britain,  1783."  In  the  lower  right-hand 
corner  of  the  portrait  are  the  words  "  Confederation,"  "  Provisional  Articles  with  Great  Brit- 
ain and  America,"  "Treaty  with  the  United  Netherlands,"  and  "Treaty  with  Sweden."  This 
portrait,  together  with  the  portrait  of  Mrs.  Elias  Boudinot,  also  by  C.  W.  Peale,  for  many 
years  hung  in  the  house  at  Burlington,  New  Jersey,  built  by  Boudinot.  A  smaller  portrait 
of  Boudinot,  also  by  C.  W.  Peale,  was  in  Peale's  Museum,  Philadelphia,  in  1 795,  and  was 
sold  in  the  Peale  sale  in  1854,  and  is  now  owned  by  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  being  deposited 
in  Independence  Hall.  Mr.  Hart  says:  "It  is  most  likely  the  original  from  which  the 
larger  one  with  additional  details  was  made."  A  miniature  of  Elias  Boudinot,  after  the 
Waldo  and  Jewett  portrait,  belonged  to  his  daughter  Susan  (Mrs.  William  Bradford),  and 
is  now  owned  by  Miss  J.  J.  Boudinot,  of  Bernardsville,  New  Jersey.  At  the  bottom  of  the 
engravings  on  copper  of  Boudinot,  made  by  St.  Memin  in  1798,  and  which  are  owned  by 
the  Corcoran  Gallery  of  Art,  Washington,  and  by  Edward  Dexter,  New  York,  are  the  words, 
"  Drawn  with  the  Physiognotrace  and  engrd  by  St.  Memin,  Philadelr" 

BounixNOT,  Mrs.  Elias  (born  Hannah  Stockton). — There  is  a  miniature  of  Mrs.  Elias 
Boudinot,  wife  of  the  member  of  Congress  from  New  Jersey  in  1789,  which  is  owned  by  a 


1  Statement  of  E.  Boudinot  Colt,  Short  Hills,  New  Jersey,  another  grand-nephew. 


NOTES  ON  PORTRAITS. 


43i 


grandniece,  Miss  J.  J.  Boudinot,  of  Bernardsville,  New  Jersey,  and  which  was  exhibited  in  the 
Loan  Exhibition  of  1889  (No.  70).  The  same  owner  has  also  a  portrait  of  Mrs.  Elias 
Boudinot,  painted  by  C.  W.  Peale  in  1784,  and  is  a  companion  portrait  to  one  of  Elias  Bou- 
dinot by  the  same  artist.  This  portrait  was  likewise  exhibited  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  of  1889 
(No.  69).  Mrs.  Boudinot  is  represented  in  the  Peale  portrait  as  holding  in  her  hands  a  copy 
of  Thomson's  "  Seasons."  The  page  is  open  at  the  poem  on  "  Winter,"  beginning  with  these 
lines:1 

"  "Tis  done ;  dread  Winter  spreads  his  latest  glooms 
And  reigns  tremendous  o'er  the  conquered  year. 
How  dead  the  vegetable  kingdom  lies ! 
How  dumb  the  tuneful !    Horror  wide  extends 
His  desolate  domain.    Behold,  fond  man  ! 
See  here  thy  pictured  life;  pass  some  few  years — 
Thy  flowering  spring,  thy  summer's  ardent  strength, 
Thy  sober  autumn  fading  into  age, 
And  pale  concluding  winter  comes  at  last 
And  shuts  the  scene." 

Bourxe,  Benjamin. — There  is  no  portrait  or  miniature  of  Benjamin  Bourne,  member 
from  Rhode  Island  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution.  The  only  likeness  in 
existence  is  the  silhouette  in  the  possession  of  his  granddaughter,  Mrs.  James  De  Wolf 
Perry,  of  Bristol,  Rhode  Island. 

Brown,  John. — Regarding  the  oil-miniature  painted  by  John  Trumbull  in  1792  of  John 
Brown,  member  from  Virginia  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  which  repre- 
sents him  with  powdered  hair,  Mrs.  William  F.  Barret,  of  Frankfort,  Kentucky,  a  grand- 
daughter, says :  "  I  have  heard  my  mother  say  they  dressed  with  great  care,  and  never 
appeared  in  the  Senate  without  powdered  hair,  ruffles,  etc."  The  colored  crayon  of  John 
Brown  by  James  Sharpless,  which  belongs  to  Mrs.  William  T.  Scott,  a  granddaughter,  of 
Frankfort,  Kentucky,  also  shows  ruffles  and  powdered  hair,  and  must  have  been  painted 
soon  after  Sharpless's  arrival  in  this  country  in  1 798.  Mrs.  Barret  says :  "  The  Sharpless 
crayon  of  John  Brown  is  colored.  The  coat  is  blue.  As  it  is  a  profile  likeness,  the  vest 
does  not  show.  Ruffles  and  cravat  are  of  white  lawn,  and  the  hair  is  powdered  and  tied 
in  a  queue.  The  flesh-tints  are  remarkably  beautiful  and  perfectly  fresh."  Mrs.  Barret's 
sister-in-law,  the  widow  of  the  late  John  Mason  Brown,  of  Louisville,  Kentucky,  writes 
regarding  the  miniature  of  John  Brown,  which  she  owns :  "  I  have  a  miniature  of  him 
taken  at  the  time  of  his  marriage  with  Margaretta  Mason,  of  New  York,  the  daughter 
of  John  Mason,  and  sister  of  John  M.  Mason,  well-known  divines  of  that  place."  The 
only  other  original  portraits  besides  the  engravings  on  copper  of  John  Brown,  made  by 
St.  Memin  in  1808,  and  owned  by  the  Corcoran  Gallery  of  Art,  Washington,  and  by  Ed- 


1  Miss  J.  J.  Boudinot. 


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THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


picture,  his  signature  is  sure  to  be  on  it  somewhere,  back  or  front."  A  portrait  of  Elias  Boudi- 
not  was  painted  by  Waldo  and  Jewett  for  the  Czar  of  Russia,  who  was  much  interested  in  the 
work  of  the  American  Bible  Society;  but  the  Czar  died,  and  the  portrait  remained  for  many 
years  in  the  hands  of  the  artists,  and  was  finally  sold  by  their  executors  to  the  present  owner, 
B.  Bakewell  Atterbury,  of  New  York,  a  grand-nephew  of  Elias  Boudinot.1  This  portrait  in 
detail,  background,  and  size  is  like  the  Sully  portrait  at  the  Bible  House.  Waldo  and  Jewett 
painted  another  portrait  of  Elias  Boudinot,  which  is  now  owned  in  New  York  by  Boudi- 
not Keith,  Mrs.  John  Brooks  Leavitt,  and  Miss  Jennie  B.  Keith,  heirs  of  Mrs.  Ormes  B. 
Keith  (born  Julia  Boudinot),  the  grandniece  of  Elias  Boudinot.  An  engraving  of  this 
last-named  portrait  by  A.  B.  Durand  was  made  in  1822.  J.  W.  Paradise  also  engraved 
the  Waldo  and  Jewett  portrait  belonging  to  the  heirs  of  Mrs.  Keith  for  the  "  National 
Portrait  Gallery,"  vol.  iii.  Charles  Henry  Hart  says :  "  I  do  not  think  the  Waldo  and  Jew- 
ett picture  is  a  Sully  or  a  copy  of  a  Sully.  I  am  very  sure  that  A.  B.  Durand  would  not 
have  engraved  a  copy  by  Waldo  and  Jewett  and  ascribed  it  to  them.  Waldo  gave 
Durand  his  first  instruction  in  art."  A  copy  of  the  Waldo  and  Jewett  portrait  is  in 
the  cabinet  of  the  Mint  of  the  United  States  at  Philadelphia.  The  portrait  of  Boudinot, 
which  is  owned  by  Boudinot's  grandniece,  Miss  J.  J.  Boudinot,  of  Bernardsville,  New 
Jersey,  was  painted  by  C.  W.  Peale  in  1784,  and  exhibited  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  of 
1889  (No.  68).  Near  the  margin  on  the  canvas  are  the  words :  "  C.  VV.  Peale,  pinxt  1784," 
and  Boudinot,  as  President  of  the  Continental  Congress,  is  seen  to  hold  in  his  hand  a 
paper  indorsed,  "  Proclamation  of  Peace  with  Great  Britain,  1783."  In  the  lower  right-hand 
corner  of  the  portrait  are  the  words  "  Confederation,"  "  Provisional  Articles  with  Great  Brit- 
ain and  America,"  " Treaty  with  the  United  Netherlands,"  and  "Treaty  with  Sweden."  This 
portrait,  together  with  the  portrait  of  Mrs.  Elias  Boudinot,  also  by  C.  W.  Peale,  for  many 
years  hung  in  the  house  at  Burlington,  New  Jersey,  built  by  Boudinot.  A  smaller  portrait 
of  Boudinot,  also  by  C.  W.  Peale,  was  in  Peale's  Museum,  Philadelphia,  in  1795,  and  was 
sold  in  the  Peale  sale  in  1854,  and  is  now  owned  by  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  being  deposited 
in  Independence  Hall.  Mr.  Hart  says:  "It  is  most  likely  the  original  from  which  the 
larger  one  with  additional  details  was  made."  A  miniature  of  Elias  Boudinot,  after  the 
Waldo  and  Jewett  portrait,  belonged  to  his  daughter  Susan  (Mrs.  William  Bradford),  and 
is  now  owned  by  Miss  J.  J.  Boudinot,  of  Bernardsville,  New  Jersey.  At  the  bottom  of  the 
engravings  on  copper  of  Boudinot,  made  by  St.  Memin  in  1798,  and  which  are  owned  by 
the  Corcoran  Gallery  of  Art,  Washington,  and  by  Edward  Dexter,  New  York,  are  the  words, 
"  Drawn  with  the  Physiognotrace  and  engrd  by  St.  Memin,  Philadel:" 

Boudinot,  Mrs.  Elias  (born  Hannah  Stockton). — There  is  a  miniature  of  Mrs.  Elias 
Boudinot,  wife  of  the  member  of  Congress  from  New  Jersey  in  1789,  which  is  owned  by  a 


1  Statement  of  E.  Boudinot  Colt,  Short  Hills,  New  Jersey,  another  grand-nephew. 


NOTES  ON  PORTRAITS. 


43  < 


grandniece,  Miss  J.  J.  Boudinot,  of  Bernardsville,  New  Jersey,  and  which  was  exhibited  in  the 
Loan  Exhibition  of  1889  (No.  70).  The  same  owner  has  also  a  portrait  of  Mrs.  Hlias 
Boudinot,  painted  by  C.  W.  Peale  in  1784,  and  is  a  companion  portrait  to  one  of  Elias  Bou- 
dinot by  the  same  artist.  This  portrait  was  likewise  exhibited  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  of  1889 
(No.  69).  Mrs.  Boudinot  is  represented  in  the  Peale  portrait  as  holding  in  her  hands  a  copy 
of  Thomson's  "  Seasons."  The  page  is  open  at  the  poem  on  "  Winter,"  beginning  with  these 
lines : 1 

"  Tis  done;  dread  Winter  spreads  his  latest  glooms 
And  reigns  tremendous  o'er  the  conquered  year. 
How  dead  the  vegetable  kingdom  lies! 
How  dumb  the  tuneful !    Horror  wide  extends 
His  desolate  domain.    Behold,  fond  man  ! 
See  here  thy  pictured  life ;  pass  some  few  years — 
Thy  flowering  spring,  thy  summer's  ardent  strength, 
Thy  sober  autumn  fading  into  age, 
And  pale  concluding  winter  comes  at  last 
And  shuts  the  scene." 

Bourne,  Benjamin. — There  is  no  portrait  or  miniature  of  Benjamin  Bourne,  member 
from  Rhode  Island  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution.  The  only  likeness  in 
existence  is  the  silhouette  in  the  possession  of  his  granddaughter,  Mrs.  James  De  Wolf 
Perry,  of  Bristol,  Rhode  Island. 

Brown,  John. — Regarding  the  oil-miniature  painted  by  John  Trumbull  in  1792  of  John 
Brown,  member  from  Virginia  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  which  repre- 
sents him  with  powdered  hair,  Mrs.  William  F.  Barret,  of  Frankfort,  Kentucky,  a  grand- 
daughter, says :  "  I  have  heard  my  mother  say  they  dressed  with  great  care,  and  never 
appeared  in  the  Senate  without  powdered  hair,  ruffles,  etc."  The  colored  crayon  of  John 
Brown  by  James  Sharpless,  which  belongs  to  Mrs.  William  T.  Scott,  a  granddaughter,  of 
Frankfort,  Kentucky,  also  shows  ruffles  and  powdered  hair,  and  must  have  been  painted 
soon  after  Sharpless's  arrival  in  this  country  in  1 798.  Mrs.  Barret  says :  "  The  Sharpless 
crayon  of  John  Brown  is  colored.  The  coat  is  blue.  As  it  is  a  profile  likeness,  the  vest 
does  not  show.  Ruffles  and  cravat  are  of  white  lawn,  and  the  hair  is  powdered  and  tied 
in  a  queue.  The  flesh-tints  are  remarkably  beautiful  and  perfectly  fresh."  Mrs.  Barret's 
sister-in-law,  the  widow  of  the  late  John  Mason  Brown,  of  Louisville,  Kentucky,  writes 
regarding  the  miniature  of  John  Brown,  which  she  owns  :  "  I  have  a  miniature  of  him 
taken  at  the  time  of  his  marriage  with  Margaretta  Mason,  of  New  York,  the  daughter 
of  John  Mason,  and  sister  of  John  M.  Mason,  well-known  divines  of  that  place."  The 
only  other  original  portraits  besides  the  engravings  on  copper  of  John  Brown,  made  by 
St.  Memin  in  1808,  and  owned  by  the  Corcoran  Gallery  of  Art,  Washington,  and  by  Ed- 


1  Miss  J.  J.  Boudinot. 


432       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


ward  Dexter,  of  New  York,  are  the  two  painted  by  Matthew  Harris  Jouett,  which  hang  in 
the  old  homestead  in  Frankfort,  which  John  Brown  built  in  1 795,  and  which  is  now  owned 
by  his  granddaughter,  Mrs.  Scott ;  one  of  the  portraits  being  the  property  of  Colonel 
Orlando  Brown,  of  Frankfort,  a  grandson,  and  the  other  belonging  to  the  widow  of  another 
grandson,  the  late  Colonel  John  Mason  Brown.  Of  these  two  portraits  by  Jouett,  the  one 
belonging  to  Colonel  Orlando  Brown  was  painted  ten  years  later  than  the  other  por- 
trait.1 Although  John  Brown  lived  to  be  eighty  years  old,  the  Jouett  portraits  must  have 
been  painted  before  he  was  sixty -nine,  or  before  1826,  when  the  artist  Matthew  Jouett 
died.2 

Burke,- ^Edanus. — The  only  known  portrait  of  .Edanus  Burke,  member  from  South 
Carolina  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  is  the  property  of  the  Hibernian 
Society,  Charleston,  South  Carolina.  G.  E.  Manigault,  M.  D.,  of  Charleston,  thinks  the 
portrait  may  have  been  painted  by  Charles  Willson  Peale.  Hon.  William  A.  Courtenay,  of 
Charleston,  after  examining  it,  can  not  state  authoritatively  who  painted  the  portrait. 

Butler,  Pierce. — The  only  two  portraits  in  existence  of  Pierce  Butler,  member  from 
South  Carolina  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  are  the  two  miniatures  which 
belonged  to  his  great-granddaughter,  Mrs.  Sarah  Butler  Wistar,  of  Philadelphia.  These  two 
miniatures,  unfortunately,  were  lost  a  few  years  since.  The  negatives  used  for  reproducing 
them  for  this  volume  were  taken  some  years  ago,  and  were  found  in  the  possession  of  a 
photographer  in  Philadelphia.  One  of  the  miniatures  represents  Pierce  Butler  in  uniform 
as  a  very  young  man  ;  the  other  is  a  man  of  forty,  and  in  a  gray  laced  coat  and  powdered 
hair.  Both  were  delicately  painted,  but  the  last  named  was  much  the  better  of  the  two. 
The  name  of  the  artist  is  unknown.  Mrs.  Wistar  says  : 3  "  I  did  not  know  of  the  existence 
of  the  miniatures  until  eight  years  ago,  when  my  father's  cousin,  Mr.  Louis  Butler,  who 
lived  in  France  from  the  time  he  was  eighteen  years  old  until  last  May,  when  he  died,  aged 
seventy-three,  told  me  of  them  and  gave  them  to  me.  He  was  the  last  of  our  name  in 
that  branch  of  the  family,  and  was  the  last  surviving  chdd  of  Major  Pierce  Butler's  only 
son.  Mr.  Louis  Butler  told  me  that  the  miniatures  had  come  to  him  from  his  father.  My 
father,  the  late  Mr.  Pierce  Butler,  of  Philadelphia,  told  me  that  there  had  been  an  oil- 
portrait  of  his  grandfather  which  he  had  last  seen  with  a  broom-handle  through  it  in  a 
lumber-room  of  the  family  house  at  the  corner  of  Eighth  and  Chestnut  Streets,  the  site 
now  occupied  by  the  Sharpless  dry-goods  shop." 


1  Mrs.  Barret. 

'"Matthew  Jouett,  a  humorous,  tasteful  man,  was  the  best  portrait-painter  for  many  years  'west  of  the  mountains'; 
he  was  a  native  of  Fayette  County,  Kentucky,  and  was  educated  for  the  bar;  he  was  a  favorite  pupil  of  Stuart's,  in  Boston, 
in  1 8 1 7,  and  practiced  his  art  successfully  in  his  native  State,  at  New  Orleans,  Natchez,  and  other  places  in  the  Southwest; 
and  died  at  the  age  of  forty-three,  at  Lexington,  Kentucky,  in  1826." — (Tuckerman's  "Book  of  the  Artists,"  p.  68.) 

"November  19,  1890. 


NOTES  OX  PORTRAITS. 


Cadwalader,  Lambert. — Of  the  two  known  portraits  of  Lambert  Cadwalader,  mem- 
ber from  New  Jersey  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  one,  by  C.  W.  Pealc, 
is  owned  by  a  great-gran dnephew,  Dr.  Charles  E.  Cadwalader,  Philadelphia,  and  was  exhib- 
ited in  the  Exhibition  of  Historical  Portraits  in  Philadelphia  in  1887.  An  etching  of  this 
portrait  was  made  in  187 1  by  H.  B.  Hall  for  some  Philadelphia  gentlemen.  The  other  por- 
trait of  Cadwalader,  owned  by  his  grandson,  John  L.  Cadwalader,  of  New  York,  was  exhib- 
ited in  the  Loan  Exhibition  of  Historical  Portraits  in  Philadelphia  in  1887,  and  is  cred- 
ited in  the  catalogue  (No.  74)  to  Gilbert  Stuart.  This  portrait  was  also  exhibited  in  the 
Loan  Exhibition  in  New  York  in  1889  (No.  75),  and  is  there  attributed  to  the  artist, 
Thomas  Sully.  John  L.  Cadwalader  states  that  family  tradition  has  always  ascribed  this 
portrait  to  Gilbert  Stuart.  The  portrait  is  also  mentioned  as  a  Stuart  in  the  catalogue  of 
the  exhibition  (page  30)  of  portraits  by  Gilbert  Stuart,  held  in  Boston  in  1880,  and  in 
Mason's  "Life  and  Works  of  Gilbert  Stuart"  (page  154).  Charles  Henry  Hart  says  that 
the  last-named  portrait  was  not  painted  by  Stuart,  but  is  a  very  fine  example  of  Sully's  early 
work. 

Carroll,  Charles. — The  portrait  which  Robert  Field  painted  of  Charles  Carroll  of 
Carrollton,  member  from  Maryland  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  was 
engraved  by  J.  B.  Longacre  for  John  Sanderson's  "  Biography  of  the  Signers  of  the  Declara- 
tion of  Independence." 1  As  the  above-mentioned  engraving  from  the  Field  portrait  of 
Carroll  was  made  during  Carroll's  lifetime,  the  portrait  itself  must  have  been  considered 
an  excellent  likeness.  Field  was  a  superb  miniature-painter,  and,  according  to  Dunlap, 
"painted  more  in  Boston,  Philadelphia,  and  Baltimore  than  in  New  York." 2  The  Field 
portrait  of  Charles  Carroll  is  in  Baltimore  in  the  house  of  the  owners,  Charles  Carroll  Mac- 
tavish  and  Yirginia  Scott  Mactavish,  great-great-grandchildren  of  Charles  Carroll  of  Carrollton. 
A  copy  of  the  Field  portrait,  by  Michael  Latty,  was  presented  to  the  Maryland  Historical 
Society  by  the  grandmother  of  the  owners  of  the  original  and  a  granddaughter  of  Charles  Car- 
roll, Mrs.  John  Mactavish.  This  copy  by  Latty3  was  engraved  on  steel  in  1876  for  the  "Jour- 
nal of  Charles  Carroll  of  Carrollton,"  published  by  the  Maryland  Historical  Society.  The 
portrait  of  Charles  Carroll  by  Chester  Harding,  also  owned  by  Charles  Carroll's  great-great- 
grandchildren, Charles  Carroll  Mactavish  and  Yirginia  Scott  Mactavish,  was  engraved  by  W. 
H.  Mote,  and  also  by  Durand  for  the  "  National  Portrait  Gallery  of  Distinguished  Americans," 
vol.  i.4    The  Harding  portrait  was  painted  in  1828,  as  Charles  Henry  Hart,  of  Philadelphia, 


1  Philadelphia,  1820.  vol.  vii,  p.  239. 

■  "  History  of  the  Arts  of  Design,'*  vol  i.  p.  430. 

*  Michael  Latty  was  born  in  Baltimore  in  January.  1826.  and  died  February  13,  1848.  F.  B.  Mayer,  of  Annapolis,  Mary- 
land, says :  "  His  work  gave  promise  of  great  ability  in  portraiture,  as  he  possessed  both  talent  and  industry." 

4  This  engraving  is  thus  described  by  Horatio  Greenough  in  a  letter  to  Washington  Allston  :  "  Durand's  engraving  after 
our  portrait  of  Charles  Carroll,  which  he  showed  in  a  coffee-house  at  Florence,  quite  astonished  the  Italians;  they  would 
hardly  believe  that  it  was  executed  by  an  American." — (Dunlap's  "  History  of  the  Arts  of  Design."  vol.  ii,  p.  289.) 
56 


434       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 

has  a  letter  of  Chester  Harding  dated  May' 30,  1828,  in  which  the  artist  says  he  has  just  fin- 
ished a  portrait  of  Carroll,  and  asks  Durand  to  engrave  it.1    William  J.  Hubard,  who  painted 
a  portrait  of  Charles  Carroll,  was  a  portrait-painter  in  Baltimore,  who  had  the  advice  of 
Sully.-'    The  Hubard  portrait  is  the  property  of  Mrs.  Mary  C.  Acosta,  a  great-granddaugh- 
ter of  Charles  Carroll,  and  is  deposited  in  the  Maryland  Historical  Society.     The  late 
Hon.  John  H.  B.  Latrobe,  of  Baltimore,  the  biographer  of  Carroll,  says  of  this  portrait: 
"  Madame  Acosta's  is  an  admirable,  speaking,  and   most    characteristic  likeness  of  Mr. 
Carroll  by  William  J.  Hubard,  painted,  I  think,  about  1827  or  1828,  a  little  while  before  he 
painted  my  own  portrait  in   1832.     Indeed,  I  knew  the  artist  so  well  while  he  was  in 
Baltimore,  and  was  so  familiar  in  Mr.  Carroll's  family  at  the  time,  that  the  probability  is 
that  I   must  have  seen  the  work  while  it  was  in  progress."     The  family  group  which 
contains  a  portrait  of  Charles  Carroll   is  at    Doughoragan   Manor,  Maryland,  the  resi- 
dence of  Governor  John  Lee  Carroll,  a  great-grandson,  who  says  that  the  heads  were 
painted  by  a  special  artist  and  the  body  of  the  painting  by  another  artist.     The  special 
artist  referred  to  was  Robert  Edge  Pine.3    Dunlap4  says:  "Mrs.  Caton  has  the  Carroll 
family  by  Pine,  painted  at  Annapolis,  in  which  full  lengths  of  Charles  Carroll  of  Carroll- 
ton,  his  son  Charles,  herself,  and  her  sister,  Mrs.  Harper,  are  painted."     The  Mrs.  Harper 
referred  to  is  Mrs.  Robert  G.  Harper,  the  mother  of  Miss  Emily  L.  Harper,  who  is  still 
living  in  Baltimore.    Mrs.  Harper,  in  the  large  painting,  is  represented  as  sitting  near  the 
feet  of  her  oldest  sister,  Mrs.  Caton,5  the  mother  of  Lady  Wellesley,  Duchess  of  Leeds, 
and  of  Lady  Stafford.    Mrs.  Caton  stands  next  to  her  mother,  Mrs.  Charles  Carroll,  whose 
portrait  is  at  the  extreme  left.    In  the  center  of  the  painting  is  Charles  Carroll,  saying 
good-by  to  his  young  son,  Charles  Carroll,  as  the  latter  is  starting  from  Annapolis  for 
Prance  to  enter  college.     Beyond  the  portrait  of  the  son  is  a  picture  of  one  of  the 
sailors,  who  is  pointing  to  the  vessel  in  the  harbor  upon  which  young  Carroll  is  about 
to  embark.    Near  the  portrait  of  Mrs.  Caton  are  two  black  boys,  children  of  the  family 
servants.     Charles  Carroll's  portrait,  by  Sir  Joshua  Reynolds  was  painted   about  1760, 
when  Carroll  was  a  young  man  in  England.0    The  late  Hon.  John   H.  B.  Latrobe,  the 
only  one  living  as  late  as   1891   who  was  on  terms  of  intimacy  with  Charles  Carroll, 
wrote  the  following  letters 7  regarding  this  portrait,  the  first  of  which  is  as  follows :  "  The 


1  Harding  was  in  Baltimore  in  May  of  1828. — ("  A  Sketch  of  Chester  Harding,  Artist,"  edited  by  his  daughter,  Margaret 
E.  White,  p.  182.) 

■  Dunlap's  "  History  of  the  Arts  of  Design,"  vol.  ii,  p.  447. 

3  Tuckerman's  "  Book  of  the  Artists,"  p.  46. 

4  Dunlap's  "  History  of  the  Arts  of  Design,"  vol.  i,  p.  319. 

*  Portraits  of  Carroll's  two  daughters  appear  in  Trumbull's  painting,  "  Washington  resigning  his  Commission,"  owned 
by  Yale  University,  a  replica  of  which  is  in  the  Rotunda  of  the  Capitol  at  Washington. 

'  Carroll  was  in  England  from  the  time  he  was  twenty  until  he  was  twenty-seven  years  old  (1757-1764).  The  portrait 
suggests  the  age  of  the  subject  as  about  twenty-five  years. — (Mendes  Cohen,  Corresponding  Secretary  of  the  Maryland  His- 
torical Society.) 

1  The  first  letter  was  written  from  Baltimore,  February  6,  and  the  second  letter  from  Saratoga  Springs,  New  York, 


NOTES  ON  PORTRAITS. 


435 


Sir  Joshua  Reynolds,  to  which  I  referred  as  having  been  seen  by  me  at  the  '  Manor,'  has 
been  found,  where  it  has  been  for  many  years,  on  the  walls  of  the  Historical  Society. 
I  recognized  it  the  moment  I  laid  my  eyes  on  it,  as  though  1  had  seen  it  yester- 
day. My  very  decided  impression  is  that  Mr.  Carroll  himself  spoke  of  it  as  the  work  of 
the  great  artist,  apart  from  its  being  spoken  of  as  such  in  the  family.  Besides  which,  it 
speaks  for  itself.  It  was  evidently  painted  when  the  artist  used  the  colors  that  faded,  as 
was  the  case,  as  we  are  told,  at  one  time  in  his  career.  Familiar  as  I  was  with  Mr.  Carroll 
for  about  ten  years  before  his  death,  I  repeat  that  nothing  can  be  more  certain  than  that 
this  is  the  portrait  by  Sir  Joshua."  The  second  letter  says  :  "In  regard  to  the  portrait  of 
Charles  Carroll  of  Carrollton  by  Sir  Joshua  Reynolds,  I  have  not  the  smallest  doubt  that 
the  original  portrait  is  now  in  possession  of  the  Maryland  Historical  Society,  being  the 
same  which  hung  in  the  dining-room  of  Mr.  Carroll  at  the  Manor,  where  I  saw  it  in  one 
of  my  frequent  visits,  and  where  it  was  recognized  by  Mr.  Carroll  as  the  work  of  Sir  Joshua 
Reynolds.  I  remember  also  that  Mr.  Carroll  himself  attributed  the  faded  character  of  the 
picture  to  the  colors  which  the  artist  at  one  time  was  in  the  habit  of  using."  Dunlap 
also  speaks  as  follows  regarding  the  Carroll  portrait  by  Sir  Joshua  Reynolds  : 1  "  Portraits  by 
Sir  Joshua  Reynolds  have  occasionally  reached  our  shores.  Mr.  Gilmor2  mentions  'a  por- 
trait of  old  Mr.  Carroll  by  Reynolds,  painted  when  he  was  in  England ;  but  it  is  much 
faded.'"  Although  Leslie  and  Taylor's  "Life  of  Sir  Joshua  Reynolds"  says  nothing  of 
this  portrait,  it  is  beyond  doubt  an  original.  The  original  crayon  drawing  of  Charles  Car- 
roll which  was  made  by  St.  Memin  in  1804  belongs  to  his  granddaughter,  Miss  Emily  L. 
Harper,  of  Baltimore,  Maryland,  a  daughter  of  General  Robert  Goodloe  Harper  and  Cath- 
arine Carroll.  Engravings  on  copper  by  St.  Memin,  made  at  the  same  time,  are  owned  by 
the  Corcoran  Gallery  of  Art,  Washington,  and  by  Edward  Dexter,  of  New  York.  The  bust 
portrait  of  Carroll  in  the  Boston  Museum  resembles  the  St.  Memin  crayon,  but  Charles 
Henry  Hart  says :  "  It  is  too  good  a  picture  to  be  as  poor  a  copy  as  it  would  be  if  taken  from 
the  St.  Memin.  It  appears  to  me  to  be  a  much  older  face,  too."  It  may  be  the  portrait  of 
Carroll  painted  by  Rembrandt  Peale  which  was  sold  at  the  Peale  sale  in  Philadelphia  in  1854. 
Of  the  portraits  of  Charles  Carroll  by  Thomas  Sully,  one  is  in  the  State-House  at  Annapolis, 
Maryland;  another  is  in  the  possession  of  Charles  Carroll's  great-great-grandchildren,  Charles 
Carroll  Mactavish  and  Virginia  Scott  Mactavish;  and  a  third  is  in  the  possession  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Historical  Society.3  The  last-named  portrait,  or,  as  Miss  Sully  writes,  "the  design  for 
the  picture  of  Charles  Carroll,  was  given  to  Governor  Swann  by  Sully."    This  was  the  portrait 


August  20,  1891,  a  few  weeks  before  Mr.  Latrobe's  death.  Mr.  Latrobe  wrote  many  other  letters  regarding  Carroll's  por- 
traits. 

1  Dunlap's  "  History  of  the  Arts  of  Design,"  vol.  it,  p.  459. 

1  Robert  Gilmor.  of  Baltimore,  who  owned  a  collection  of  pictures,  the  list  of  some  of  them  being  given  by  Dunlap. — 
(Dunlap's  "  History  of  the  Arts  of  Design,"  vol.  ii,  pp.  459-461.) 

3  Miss  Blanche  Sully,  of  Philadelphia,  a  daughter  of  the  artist,  says  that  in  the  diary  of  Sully  the  following  entry  is 
made,  showing  the  dates  in  which  the  portraits  were  finished  :  "  Charles  Carroll,  for  Marquis  cf  Wellesley,  August  21,  1827  ; 


436      THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


belonging  to  the  late  Governor  Swann,  of  Maryland,  and  was  in  his  residence  on  Franklin  Street, 
in  Baltimore,  lion.  Ferdinand  C.  Latrobe,  of  Baltimore,  a  son-in-law  of  Governor  Swann, 
says  that  "the  portrait  was  not  painted  by  Governor  Swann  himself,  as  has  been  asserted,  but 
by  Sully,  with  whom  Governor  Swann  was  well  acquainted  and  from  whom  he  obtained  the 
portrait.  .  .  .  As  this  portrait,"  adds  Mr.  Latrobe,  "  is  a  sketch,  it  would  not  likely  be  a  copy, 
nor  would  Governor  Swann  have,  in  purchasing  a  copy,  selected  a  sketch  to  be  copied.  The 
Governor  always  spoke  of  it,  as  I  have  said,  as  Sully's  picture."  In  settling  Governor  Svvann's 
estate  the  Sully  portrait  was  sent  to  Boston,  where  it  was  sold  at  auction  to  George  B.  Chase, 
and  by  him  presented,  on  April  15,  1886,  to  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society.1  The 
Sully  portrait  of  Carroll  in  the  State-House  at  Annapolis  was  painted  after  Charles  Carroll's 
death  by  order  of  the  General  Assembly  of  Maryland.  The  Governor  of  Maryland,  in  his 
message,  delivered  January  1,  1834,  reports  that  "  he  had  engaged  Mr.  Thomas  Sully  to  paint 
the  portrait,  who  visited  Annapolis  during  the  summer  of  1833,  to  view  the  Senate-chamber 
and  select  the  position  the  painting  was  to  occupy,  and  was  engaged  upon  the  work  which 
was  not  then  completed.3  The  painting  was  hung  in  the  Senate-chamber  during  the  latter 
part  of  1834,  or  more  probably  in  183 5." 3  The  dates  of  the  Carroll  portraits  by  C.  VV. 
Peale,  Charles  B.  King,  and  John  Trumbull  are  unknown.  The  Sully  portrait  of  Carroll  is 
so  similar  to  the  Harding  portrait  that  it  might  be  supposed  that  Sully  copied  Harding,  or 
Harding  copied  Sully,  but  both  portraits  are  originals.  The  fact  that  they  were  painted 
within  a  year  of  one  another  makes  them  appear  almost  alike.  Edward  Savage  also  painted 
a  portrait  of  Charles  Carroll  which  appears  in  the  historical  painting,  "  Signers  of  the  Decla- 
ration of  Independence,"  owned  by  the  Boston  Museum.  A  portrait  of  Carroll  is  in  the 
Capitol  at  Washington. 

Carroll,  Mrs.  Charles,  of  Carrollton. — Besides  the  head  painted  by  R.  E.  Pine  of 
Mrs.  Charles  Carroll  of  Carrollton,  referred  to  in  the  "  Notes  on  Portraits"  of  Charles  Carroll, 
Mrs.  C.  C.  Mactavish,  of  Baltimore,  owns  a  portrait  which  is  deposited  in  the  Maryland  His- 
torical Society. 

Carroll,  Mrs.  Charles,  Jr. — (See  "  Notes  on  Portraits,"  of  Harriet  Chew.) 

Carroll,  Daniel. — In  volume  i,  page  187,  of  the  "History  of  the  Celebration  of  the 
One  Hundredth  Anniversary  of  the  Promulgation  of  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States," 
edited  by  Hampton  L.  Carson,  is  an  etching  from  a  photograph  of  a  portrait  of  Daniel  Car- 
roll, member  of  the  Constitutional  Convention.    The  photograph  from  which  this  etching 

Charles  Carroll,  for  State  of  Maryland,  January  27,  1834;  and  Charles  Carroll,  for  Mrs.  Carroll,  bust  size,  November  18, 
1827." 

1  "  Proceedings  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,"  second  series,  vol.  ii,  p.  261  ;  vol.  iii,  p.  282. 

5  The  portrait  was  finished  January  27,  1834. — (Journal  of  Thomas  Sully,  owned  by  his  daughter,  Miss  Blanche  Sully,  of 
Philadelphia. 

s  E.  W.  LeCompte,  Secretary  of  State,  Maryland. 


NOTES  ON  PORTRAITS. 


437 


was  made  is  from  a  portrait  in  the  possession  of  Miss  Emily  L.  Harper,  of  Baltimore, 
Maryland,  but  the  portrait  in  question  is  not  a  portrait  of  Daniel  Carroll  who  was  a 
member  of  Congress  in  1789,  and  who  was  born  in  1756.  It  is  the  portrait  of 
Daniel  Carroll  who  was  born 
July  22,  1730,  the  brother  of  Arch- 
bishop John  Carroll  and  an  own 
cousin  of  Charles  Carroll  of  Car- 
rollton,  and  the  son  of  "  Daniel 
Carroll,  of  Dudington  Manor,  Prince 
George's  County  "  (so  designated  in 
the  will),  and  Eleanor  Darnall. 
The  portrait  of  Daniel  Carroll 
which  is  owned  by  Miss  Harper 
was  bought  by  her  about  1867  from 
Judge  Williamson  Carroll,  of  Little 
Rock,  Arkansas,  who  had  inherited 
the  same.  It  is  not,  however,  a 
portrait  of  Daniel  Carroll,  member 
of  the  Constitutional  Convention 
and  member  of  the  First  Congress 
under  the  Constitution.  The  mis- 
take is  owing  to  several  bearing  the 
name  of  Daniel  Carroll.  A  most 
thorough  search  has  failed  to  find 
a  portrait  of  Daniel  Carroll,  mem- 
ber of  Congress  from  Maryland  in  daniel  Carroll.1 

Brother  of  Archbishop  John  Carroll,  and  first  cousin  of  Charles  Carroll  of  Carrollton. 
I  789-  From  a  portrait  owned  by  Miss  Emily  L.  Harper,  Baltimore,  Maryland. 


Chew,  Harriet. — John  Trumbull  painted  in  1793,  at  the  age  of  eighteen,  a  portrait, 
owned  by  Yale  University,  of  Harriet  Chew,  a  daughter  of  Chief-Justice  Benjamin  Chew, 
of  Pennsylvania.  She  was  born  October  22,  1775,  and  in  1799  married  Charles  Carroll, 
only  son  of  Charles  Carroll  of  Carrollton.  This  miniature  is  reproduced,  with  some  changes 
which  the  engraver  took  the  liberty  of  making,  in  Griswold's  "  Republican  Court,"  page 
411.    Gilbert  Stuart  also  painted  a  portrait  of  Harriet  Chew.3 

Chew,  Sophia. — John  Trumbull  painted  in  1793  a  miniature,  owned  by  Yale  Univer- 
sity, of  Sophia  Chew,  at  the  age  of  twenty-four.    Sophia  Chew  was  born  May   13,  1769, 


1  Not  the  Daniel  Carroll  who  was  Member  of  Congress  in  1789,  and  who  was  born  in  1756  and  died  in  1849. 
'  Mason's  *' Life  and  Works  of  Gilbert  Stuart,"  p.  158. 


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and  was  the  daughter  of  Chief-Justice  Benjamin  Chew,  of  Pennsylvania,  by  his  second  wife, 
Elizabeth  Oswald.    Sophia  Chew  married  Henry  Phillips. 

Chrystie,  Major  James. — A  portrait  of  Major  James  Chrystie,  who  was  one  of  the 
military  officers  at  Washington's  inauguration,  was  painted  by  the  Scotch  artist,  Sir  Henry 
Raeburn,  and  is  owned  by  a  grandson,  William  Few  Chrystie,  Hastings-on-Hudson,  New 
York.  Mr.  Chrystie  inherited  the  portrait  from  his  father,  Albert  Chrystie,  who  was  a  son 
of  Major  Chrystie.  Major  Chrystie  is  represented  in  the  portrait  as  wearing  the  badge  of 
the  "  Society  of  the  Cincinnati."  An  artotype  of  this  portrait,  by  Edward  Bierstadt, 
appears  in  John  Schuyler's  "Society  of  the  Cincinnati,"  page  171. 

Clarkson,  Major  Matthew. — The  portrait  of  Major  (afterward  General)  Matthew 
Clarkson,1  which  Gilbert  Stuart  painted  in  1793-94,  when  Clarkson  was  thirty-five  years 
old,  is  now  owned  by  his  grandson,  Matthew  Clarkson,  of  New  York.  Clarkson  is  repre- 
sented in  the  portrait  as  wearing  the  badge  of  the  "  Society  of  the  Cincinnati."  A  steel 
engraving  of  this  portrait  appears  in  John  Schuyler's  "The  Society  of  the  Cincinnati  in 
New  York."2  Several  copies  have  been  made  of  the  Stuart  portrait — "one  by  Mrs.  Peter 
A.  Jay,  a  daughter  of  General  Clarkson,  and  an  amateur,  and  owned  by  Miss  E.  C.  Jay; 
one  by  Frothingham,  in  the  possession  of  Mr.  John  Clarkson  Jay;  and  one  by  Waldo, 
owned  by  Mrs.  Henry  E.  Pierrepont,  of  Brooklyn.  The  head  of  Clarkson,  in  Trumbull's 
historical  picture,  'Surrender  of  Burgoyne,'  owned  by  Yale  University,  replica  of  which 
is  in  the  Rotunda  of  the  Capitol  at  Washington,  was  copied  from  the  portrait  by  Stuart." 3 
Mrs.  Matthew  Clarkson,  the  wife  of  the  owner  of  the  Stuart  portrait,  owns  a  miniature  of 
Matthew  Clarkson  in  a  major's  uniform,  painted  about  the  year  1777,  presumably  by  one 
of  the  many  French  artists  who  visited  this  country  during  the  period  of  the  Revolution. 
There  are  also  several  portraits  of  Matthew  Clarkson  in  citizen's  dress,  taken  at  about  the 
age  of  sixty,  by  Samuel  L.  Waldo.  These  portraits  are  in  the  possession  of  different 
members  of  the  family.  The  portrait  in  the  New  York  Hospital  is  a  copy  of  the  Waldo 
portrait.1 

Clinton,  George. — Colonel  John  Trumbull  painted  in  1  791  a  portrait  of  George  Clin- 
ton, Governor  of  New  York,  which  is  owned  by  the  city  of  New  York,  and  depos- 
ited  in  the  Governor's   Room,   City-Hall    (Loan   Exhibition,   1889,  No.  78).5  Trum- 


1  De  Witt  Clinton,  in  a  memorial  ncklress,  said  of  Major  Clarkson  :  *'  During  the  Revolutionary  War,  Clarkson  was  a  gallant 
officer  in  the  American  army,  and  after  its  conclusion  held  high  and  confidential  offices,  which  he  filled  with  fidelity  and  ability. 
Hut  the  last  years  of  his  life  were  principaliy  devoted  to  the  promotion  of  those  institutions  which  reflect  so  much  honor  on  the 
religion,  the  education,  and  the  benevolence  of  his  country." 

1  (Page  173,  printed  in  1886  for  private  distribution.) 

3  Mason's  "Life  and  Works  of  Gilbert  Stuart,"  p.  159. 

4  Matthew  Clarkson,  grandson,  New  York. 
*  See  p.  7. 


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439 


bull  says  of  this  portrait:1  "I  painted  for  the  corporation  the  whole-length  portrait 
of  General  George  Clinton,  which  is  now  in  the  Common  Council  room  of  the  City- 
Hall.  The  background  of  this  picture  represents  British  troops  storming  Fort  Mont- 
gomery in  the  Highlands  (where  the  general  commanded),  and  the  burning  of  two 
frigates  in  the  North  River;  this  background  is  one  of  my  favorite  compositions."  In 
1804  Colonel  Trumbull  put  this  portrait  in  order.'-  Ezra  Ames3  also  painted  a  por- 
trait of  Governor  George  Clinton,  which  is  owned  by  the  State  of  New  York,  and  depos- 
ited in  the  Executive  Chamber  of  the  Capitol  at  Albany.  Another  portrait  of  Clinton, 
by  Ames,  was  exhibited  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  of  1889  (No.  77),  and  is  owned  by 
Alexander  M.  White,  of  Brooklyn,  New  York.4  Mr.  White  says:  "  I  find  upon  the  original 
frame  on  which  the  canvas  is  stretched,  though  now  quite  dim,  written,  '  George  Clinton, 
Yice-President  of  the  United  States,  by  Ames.'  This  picture  was  bought  bv  my  brother 
at  the  sale  of  the  pictures  at  Peale's  Museum,  many  years  ago.  It  was  sold  as  painted 
by  Ames."  Ezra  Ames  also  painted  a  third  portrait  of  Governor  Clinton,  which  was  pre- 
sented by  George  Clinton  Tallmadge  to  the  New  York  Historical  Society,  which  now  owns 
it.5  Ames  exhibited  one  of  his  portraits  of  Governor  Clinton  at  the  Pennsylvania  Acad- 
emy of  Fine  Arts  in  181 2.6  Engravings  of  the  Ames  portrait  were  made  by  P.  Maverick 
for  Delaplaine's  "Repository"  in  1818,  by  J.  B.  Forest,  for  Irving's  "  Life  of  Washington," 7 
and  for  Allen  C.  Beach's  "Centennial  Celebration  of  the  State  of  New  York."8  Joseph 
Wright  painted  a  portrait  of  Governor  George  Clinton,  whicli  was  exhibited  in  the  Loan 
Exhibition  of  1889  (No.  79),  and  is  owned  by  Gordon  L.  Ford,  of  Brooklyn,  New  York. 
An  engraving  of  this  portrait  was  published  by  C.  &  W.  Tiebout  in  New  York  on  No- 
vember 1,  1795,  and  was  exhibited  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  in  1889  (No.  223)  by  De  Witt 
Clinton  Jones,  great-grandnephew  of  Governor  Clinton.  Mr.  Jones  also  exhibited  in  the 
Loan  Exhibition  (No.  224)  engravings  on  copper  by  St.  Memin  of  Governor  and  Mrs. 
George  Clinton.  Two  other  engravings  on  copper,  as  well  as  the  crayon-drawings  by  St. 
Memin  of  Governor  Clinton  and  wife,  are  owned  by  James  Stevenson  Yan  Cortlandt, 
Manor  House,  Croton-on-Hudson,  New  York.  A  miniature  of  George  Clinton  and  wife 
belonging  to  L.  Franklin  Genet,  of  West  Orange,  New  Jersey,  was  also  exhibited  in  the 
Loan  Exhibition  of  1889  (No.  81).    A  portrait  of  Governor  Clinton  is  reproduced  in  the 


'  "Reminiscences  of  his  Own  Times,"  by  Colonel  J.  Trumbull,  p.  166. 
a  "  Reminiscences,"  p.  245. 

3  D.  V.  R.  Johnston,  of  New  York  State  Library,  says  :  "  The  portrait  of  Clinton  was  painted  under  authority  of  chap.  203  of 
the  laws  of  181 3,  passed  April  13,  181 3.  It  was  paid  for  by  the  Comptroller  during  the  year  and  hung  in  the  Capitol  in  Decem- 
ber, 181 3."    It  is  a  replica  of  one  of  the  other  portraits  of  Clinton  by  Ames. 

*  In  the  catalogue  of  the  Loan  Exhibition  in  1889,  this  portrait  was  erroneously  attributed  to  Bass  Otis. 

*  Catalogue  No.  100,  size  forty-one  by  fifty-three  inches. 

*  Tuckerman's  "  Book  of  the  Artists,"  p.  68. 
7  Vol.  li,  p.  209. 

9  Winsor's  "  Narrative  and  Critical  History  of  America,"  vol.  vi,  p.  308. 


THE  CEXTENNIA L  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


book  entitled  "Society  of  the  Cincinnati  in  New  York,"  by  John  Schuyler,  Secretary  of  the 


James  Stevenson  Van  Cortlandt.  The  miniature  was  given  by  Governor  Clinton  to  his 
son-in-law,  Pierre  Van  Cortlandt,  whose  first  wife  was  Catharine,  the  eldest  child  of  Gov- 
ernor Clinton.  Another  portrait  of  Clinton  is  in  the  State  Library,  Albany,  New  York.  A 
bust  of  Governor  Clinton,  by  Guiseppe  Ceracchi,2  is  owned  by  the  New  York  Historical 
Society.3 

Clinton,  Mrs.  George  (born  Cornelia  Tappan). — See  "  Notes  on  Portraits"  of  George 
Clinton. 

Clymer,  George. — The  portrait  of  George  Clymer,  member  from  Pennsylvania  of  the 
First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  by  C.  W.  Peale,  was  painted  for  Dr.  Caspar  Wistar, 
of  Philadelphia,  and  passed  from  Dr.  Wistar  into  the  possession  of  George  Clymer's  grand- 
son, the  late  Dr.  George  Clymer,  surgeon  in  the  United  States  Navy,  and  is  now  owned 
by  the  latter's  widow.  A  portrait  of  Clymer,  also  by  C.  VV.  Peale,  is  owned  by  the  Penn- 
sylvania Academy  of  the  Fine  Arts,  of  which  Clymer  was  one  of  the  founders  and  the  first 
president  in  1805.  A  copy  of  the  above  by  E.  D.  Marchant  is  in  Independence  Hall.4  Ben- 
jamin Trott  painted  from  life  a  miniature  of  George  Clymer,  which  is  now  owned  by  Clymer's 
great-granddaughters,  Mrs.  Guglielmo  Grant,  Rome,  Italy,  and  La  Comtesse  de  Bryas,  Paris, 
France.  It  is  similar  to  the  two  portraits  by  Peale.  Engravings  of  the  miniature  were 
made  by  J.  B.  Longacre  for  Sanderson's  "  Signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence,"  and 
by  John  Sartain.  Edward  Savage  and  John  Trumbull  also  painted  George  Clymer  in  the 
paintings  entitled  "  Signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence,"  the  first  of  which  is 
owned  by  the  Boston  Museum  and  the  other  by  Yale  University.  A  replica  of  the  last 
named  is  in  the  national  Capitol  at  Washington. 

Coles,  Isaac. — The  only  two  known  portraits  of  Isaac  Cole's,  member  from  Virginia 
of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  are  a  miniature  painted  by  James  Peale  in 


of  "  Coles  Hill,"  Sonans,  Virginia,  a  great-granddaughter  of  Isaac  Coles,  says  of  the 
first-named  of  the  two  miniatures :  "  The  hair  being  powdered  gives  him  the  appearance 


1  Page  177. 

'  See  p.  206. 

3  Catalogue  No.  13. 

1  Etting's  "Independence  Hall,"  p.  176. 


New  York  State  Society,1  the  original  of  which,  a  miniature  by  John  Ramage,  is  owned  by 


1793,  which  is  owned  by  his  granddaughter,  Miss  Helen 
C.  Coles,  Sonans,  Pittsylvania  County,  Virginia,  and  an- 
other miniature  representing  him  at  an  older  period  of 
his  life,  owned  by  his  granddaughter,  Mrs.  Mary  Coles 
McClelland,  of  Roanoke,  Virginia.    Miss  Agnes  Coles, 


XOTES  ON  PORTRAITS. 


44 1 


of  being  a  much  older  man  than  he  was  at  that  time.  There  is  one  other  miniature 
of  him  in  existence  of  a  much  later  date  than  the  first."  The  last-named  miniature  may 
have  been  painted  by  C.  W.  Peale,  but  in  all  probability  it  was  painted  by  John  Ramage, 
who  painted  Mrs.  Isaac  Coles  and  her  brother-in-law  and  sister,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Elbridgc 
Gerry. 

Coles,  Mrs.  Isaac. — The  only  known  portrait  of  Mrs.  Isaac  Coles,  sister  of  Mrs. 
Elbridge  Gerry,  is  the  miniature  by  John  Ramage,  in  the  possession  of  Mrs.  Coles's 
granddaughter,  Miss  Mary  Coles  Whittle,  of  Chatham,  Pittsylvania  County,  Virginia.1  The 
miniature  was  probably  painted  in  1 789,  when  Mrs.  Coles  was  twenty-one  years  old,  or 
just  before  her  marriage,  which  took  place  in  January  of  1790.  The  delicate  work  of 
Ramage  in  painting  hair,  as  seen  in  this  miniature  and  in  the  miniatures  of  Mrs.  Gerry 
and  Mrs.  Few,  is  especially  noticeable. 

Coxtee,  Benjamin. — The  only  known  original  portrait  of  Benjamin  Contee,  member 
from  Maryland  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  is  the  miniature  in  the 
possession  of  a  great-grandson,  Philip  A.  L.  Contee,  of  Wayside,  Charles  County,  Maryland, 
who  believes  that  it  was  painted  in  France,  artist  unknown. 

Cusns,  Eleanor. — Besides  the  oil-miniature  of  Eleanor  Custis  (Mrs.  Lawrance  Lewis), 
which  Trumbull  painted  in  1792,  and  which  is  owned  by  Yale  University,  there  is  a  por 
trait  by  Gilbert  Stuart,  which  is  owned  by  her  grandson,  Edward  Parke  Custis  Lewis,  of 
Hoboken,  New  Jersey,  and  which  was  exhibited  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  in  1889  (No. 
142).  This  portrait  was  formerly  at  "  Audley,"  Berryville,  Clark  County,  Virginia,  once  the 
residence  of  the  widow  of  a  son  of  Eleanor  Custis,2  and  now  occupied  by  H.  L.  D.  Lewis 
a  great-grandson  of  Colonel  Fielding  Lewis,  and  his  wife,  Elizabeth  Washington,  sister  of 
George  Washington.  There  are  two  copies  of  the  Stuart  portrait  of  Nellie  Custis :  one 
owned  by  General  G.  W.  C.  Lee,  of  Lexington,  Virginia,  which  was  reproduced  in  the 
"Century  Magazine"  for  April,  1889;  ar*d  another  copy  is  owned  by  Mrs.  Colonel  B.  A. 
Stevens,  a  niece  of  the  owner  of  the  original  portrait.  Another  original  portrait  of  Eleanor 
Custis  is  a  pastel,  seven  by  nine  inches,  which  was  painted  by  James  Sharpless,  and  is  now 
owned  by  Prof.  R.  B.  Winder,  M.  D.,  D.  D.  S.,  of  Baltimore,  Maryland,  and  was  also  exhib- 
ited in  the  Loan  Exhibition  in  1889  (No.  143). 3    A  medallion  painted  in  1789,  when  she 


1  Mrs.  Isaac  Coles  (born  Catharine  Thompson)  and  Mrs.  Elbridge  Gerry  (bom  Ann  Thompson)  were  the  daughters 
of  James  Thompson,  who  was  born  in  Ireland,  November  18,  1728,  and  died  in  New  York  in  1812.  On  April  21,  1753, 
James  Thompson  married  Catharine  Walton,  who  was  born  in  New  York,  June  4,  1729,  and  died  January  26,  1807. 

'  Mason's  "  Life  and  Works  of  Gilbert  Stuart,"  p.  214. 

3  Prof.  Winder  writes  :  "  The  Sharpless  collection  of  crayons,  quite  a  number  of  which  hang  in  Independence  Hall, 
Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  and  were  purchased  of  me,  came  into  my  possession  by  inheritance  through  my  father,  Nathaniel 
James  Winder,  from  my  uncle,  Levin  Yardly  (sometimes  spelled  'Yeardley')  Winder,  to  whom  they  were  presented  by  the 
son  of  Sharpless,  who  spent  the  latter  years  of  his  life  at  Yardly  with  my  uncle.    This  was  our  family  homestead,  and 
57 


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was  ten  years  old,  cn  camaicu,  by  the  Marchioness  de  Brehan,  belongs  to  her  great-grand- 
niece,  Mrs.  F.  T.  Moorehead,  of  Allegheny  City,  Pennsylvania,  and  is  reproduced  in  the 
"Century  Magazine"  for  February,  1892.  A  profile  shadow-portrait  belongs  to  Mrs.  Charles 
Henry  Hart,  of  Philadelphia. 

Dalton,  Tristram. — The  portrait  of  Tristram  Dalton,  member  from  Massachusetts  of 
the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  was  painted  by  Jonathan  B.  Blackburn  soon 
after  Dalton  was  graduated  from  Harvard  College,  which  was  in  1755.  At  least  so  Mrs. 
Anna  Leonard  White  George,  of  Haverhill,  Massachusetts,  the  present  owner  of  the 
portrait  and  the  great-great-granddaughter  of  Tristram  Dalton,  was  told  in  her  younger 
days.  Mrs.  George  received  the  portrait  about  thirty  years  ago  from  Miss  Matilda  Deblois, 
of  Boston,  a  granddaughter  of  Dalton.1  There  is  a  copy  of  the  Blackburn  portrait  of 
Dalton  painted  by  J.  Lawson  and  owned  by  the  Newburyport  Public  Library,  Newbury- 
port,  Massachusetts.  Upon  the  back  of  this  portrait  are  written  the  words:  "Tristram 
Dalton,  aged  twenty.  Died  181  7,  aged  seventy-five.  Copied  from  Blackburn  portrait  1762." 
Though  Dalton  was  seventy-nine  when  he  died,  it  seems  probable  that  1 762  is  nearer  the 
date  of  the  painting  of  the  portrait  than  1755.  The  only  other  known  portrait  of  Tristram 
Dalton  is  the  oil-miniature  painted  by  Trumbull  in  1792,  and  owned  by  Yale  University, 
representing  him  at  the  age  of  fifty-four. 

Dickinson,  Philemon. — No  oil-portrait  of  General  Philemon  Dickinson,  member  from 
New  Jersey  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  is  known,  besides  that  by  Trum- 
bull in  the  picture  entitled  "  Capture  of  the  Hessians,"  owned  by  Yale  University,  a  replica 
of  which  is  in  the  Capitol  at  Washington.  The  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania  owns 
a  silhouette  of  Dickinson.  Although  the  artist,  John  Paradise,2  was  a  brother-in-law,  no 
portrait  of  Dickinson  by  Paradise  has  been  discovered. 

Duane,  James. — Of  portraits  of  James  Duane,  Mayor  of  New  York  in  1789,  one, 
painted  by  C.  W.  Peale,  belongs  to  Mayor  Duane's  great-grandson,  James  C.  Duane,  of 
Staten  Island,  New  York.  A  copy  of  this  portrait  is  owned  by  the  city  of  New  York, 
and  is  deposited  in  the  City  Hall.  Another  copy  belongs  to  Mrs.  J.  Bleecker  Miller, 
of  New  York,  a  great-granddaughter  of  Mayor  Duane.  A  portrait  of  James  Duane, 
which  belongs  to  a  great-great-granddaughter,  Mrs.  F.  B.  Austin,  of  New  York,  and  was 
exhibited  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  of  1889  (No.  89),  is  ascribed  to  John  S.  Copley;  but 


descended  to  us  through  the  original  grant  from  James  I  to  Sir  George  Yeardley,  one  of  the  early  colonial  Governors  of 
Virginia.  Sir  George  and  the  rest  of  the  family  are  buried  at  Yardly,  in  Northampton  County,  Virginia.  I  had  originally  227 
of  these  Sharpless  crayons,  but  after  the  war  was  too  poor  to  hold  on  to  them.  I  kept  the  portrait  of  Nellie  Custis  because 
the  mother  of  my  children  was  a  Miss  Custis  of  the  same  family,  and  I  have  reserved  this  on  their  account.  Nellie  Custis 
was  the  great-aunt  of  Edmund  Law  Rogers,  Esq.,  of  this  city,  who  has  so  many  of  the  Washington  and  Custis  relics." 

1  Letter  of  Mrs.  George.    Cf.  "Essex  Institute  Collections,"  vol.  xxv,  p.  12. 

5  Dunlap's  "  History  of  the  Arts  of  Design,"  vol.  ii,  p.  205. 


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443 


Charles  Henry  Hart,  of  the  Art  Committee,  is  of  the  opinion  that  Copley  did  not  paint 
this  portrait.  Rev.  D.  C.  Weston,  D.  D.,  of  New  York,  the  father  of  Mrs.  F.  B.  Austin, 
says:  "Now  as  to  the  Copley  portrait  of  James  Duane.  It  was  given  by  him  to  his  eldest 
daughter,  the  wife  of  William  North,  and  has  descended  to  her  great-granddaughter,  Mrs.  F.  B. 
Austin.  My  intimacy  with  the  North  family  began  nearly  sixty  years  ago,  since  which  time 
I  have  been  familiar  with  this  portrait,  which  was  always  known  in  the  North  family  as 
having  been  painted  by  Copley.  WTilliam  North  and  his  wife  Mary  Duane  told  their 
children  that  it  was  painted  by  Copley.  William  Augustus  Steuben  North  (their  son) 
and  his  wife  both  told  me  that  it  was  painted  by  Copley.  There  is  an  unbroken  tradi- 
tion in  General  William  North's  family  that  the  portrait  was  by  Copley.  There  can  be 
no  possibility  of  mistake  about  it.  Since  the  portrait  was  given  to  his  daughter  by  Judge 
Duane,  it  has  always  been  in  the  possession  of  ladies  and  gentlemen  of  the  highest  social 
position  and  moral  tone,  neither  of  whom  could  ever  have  had  any  conceivable  tempta- 
tion to  claim  Copley  as  the  painter  if  such  was  not  the  fact.  There  is  one  thing  I  ought 
to  mention  :  The  portrait  was  originally  in  a  square  frame.  About  forty  years  ago,  my 
wife  (the  granddaughter  of  Major  William  North)  had  it  cut  into  an  oval  shape  and 
put  into  a  new  oval  frame,  which  considerably  reduced  the  size  of  the  picture,  and  possi- 
bly made  it  less  in  keeping  with  the  time  in  which  it  was  painted.  I  liked  it  much  bet- 
ter as  I  saw  it  hanging  in  General  North's  mansion  in  Duanesburg  in  its  old  square 
frame,  and  always  regretted  the  change.  I  need  not  add  that  it  is  the  best  portrait  of 
Judge  Duane  extant,  and  is  every  way  worthy  of  the  painter."1 

Duane,  Mrs.  James. — Of  the  two  portraits  of  Mrs.  James  Duane,  the  wife  of  the 
Mayor  cf  New  York  in  1789,  one  was  painted  by  C.  W.  Peale,  and  is  owned  by  a  great- 
grandson,  James  C.  Duane,  Staten  Island,  New  York  ;  and  another  is  owned  by  her  grand- 
son, James  Duane  Featherstonhaugh,  of  Duanesburg,  New  York. 

Duer,  Lady  Kitty. — The  only  original  portrait  of  Mrs.  Colonel  William  Duer  (born 
Catharine  Alexander),  daughter  of  Lord  and  Lady  Stirling,  is  the  ivory  miniature  in  the  pos- 
session of  her  great-great-granddaughter,  Mrs.  Frances  Duer  Robinson  Davidge,  of  New  York. 
This  miniature  and  the  companion  one  of  Colonel  William  Duer  were  copied  by  Lawson, 
in  cabinet  size,  about  the  year  1841,  for  William  Betts,  of  Jamaica,  Long  Island,  a  grand- 
son of  Lady  Kitty  Duer,  and  the  paintings  are  now  in  the  possession  of  William  Betts's 
son,  the  Rev.  Beverley  R.  Betts,  of  Jamaica,  Long  Island.  In  Griswold's  "  Republican 
Court,"  at  page  27,  is  a  steel  engraving  of  Lady  Catharine  Duer  from  the  cabinet  portrait 


1  Edward  F.  de  Lancey,  Domestic  Corresponding  Secretary  of  the  New  York  Historical  Society,  says :  "  There  are  two 
original  portraits  of  Judge  Duane  preserved:  one  by  Copley,  painted  about  the  year  1773,  now  in  the  possession  of  his  great- 
granddaughter,  Mrs.  Weston,  of  Augusta,  Maine ;  the  other  painted  by  C.  W.  Peale,  about  the  close  of  the  Revolution,  now 
in  the  possession  of  his  grandson,  James  Duane,  of  Franklin  County,  and  of  which  the  one  in  the  City  Hall  of  New  York 
is  a  copy." — ("Documentary  History  of  New  York,"  vol.  iv,  1851,  p.  654.) 


444       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 

above  referred  to,  and  the  same  portrait  is  also  reproduced  in  Mrs.  Martha  J.  Lamb's 
"  History  of  the  City  of  New  York."  There  is  also  a  woodcut  of  this  cabinet-size  copy 
in  the  "Century  Magazine"  for  April,  1889. 

Duer,  Colonel  William. — There  are  two  miniatures,  by  unknown  artists,  of  Colonel 
William  Duer,  who  married  Lady  Catharine  Duer,  daughter  of  Lord  and  Lady  Stirling. 
One  of  these  miniatures  is  owned  by  Colonel  Duer's  great-grandson,  James  G.  King  Duer, 
of  New  York,  and  the  other  is  owned  by  a  granddaughter,  Miss  Catharine  Alexander 
Duer,  of  New  Brighton,  Staten  Island,  New  York,  who  inherited  the  miniature  from 
Mrs.  George  Duer  (born  Catharine  Robinson),  who  received  it  from  Mrs.  Beverley  Rob- 
inson (born  Frances  Duer),  a  daughter  of  Colonel  William  Duer.  James  G.  King  Duer 
says  of  the  miniature  of  Duer,  which  he  owns:  "The  miniature  was  sent  from  England  to 
William  Alexander  Duer  in  1834,  having  been  found  in  an  old  desk  at  the  death  of 
Theodora,  a  sister  of  Colonel  Duer.  It  must  have  been  taken  by  an  English  artist  in 
England,  when  Colonel  Duer  was  a  young  man,  as  he  never  returned  to  England  after 
his  marriage.  Who  the  artist  was  we  never  knew."  The  best  picture  of  Colonel  Duer 
was  taken  from  this  miniature,  an  oil-painting,  cabinet  size,  by  Henry  Inman.  That  is  in 
Mrs.  Henry  Hoyt's  house  at  Newport,  Rhode  Island. 

Edwards,  Pierrepont. — A  portrait  of  Pierrepont  Edwards,  who  presented  John  Adams, 
on  his  way  to  New  York  to  be  inaugurated  Vice-President,  with  the  "  diplomatic  free- 
dom"  of  the  city  of  New  Haven,  was  painted  about  the  year  1825,  by  John  W.  Jarvis, 
and  is  owned  by  Edwards's  great-grandson,  Pierrepont  Edwards,  of  Elizabeth,  New  Jersey. 
There  is  no  other  original  portrait. 

Ellsworth,  Oliver. — The  portrait  of  Oliver  Ellsworth,  member  from  Connecticut  of 
the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  and  his  wife,  was  painted  by  Ralph  Earle  in 
1792.  Earle  spent  three  months  in  Windsor  working  on  the  picture.  The  figures  of 
Ellsworth  and  his  wife,  Abigail  Wolcott,  a  descendant  of  Henry  Wolcott,  one  of  the  first 
settlers  of  Windsor,  are  represented  as  seated  in  the  room  where  Washington  sat  when  he 
visited  Oliver  Ellsworth — the  very  room  in  which  the  Father  of  his  Country  sang  "  Darby 
Ram "  to  the  little  Ellsworth  twins,  with  one  on  each  of  his  knees.  The  old  portrait 
group,  the  joint  property  of  the  heirs  of  Oliver  Ellsworth,  still  hangs  in  this  historic  room. 
The  house  that  is  seen  from  the  window  in  the  picture  represents  the  old  Ellsworth  home- 
stead at  Windsor,  with  thirteen  elm-trees  around  it,  one  for  each  State  in  the  Union. 
Ellsworth  holds  in  his  hand  a  scroll  which  is  a  copy  in  writing  of  the  Constitution  of 
the  United  States,  to  secure  the  adoption  of  which  he  worked  so  untiringly.  The  words 
"Article  VII"  are  distinctly  seen,  and  in  the  original  painting  is  noticed  some  of  the 
writing  of  Article  VII  and  Article  VIII.  Of  the  several  copies  of  the  portrait  by  Earle, 
one  is  in  the  robing-room  of  the  Justices  of  the  Supreme  Court,  in  the  Capitol  at  Wash- 


Obtained  in  Paris 

hv  James  Monroe  when  United  States  Minister,  and 
owned  bv  President  Monroe's  Grand  Niece,  Mrs. 
Douglas  Robinson,  New  York. 


Artist.  Mason  Chamberlain.  R.  A.  Owned  bv  V 
Van  deWeyer.  London,  England. 


Miniature  bv  Joseph  Sifkede  Duplessis. 
Owned  bv  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Duane  Gillespie 
Great  Granddaughter.  Philadelphia. 


i 


Artist.  Joseph  Sifrede  Duplessis.  1778.  Owned  b%  the 
Mutual  Assurance  Company.  Philadelphia.  , 


Artist,  C.  VV.  Peale.  1787  Owned  bv  the  Historical 
Society  of  Pennsylvania. 


Artist.  Robert  Fulton.  1787.  -  Ownei 
Charles  F.  Gunther.  Chicago.  Illino 


Artist.  Jean  Baptiste  Greuze.  Owned  bv  Mrs 
Thomas  Lindall  Winthrop,   Boston.  Mass. 


Artist  Mrs.  Oliver  Champi.ain.  Owned  bv  Mrs. 
Thomas  S.  Collier,  New  London,  Connecticut. 


Copied  bv  C.  W.  Peale  from  portrait  bv  David  Martin. 
Owned  by  American  Philosophical  Society.  Philadel- 
phia. 


PORTRAITS  OF  BENJAMIN  FRANKLIN 


NOTES  ON  PORTRAITS. 


445 


ington.  The  only  two  original  portraits  of  Oliver  Ellsworth  are  the  one  above  mentioned 
by  Earle,  and  the  miniature  painted  by  Trumbull  in  i  792  and  owned  by  Vale  University. 
The  painting  of  James  Herring,  an  engraving  of  which,  by  Mackenzie,  appears  in  the 
"National  Portrait  Gallery,"  vol.  iv,  and  another  engraving  of  which  is  by  H.  B.  Hall,  is 
a  composition  portrait  after  the  miniature. 

Ellsworth,  Mrs.  Oliver. — The  only  portrait  of  Mrs.  Oliver  Ellsworth  is  the  painting 
above  described.    (See  "  Notes  on  Portraits  "  of  Oliver  Ellsworth.) 

Elmer,  Jonathan. — William  Elmer,  M.  D.,  of  Trenton,  New  Jersey,  David  P.  Elmer, 
and  Colonel  William  Elmer  Potter,  of  Bridgeton,  New  Jersey,  and  other  descendants  of 
Jonathan  Elmer,  member  from  New  Jersey  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution, 
know  of  no  portrait  of  him. 

Few,  William. — The  miniature  of  William  Few,  member  from  Georgia  of  the  First 
Congress  under  the  Constitution,  in  the  possession  of  his  grandson,  William  Few  Chrystie, 
of  Hastings-on-Hudson,  New  York,  was  painted  about  1 790.  The  artist  may  have  been 
John  Ramage,  who  painted  the  miniature  of  Mrs.  William  Few.  A  portrait  after  this 
miniature  was  painted  by  C.  L.  Brandt,  and  is  owned  by  Colonel  Few's  grandson, 
William  Few  Chrystie,  who  says :  "  I  may  mention  that  my  mother  told  me  that  her 
mother  lost  the  miniature  of  Colonel  Few  once  at  a  dinner  at  General  Wash i neon's. 
She  missed  it  on  her  arrival  at  home  after  the  dinner.  She  sent  back,  and  Washington 
sent  a  very  kind  note  in  answer,  which,  unfortunately,  was  not  kept.  The  miniature  was 
the  next  morning  found  uninjured  near  where  Mrs.  Few  entered  her  carriage."  Regarding 
the  portrait  of  William  Few,  which  John  Paradise  painted,  a  copy  of  which  is  reproduced 
in  this  volume,  Mr.  Chrystie  says  :  "  The  artist  who  painted  the  portrait  of  Colonel  Few 
was  Paradise,  and  it  was  painted  about  181 1;  at  least  that  was  the  year  that  a  portrait  by 
the  same  artist  of  my  mother  was  taken.  She  was  then  twenty-two  years  of  age.  The 
portrait  of  Colonel  Few  was  sent  to  Carl  Ludwig  Brandt — he  having  offered  to  restore  it. 
He  found  it  so  much  impaired  that  he  preferred  to  copy  it.  That  copy  is  now  in  the  New 
York  Eye  and  Ear  Infirmary,  of  which  Colonel  Few  was  the  president.  Mr.  Brandt  said 
the  original  was  returned  ;  if  so,  it  was  then  stolen  or  lost." 

Few,  Mrs.  William. — There  is  a  miniature  of  Mrs.  William  Few  by  John  Ramage  in 
the  possession  of  Mrs.  Few's  grandson,  William  Few  Chrystie,  of  Hastings-on-Hudson,  New 
York.  Mr.  Chrystie  says:  "My  mother  was  under  the  impression  that  the  miniature  was 
painted  by  an  English  artist  who  came  over  with  the  British  army  and  remained  here  for 
some  years  after  the  war.  It  was  painted  in  1787,  when  Mrs.  Few  was  twenty-three  years 
old."    The  artist  referred  to  can  only  be  John  Ramage.1    The  miniatures  of  Mrs.  Isaac 


1  "This  was  an  Irish  gentleman  who  painted  miniatures  in  Boston,  and  married  there.    He  left  it  with  the  British  troops. 


446       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


Coles  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Elbridge  Gerry,  in  the  method  and  style,  are  strikingly  like  the 
miniature  of  Mrs.  Few.  Mr.  Chrystie  owns  two  portraits  of  his  grandmother — one  a  cabi- 
net painting  and  the  other  a  canvas  by  Henry  Inman. 

Fish,  Nicholas. — There  are  three  portraits  of  Colonel  Nicholas  Fish,  one  of  the  masters 
of  ceremony  at  Washington's  Inauguration,  one  of  which  is  a  miniature,  painted  by  Edward 
G.  Malbone,  and  owned  by  Colonel  Fish's  daughter,  Mrs.  Daniel  Le  Roy,  of  Newport, 
Rhode  Island ;  another  by  John  Trumbull,  in  the  painting  entitled  "  Surrender  of  Corn- 
wallis,"  which  is  owned  by  Vale  University,  a  replica  of  which  is  in  the  national  Capitol  at 
Washington;  and  a  third  portrait,  painted  by  Henry  Inman  in  1823,  which  was  exhibited  in 
the  Loan  Exhibition  in  1889  (No.  93),  and  now  owned  by  Colonel  Fish's  son,  Hon.  Hamil- 
ton Fish,  of  New  York.  A  copy  of  the  Malbone  miniature,  owned  by  Hon.  Hamilton 
Fish,  was  engraved  by  H.  B.  Hall  and  Sons,  of  New  York,  for  John  Schuyler's  "  Society  of 
the  Cincinnati  in  New  York,"1  and  is  reproduced  in  the  "Century  Magazine"  for  April, 
1889.  "The  engraved  miniature  of  my  father,"  says  Mr.  Fish,  "is  a  copy  of  the  head  and 
face  as  painted  by  Malbone,  but  the  dress  is  different,  and  has  the  Cincinnati  order  and  a 
cloak  over  the  plain  dress  coat  of  the  day." 

Fitzsimons,  Thomas. — No  portrait  has  been  discovered  of  Thomas  Fitzsimons,  member 
from  Pennsylvania  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution. 

Floyd,  Wtilliam. — Three  portraits  are  known  of  William  Floyd,  member  from  New  York 
of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution.  Two  are  in  the  historical  paintings  by  John 
Trumbull  and  Edward  Savage,  owned  respectively  by  Yale  University  and  the  Boston  Mu- 
seum, and  entitled  "  The  Signing  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence."  A  replica  of  the  first 
named  is  in  the  national  Capitol  at  Washington.  A  third  portrait  is  the  one  painted  by  the 
artist  Ralph  Earle,  which  is  owned  by  William  Floyd's  great-grandson,  John  Gelston  Floyd, 
of  Mastic,  Long  Island.  In  the  portrait  by  Earle  appears  the  house  at  Mastic  where  William 
Floyd  lived — the  same  house  which,  altered  and  extended,  is  occupied  to-day  by  his  great- 
grandson.    On  the  canvas  of  the  portrait  is  written,  "  R.  Earle,  pinxt,  1  793."    Earle  visited 


and  was  as  early  as  1777  established  in  William  Street,  New  York,  and  continued  to  paint  all  the  military  heroes  or  beaux 
of  the  garrison  and  all  the  belles  of  the  place.  He  did  not  accompany  the  army  when  it  left  our  shores,  but  continued  the 
best  artist  in  his  branch  for  many  years  after.  Mr.  Ramage  occasionally  painted  in  crayon  or  pastel,  the  size  of  life.  His 
miniatures  were  in  the  line  style  as  opposed  to  the  dotted.  I  admired  them  very  much  in  the  days  of  youth,  and  my  own  opin- 
ion of  their  merit  is  confirmed  by  seeing  some  of  them  recently.  Mr.  Ramage  was  a  handsome  man  of  the  middle  size,  with  an 
intelligent  countenance  and  lively  eye.  He  dressed  fashionably,  and,  according  to  the  time,  beauishly.  A  scarlet  coat  with 
mother-of-pearl  buttons— a  white  silk  waistcoat  embroidered  with  colored  flowers,  black  satin  breeches  and  paste  knee-buckles, 
white  silk  stockings,  large  silver  buckles  in  his  shoes,  a  small  cocked  hat,  covering  the  upper  portion  of  his  well-powdered  locks, 
leaving  the  curls  at  the  ears  displayed,  a  gold-headed  cane  and  gold  snuff-box,  completed  his  costume.  When  the  writer  re- 
turned from  Europe  in  1787,  Mr.  Ramage  introduced  to  him  a  second  wife,  but  he  was  changed,  and  evidently  declining 
through  fast  living." — (Dunlap's  "  History  of  the  Arts  of  Design,"  vol.  i,  pp.  226,  227.) 
1  Page  202. 


NOTES  ON  PORTRAITS. 


447 


Mastic  to  paint  the  portrait.  A  replica  was  also  executed,  which  was  destroyed  by  fire  in  Bar- 
num's  Museum,  New  York,  the  site  of  the  present  Herald  building.  A  copy  of  the  portrait 
of  Floyd  by  Earle  is  owned  by  David  G.  Floyd,  of  Greenport,  Long  Island.  This  copy  was  in 
turn  copied  by  Edward  L.  Henry  in  1875  to  hang  in  Independence  Hall,  Philadelphia,  where 
it  now  is.  A.  B.  Durand  made  an  engraving  of  the  Earle  portrait  in  18 18  for  John  Dela- 
plaine's  "  National  Panzographia  for  the  Reception  of  the  Portraits  of  Distinguished  Ameri- 
cans," and  the  same  engraving  is  in  Sanderson's  "  Signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence." 

Foster,  Abiel. — The  only  portrait  in  existence  of  Judge  Abiel  Foster,  member  from 
New  Hampshire  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  is  the  one  by  John  Trum- 
bull, owned  by  Yale  University,  in  the  picture  entitled  "  Washington  resigning  his  Com- 
mission," a  replica  of  which  is  in  the  national  Capitol  at  Washington.  Mellen  Chamber- 
lain, of  Boston,  Massachusetts,  says :"  There  is  no  portrait  from  life  of  my  great-grandfather, 
Hon.  Abiel  Foster,  but  after  his  death,  when  Trumbull  visited  New  Hampshire  to  get  por- 
traits for  his  historical  pictures,  now  in  the  Rotunda  of  the  Capitol  at  Washington,  he  made 
a  likeness  of  one  of  the  Judge's  sons,  said  to  be  very  like  his  father,  and  this  likeness,  such  as 
it  is,  may  be  seen  in  the  painting  of  '  Washington  resigning  his  Commission.'  The  Judge 
sits,  side  view,  on  the  left  foreground,  with  his  hand  on  his  chin." 

Foster,  Theodore. — There  are  two  portraits  of  Theodore  Foster,  member  from  Rhode 
Island  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  one  owned  by  his  great-grandson,  James 
Tillinghast,  of  Providence,  Rhode  Island,  and  the  other  by  his  grandson,  Seymour  Foster,  of 
Lansing,  Michigan.  It  has  been  impossible  to  ascertain  the  name  of  the  artist  of  either  por- 
trait. It  has  been  stated  that  the  Providence  portrait  of  Foster  was  painted  by  Gilbert  Stuart, 
but  there  is  no  evidence  to  prove  it.  The  portrait-  of  Foster  in  Lansing,  Michigan,  originally 
belonged  in  Providence,  Rhode  Island.  Seymour  Foster's  father,  whose  name  was  Theodore 
Foster,  Jr.,  took  the  portrait  to  Michigan.  The  painting  is  badly  cracked  and  damaged,  and  is 
just  as  Theodore  Foster,  Jr.,  found  it  in  Rhode  Island  in  1857. 

Franklin,  Benjamin. — A  catalogue  of  the  portraits  of  Benjamin  Franklin  would  in- 
clude many  whose  authenticity  it  would  be  impossible  to  establish.  There  were  many 
portraits  of  Franklin  painted  in  Europe  during  the  last  century ;  and  when  he  lived  in 
Paris,  his  likeness,  as  Charles  Henry  Hart  says,1  "  was  everywhere,  in  painting,  in  sculpture, 
and  in  engraving,  until  it  was  said  by  a  gossip  of  the  day  '  to  be  found  at  the  hearth  of 
the  poor  and  in  the  boudoir  of  the  beautiful.' "  The  late  Charles  Francis  Adams  said : 8 
"  Most  of  the  pictures  of  Franklin  came  from  France,  and  have  ease  and  polish,  but  do 
not  show  positive  fixed  character."    Edward  Everett  Hale  says:3  "No  one  undertakes  to 


'"Century  Magazine,"  December,  1890,  p.  199. 

'  "Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,"  vol.  x  1 1869),  pp.  412,  413. 
3  "  Franklin  in  France,"  by  E.  E.  Hale  and  E.  E.  Hale,  Jr.,  vol.  ii,  pp.  150,  151. 


448       THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


say  how  many  likenesses  of  Franklin  were  made  while  he  was  in  Paris,  but  they  are  to 
be  numbered  by  hundreds."  And  Robert  C.  Winthrop  adds  : '  "  Surely,  if  a  man's  fame  is 
to  be  measured  by  the  number  of  his  portraits  at  home  and  abroad,  Franklin  was  by  far 
the  most  famous  American  of  his  period,  as,  indeed,  there  can  be  no  doubt  he  was.  His 
likeness  is  to  be  found  in  oils  and  crayons,  on  canvas,  on  paper,  on  ivory,  on  porcelain, 
and  in  pottery ;  and  not  only  on  pitchers  and  tea-cups,  like  Washingtons,  but  it  is  said 
to  have  been  complimented,  as  it  was  called,  by  being  presented  on  the  least  dignified  or 
delicate  utensils  of  household  crockery."  The  portrait  of  Franklin  painted  by  Charles 
Willson  Peale  in  Philadelphia  in  1787  (Loan  Exhibition  of  1889,  No.  99),  and  sold  at 
the  Peale  sale  in  1854,  is  now  owned  by  Mrs.  Joseph  Harrison,  of  Philadelphia.  This 
portrait  represents  Franklin  at  the  age  of  eighty-one.  "From  this  painting,"2  says  Charles 
Henry  Hart,  "he  made  a  mezzotinto,  with  the  following  inscription:  'His  Excellency  B. 
Franklin,  LL.  D.,  F.'R.  S.,  President  of  Pennsylvania,  and  late  Minister  of  the  United 
States  of  America  at  the  Court  of  France.  C.  W.  Peale,  pinxt.  et  fecit,  1787.'  This 
mezzotinto  is  exceedingly  scarce  and  valuable,  but  some  impressions  doubtless  found  their 
way  to  France,  for  two  of  the  few  located  came  thence ;  and  a  French  print  in  colors, 
by  P.  M.  Alix,  published  toward  the  close  of  the  last  century,  and  purporting  to  be  after 
a  picture  by  Vanloo,  is  evidently  a  copy,  by  an  awkward  and  inferior  hand,  of  Peale's 
picture,  and  not,  as  Mr.  Hale  in  his  late  book  thinks,  Peale's,  a  copy  of  this  French  pict- 
ure."3 One  of  these  French  prints,  engraved  by  P.  M.  Alix  after  Louis  Michael  Vanloo,4 
is  in  the  Boston  Public  Library,  and  the  pastels  in  the  Virginia  Historical  Society5  and  in  the 
Old  Colony  Historical  Society,6  at  Taunton,  Massachusetts,  are  after  the  same  portrait.  A 
replica  of  Peale's  portrait  of  Franklin  was  sent  to  the  Marquis  de  Lafayette  in  France,7  and 
another  replica,  with  some  accessories,  is  in  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania,  the  gift  of 
the  late  James  J.  Barclay.8  Similar  to  the  above-named  portraits,  though  having  an  individual- 
ity of  its  own,  is  the  crayon  by  Mrs.  Oliver  Champlain,  belonging  to  Mrs.  Thomas  S.  Collier 


1  "  Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,"  vol.  xiv  (November,  1875),  pp.  160,  161. 
"  "  Century  Magazine,"  December,  1890,  p.  203. 

3  An  engraving  by  James  J.  Wilcox  of  the  so-called  Vanloo  portrait  appears  as  a  frontispiece  to  "Franklin  in  France," 
by  E.  E.  Hale  and  E.  E.  Hale,  Jr.  Another  engraving  by  H.  B.  Hall  of  the  same  portrait  appears  in  "  Journal  of  Charles  Car- 
roll of  Carrollton  during  his  Visit  to  Canada  in  1776,"  published  for  the  Maryland  Historical  Society  in  1876. 

'  "Chevalier  de  l'Ordre  du  Roi,  Premier  Peintre  du  Roi  d'Espagne,  ancien  Recteur  de  l'Academie  Royale  de  Peintre  et  de 
Sculpture." — (From  an  engraving  by  Miger,  1779,  of  Vanloo's  portrait  of  himself,  1762.)  Henry  Vignaud,  of  the  United  States 
Legation,  Paris,  says  :  "  The  Vanloo  portrait  of  Franklin  is  unknown.  M.  Duplessis,  the  Librarian  in  Chief  of  the  Department 
of  Engravings  at  the  National  Library,  whom  I  have  seen,  never  heard  of  it." 

6  L.  F.  Gray,  Secretary  of  Boston  Public  Library,  says :  "  This  is  plainly  a  copy  of  the  Vanloo  portrait,  but  not  from  the 
same  engraver  as  that  in  the  Public  Library  collection.    The  head  is  like,  but  the  dress  is  entirely  unlike  that  in  our  copy." 

""Evidently  a  copy  without  the  spectacles." — (Charles  Henry  Hart.) 

7  Miss  Mary  J.  Peale,  granddaughter  of  the  artist,  Holmesburg,  near  Philadelphia. 

8  Etched  by  Albert  Rosenthal  for  Carson's  "  The  Constitution  of  the  United  States,"  vol.  i,  p.  162.  Paul  Leicester  Ford 
says  that  Peale  was  engaged  in  painting  another  portrait  during  the  last  year  of  Franklin's  life,  which,  owing  to  Franklin's 
enfeebled  health,  was  never  finished. 


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of  New  London,  Connecticut.1  A  pastel  portrait  of  Franklin,  painted  by  Joseph  Sifrede2 
Duplessis,3  was  exhibited  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  of  1889  (No.  96),  and  is  owned  by  Hon. 
John  Bigelow,  of  New  York.  This  portrait  was  drawn  in  1783,  and  was  "presented  by 
Franklin  to  Mons.  Louis  de  Veillard,  his  friend  and  neighbor  at  Passy,  and  Gentleman-in- 
Ordinary  to  the  Queen  of  France  in  1783." 4  An  engraving  of  it,  by  H.  B.  Hall,  appears  in 
John  Bigelow's  "  Complete  Works  of  Benjamin  Franklin,"  and  in  Appletons'  "  Cyclopaedia  of 
American  Biography."5  Another  portrait  of  Franklin  by  Duplessis  is  owned  by  the  Mutual 
Assurance  Company  in  Philadelphia,  and  was  exhibited  at  the  Loan  Exhibition  of  Historical 
Portraits  in  Philadelphia  in  1887.6  It  was  painted  in  Paris  in  1778,  and  was  purchased 
January  12,  1876,  for  one  thousand  dollars  by  the  Mutual  Assurance  Company,  of  C.  A. 
Stetson,  of  Swampscott,  Massachusetts,  "  who  had  obtained  it  in  1850  from  W.  H.  Robert- 
son, United  States  vice-consul  at  Paris,  just  after  he  had  bought  it,  on  the  advice  of 
Edward  Everett,  at  the  sale  of  the  pictures  belonging  to  an  artist  named  Vandenburgh. 
The  portrait  was  engraved  by  Chevillet,  Paris,  in  1 780,  from  the  original  in  the  collection 
of  M.  Le  Ray  de  Chaumont,  and  frequently  by  others  in  France  and  in  this  country."7 
In  the  Boston  Public  Library  is  another  portrait  of  Franklin  by  Duplessis,  which  was 
presented  to  the  city  of  Boston  in  1858  by  Edward  Brooks,8  regarding  which  W.  H.  Hunting- 
ton says:9  "  The  one  that  Mr.  Edward  Brooks  bought  of  J.  de  Mancy  or  his  heirs,  a  few  years 


1  Susanna  Madelina,  whom  Oliver  Champlain  married  in  Paris,  was  a  native  of  Hesse-Darmstadt,  and  died  April  [I,  1824. 
She  saw  Franklin  in  France,  and  made  a  crayon  of  him  which  is  owned  by  a  representative  of  the  artist's  family,  Mrs.  Thomas  S. 
Collier,  who  lives  at  the  old  Champlain  house  in  New  London,  Connecticut,  and  owns  miniatures  of  Oliver  Champlain  and  his 
wife,  the  artist. — (Thomas  S.  Collier,  Secretary  of  the  New  London  County  Historical  Society,  New  London,  Connecticut.) 

5  The  "  Nouvelle  Biographic  Generate,"  vol.  xv  spells  the  middle  name  of  Duplessis  as  Siffrein;  Spooner  has  it  Sifrede; 
and  it  is  Sifrede  in  Siret's  "  Dictionnaire  Historique  des  Peintres." 

'Born  at  Charpentras,  France,  in  1725;  studied  in  Rome  under  Subleyras  ;  settled  at  Paris  in  1752,  and  died  in  1803. 
4  Catalogue  of  the  "Loan  Exhibition  of  Historical  Portraits  and  Relics,"  New  York,  1889,  p.  29.    John  Bigelow,  in  "The 
Life  of  Benjamin  Franklin,  written  by  Himself,"  vol.  i  (Philadelphia,  1874),  pp.  71,  72,  says:  "  At  the  bottom  of  the  old  gilt 
frame,  in  front,  is  the  following  inscription  upon  the  frame  : 

Benjamin  Franklin, 

A  77  ans, 
Peint  par  Jh  Sd  Duplessis, 
I783- 

Donne  par  Franklin  lui-meme. 
On  the  back  is  the  following  memorandum,  placed  there,  doubtless,  by  M.  le  Veillard  : 

"  '  Benjamin  Franklin,  k  77  ans  ;  peint  en  1783  par  Duplessis  ;  donne  par  Franklin  lui-meme  a  M.  Louis  le  Veillard,  gentil- 
homme  ordinaire  de  la  Reine,  son  amit  et  son  voisin  a  Passy.  Joseph  Sifrede  Duplessis,  Academicien,  ne  a  Charpentras,  s'est 
distingue  par  une  belle  intelligence,  les  effets  de  la  lumiere,  sur  les  chairs  et  accessoires  un  pinceau  large  ;  bien  senti  et  un  coloris 
vrai.  Les  personnages  de  distinction  dans  ses  portraits  sont  poses  avec  noblesse  et  dans  des  attitudes  bien  choisies.  II  a  peint 
le  portrait  de  Louis  XVI,  ceux  de  M.  et  Mme.  Necker,  et  de  plusieurs  grandes  de  la  Cour.—  (Les  trnis  siecles  de  la  peintiire 
la  France  par  Gault  de  St.  Germain.    1808.) — Swiback  l'eleve  le  plus  distingue  de  Duplessis,  a  surpasse  son  maitre.'  " 

e  Vol.  ii,  p.  526. 

'  Catalogue  No.  1 59. 

7  Charles  Henry-  Hart,  in  the  catalogue  of  the  "Loan  Exhibition  of  Historical  Portraits,"  Philadelphia,  1887,  p.  40. 

8  Boston  City  Document,  No.  46,  November,  1858,  in  Sixth  Annual  Report  of  the  Trustees  of  the  Public  Library. 

9  Letter  of  W.  H.  Huntington  to  Hon.  John  Bigelow,  dated  January  23,  1867. — ("Some  Recollections  of  the  late  Edouard 
Laboulaye,"  by  John  Bigelow,  privately  printed,  p.  32.) 

58 


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ago,  was  claimed  to  he  by  Duplessis.    This  was  in  oils — it  was  offered  to  me  by  old  De 
Mancy  in  1852  for  two  thousand  francs.    There  was  a  break  in  his  history  of  it  that  led  me  to 
suspect  that  it  might  be  a  copy."    Samuel  A.  Green,  LL.  D.,  Librarian  of  the  Massachusetts 
Historical  Society,  went  with  Edward  Brooks  during  the  winter  of  1854— '55  to  see  this  portrait 
at  M.  Jarret  de  Mancy 's  house  in  the  Latin  Quarter  in  Paris.    Another  Duplessis  portrait 
was  engraved  by  J.  Thomson  "  from  an  original  picture  by  J.  S.  Duplessis  in  the  possession  of 
Mr.  Barnet,1  consul-general  for  the  United  States  of  America  at  Paris,"  which  engraving  is 
in  the  third  volume2  of  "The  Gallery  of  Portraits,  with  Memoirs,"  published  in  London  in 
1834  by  Charles  Knight.    Jared  Sparks  in  1836  reproduced  this  portrait  as  a  frontispiece  to 
vol.  iii  of  "  Correspondence  of  Benjamin  Franklin,"  saying  that  it  was  "  from  the  original 
picture  by  Duplessis  in  the  possession  of  Mrs.  Barnet,  of  Paris."    A  Duplessis  portrait  of 
Franklin  was  obtained  by  James  Monroe  in  Paris,  when  he  was  United  States  minister  to 
France,  and  is  now  owned  by  Monroe's  grandniece,  Mrs.  Douglas  Robinson,  of  New  York. 
In  the  Redwood  Library,  Newport,  Rhode  Island,  is  a  portrait  of  Franklin,  copied  by 
Charles   B.  King,  after  the  last-named   Duplessis  portrait.     President  Monroe  said  that 
this   Franklin  copy  was  "the   best   likeness  of  him  that   he   had  ever  seen."3  There 
was  a  portrait  of  Franklin  by  Duplessis  in  the  "  Galerie  Pomard,"  at  Avignon,  France.4  In 
1883  Joseph  T.  Mason,  United  States  consul  at  Dresden,  wrote  to  Hon.  Robert  C.  Win* 
throp,  of  Boston,  of  the  discovery  of  another  Franklin  portrait  by  Duplessis  in  Dresden. 
"  From  the  photograph  which  accompanies  the  communication,"  said  Mr.  Winthrop/'  "  I 
should  not  doubt  its  being  an  original  Duplessis,  and  a  very  fine  one  in  perfect  preserva- 
tion."   A  photograph  of  this  portrait,  which  is  still  in  Germany,  was  shown  in   1889,  by 
Dr.  Newell  Sill  Jenkins,  of  Dresden,  to  Charles  Henry  Hart.    The  present  owner  of  this 
picture  is  W.  Krankling,  of  Strehlen,  Silesia,  who  inherited  the  same  from  his  father.6  The 
late  Henry  Stevens,  of  London,  owned  another  Franklin  portrait  by  Duplessis,  which  is 
now  in  the  Corcoran  Gallery  of  Art,  Washington.    On  the  back  of  the  canvas  is  the  fol- 
lowing inscription:  "This  picture  of  Dr.  Franklin  was  painted  at  Paris  in  1782,  and  was 
presented  by  him  to  Mr.  William   Hodson,  of  Colman  Street,  as  a  token  of  his  regard 
and  friendship."    Mr.  Stevens  says:7  "There  can  be  no  question  as  to  the  genuineness  and 
authenticity  of  this  [portrait].    It  came  into  my  possession  by  purchase  early  in  1882  from 
Mr.  Graves,  an  eminent  dealer  in  pictures  and  engravings."    A  smaller  painting  of  Frank- 


1  Isaac  Coxe  Rarnet,  born  in  New  Jersey,  filled  several  positions  in  the  consular  service  of  the  United  States,  and  was  con- 
sul-general in  Paris  from  June,  1 8 14,  until  his  death,  March  8,  1833. 

"Page  77. — (Cf.  Evans's  "Catalogue  of  British  Portraits,"  vol.  ii,  p.  159.) 

8  Catalogue  of  the  Redwood  Library,  1885,  p.  6.    The  Hompkins  Harrison  Matteson  portrait  is  also  after  Duplessis. 
4  Cited  in  "  Biographie  Nouvelle,"  and  referred  to  by  W.  H.  Huntington  in  letter  to  John  Bigelow. 
6  Speech,  June  14,  1883,  at  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society. — ("Addresses  and  Speeches  from  1878  to  1886,"  by  Rob- 
ert C.  Winthrop,  Boston,  1886,  p.  429.) 

*  A  director  of  the  Dresden  Historical  Museum,  who  got  the  portrait  from  a  museum  in  Courland. 
1  Letter  of  Henry  Stevens,  dated  March  17,  1885,  owned  by  the  Corcoran  Gallery  of  Art. 


NOTES  ON  PORTRAITS. 


45' 


lin,  by  or  after  the  same  artist  also,  belonged  to  Henry  Stevens,  and  is  now  owned  by  his 
son,  H.  N.  Stevens,  of  London,  who  believes  the  picture  came  from  the  family  of  Frank- 
lin's old  friend,  Le  Yeillard.  A  Duplessis  of  Franklin  was  owned  by  his  grandson, 
William  Temple  Franklin.  The  portrait  which  F.  Swediaur,1  M.  D.,  of  Newman  Street, 
London,  owned  in  1783,  and  which  "was  a  painting  done  at  Paris  in  August,  1782,"  was 
painted  by  Duplessis2  or  Greuze,  and  may  be  one  of  the  portraits  above  described.  Mrs. 
Elizabeth  Duane  Gillespie,  of  Philadelphia,  Franklin's  great-granddaughter,  owns  an  origi- 
nal miniature  of  Franklin  painted  by  Duplessis,  and  given  to  Mrs.  Franklin,  from  whom  it 
descended  to  the  present  owner.  It  was  engraved  by  James  J.  Wilcox  for  Hale's  "  Franklin 
in  France,"  vol.  ii,  and  an  engraving  by  R.  W.  Dodson  from  Longacre's  copy  is  in  the 
"  National  Portrait  Gallery,"  vol.  ii.  Mr.  Hart  says:  "  Mrs.  Joseph  Harrison,  of  Philadelphia, 
owns  a  portrait  of  Franklin  which  belonged  to  Mr.  Vaughan,  the  owner  of  the  Vaughan- 
Stuart  Washington,  and  was  framed  to  match  it,  which  is  ascribed  to  Duplessis,  though  it 
may  be  a  copy."  William  Grunow,  of  West  Point,  New  York,  exhibited  in  the  Loan 
Exhibition  of  1889  (No.  98)  a  portrait  of  Franklin  after  Duplessis;  and  S.  L.  M.  Barlow, 
of  New  Vork,  exhibited  a  half-length  pastel  (No.  97)  of  Franklin  drawn  when  he  was 
minister  to  France,  which  is  either  by  or  after  the  artist  Duplessis.  It  now  belongs  to 
Clarence  S.  Bement,  of  Philadelphia,  and  was  engraved  by  Janinet.  There  are  three 
distinct  types  of  the  Duplessis  portrait  of  Franklin.  Of  portraits  of  Benjamin  Frank- 
lin painted  by  Jean  Baptiste  Greuze,3  one  is  deposited  in  the  Boston  Public  Library, 
and  was  given  to  the  city  of  Boston  by  Gardner  Brewer  in  1872.  The  attention  of 
Charles  Sumner  was  called  to  this  portrait,  and  he  saw  it  in  London  in  1857,  and  again 
in  1859,  at  the  house  of  Joseph  Parkes,  and  through  Mr.  Sumner's  efforts  it  was  bought 
by  Gardner  Brewer.  Regarding  its  history,  Mr.  Sumner  stated  that  the  portrait  was 
given  by  Franklin  to  his  friend  Richard  Oswald,  British  ambassador  to  France,  who  was 
associated  with  Franklin  in  the  negotiation  of  the  provisional  articles  of  peace,  Novem- 
ber 30,  1782.  In  Mr.  Oswald's  family  the  portrait  was  known  as  an  "Ambassador's 
portrait,"  and  as  "  a  Greuze."  From  Oswald's  grandnephew,  Mr.  Oswald,  M.  P.  for 
Glasgow,  the  portrait  passed  into  the  possession  of  Joseph  Parkes,  a  well-known  English 
lawyer,  who  "  had  entire  confidence  in  this  portrait  as  painted  by  Greuze  and  belong- 
ing originally  to  Mr.  Oswald."4  Another  portrait  attributed  to  Greuze  is  owned  by 
the  Boston  Atheneeum,  and  is  deposited  in  the  Museum  of  Fine  Arts.  It  was  bought 
in   1828,  on  the  recommendation  of  five  well-known  citizens  of  Boston,  comprising  the 


1  Also  spelled  Schwediauer. 

5  Engraved  by  W.  Angus  in  the  "European  Magazine  and  London  Review,"  March,  1783. 

5  Born  1725,  and  died  in  Paris  in  1805.  He  painted  portraits  of  Louis  XVI  and  XVII,  Napoleon  as  consul,  and  Madame  de 
Pompadour. — (Champlin's  "  Cyclopaedia  of  Painters  and  Paintings,"  vol.  ii,  pp.  173,  174.) 

*  Manuscript  of  Charles  Sumner,  dated  Washington.  D.  C,  August  6,  1871,  and  deposited  in  the  Boston  Public  Library. — 
(Cf.  "Boston  City  Documents  No.  72,  June,  1872,"  in  Twentieth  Annual  Report  of  the  Trustees  of  the  Boston  Public  Li- 
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Fine  Arts  Committee  of  the  Boston  Athenaeum,  who,  "after  very  deliberate  consideration, 
reported"  that  "two  hundred  dollars  be  appropriated  to  purchase  the  original  Franklin 
from  Mr.  Jefferson's  collection,  now  on  exhibition."1  The  portrait  was  painted  in  1778  for 
the  Abbe"  Verri,  and  was  purchased  by  Thomas  Jefferson,  and  afterward  came  into  the 
possession  of  Jefferson's  grandson,  Joseph  Coolidge,  who  sold  the  same  to  the  Boston 
Athenaeum.2  An  original  Greuze  portrait  is  said  to  have  been  given  by  Franklin  to  the 
famous  traveler  Denon.  This  portrait  was  offered  for  sale  in  London  seventeen  years  ago, 
and  was  examined  by  Hon.  Robert  C.  Winthrop,  of  Boston.3  Greuze  also  made  a  fine 
crayon  of  Franklin,  which  James  Lawrence  purchased  at  the  San  Donato  sale  of  the  pictures 
of  Prince  Demidoff,  which  took  place  in  Paris  in  March  of  1870.4  It  is  now  owned  by 
Mrs.  Thomas  Lindall  Winthrop,  of  Boston.  The  portrait,  which  now  hangs  in  the  Versailles 
Gallery,  France,  and  which  G.  P.  A.  Healy  copied  in  1846,  was  after  a  Greuze  crayon.  It 
was  also  once  the  property  of  Prince  Demidoff,  and  while  on  its  way  to  Russia  was  lost  at 
sea  with  many  paintings  belonging  to  Prince  Demidoff.5  A  copy  by  Ordway  of  Healy's  copy  at 
Versailles  belongs  to  the  American  Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences,  Boston.  Greuze  painted 
Franklin  from  life  in  1777.6    But  the  Greuze  copy  at  Versailles  is  not  to  be  confused  with 


1  Records  of  the  Boston  Athenaeum  of  meeting  held  July  16,  1828. 

2  Athenaeum  Records. — The  "Pennsylvania  Magazine  of  History  and  Biography,"  vol.  xi,  pp.  173,  174,  says  that  this  portrait 
is  "  probably  a  replica  or  copy  of  Duplessis."  Hon.  John  Bigelow,  of  New  York,  adds  :  "  The  price  at  which  it  was  purchased 
casts  a  suspicion  upon  it  unless  it  can  be  explained.  A  Greuze  now  is  worth  a  Jew's  ransom,  and  I  fancy  that,  allowing  for  the 
difference  in  the  purchasing  power  of  money,  an  undisputed  Greuze  would  sell  for  little  more  now  than  in  1828.  Then,  again,  it 
seems  to  me  a  little  queer,  first,  that  Greuze  in  the  height  of  his  fame  should  have  been  painting  portraits  for  abbes,  who 
are  commonly  supposed  to  have  only  spiritual  coin  wherewith  to  pay  their  debts,  and  that  was  never  legal  tender  in  any 
French  atelier  that  I  ever  heard  of ;  and,  second,  that  Franklin  should  have  sat  for  the  benefit  of  an  abbe  whose  name  has  never 
been  mentioned  by  him  ;  nor  am  I  aware  of  a  particle  of  evidence,  aside  from  the  Coolidge  tradition,  that  he  ever  knew  such  a 
man,  or  indeed  that  such  a  man  ever  existed." 

3  "  Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,"  vol.  xiv,  November,  1875,  p.  161. 

4  In  the  San  Donato  catalogue  issued  before  the  sale  the  portrait  is  to  be  found  described  in  the  fourth  part,  on  page  185, 
under  heading  of  pastels :  "  Greuze,  397.  Portrait  de  Franklin.  Beau  portrait  en  buste,  pastel,  forme  ovale,  haut,  30  cent., 
largeur,  64  cent." — (Thomas  Lindall  Winthrop,  who  married  the  widow  of  James  Lawrence.  Cf.  "  Proceedings  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Historical  Society,"  vol.  xx,  1883,  pp.  356,  360.) 

6  Henry  Vignaud,  United  States  legation,  Paris,  and  G.  P.  A.  Healy. 

*  William  W.  Greenough  says  ("Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,"  November  meeting,  1883,  vol.  xx, 
pp.  359,  360)  :  "  In  the  very  curious  and  comprehensive  '  Memoires  Secrets  pour  servir  a  l'histoire  de  la  Republique  de  lettres  en 
France,'  there  are  three  passages  which  give  dates  and  facts  of  a  portrait  by  Greuze.  Under  date  of  June  30,  1777  (vol.  x),  is 
found  the  following  statement :  '  M.  Greuze,  an  excellent  painter  of  character  heads,  has  secured  that  of  Franklin,  of  which  the 
rough  draught  has  been  shown.  It  exhibits  much  resemblance  as  well  as  character.'  A  further  trace  of  the  portrait  appears  on 
the  date  of  the  25th  of  July.  It  is  said  that  '  M.  Greuze  has  finished  a  portrait  of  Franklin  which  is  to  be  engraved.  M.  FJie  de 
Beaumont,  the  advocate  celebrated  for  his  eloquence,  for  his  acuteness,  and  for  a  romantic  spirit,  has  already  obtained  it  for  his 
collection,  to  be  placed  among  other  ancient  and  modern  great  men  ;  and  he  has  written  the  following  inscription,  to  be  placed 
below  the  picture  :  Altcrius  orbis  vindex — ultriusquc  lumen.'  It  appears,  however,  that  the  artist  temporarily  retained  the  por- 
trait in  his  possession,  for  on  the  30th  of  September  it  is  stated  that  '  M.  Greuze,  who  has  not  for  a  long  time  shown  anything 
at  the  Salon,  has  opened  an  exhibition  at  home,  to  which  the  public  are  admitted.  The  portrait  of  Franklin  is  especially 
noticeable.  It  is  easy  to  see  that  this  personage  has  excited  the  painter's  imagination.  It  would  be  difficult  to  find  a  head  with 
a  more  characteristic  expression.  We  there  see  kindliness  happily  allied  to  high  spirit ;  an  equal  love  of  humanity  and  hatred 
of  tyranny.'  The  inference  from  these  extracts  would  indicate  the  possibility  of  at  least  two  portraits  by  Greuze  of  Franklin, 
one  alleged  to  be  the  property  of  M.  FJie  de  Beaumont ;  the  other,  an  original  or  copy,  belonging  to  Mr.  Oswald,  perhaps  five 
or  six  years  later." 


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the  so-called  "Versailles  portrait"  of  Franklin  which  has  been  engraved  by  Levy,  from 
which  engraving  the  engraver  H.  Wright  Smith  made  a  copy.  This  portrait  was  repro- 
duced in  1853  by  Epes  Sargent  in  his  "Select  Works  of  Franklin,"  with  the  statement 
that  it  was  "from  the  painting  in  the  Gallery  of  Versailles,  now,  it  is  believed,  engraved 
for  the  first  time.  It  is  supposed  to  have  been  taken  some  eight  years  before  that  by 
Duplessis."1  Justin  Winsor,  LL.  D.,  Librarian  of  Harvard  University,  saw  in  the  National 
Portrait  Gallery,  London,  in  1890,  a  portrait2  purchased  in  1871  from  Henri  Stettiner,  a 
London  picture-dealer,  and  painted  in  Paris  on  twilled  canvas  in  1783,  by  F.  Baricolo,3 
which  he  thought  not  unlike  the  Greuze  head  of  Franklin.  Franklin  is  represented  in  this 
picture  as  wearing  a  gray  suit.  Baricolo,  but  more  likely  Greuze  or  Duplessis,  may  have 
painted  the  "red-coat"  Franklin  which  was  presented  to  the  Royal  Society  of  London, 
December  7,  1790,  by  Caleb  Whitefoord,  F.  R.  S.,  Secretary  of  the  British  Peace  Commis- 
sion in  1782.  Another  portrait  of  Franklin  with  a  "red  coat,"  and  marked  with  the 
name  of  Baricolo,  was  owned  by  Franklin's  secretary  and  confidential  friend,  Dr.  Edward 
Bancroft,  and  descended  to  the  latter's  grandson,  Rev.  Davis  Lamb,  who  offered  it  for  sale 
in  1865  to  the  National  Portrait  Gallery.4  But  the  Royal  Society  and  the  National 
Portrait  Gallery  pictures  strongly  resemble  the  Greuze  and  Duplessis  portraits  of  Franklin. 
Baricolo  may  have  copied  the  National  Portrait  Gallery  canvas  from  Greuze  or  Duplessis. 
If  the  Royal  Society  picture  is  not  a  Greuze  or  a  Duplessis,  it  is  certainly  after  one  of 
these  artists.  The  similarity  of  all  the  Greuze  and  Duplessis  portraits  is  most  striking. 
There  is  a  portrait  of  Benjamin  Franklin  which  is  owned  by  Franklin's  great-great-great- 
grandnephew,  Henry  W.  Biddle,  of  Philadelphia,  and  was  painted  by  David  Martin  in 
London  when  Franklin  was  about  sixty  years  of  age.  It  once  belonged  to  Robert  Alex- 
ander, then  of  the  house  of  William  Alexander  &  Sons,  of  Edinburgh.  After  the  death  of 
Robert  Alexander  it  descended  to  his  brother,  William  Alexander.  "  My  great-grandfather, 
General  Jonathan  Williams,"  says  Mr.  Biddle,  "  was  a  grandson  of  Dr.  Franklin's  half-sister  ; 
he  married  Marianne  Alexander,  the  daughter  of  the  William  Alexander  aforesaid,  and  the 
portrait  passed  by  inheritance  to  him  and  her,  and  since  then  by  descent  to  the  eldest 
male  heirs  of  General  Williams,  and  thus  came  into  my  possession."  Dr.  Thomas  Hewson 
Bache,  of  Philadelphia,  says:  "The  late  Henry  J.  Williams  told  me  that  his  forefather, 
Robert  Alexander,  had  a  claim  as  to  property  which  was  disputed,  and  the  matter  was 
referred  to  Dr.  Franklin  as  referee,  the  claimants  agreeing  to  accept  his  decision.  The 


1  Henry  Vignaud  of  the  United  States  legation,  Paris,  says  that  this  portrait  is  not  now  at  Versailles.  There  is  no 
Franklin  portrait  in  "  Galeries  Historiques  de  Versailles,"  13  vols.,  folio,  Paris,  1838. 

5  Referred  to  by  Hon.  Robert  C.  Winthrop.-— ("  Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,''  vol.  xiv,  i875-'76, 
pp.  160,  161.) 

3  Baricolo,  an  engraver  who  lived- in  Paris  about  1785,  engraved  a  portrait  of  Necker. — (Charles  Le  Blanc,  in  "  Manuel  de 
L'Amateur  d'Estampes.")  U.  Pietro  Zani,  in  "  Enciclopedia  Metodica  Critico-Ragionate  Delle  Belle  Arti,"  says  that  Francois 
Baricolo  was  a  painter  and  engraver,  but  gives  no  other  particulars. 

4  B.  F.  Stevens. 


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decision  was  in  favor  of  Mr.  Alexander,  and  the  portrait  by  Martin,  painted  to  commemo- 
rate this  decision,  represents  Franklin  reading  one  of  the  deeds."  Dr.  Franklin  consid- 
ered  this  likeness  so  perfect  that  he  ordered  Martin  to  paint  a  replica,  which  was  sent 
by  Franklin  from  England  to  his  family  in  Philadelphia,  and  was  willed  to  the  Supreme 
Executive  Council  of  Pennsylvania,  of  which  Franklin  had  been  president.  Dr.  Bache 
continues :  "  The  Supreme  Executive  Council  was  abolished  by  the  adoption  of  the  present 
Constitution  of  Pennsylvania.  After  that  C.  VV.  Peale  was  allowed  to  occupy  the  vacant 
Council  Room  in  the  old  State-House  at  Philadelphia  with  his  museum.  Very  probably 
the  portrait  was  then  hanging  in  its  place  in  the  Council  Room,  for  Franklin  in  his  will 
requested  it  should  be  hung  there ;  and  it  is  quite  possible  it  was  removed  with  the 
museum  when  it  went,  subsequently,  to  the  Arcade  Building,  and  thus  the  State  lost  pos- 
session of  its  portrait."  At  the  Peale  sale  in  1854  two  Franklin  portraits  were  sold — 
one,  the  above-described  Martin  replica,  to  Henry  Pratt  McKean,  of  Philadelphia,  and  the 
other,  the  C.  W.  Peale  portrait,  now  owned  by  Mrs.  Joseph  Harrison.1  The  American 
Philosophical  Society  of  Philadelphia  owns  a  copy  by  Peale  of  the  Martin  portrait.* 
Edward  Savage  made  a  large  engraving  in  mezzotint  of  the  Martin  portrait.  In  the 
"  National  Portrait  Gallery,"  vol.  ii,  is  an  engraving  by  T.  B.  Welch  of  the  Martin  por- 
trait owned  by  the  American  Philosophical  Society ;  and  in  Delaplaine's  "  Repository," 
in  "The  Analectic  Magazine"  for  June,  1818,  and  in  Sanderson's  "Signers,"  the  Martin 
portrait  is  likewise  reproduced.  Sparks,  in  his  "Works  of  Franklin,"  vol.  ii,  and  Henry 
Stevens,  in  his  "  Benjamin  Franklin's  Life  and  Writings,"  reproduce  the  Martin  portrait 
owned  by  Mr.  Biddle,  of  Philadelphia.  The  portrait  of  Franklin  by  Martin  deposited 
with  Henry  Deedes,  of  "  Binderton  House,"  Chichester,  Sussex,  England,  is  the  property 
of  his  brother-in-law,  and  was  bought  in  1850  from  George  Larpent,  who  received  it 
from  his  mother,  and  she  got  it  from  Mr.  Sargent,  of  Sargent,  Chambers  &  Co.,  of 
London,  for  whom  the  canvas  was  painted.3  Another  Martin  portrait  of  Franklin  is  in 
England,  the  property  of  the  Earl  Stanhope.  It  was  exhibited  in  London  in  1891,  and 
is  thus  described:"1  "Small  half-length,  to  left,  at  a  table  reading  from  manuscript  in  left 
hand;  right  hand  raised  to  the  chin;  blue  coat  and  wig.  Canvas  19  x  15  inches.  This 
picture  has  been  more  than  once  engraved.  It  belonged  to  Charles,  third  Earl  Stanhope. 
By  his  will,  dated  1805,  he  bequeathed  it  to  Mr.  Deane  Walker,  who,  on  retiring  from  his 
active  avocations  as  a  man  of  science  in  i860,  restored  it  to  its  place  at  Chevening."  The 


1  Catalogue  of  sale.  In  the  Peale  Museum  Catalogue  of  1 8 1 8  are  described  two  portraits  of  Franklin  (No.  1  and 
No.  214)  the  last  of  which  belonged  to  the  State,  and  was  the  Martin  replica. 

'  Henry  Phillips,  the  Secretary  and  Librarian  of  the  American  Philosophical  Society,  says,  "  I  have  examined  the  old 
minutes  of  the  Society,  and  find  (p.  174)  that  on  July  7,  1789,  the  Peale  (Martin)  Franklin  was  ordered.'' 

8  Letter  of  Henry  Deedes  to  B.  F.  Stevens,  of  London.  This  Martin  portrait  is  not  the  original,  as  has  been  stated,  but 
a  replica.— (Cf.  "  Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,"  vol.  XV,  1876,  1877,  pp.  10,  11.) 

1  "Catalogue  of  the  Exhibition  of  the  Royal  House  of  Guelph,  from  George  I  to  William  IV,"  1891,  No.  187,  p.  64. 


NOTES  ON  PORTRAITS. 


455 


portrait  in  Independence  Hall  is  a  copy  by  Etter  of  the  Martin  portrait.  John  Trumbull 
and  Edward  Savage  likewise  painted  portraits  of  Benjamin  Franklin,  which  are  in  the  paint- 
ings entitled  "  Signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence,"  owned  respectively  by  Vale 
University  and  the  Boston  Museum.  A  replica  of  the  Vale  University  portrait  is  in  the 
Capitol  at  Washington.  Before  Trumbull  went  to  Europe  for  the  first  time,  or  previ- 
ous to  1780,  the  portrait  he  painted  of  Franklin  was  not  from  life,  but  from  a  French 
print.1  Besides  the  portraits  of  Franklin  by  Peale,  Duplessis,  Greuze,  Martin,  Savage, 
Trumbull,  and  Baricolo,  there  are  others,  including  the  group  painting  by  Benjamin  West.'- 
A  copy  of  a  portrait  which  Benjamin  West  painted  of  Franklin  was  owned  by  the  late 
Rev.  C.  C.  Beaty-Pownall,  Rector  of  All-Saints,  Milton-Ernest,  Bedfordshire,  England, 
who  inherited  the  same  from  his  mother,  "  who  received  it  from  her  cousin,  Sir  George 
Pownall,  to  whom  it  was  given  by  Governor  Pownall,  of  New  England."3  In  a  letter 
which  Governor  Pownall  wrote  from  England  to  Benjamin  Franklin,  in  1783,4  is  added  this 
postscript :  "  I  am  this  day  made  happy  by  having  received  and  hung  up  an  excellent 
portrait  of  you,  my  old  friend,  copied  from  that  which  West  did  for  you."  Hon.  Robert  C. 
Winthrop,  of  Boston,  who  gave  an  account  of  this  portrait  of  Franklin  at  a  meeting  of 
the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society  in  1875,  understood  that  the  portrait  above  described 
was  by  Copley,  and  was  " given  to  Governor  Pownall  by  Franklin3  himself";  but  Governor 
Pownall's  letter  to  Franklin  indicates  that  the  portrait  was  simply  a  copy  of  the  West 
picture.  Jared  Sparks  was  of  the  opinion  that  the  original  of  the  Pownall  copy  above 
referred  to  was  in  the  possession  of  a  grandson  of  Franklin's  executor,  Edward  Duffield, 
the  well-known  Edward  Duffield  Ingraham,  of  Philadelphia;'5  and  at  the  sale  of  Mr. 
Ingraham's  Library,  in  1855,  the  portrait  was  ascribed  to  Benjamin  West  on  the  authority  of 
John  F.  Watson,  and  was  purchased  by  Dr.  Thomas  Hewson  Bache,  a  descendant  of  Frank- 
lin. The  portrait  is  deposited  in  the  Ridgway  Branch  of  the  Philadelphia  Library.  John 
F.  Watson  said:7  "When  I  visited  the  home  of  Edward  Duffield  in  Byberry,  the  executor  of 
Franklin's  will,  there  I  saw,  in  the  possession  of  his  son,  a  portrait  of  Franklin's  bust,  done  for 
him  when  apparently  about  thirty-eight  or  forty  years  of  age.  It  was  a  present  from  Frank- 
lin, supposed  to  have  been  done  by  West,  and  would  be  quite  a  new  face  to  the  public." 
Mr.  Watson  afterward  procured  an  engraving  by  Longacre  of  the  portrait,  which  he  pub- 
lished in  the  first  edition  of  his  "Annals,"  and  added:  "The  leading  features  and  general 


1  "Reminiscences  of  his  Own  Times,"  by  Colonel  J.  Trumbull,  p.  61. 

2  Owned  by  Lord  Belper,  "Kingston  Hall,"  Derbyshire,  England. — (See  "Notes  on  Portraits"  of  John  Jay,  p.  481.) 

3  Hon.  Robert  C.  Winthrop's  address  at  the  meeting  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  November,  1875.— ("Pro- 
ceedings of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,"  vol.  xiv,  pp.  160,  161.) 

4  Letter  from  Thomas  Pownail  to  Benjamin  Franklin,  Richmond,  Surrey,  February  28,  1783.— ("The  Works  of  Franklin," 
by  Jared  Sparks,  vol.  ix,  p.  493.) 

6  "Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,"  vol.  xiv,  pp.  160,  161. 
8  "The  Works  of  Franklin,"  by  Jared  Sparks,  vol.  ix,  p.  493,  foot-note. 
'  Watson's  "Annals  of  Philadelphia"  (edition  of  1830),  p.  514. 


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aspect  have  so  many  agreements  with  his  older  portraits  already  known  to  the  public, 
that  this  may  be  readily  received  as  his  true  likeness  in  middle  life."  Dr.  Bache  says: 
"  The  portrait  referred  to,  always  in  the  possession  of  the  Duffield  family  until  I  pur- 
chased it,  was  known  during  successive  generations  of  that  family  and  my  own  as  painted 
by  West."  The  portrait  of  Franklin  by  West  is  similar  to  one  painted  by  Matthew  Pratt, 
and  belonging  to  a  great-granddaughter  of  the  artist,  Mrs.  Rosalie  V.  Tiers  Jackson,  of 
Hampton,  New  Hampshire.  It  was  exhibited  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  of  Historical  Por- 
traits in  Philadelphia  in  1887.1  The  portrait  owned  by  Dr.  Bache  is  also  like  one  ascribed  to 
Benjamin  Wilson.'2  An  engraving  of  this  portrait,  which  is  in  the  Metropolitan  Museum 
of  Art,  New  York,  was  first  made  by  James  McArdell  about  1761.3  Regarding  the  West 
portrait,  F.  D.  Stone,  the  Librarian  of  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania,  says:  "As 
West  did  not  arrive  in  England  until  1  763,  and  the  work  is  too  good  for  him  to  have  done 
before  he  left  America,  I  do  not  see  how  it  can  be  his,  unless  it  is  a  copy."  As  Pratt  was 
related  by  marriage  and  studied  in  England  with  West,  and  was  most  intimate  with  him,4  it  is 
more  probable  that  Pratt  should  have  copied  West's  portrait  of  Franklin  than  that  West 
should  have  copied  a  picture  of  Franklin  by  Pratt.  It  may  be  added  that  the  West  por- 
trait of  Franklin  has  been  made  to  do  duty  for  Roger  Williams.5  A  portrait  of  Franklin 
ascribed  to  Benjamin  West,  but  the  history  of  which  can  not  be  traced,  is  owned  by  Fleming 
Tuckerman,  New  York,  and  deposited  in  the  Calumet  Club.  A  portrait  of  Benjamin  Franklin 
by  Thomas  Gainsborough,  R.  A.,  is  owned,  in  England,  by  the  Marquess  of  Lansdowne,6  and 
was  painted  probably  at  the  time  of  the  signing  of  the  Treaty  of  Paris,  for  William,  Earl  of 
Shelburne,  afterward  first  Marquess  of  Lansdowne.  In  1867  the  Gainsborough  portrait  of 
Franklin  was  on  exhibition  at  the  South  Kensington  Gallery,  London, 7  and  is  thus  described 
in  the  catalogue  :  "  No.  643.  Benjamin  Franklin,  by  Thomas  Gainsborough,  R.  A.  Bust ; 
brown  coat,  yellow  waistcoat,  gray  hair.  Canvas,  30  x  25  in."8  This  portrait  was  seen  by 
Hon.  Robert  C.  Winthrop,  of  Boston,  when  he  visited  England,  who  said  that  his  attention 


1  Catalogue  No.  163. 

""Pennsylvania  Magazine  of  History  and  Biography,"  1887,  vol.  xi,  No.  I,  pp.  173,  174.  Benjamin  Wilson,  an  English 
portrait-painter,  was  born  at  Leeds,  in  Yorkshire.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Royal  Society,  and  was  appointed  master-painter 
to  the  Board  of  Ordnance  in  1773,  and  died  in  1788.—  (Spooner's  "  Dictionary  of  Painters,  Engravers,  etc.,"  p.  1 100.  Cf.  Bryan's 
"  Dictionary  of  Painters  and  Engravers.") 

3  Another  copy  is  in  the  Boston  Public  Library.    (Cf.  John  Chaloner  Smith's  "  British  Mezzotint  Portraits.") 

4  Tuckerman's  "  Book  of  the  Artists,"  p.  48. 

6  "  An  Inquiry  concerning  the  Authenticity  of  an  Alleged  Portrait  of  Roger  Williams,"  by  Sidney  S.  Rider,  pp.  22,  23.— 
("Rhode  Island  Historical  Tracts,"  Providence,  1 891 .)  Dr.  Bache  says:  "Mr.  Watson  sold  the  plate  engraved  by  Longacre 
of  the  portrait  of  Franklin.  The  purchaser  erased  the  lettering,  substituted  the  name  of  Roger  Williams,  and  sold  prints 
from  it  as  a  portrait  of  the  latter.  I  assisted  the  Rev.  Mr.  Jackson  to  expose  this  fraud,  and  prevented  a  sale  to  the  State 
of  Rhode  Island  of  a  bogus  painted  portrait  of  Roger  Williams." 

'  "  Life  of  Thomas  Gainsborough,  R.  A.,"  by  the  late  George  Williams  Fulcher,  edited  by  his  son,  p.  213. 

'  "  Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,"  vol.  x  (i867-'69),  p.  39. 

'"Catalogue  of  the  Second  Special  Exhibition  of  National  Portraits,"  etc.,  South  Kensington  Museum,  May  1,  1867. 

Engraved  by  G.  Sanders,  1868. 


NOTES  ON  PORTRAITS. 


457 


had  been  particularly  called  to  it  by  "  Dr.  Trench,  the  eminent  author,  and  Archbishop  of 
Dublin,  who  remembered  that  it  had  given  him  a  better  idea  of  the  peculiar  characteristics  of 
our  great  Bostonian  than  any  other  portrait  of  him  he  had  ever  seen."1  Charles  Francis 
Adams  also  saw  the  Gainsborough  portrait  of  Franklin  and  noticed  its  difference  from  all 
other  portraits  of  Franklin.  The  artist  represented  Franklin  in  a  bright  embroidered  gilt 
waistcoat,  and  the  portrait  "  indicated  marks  of  character  which  many  of  the  other  portraits  of 
Franklin  failed  to  exhibit."2  The  Gainsborough  picture  now  hangs  in  the  house  of  the  Mar- 
quess of  Lansdowne,  Bowood  Park,  Wiltshire.  Harvard  University  owns  a  portrait  of  Benja- 
min Franklin  which  is  said  to  have  been  painted  in  London  when  Franklin  was  twenty. 
Franklin  presented  the  portrait  to  his  brother,  John  Franklin,  of  Newport,  Rhode  Island,  who 
married  the  grandmother  of  the  wife  of  Thomas  VV.  Sumner,  of  Brookline,  Massachusetts,  to 
whom  the  portrait  descended.  From  Mr.  Sumner  the  portrait  came  into  the  possession  of  Dr. 
John  C.  Warren,  who,  as  a  Boston  scholar,  was  the  first  to  receive  a  medal  provided  for  in 
Franklin's  will.  The  portrait,  having  been  bequeathed  by  Dr.  Warren  to  Harvard  University 
now  hangs  in  Memorial  Hall.3  "The  Sumner  portrait,"  as  the  above-described  portrait  of 
Franklin  is  called,  is  reproduced  as  a  frontispiece  in  the  first  volume  of  Sparks'  "  Franklin,"  in 
Henry  Stevens'  "  Benjamin  Franklin's  Life  and  Writings,"  in  Scharf  and  Westcott's  "  His- 
tory of  Philadelphia,"4  and  in  Winsor's  "Memorial  History  of  Boston."5  Another  portrait, 
which,  as  Jared  Sparks  says,  "  is  one  of  the  best  that  was  ever  taken  of  Dr.  Franklin,"  was 
painted  by  the  English  artist,  Mason  Chamberlain,  R.  A.,  and  was  reproduced  in  the  French 
edition  of  Franklin's  "Philosophical  Papers,"  published  in  Paris  in  1773.  Franklin  refers  to 
the  Chamberlain  portrait,  in  a  letter  to  his  wife,  as  follows:6  "To  the  French  edition  they 
have  prefixed  a  print  of  your  old  husband,  which,  though  a  copy  of  that  by  Chamberlain, 
has  got  so  French  a  countenance  that  you  would  take  him  for  one  of  that  lively  nation." 
Regarding  the  Chamberlain  portrait  of  Franklin,  Sparks  adds:7  "  It  was  painted  during  his 
first  mission  to  England,  and  beautifully  engraved  in  mezzotinto  by  Fisher.8  He  is  repre- 
sented in  a  sitting  posture,  nearly  full  length,  and  engaged  in  experiments  with  his  electri- 
cal bells,  which  hang  in  the  room  in  which  he  is  sitting.  Through  an  open  window  the 
lightning  is  seen,  in  the  distance,  descending  upon  an  edifice  and  rending  it  asunder." 
The  Chamberlain  portrait  was  owned  by  Joshua  Bates,  of  London,  and  descended  to  his 
daughter,  Mrs.  Van   de   Weyer,  and  is  now  owned   by   his   grandson,  Victor  Van  de 


'"Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,"  vol.  x  (i867-'69),  pp.  412.  413. 
'"Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,"  vol.  x,  p.  413. 
3  "  The  Memorial  History  of  Boston,"  edited  by  Justin  Winsor,  LL.  D.,  vol.  ii,  p.  291. 
'  Vol.  i,  p.  220. 

5  Vol.  ii.  p.  277.    Charles  R.  Hildeburn,  of  Philadelphia,  doubts  the  authenticity  of  this  portrait. 

6  Letter  dated  September  I,  1773  (Sparks'  "Life  and  Writings  of  Franklin,"  vol.  viii,  pp.  117,  118.  foot-note). 
'"Life  and  Writings  of  Franklin,"  vol.  viii,  p.  118,  foot-note.    The  portrait  by  J.  Chapman  is  after  the  Chamberlin 

portrait. 

'  "Engraved  by  Edward  Fisher  about  1770. — ("  Pennsylvania  Magazine  of  History  and  Biography,"  1887,  vol.  si,  p.  173.) 
59 


458       THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 


VVeyer,  at  21  Arlington  Street,  S.  W.,  the  old  residence  of  Joshua  Bates.  Hon.  Robert 
C.  Winthrop,  of  Boston,  says  a  replica  of  the  Chamberlain  portrait  is  in  Scotland,  in  the 
possession  of  a  member  of  the  William  Penn  family.1  A  copy  of  Joshua  Bates'  Cham- 
berlain portrait,  by  George  Dunlop  Leslie,  R.  A.,  was  given  by  Mr.  Bates,  in  1855,  to 
Harvard  University.  Mr.  Leslie  says:  "My  copy  was  very  carefully  made,  my  father  as- 
sisting me  in  it  considerably."  The  Chamberlain  portrait  was  engraved  by  C.  Turner, 
A.  R.  A.,3  for  Bancroft's  "  History  of  the  United  States."3  There  are  numerous  other  por- 
traits of  Benjamin  Franklin  :  one  by  Stephen  Elmer4  was  presented,  in  1885,  by  W.  H. 
Huntington,  to  the  Metropolitan  Museum  of  Art,  New  York.  An  engraving  of  the  same, 
by  Thomas  Ryder,  was  made  in  1782,  and  was  reissued  in  1824  by  Z.  Sweet.5  The  prints 
were  lettered  "  The  Politician,"  and  Franklin's  name  was  afterward  substituted.6  Robert 
Fulton  also  painted  a  portrait  of  Franklin  in  1787,  which,  some  years  ago,  was  thus  de- 
scribed:7 "A  portrait  of  Ben.  Franklin,  painted  by  Robert  Fulton,  of  steamboat  celebrity. 
On  the  back  of  the  canvas  is  written,  '  R.  Fulton,  Pinxt,  1787.'  The  history  of  this  rare 
picture  is  distinctly  traceable  back  thirty-three  or  thirty-four  years,  at  which  time  it  was 
sold  at  auction  for  twenty-five  cents.  For  thirty  years  it  hung  without  frame  in  the  sit- 
ting-room of  a  farmer  in  Rhode  Island.  At  another  time  it  was  used  as  a  barrel-cover  in 
a  farmer's  garret,  and  still  later  ornamented  an  engine-house.  The  present  owner  (Rev. 
Henry  Baylies)  found  it  in  a  photograph  gallery  in  Fall  River,  Massachusetts."  Mr.  Bay- 
lies, now  a  lawyer  in  Boston,  sold  the  portrait  in  1891  to  C.  F.  Gunther,  of  Chicago.  George 
Rutter,  a  noted  sign-painter  and  ornamenter  of  Philadelphia,  made  a  likeness  of  Franklin 
which  is  referred  to  by  John  Penn  in  his"  Journal  of  a  Visit  in  1788  to  the  Towns  of  Read- 
ing, Harrisburg,  Carlisle,  and  Lancaster,  in  Pennsylvania":  "April  7th.  Left  the  tavern8  at 
half-past  seven  o'clock,  after  admiring  a  strong  likeness  of  Dr.  Franklin,  drawn  by  one  Rutter, 
a  limner  I  employ  in  Philadelphia." 9  A  portrait  of  Franklin  is  referred  to  in  the  following 
letter,  written  by  Franklin,  October  23,  1788,  to  Madame  Lavoisier:10  "I  should  sooner 
have  returned  my  thanks  for  her  very  kind  present  of  the  portrait,  which  she  has  herself 
done  me  the  honor  to  make  of  me.     It  is  allowed  by  those  who  have  seen  it  to  have 


1  "  Proceeding's  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,"  vol.  xiv  (1875— 1876),  pp.  160,  161. 
''  Bryan's  "Dictionary  of  Painters  and  Engravers,"  London,  1889,  vol.  ii,  p.  591. 

3  Frontispiece  to  vol.  iii,  Boston  edition,  1840. — (Cf.  engraving  by  Edward  Fisher  in  London  edition  of  "  Impartial  His- 
tory of  the  War  ") 

*  "An  English  painter  of  dead  game  and  still-life  who  died  at  Farnham,  where  he  principally  resided,  about  1 795-" — 
(Cf.  Spooner's  "  Dictionary  of  Painters,  Engravers,"  etc.,  p.  289.) 

6  A  cut  of  the  same  appears  in  Winsor's  "  Narrative  and  Critical  History  of  America,"  vol.  vii,  p.  39. 
'  "  Pennsylvania  Magazine  of  History  and  Biography  "  (1887),  vol.  xi,  p.  173. 

7  "  Pennsylvania  Magazine  of  History  and  Biography  "  (1887),  vol.  xi,  pp.  504,  505. 

'  Brooke's  tavern,  close  by  "The  Trappe,"  Montgomery  County,  Pennsylvania,  the  residence  of  Frederick  A.  Muhlenberg. 
""Pennsylvania  Magazine  of  History  and  Biography"  (1879),  vol.  iii,  p.  285. 

10  John  Bigelow's  "Life  of  Benjamin  Franklin,"  vol.  iii,  p.  412.  It  was  Major  Andre  who  carried  off  this  portrait  of 
Franklin. 


NOTES  ON  PORTRAITS. 


459 


great  merit  as  a  picture  in  every  respect ;  but  what  particularly  endears  it  to  me  is 
the  hand  that  drew  it.  Our  English  enemies,  when  they  were  in  possession  of  this  city 
and  my  house,  made  a  prisoner  of  my  portrait,  and  carried  it  off  with  them,  leaving 
that  of  its  companion,  my  wife,  by  itself,  a  kind  of  widow.  You  have  replaced  the  hus- 
band, and  the  lady  seems  to  smile  as  well  pleased."  A  portrait  of  Franklin  by  an  unknown 
artist  was  purchased  fifteen  years  ago  of  a  second-hand  dealer  by  H.  C.  Thompson,  of 
Philadelphia,  a  copy  of  which,  by  Snyder,  belongs  to  the  Library  Company  of  Philadel- 
phia ;  and  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania  is  said  to  own  another  portrait  by  an 
unknown  artist,  painted  about  1758,1  and  got  in  London.2  A  drawing  by  Louis  Carrogis 
de  Carmontelle  was  engraved  in  Paris  about  1  780  without  the  engraver's  name.8  It  is  one 
of  the  best  likenesses  of  Franklin,  and  shows  him  in  profile,  full  length,  seated.  The  por- 
trait in  the  Art  Museum,  Lausanne,  Switzerland,  formerly  belonged  to  Voltaire.4  The  most 
celebrated  miniature  of  Franklin,  and  one  that  has  been  extensively  copied,  is  by  Thouron, 
in  the  Louvre  in  Paris.  Charles  Henry  Hart  thus  speaks  of  two  miniatures  of  Franklin 
owned  by  him:  "The  miniature  by  Janinet5  was  purchased  at  the  sale  of  the  famous  Joseph's 
collection  in  London  in  the  spring  of  1890.  It  is  exquisitely  painted,  and  is  one  of  the 
most  thoughtful  portraits  of  Franklin  that  we  know.  The  smaller  miniature  has  every  in- 
trinsic evidence  of  being  an  original,  and  was  sent  over  from  Paris  about  a  year  ago.  Its 
authorship  is  unknown,  and,  while  a  very  interesting  portrait,  does  not  appear  from  its 
treatment  to  be  the  work  of  a  regular  miniaturist,  but  of  one  accustomed  to  broader 
handling."  A  miniature  of  Franklin  was  inherited  by  a  daughter  of  Thomas  W.  Sum- 
ner, of  Brookline,  Massachusetts,  and  is  now  owned  by  her  sister,  Mrs.  Matilda  R.  Greene, 
of  Walnut  Hills,  Cincinnati.6  Miss  Wheaton,  of  Cambridge,  daughter  of  the  late  Henry 
Wheaton,  gave  to  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society  in  1869  a  small  cabinet  picture 
which  is  "said  to  be  a  portrait  of  Benjamin  Franklin.  It  was  presented  to  Mr.  Wheaton  as 
such  about  the  year  1845,  in  Bamberg,  Batavia,  by  the  United  States  consul."7  Yale  College 
in  1 790  desired  Franklin  to  sit  for  a  portrait  for  that  institution,  but  Franklin's  death  prevented. 


'•'Pennsylvania  Magazine  of  History  and  Biography."  vol.  xi  (1887),  p.  173. 

3  F.  D.  Stone,  librarian. 

'The  engraving  is  reproduced  in  Hale's  "  Franklin  in  France,"  p.  84,  and  in  Franklin's  Writings,  edited  by  William  Duane 
(vol.  i,  edition  of  181 8).  Franklin's  portraits  were  engraved  by  the  following  English  engravers,  in  addition  to  those  whose 
names  have  been  already  given:  John  Page.  G.  F.  Storm,  Charles  N.  Wright,  and  Miss  Martinet. — (Evans'  "Catalogue  of 
British  Portraits,"  vol.  ii,  p.  159.)  Names  of  many  other  engravers  appear  in  the  collections  of  Franklin  engravings  at  the 
Boston  Public  Library  and  in  the  Metropolitan  Museum  of  Art,  New  York.— (Cf.  list  of  engraved  portraits  in  Winsor's  "  Nar- 
rative and  Critical  History  of  America,"  vol.  vii,  pp.  37-39.) 

4  Paul  Leicester  Ford,  of  Brooklyn,  New  York. 

'Engraved  in  Franklin's  "Essays,"  London,  1820,  J.  Sharp;  also  engraved  by  Scoles  in  Franklin's  Works,  New  York 
1825;  and  by  Pekenino,  New  York,  1821  and  1822.    But  these  engravings  are  entirely  different  from  Mr.  Hart's  miniature. 

*  Around  the  miniature  are  these  words :  "  Minerva  presents  her  favorite  son,  B.  Franklin,  the  greatest  genius  and  philan- 
thropist that  Boston  or  America  ever  produced,  with  the  cap  of  knowledge  and  crown  of  fame  and  glory." 

*  Letter  of  Jeremiah  Colburn,  of  the  New  England  Historic  Genealogical  Society,  in  "  Pennsylvania  Magazine  of  History 
and  Biography,"  vol.  xi  (1887),  pp.  504.  505. 


460 


TIM  C  /;'.\ '/  /:'. / L 


OF 


IV A  S  MING  TON'S  IN  A  UG  URA  Tl 'ON 


A  few  weeks  before  he  died,  however,  he  wrote  the  following  letter  to  Ezra  Stiles,  President  of 
Yale  College:1  "  You  have  an  excellent  artist  lately  arrived.  If  he  will  undertake  to  make  one 
for  you,  I  shall  cheerfully  pay  the  expense ;  but  he  must  not  delay  setting  about  it,  or  I  may 
slip  through  his  fingers,  for  I  am  now  in  my  eighty-fifth  year,  and  very  infirm."  Many  por- 
traits of  Franklin  were  painted  in  Paris.  During  the  summer  of  1777  his  leisure  was  "largely 
occupied  in  sitting  to  portrait-painters  and  other  artists  who  were  modeling  his  likeness." - 
One  likeness  was  drawn  in  1777  by  Charles  N.  Cochin  the  younger,3  and  has  been  many  times 
engraved.4  It  is  the  famous  and  familiar  "  fur-cap  "  Franklin.  The  portrait  of  Franklin  on 
Sevres  porcelain  which  is  marked  "  T.  Li<Snard," 5  and  which  Samuel  H.  Russell,  of  Boston, 
bought  in  London  in  1875,  is  after  the  Cochin  drawing.  "A  miniature  profile  done  by 
Wedgwood,0  in  white  china,  finely  delineated," 7  was  owned  by  Edward  Duffield,  Franklin's 
executor.  There  are  a  number  of  these  Wedgwood  medallions  in  existence.  Another  medal- 
lion made  at  the  Royal  Factory  at  Sevres  is  in  the  Boston  Public  Library.  The  Pennsyl- 
vania Historical  Society  owns  a  terra-cotta  medallion  portrait  of  Franklin,  which  was  obtained 
in  Paris  in  1850  by  Dr.  John  T.  Sharpless,  and  given  by  him  to  the  Historical  Society  in 
i860.  It  is  said  that  this  medallion,  with  about  one  hundred  other  impressions,  was  found 
in  1849  m  the  attic  of  an  old  chateau  belonging  to  the  De  Chaumont8  family.  It  is  by  the 
artist  Nini.  Samuel  A.  Green,  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  owns  two  Nini  medal- 
lions. A  circular  terra-cotta  medallion,  four  and  three  quarter  inches  in  diameter,  was  also 
done  by  Jean  Baptiste  Nini  in  1777,  and  was  presented  by  Charles  Seidler,  in  June  of  1884, 
to  the  National  Portrait  Gallery,  London.0  It  was  engraved  by  Grainger  in  1795. 10  Addi- 
tional portraits  of  Franklin  by  French  artists  are  the  well-known  "open-shirt"  picture,  by 
Madame  C.  Filleul,  and  allegorical  pictures  by  Honore  Fragonard,10  Louis  XVI's  painter, 


1  Letter  dated  March  19,  179a.  Franklin  died  April  17,  1790. — ("Life  of  Benjamin  Franklin,"  by  John  Bigelow,  vol.  iii, 
P-  459  > 

a    franklin  jn  France,"  by  E.  E.  Hale  and  E  E.  Hale,  Jr.,  vol.  ii,  pp.  150,  151. 
s  Born  in  Paris,  171  5;  died,  1788  or  1790. 

I  For  example,  as  a  folio  mezzotinto  published  by  J.  M.  Will  about  1777  ;  by  A.  H.  Ritchie  in  "  Cyclopaedia  of  American 
Literature,"  by  Evert  A.  and  George  C.  Duyckinck  (New  York,  1866). —  (Cf.  frontispiece  vol.  iv,  of  "The  Complete  Works  of 
Benjamin  Franklin,"  edited  by  John  Bigelow ;  and  engraving  by  Pollard  in  "An  Impartial  History  of  the  Present  War  in 
America,"  by  Rev.  James  Murray,  of  Newcastle,  1778,  vol.  i,  p.  49)  Mr.  Hart  says  the  most  important  print  is  that  engraved 
by  St.  Aubin  and  published  contemporaneously. 

5  Not  John  Baptist  Lienard  the  French  engraver,  nor  Edouard  Lienard,  portrait  and  miniature  painter,  Paris  (1779- 
1848). 

6  Josiah  Wedgwood,  the  great  improver  of  British  pottery  (1730-1795). 

'  Description  of  John  F.  Watson,  who  saw  the  miniature. — (Watson's  "  Annals  of  Philadelphia,"  edition  of  1830,  p.  514.) 

8  Catalogue  of  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania,  1872  (No.  83),  p.  30. — (Cf.  "  Franklin's  Home  and  Host  in  France," 
by  John  Bigelow. — "  Century  Magazine,"  vol.  xiii,  March,  1888,  pp.  741-754.) 

'  B.  F.  Stevens,  London. — (Cf.  Franklin's  letter  to  his  daughter,  June  3,  1779;  and  Hale's  "  Franklin  in  France."  p.  140.) 

"'  "  Pennsylvania  Magazine  of  History  and  Biography,"  vol.  xi  (1887),  pp.  173,  174. — (Cf.  Hale's  "  Franklin  in  France.")  A 
porcelain  medallion  made  by  Richard  Champion  in  Bristol,  England,  about  1778,  is  owned  by  Caspar  Wister  Hodge,  of  Prince- 
ton, New  Jersey  (Loan  Exhibition  of  1889,  No.  305). 

II  Born  in  Nice,  1 733,  admitted  to  the  French  Academy  in  1765,  and  died  in  1806. — (Bryan's  "Dictionary  of  Painters.") 
The  original  sepia  drawing  belongs  to  Clarence  S.  Bement,  of  Philadelphia. 


NOTES  OX  PORTRAITS. 


461 


who  etched  the  same,  and  by  A,  Borel,  1  778,  the  latter  engraved  by  J.  C.  Le  Vasseur.1  Of 
copies  of  Franklin's  portraits  are  a  bas-relief  modeled  by  Thomas  Sully,  owned  by  the  Frank- 
lin Institute,  Philadelphia;  one  in  the  Capitol  at  Harrisburg,  belonging  to  the  State  of  Penn- 
sylvania; one  at  Tufts  College,  in  Massachusetts;  and  others  in  different  parts  of  the  country, 
the  history  of  which  can  not  be  ascertained.  Among  the  busts  of  Franklin  is  the  one  repro- 
duced at  the  beginning  of  Chapter  II,  and  owned  by  Abram  S.  Hewitt,  of  New  York.2  The 
bust  was  executed  by  the  celebrated  sculptor  Houdon,  and  Mayor  Hewitt  says  :  "  There  is  no 
doubt  about  the  authenticity  of  the  work,  because  before  I  purchased  it  I  applied  to  Charles 
Clinton,  who  was  then  State  Librarian  at  Albany,  who  informed  me,  by  a  letter  in  my  posses- 
sion, that  he  remembered  very  well  the  time  when  the  bust  was  made,  and  the  fact  that  it  was 
in  his  father's  library  for  many  years.  Mr.  Clinton,  at  the  date  of  this  letter,  was  over  eighty 
years  of  age,  and  has  since  died."  In  the  American  Philosophical  Society  in  Philadelphia,3 
in  the  Louvre  in  Paris,  and  in  the  Metropolitan  Museum  of  Art  in  New  York,  are  other 
busts  of  Franklin  by  Houdon  ;  and  to  the  Boston  Athenaeum  belongs  another  Houdon  bust, 
which  was  once  the  property  of  Thomas  Jefferson,  and  was  received  from  his  grandson, 
Joseph  Coolidge,  of  Boston.  The  features  of  Franklin  in  this  Houdon  bust,  as  well  as  in 
the  Duplessis  portrait,  were  the  basis  upon  which  was  founded  the  likeness  in  the  bronze 
statue  of  Franklin  by  Richard  S.  Greenough  which  was  erected  in  Boston  in  1856.4  Lau- 
rence Hutton,  of  New  York,  has  a  replica  of  the  cast  of  Franklin's  living  face  in  plaster, 
believed  to  have  been  made  by  Houdon  in  Paris  as  a  guide  to  the  well-known  Houdon  bust. 
It  was  bought  at  the  sale  of  Houdon's  effects  in  Paris  some  years  after  the  sculptor's  death 
in  1828.  A  cast  of  Houdon's  bust  is  in  the  New  York  Historical  Society.  Houdon's 
bust  of  Franklin  is  reproduced  in  Sparks'  "  Franklin,"  and  in  Henry  Stevens'  "  Benja- 
min Franklin's  Life  and  Writings."  Giuseppe  Ceracchi  executed  a  bust  of  Franklin,  which 
was  purchased  of  the  sculptor  by  Alexander  James  Dallas,  Secretary  of  the  Treasury 
under  Madison,  who  presented  the  same  to  his  daughter,  Mrs.  Richard  Bache,  daughter- 
in-law  of  Richard  Bache.  The  bust  is  now  owned  by  Mrs.  Baches  son-in-law,  Charles 
Abert,  "  Homewood,"  Norbeck  Post-Office,  Montgomery  County,  Maryland.3  Another 
Ceracchi  bust  of  Franklin  was  purchased  in  181 1  by  the  Pennsylvania  Academy  of  the 
Fine  Arts.  Charles  R.  Hildeburn  says:  "The  Ceracchi  bust  of  Franklin  was  probably  made 
in  London  about  1772,  or  in  France  before  1  783,  as  it  was  engraved  for  an  Italian  edition 


1  Cf.  "Journal  de  Politique  et  de  Litterature,"  June  15.  1778. 

2  Loan  Exhibition  of  1889  (No.  306). 

5  Presented  by  Franklin's  nephew,  Jonathan  Williams,  in  1800. — (Minutes  of  the  American  Philosophical  Society,"  August 
15,  1800.    Cf.  Duane's  edition  of  Franklin's  "Works,"  1809.) 

*  "  Memorial  of  the  Inauguration  of  the  Statue  of  Franklin  "  (Boston,  1858),  p.  374.  Greenough  said  he  tried  to  represent 
in  this  statue  the  two  faces  of  Franklin,  the  one  indicating  mirth  and  fun,  and  the  other  the  face  of  a  philosopher. — ("  Proceed- 
ings of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,"  vol.  x,  i867-'69,  pp.  412,  413.  Remarks  of  E.  E.  Hale.)  A  drawing  by  Bonnieu 
after  the  Houdon  bust  was  engraved  by  Chevillet. 

6  Statement  of  Mr.  Abert. — (Cf.  "  Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,"  vol.  xii,  1871-73,  p.  81.) 


462       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


of  Franklin's  political  works  published  in  1783.  There  is  a  replica  in  the  Hopkinson  collec- 
tion at  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania's  rooms"  A  bust  from  life,  executed  in  France, 
was  first  engraved  by  T.  Hollovvay,1  and  a  "  bust,  apparently  from  a  medallion  in  wax,"  was 
"probably  first  engraved  for  the  Westminster  Magazine,  October,  178a"2  In  1871  Earl  Stan- 
hope presented  to  the  Royal  Society  in  England  the  bust  which  had  descended  to  him 
from  his  great-grandfather,  the  second  Earl  Stanhope.  B.  F.Stevens  owns  a  statuette  of  Frank- 
lin,3 a  fine  example  of  French  bronze- work  of  a  hundred  years  ago.  The  bust  by  Isaac 
Broome,  at  the  Pennsylvania  Academy  of  the  Fine  Arts,  is  a  copy.  The  Boston  Public 
Library  owns  Augustin  Duprd's  pencil  sketch  for  both  sides  of  a  medal  of  Franklin.  This 
original  sketch  differs  in  many  particulars  from  the  medal  itself  in  the  United  States  Mint, 
which  is  reproduced  in  Loubat's  "The  Medallic  History  of  the  United  States  of  America."  4 
A  French  medal  of  Franklin  was  owned  by  his  executor,  Edward  Duffield.5  The  Boston 
Public  Library  owns  dies  of  the  head  of  Franklin,  and  about  two  hundred  and  fifty  engraved 
portraits  and  prints  of  him.  The  Huntington  collection  in  the  Metropolitan  Museum  of  Art, 
New  York,  of  portraits  of  Franklin,  presented  to  the  Museum  by  Hon.  John  Bigelow, 
includes,  in  addition  to  the  collection  of  engraved  portraits  and  Houdon  bust  and  Elmer  oil- 
painting,  porcelain  statuettes,  plaster  casts,  a  mammoth  intaglio  in  plaster,  portraits  on  pottery 
by  European,  Chinese,  and  Japanese  artists,  two  portraits  in  oil  (one  evidently  a  copy  of  the 
other  6),  and  a  dozen  or  more  miniatures  and  medallions  by  unknown  artists,  some  of  which 
may  be  by  or  after  Thouron,  Cochin,  and  Nini.  Clarence  S.  Bement,  Charles  Henry  Hart, 
and  Dr.  Thomas  Hewson  Bache,  of  Philadelphia,  each  have  large  collections  of  engraved  por- 
traits of  Franklin.  Of  portraits  not  referred  to,  mention  should  have  been  made  of  a  portrait  of 
Franklin,  once  owned  by  Dr.  James  Hamilton,  said  to  have  been  the  last  one  painted,  and 
engraved  by  William  Evans;7  and  a  portrait  owned  by  George  Washington,  engraved 8  by 
J.  Hopwood,  and  again  in  London  in  1826  by  R.  Page. 

Gale,  George. — The  only  known  portrait  of  George  Gale,  member  from  Maryland  of 
the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  are  the  two  miniatures  owned  by  his  grand- 
nieces,  Mrs.  George-Anna  Murphy  and  Miss  Anna  Maria  Chamberlaine,  of  Baltimore, 
Maryland. 


'"History  of  the  British  Empire,"  vol.  ii,  Philadelphia,  1798.— (Cf.  engraving  by  Thackera  and  Wallace,  in  Franklin's 
"Life,"  Philadelphia,  1794;  and  by  Scoles  in  Franklin's  "Life,"  fourth  American  edition,  Danbury,  1795.) 
3  "  Pennsylvania  Magazine  of  History  and  Biography,"  vol.  xi,  p.  174. 

3  A  small  porcelain  statuette,  made  in  Paris,  was  owned  by  the  late  S.  L.  M.  Barlow  (Loan  Exhibition  of  1889,  No.  307). 

4  Page  93. — In  the  "American  Journal  of  Numismatics,"  Boston.  January,  1873,  W.  S.  Appleton  gives  a  description  of 
thirty-nine  medals  in  honor  of  Franklin. — (Cf.  "American  Journal  of  Numismatics,"  July  and  October,  1874,  pp.  4,  25.) 

'Watson's  "Annals,"  Philadelphia.  1830,  p.  514. 

6  General  Louis  P.  di  Cesnola,  Director  of  the  Metropolitan  Museum  of  Art,  New  York. 

T  "Works  of  the  late  Dr.  Benjamin  Franklin,"  etc.,  Edinburgh,  printed  by  D.  Schaw  &  Son,  1803,  2  vols.,  i6mo.  The  en 
graving  is  in  the  copy  owned  by  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania. 

"  Published  in  London.  1801,  by  Mr.  Jones,  and  in  Franklin's  Works,  London,  1802  and  1806. 


NOTES  ON  PORTRAITS. 


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Gardoqui,  Don  Diego  de. — The  portrait  of  Don  Diego  de  Gardoqui,  charge*  d'affaires 
from  Spain  to  the  United  States  in  1789,  reproduced  in  this  volume,  is  a  miniature  painted  by 
the  court  artist  of  King  Charles  IV  of  Spain,  Francisco  Goya  y  Lucientes 1  by  name,  and 
owned  by  Gardoqui's  great-grandson,  Cesareo  de  Gardoqui,  Yalladolid,  Spain.2  A  portrait 
of  Gardoqui  by  C.  W.  Peale  was  exhibited  at  Peale's  Museum  in  Philadelphia  in  1795,  and 
was  sold  at  auction  in  1854  at  the  Peale  sale  of  portraits.3 

Gerry,  Elbridge. — On  the  back  of  the  portrait  of  the  crayon  drawing  by  John  Yanderlyn 
of  Elbridge  Gerry,  member  from  Massachusetts  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution, 
are  the  words:  "Taken  at  Paris  the  beginning  of  July,  1798,  by  Mr.  Yanderlyn,  a  young 
gentleman  of  New  York."  A  copy  in  oil  of  this  portrait  was  made  in  1846  by  a  New- 
Haven  artist,  Nathaniel  Jocelyn,  and  this  copy,  as  well  as  the  Yanderlyn  original,  are  in 
the  possession  of  Elbridge  Gerry's  daughter,  Miss  Emily  L.  Gerry,  who  lives,  at  an  advanced 
age,  in  New  Haven.  Other  copies  in  oil  of  the  Yanderlyn  drawing  of  Elbridge  Gerry  are 
owned  by  General  E.  D.  Townsend,  a  grandson,  of  Washington,  D.  C,  by  Amory  Austin,  a 
great-grandson,  of  Newport,  Rhode  Island,  and  by  the  city  of  Philadelphia.  The  last  one 
is  deposited  in  Independence  Hall.  There  is  an  engraving  from  the  same  Yanderlyn  origi- 
nal, which  was  published  July  4,  181 1,  by  J.  R.  Smith,  and  is  now  owned  by  the  city  of 
Boston,  being  deposited  in  the  "  Old  State-House."  J.  B.  Longacre  also  made  an  engrav- 
ing of  the  same  portrait,  which  is  in  Sanderson's  "  Signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Independ- 
ence." The  miniature  of  Elbridge  Gerry  by  John  Ramage,  in  the  possession  of  Elbridge 
Gerry's  grandson,  Elbridge  T.  Gerry,  of  New  York,  is  a  companion  portrait  of  the  minia- 
ture of  Mrs.  Elbridge  Gerry  by  the  same  artist,  and  belonging  to  the  same  owner.  The 


1  Born  in  174.6,  and  died  in  1828.  "  A  popular  artist  of  the  Spanish  capital,  and  a  prime  favorite  with  its  fashionable  soci- 
ety. The  Prince  of  Asturias  honored  him  with  his  notice,  and,  when  he  succeeded  to  the  throne  as  Charles  IV,  appointed  him 
his  painter-in-ordinary,  1789.  When  the  crown  descended  to  the  unworthy  head  of  Ferdinand  VII,  he  was  continued  in  his 
post." — (Stirling's  "Annals  of  the  Artists  of  Spain.") 

'  The  owner  of  the  miniature  inherited  the  same  from  his  paternal  grandmother,  who  was  a  daughter  of  the  Spanish  charge 
d'affaires  and  married  her  own  cousin,  Don  Cesareo  de  Gardoqui.  The  decoration  which  is  represented  on  the  right  breast 
of  Gardoqui  in  the  miniature  is  the  order  of  Charles  III.  This  order,  as  well  as  the  costume  Gardoqui  wore  when  the  miniature 
was  painted,  are  in  the  possession  of  his  great-grandson  at  Yalladolid.  The  miniature  was  photographed  through  the  inter- 
vention of  Hon.  E.  Burd  Grubb,  United  States  minister  to  Spain,  who  communicated  with  the  Duke  of  Tetuan,  the  Minister  of 
State,  who,  after  finding  the  owner  of  the  miniature,  and  obtaining  a  photograph  therefrom,  wrote  to  General  Grubb,  at  the 
United  States  legation  in  Madrid.    The  letter  is  translated  as  follows  : 

Office  of  the  Minister  of  Foreign  Affairs,  Private  Cabinet,  November  26,  1890. 
Dear  Sir:  Confirming  my  letter  of  the  29th  ult.,  and  having  succeeded  in  the  endeavor  to  comply  with  your  wishes,  I 
have  the  pleasure  of  sending  you  inclosed  a  photograph  taken  from  a  miniature  portrait  of  Don  Diego  de  Gardoqui,  formerly 
minister  of  Spain  in  New  York  which  I  obtained  through  the  kindness  of  one  of  his  descendants.    Your  friend  and  obedient 
servant,  Tetuan. 

Following  is  a  translation  of  the  inscription  on  the  photograph  referred  to  in  the  Duke  of  Tetuan's  letter: 

I  have  the  honor  of  placing  at  the  disposal  of  the  Charge  d'affaires  of  the  United  States,  in  accordance  with  his  wish,  this 
photographic  copy  of  the  miniature  portrait  of  my  ancestor,  his  Excellency  Senor  Don  Diego  de  Gardoqui,  Knight  of  the  Grand 
Cross  of  the  Roval  Order  of  Charles  III,  Chamberlain  to  his  Majesty,  Minister  Plenipotentiary  of  Spain  in  the  American  States, 
Member  of  the  Council  of  India,  and  Director  of  the  Department  of  Commerce,  Secretary  of  State  and  of  Internal  Affairs,  etc. 

(Signed)  Cesareo  de  Gardoqui. 

Valladolid,  November  21,  1890. 

'  Catalogues  of  Peale's  Museum  and  Peale  sale,  owned  by  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania. 


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portraits  of  Elbridge  Gerry  by  John  Trumbull  and  Edward  Savage  in  the  paintings  entitled : 
"  Signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence,"  owned  respectively  by  Yale  University  and 
the  Boston  Museum,  complete  the  list  of  original  portraits  of  Elbridge  Gerry. 

Gerry,  Mrs.  Elbridge.— Besides  the  miniature  by  John  Ramage  of  Mrs.  Elbridge 
Gerry  in  the  possession  of  her  grandson,  Elbridge  T.  Gerry,  of  New  York,  there  is  another 
miniature  by  the  same  artist  in  the  possession  of  her  grandniece,  Catharine  Thompson  Clay, 
wife  of  John  W.  Clay,  of  Marysville,  Campbell  County,  Virginia.  Mrs.  Clay  inherited  the 
miniature  from  her  mother,  Catharine  Coles  Payne,  who  was  a  daughter  of  Isaac  Coles,  mem- 
ber of  Congress  from  Virginia  in  1789,  and  a  niece  of  Mrs.  Elbridge  Gerry.  The  miniature 
is  painted  on  ivory  with  gold  back.  Both  of  these  miniatures  by  Ramage  represent  her  at 
about  the  age  of  twenty-five  or  twenty-six  and  were  painted  about  1789.  In  addition  to 
the  miniatures  by  Ramage,  there  is  another  portrait  of  Mrs.  Elbridge  Gerry  in  the  pos- 
session of  her  grandson,  General  E.  D.  Townsend,  of  Washington,  D.  C.  Although  General 
Townsend  remembers  this  portrait  so  far  back  as  1820,  it  is  not  known  who  the  artist  is. 
It  is  a  panel  portrait,  and  hangs  beside  a  copy  of  the  Vanderlyn  portrait  of  Elbridge  Gerry. 
Nathaniel  Jocelyn,  of  New  Haven,  painted  a  portrait  of  Thomas  R.  Gerry,  son  of  Elbridge 
Gerry,  and  also  copied  the  Vanderlyn  crayon  of  Elbridge  Gerry ;  but  General  Townsend 
is  of  the  opinion  that  Jocelyn  did  not  paint  the  portrait  of  his  grandmother,  which  he 
owns. 

Giles,  William  B. — -The  Virginia  Historical  Society  owns  a  full-length  portrait  of  Gov- 
ernor Giles  by  Chester  Harding,  which  was  painted  by  Harding  when  he  visited  Richmond 
in  1829.1  This  portrait  is  reproduced  in  this  volume.  Very  similar  to  the  Harding  por- 
trait of  Giles  is  the  one  painted  by  Bass  Otis  in  181 6,  and  now  owned  by  Giles's  grand- 
daughter, Mrs.  Frances  Gwynn  Townes,  of  Richmond,  Virginia.  Mrs.  Townes  says:  "The 
portrait  by  Harding  was  painted  in  1829  or  1830,  a  very  short  time  before  my  grand- 
father's death,  while  the  one  in  my  possession  had  hung  on  the  wall  with  that  of  his  wife 
at  his  country  house,  '  The  Wigwam,'  in  Amelia  County,  many  years  before  his  death. 
These  portraits  were  left  to  my  father  at  my  grandfather's  death,  because  he  bore  the  name 
William  B.  Giles.  My  belief  is  so  strong  in  tradition  that  I  am  forced  to  believe  that  the 
portrait  in  my  possession  is  an  original.  The  portrait  of  Governor  Giles  by  Chester  Hard- 
ing hung  in  my  house  many  years,  while  the  rooms  of  the  Virginia  Historical  Society 
were  used  for  another  purpose  during  the  war.  Here  my  uncle  and  aunt,  then  living,  saw 
the  Harding  portrait,  and  said  it  was  a  fine  likeness,  and  represented  an  older  man  than 
the  one  I  own.  My  portrait  was  painted  in  Philadelphia.  Several  copies  have  been  made 
for  other  members  of  the  family."     Miss  Hartley  Graham,3  of  the  Louise  Home,  Washing- 


1  •' A  Sketch  of  Chester  Harding,  Artist,"  edited  by  his  daughter,  Mrs.  Margaret  E.  White,  pp.  184,  195,  198,  200. 
'  Her  half-sister,  eighteen  years  older,  was  the  second  wife  of  Governor  Giles. 


Artist,  Joseph  Sifrede  Duplessis.  Owned  by  the  Cm  of 
Boston  and  deposited  in  the  Boston  Public  Library. 


Artist,  Jean  Baptists  Greuze.  Owned  by 
the  Boston  Athenaeum  and  deposited  in  the 
Museum  of  Fine  Arts.  Boston. 


Artist,  Jean  Baptiste  Gkeuze.  Owned  mvih£  City  oi- 
Boston  and  deposited  in  the  Boston  Public  Library. 


AGE  20. 

From  a  portrait  said  to  have  been  painted  in  London  in 
i726,  and  owned  by  harvard  university. 


Artist.  Stephen  Elmer.  Owned  by  the  Me 
Museum  of  Art.  New  York. 


Artist,  George  Dunlop  Leslie.  R.  A.,  (after  portrait  by 
Mason  Chamberlin.)    Owned  by  Harvard  University. 


Artist.  Thomas  Gainsborough.  R  A.  Owned  by  Henry 
Charles-Keith-Petty  Fitz  M  aurice.  Marquess  of  Lands- 
downe,  Bowood  Park. Wiltshire.  England.  (Copied  from 
a  photograph  owned  by  the  massachusetts  historical 
Society.) 


PORTRAITS  OF   BENJAMIN  FRANKLIN. 


NOTES  ON  PORTRAITS. 


465 


ton,  D.  C,  aged  eighty-one,  and  a  sister-in-law  of  William  B.  Giles,  says  of  the  photograph 
of  the  portrait  owned  by  Mrs.  Townes :  "  I  was  seventeen  when  Governor  Giles  died  at  the 
Wigwam.  The  photograph  is  from  the  painting  which  was  at  the  Wigwam  ever  since  I 
could  remember,  and  was  painted,  I  always  heard,  by  Otis,  of  Boston,  who  painted  at  the 
same  time  my  sister,  Mrs.  Giles.  In  1818  Otis  painted,  in  Philadelphia,  the  portrait  of 
another  sister,  which  I  own.  The  Otis  portrait  of  Giles  is  a  speaking  likeness  of  him." 
In  another  letter  Miss  Graham  adds:  "The  portrait  of  my  brother-in-law,  William  B.  Giles, 
was  painted  by  Otis,  of  Boston,  and  when  I  was  in  Boston,  in  the  summer  of  1844,  Mr- 
Isaac  Davis  took  me  frequently  to  the  library,  and,  among  many  distinguished  portraits 
that  hung  round  one  room,  near  the  ceiling,  if  I  remember  correctly,  was  a  head  of  Will- 
iam B.  Giles.  I  have  little  doubt  the  head  I  saw  in  the  library  was  the  work  of  Otis." 1 
Instead  of  the  portrait  owned  by  Mrs.  Townes  being  an  original  by  C.  W.  Pealc,  as  she  had 
supposed,  or  a  copy  of  the  Harding  portrait,  as  seemed  more  likely,  Miss  Graham's  assertion 
that  the  portrait  was  painted  by  Bass  Otis2  in  Philadelphia  was  found  correct,  as  it  was 
exhibited  in  18 16  at  the  Pennsylvania  Academy  of  the  Fine  Arts.  The  following  extract  is 
taken  from  the  catalogue  of  the  Exhibition  :  "  W.  B.  Giles,  Senator  from  Virginia,  by  B.  Otis." 
The  miniature  of  William  B.  Giles  owned  by  his  great-granddaughter,  Miss  Elizabeth  F 
Townes,  of  Richmond,  Virginia,  was  the  property  of  Governor  Giles's  wife,  Frances  Gwynn, 
at  whose  death  it  was  given  to  one  of  Governor  Giles's  daughters,  and  then  descended  to 
the  present  owner.  Mrs.  William  Overton  (born  Nancy  Blanche  Giles),  of  "Prospect  Hill," 
Trevilian's,  Louisa  County,  Virginia,  owns  a  miniature  of  her  grandfather,  William  B.  Giles, 
which  is  also  reproduced  in  this  volume.  Mrs.  Overton  says  that  she  understood  the  minia- 
ture was  painted  in  181  2  in  Washington  City.  She  adds:  "On  removing  the  hair  from  the 
back  (of  the  miniature)  I  find  a  cardboard  with  '  Market  Street,  Philadelphia,'  printed  upon 
it.  I  know  positively  that  it  is  an  original  miniature.  It  was  given  me  by  my  uncle, 
Thomas  Tabb  Giles,  eldest  son  of  Governor  Giles."  In  a  note  to  his  wife,  written  in  181 2, 
and  owned  by  Mrs.  Overton,  Governor  Giles  says:  "The  miniature-painter  called  on  me  at 
the  Senate-chamber  this  morning,  and  I  immediately  returned  with  him  to  my  chambers 
and  had  one  sitting  for  the  miniature.  He  requested  me  to  say  to  you  that  you  may  be 
assured  of  a  striking  and  animated  likeness.  This  occurrence  is  particularly  agreeable  to 
me,  as  I  hope  it  may  contribute  in  some  small  degree  to  the  happiness  of  my  beloved 
Frances,  and  to  see  her  happy  would  be  the  delight  of  my  heart."  A  copy  of  this  minia- 
ture, as  well  as  of  an  oil-painting  of  Giles,  are  owned  by  a  granddaughter,  Mrs.  Samuel 
Augustine  Robinson,  of  Washington,  D.  C.  A  portrait  of  William  B.  Giles,  painted  by 
Gilbert  Stuart,  is  owned  by  Clarence  Winthrop  Bowen,  of  Brooklyn,  New  York.  Mrs. 
Mattie  Paul  Myers,  a  member  of  the  Giles  family,  of  Richmond,  Va.,  says :  "  I  hear  that  the 


1  No  such  portrait  can  be  found  in  any  of  the  public  institutions  in  Boston. 

5  Dunlap's  "  History  of  the  Arts  of  Design,"  vol.  ii,  p.  227. 
60 


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best  portrait  and  likeness  of  Giles  was  owned  by  his  friend  Mr.  Venable,  of  Prince  Edward 
County,  Virginia."  This  is  the  portrait  painted  by  Gilbert  Stuart,  and  is  thus  described  by 
II ugh  Carrington  Grigsby,  of  Smithville,  Charlotte  County,  Virginia,  a  son  of  Hugh  Blair 
Grigsby,  LL.  D. :  "Mr.  Giles  presented  his  portrait  to  his  intimate  friend  Richard  Venable,1 
of  Prince  Edward,  Virginia.  Mr.  Venable  served  with  ray  father  and  Mr.  Giles  in  the  cele- 
brated Virginia  Convention  of  i829-'30,  of  which  he,  my  father,  wrote  a  discourse.  Mr.  Ven- 
able presented  the  portrait  to  the  Philanthropic  Society  of  Hampden-Sidney  College.2  On 
the  occasion  of  an  outbreak  of  the  students  the  portrait  was  much  mutilated,  and  it  got  back 
to  the  hands  of  one  of  the  grandsons  of  Mr.  Venable,  and  from  him  my  father  purchased  it. 
My  mother  writes  me  that  my  father  valued  it  as  much  on  account  of  its  being  painted  by 
Gilbert  Stuart  as  being  the  portrait  of  so  great  a  patriot  and  statesman  as  was  Giles.  The 
portrait  was  painted  about  the  same  time  that  another  was  painted  of  Washington  by  the  same 
hand.  Mother  says  that  she  has  often  heard  the  two  portraits  compared,  and  that  there  was 
no  doubt  in  my  father's  mind  as  to  who  was  the  painter.  This  is  also  my  recollection,  which 
I  did  not  venture  to  state  until  I  was  reassured  by  my  mother's  memory.  My  father  was  very 
exact  about  such  matters."  Hugh  Blair  Grigsby,  of  "  Edge  Hill,"  near  Charlotte  Court-House, 
Virginia,  addressed  a  letter  on  March  30,  1866,  to  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  of 
which  he  was  a  corresponding  member,  saying  that  he  had  become  a  purchaser  of  the  Stu- 
art portrait  of  Governor  Giles  painted  prior  to  1795,  which  represents  him  as  a  very  handsome 
man.3  Mr.  Grigsby  adds  in  his  letter:  "  I  knew  him  personally  as  far  back  as  forty  years  ago, 
when  he  was  one  of  the  handsomest  men  I  ever  saw.  His  health  was  bad  for  many  years 
before  he  died."  John  Trumbull  could  not  have  painted  Giles,  as  he  had  but  a  slight  acquaint- 
ance with  him,  and  never  spoke  to  him  after  1  793-4  But  there  was  a  portrait  of  him  as  a 
young  man,  which  Giles  presented  to  a  young  lady  in  Philadelphia  ;  and  another  portrait,  in 
Barnum's  Museum,  New  York,  was  destroyed  by  fire.5  Giles  was  lame  and  always  used  a 
crutch,  and  the  Harding  portrait  has  this  crutch  by  his  chair.6  The  portrait  owned  by  the 
State  of  Virginia  and  deposited  in  the  Capitol  at  Richmond  is  a  copy  by  W.  B.  Myers. 
Another  copy  is  owned  by  the  artist's  wife,  Mrs.  Mattie  P.  Myers,  of  Richmond. 

Gilman,  Nicholas. — The  only  known  portraits  of  Nicholas  Gilman,  member  from  New 
Hampshire  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  arc  the  three  reproduced  in  this  vol- 
ume.   Ex-Governor  Charles  H.  Bell,  of  Exeter,  New  Hampshire,  says :  "  There  are  three 


I  Richard  N.  Venable  was  at  Princeton  College  with  Giles,  graduating  the  year  after,  or  in  1782.  He  was  Secretary  of  the 
Virginia  Convention  of  i829-'30.  Abram  B.  Venable  graduated  from  Princeton  College  in  1780,  and  was  United  States  Senator. 
He  was  burned  in  the  Richmond  Theatre,  December  26,  181 1. 

'  S.  O.  Southall,  of  the  University  of  Virginia,  in  a  letter  dated  October  30,  1880,  to  C.  V.  Woodson,  of  Prince  Edward. 
Virginia  (Richmond  Dispatch,  November  15,  1 891 ),  says  :  "  I  remember  when  I  was  at  college  the  '  Phips'  had  in  one  of  the  re- 
cesses of  their  hall  a  portrait  of  Governor  Giles  so  mutilated  that  it  was  not  exhibited  in  public.  I  know  of  no  reason  why  they 
should  have  possessed  such  a  portrait,  unless  they  claimed  him  as  a  member  and  probably  one  of  the  founders  of  their  society." 

'  George  C.  Mason's  "  Life  and  Works  of  Gilbert  Stuart,"  p.  185. 

4  *'  Reminiscences  of  His  Own  Times  from  1756  to  1841,"  by  Colonel  J.  Trumbull,  pp.  170-172,  352. 

II  Mrs.  William  Overton.  s  Miss  Hartley  Graham,  sister-in-law,  of  Louise  Home,  Washington,  D.  C. 


NOTES  ON  PORTRAITS. 


467 


original  portraits  of  Nicholas  Gilman,  one  of  life-size  upon  a  panel,  painted  ;  a  miniature, 
colored  ;  and  a  pencil-drawing  on  paper.  The  first  came  from  the  family  of  Van  Cortlandt,  of 
New  York,  of  whom  Nicholas  Gilman  was  a  near  friend.  It  was  probably  painted  after 
the  pencil  sketch  and  in  conformity  to  the  recollections  of  friends,  by  Henry  Williams,  of 
Boston,  in  1815,  the  year  after  Gilman's  death.  It  is  not  thought  to  be  the  best  likeness, 
and  has  never  been  copied,  that  I  know  of.  The  second  is  a  beautifully  finished  miniature, 
conjectured  to  be  by  Malbone.  It  represents  him  as  younger  than  the  other.  It  has  been 
copied  in  lithograph,  and  has  been  etched  (and  enlarged)  by  A.  Rosenthal.  The  pencil 
drawing  is  badly  mildewed,  so  as  to  be  nearly  ruined  ;  but  it  is  believed  to  have  been  the 
best  likeness  of  all.  The  oil-painting  is  in  the  possession  of  John  G.  Gilman,  the  miniature 
in  the  possession  of  my  wife,  and  the  pencil-drawing  in  that  of  Colonel  Edward  H.  Gilman, 
all  of  this  town."  Charles  Henry  Hart,  of  Philadelphia,  thinks  the  miniature  of  Gilman 
may  have  been  painted  by  C.  W.  Peale ;  and  ex-Governor  Bell  adds :  "  I  do  not  suppose 
there  is  any  evidence  that  the  miniature  was  by  Malbone,  only  some  one  has  ascribed  it  to 
him.    It  may  well  enough  be  that  it  was  by  C.  W.  Peale." 

Goodhue,  Benjamin. — A  portrait  of  Benjamin  Goodhue,  member  from  Massachusetts 
of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  which  belongs  to  his  great-granddaughter,  Mrs. 
Percy  R.  King,  of  New  York,  was  painted  by  Joseph  Wright  in  1 790,  or  at  the  time  Con- 
gress was  in  session  in  New  York,  when  Wright  painted  the  portraits  of  President  \Yashing- 
ton  as  well  as  Speaker  Muhlenberg  and  other  members  of  Congress.  The  artist  James  Sharp- 
less  drew  a  pastel  of  Benjamin  Goodhue,  but  this  portrait  has  never  been  in  the  possession 
of  the  family.  After  Goodhue's  death  his  executors  wrote  to  the  artist  regarding  the  por- 
trait, but  it  could  not  be  found.    The  whereabouts  of  the  Sharpless  portrait  is  not  known.1 

Grayson,  William. — There  is  no  portrait  of  William  Grayson,  member  from  Virginia  of 
the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution.  The  following  pen-portrait  of  Grayson,  as  he 
appeared  in  1788,  was  written  by  Hugh  Blair  Grigsby,  LL.  D.  :a 

"The  physical  qualities  of  Grayson  were  quite  as  distinctive  as  the  intellectual.  He  was  considered,  as 
we  have  already  said,  the  handsomest  man  in  the  convention.  He  had  a  most  comely  and  imposing  person  ; 
his  stature  exceeded  six  feet,  and,  though  his  weight  exceeded  two  hundred  and  fifty  pounds,  such  was  the 
symmetry  of  his  figure,  that  the  beholder  was  struck  more  with  its  height  than  its  magnitude.  His  head  was 
very  large,  but  its  outline  was  good ;  his  forehead  unusually  broad  and  high,  and  in  its  resemblance  to  that 
of  Chalmers  indicating  a  predilection  for  the  abstract  sciences;  his  eyes  were  black  and  deep-seated,  his  nose 
large  and  curved,  his  lips  well  formed,  disclosing  teeth  white  and  regular,  which  retained  their  beauty  to  the 
last ;  a  fine  complexion  gave  animation  to  the  whole.  When  he  was  walking  his  head  leaned  slightly  forward, 
as  if  he  were  lost  in  thought.    Lest  our  sketch  may  seem  to  be  overdrawn — although  no  person  who,  as  an 


1  Statement  of  Mrs.  Percy  R.  King,  great-granddaughter. 

'  "  History  of  the  Virginia  Federal  Convention  of  1788,  with  some  Account  of  the  Eminent  Virginians  of  that  Era  who  were 
members  of  the  Body,  by  Hugh  Blair  Grigsby,  LL.  D.,  with  a  Biographical  Sketch  of  the  Author  and  Illustrative  Notes," 
edited  by  R.  A.  Brock,  Secretary  of  the  Virginia  Historical  Society,  vol.  i,  pp.  202,  203. — (Virginia  Historical  Society  Collec- 
tions, vol.  ix,  new  series.) 


I 

468       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 

adult,  had  known  Grayson,  with  one  exception,  is  now  alive — we  have  fortunately  a  singular  proof  of  the  fidel- 
ity of  the  portrait  which  we  have  delineated.  W  hen  Grayson  had  lain  forty-six  years  in  his  coffin  its  lid  was 
lifted,  and  there  his  majestic  form  lay  as  if  it  had  been  recently  wrapped  in  the  shroud.  The  face  was  uncov- 
ered by  the  hand  of  a  descendant,  and  its  noble  features,  which  had  frowned  in  battle,  which  had  sparkled  in 
debate,  and  on  which  the  eyes  long  closed  of  tender  affection  had  loved  to  dwell,  were  fresh  and  full.  The 
towering  forehead  ;  the  long  black  hair,  the  growth  of  the  grave;  the  black  eye,  glazed  and  slightly  sunken, 
yet  eloquent  of  its  ancient  fire ;  the  large  Roman  nose  ;  the  finely  wrought  hp;  the  perfect  teeth,  which  be- 
spoke a  temperate  life,  ended  too  soon ;  the  wide-expanded  chest ;  the  long  and  sinewy  limbs,  terminating  in 
those  small  and  delicate  hands  that  rested  on  his  breast,  and  in  those  small  feet  that  had  been  motionless  so 
long;  the  grand  and  graceful  outline  of  the  form  as  it  was  when  laid  away  to  its  final  rest — told  touchingly 
with  what  faithfulness  tradition  had  retained  the  image  of  the  beloved  original." 

Mr.  Grigsby  adds,  in  a  foot-note: 

"  I  derive  the  particulars  of  the  appearance  of  Colonel  Grayson  in  his  coffin  from  Robert  Grayson  Carter, 
Esq.,  of  Grayson,  Carter  County,  Kentucky,  who  uncovered  the  face  of  Grayson  and  examined  the  body. 
He  particularly  alludes  to  the  size  of  the  head,  and  of  the  smallness  of  hands  and  feet,  the  hair,  the 
features,  and  the  teeth." 

Griffin,  Lady  Christiana  Stewart. — An  effort  was  made,  without  success,  to  discover 
a  portrait  of  Lady  Christiana  Stewart  Griffin,  wife  of  Cyrus  Griffin,  the  last  President  of  the 
Continental  Congress.  Mrs.  Leyburn,  the  late  wife  of  John  Leyburn,  D.  D.,  pastor  of  the  Ac- 
sociate  Reformed  Church  of  Baltimore,  was  the  granddaughter  of  Lady  Christiana  Stewart 
Griffin,  and  knew  of  no  portrait  of  her  grandmother. 

Griffin,  Cyrus. — The  only  known  portrait  of  Cyrus  Griffin,  the  last  President  of  the 
Continental  Congress,  is  the  miniature  painted  in  1  799  1  by  Lawrence  Sully,  the  elder  brother 
of  Thomas  Sully,  and  owned  by  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania,  which  received  the 
same  as  a  gift  from  the  late  Louisa  Stewart  Mercer  Leyburn,  wife  of  Rev.  John  Leyburn, 
D.  D.,  late  pastor  of  the  Associate  Reformed  Church  of  Baltimore,  daughter  of  Colonel  Hugh 
Mercer,  of  Fredericksburg,  Virginia,  and  granddaughter  of  Cyrus  Griffin.  A  copy  of  the 
miniature  belongs  to  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  and  is  deposited  in  Independence  Hall. 

Griffin,  Samuel. — The  only  two  known  portraits  of  Samuel  Griffin,  member  from  Vir- 
ginia of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  are  the  miniature,  and  the  Gilbert  Stuart 
portrait,  both  owned  by  Dr.  Ferdinand  Campbell  Stewart,  grandson,  of  Philadelphia,  Penn- 
sylvania. As  Dr.  Stewart  is  residing  in  Pisa,  Italy,  the  portrait  of  Samuel  Griffin  by  Gilbert 
Stuart  is  deposited  with  the  Pennsylvania  Academy  of  the  Fine  Arts  in  Philadelphia.  The 
miniature  is  temporarily  in  the  possession  of  Dr.  Stewart's  daughter,  Miss  Emma  M.  C. 
Stewart. 

Grout,  Jonathan. — A  copy  of  the  silhouette  of  Jonathan  Grout,  member  from  Massachu- 
setts of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  appears  in  "Genealogy  of  Descendants  of 


1  In  Frank  M.  Etting's  "  Independence  Hall,"  p.  178,  the  date  in  which  the  miniature  was  painted  is  erroneously  given 
as  1 80 1 . 


NOTES  ON  PORTRAITS. 


469 


Several  Ancient  Puritans,"  by  Rev.  Abner  Morse,  A.  M.  The  original  silhouette  was 
destroyed  in  the  great  Chicago  fire.  Jonathan  Grout  in  later  life  was  very  corpulent, 
weighing  about  three  hundred  pounds.  Besides  the  silhouette  no  portrait  of  him  is 
known.1 

Guxx,  James. — No  portrait  of  James  Gunn,  member  from  Georgia  of  the  First  Congress 
under  the  Constitution,  has  been  discovered.  Charles  C.  Jones,  Jr.,  of  Augusta,  Georgia,  has 
made  a  thorough  search.2 

Hamilton,  Alexander. — John  Trumbull  painted  a  number  of  portraits  of  Alexander 
Hamilton,  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  under  President  Washington.  Two  of  those  that  were 
exhibited  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  in  1889  are  reproduced  in  this  volume,  namelv,  the  life-size 
portrait  owned  by  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,3  New  York,  painted  in  1792  (Loan  Exhibi- 
tion, No.  105),  and  the  half-length  owned  by  Hon.  John  Jay,  of  New  York  (Loan  Exhibition, 
No.  106).  A  replica  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  portrait,  painted  in  1832,  was  in  the  fam- 
ily of  Governor  Wolcott,  of  Connecticut.4  The  Metropolitan  Museum  of  Art,  of  New  York, 
also  owns  a  portrait  of  Hamilton  by  Trumbull,  twenty-four  by  thirty  inches  in  size,  which  was 
exhibited  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  (Xo.  107).  Hon.  Robert  C.  Winthrop,  of  Boston,  like- 
wise owns  a  beautiful  portrait  of  Hamilton  by  Trumbull.  Another  Trumbull  of  Hamilton 
is  owned  by  the  Essex  Institute,  Salem,  Massachusetts;  and  still  another,  by  Mrs.  William 
Oakey,  of  New  York,  which  was  given  her  by  her  father,  William  Sullivan,  of  Boston.  Mrs. 
John  E.  Lodge,  of  Boston,  owns  a  portrait  of  Hamilton  by  Trumbull  which  has  been  in  her 
family  since  1 792,  when  it  was  painted  for  George  Cabot.  An  engraving  of  this  portrait 
forms  the  frontispiece  of  vol.  i  of  "  The  Works  of  Alexander  Hamilton,"  edited  by  Henry 
Cabot  Lodge.  Of  the  other  portraits  of  Hamilton  which  Trumbull  painted,  one  is  repro- 
duced in  this  volume,  which  belongs  to  the  widow  of  Alexander  Hamilton's  grandson,  Mrs. 
Alexander  Hamilton,  of  Irvington-on-Hudson,  New  York.  Of  this  portrait  Philip  Schuy- 
ler says : 

"  The  staff  of  General  Washington,  on  which  Hamilton  was  then  serving,  employed  Trumbull  to  paint  a 
picture  of  Hamilton.  In  those  days  money  was  scarce,  and  the  contributions  did  not  amount  to  sufficient  to 
have  the  portrait  finished,  except  the  head  and  face.  As  you  will  see,  the  coat,  with  the  exception  of  the  col- 
lar and  immediately  around  the  stock  and  shirt,  is  not  finished  at  all.  This  picture  was  their  joint  property. 
It  went  from  one  to  another,  so  I  am  told,  until  at  last  it  was  in  the  hands  of  a  Mr.  Oakey,  by  descent,  in  some 
way.  He  offered  it  to,  I  think,  the  Athenaeum,  of  Boston,  or  to  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  and  while 
there  was  some  haggling  about  the  price  my  uncle,  Mr.  Alexander  Hamilton,  the  General's  grandson,  heard  of 
it,  and  bought  it  at  Mr.  Oakey's  price." 


'  Statement  of  F.  A.  Brooks,  a  descendant,  of  Boston,  Massachusetts. 

2  For  account  of  Brigadier-General  James  Gunn's  military  funeral,  see  "  Columbian  Museum  and  Savannah  Advertiser," 
August  14,  1801. — (Charles  C.  Jones,  Jr..  of  Augusta.  Georgia.) 
5  Page  5,  and  also  in  group  with  other  portraits  of  Hamilton. 
4  "  Reminiscences  of  His  Own  Times,"  by  Colonel  J.  Trumbull,  p  433. 


THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION . 


(  >f  the  numerous  copies  of  Trumbull  portraits  of  Hamilton,  one  by  J.  Frothingham  was 
owned  by  the  Brooklyn  Hamilton  Literary  Association,  and  was  exhibited  at  the  National 
Academy  of  Design,  of  New  York,  in  1840.  It  is  now  the  property  of  the  Hamilton  Club 
of  Brooklyn,  New  York.  The  miniature  of  Hamilton  by  Laura  Wolcott  Gibbs,  an  engrav- 
ing of  which,  by  H.  B.  Hall,  Jr.,  is  in  Appletons'  "Cyclopaedia  of  American  Biography,"1 
is  after  the  Trumbull  portrait.  Of  the  portraits  of  Alexander  Hamilton  painted  by  James 
Sharpless,  the  one  belonging  to  Alexander  Hamilton's  grandson,  Allan  AIcLane  Hamilton, 
M.  D.,  of  New  York,  and  exhibited  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  in  1889  (No.  104),  is  reproduced 
in  this  volume.  Of  other  portraits  of  Hamilton  by  Sharpless,  one,  a  pastel,  is  owned  by 
Hamilton's  granddaughters,  the  Misses  Hamilton,  of  New  York  (Loan  Exhibition  of  1889, 
No.  103),  and  once  belonged  to  Elias  Boudinot,  who  wrote  an  inscription  on  the  back  of 
it ;  another  is  owned  by  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  and  is  deposited  in  the  National  Museum 
(old  State-House)  ;  and  a  third  pastel  belongs  to  the  New  York  Historical  Society  (Cata- 
logue No.  164).  Charles  W.  Peale  also  painted  portraits  of  Alexander  Hamilton,  one  of 
which  is  owned  by  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  and  is  deposited  in  the  National  Museum  (old 
State-House)  ;  and  another,  presented  by  Duncan  C.  Pell,  is  owned  by  the  New  York  His- 
torical Society  (Catalogue  No.  143).  The  New  York  Historical  Society  also  owns  a  portrait 
(Catalogue  No.  481),  given  by  Thomas  J.  Bryan  in  1867,  which  was  bought  at  the  Peale 
sale  in  Philadelphia  in  1854.  It  was  in  Peale's  Museum  in  1 795,  and  was  by  or  after  Trum- 
bull. There  is  an  interesting  portrait  of  Alexander  Hamilton  which  is  owned  by  his  grandson 
in  New  York,  Major-Gen.  Schuyler  Hamilton.  It  was  presented  by  Alexander  Hamilton  to 
his  life-long  friend,  Edward  Stevens,  of  Santa  Cruz,  West  Indies,  to  take  home  with  him  as  a 
memento,  about  eighteen  months  before  Hamilton's  death,  with  the  remark  :  "It  is  said  to  be 
the  best  likeness  of  me  yet  taken."  Mr.  Stevens's  son  gave  the  portrait  to  the  present  owner.2 
A  photograph  of  this  portrait  was  presented  by  Alexander  Hamilton's  son,  John  A.  Hamilton, 
to  John  William  Wallace,  late  President  of  the  Hist.  Soc.  of  Pennsylvania.  It  now  belongs  to 
the  society,  and  is  reproduced  in  Winsor's  "  Narrative  and  Critical  History  of  America."3  A 
supposed  portrait  of  Hamilton,  14  by  22  inches  in  size,  painted  on  a  panel  in  1779  by  James 
Peale,  when  Hamilton  was  twenty-two  years  old,  is  owned  by  a  Philadelphia  artist,  John  B. 
Wilkinson,  who  received  the  same  sixteen  years  ago  in  payment  for  work.  The  former  owner 
only  knew  that  it  was  a  "James  Peale,"  as  the  signature,  "Jas.  Peale,  1779,"  appeared  on  the 
front  of  the  portrait.  The  discovery  of  the  words  "  Major  Hamilton"  on  the  back  of  the  por- 
trait was  made  after  the  portrait  came  into  the  possession  of  the  present  owner.  Thus  it  was 
supposed  the  picture  was  a  portrait  of  Alexander  Hamilton.  Charles  Henry  Hart  says :  "  I 
can  see  a  very  strong  resemblance  between  the  James  Peale-Hamilton  and  an  early  portrait  of 


1  Vol.  iii,  p.  56.    Cf.  "Magazine  of  American  History,"  August,  1889  (vol.  xxii). 
*  Statement  of  Schuyler  Hamilton,  Major-General  of  Volunteers  U.  S.  A. 
'  Vol.  vi,  p.  384. 


NOTES  ON  PORTRAITS. 


47i 


Hamilton  in  uniform,  which  I  have,  engraved  by  George  Graham  after  a  miniature  of  Walter 
Robertson.  I  know  of  no  other  Major  Hamilton,  and  the  general  character  of  the  face  is 
strikingly  like  Alexander."1  James  Peale  also  painted  in  1789  a  miniature  said  to  be  of 
Alexander  Hamilton,  which  was  exhibited  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  of  1889  (^°-  uo)  by 
Francis  E.  Grant,  of  New  York,  and  is  now  owned  by  Clarence  Winthrop  Bowen,  of 
Brooklyn,  New  York.  The  miniature  was  catalogued  at  the  sale  commencing  May  2,  1864, 
of  the  John  Allan  collection  in  New  York:  "No.  5,011,  Miniature  Portrait  on  Ivory,  sup- 
posed to  be  Alexander  Hamilton,"  and  was  bought  by  George  P.  Philes  for  Mrs.  William 
G.  Grant,  who  gave  the  same  to  her  son  Francis  E.  Grant.  The  late  S.  L.  M.  Barlow,  to 
whom  Mr.  Grant  showed  the  miniature,  pronounced  it  to  be  a  portrait  of  Alexander  Hamil- 
ton, but  the  name  of  the  artist  was  unknown  until  recently,  when,  in  photographing  the 
miniature  for  this  volume,  Edward  Bierstadt  discovered  with  a  magnifying-glass  the  follow- 
ing inscription  on  the  face  of  the  miniature:  "J.  P.,  1789,"  the  usual  way  James  Peale  had 
of  signing  his  miniatures.2  Charles  Henry  Hart  says  of  this  portrait:  "I  do  not  see  any 
resemblance  to  any  picture  that  I  have  ever  seen  of  Hamilton  in  the  small  miniature.  The 
nose,  which  is  very  carefully  drawn,  is  entirely  unlike  Hamilton's  nose  in  all  the  portraits 
that  I  have  seen."  The  so-called  "  Talleyrand  miniature  "  of  Hamilton,  which  Talleyrand 
took  to  France  after  leaving  this  country,  was  given  to  James  A.  Hamilton,  son  of  Alex- 
ander Hamilton,  and  is  now  owned  by  Mrs.  Alexander  Hamilton,  widow  of  his  grandson, 
of  Irvington-on-Hudson,  New  York.  The  miniature  is  on  porcelain,  in  a  small  frame  and 
under  glass,  and  is  thought  by  Charles  Henry  Hart  to  be  after  Sharpless.  An  engraving 
by  J.  Rogers  of  this  picture  appears  as  a  frontispiece  to  Henry  B.  Dawson's  "The  Feder- 
alist, with  an  Historical  Introduction  and  Notes."3  Mrs.  Hamilton  also  owns  another  minia- 
ture of  Alexander  Hamilton  which  belonged  to  his  daughter,  Mrs.  Holly,  and  afterward  to 
his  son,  James  A.  Hamilton.  Archibald  Robertson  painted  a  miniature  of  Hamilton  which 
the  artist  owned  when  it  was  exhibited  in  New  York  in  18 18  at  the  Exhibition  at  the 
American  Academy  of  Fine  Arts.  It  was  engraved  by  J.  F.  E.  Prud'homme  for  the  "  Na- 
tional Portrait  Gallery,"  vol.  ii.4  Charles  Henry  Hart  says  :  "  Robertson  must  have  painted 
a  large  portrait  of  Hamilton  also,  for  I  have  a  very  rare  engraving  by  W.  Rollinson  after 
a  portrait  by  Archibald  Robertson  three  quarter  length  standing,  fourteen  inches  by  eighteen 
inches,  published  in  New  York  in  1805.    The  head  is  the  same  as  the  Prud'homme  print  in 


1  Paul  Leicester  Ford  savs  :  "  Alexander  Hamilton  was  never  a  major.  He  was  captain  of  artillery  until  appointed,  in  1777, 
on  Washington's  staff".  This  appointment  always  carried  with  it  the  brevet  grade  of  lieutenant-colonel,  so  Hamilton  passed  over 
the  intermediate  grade,  and  could  never  have  been  called  major.  It  is  probably  a  portrait  of  Major  James  Hamilton,  of  the 
Second  Pennsylvania  Infantry,  appointed  December  10,  1778."  F.  D.  Stone,  Librarian  of  the  Hist.  Soc.  of  Pennsylvania,  says  of 
the  same  portrait :  "1  am  confident  it  could  never  have  been  intended  for  Alexander  Hamilton.  I  do  not  see  a  single  feature  of 
Hamilton's  in  it.    To  me  it  looks  as  if  it  was  painted  after  the  Revolution.    The  hair  and  general  costume  are  of  a  later  date." 

1  Cf.  "Notes  on  Portraits"  of  Mrs.  James  Madison.  3  Edition  of  1863. 

4  Andrew  J.  Robertson  and  Mrs.  M.  M.  Craft,  of  New  York,  son  and  daughter  of  Archibald  Robertson,  say  that  this  minia- 
ture has  been  missing  for  years.— (Cf.  "  Century  Magazine,"  May,  1890;  and  "  Magazine  of  Am.  Hist.,"  April,  1888,  pp.  273-276.) 


472       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 

the  National  Portrait  Gallery."  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Sharpless1  and  Walter  Robertson2  also  painted 
miniatures  of  Hamilton.  Dunlap  speaks  of  an  English  artist  named  Weaver,  who  painted  a 
strong  likeness  of  Alexander  Hamilton,  which  was  the  property  of  Dr.  David  Hosack,  who 
gave  the  portrait  to  the  artist  Trumbull,  who  destroyed  it.8  Ezra  Ames  also  painted  a  portrait 
of  Hamilton.4  John  C.  Hamilton,  son  of  Alexander,  found  a  poor  portrait  of  his  father  years 
ago,  artist  unknown,  which  was  said  to  have  once  belonged  to  a  Revolutionary  officer,  and  is 
now  owned  by  the  Misses  Hamilton,  granddaughters,  of  New  York.  It  is  a  bust  twenty- 
one  by  twenty-seven  inches,  three  quarters  to  left,  in  uniform,  with  the  Order  of  the  Cin- 
cinnati, and  was  exhibited  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  of  1889  (No.  109).  Immediately  on 
hearing  of  Hamilton's  death,  the  artist,  Gideon  Fairman,5  of  Albany,  made  a  pencil  drawing 
of  Hamilton  from  memory,  which  was  presented  in  March  of  1805  to  Richard  Harison,  an 
intimate  friend  of  Hamilton's,  and  was  exhibited  by  Harison's  grandson,  R.  M.  Harison,  of 
New  York,  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  of  1889  (No.  102).  A  crayon  portrait  of  Hamilton 
is  in  the  Finance  Committee's  room  in  the  Capitol  at  Washington.  A  bust  of  Hamilton 
executed  by  Ceracchi  from  life  in  1  794,6  is  owned  by  Mrs.  Alexander  Hamilton,  widow  of 
his  grandson,  of  Irvington-on-Hudson,  New  York.  A  replica,  owned  by  Abram  S.  Hewitt, 
of  New  York,  was  exhibited  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  of  1889  (No.  308);  and  of  other 
replicas,  one  belongs  to  the  Pennsylvania  Academy  of  the  Fine  Arts,  which  institution  has 
a  plaster  cast  of  the  same;  one  was  owned  by  Dr.  David  Hosack,  of  New  York;  and 
another  is  now  in  the  possession  of  the  Misses  Hamilton,  of  New  York.  The  bust  last 
named  belonged  to  George  Cabot,  of  Massachusetts,  who  bequeathed  it  to  Thomas  H.  Per- 
kins, of  Boston,  who  in  turn  willed  the  bust  to  John  C.  Hamilton,  son  of  Alexander  and 
father  of  the  present  owners,  who  also  own  a  miniature  of  Alexander  Hamilton  by  Henry 
Inman,  after  the  Ceracchi  bust.  Another  replica  of  the  same  bust  belongs  to  the  Maryland 
Historical  Society.  Philip  Schuyler,  of  New  York,  owns  a  bust  after  Ceracchi,  which  his 
father,  George  Lee  Schuyler,  exhibited  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  of  1889  (No.  311);  and 
another  copy  by  John  Dixey  was  presented  by  the  sculptor  to  the  New  York  Historical 
Society.  The  full-length  portrait,  wrongly  ascribed  to  a  man  named  Weimar,  but  which 
Trumbull  painted  in  1804  for  the  city  of  New  York  (Loan  Exhibition  of  1889,  No.  108), 
and  which  is  now  in  the  Governor's  Room,  City  Hall,  was  after  the  Ceracchi  bust.7  It 
is  engraved  in  Higginson's  "Larger  History  of  the  United  States."  An  enameled  por- 
trait in  profile  after  the  same  original  bust  was  made  by  William  Birch,  and  was  exhib- 
ited in  the  Loan  Exhibition  in  1889  (No.  101)  by  S.  Weir  Mitchell,  M.  D.,  of  Phila- 


1  Miss  Johnston's  "Original  Portraits  of  Washington,"  p.  132. 

■  Statement  of  Bayard  Tuckerman,  of  New  York,  who  has  a  collection  of  engravings  of  Alexander  Hamilton,  including 
those  after  miniatures  by  Mrs.  Sharpless,  Walter  Robertson,  and  Archibald  Robertson. 

3  Dunlap's  "  History  of  the  Arts  of  Design,"  vol.  ii,  p.  64.  4  Engraved  by  Hoagland  and  published  by  Samuel  Walker,  Boston. 
*  Dunlap's  "  History  of  the  Arts  of  Design,"  vol.  ii,  pp.  48,  49.  •  Page  95. 

7  '*  Reminiscences  of  His  Own  Times,"  by  Colonel  J.  Trumbull,  p.  245.— (Cf.  "  Notes  on  Portraits  "  of  John  Jay.) 


NOTES  ON  PORTRAITS. 


473 


delphia.  Cerrachi's  bust  was  engraved  by  Leney  for  Delaplaine's  "  Repository,"  and  by  A. 
B.  Durand  for  John  C.  Hamilton's  "Life  of  Alexander  Hamilton,"  and  is  reproduced  in 
Winsor's  "  Narrative  and  Critical  History  of  America."1  A  bust  of  Hamilton  by  Houdon 
is  owned  by  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society.  The  bust  by  E.  D.  Palmer,  owned  by 
Hamilton  Fish,  of  New  York  (Loan  Exhibition  of  1889,  No.  309),  and  the  busts  by 
Horatio  Stone  owned  by  William  H.  Arnoux,  of  New  York  (Loan  Exhibition  of  18S9, 
No.  310),  and  in  the  Capitol  at  Albany,  New  York,  are  copies.  So  also  is  the  one  in  the 
Redwood  Library,  Newport,  Rhode  Island,  and  the  statuette  in  the  Boston  Athenaeum. 

Hamilton,  Mrs.  Alexander. — The  portrait  of  Mrs.  Alexander  Hamilton,  born  Eliza- 
beth Schuyler,  which  is  owned  by  the  widow  of  her  grandson,  Mrs.  Alexander  Hamil- 
ton, of  Irvington-on-Hudson,  New  York,  was  painted  by  Ralph  Earle2  in  1787,  who  at 
that  time  was  confined  in  prison  for  debt.  Mrs.  General  Hamilton  and  some  other  ladies 
sat  for  him  in  his  prison,  thus  enabling  him  to  pay  his  debts  and  start  afresh.3  A  minia- 
ture of  Mrs.  Hamilton  was  painted  by  Henry  Inman  in  1825,  and  is  owned  by  her  grand- 
daughters, the  Misses  Hamilton,  of  New  York.  There  is  a  third  portrait  of  Mrs. 
Alexander  Hamilton,  a  life-size  crayon  sketched  by  Charles  Martin4  in  June,  185 1,  which 
is  owned  by  Philip  Schuyler,  a  great-grandson,  of  New  York.  This  crayon  represents 
Mrs.  Hamilton  at  the  age  of  ninety-four,  and  was  exhibited  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  in 
1889  (No.  m). 

Hartley,  Thomas. — No  portrait  has  been  discovered  of  Thomas  Hartley,  member 
from  Pennsylvania  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution.  Judge  James  W.  Latimer, 
of  York,  Pennsylvania,  writes :  "  I  know  of  no  portrait  of  Colonel  Hartley.  I  do  not 
believe  there  is  one  in  existence.  The  'Centennial  History  of  York  County'  (1886) 
contains  a  short  sketch  of  his  life,  but  nothing  in  regard  to  a  portrait.  Had  there  been 
one,  I  feel  assured  that  Judge  Gibson  (deceased),  the  compiler,  would  have  had  it  engraved 
for  that  history." 

Hathorn,  John. — There  is  no  portrait  of  John  Hathorn,  member  from  New  York  of 
the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution.  No  portrait  of  Hathorn  has  ever  been  heard 
of  by  George  W.  Sanford,  of  Warwick,  New  York,  whose  father  bought  the  John  Hathorn 
homestead  in  1828;  or  by  Mrs.  Cordelia  Davis,  of  Warwick,  New  York,  a  granddaughter 
of  John  Hathorn  ;  or  by  Almira  A.  Hathorn  or  C.  R.  Hathorn,  of  Brooklyn,  New  York  ; 
or  by  other  descendants  who  have  been  communicated  with.  Hathorn's  granddaughter, 
Mrs.  Cordelia  Davis,  an  old  lady  living  at  Warwick,  New  York,  remembers  her  grand- 


1  Vol.  vii,  p.  232. 

■  Dunlap's  "  History  of  the  Arts  of  Design,"  vol.  i,  p.  223. 

■  Philip  Schuyler,  great-grandson,  of  New  York. 

*  Charles  Martin,  of  Bristol,  Rhode  Island,  exhibited  a  portrait  of  a  child  at  the  annual  exhibition  of  the  National  Acad- 
emy of  Design  in  1851. 


474       THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 

father.  She  was  twenty  years  old  when  John  Hathorn  died.  He  was  a  very  short  man, 
and  wore  knee-breeches;  but  Mrs.  Davis  never  heard  of  any  portrait  of  him. 

Hawkins,  Benjamin. — The  only  known  portrait  of  Benjamin  Hawkins,  member  from 
North  Carolina  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  is  the  one  in  John  Trum- 
bull's painting  entitled  "Washington  resigning  his  Commission,"  owned  by  Yale  Univer- 
sity, replica  of  which  hangs  in  the  Capitol  at  Washington. 

Hazard,  Ebenezer. — The  best  portrait  of  Ebenezer  Hazard,  Postmaster-General  under 
the  old  Confederation  in  1789,  is  considered  the  pastel  by  Duvivier,1  which  was  drawn  in 
1796,  and  which  is  owned  by  Ebenezer  Hazard's  son-in-law,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Thomas  E.  Ver- 
milye,  of  New  York.  Another  portrait  of  Ebenezer  Hazard  was  painted  in  1816,  and  is 
owned  by  his  grandson,  Willis  P.  Hazard,  of  West  Chester,  Pennsylvania.  A  copy  of  this 
portrait,  by  Professor  S.  F.  B.  Morse,  is  owned  by  Rev.  Dr.  Vermilye,  who  also  owns  a  large 
oil-painting  of  Hazard,  artist  unknown. 

Hazard,  Mrs.  Ebenezer. — The  only  known  portrait  of  Mrs.  Ebenezer  Hazard,  wife  of 
Ebenezer  Hazard,  Postmaster-General  in  1  789,  is  the  pastel  made  by  Duvivier  in  1  796,  and 
owned  by  Ebenezer  Hazard's  son-in-law,  Rev.  Dr.  Thomas  E.  Vermilye,  of  New  York. 

Henry,  John. — Daniel  M.  Henry,  of  Cambridge,  Maryland,  after  a  searching  inquiry, 
has  failed  to  find  a  portrait  of  his  grandfather,  John  Henry,  member  from  Maryland  of  the 
First  Congress  under  the  Constitution.  If  a  portrait  of  him  was  ever  painted  it  must 
have  been  lost,  as  the  house  of  John  Henry  was  twice  raided  by  Tories,  and  was  destroyed 
by  fire  during  the  Revolutionary  War. 

Henry,  Patrick. — The  portrait  of  Patrick  Henry  which  was  exhibited  in  the  Loan 
Exhibition  of  1889  (No.  113)  is  an  enlarged  copy  after  a  miniature  made  by  the  artist 
Thomas  Sully,  and  is  owned  by  William  Wirt  Henry,  grandson,  of  Richmond,  Virginia. 
There  is  in  the  Virginia  Historical  Society  a  poor  portrait  of  Henry  copied  in  oil  by  the 
younger  Sully  from  an  engraving.2  Another  portrait  of  Patrick  Henry,  which  is  also  a 
copy,  is  owned  by  his  great-great-granddaughter,  Mrs.  Thomas  Boiling,  Jr.,  of  Richmond, 
Virginia.  An  unsuccessful  effort  has  been  made  to  find  the  original  miniature  of  Patrick 
Henry  after  which  Thomas  Sully  painted  his  portrait.  The  miniature  belonged  to  John  S. 
Fleming,  of  Richmond,  Virginia,  and  is  reproduced  in  the  "  National  Portrait  Gallery,"  vol. 
ii.  A  son  of  John  S.  Fleming,  in  whose  custody  the  miniature  was,  recently  died,  and, 
before  his  death,  parted  with  the  miniature.3    The  miniature  thus  passed  out  of  the  posses- 


1  Thomas  E.  V.  Smith,  of  New  York,  says:  "There  were  two  artists  by  the  name  of  Duvivier  in  Philadelphia  toward 
the  end  of  the  last  century,  and  I  have  no  doubt  that  one  of  them  painted  the  Hazard  portraits.  See  advertisement  in  Clay- 
poole's  'American  Daily  Advertiser,'  Philadelphia,  October  31,  1797." 

J  William  Wirt  Henry.  3  Statement  of  John  S.  Fleming,  another  son,  of  Richmond,  Virginia. 


NOTES  ON  PORTRAITS. 


475 


sion  of  the  family,  and  it  is  not  now  known  where  it  is.1  Peter  F.  Rothermel  painted 
"Patrick  Henry  before  the  Virginia  House  of  Burgesses."2  This  painting  was  owned  by 
Mrs.  Joseph  Harris,  of  Philadelphia.  Judge  John  Tyler,  father  of  President  Tyler,  owned 
another  portrait,  probably  a  copy,  which  was  burned  in  Richmond  in  1 865,  an  engraving 
of  which  was  owned  by  Hugh  Blair  Grigsby.3  Besides  the  miniature  there  are  no  original 
portraits  of  Patrick  Henry,  all  portraits  of  him  being  copies,  as,  for  example,  the  one  in 
the  Redwood  Library  of  Newport,  Rhode  Island,  and  in  the  Capitol  at  Washington. 

Hiester,  Daniel. — The  portrait  of  Daniel  Hiester,  member  from  Pennsylvania  of  the 
First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  is  now  in  the  possession  of  Mrs.  Anne  Moore 
Clymer  McKim,  wife  of  R.  H.  McKim,  D.  D.,  of  Washington,  D.  C,  at  her  country  resi- 
dence at  Birdsboro,  Berks  County,  Pennsylvania.  The  portrait  was  given  by  Daniel  Hiester 
to  his  nephew,  Isaac  Hiester,  M.  D.,  of  Reading,  Pennsylvania,  and  was  presented  by  Isaac 
Hiester's  widow  to  a  nephew,  Daniel  R.  Clymer,  of  Reading,  Pennsylvania,  the  father  of 
Mrs.  McKim.  Charles  Henry  Hart,  of  Philadelphia,  is  of  the  opinion  that  the  portrait 
was  painted  by  C.  W.  Peale. 

Huger,  Daniel. — The  only  portrait  in  existence,  as  far  as  is  known,  of  Daniel  Huger, 
member  from  South  Carolina  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  is  the  original 
portrait  owned  by  his  great-grandson,  William  E.  Huger,  of  Charleston,  South  Carolina.  The 
name  of  the  artist  is  unknown.  G.  E.  Manigault,  M.  D.,  of  Charleston,  says  :  "  I  exam- 
ined the  portrait  of  Daniel  Huger,  and  have  found  it  impossible  to  give  any  opinion  as 
to  who  painted  it."  A  charcoal  sketch  of  this  portrait  was  taken  for  Dr.  Thomas  Addis 
Emmet,  of  New  York,  who  now  owns  it.  Another  was  taken  to  reproduce  in  this  vol- 
ume, as  the  portrait  itself  was  so  old  that  it  was  found  impossible  to  get  a  satisfactory 
negative.  It  was  deemed  best,  however,  to  get  the  best  possible  negative  from  the  original, 
rather  than  to  photograph  from  a  copy. 

Humphreys,  General  David. — Vale  University  owns  portraits  of  General  David  Hum- 
phreys, who  accompanied  Washington  from  Mount  Vernon  to  New  York,  in  April  of 
1  789,  and  who  was  present  at  Washington's  inauguration.  One  of  the  portraits  was  painted 
by  Gilbert  Stuart,  and  the  other  is  in  the  historical  painting  entitled  "  Washington  resign- 
ing his  Commission,"  a  replica  of  which  is  in  the  national  Capitol  at  Washington.  Of  copies 
of  the  Stuart  portrait,  one  painted  by  G.  W.  Flagg  is  owned  by  Dr.  F.  Humphreys,  of 
Orange,  New  Jersey,  and  was  exhibited  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  of  1889  (No.  116)  ;  another 
is  in  the  WTadsworth  Gallery  of  Hartford.  An  engraving  from  the  same  portrait  appears 
in  the  "  National  Portrait  Gallery,"  vol.  ii.    There  is  a  portrait  of  General  David  Hura- 


1  Thomas  Boiling-,  Jr.,  Richmond,  Virginia. 
3  Tuckerman's  "  Book  of  the  Artists,"  p.  437. 

8  Statement  of  William  Wirt  Henry,  who  owns  photograph  of  engraving. 


476       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 


phivvs  in  the  Boston  Museum,  which  may  have  been  painted  by  Rembrandt  Peale.  A 
portrait  by  Rembrandt  Peale  was  sold  at  the  Peale  sale  in  Philadelphia  in  1854,1  and  pre- 
vious to  that  year  no  mention  is  made  of  this  portrait  in  the  Boston  Museum  catalogues. 

Huntington,  Benjamin. — The  only  known  original  portrait  of  Benjamin  Huntington, 
member  from  Connecticut  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  is  a  miniature  on 
ivorv  in  the  possession  of  the  widow  of  Benjamin  Huntington's  grandson,  Mrs.  Edward 
Huntington,  of  Rome,  New  York.  The  miniature  was  painted  for  Benjamin  Hunting- 
ton's eldest  son  Henry.  The  names  of  John  Trumbull  and  Miss  Champlain,  of  New  Lon- 
don, have  been  suggested  as  the  names  of  the  artist  of  the  miniature  ;  but  Daniel  Hunting- 
ton, the  artist,  a  grandson  of  the  member  of  Congress,  is  of  the  opinion  that  no  person 
living  can  tell  with  certainty  who  painted  the  miniature.  A  portrait  after  this  original 
miniature  was  painted  by  the  artist  Daniel  Huntington,  and  exhibited  in  the  Loan  Exhibi- 
tion in  1889  (No.  114).  It  is  owned  by  Daniel  Huntington,  of  New  York,  who  says: 
"  The  portrait  was  painted  from  the  miniature,  assisted  by  the  head  of  my  father,  whose 
profile  was  exactly  the  same  as  that  of  the  miniature,  and  who  was  said  to  resemble  his 
father  in  all  respects.  You  will  observe  that  my  portrait  of  my  grandfather  is  not  quite 
a  profile,  but  it  was  said  by  all  of  the  family  then  living  to  be  a  true  likeness.  The  head 
was  admirably  engraved  by  Ritchie  for  the  family  memoirs." 

Izard,  Ralph. — G.  E.  Manigault,  M.  D.,  of  Charleston,  South  Carolina,  writes  as  follows 
regarding  the  portraits  of  Ralph  Izard,  member  from  South  Carolina  of  the  First  Congress 
under  the  Constitution  :  "  With  regard  to  the  Izard  portrait  by  Zoffany,2  it  has  been  con- 
sidered in  the  Manigault  family,  who  have  owned  it  for  almost  ninety  years,  to  represent 
Mr.  Izard  as  a  student  at  Cambridge,  England.  But  his  having  completed  his  university 
course  before  1765,  the  year  that  Zoffany  first  arrived  in  England,  and  his  not  being  in 
the  cap  and  gown  of  the  university,  would  disprove  this.  It  was  probably  taken  in  Lon- 
don when  he  returned,  in  1 7  7 1 ,  after  his  marriage.  The  signature  of  Zoffany  is  on  the 
stone  which  lies  on  the  ground  near  the  bottom  of  the  canvas,  and  there  is  something 
which  follows,  but  it  is  impossible,  even  with  a  powerful  magnifier,  to  decipher  it.  The 
West  portraits  of  Izard  and  his  four  friends  was  probably  painted  before  the  Zoffany,  and 
shortly  after  1760,  when  West  was  recently  arrived,  and  when  the  young  men  were  all  in 
England  together.  The  friendship  of  the  five  was  evidently  formed  there,  for  in  the  letter- 
book  of  Peter  Manigault,  attorney  for  Ralph  Izard,  is  one  addressed  to  Mr.  Andrew  Allen, 
in  Philadelphia,  afterward  the  Chief-Justice  of  Pennsylvania,  dated  Charlestown,  South 
Carolina,  April   13,  1765,  in  which  he  mentions  that  'Mr.  Izard  and  Mr.  Wormley  set 


1  Peale  MSS.,  owned  by  A.  C.  Peale,  M.  D.,  Washington,  D.  C.    Sold  to  P.  E.  Erben  for  $60. 

'John  Zoffany,  born  at  Frankfort-on-the-Main  in  1735,  went  to  England  in  1765,  where,  among  others,  he  painted  Gar- 
rick.  He  was  one  of  the  original  forty  members  of  the  Royal  Academy  in  1768,  and  died  in  1810. — (Spooner's  "Dictionary 
of  Painters,  Engravers,"  etc.) 


NOTES  ON  PORTRAITS. 


All 


out  from  hence  about  a  month  ago  for  Virginia,  on  their  way  to  Philadelphia,'  and  it 
concludes  thus :  '  I  most  heartily  wish  you  a  happy  meeting  with  your  friends,'  evidently 
his  old  friends.  It  is  not  known  who  Mr.  Wormley  was.  It  is  not  an  old  South  Caro- 
lina name,  and  he  was  probably  only  in  Charlestown  on  a  visit.  Mr.  Beckford  was  a 
Jamaica  planter.  The  painting  was  left  by  Mr.  Izard  to  his  widow  at  his  death,'  and 
Mrs.  Izard  at  her  death  left  it  to  her  grandson,  Walter  Izard.  The  latter  willed  it  to 
his  sister,  Mrs.  Alice  Izard  Heyward,  of  Charleston,  South  Carolina,  and  at  her  death  it 
became  the  property  of  the  younger  Walter  Izard,  who  lives  at  Goode's,  Bedford  County, 
Virginia."  Walter  Izard,  the  owner  of  the  group  by  West,  says  that  the  portrait  was 
painted  after  Izard's  marriage  in  1 767.  There  is  a  tradition  that  the  five  persons  repre 
sented  in  the  West  portrait  had  five  replicas  painted  by  Benjamin  West,  one  for  each, 
who  took  the  prominent  place  in  his  own  picture.  One  replica  certainly  is  in  existence. 
It  was  seen  by  a  descendant  of  Mrs.  Ralph  Izard,  Mrs.  Kirk  B.  Wells,  of  Philadelphia, 
when  she  visited  England  in  1852,  at  the  residence  of  John  Penn  Allen,  in  London.  John 
Penn  Allen2  died  in  Devonshire  Place  in  1872,  unmarried,  and  the  painting  came  into  the 
possession  of  his  nephew,  the  Right  Hon.  Edmund  Hammond,  of  the  Foreign  Office,  who 
afterward  became  Lord  Hammond,  and  died  in  1890.  The  painting  then  passed  into  the 
possession  of  his  three  daughters,  the  Hon.  Misses  Hammond,  25  Eaton  Place,  S.  W., 
London,  where  it  now  hangs,  together  with  several  other  paintings  by  Benjamin  West, 
including  the  two  Aliens,  who  were  Chief-Justices  of  Pennsylvania.  Photographs  of  the 
portraits  of  the  Chief-Justices  Allen  are  in  the  Historical 
Society  of  Pennsylvania.  Regarding  the  Izard  portrait  by 
Copley.  Dr.  Manigault  writes  as  follows :  "  The  portrait  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ralph  Izard  by  Copley  was  commenced  in 
Rome,  Italy,  during  the  winter  of  1774-75.  The  faces  alone 
were  finished  there,  the  remainder  of  the  picture  being  only 
sketched.  Copley  then  removed  to  London,  and  took  the 
canvas  with  him.  He  then  finished  it  at  his  leisure,  studying, 
meanwhile,  the  work  of  Sir  Joshua  Reynolds  wherever  he 
could  obtain  access  to  it — the  result  being  that  the  style  of 
Reynolds  can  be  detected  in  Copley's  painting.  The  price 
agreed  upon  in  Rome  was  two  hundred  guineas ;  but  when 
the  picture  was  ready  for  delivery  Mr.  Izard  was  in  Paris, 

and   Unable   tO   pay   for   it,   as   his  private   income  WaS    derived       After  a  miniature  by  Meyer  in  "Corre- 
spondence of  Ralph  Izard,"  Francis  & 

from  property  in  South  Carolina,  and  during  the  Revolution-  Co.,  New  York,  1844. 


1  The  portrait  hung  in  the  home  of  Mrs.  Ralph  Izard,  corner  of  Spruce  and  Tenth  Streets,  Philadelphia,  and  later  at 
Mrs.  Alice  Heyward's,  in  Charleston,  South  Carolina. 

1  Facts  that  follow  were  obtained  from  B.  F.  Stevens,  of  London. 


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,.,irv  War  no  remittances  could  be  sent  him.  Copley,  therefore,  rolled  up  the  canvas  and 
put  it  away  in  his  garret,  and  it  remained  in  the  possession  of  the  artist's  family  over  fifty 
years.  It  was  finally  paid  for  and  brought  to  .America  by  Mr.  Charles  Manigault,  a  grand- 
son of  Mr.  Izard,  and  father  of  the  present  owner."1  The  portrait  of  Izard  by  Trumbull 
which  belongs  to  Yale  University  was  never  owned  by  the  Izard  family,  but,  like  many  of 
the  other  Trumbull  miniatures  reproduced  in  this  volume,  was  the  property  of  the  artist.  A 
miniature  on  ivory  of  Ralph  Izard  was  painted  by  Meyer,  of  London,  and  was  the  property 
of  a  daughter,  Mrs.  Deas,  of  New  York.  A  lithograph  copy  is  in  the  volume  of  his  cor- 
respondence, and  was  reproduced  in  the  "  Century  Magazine"  for  April,  1889.  Izard  is  here 
represented  as  a  very  young  man.    Just  where  this  original  miniature  is  is  not  known. 

Izard,  Mrs.  Ralph. — Of  the  portraits  of  Mrs.  Ralph  Izard,  one  is  an  enamel  miniature 
executed  in  Geneva  in  1774  upon  a  gold  snuff-box  (see  page  73),  which  belongs  to  Mrs. 
Izard's  great-grandson,  G.  E.  Manigault,  M.  D.,  of  Charleston,  South  Carolina,  and  was  exhib- 
ited in  the  Loan  Exhibition  in  1889  (No.  118).  This  miniature  is  similar  to  another  also 
owned  by  Dr.  Manigault,  which  was  painted  by  Edward  G.  Malbone,  probably  in  Charles- 
ton, South  Carolina,  in  1803-4,  when  Malbone  painted  other  members  of  the  Izard  family.'2 
Another  portrait  of  Mrs.  Izard  was  painted  by  Copley3  in  Rome;  and  a  fourth  portrait 
was  painted  by  Thomas  Gainsborough,  R.  A.,  in  London,  England,  in  1772,  and  is  now 
owned  by  Mrs.  Henry  Fulton,  a  great-granddaughter,  of  New  York.4  In  the  Gainsborough 
portrait  Mrs.  Izard  wears  the  same  necklace  as  in  the  snuff-box  miniature.5 

Jackson,  James. — The  only  original  portrait  of  James  Jackson,  member  from  Georgia 
of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  which  is  reproduced  in  this  volume,  is  the 
engraving  by  St.  Memin  made  in  1805,  and  owned  by  the  Corcoran  Gallery  of  Art  in 
Washington.0  The  portrait  of  Jackson  in  the  Capitol  of  the  State  of  Georgia,  at  Atlanta, 
is  a  copy  made  by  a  local  artist,  John  Maier,  in  1859.  The  General  Assembly,  on  Decem- 
ber 11,  1858,  requested  the  Governor  of  Georgia  "to  employ  a  competent  artist  to  paint  a 
full-length  portrait  of  General  James  Jackson,"  and  John  Maier  was  accordingly  paid  six 
hundred  dollars  for  the  work,  and  twenty  dollars  for  "expenses  in  procuring  likeness."  Maier 
probably  possessed  himself,  for  the  purpose  of  painting  the  portrait,  of  a  St.  Memin  engraving 


1  Cf.  "  Domestic  and  Artistic  Life  of  John  Singleton  Copley,"  by  his  granddaughter,  Martha  Bacbock  Amory,  pp.  76, 
77,  445-449- 

a  Dunlap's  "  History  of  the  Arts  of  Design,"  vol.  ii,  p.  30,  foot-note. 
'  Cf.  "  Notes  on  Portraits  "  of  Ralph  Izard. 

*  The  inscription  on  the  back  of  the  portrait  is,  "  Mrs.  Alice  Izard,  formerly  Alice  De  Lancey.    Painted  in  London  by 

Gainsborough,  1772." 
'  I'age  73- 

'Reproduced  in  Lossing's  "Pictorial  Field-Book  of  the  Revolution,"  vol.  ii,  p.  534,  and  in  Appletons'  "Cyclopaedia  of 
American  Riography,"  vol.  iii,  p.  387.  A  copy  of  the  same  engraving  on  copper  is  also  owned  by  Edward  Dexter,  of 
New  York,  and  by  the  Metropolitan  Museum  of  Art,  New  York. 


NOTES  ON  PORTRAITS. 


479 


of  Jackson,  a  copy  of  which  is  in  the  "  National  Portrait  Gallery,"  vol.  iii.  Peter  Maverick 
made  an  engraving  from  an  original  miniature  of  James  Jackson  by  Archibald  Robertson. 
The  miniature  was  exhibited  in  New  York  in  1817  at  the  exhibition  at  the  American 
Academy  of  Fine  Arts.1 

Jackson,  Major  William.— Of  portraits  of  Major  William  Jackson,  aide-de-camp  and 
private  secretary  to  President  Washington,  and  present  at  his  inauguration,  one  is  a  minia- 
ture by  C.  W.  Peale,  which  is  owned  by  the  city  of  Philadelphia  and  deposited  in  the 
National  Museum  (old  State  House),  and  another  is  an  oil-miniature  by  John  Trumbull, 
owned  by  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania,  and  exhibited  in  the  "  Loan  Exhibition 
of  Historical  Portraits"  in  Philadelphia  in  1887.  The  last-named  portrait  of  Jackson  has 
been  etched  by  H.  Wright  Smith. 

Jacksox,  Mrs.  William. — The  Pennsylvania  Academy  of  the  Fine  Arts  received  in 
1876,  from  Miss  Ann  Willing  Jackson,  a  portrait  painted  by  Gilbert  Stuart  and  engraved 
by  J.  Rogers,  of  Mrs.  William  Jackson  (born  Elizabeth  Willing),  who  was  born  March  27, 
1768,  and  married,  November  11,  1795,  Major  William  Jackson,  aide-de-camp  and  private 
secretary  to  President  Washington.  Mrs.  Jackson  died  in  1858,  at  the  age  of  ninety. 
Stuart  also  painted  portraits  of  Mrs.  Jackson's  two  sisters,  Mrs.  William  Bingham,  of  Phila- 
delphia (at  whose  request  Washington  sat  to  Stuart  for  the  Lansdowne  portrait),  and  Mrs. 
Richard  Peters,  who  is  said  to  have  refused  the  offer  of  marriage  made  to  her  by  Louis 
Philippe  when  an  exile  in  this  country.2 

Jay,  John. — The  portrait  of  John  Jay,  as  Chief-Justice  of  the  United  States,  which  was 
painted  by  Gilbert  Stuart  in  1794,  and  exhibited  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  in  1889  (^No. 
120),  is  owned  by  Augustus  Jay,  Secretary  of  the  United  States  Legation  in  Paris,  and 
is  now  deposited  in  the  Metropolitan  Museum  of  Art,  New  York.  Mr.  Augustus  Jay 
inherited  the  portrait  from  his  father,  Peter  Augustus  Jay,  to  whom  the  portrait  was  given 
by  his  father,  Chief-Justice  Jay.  Oliver  Lay  made  four  copies  of  this  portrait,  one  of 
which  is  in  the  New  York  Historical  Society,  and  another  in  the  Capitol  at  Albany. 
There  is  also  another  copy,  by  Henry  Peters  Gray,  in  the  robing-room  of  the  Justices  of 
the  Supreme  Court  in  the  Capitol  at  Washington,  the  gift  of  the  Chief-Justice's  grandson, 
Hon.  John  Jay,  of  New  York.  Other  copies  of  Jay  in  his  robes  are  also  owned  by  Mrs. 
Henry  E.  Pierrepont,  of  Brooklyn,  New  York,  and  Mrs.  Matthew  Clarkson,  Miss  Eliza 
C.  Jay,  and  Edmund  Randolph  Robinson,  all  of  New  York.  This  portrait  by  Stuart 
was  also  engraved   by  Leney  in   Delaplaine's  "Depository"  in    181 7,  and   is  given  in 


'Catalogue,  owned  by  the  New  York  Historical  Society:  "No.  151.  Portrait  of  the  late  Governor  Jackson,  on 
marble.    Archibald  Robertson." 

'Charles  Henry  Hart,  in  catalogue  of  "Loan  Exhibition  of  Historical  Portraits,"  Philadelphia,  1887,  pp.  14,  53.  and  79. 


48o       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 

photogravure  in  Mason's  "Life  and  Works  of  Gilbert  Stuart."1  Gilbert  Stuart  also 
painted  another  portrait  of  John  Jay,  which  is  owned  by  his  grandson,  Hon.  John  Jay, 
of  New  York.  It  was  exhibited  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  in  1889  (No.  121).  This 
portrait  was  given  by  Chief-Justice  Jay  to  his  youngest  son,  William  Jay,  the  father 
of  the  present  owner.  The  head  of  this  portrait  was  engraved  in  London  in  April  of 
1795  by  Cornelius  Tiebout.  The  late  John  Clarkson  Jay,  M.  D.,2of  Rye,  Westchester 
County,  New  York,  received  from  his  father,  Peter  C.  Jay,  about  1830,  another  portrait  of 
John  Jay,  the  head  of  which  was  painted  by  Gilbert  Stuart,  and  the  remainder  of  the  por- 
trait by  John  Trumbull.  Trumbull  discovered  this  portrait  in  a  garret  in  London,  with 
the  head  only  partially  finished.  He  put  in  the  details,  Mr.  Augustus  Jay  sitting  for  the 
figure.3  This  portrait  was  exhibited  at  the  Centennial  celebration  in  Philadelphia  in  1876. 
A.  B.  Durand  made  an  engraving  of  the  Trumbull-Stuart  portrait  for  the  "  National  Por- 
trait Gallery,"  vol.  ii,  which  is  reproduced  in  the  "  Magazine  of  American  History."  The 
portrait  of  John  Jay  belonging  to  Mrs.  C.  Van  Rensselaer  Thayer,  of  Boston,  the  grand- 
daughter of  the  Patroon,  Stephen  Van  Rensselaer,  was  painted  at  the  Patroon's  request  by 
Gilbert  Stuart,4  and  is  a  replica  of  the  Jay  portrait  belonging  to  Hon.  John  Jay,  who  says  : 
"  It  was  painted,  as  I  understand,  at  the  time  Jay  was  Governor,  and  Stephen  Van  Rensselaer 
was  Lieutenant-Governor  of  New  York.  They  were  intimate  friends,  and  exchanged  por- 
traits. The  portrait  of  Van  Rensselaer  by  Gilbert  Stuart  now  hangs  in  the  Jay  house  at  Bed- 
ford." An  oil-miniature  of  Chief-Justice  Jay  was  painted  by  John  Trumbull  in  1  793,  and  is 
owned  by  Yale  University.  This  miniature  of  Jay  was  copied  in  1846  by  G.  P.  A.  Healy  at 
the  request  of  King  Louis  Philippe,  who  gave  the  artist  an  order  to  go  to  America  and  make 
copies  of  portraits  of  a  number  of  distinguished  Americans.5  The  enlarged  copy  by  Healy 
hangs  in  the  gallery  at  Versailles,  and  a  similar  copy  is  in  the  National  Museum  (old  State- 
House),  Philadelphia.  A  full-length  portrait  was  also  painted  by  John  Trumbull,  which  rep- 
resents Jay  as  the  second  President  of  the  American  Bible  Society,  attending  to  the  duties 
of  the  office.  This  portrait  hangs  in  the  room  of  the  Board  of  Managers,  in  the  Bible 
House,  New  York.  The  portrait  of  Jay  in  the  Governor's  Room,  City  Hall,  New  York, 
wrongly  ascribed  to  Weimar,  was  the  full-length  painted  by  John  Trumbull  in  1804  for  the 
city  of  New  York.6     The  portrait  which  Joseph  Wright  painted  of  John  Jay  in  1786 


1  Page  205.  Cf.  the  account  of  the  Jay  portrait  by  Stuart  in  Mason's  "  Life  and  Works  of  Gilbert  Stuart,"  pp.  205-  207. 
Also  "Narrative  and  Critical  History  of  America,"  edited  by  Justin  Winsor,  LL.  D.,  vol.  vii,  p.  91. 

*  The  portrait  is  now  owned  by  Dr.  Jay's  son,  John  Clarkson  Jay,  M.  D.,  of  New  York. 
3  Mason's  "  Life  and  Works  of  Gilbert  Stuart,"  p.  207. 

*  Catalogue  of  Exhibition  of  Portraits  painted  by  Gilbert  Stuart,  held  in  Boston,  May  4,  1880;  and  Mason's  "Life  and 
Works  of  Gilbert  Stuart,"  p.  207.  s  Hon.  Augustus  Jay,  United  States  Legation,  Paris,  France. 

*  "  Reminiscences  of  His  Own  Times,"  by  Colonel  J.  Trumbull,  p.  245.  F.  J.  Twomey,  Clerk  of  the  Board  of  Aldermen, 
City  Hall,  furnishes  the  following  from  the  records  of  the  Common  Council  : 

Volume  XIII,  page  237.  July  13.  1801  :  Resolved,  That  John  Jay,  Esquire,  be  requestetl  to  permit  his  portrait  to  be  taken 
and  placed  in  the  City  Hall  as  a  public  Testimonial  of  the  great  personal  respect  and  high  regard  this  board  entertains  of  his 
distinguished  patriotism  and  eminent  public  services. 

Resolved,  That  Mr.  Mayor  be  requested  to  communicate  to  Mr.  Jay  the  aforegoing  resolution. 


NOTES  OX  PORTRAITS. 


was  presented  by  John  Pintard  to  the  New  York  Historical  Society  in  1817.  The 
full-length  standing  portrait  of  John  Jay  owned  by  Colonel  J.  Clifton  Brown,  of  "Holm- 
bush"  Faygate,  Sussex,  England,  is  thus  described  by  B.  F.  Stevens,  of  London:  "I  can 
not  find  the  name  of  any  artist,  or  anything  to  indicate  the  origin  of  these  paint- 
ings.1 They  were  bought  by  Sir  William  Brown  some  seventy  years  ago,  more  or  less, 
at  a  clearance  sale  of  matter  remaining  in  the  customs  at  Liverpool.  The  period  would 
seem  to  indicate  that  they  had  been  detained  in  the  customs,  or  rather  that  they  had 
been  cleared  at  the  customs  by  reason  of  the  war  with  America."  Hon.  John  Jay  adds: 
"  Both  portraits  strike  me  as  originals,  particularly  that  of  Jay,  which  I  do  not  think 
could  have  been  copied  from  Stuart.  Both  pictures  seem  to  me  clearly  French  in  their 
character." 3  The  French  artist,  Pierre  Eugene  du  Simitiere,  made  a  drawing  from  life 
of  John  Jay  as  President  of  the  Continental  Congress,  which  was  engraved  by  B.  Read- 
ing, of  London,  and  published  May  10,  1783,  by  William  Richardson,  No.  174,  Strand. 
The  engraving  is  in  a  book  published  in  London  in  1 783,  a  copy  of  which  is  owned  by 
General  James  Grant  Wilson,  of  New  York.3  The  Jay  portrait  from  Du  Simitiere  is  repro- 
duced in  the  "  Narrative  and  Critical  History  of  America,"  edited  by  Justin  Winsor,  LL.D.4 
An  unfinished  portrait  of  John  Jay  by  Benjamin  West  is  owned  by  the  Right  Hon. 
George  Belper,  baronet,  "  Kingston  Hall,"  Notts,  Derbyshire,  England.  The  sketch  rep- 
resents John  Jay,  John  Adams,  and  Benjamin  Franklin,  the  peace  commissioners ;  also 
Franklin's  grandson,  William  Temple  Franklin,  and  Henry  Laurens.  It  was  Benjamin 
West's  intention  to  have  added  the  portraits  of  the  English  commissioner,  Mr.  Richard 
Oswald,  and  Mr.  Fitzherbert,  afterward  Lord  St.  Helens,  who  was  empowered  to  assist  him,5 


Volume  XIII.  page  244 :  A  letter  from  Governor  Jay  in  answer  to  that  written  to  him  by  Mr.  Mayor  requesting  him  to  per- 
mit his  portrait  to  be  taken  and  placed  in  the  City  Hall  was  read,  and  the  aldermen  of  the  First,  Second,  and  Third  Wards  were 
appointed  a  committee  to  take  order  for  providing  and  agreeing  with  a  competent  artist  to  perform  the  work. 

July  10,  1804:  Alderman  Van  Zandt,  Alderman  Morton,  and  Alderman  M.  Morris  were  appointed  a  committee  to  wait  on 
John  Jay,  Esq.,  late  Governor  of  this  State,  and  Colonel  Trumbull,  to  obtain  Mr.  Jay's  consent  to  have  his  portrait  taken  by 
Colonel  Trumbull  and  Colonel  Trumbull  to  execute  the  same.  Colonel  Trnmbull  was  likewise  permitted  to  retouch  the  portraits 
of  General  Washington  and  Governor  Clinton  at  the  City  Hall. 

1  Two  paintings  are  referred  to — one  of  Jay,  and  the  other  of  Jefferson,  by  Rubens  (or  Raphael)  Peale. 

1  Cf.  "  Notes  on  Portraits  "  of  Thomas  Jefferson. 

'"Pierre  Eugene  du  Simitiere,  artist,  born  in  Geneva,  Switzerland;  died  in  Philadelphia  in  October,  1784.  He  went  to 
the  West  Indies  about  1750,  and,  after  spending  fifteen  years  there,  to  New  York,  and  in  1766  to  Philadelphia.  Here  he 
became  well  known  as  a  collector  of  curiosities,  and  in  1768  was  elected  a  member  of  the  American  Philosophical  Society. 
His  collection  was  so  celebrated  that  in  1782  he  opened  it  to  the  public  under  the  name  of  the  American  Museum.  He 
was  an  artist  of  some  ability,  and  painted  numerous  portraits,  including  one  of  Washington.  His  heads  of  thirteen  nota- 
bles— Washington,  Baron  Steuben,  Silas  Deane,  Joseph  Reed,  Gouverneur  Morris,  General  Horatio  Gates,  John  Jay,  Will- 
iam H.  Drayton,  Henry  Laurens,  Charles  Thomson,  Samuel  Huntington,  John  Dickinson,  and  Benedict  Arnold — were 
engraved  by  Benjamin  Reading,  and  published  in  a  quarto  volume  (London,  1783).  He  painted  also  miniatures  in  water- 
color,  and  made  some  designs  for  publications.  Soon  after  the  Declaration  of  Independence  he  was  employed  by  a  com- 
mittee of  Congress  to  furnish  designs  for  a  seal  for  the  new  republic.  Subsequently  he  suggested  another  design,  but 
neither  was  accepted.  His  valuable  collection  of  manuscripts  and  broadsides,  forming  material  for  a  history  of  the  Revo- 
lution, and  comprising  several  volumes,  is  in  the  Philadelphia  Library.  Princeton  conferred  upon  him  in  1 78 1  the  honorary 
degree  of  M.  A." — (Appletons'  "  Cyclopaedia  of  American  Biography,"  vol.  v,  p.  531.) 

4  Vol.  vii,  p.  91. 

*  Hon.  John  Jay,  of  New  York. 
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482       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


and  also  the  English  secretary,  Caleb  Whitefoord.1  A  draft  of  the  treaty  between  Eng- 
land and  the  United  States  lies  before  Franklin  on  the  table.  The  picture  in  this 
volume  is  reproduced  from  a  photograph  of  the  original  portrait  which  Charles  Sumner 
brought  from  England  and  presented  to  the  Museum  of  Fine  Arts,  Boston.  Underneath 
the  portrait  are  these  words  in  Mr.  Sumner's  handwriting:  "The  U.  States  commission- 
ers in  1782  to  sign  the  Treaty  of  Independence,  from  an  unfinished  picture  by  Benjn  West, 
in  possession  of  Lord  Belper."  lion.  John  Jay,  of  New  York,  adds  :  "  I  have  at  Bed- 
ford House  a  good-sized  photograph  of  the  study  by  West,  to  which  you  refer,  which  was 
sent  to  me  with  the  permission  of  the  family  of  Lord  Belper.  I  have  also  a  copy,2  a  very 
good  one,  in  oil,  of  the  West  picture,  made  for  the  historian  of  Greece,  Mr.  Grote,  which 
was  presented  me  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Grote,  with  some  account  of  the  picture  in  Mrs.  Grote's 
own  hand,  which  I  have  had  framed  to  accompany  it."  When  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Grote  visited 
at  Derby,  in  1835,  the  late  Lord  Belper,  Edward  Strutt,  M.  P.,  they  saw  at  the  house  of 
his  uncle,  Joseph  Strutt,  the  painting  above  referred  to,  which  Joseph  Strutt  had  bought  at 
the  sale  of  Benjamin  West's  effects  after  the  artist's  death.3  The  present  Lord  Belper,  a 
son  of  the  late  Lord  Belper,  now  the  owner  of  the  original  painting  by  West,  adds:4 
"  The  picture  is  not  a  very  large  one — perhaps  four  feet  long  or  so.  The  heads  and  upper 
parts  are  carefully  finished  and  the  rest  of  the  figures  sketched  in.  One  end  of  the  canvas 
is  blank,  and  spaces  clearly  left  for  the  English  commissioners,  which  I  always  heard  West 
intended  to  add  to  the  picture.  The  portraits  appear  as  if  they  must  have  been  excellent 
ones.  I  fancy  that  West's  picture  of  the  American  commissioners  is  the  original  sketch, 
and  that  he  intended  to  paint  a  large  picture  from  it,  but  I  believe  this  was  never  done." 
A  statuette  of  Jay  by  Edward  J.  A.  Kuntze,  being  a  study  for  a  statue  after  the  above- 
mentioned  unfinished  portrait  by  Benjamin  West,  represents  Jay  as  pointing  to  the 
boundary-map  and  addressing  the  peace  commissioners.  This  statuette  is  at  Bedford 
House,  Katonah,  New  York.5  C.  W.  Peale  painted  a  portrait  of  John  Jay  which  was 
exhibited  in  Peale's  Museum,  Philadelphia,  in  1 795,°  and  was  sold  at  auction  at  the 
Peale  sale  in  Philadelphia  in  1854  to  C.  W.  Peale's  son,  Franklin  Peale,  who  exhibited 
the  same  in  Peale's  Museum,  Baltimore,  of  which  Franklin  Peale  was  proprietor.  It 
was  afterward  given  by  him  to  the  Maryland  Historical  Society;  Hon.  John  Jay  says 
of  this  portrait  of  his  grandfather :  "  It  is  very  interesting,  and  looks  to  me  like  an 
original.    The  resemblance  to  Jay  is  singularly  strong."    Busts  of  John  Jay  by  the  Italian 


1  B.  F.  Stevens,  of  London. 

*  Exhibited  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  in  1889  (No.  281). 

3  Letter  of  Mrs.  Harriet  Grote,  owned  by  Hon.  John  Jay. 

1  Letter  of  Lord  Belper,  May  2,  1891,  to  B.  F.  Stevens,  of  London. 

1  Hon.  John  Jay. 

"Catalogue  containing  "List  of  Portraits  in  Peale's  Collection  of  Paintings,  Philadelphia.  1795,"  owned  by  the  Historical 
Society  of  Pennsylvania. 

1  Mendes  Cohen,  Corresponding  Secretary  of  the  Maryland  Historical  Society. 


NOTES  ON  PORTRAITS. 


483 


sculptor  Ceracchi  are  owned  by  the  New  York  Historical  Society  and  John  Jay's 
granddaughter,  Mrs.  Matthew  Clarkson,  a  daughter  of  the  late  Peter  Augustus  Jay. 
Another  bust,  made  by  John  Frazee  in  1831,1  is  in  the  room  of  the  Supreme  Court 
Justices  in  the  Capitol  at  Washington,  and  one  by  the  same  artist  at  the  Jay  house  at 
Bedford  is  engraved  in  William  Jay's  "  Life  of  John  Jay."  The  Boston  Athenaeum  also 
owns  a  bust  of  Jay  by  Frazee,  and  another  bust  was  given  by  Jay's  daughter,  in  1835, 
to  the  city  of  New  York,  and  is  now  deposited  in  the  Chamber  of  the  Board  of  Alder- 
men, City  Hall. 

Jay,  Mrs.  John. — The  portrait  of  Mrs.  John  Jay  (born  Sarah  Yan  Brugh  Livingston), 
painted  by  R.  E.  Pine,  was  inherited  by  Mrs.  Jay's  son,  William  Jay,  and  by  him  given  to  his 
son,  the  present  owner,  Hon.  John  Jay.  It  was  exhibited  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  in  1889 
(No.  122).  The  size  of  the  portrait  is  twenty -four  by  twenty-nine  inches,  and  the  two  children 
in  the  portrait  are  Mrs.  Jay's  younger  daughter  Sarah  Louisa,  resting  on  her  knee,  and  her 
son  William,  who  is  in  a  tree  holding  a  bird's  nest.  A  steel  engraving  of  a  portion  of  the  Pine 
portrait,  which  represents  the  head  of  Mrs.  Jay,  is  at  page  97  in  Griswold's  "  Republican 
Court."  The  only  other  original  portrait  of  Mrs.  Jay  was  a  medallion  painted  upon  a 
bracelet  in  1783,  at  the  time  Mrs.  Jay  was  in  Paris,  which  was  given  by  Mrs.  Jay  to  her 
daughter,  Mrs.  Banyer,  who  gave  it  to  Miss  Elizabeth  Clarkson  Jay,  a  granddaughter  of  Mrs. 
John  Jay,  who  in  turn  gave  it  to  her  niece,  the  present  owner,  and  a  great-granddaughter  of 
Mrs.  John  Jay.  A  copy  of  this  miniature  by  Daniel  Huntington  is  now  at  Bedford  House 
and  a  life-sized  portrait  of  the  same  by  the  same  artist  is  owned  by  Miss  Elizabeth  Clarkson 
Jay.  Mr.  Huntington's  sketch  from  the  miniature  is  reproduced  in  the  "  Queens  of  American 
Society,"  and  also  in  the  "Century  Magazine"  for  April,  1889. 

Jefferson,  Thomas. — Gilbert  Stuart  is  known  to  have  painted  eight  portraits  of  Thomas 
Jefferson.  Secretary  of  State  under  President  Washington.  Of  the  three  not  reproduced  in 
this  volume,  one  is  in  the  Executive  Mansion  at  Washington  ;  another  is  owned  by  the 
New  York  Historical  Society,  and  was  presented  to  that  institution  in  1828  by  David 
Hosack ;  and  the  third  belonged  to  the  group  of  five  Presidents,  three  of  which  were 
destroyed  by  fire  in  the  Congressional  Library.2  A  fourth  belongs  to  Edward  Coles,  of 
Philadelphia,  and  was  exhibited  in  the  "Loan  Exhibition  of  Historical  Portraits"3  in 
Philadelphia  in  1887.     The  last  named  was  a  replica4  painted  for  President  Madison,  and 


1  Tuckerman's  "  Book  of  the  Artists,"  p.  572. 
J  See  "Notes  on  Portraits"  of  James  Madison. 

3  Catalogue,  No.  216. 

4  William  J.  Campbell  says :  "  In  regard  to  the  Coles  portrait,  Jefferson's  own  words  settle  the  question.  During 
Madison's  administration  Jefferson  wrote  that  'the  President  has  a  copy  of  the  one  [of  the  two  original  portraits]  which 
the  artist  considers  the  best.'  This  is  conclusive.  There  is  no  doubt  as  to  the  fact  that  Mr.  Coles's  portrait  is  the  one 
owned  by  Madison." 


484       THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


afterward  came  into  the  possession  of  his  private  secretary,  Governor  Edward  Coles,  of 
Illinois.1  The  portrait  of  Jefferson,  painted  in  1805  for  James  Bowdoin,  son  of  Governor 
James  Bowdoin,  and  now  owned  by  Bowdoin  College,  representing  Jefferson  as  seated,  with 
his  right  hand  resting  on  the  table,-  is  no  doubt  similar  in  its  accessories  to  the  portrait  of 
Jefferson  which  belonged  to  the  group  of  the  first  five  Presidents,  of  which  three  in  the  group 
were  destroyed  by  fire  in  Washington.  William  J.  Campbell  says :  "  I  think  the  Bowdoin  Col- 
lege portrait  of  Jefferson  the  most  beautiful  portrait  of  Jefferson  in  existence.  I  believe  it  to 
be  one  of  the  two  portraits  referred  to  by  Jefferson  in  his  letter  to  Delaplaine,  in  which  he 
speaks  of  the  '  two  original  portraits  of  me  by  Stuart,'  the  other  being  the  Edgehill  portrait. 
One  belonged  to  Jefferson  and  the  other  did  not."  The  portrait  of  Jefferson  which  is  at 
"  Edgehill,"  Keswick  Post-Office,  Albemarle  County,  Virginia,  is  now  owned  by  Mrs.  William 
B.  Harrison  and  Misses  Sarah  N.  Randolph  and  C.  R.  Randolph,  daughters  of  the  late  Colonel 
Thomas  J.  Randolph,  and  great-granddaughters  of  Thomas  Jefferson.  Mrs.  William  B.  Har- 
rison says  of  the  "  Edgehill "  portrait  of  Jefferson,  and  the  medallion  portrait,  which  will  be  re- 
ferred to  later:  "  Stuart  was  so  overworked,  that  he  delayed  finishing  up  these  portraits  till  in 
the  twenties.  I  think  Mr.  Jefferson  sat  for  them  while  in  the  presidential  chair.  When  the 
portraits  at  last  arrived  at  '  Monticello,'  the  paint  on  the  coat  of  the  full-face  portrait  was  fresh, 
and  Mrs.  Randolph  thought  Stuart  had  sent  a  replica  in  place  of  the  original.  Stuart  heard 
of  the  suspicion,  and,  on  meeting  my  grandmother  in  Philadelphia,  expressed  his  mortification 
at  her  supposing  him  guilty  of  such  a  thing,  and  assured  her  that  he  had  sent  the  original,  tell- 
ing her  that  he  often  left  the  accessories  of  a  portrait  to  be  filled  in  just  before  it  was  sent 
home.  I  mention  this,  as  Governor  Coles,  who  bought  a  Stuart's  Jefferson  from  Mrs.  Madi- 
son, maintained  that  his  was  the  original  and  ours  the  replica.  Ours  is,  unfortunately,  painted 
on  wood,  and  pieced  down  the  face.  WTe  have  always  been  afraid  to  trust  it  to  any  one  to 
have  the  crack  closed."  Thomas  Jefferson  Coolidge,  of  Boston,  owns  portraits  by  Stuart  of 
the  first  five  Presidents  of  the  United  States  (including  one  of  Jefferson),  which  he  inherited 
from  his  father,  Joseph  Coolidge,  who  bought  them  from  Mrs.  Laura  Wolcott  Gibbs,  the 
widow  of  Colonel  George  Gibbs,  for  whom  Stuart  painted  them.  This  set  is  reproduced  in 
this  volume,  and  was  exhibited  at  the  banquet  in  the  City  Hotel,  New  York,  in  1839,  on  the 
occasion  of  the  semi-centennial  celebration  of  Washington's  Inauguration,  at  which  time  the 
set  belonged  to  Colonel  Gibbs.  There  has  been  considerable  controversy  over  the  medallion 
portrait  of  Jefferson  painted  by  Stuart  soon  after  the  year  1800,  and  in  the  possession  of  Jef- 
erson's  great-grandson,  Thomas  Jefferson  Coolidge,  of  Boston.3    That  it  was  not  copied  from  a 


1  Cf.  "  Notes  on  Portraits  "  of  James  Madison. 

a  See  portrait  of  Madison,  owned  by  Bowdoin  College,  and  portraits  of  Madison  and  Monroe,  owned  by  A.  A.  Low, 
of  Brooklyn. 

3  William  J.  Campbell  says:  "There  is  much  confusion  about  the  dates  of  the  Stuart  portraits.  Jefferson's  financial 
diaries  show  two  payments  to  Stuart,  each  of  one  hundred  dollars,  in  1800  and  1805.  Jefferson,  in  a  letter  dated  May 
3.  1 8 14,  speaks  of  'the  two  original  portraits  of  myself  taken  by  Mr.  Stuart.'  George  C.  Mason,  in  his  '  Life  and  Works 
of  Gilbert  Stuart'  (New  York,  1879),  gives  1804  as  the  date  of  the  Stuart  profile.    Mr.  Corcoran  always  insisted  that  the 


Miniature  by  Tholron  Owned  by  the 
Government  of  France,  and  deposited 
in  the  Louvre 


From  an  ENGRAVING  by  James  McArokll. 
Owned  by  the  Metropolitan  Museum  of 
Art,  New  York. 


From  an  engraving  in  Watson's  "Annals 
of  Philadelphi  a"  (edition  op  i8to)  of  the 
portrait  bv  Benjamin  West.  Portrait 
owned  by  Dr.  Thomas  Hewson  Bache. 
Philadelphia. 


From  the  sepia  drawing  bv  Honore  Fragonard 
Owned  by  Clarence  S.  Bement.  Philadelphia. 


Artist.  Matthew  Pkai 
Mrs.  Rosalie  V.  Tiers  J 
ton.  New  Hami^hire. 


t.  Owned  by 
ackson,  Hami* 


From  a  bronze  statuette  owned  by 
B  F.  Stevens,  London,  England. 


From  a  photograph  of  an  engraving,  after  a  drawing 
bv  Louis  Carrogis  de  Carmontelle.    Owned  by  Paul 
Leicester  Ford.  Brooklyn.  N.  Y. 


From  an  engraving  by  A.  H.  Ritchie,  after  the 

PORTRAIT  BY  CHARLES  N.  CoCHIN.  THE  \  OUNGER.  I777. 

Owned  by  Clarence  Winthrop  Bowen,  Brooklyn. 
N.  Y. 


r 


The  so-called  "Versailles  portrait."  From  an  en- 
graving; bv  Lew  owned  bv  Clarence  Winthrop  Bowen, 
Brookly'n.  N.  Y. 


From  a  medallion  bv  Jean  Baptists  Nini.  1777. 
Owned  by  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania. 


From  a  portrait  owned  by  H.  C  Thompson,  Phila- 
delphia. 


PORTRAITS  OF   BENJAMIN  FRANKLIN. 


NOTES  ON  PORTRAITS. 


485 


medallion,  but  was  painted  from  life,  is  shown  by  the  following  letter  from  "  Edgehill,"  written 
by  Mrs.  William  B.  Harrison  :  "  It  was  painted  from  life  by  Stuart,  in  accordance  with  a  fancy 
Stuart  had  to  make  a  medallion  portrait  of  Mr.  Jefferson.  My  grandmother  thought  it  the 
better  likeness  of  the  two  hanging  at  '  Monticello,'  and  as  such  she  took  it  with  her  to  Wash- 
ington. Her  son-in-law,  N.  P.  Trist,  received  it  from  her.  On  leaving  the  country  for  a 
prolonged  absence,  Mr.  Trist  sent  this  picture  to  Mr.  Coolidge,  in  Boston."  Miss  Sarah  X. 
Randolph  says  that  the  medallion  "is  the  portrait  of  him  which  best  gives  the  shape  of  his 
magnificent  head,  and  its  peculiar  pose."  The  medallion  was  chosen  as  a  frontispiece  by  Miss 
Randolph  for  her  '  Domestic  Life  of  Thomas  Jefferson."  A  copy  of  this  profile  was  made  by 
Asher  B.  Durand,  and  was  owned  by  him.  Another  copy  is  owned  by  Mrs.  John  W.  Burke, 
and  another  copy  is  in  the  Redwood  Library,  Newport,  Rhode  Island.  In  the  Corcoran  Gal- 
lery of  Art,  Washington,  there  is  a  copy  by  Dr.  William  Thornton  1  of  the  Jefferson  medal- 
lion. Another  copy  by  Thornton,  owned  by  Frederick  B.  McGuire,  of  Washington,  D.  C, 
was  exhibited  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  in  1889  (No.  130).  The  Farish  family,  of  Charlottes- 
ville, Virginia,  own  a  crayon  which  is  a  copy  of  the  Stuart  medallion  of  Jefferson.  An  enamel 
portrait  of  the  same  profile  was  copied  by  William  Birch,  and  is  owned  by  S.  Weir  Mitchell, 
M.  D.,2  of  Philadelphia.  William  J.  Campbell,  of  Philadelphia,  an  authority  on  portraits  of 
Thomas  Jefferson,  says  of  the  copies  of  the  medallion  portrait :  "  My  explanation  is  that  the 
original  portrait  by  Stuart,  being  very  striking,  with  its  gray  tints,  attracted  marked  attention, 
and  led  to  these  copies."  Besides  being  frequently  engraved,  there  are  many  copies  of  the 
Stuart  portraits  of  Thomas  Jefferson,  including  a  large  one  by  J.  W.  Jarvis,  owned  by  the 
city  of  New  York,  and  deposited  in  the  Chamber  of  the  Board  of  Aldermen,  City  Hall; 
one  by  A.  B.  Durand,  in  the  New  York  Historical  Society  ;  one  by  G.  P.  A.  Healy,  in 
the  Corcoran  Gallery  of  Art,  Washington  ;  one  in  the  Virginia  Historical  Society;  one  in 
the  Boston  Museum;  and  another  in  the  State  Library  of  the  Capitol  at  Richmond.  The 
copy  by  Robert  Field  was  engraved  by  J.  B.  Longacre  for  Sanderson's  "  Signers  of  the  Con- 
stitution of  the  United  States."  Thomas  Sully  also  painted  portraits  of  Thomas  Jefferson. 
The  original  study  is  owned  by  the  American  Philosophical  Society,  in  Philadelphia,  and 
was  exhibited  in  the  "Loan  Exhibition  of  Historical  Portraits"  (Catalogue,  217)  in  Philadel- 
phia in  1887.    The  portrait  was  finished  April  16,  1822.3    Sully  also  painted  a  portrait  of 


'  Thornton  '  profile  was  painted  by  Stuart,  and  not  by  Thornton.  In  the  Ogle  Tayloe  catalogue  it  was  put  down  as  '  by 
Dr.  Thornton,  copied  by  King.'  The  catalogue  of  the  Corcoran  collection  has  a  Washington  Stuart,  '  which  was  brought 
to  Washington  in  1804,  as  a  specimen  of  his  skill  when  he  came  to  paint  President  Jefferson  and  his  Cabinet.'  The  fol- 
lowing entries  appear  in  Jefferson's  diaries  between  1771  and  1826.  I  have  had  them  carefully  examined:  'April  23, 
1789,  paid  for  taking  profile,  six  francs.  April  29,  1789,  paid  for  profile,  thirty  francs.  January  7,  1804,  gave  Mr.  Doolittle 
order  on  J.  Barnes  for  ten  dollars  for  two  profiles.  February  10,  1804,  gave  Doolittle  order  on  J.  Barnes  for  ten  dollars 
for  profiles.    June  18,  1805,  paid  Gilbert  Stuart  for  drawing  my  portrait,  one  hundred  dollars.'" 

'Born  in  Tortola,  West  Indies;  Superintendent  of  Patent  Office  from  1821  to  1828;  died  in  Washington  in  1828. 
Stuart  painted  his  portrait. — (Cf.  Mason's  "Life  and  Works  of  Gilbert  Stuart,"  p.  269.) 

a  Page  106  (Loan  Exhibition,  No.  126). 

3  Journal  of  Thomas  Sully,  owned  by  his  daughter,  Miss  Blanche  Sully,  of  Philadelphia. 


|S->      77//;"  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


Jefferson,  which  is  owned  by  the  Jefferson  Society,  University  of  Virginia,  Charlottesville, 
Virginia.  This  portrait  was  painted  on  an  old  door-panel  for  James  Monroe,  and  remained 
in  his  family  until  January  of  1855,  when  it  was  sold  by  Mr.  Monroe's  son-in-law,  Samuel 
L.  Gouverneur,  Sr.,  to  the  Jefferson  Society.  The  full-length  portrait  of  Thomas  Jeffer- 
son which  hangs  in  the  Library  of  the  United  States  Military  Academy  at  West  Point 
was  painted  by  Thomas  Sully  in  1830,  or  four  years  after  Jefferson's  death,  and  the  reason 
why  the  officers  of  the  Corps  of  Engineers,  U.  S.  A.,  desired  the  portrait  was  because 
"President  Jefferson,  March  16,  1802,  approved  the  Act  of  Congress  creating  the  Army 
Corps  of  Engineers,  which  'shall  constitute  a  Military  Academy.'  For  seven  years,  till 
March  4,  1809,  when  he  retired  from  office,  he  was  the  steadfast  patron  of  this  institution, 
created  under  his  auspices."1  A  replica  of  Sully's  Jefferson  is  also  said  to  be  owned  by 
the  Lafayette  family,  in  France,3  but  it  can  not  be  traced.3  The  portrait  of  Jefferson  in 
the  Hall  of  the  House  of  Delegates,  in  the  State  Capitol  building  at  Richmond,  is  a  copy, 
by  George  Catlin,4  of  the  large  portrait  by  Sully  at  West  Point.  One  of  the  pictures  of 
Jefferson  in  the  Redwood  Library,  Newport,  Rhode  Island,  is  a  copy  of  the  Sully  portrait. 
The  Sully  portrait  of  Jefferson  has  been  engraved  by  John  W.  Casilear  in  the  group  of  the 
Presidents.  The  earliest  known  portrait  of  Thomas  Jefferson  was  painted  for  Jefferson  himself 
by  Mather  Brown,  in  London,  in  1786.5  A  replica  was  painted  for  John  Adams,  and  descended 
to  John  Adams's  grandson,  the  late  Charles  Francis  Adams.  It  is  now  owned  by  John  Adams's 
great-grandson,  John  Quincy  Adams,  of  Boston.6  A  statue  of  Liberty  is  represented  in  the 
background.  The  portrait  was  engraved  for  Bancroft's  "  History  of  the  United  States,"  and 
is  also  reproduced  in  Appletons'  "Cyclopaedia  of  American  Biography."7  John  Trumbull 
painted,  in  Paris,  in  the  autumn  of  1787,8  a  portrait  of  Thomas  Jefferson,  which  is  the  original 
of  the  portrait  in  the  painting  entitled  "  Signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence,"  owned 
by  Yale  University,  a  replica  of  which  is  in  the  Capitol  at  Washington.  This  original 
study  by  Trumbull  descended  to  Jefferson's  great-grandson,  Thomas  Jefferson  Trist,  and  is 
now  owned  by  his  sister,  Mrs.  John  W.  Burke,  of  Alexandria,  Virginia.  Both  the  original 
study  and  the  replica  in  the  historical  painting  at  New  Haven  are  reproduced  in  this  volume. 
Other  original  portraits  of  Jefferson  likewise  reproduced  here  are:  the  crayon  drawing9 


1  General  George  W.  Culluni.  '  William  J.  Campbell,  of  Philadelphia. 

3  Henry  Vignaud,  Secretary  of  Legation  of  the  United  States,  Paris,  says:  "  I  have  to  state  that  no  such  portrait  is  known 
to  exist.    I  have  the  positive  statement  to  that  effect  of  two  of  the  members  of  the  Lafayette  family,  to  whom  I  have  applied." 

*  William  P.  Palmer,  of  Richmond,  says  that  the  late  John  F.  Allen,  also  of  Richmond,  knew  Catlin  when  he  brought 
this  picture  to  Virginia,  to  be  sold  to  the  State. 

'•'London,  April  25,  1786,  pd.  Brown  for  my  picture  ,£10." — ("Jefferson's  Financial  Diary,"  owned  by  Miss  Sarah  N. 
Randolph,  great-granddaughter,  Baltimore.) 

'Exhibited  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  in  1889,  No.  127.  The  Adams  family  hold  the  following  receipt  for  this  portrait: 
"  London,  May  12,  1786.  Received  of  His  Excellency,  John  Adams,  Esq.,  six  guineas  for  a  kit-cat  portrait  of  Mr.  Jefferson. 
Mather  Brown."  7  Vol.  iii,  p.  415. 

8  "  Reminiscences  of  His  Own  Times,"  by  Colonel  J.  Trumbull,  pp.  150,  151. 

"  Small  engravings  on  copper  of  this  portrait  are  in  the  Corcoran  Gallery  of  Art,  Washington,  and  in  the  possession  of 
Edward  Dexter,  of  New  York.    St.  Memin  made  another  crayon  drawing  of  Jefferson  in  1804.    Engravings  on  copper  are 


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done  by  St.  Memin  in  1805,  and  owned  by  John  Chandler  Bancroft,  who  inherited  the 
same  from  his  father,  the  late  George  Bancroft;  one  by  Bass  Otis,  painted  in  1816, 
owned  by  William  J.  Campbell,  of  Philadelphia,  and  engraved  by  Xeagle  in  Delaplaine's 
"Repository  of  the  Lives  and  Portraits  of  Distinguished  Americans,"  published  in  181 7; 
one  by  James  Sharpless,  owned  by  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  and  deposited  in  the  National 
Museum  (Old  State-House);  one  painted  by  Rembrandt  Peale  in  1803,  and  sold  at  the 
Peale  sale  in  Philadelphia,  in  1854,  for  one  hundred  and  thirty-five  dollars,  to  Thomas  J. 
Bryan,  who  gave  the  same,  in  1867,  to  the  New  York  Historical  Society;  and  another, 
painted  by  C.  W.  Peale  in  1791,  and  deposited  in  Independence  Hall,  the  property  of  the 
city  of  Philadelphia.  The  last-named,  "engraved  by  Akin  and  Harrison,  Junior,"  was 
in  Peale's  Museum,  Philadelphia,  in  1795,  and  was  sold  in  the  Peale  sale  in  1854.  There 
was  exhibited  in  New  York,  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  of  1889  (No.  129),  a  portrait  of 
Thomas  Jefferson  owned  by  Mrs.  F.  A.  March,  and  attributed  by  the  Committee  on  Art 
and  Exhibition  to  C.  W.  Peale.1  A  copy  by  Miss  C.  L.  Ransom,  after  the  original  portrait 
by  Rembrandt  Peale,  is  in  the  Diplomatic  Reception-Room,  in  the  Department  of  State, 
Washington.  Regarding  the  portrait  of  Thomas  Jefferson  in  the  possession  of  Colonel  J. 
Clifton  Brown,  "  Holmbush,"  Faygate,  Sussex,  England,  William  J.  Campbell  says: 

"  It  looks  to  me  like  a  made-up  portrait.  The  head  is  very  good,  and  is  one  of  my  favorite  heads 
of  Jefferson.  It  is  the  type  followed  in  nearly  all  the  English  engravings.  The  original  portrait  (by  R. 
Peale)  I  have  not  been  able  to  trace.  This  may  possibly  be  it,  but  I  think  it  was  only  a  bust.  The  best 
engraving,  and  evidently  a  contemporary  one,  made  immediately  after  the  painting,  is  a  small  quarto  oval 
with  the  inscription,  'Thomas  Jefferson,  Vice-President  of  the  United  States.'  It  has  been  reproduced  a 
number  of  times,  both  in  this  country  and  in  England.  There  is  a  doubt  as  to  who  R.  Peale  is,  whether 
Rembrandt,  Raphael,  or  Rubens.  Dr.  Peale,  grandson  of  Rubens,  says  that  '  Rubens  Peale  never  painted 
a  portrait,'  notwithstanding  which  the  late  R.  Coulton  Davis  expressed  the  opinion  that  Rubens  was  the 
painter  of  this  portrait.  Raphael  Peale  painted  portraits,  and  took  one  or  two  tours  through  the  South 
for  the  purpose.  I  am  inclined  to  think  that  there  is,  or  was,  a  better  R.  Peale  portrait  than  the  full-length. 
The  engraving  by  Tiebout,  made  while  Jefferson  was  Vice-President,  is  a  handsomer  picture,  but  with  all 


owned  by  the  Corcoran  Gallery  of  Art,  Edward  Dexter.  Hon.  Robert  C.  Winthrop,  and  Mrs.  James  A.  Garfield. — (Cf.  John- 
ston's "Portraits  of  Washington,"  p.  135.) 

1  Professor  F.  A.  March,  of  Lafayette  College,  Easton.  Pennsylvania,  the  husband  of  Mrs.  March,  gives  the  following 
history  of  this  portrait :  "  The  portrait  of  Thomas  Jefferson  was  received  by  Mrs.  March  (born  Mildred  Stone  Conwav) 
from  her  mother  (born  Margaret  E.  S.  Daniel"),  of  Fredericksburg,  Virginia,  who  received  it  from  her  brother,  John  M. 
Daniel,  M.  D.  (through  his  heirs),  of  Stafford  County,  Virginia,  who  received  it  from  Dr.  Grayson,  of  Tusculum,  Stafford 
County,  Virginia,  a  connection  of  Thomas  Jefferson.  The  history,  before  Dr.  Daniel's  possession  of  it,  is  known  to  us  by 
tradition  from  Mrs.  Conway.  The  painting  was  said  to  be  a  valued  portrait  from  life,  presented  to  Dr.  Daniel  in  acknowl- 
edgment of  important  professional  aid.  Mrs.  Conway,  however,  could  not  give  the  name  of  the  painter,  and  the  portrait 
was  sent  to  the  Loan  Exhibition  as  the  work  of  an  unknown  painter.  The  attribution  of  it  to  C.  W.  Peale  was  entirely 
the  act  of  your  committee.  I  think  of  no  external  evidence  that  bears  upon  it,  except  perhaps  this  :  Mrs.  Conway  gave  the 
tradition  that  another  portrait,  the  portrait  of  her  grandfather,  Thomas  Stone,  of  Maryland,  was  by  Peale.  But  your 
committee  attribute  that  to  Pine.  The  Peale  tradition  may  have  been  accurate,  but  attached  to  the  wrong  picture."  Will- 
iam J.  Campbell  says  of  this  portrait  of  Jefferson  :  "  In  regard  to  the  Easton  (Pennsylvania)  portrait,  it  was  never  painted 
by  C.  W.  Peale.  It  has  none  of  the  characteristics.  I  like  it  exceedingly.  It  bears  no  resemblance  in  any  way  to  the 
known  portrait  by  C.  W.  Peale.    I  think  it  was  painted  about  i8o4'5." 


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the  face  characteristics  of  the  full-length.  Very  probably  R.  Peale  painted  several  portraits,  and  the  one 
you  have  may  easily  have  been  one  of  them.    R.  Peale  must  have  painted  his  picture  about  1799." 

Mrs.  William  B.  Harrison,  great-granddaughter  of  Jefferson,  says  of  this  portrait:  "I 
suppose  Mr.  Jefferson  was  taken  with  the  Natural  Bridge  as  a  background  in  acknowledg- 
ment of  his  opening  up  the  natural  features  of  Virginia  in  his  'Notes  on  Virginia.'"  The 
famous  patriot  and  General,  Tadcusz  Kosciuszko,  although  not  distinguished  as  an  artist,  made 
a  drawing  of  Jefferson,  which  was  a  labor  of  love.  A  contemporary  colored  engraving  after 
the  lost  Kosciuszko  crayon  is  owned  by  William  J.  Campbell,  of  Philadelphia.  Auguste 
Gaspard  Louis  Boucher,  Baron  Desnoyers,  made  a  drawing  of  Jefferson  in  1801,  which  is 
owned  by  John  L.  Moffat,  M.  D.,  of  Brooklyn,  New  York,  who  received  the  same  from  his 
father,  R.  C.  Moffat,  M.  D.  It  is  signed,  "  Bouch.  1801."  The  history  of  the  crayon  was 
written  by  the  senior  Dr.  Moffat  on  the  back  of  the  frame,  as  follows:  "For  James  Madi- 
son, Esq.,  late  President  of  the  United  States.  From  Rio  de  Janeiro,  1820.  This  picture 
was  in  the  possession  of  James  Madison  at  the  time  of  his  death.  It  was  sold  with  the 
residue  of  his  effects,  which  then  formed  part  of  the  estate  of  Mr.  Todd  (son,  by  a  former 
marriage,  of  Mrs.  Madison),  at  Vendue,  and  bought  by  Mr.  John  H.  Lee,  of  Orange,  Vir- 
ginia, and  by  him  sent  to  me  in  May,  1853,  in  very  perfect  condition."  William  J.  Camp- 
bell, of  Philadelphia,  says : 

"Auguste  Gaspard  Louis  Boucher,  Baron  Desnoyers,  exhibited  in  Paris,  in  the  Salon  of  1801,  a  'por- 
trait de  Jefferson,  president  des  Etats  Unis,  gravure  an  pointille.'  The  portrait  is  always  referred  to  as 
Desnoyers'  portrait  of  Jefferson.  In  examining  French  biographical  and  art  dictionaries  I  have  not  been  able 
to  find  any  artist  by  the  name  of  '  Bouch.,'  and  I  took  it  for  granted  that  '  Bouch.'  and  Desnoyers  were 
the  same  person.  The  date  on  the  crayon,  1801,  and  the  knowledge  that  Desnoyers  exhibited  his  en- 
graving in  1 80 1,  and  the  ownership  of  the  crayon  by  Madison,  all  point  to  its  being  the  original  crayon. 
The  inscription  on  the  engraving  is:  'Bouch.  delt.  |  Depose  a  la  Bibliotheque  Nationale  le  25  Fructidor, 
Aug.  9.  I  Aug.  Desnoyers,  Sculpt.  |  Thomas  Jefferson  |  President  des  Etats  Unis  de  l'Amerique,  Aug. 
1801.  I  Le  trouve  chez  le  C.  Martin  Md.  d'Estampes,  Rue  Fossis  Montmartre  No.  27.' " 1 

In  comparing  the  "  Bouch."  crayon  with  the  R.  Peale  portrait,  Mr.  Campbell  adds:  "There 
are  two  types  of  R.  Peale  portraits,  both  of  them  certainly  as  early  as  1801,  and  I  think  1800. 
The  '  Bouch.'  portrait  follows  one  of  them  to  a  certain  extent,  and  I  think  it  very  likely  that 
the  artist  had  it  in  his  eye  when  he  made  his  crayon.  He  has,  however,  put  his  individuality 
into  it  and  made  it  a  French  portrait,  and  it  is  the  type  followed  in  France  even  to-day."  One 
of  the  Baron  Desnoyers  or  "  Bouch."  engravings  of  Jefferson  is  in  the  Virginia  Historical  So- 
ciety, and  others  are  owned  by  the  Metropolitan  Museum  of  Art,  New  York,  and  William  J. 
Campbell.  In  "The  Gallery  of  Portraits,  with  Memoirs,"2  published  in  London  in  1837  by 
Charles  Knight  &  Co.,  is  an  engraving  of  Jefferson  by  W.  Holl,  "  from  a  print  engraved 
by  A.  Desnoyers,"  which  is  identical  with  the  "  Bouch."  crayon.    There  are  engravings 


1  Charles  Henry  Hart  says:  "The  inscription  on  Desnoyers'  plate  shows  that  'Bouch.'  is  not  'Desnoyers.'  If  Desnoyers' 
engraving  was  after  his  own  original  drawing,  the  inscription  would  be  'Desnoyers  delt  et  sculpt.'  "  2  Vol.  vii,  p  153. 


NOTES  ON  PORTRAITS.  489 

of  the  Desnoyers  portrait  by  Dequevauvillier,  dedicated  to  General  Lafayette.  John  Vander- 
lyn  is  said  to  have  made,  in  Washington,  a  pencil-drawing  of  Thomas  Jefferson.  In  the  Bos- 
ton Museum  is  a  portrait  of  Jefferson  by  Edward  Savage  in  the  painting  entitled  "  Signers  of 
the  Declaration  of  Independence."  A  rare  engraving  by  Edward  Savage  of  Thomas  Jefferson, 
from  a  portrait  also  by  Savage,  is  owned  by  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania.  Busts 
of  Thomas  Jefferson,  by  Houdon,  are  owned  by  the  New  York  Historical  Society  and  the 
American  Philosophical  Society,  Philadelphia.  Ceracchi  also  made  a  bust  of  Jefferson,  which 
was  destroyed  by  fire  in  the  Library  of  Congress.  Jefferson's  statue  by  Alexander  Gast,  of 
Norfolk,  Virginia,  which  is  in  the  Library  of  the  University  of  Virginia,  was  copied  from  a 
portrait  recommended  by  the  late  Colonel  Thomas  J.  Randolph.  The  bust  by  Horatio  Stone 
is  also  a  copy.  Regarding  the  engravings  of  Jefferson,  William  J.  Campbell  says:  "Besides 
the  known  paintings  there  are  several  characteristic  engravings.  I  mention  the  types  as 
follows:  i.  R.  Peale,  engraved  by  Tiebout,  published  by  D.  Kennedy,  228  Market  Street: 
Thomas  Jefferson,  Vice-President  of  the  United  States.  2.  R.  Peale,  engraved  by  D.  Edwin  : 
Thomas  Jefferson,  Vice-President.  Entirely  different  from  the  preceding.  3.  A.  Desnoyers, 
engraver,  1801  :  the  type  of  all  the  French  engravings,  4.  Gimbrede,  engraver:  the  portrait 
published  in  Wait's  '  State  Papers.'  Alexander  H.  H.  Stuart,  recently  deceased,  told  me 
that  this  is  Jefferson  as  he  knew  him.  5.  Gimbrede:  apotheosis.  This  is  a  contemporary 
portrait,  and  apparently  a  very  good  likeness.  6.  The  Mint  medal  (engraved  by  Jules 
Jacquemart)  is  a  contemporary  portrait."1 

Johnson,  William  Samuel. — The  portrait  of  William  Samuel  Johnson,  member  from 
Connecticut  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  by  R.  E.  Pine,  was  painted  in 
Philadelphia  in  1788  for  Judge  Daniel  C.  Verplanck,  who  married  Elizabeth  Johnson  in 
1785,  a  daughter  of  Dr.  Johnson.  The  present  owner,  Mrs.  Anna  Verplanck  Clapp,  of 
Albany,  New  York,  a  great-granddaughter  of  Judge  Verplanck,  owns  two  letters  regarding 
this  portrait  which  were  written  by  Pine  in  Philadelphia  on  September  29,  1 788.  The 
portraits  of  Dr.  Johnson  by  J.  W.  Jarvis  were  painted  in  1 814,  and  are  now  owned  by  his 
great-great-granddaughters,  Mrs.  Jeannette  Verplanck  Etting,  of  Philadelphia,  and  Mrs.  Sam- 
uel William  Johnson  (born  Mary  N.  Verplanck),  of  New  York.  The  portrait  of  Dr. 
Johnson  by  Gilbert  Stuart  was  painted  in  1  792,  immediately  after  Stuart's  return  from  Eng- 
land, and  is  owned  by  a  great-grandson,  Professor  Charles  F.  Johnson,  of  Hartford,  Con- 
necticut. A  replica  belongs  to  Trinity  College,  Hartford,  Connecticut,  and  was  pre- 
sented to  that  institution  by  Mrs.  George  R.  Evertson,  a  daughter  of  Dr.  Samuel  Nicol, 
who  was  a  nephew  of  Dr.  Johnson,  for  whom  the  portrait  was  painted.  This  replica  was 
painted  about  the  year  1 794,  according  to  the  statement  of  Francis  M.  Woodward,  a  grand- 
son of  Dr.  Samuel  Nicol,  in  a  letter  written  in  1877  to  Dr.  E.  E.  Beardsley.    Samuel  L. 


'By  John  Reich.— ("The  Medallic  History  of  the  United  States  of  America,"  by  J.  F.  Loubat,  LL.  D.) 
63 


THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION . 


W  aldo  made  a  copy  of  the  Stuart  portrait,  which  is  now  owned  hy  Columbia  College, 
New  York,  and  was  exhibited  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  in  1889  (No.  131).  Mrs.  Susan  E. 
Johnson  Hudson,  a  great-great-granddaughter  of  Dr.  Johnson,  has  at  the  "Johnson  Home- 
stead," at  Stratford,  Connecticut,  another  copy  of  the  Stuart  portrait  made  by  a  French 
artist  nearly  one  hundred  years  ago.  Still  another  copy  of  the  Stuart  portrait  was  made  by 
a  Mr.  Graham,  who  was  so  unprincipled  as  to  retain  the  original,  in  place  of  which  he 
sent  his  copy  to  the  family.  The  cheat  was  detected,  and  the  original  was  recovered.  The 
copy  was  never  called  for.  The  engraving  in  Dr.  Beardsley's  "  Life  of  Johnson  "  was  made 
by  A.  H.  Ritchie  from  the  original  painting  by  Gilbert  Stuart.1 

Johnston,  Samuel. — There  are  two  known  original  portraits  of  Samuel  Johnston,  mem- 
ber from  North  Carolina  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  and  both  are  min- 
iatures painted  by  the  artist  James  Peale.  The  one  belonging  to  Samuel  Johnston's 
grandniece,  Mrs.  Cadwalader  Jones,  of  "  Rockhill,"  Columbia,  South  Carolina,  was  painted 
in  1  792.  The  other  miniature,  owned  by  Mrs.  Jones's  sister,  Mrs.  W.  M.  Shipp,  of  Raleigh, 
North  Carolina,  was  painted  in  1793.  Mrs.  Cadwalader  Jones  also  owns  a  portrait  of 
Samuel  Johnston,  by  Henry  Inman,  which  was  copied  from  the  miniature,  owned  by  Mrs. 
Judge  Shipp,  above  referred  to.  The  small  water-color  portrait  which  is  owned  by  Samuel 
Johnston's  great-grandnephew,  Charles  E.  Johnson,  of  Raleigh,  North  Carolina,  is  also 
copied  from  the  James  Peale  miniature  of  Johnston  in  the  possession  of  Mrs.  Shipp.  The 
portrait  of  Samuel  Johnston  in  the  University  of  North  Carolina,  at  Chapel  Hill,  North 
Carolina,  was  presented  by  Samuel  Iredell  Johnston,  and  is  a  copy  of  the  water-color  above 
referred  to.2 

King,  Rufus. — The  artists  who  painted  portraits  from  life  of  Rufus  King,  member 
from  New  York  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  were  John  Trumbull,  Gil- 
bert Stuart,  Charles  W.  Peale,  and  Joseph  Wood.  The  oil-miniature  at  Yale  University 
was  painted  by  Trumbull  in  1792,  and  the  portrait  belonging  to  a  grandson  of  Rufus  King, 
Charles  R.  King,  M.  D.,  of  Andalusia,  Pennsylvania,  exhibited  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  in 
New  York  in  1889  (No.  133),  was  painted  by  Trumbull  probably  in  London  in  1800, 
when  Rufus  King  was  United  States  minister.3    Yale  University  also  owns  a  bust  por- 


1  Cf.  Dr.  E.  E.  Beardsley's  "  Life  and  Times  of  William  Samuel  Johnson,"  and  George  C.  Mason's  "  Life  and  Works  of 
Gilbert  Stuart,"  p.  208,  and  Dunlap's  "History  of  the  Arts  of  Design,"  vol.  i,  p.  202. 

5  Mrs.  Cadwiilader  Jones  says:  "Governor  Samuel  Johnston  has  no  direct  descendants  living.  My  grandfather,  Judge 
James  Iredell,  one  of  the  Justices  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States  in  the  time  of  Washington,  married  Governor 
Johnston's  sister.  My  father.  Governor  James  Iredell,  of  North  Carolina,  was  their  son,  and  nephew  to  Governor  Johnston  ; 
so  I  am  his  grandniece.  Mrs.  Charles  E.  Johnson  is  my  sister.  Charles  E.  Johnson,  a  descendant  of  Charles  Johnson, 
President  of  the  North  Carolina  Senate  at  the  time  of  the  adoption  of  the  United  States  Constitution  by  North  Carolina, 
is  a  great-grandnephew,  on  his  mother's  side,  of  Governor  Samuel  Johnston." 

3  Statement  of  Charles  R.  King.  M  D. 


NOTES  ON  PORTRAITS. 


49  1 


trait  of  Rufus  King,  which  Trumbull  painted  in  London  in  1800.1  Besides  the  panel 
portrait  of  Rufus  King  which  Gilbert  Stuart  painted,  and  which  was  exhibited  in  the 
Loan  Exhibition  in  New  York  in  1889  (No.  132)  by  another  grandson,  John  A.  King, 
of  Great  Neck,  Long  Island,  New  York,  there  is  another  portrait  on  canvas  of  King,  by 
Stuart,  in  the  possession  of  A.  Gracie  King,  of  New  York.'2  Charles  R.  King,  M.  D.,  of 
Andalusia,  Pennsylvania,  owns  a  copy  of  the  Stuart  portrait  of  King  painted  by  Stuart's 
daughter,  the  late  Miss  Jane  Stuart,  of  Newport,  Rhode  Island.  An  engraving  by  T. 
Kelly  of  the  Stuart  portrait  is  in  the  "  National  Portrait  Gallery,"  vol.  iii.  The  portrait 
of  King  by  C.  W.  Peale,  sold  at  the  Peale  sale  in  1854,  is  now  in  the  National  Museum 
(Old  State-House),  Philadelphia.  There  was  also  another  portrait  of  Rufus  King  by  Joseph 
Wood,3  which  was  destroyed  by  fire.  It  is  engraved  by  Leney  in  Delaplaine's  "  Repository,' 
published  in  18 r  7*  and  is  reproduced  in  Winsor's  "  Narrative  and  Critical  History  of  Amer- 
ica."3 H.  B.  Hall  also  made  an  engraving  from  the  Joseph  Wood  portrait.  The  Chappel 
portrait  is  a  made-up  picture. 

King,  Mrs.  Rufus. — Besides  the  portrait  of  Mrs.  Rufus  King  by  John  Trumbull,  in 
the  possession  of  her  grandson,  Charles  R.  King,  M.  D.,  of  Andalusia,  Pennsylvania,  and 
which  was  exhibited  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  in  1889  (No.  134),  there  is  said  to  be 
another  portrait,  painted  by  Gilbert  Stuart,6  but  the  family  have  no  knowledge  of 
such  a  portrait.7  Mrs.  King  was  an  invalid  several  years  before  her  death,  and  when 
Stuart  painted  Rufus  King  she  was  not  living.  Another  original  Trumbull  portrait  of 
Mrs.  Rufus  King  descended  to  Charles  King,  and  is  now  owned  by  Cornelius  L.  King,  a 
grandson,  of  Bellows  Falls,  Yermont.  This  portrait  was  engraved  for  Griswold's  "  Re- 
publican Court."  It  differs  from  the  other  Trumbull  portrait  in  pose,  dress,  and 
details. 


1  "  Reminiscences  of  His  Own  Times,"  by  Colonel  J.  Trumbull,  p.  437. 

5  Regarding  the  two  Stuart  portraits  of  King,  John  A.  King  says  :  "  As  to  the  portraits  of  Rufus  King  by  Stuart :  Stuart 
painted  the  two  portraits  at  the  same  time.  They  were  both  delivered  to  Christopher  Gore  on  or  about  March  20,  1820,  in 
Boston,  who  sent  them  to  Mr.  King.  One  portrait  was  painted  on  wood,  which  Mr.  King  retained  and  left  by  his  will  to  his 
grandson,  Rufus  King,  the  son  of  Charles.  I  purchased  it  in  1881  from  the  son  of  this  Rufus  King.  The  other  portrait  was  on 
canvas,  and  was  sent  by  Mr.  King  to  his  son  James  G.  King,  then  a  merchant  in  Liverpool,  from  whom  it  descended  to  his 
son  A.  Gracie  King,  who  now  owns  it.  The  two  pictures  having  been  simultaneously  finished  and  delivered,  are  equally 
originals.  Mine  is  recorded  in  Rufus  King's  will."  These  facts  are  confirmed  by  Charles  R.  King.  M.  D  ,  of  Andalusia, 
Pennsylvania,  another  grandson  of  Rufus  King,  who  gives  these  extracts  from  Mr.  Gore's  letters  to  Mr.  King :  "  Waltham, 
Nov.  i,  1819—  Stuart,  as  I  leam  from  Mr.  Payne,  has  not  yet  finished  your  portrait,  although  he  promises  soon  to";  and  in 
another  letter,  "  We  have  been  highly  gratified  with  your  picture.  It  is  a  good  picture,  and  on  the  whole  a  likeness,  though 
I  think  in  this  respect  subject  to  some  criticism.  One  eye  is  so  drawn  down  as  to  give  it  in  a  small  degree  the  appearance  of 
squinting." 

"  Uunlap's  "  History  of  the  Arts  of  Design,"  vol.  ii,  p.  76. 
4  Vol.  i.  Part  II,  Philadelphia,  1817. 

6  Vol.  vii,  p.  230. 

•  George  C.  Mason's  •'  The  Life  and  Works  of  Gilbert  Stuart,"  p.  210. 
'  John  A.  King  and  Charles  R.  King,  M.  D.,  grandsons. 


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Knox,  General  Henry. — Of  the  portraits  of  General  Henry  Knox,  Secretary  of  War 
under  President  Washington,  one  was  painted  by  Gilbert  Stuart,  and  is  owned  by  the  eity 
of  Boston.  It  formerly  hung  in  Faneuil  Hall,  but  was  deposited  in  the  Museum  of  Fine 
Arts  about  fifteen  years  ago.  Stuart  painted  two  portraits  from  life — one  upon  a  defective 
panel,  which  was  afterward  thrown  aside,  and  the  other  is  the  portrait  now  in  the  Museum 
of  Fine  Arts.1  Francis  S.  Drake  says  of  this  portrait:"  "While  on  a  gunning  excursion 
among  the  islands  of  Boston  Harbor  (24th  July,  1773)  he  [Knox]  lost  by  the  bursting 
of  his  fowling-piece  the  two  smaller  fingers  of  his  left  hand — a  defect  he  was  accustomed 
to  cover  up  by  the  folds  of  a  handkerchief,  and  which  in  Stuart's  half-length  portrait  in 
Faneuil  Hall  is  skillfully  concealed  by  resting  the  hand  on  a  cannon."  This  portrait  is 
reproduced  in  John  Schuyler's  "The  Society  of  the  Cincinnati  in  New  York,"  and  in 
Benjamin's  "  Art  in  America."  Bowdoin  College  owns  a  copy  of  the  Stuart  portrait 
of  Henry  Knox,  painted  on  canvas  by  Hoyt,  the  Boston  artist.  It  belonged  to  General 
Knox's  daughter,  Mrs.  Lucy  Flucker  Thatcher,  and  hung  in  the  old  mansion-house  of 
General  Knox  at  Thomaston,  Maine,  and  was  bequeathed  to  Mrs.  Thatcher's  son,  Rear- 
Admiral  Henry  Knox  Thatcher,  with  the  understanding  that  upon  his  death  it  should  become 
the  property  of  Bowdoin  College.  In  1880  the  portrait  was  turned  over  to  Bowdoin  Col- 
lege.3 Among  other  copies  of  the  Stuart  portrait  is  one  in  the  State-House  at  Augusta, 
Maine,  and  another  in  Faneuil  Hall,  Boston.  James  Herring's  copy  is  reproduced  in  the 
"  National  Portrait  Gallery,"  vol.  ii.  The  only  original  by  Stuart  is  the  one  in  the 
Museum  of  Fine  Arts,  Boston.4  General  Knox  is  painted  by  John  Trumbull  in  each  of 
the  two  historical  paintings,  "The  Surrender  of  Cornwallis"  and  the  "Capture  of  the 
Hessians,"  which  are  owned  by  Yale  University,  replicas  of  which  are  in  the  national 
Capitol  at  Washington.  The  small  portrait  of  Knox  belonging  to  his  great-granddaughter, 
Mrs.  Milton  A.  Fowler,  of  Poughkeepsie,  New  York,  is  said  to  have  been  painted  also  by 
Trumbull,  but  it  is  more  like  the  Stuart  picture.  C.  W.  Peale  also  painted  portraits  of 
General  Knox,  one  of  which  is  owned  by  Oswald  Tilghman,  of  Easton,  Maryland,  and  was 
exhibited  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  in  1889  (No.  135).  General  Knox  is  represented  in 
this  portrait  in  the  uniform  of  a  major-general  and  wearing  the  badge  of  the  Society  of 
the  Cincinnati.  Another  portrait  of  General  Knox  by  C.  W.  Peale  was  in  Peale's  Museum, 
Philadelphia,  in  1795,  was  sold  at  the  Peale  sale  in  1854,  and  is  now  owned  by  the  city 
of  Philadelphia  and  deposited  in   Independence   Hall.    The  portrait  which  the  Pennsyl- 


1  Mason's  "Life  and  Works  of  Gilbert  Stuart,''  p.  211.  In  Mr.  Mason's  book  appears  a  photogravure  of  the  Stuart 
portrait.  The  Stuart  portrait  was  engraved  by  D.  Edwin  in  "The  Port  Folio,"  February,  1812.  The  Peale  picture,  also 
engraved  by  Edwin  in  "The  Port  Folio,"  August,  181 1,  was  not  liked  as  well,  and  "did  not  give  entire  satisfaction  to  the 
friends  and  relatives  of  the  deceased." — (•'  Port  Folio,"  February,  1812.  p  103.) 

'"Life  and  Correspondence  of  Henry  Knox,"  by  Francis  S.  Drake,  p.  15. — fCf.  Maine  Historical  Society  Collections, 
new  series.  January,  1890.)  3  George  T.  Little,  Librarian  of  Bowdoin  College. 

4  Letter  on  Henry  Knox  Thatcher,  June  16,  1876.— ("  Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,"  vol.  xv, 
1876  1877.  p.  8.) 


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493 


vania  Historical  Society  owns  is  a  copy  by  J.  B.  Sword  of  the  C.  W.  Peale  portrait. 
The  portrait  of  General  Knox  owned  by  the  Virginia  Historical  Society  is  without  doubt 
an  original,  but  the  name  of  the  artist  is  unknown.  Edward  Savage  painted  the  portrait  of 
Knox  owned  by  the  Boston  Museum.  Regarding  this  portrait  Savage  said  to  Knox,  in  a 
letter  written  from  London,  January  22,  1  792  : 1  "Agreeably  to  your  request,  I  have  sent  by 
Mr.  West  the  half-dozen  prints  from  the  original  portraits  which  you  did  me  the  honor  to 
sit  for.  ...  I  was  much  flattered  by  Mr.  West,  historical  painter  to  his  Majesty,  as  he  knew 
it  to  be  my  first  performance  on  copper,  and  without  any  assistance."  The  Savage  engraving 
of  Knox,  copied  by  H.  W.  Smith,  appears  in  Drake's  "  Life  and  Correspondence  of  Henry 
Knox."  The  portrait  of  Knox  which  Thomas  Sully  painted  in  18 19,  in  the  large  picture 
owned  by  the  Boston  Museum,  is  a  copv.  Thomas  Sully  makes  mention  in  his  journal 
of  a  miniature  of  General  Knox,  from  which  he  finished  a  copy,  head-size,  June  25,  1824.2 
A  portrait  of  Knox,  taken  during  the  Revolutionary  War,3  belonged  to  the  late  Miss 
Sarah  Smith  Stafford,  of  Trenton,  New  Jersey,  whose  father  was  an  intimate  friend  of 
General  Knox.4 

Lafavette,  Marquis  de. — Besides  the  statue  by  Houdon  of  the  Marquis  de  Lafayette, 
which  is  in  the  State  Capitol  building  at  Richmond,  Virginia,3  and  a  bust  by  the  same 
sculptor  belonging  to  the  American  Philosophical  Society,  Philadelphia,  a  cast  of  which  is 
in  the  Boston  Athenaeum,  there  is  a  portrait,  which  was  painted  by  S.  F.  B.  Morse  for  the 
corporation  of  the  city  of  New  York,  and  which  is  now  deposited  in  the  Governor's  Room, 
City  Hall  (Loan  Exhibition  of  1889,  No.  136).  In  the  background  of  the  portrait  are  seen 
busts  of  Washington  and  Franklin.  As  Lafayette  was  in  Washington,  Morse  went  to  that 
city  in  1825  and  painted  the  head  and  made  the  necessary  drawings.6  The  original  sketch 
which  the  artist  made  was  owned  by  Philip  Hone,  of  New  York.7  In  1876,  William  H.  Os- 
born  presented  to  the  Lenox  Library,  New  York,  another  portrait  of  Lafayette  by  Morse. 
Regarding  the  Lafayette  portrait  Morse  said,  "  Painted  in  Washington  from  sittings  from 
Lafayette  in  the  month  of  February,  1825."  A  portrait  of  Lafayette  appears  in  the  painting 
by  John  Trumbull  entitled,  "  Surrender  of  Cornwallis,"  owned  by  Yale  University,  a  replica 
of  which  is  in  the  national  Capitol  at  Washington.    The  portrait  of  Lafayette  presented  by 


'"Life  and  Correspondence  of  Henry  Knox,"  by  Francis  S.  Drake,  p.  15. — (Cf.  "Narrative  and  Critical  History  of 
America,"  edited  by  Justin  Winsor,  LL.  D.,  vol.  viii,  pp.  433,  434.  ) 

4  Journal  of  Thomas  Sully,  owned  by  his  daughter,  Miss  Blanche  Sully,  of  Philadelphia. 
3  "Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,"  vol.  xv  (1876.  1877).  p.  8. 

*  Samuel  B.  Stafford,  of  Lanham's,  Prince  George  County,  Maryland.  General  William  S.  Stryker,  Adjutant-General  of 
New  Jersey,  has  made  very  careful  inquiry  of  every  one  in  Trenton  who  would  be  likely  to  know,  but  can  not  find  a  single 
person  who  has  ever  seen  this  portrait. 

6  See  p.  189. 

6  Dunlap's  "History  of  the  Arts  of  Design,"  vol.  ii,  p.  315. — (Cf.  Prime's  "Life  of  Samuel  F.  B.  Morse,"  pp.  139 
and  341.) 

■  Dunlap's  "  History  of  the  Arts  of  Design,"  vol.  ii,  p.  463. 


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himself  to  Washington  is  now  owned  by  General  G.  W.  C.  Lee,  of  Lexington,  Virginia. 
Thomas  Sully  painted  a  full-length  of  Lafayette,  which  is  owned  by  the  city  of  Philadelphia. 
Sully  also  painted  in  1824  an  unfinished  head,  owned  by  Herbert  Welsh,  of  Philadelphia. 
In  Independence  Hall,  Philadelphia,  is  a  portrait  by  C.  W.  Peale,1  which  was  in  Peale's  Mu- 
seum in  1795,  and  sold  in  the  Peale  sale  in  1854.  In  the  Redwood  Library,  Newport, 
Rhode  Island,  is  another  portrait  of  Lafayette,  by  Charles  B.  King,  painted  in  1825.  In  John 
Schuyler's  "  The  Society  of  the  Cincinnati  in  New  York  "  is  reproduced  another  portrait  of 
Lafayette.  Charles  C.  Ingham  painted  in  1825 2  a  full-length  portrait  of  Lafayette,  sitting, 
w  hich  is  in  the  Executive  Chamber  of  the  Capitol  at  Albany,  New  York.3  The  original 
head  from  which  this  full-length  was  made  was  presented  the  same  year  by  the  artist  to  the 
New  York  Historical  Society.  In  the  Capitol  at  Frankfort,  Kentucky,  is  a  portrait  of  La- 
fayette by  Matthew  H.  Jouett.  Mrs.  J.  W.  Davis,  in  1835,  gave  to  the  Massachusetts  His- 
torical Society  a  portrait  of  Lafayette  which  was  painted  in  Paris  for  Thomas  Jefferson  ;4  and 
in  the  Capitol  at  Washington  is  another  portrait,  painted  in  1824,  which  the  artist,  Ary 
Scheffer,  presented  to  the  United  States.5  A  full-length  copy  by  Healy  of  this  last-named 
portrait  was  presented  by  Dr.  Thomas  W.  Evans,  of  Paris,  to  Lafayette  College,  Easton, 
Pennsylvania.  Madame  de  Corcelle,  granddaughter  of  Lafayette,  gave  to  Hon.  Robert  C. 
Winthrop,  of  Boston,  a  portrait  of  Lafayette,  formerly  owned  by  another  granddaughter, 
Madame  la  Baronne  de  Perron  Saint-Martin. 0  H.  B.  Hall  made  in  1871,  for  some  Philadel 
phia  gentlemen,  an  etching  of  Lafayette  from  the  Le  Vachez  portrait.  Lafayette  College 
owns  a  half-length,  artist  unknown,  presented  by  President  W.  C.  Cattell,  D.  D.,  LL.  D. 
A  large  number  of  engraved  portraits  of  Lafayette  were  presented  to  Lafayette  College  by 
President  Cattell.  In  the  Virginia  Historical  Society  is  another  portrait  of  Lafayette,  and  a 
supposed  portrait  is  in  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania.  The  Pennsylvania  Academy 
of  the  Fine  Arts  received  in  i860  a  marble  bust  of  Lafayette  by  Horatio  Greenough. 

Langdon,  John. — Rev.  Alfred  Langdon  Elwyn,  of  Philadelphia,  owns  a  portrait,  painted 
by  Edward  Savage,  of  his  ancestor  John  Langdon,  member  from  New  Hampshire  of  the 
First  Congress  under  the  Constitution  (Loan  Exhibition  of  1889,  No.  137)  ;  and  a  half- 
length  pastel  by  James  Sharpless  is  owned  by  Langdon's  great-grandson,  John  Erving,  of 
New  York  (Loan  Exhibition  of  1889,  No.  138).  Another  portrait  by  James  Sharpless  is 
in  Independence  Hall,  Philadelphia.  There  is  an  engraving  of  the  Sharpless  portrait  by 
Samuel  Sartain,  the  Philadelphia  engraver.    A  miniature  of  John  Langdon  was  painted  by 


1  Etting's  "  Independence  Hall,"  p.  178. 

*  Appletons'  "Cyclopaedia  of  American  Biography,"  vol  iii,  p.  349. 

3  In  Tuckerman's  "  Book  of  the  Artists,"  p.  242,  it  is  wrongly  stated  that  in  the  Capitol  at  Albany,  New  York,  is  a  portrait 
of  Lafayette  by  Henry  Inman. 

4  "  Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,"  vol.  ii,  p.  16. 

6  "  Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,"  vol.  xix,  p.  55. 
"  "  Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,"  vol.  xx,  p  101. 


NOTES  ON  PORTRAITS.  495 

John  Trumbull  in  1792,  and  is  owned  by  Vale  University,  a  copy  of  which,  owned  by  the 
State  of  New  Hampshire,  is  in  Concord,  New  Hampshire  (Loan  Exhibition  of  1889,  No.  139). 

Laurance,  John—  There  are  two  portraits  of  John  Laurance,1  member  from  New  York 
of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution.  One  is  a  miniature  on  ivory  painted  by  John 
Trumbull  in  1792,  and  owned  by  the  New  York  Historical  Society.  This  miniature  was  pre- 
sented on  January  5,  1886,  to  the  New  York  Historical  Society  by  J.  L.  and  G.  C.  Mc- 
Whorter,  of  Oswego,  New  York,  the  sons  of  the  youngest  daughter,  who  was  one  of  seven  chil- 
dren of  John  Laurance.2  George  C.  McWhorter,  grandson,  of  Oswego,  New  York,  owns  a 
cabinet  portrait  of  Laurance,  taken  later  in  life  by  an  unknown  artist.  A  portrait  by  James 
Sharpless,  which  is  in  the  National  Museum  (old  State-House),  Philadelphia,  is  marked  as  a 
portrait  of  John  Laurance,  but  it  is  a  portrait  of  Samuel  Livermore,  member  of  Congress 
from  New  Hampshire,  and  is  similar  to  the  portrait  of  Livermore  owned  by  his  great-grand- 
son, Charles  G.  Saunders,  of  Lawrence,  Massachusetts.3 

Laurens,  Hexrv. — The  only  portrait  of  Henry  Laurens  in  this  volume  is  the  one  by 
Benjamin  West,  in  which  he  is  represented  among  the  group  of  the  peace  commissioners.4 
There  are  other  portraits  of  him,  however,  including  the  one  painted  by  John  S.  Copley  5  in 
London,  in  1782,  an  engraving  of  which  is  in  the  "National  Portrait  Gallery,"  vol.  iv ;  and 
another  engraving  of  which,  by  N.  Green,  of  London,  is  in  Massachusetts  Hall,  Cambridge. 
G.  E.  Manigault,  M.  D.,  of  Charleston,  South  Carolina,  says  :  "  The  portrait  of  Henry 
Laurens  by  Copley  was  burned  either  here,  in  December,  1 861,  or  in  Columbia,  South  Caro- 
lina, when  Sherman  was  there  in  1865.  This  was  stated  to  me  by  Commodore  Ingraham, 
formerly  of  the  navy,  who  married  a  granddaughter  of  Laurens.  There  is  another  portrait  of 
the  same  belonging  to  Henry  R.  Laurens,  of  Charleston."  Henry  R.  Laurens  also  says  that 
his  portrait  is  an  original  by  Copley.  In  the  Library  Committee-room  of  the  Senate,  in  the 
Capitol  at  Washington,  is  another  portrait,  which  was  purchased  ten  years  ago  for  twelve 
hundred  dollars  "  as  an  original  by  Copley." 6  A  portrait  of  Laurens  by  C.  W.  Peale  was 
exhibited  in  Peale's  Museum  in  Philadelphia  in  1795,  and  was  sold  at  the  Peale  sale  in  1854, 
and  is  now  owned  by  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  and  deposited  in  Independence  Hall.  An 


1  Gaines's  "  New  York  Pocket  Almanac  for  the  year  1801  "  contains  the  list  of  Trustees  of  Columbia  College  and  the  Direct- 
ors of  the  Bank  of  New  York,  in  which  the  name  of  John  Laurance  is  spelled  John  Lawrence.  In  the  New  York  Directory  for 
1786  the  name  is  also  spelled  Lawrence.  Yet  in  the  roll  of  the  New  York  Cincinnati,  Laurance  signed  himself  John  Laurance, 
and  that  form  of  spelling  is  preserved  in  John  -Schuyler's  "  The  Society  of  the  Cincinnati  in  New  York,"  and  is  also  followed  in 
this  volume. 

J  "  From  the  picture  of  him  painted  by  Colonel  Trumbull  he  was  decidedly  an  Englishman  in  appearance,  with  a  clear, 
florid  complexion,  blue  eyes,  and  brown  hair  which  he  wore,  in  accordance  with  the  style  of  the  day,  powdered  and  with  a 
queue." — (MS.  in  New  York  Historical  Society.) 

3  See  "  Notes  on  Portraits  "  of  Samuel  Livermore. 

4  See  "  Notes  on  Portraits  "  of  John  Jay. 

6  "  A  Sketch  of  the  Life  and  a  List  of  some  of  the  Works  of  John  Singleton  Copley,"  by  Augustus  Thorndike  Perkins,  p.  80. 
6  A.  R.  Spofford,  Librarian  of  Congress. 


496       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 

engraving  of  this  portrait  was  made  by  N eagle  in  1 8 1 8  for  Delaplaine's  "  Repository,"  and  is 
reproduced  in  Winsor's  "Narrative  and  Critical  History  of  America."1  A  life-drawing  was 
also  made  by  Du  Simitierc,  an  engraving  of  which,  by  B.  Reading,  was  published  by  William 
Richardson  in  London  in  r 783.*  John  Trumbull  painted,  in  February  of  1  791 ,  an  oil-minia- 
ture of  Henry  Laurens  which  is  owned  by  Vale  University.3 

Lear,  Tobias. — In  the  Loan  Exhibition  of  1889  (No.  141)  is  the  miniature  which  is 
reproduced  on  page  63  of  Tobias  Lear,  private  secretary  to  Washington  from  1785  until 
Washington's  death.  This  miniature  is  two  and  a  half  inches  in  diameter,  and  is  set  in  a 
double  row  of  pearls,  and  is  owned  by  a  granddaughter,  Mrs.  Louisa  Lear  Eyre,  of  Phila- 
delphia. 

Lee,  Arthur. — C.  W.  Peale  painted  two  portraits  of  Arthur  Lee,  Commissioner  of  the 
Treasury  in  1789.  One  was  in  Peale's  Museum,  Philadelphia,  in  1795,  was  sold  at  the 
Peale  sale  in  1854,  and  is  now  owned  by  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  and  deposited  in  the 
National  Museum;  and  the  other  is  the  property  of  the  Virginia  Historical  Society.  It 
was  impossible  to  ascertain  the  name  of  the  artist  who  painted  the  Virginia  Historical 
Society  portrait,  until  both  portraits  were  photographed  for  this  volume,  when  it  was 
seen  that  they  were  painted  by  the  same  artist.  Charles  Henry  Hart  is  of  the  opinion 
that  the  Richmond  portrait  is  a  replica  and  the  Philadelphia  portrait  the  original,  as  the  last- 
named  came  from  Peale's  Museum,  and  Peale  generally  kept  the  originals  of  portraits  of 
which  he  painted  more  than  one  copy.  An  etching  of  the  Peale  portrait  was  made  by  H.  B. 
Hall,  in  1 871,  for  some  Philadelphia  gentlemen.  An  oil-miniature  of  Arthur  Lee  was  painted 
by  John  Trumbull  in  1790,  and  is  owned  by  Yale  University. 

Lee,  Richard  Bland. — The  only  portrait  known  of  Richard  Bland  Lee,  member  from 
Virginia  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  is  the  miniature  in  the  possession  of 
his  granddaughter,  Miss  Elizabeth  Lee  Washington,  of  Washington,  D.  C.  Miss  Washington 
says  :  "  The  miniature  was  taken  when  Richard  Bland  Lee  was  a  member  of  the  First  Con- 
gress of  the  United  States  from  Virginia,  at  the  time  of  his  marriage  to  Miss  Elizabeth  Col- 
lins, of  Philadelphia.    I  do  not  know  the  artist's  name." 

Lee,  Richard  Henry. — Of  the  portraits  of  Richard  Henry  Lee,  member  from  Virginia 
of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution  one  is  by  C.  W.  Peale.  It  was  in  Peale's  Mu- 
seum, Philadelphia,  in  1795,  was  sold  at  the  Peale  sale  in  1854,  and  is  now  owned  by  the  city 
of  Philadelphia,  and  deposited  in  Independence  Hall  (Old  State-House).  Other  portraits  of 
R.  H.  Lee  are  by  the  artists  Edward  Savage  and  John  Trumbull,  in  the  paintings  entitled 


1  Vol.  vii,  p.  66. 

'  See  "  Notes  on  Portraits  "  of  John  Jay. 

""Reminiscences  of  His  Own  Times,"  by  Colonel  J.  Trumbull,  p.  165. 


NOTES  ON  PORTRAITS. 


497 


"  Signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence,"  owned  respectively  by  the  Boston  Museum  and 
by  Yale  University.  A  replica  of  the  one  last  named  is  in  the  national  Capitol  at  Washington. 
A  portrait  of  Richard  Henry  Lee  is  owned  by  his  great-grandson  Cassius  F.  Lee,  Jr.,  of  Alex- 
andria, Virginia,  the  artist  of  which  is  unknown.1  It  may  possibly  be  a  replica  by  C.  W. 
Peale,  for  it  resembles  very  strongly  the  Peale  portrait  ;  but  Charles  Henry  Hart,  of  Philadel- 
phia, is  of  the  opinion  that  it  is  a  copy.  This  portrait,  according  to  Colonel  R.  H.  Lee,  of 
Leesburgh,  Loudoun  County,  Virginia,  was  painted  for  his  mother,  the  grandmother  of  the 
present  owner  and  the  daughter  of  Richard  Henry  Lee.  Dr.  Thomas  Addis  Emmet  says 
that  a  profile  miniature  of  Lee,  a  photograph  of  which  he  has,  is  owned  in  England  by  descend- 
ants of  a  brother  of  Richard  Henry  Lee.  In  comparing  the  photograph  with  the  portrait  of 
Lee  in  Independence  Hall,  it  is  seen  that  the  miniature  was  also  painted  by  C.  W.  Peale. 
Another  original  miniature  is  a  full  view,  from  which  J.  B.  Longacre  made  a  drawing  which  is 
reproduced  in  Sanderson's  "  Signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence."  The  Chappel  por- 
trait, which  has  been  engraved,  is  a  made-up  picture. 

Leonard,  George. — In  Rev.  George  F.  Clark's  "  History  of  Norton,  Massachusetts,"  is 
a  lithograph  picture  of  George  Leonard,  member  from  Massachusetts  of  the  First  Congress 
under  the  Constitution.  Rev.  Mr.  Clark  remembers  seeing  the  original  portrait,  thirty 
years  or  more  ago,  in  the  old  Leonard  House  at  Norton,  but  it  has  disappeared.  The 
portrait  was  inherited  by  Mrs.  Harriet  Bayliss  Morton,  of  Taunton,  Massachusetts,  who 
brought  the  portrait  to  New  York,  and  placed  it  in  storage  with  Theresa  S.  Hickey  about 
the  year  1880.  In  removing  Mrs.  Morton's  effects  from  storage  in  18S2  the  portrait  was 
in  some  manner  lost.2    A  most  diligent  research  has  failed  to  bring  the  picture  to  light. 

Lewis,  Colonel,  and  Mrs.  Fielding. — The  portraits  of  Colonel  Fielding  Lewis  and  his 
wife,  Elizabeth  Washington,  sister  of  George  Washington,  which  were  painted  by  John  Woolas- 
ton,  and  exhibited  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  of  1889  (Nos.  144  and  145),  were  until  recently 
owned  by  a  great-grandson,  H.  L.  D.  Lewis,  of  "  Audley,"  Berryville,  Clark  County,  Va., 
and  now  belong  to  C.  F.  Gunther,  of  Chicago.  Other  portraits  of  Colonel  and  Mrs.  Lewis 
are  at  "Marmion,"  the  old  Lewis  homestead  in  King  George  County,  Va.,  copies  of  which  are 
owned  by  a  member  of  the  family,  Mrs.  Coleman  Williams,  of  New  York.'5  The  late  Lewis 
W.  Washington  likewise  owned  portraits  of  Colonel  and  Mrs.  Fielding  Lewis.  Mr.  Wash- 
ington states  that  the  Mrs.  Lewis  (Elizabeth  Washington)  portrait  and  the  so-called  Woolaston 
portrait  of  Martha  Custis,  afterward  the  wife  of  George  Washington,  are  of  the  same  person.4 

1  This  has  been  privately  engraved  for  Worthington  C.  Ford,  of  Brooklyn.  New  York,  three  hundred  copies  only  being  struck. 
5  Statement  of  Mrs.  Joseph  W.  Moulton,  of  Roslyn,  Queens  County,  New  York. 

•  Mrs.  Fielding  Lewis,  the  present  owner  of  the  "  Marmion  "  pictures,  says  that  the  two  portraits  owned  by  C.  F.  Gunther, 
wrongly  ascribed  in  the  sale  catalogue  in  Philadelphia,  in  1890,  to  Wertmiiller,  were  copied  from  the  two  at  "  Marmion,"  which 
Mrs.  Lewis  claims  were  painted  by  Copley  in  1755-56;  but  Mrs.  Coleman  Williams  knows  of  no  records  to  prove  that  the 
originals  were  by  Copley. 

*  "  George  Washington  and  Mount  Vernon  ;  a  Collection  of  Washington's  Unpublished  Agricultural  and  Personal  Letters, 

64 


498       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASH  INC  TONS  INAUGURATION 


Lewis,  Mrs.  Lawrence. — (See  "Notes  on  Portraits"  of  Eleanor  Custis.) 

Li  wis,  Morgan. — There  are  four  known  portraits  of  Morgan  Lewis,  who  was  Grand 
Marshal  at  Washington's  Inauguration:  one,  a  full-length  painted  by  John  Trumbull,  is  the 
property  of  the  city  of  New  York,  and  is  in  the  Governor's  Room,  City  Hall;  and  another 
painted  by  Henry  Inman,  representing  General  Lewis  in  citizen's  clothes,  with  the  badge 
of  the  Cincinnati  on  his  breast,  is  owned  by  a  great-granddaughter,  Mrs.  Ogden  Mills,  of 
Staatsburg,  New  York.  James  Herring  also  painted  a  portrait  of  Morgan  Lewis,  which 
is  owned  by  a  great-grandson,  Maturin  Livingston  Delafield,  of  New  York,  and  reproduced 
in  the  "  National  Portrait  Gallery,"  vol.  iii,  and  in  John  Schuyler's  "  History  of  the  Cincin- 
nati in  the  State  of  New  York."1  Richard  Burlin  painted,  in  1840,  a  portrait  of  Morgan 
Lewis,  which  is  owned  by  Daniel  L.  Jones,  of  Brooklyn,  New  York.  The  sword  in  three 
of  the  portraits  above  named  is  reproduced  on  page  310. 

Linn,  William,  D.  D. — -The  only  known  portrait  of  Rev.  William  Linn,  D.  D.,  one 
of  the  chaplains  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  is  that  owned  by  the  Col- 
legiate Reformed  Protestant  Dutch  Church  of  New  York,  of  which  Dr.  Lynn  was  pastor, 
and  exhibited  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  in  1889  (No.  147).  Rev.  Talbot  W.  Chambers,  D.  D., 
writes :  "  I  regret  very  much  my  inability  to  give  the  name  of  the  artist  of  Dr.  Linn's 
portrait.  Two  years  ago  I  examined  our  minutes,  but  could  find  no  trace  of  the  picture, 
or  indeed  of  any  of  the  circumstances  under  which  it  was  ordered." 

Livermore,  Samuel. — Regarding  the  portrait  painted  by  John  Trumbull,  in  1 791,  of 
Samuel  Livermore,  member  from  New  Hampshire,  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Con- 
stitution, and  belonging  to  Rev.  Arthur  B.  Livermore,  great-grandson,  Hinsdale,  Illinois, 
the  following  facts  are  given  by  Arthur  Livermore,  64  Park  Road,  Southport,  near 
Liverpool,  England,  a  grandson  of  Samuel  Livermore :  "  My  father,  Arthur  Livermore, 
was  a  representative  from  New  Hampshire  in  the  Eighteenth  Congress,  but  resigned 
a  little  before  the  close  of  his  term,  after  the  election  of  John  Quincy  Adams.  On 
his  return  from  Washington  to  his  home  in  Holderness,  at  the  end  of  the  first  session, 
1824,  as  I  think,  but  possibly  at  the  close  of  his  term,  he  brought  with  him  a  small  por- 
trait in  oil,  referred  to  by  you,  and  now  in  the  possession  of  my  nephew.  He  had  met 
Mr.  Trumbull,  the  artist,  in  Washington — possibly  at  an  earlier  term,  for  he  had  been  in 
Congress  during  the  first  four  years  of  Mr.  Monroe's  administration — and  the  conversation 
turned  upon  a  remark  which  my  father  had  made  in  his  place,  upon  a  resolution  to  en- 


edited,  with  Historical  and  Genealogical  Introduction,"  by  Moncure  D.  Conway. — ("  Memoirs  of  the  Long  Island  Historical 
Society,"  vol.  iv,  1889,  p.  li.)    Gf.  "Notes  on  Portraits"of  Martha  Washington.      Woolaston  painted  portraits  in  Philadelphia 
in  1758,  and  in  Maryland  in  1759.  — (Dunlap's  "  History  of  the  Arts  of  Design,"  vol.  i,  p.  103.) 
1  Page  248. 


NOTTS  ON  PORTRAITS. 


499 


gage  Mr.  Trumbull  to  paint  four  pictures  to  illustrate  scenes  in  the  history  of  the  United 
States,  the  pictures  to  be  of  a  certain  size.  The  remark  was,  that  it  seemed  '  like  buying 
by  the  acre.'  The  size  was  material,  because  the  pictures  were  to  occupy  certain  panels  in 
the  Capitol.  The  incident  was  referred  to  good-naturedly,  and  Mr.  Trumbull  invited  my 
father  to  call  on  him  on  his  way  homeward,  and  said  that  he  had  something  to  show  that 
would  interest  and  please  him.  His  residence  was  in  Philadelphia,  as  I  understood.  My 
father  called,  as  invited,  and  there  saw  a  considerable  number  of  portraits  painted  upon  a 
board,  among  which  he  recognized  that  of  his  father,  Samuel  Livermore,  and  was  much 
struck  by  the  likeness,  which  he  ever  afterward  averred  was  perfect.  Mr.  Trumbull  said 
that  he  had  intended  to  paint  the  inauguration  of  Washington,  and  had  for  that  purpose 
painted  the  portraits  of  a  number  of  persons  partaking  in  the  scene.  Josiah  Bartlett,  of 
New  Hampshire,  and  the  one  named,  are  all  that  I  remember  as  having  been  named.  But 
he  added  that  various  impediments  had  delayed  the  execution  of  his  plan  till  he  had  become 
too  old  for  it,  and  in  the  end  expressed  his  willingness  to  part  with  the  portraits.  The  price 
was  finally  agreed  on,  and  this  one  was  afterward  sawn  from  the  board  and  sent  to  my 
father.  The  old  people  in  the  vicinity  were  amazed  as  well  as  delighted  when  it  was  shown 
them.  Dr.  Bartlett,  of  Haverhill,  New  Hampshire,  was  afterward  in  correspondence  with 
Trumbull  concerning  his  father's  portrait,  but  I  understood  the  doctor  to  say  that  he  did  not 
obtain  it,  not  being  willing  to  give  the  price  demanded.  The  little  picture  remained  in  my 
father's  possession  till  his  decease,  in  1853,  when  it  was  arranged  among  us  that  my  brother 
Edward  should  have  it.  On  his  death  it  passed  to  his  son,  the  Rev.  Arthur  Brown  Liver- 
more.  The  picture  strikes  me  as  having  much  merit  as  a  work  of  art.  It  is  full  of  char- 
acter." The  portrait  above  referred  to  is  painted  on  wood,  about  four  inches  by  three  inches, 
almost  the  same  size  as  the  oil-miniature,  likewise  painted  by  Trumbull,  and  belonging  to 
Yale  University.  A  copy  of  the  Trumbull  portrait  of  Livermore  is  at  Concord,  New 
Hampshire,  the  property  of  the  State,  and  was  exhibited  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  in  New 
York  in  1889  (No.  148).  James  Sharpless  also  painted  portraits  of  Samuel  Livermore,  one  of 
which,  a  colored  crayon,  is  owned  by  a  great-grandson,  Charles  G.  Saunders,  of  Lawrence, 
Massachusetts,  and  another  of  which  is  owned  by  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  and  is  deposited 
in  the  National  Museum  (old  State-House),  Philadelphia.  These  two  portraits  of  Liver- 
more by  Sharpless  are  so  nearly  alike  that  it  is  impossible  to  state  which  is  the  original 
and  which  the  replica.  The  Philadelphia  portrait  of  Livermore  by  Sharpless  is  marked 
by  mistake  as  a  portrait  of  John  Laurance.  By  comparing  photographs  of  the  two  portraits 
of  Sharpless,  above  referred  to,  the  identity  of  the  Philadelphia  portrait  was  discovered  and 
the  mistake  corrected. 

Livingston,  John  R. — A  portrait  of  John  R.  Livingston,  one  of  the  Masters  of  Cere- 
mony at  Washington's  Inauguration,  and  brother  of  Chancellor  Livingston,  was  painted  by 
John  Yanderlyn,  and  is  now  owned  by  Mr.  Livingston's  grandson,  Charles  O.  Livingston, 


5oo       THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 

of  Kingston-on-Hudson,  New  York.  Charles  O.  Livingston's  sister,  Miss  Eliza  H.  Living- 
ston, of  Glenham,  New  York,  received,  when  a  little  girl,  from  her  grandfather  a  small  crayon 
of  |ohn  R.  Livingston,  taken  at  a  later  period  in  life,  by  an  unknown  artist.  Miss  Liv- 
ingston also  owns  a  portrait  of  her  grandfather,  which  she  inherited  from  Miss  Mary  R. 
Garrettson,  of  Rhinebeck-on-Hudson,  New  York,  a  grandniece  of  John  R.  Livingston. 

Livingston,  Mrs.  Peter  Van  Brugh. — There  was  a  portrait  of  Mrs.  Peter  Yan  Brugh 
Livingston,  who  attended  the  ball  in  New  York  given  a  week  after  Washington's  inau 
juration  ;  but  Mrs.  Livingston's  great-grandson,  Van  Brugh  Livingston,  of  New  York,  says 
the  portrait  was  destroyed  by  fire  many  years  ago. 

Livingston,  Chancellor  Robert  R. — John  Trumbull  painted  a  portrait  of  Chancellor 
Livingston,  which  appears  in  the  historical  painting  entitled  "  Signers  of  the  Declaration  of 
Independence,"  which  is  owned  by  Yale  University,  and  a  replica  of  which  is  in  the  na- 
tional Capitol  at  Washington.  A  portrait  of  Livingston,  by  James  Sharpless,  is  owned  by 
the  city  of  Philadelphia,  and  is  deposited  in  the  National  Museum  (old  State-House). 
Sharpless  also  made  a  pastel,  which  was  exhibited  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  in  1889  (No. 
150),  and  was  presented  by  Livingston  to  Mrs.  James  Fairlie,1  the  grandmother  of  the  pres- 
ent owner,  Mrs.  Alfred  Nelson,  of  Astoria,  Long  Island.  In  the  Corcoran  Gallery  of  Art, 
Washington,  and  also  the  property  of  Edward  Dexter,  of  New  York,  are  engravings  on  cop- 
per of  Chancellor  Livingston  made  by  St.  Memin  in  1796.  Beneath  the  engraving  are  these 
words:  "Drawn  by  Valdenuit,  and  engraved  by  St.  Memin,  No.  11  Fair  Street,  New  York." 
John  Vanderlyn  painted  a  portrait  of  Chancellor  Livingston  in  Paris  in  1804,  which  was 
presented  to  the  American  Academy  of  Fine  Arts  in  New  York,  July  6,  1805,  and  was 
owned  by  them  until  the  dissolution  of  that  institution.  It  became  the  property  of  the 
New  York  Historical  Society,  October  3,  1876,2  the  gift  of  Mrs.  Thompson  Livingstone,  the 
daughter  of  Henry  VV.  Livingston,  and  is  reproduced  in  the  "  National  Portrait  Gallery," 
vol.  iv.  Gilbert  Stuart  painted  a  portrait  of  Chancellor  Livingston  in  1795,  which  was  ex- 
hibited in  the  Loan  Exhibition  in  1889  (No.  151).  It  is  owned  by  the  Chancellor's  grand- 
son, Clermont  Livingston,  of  "Clermont,"  Tivoli-on-Hudson,  New  York.  In  the  portrait 
both  of  Livingston's  hands  rest  on  a  table,  holding  papers,  upon  which  are  written  "  Coun- 
cil of  Revision."  A  copy  by  Pratt  of  the  Stuart  portrait  is  in  Independence  Hall,  Phila- 
delphia, having  been  presented  to  the  city  authorities  by  Clermont  Livingston  and  other 
descendants  of  Chancellor  Livingston.  The  bust  portrait  of  Livingston  owned  by  the 
Boston  Museum  is  a  copy  of  the  Gilbert  Stuart  portrait.  Edward  Savage  painted  a  like- 
ness of  Livingston  for  the  historical  portrait,  "  Signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence," 
owned  by  the  Boston  Museum.    C.  W.  Peale  likewise  painted  a  portrait  of  the  Chancel- 


1  Wife  of  Major  James  Fairlie,  an  officer  of  the  Revolution  and  aide-de-camp  to  Baron  de  Steuben.  1  Catalogue,  No.  613. 


NOTES  ON  PORTRAITS.  5oi 

lor,  which  was  in  Peale's  Museum  in  Philadelphia  in  1795,  and  was  sold  at  the  Peale  sale 
in  1854.' 

Livingston,  Mrs.  Chancellor  Robert  R. — Robert  R.  Livingston,  of  New  York,  the 
great-grandson  of  Mrs.  Chancellor  Livingston,  says  there  are  no  portraits  in  existence  of 
Mrs.  Chancellor  Livingston  and  her  daughters,  the  Misses  Livingston. 

Livingston,  Mrs.,  of  Clermont. — Three  of  the  portraits  painted  by  Gilbert  Stuart  of 
Mrs.  Margaret  Beekman  Livingston,  the  mother  of  Chancellor  Livingston,  are  reproduced  in 
this  volume.  The  first  one  painted  by  Stuart  is  now  owned  by  Carleton  Hunt,  a  great- 
grandnephew,  and  the  Misses  Hunt,  great-grandnieces,  of  Barrytown-on-Hudson,  New  York. 
The  portrait  owned  by  the  Misses  Tillotson  was  painted  for  their  grandmother,  Margaret 
Tillotson,  a  daughter  of  Mrs.  Livingston,  of  Clermont.  This  portrait  has  the  addition  of 
a  black  lace  shawl,  which  Stuart  painted  at  Mrs.  Tillotson's  house.  A  third  portrait  is  the 
property  of  her  great-great-grandson,  Stephen  H.  Olin,  of  New  York.  Another  portrait  of 
Mrs.  Livingston  of  Clermont,  owned  by  William  Waldorf  Astor,  was  the  property  of  his 
great-grandmother,  Mrs.  General  Armstrong,  the  daughter  of  Mrs.  Livingston.  Several 
copies  of  these  Stuart  portraits  of  Mrs.  Livingston  have  been  made.  A  portrait  of  Mrs.  Liv- 
ingston of  Clermont,  representing  her  at  an  early  period  of  life,  is  the  property  of  the  widow 
of  her  great-grandson,  Mrs.  Robert  E.  Livingston,  of  "  Clermont,"  Tivoli-on-Hudson,  New 
York.  This  portrait  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  of  1889  (No.  152)  was  attributed  to  Copley, 
but  there  is  no  evidence  to  prove  that  Copley  painted  the  portrait.  A  miniature  of  Mrs.  Liv- 
ingston is  owned  by  Mrs.  Alexander  Hamilton,  of  Irvington-on-Hudson,  New  York. 

Livingston,  Judge  Robert  R. — It  is  not  known  who  painted  the  two  portraits,  repro- 
duced in  this  volume,  of  Judge  Robert  R.  Livingston,  the  father  of  Chancellor  Livingston, 
although  the  one  owned  by  Judge  Livingston's  great-great-grandson,  Stephen  H.  Olin,  of 
New  York,  has  been  ascribed  to  Benjamin  West,  and  the  one  belonging  to  Mrs.  Robert  E. 
Livingston,  the  widow  of  his  great-grandson,  which  was  exhibited  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  of 
1889  (No.  149),  has  been  attributed  to  John  S.  Copley. 

Livingston,  Walter. — The  only  two  original  portraits  of  Walter  Livingston,  one  of  the 
Commissioners  of  the  Treasury  in  1789,  are  two  miniatures.  One  of  these  was  painted  by  his 
daughter,  Mrs.  Robert  Fulton,  and  is  owned  by  Walter  Livingston's  great-granddaughter, 
Mrs.  William  Barclay  Parsons,  of  New  York.  In  this  miniature,  Mrs.  Fulton,  who  was  at 
the  time  Harriet  Livingston,  wrote  :  "  The  likeness  of  my  beloved  father.  Harriet  Living- 
ston, Tiviot  Dale,  Livingston  Manor."  Another  miniature  of  Walter  Livingston,  which  pos- 
sibly may  have  been  painted  by  his  son-in-law,  Robert  Fulton,  is  now  owned  by  the  widow 
of  Walter  Livingston's  great-grandson,  Mrs.  Walter  L.  Livingston,  of  "  Livingstonhurst,"  Flat- 
bush,  Long  Island,  New  York. 


1  MSS.  of  C.  W.  Peale,  owned  by  Albert  Charles  Peale,  M.  D.,  great-grandson  of  the  artist,  Washington,  D.  C. 


5o2       I'UIi  CliXTIiXXIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 

Livingston,  Mrs.  Walter. — There  is  a  miniature  of  Mrs.  Walter  Livingston,  wife  of  the 
Commissioner  of  the  Treasury  in  1789,  but  the  owner  is  unwilling  to  have  her  name  men- 
tioned, or  the  original  miniature  eopied. 

M  u  i  ay,  William. — The  miniature  of  William  Maclay,  member  from  Pennsylvania  of 
the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  according  to  the  statement  of  the  present  owner, 
his  great-granddaughter,  Miss  Julia  Anna  Woodhull  De  Witt,  of  Carlisle,  Pennsylvania, 
"  w  as  painted  in  London,  and  was  brought  by  Maclay  to  this  country,  with  other  artieles  of 
jewelry,  which  are  still  in  the  possession  of  the  family.  The  artist's  name  was  perhaps  cut  off 
when  the  miniature  was  put  in  a  locket  to  be  worn  at  the  '  Lafayette  Ball '  in  Baltimore. 
John  S.  Copley  may  have  painted  the  portrait."  The  miniature  descended  from  William 
Maclay  to  his  daughter  Eleanor,  who  married  William  Wallace,  of  Harrisburg,  Pennsylvania, 
and  then  to  the  latter's  daughter,  who  married  Rev.  William  R.  De  Witt,  D.  D.,  of  Harrisburg. 
From  the  latter  it  descended  to  the  present  owner.1 

Macomb,  Alexander. — The  likenesses  of  Alexander  Macomb,  whose  house  in  New  York 
Washington  occupied  in  1  790,  are  those  described  by  a  grandson,  Thomas  M.  Flandrau,  of 
Rome,  New  York:  "The  original  portraits  of  Alexander  Macomb  (my  mother's  father) 
that  I  have  knowledge  of  are  three,  viz. :  First,  a  large-sized  miniature  of  him,  mounted  in 
a  handsome  gold  and  enameled  locket,  with  a  lock  of  his  hair  put  under  a  glass  cover  on 
the  back  of  the  locket.  The  painting  is  very  fine  indeed — I  suppose  on  ivory.  The  artist's 
name  is  not  known  to  me.  The  date  must  be  about  1797,  or  earlier,  as  the  costume  is 
ancient  in  style,  and  he  has  a  queue  and  powdered  hair.  This  is  in  the  possession  of  Charles 
E.  Flandrau,  of  St.  Paul,  Minnesota.  Second,  the  crayon  drawing  in  the  possession  of  Miss 
Julia  S.  Dinsmore,  of  Grant,  Boone  County,  Kentucky.  This  bears  the  signature  of  '  Yal- 
denuit,  1797,'  has  a  gilt  frame,  is  under  glass,  with  black  oval  surrounding  it.  The  draw- 
ing is  very  excellent,  and  the  picture  in  perfect  preservation.  You  are,  of  course,  aware 
that  Yaldenuit  and  St.  Memin  worked  together.  The  engraving  of  Mr.  Macomb  for  which 
this  drawing  was  made  has  under  it  '  St.  Memin  and  Yaldenuit,  No.  1 1  Fair  Street,  New 
York.'  I  have  the  original  copper-plates  of  this  engraving,  and  of  his  second  wife,  Mrs. 
Jane  Macomb.  They  are  in  good  order.  The  engravings  are  two  and  three  eighths  inches 
in  diameter.  I  have  also  the  (third)  portrait  of  Alexander  Macomb,  by  S.  L.  Waldo.  It 
is  a  life-sized  bust  portrait  in  oil,  and  is  an  excellent  painting,  though  the  figure  has  lost 
somewhat  its  distinctness.  The  face  and  ruffled  shirt  are  not  faded,  and  in  good  condition. 
It  is  in  modern  clothes,  and  was  painted  somewhere  about  1830."  The  miniature  of  Alex- 
ander Macomb  may  have  been  painted  about  1790  by  John  Ramage,  who  painted  the 
miniature  of  Mr.  Macomb's  first  wife,  Catharine  Navarre  Macomb.    Small  engravings  on 


1  Mr.  Hart  says:  "Copley  never  painted  this  miniature.    It  is  not  the  least  in  his  manner,  and  is  a  very  mediocre  work 

of  art." 


NOTES  ON  PORTRAITS.  5o3 

copper  of  Alexander  Macomb,  made  in  1796,  reduced  from  the  crayon  drawing  belonging 
to  his  granddaughter,  Miss  Dinsmore,  are  in  the  St.  Memin  collection,  owned  bv  the  Cor- 
coran Gallery  of  Art,  in  Washington,  and  by  Edward  Dexter,  of  New  York. 

Macomb,  Mrs.  Alexander. — The  miniature  of  Mrs.  Alexander  Macomb,  which  is 
owned  by  her  granddaughter,  Mrs.  Daniel  L.  Trumbull,  of  Norwich,  Connecticut,  represents 
Catharine  Navarre  Macomb,  who  was  born  in  1757,  married  Alexander  Macomb  in 
Detroit,  May  4,  1773,  and  died  November  17,  1789.  This  lady  attended  the  ball  in  New 
York  given  May  7,  1789.  This  miniature  was  probably  painted  by  John  Ramage.1  The 
portrait  of  Mrs.  Alexander  Macomb  which  was  engraved  by  St.  Memin  at  No.  27  Pine 
Street,  New  York,  in  1 797,  represents  the  widow  of  John  Rucker  (born  Janet  Marshall), 
who  was  the  second  wife  of  Alexander  Macomb,  whom  he  married  July  n,  1791,  and 
who  died  March  3,  1849,  m  Georgetown,  D.  C.  The  small  St.  Memin  engravings  on  copper 
of  Mrs.  Macomb  are  owned  by  the  Corcoran  Gallery  of  Art,  in  Washington,  and  by 
Edward  Dexter,  of  New  York. 

Madison,  James. — The  portrait  of  James  Madison,  member  from  Virginia  of  the  Eirst 
Congress  under  the  Constitution,  which  is  owned  by  the  State  Historical  Society  of  Wiscon- 
sin, was  painted  by  George  Catlin,  the  same  artist  who  painted  De  Witt  Clinton  and  Timothv 
Pickering.  The  portrait  was  painted  by  Catlin  at  Montpelier,  Virginia,  and  now  hangs  in 
the  Portrait  Gallery  of  the  State  Historical  Society  at  Madison,  Wisconsin.  Two  other 
portraits  of  James  Madison  by  the  same  artist — George  Catlin — are  owned  by  the  Tulane 
University  of  Louisiana,  at  New  Orleans,  and  it  was  supposed  that,  of  these  two  pictures, 
one  represented  James  Madison  and  the  other  James  Monroe.  When  the  photographs  of 
the  portraits  were  submitted  to  Charles  Henry  Hart,  of  Philadelphia,  he  was  strongly 
of  the  opinion  that  they  represented  one  and  the  same  man,  namely,  James  Madison,  one 
being  a  profile  and  the  other  a  full  view.  Comparing  all  the  portraits  of  James  Madison 
with  the  portraits  of  James  Monroe,  it  is  seen  that  Madison  has  a  round  face  and  Monroe 
a  longer  and  narrower  face.  It  was  impossible  to  ascertain  the  name  of  the  artist  of 
the  Tulane  University  portraits  until  their  photographs  were  compared  with  the  photograph 
of  the  one  in  Madison,  Wisconsin,  when  it  was  at  once  seen  that  the  two  New  Orleans  por- 
traits were  painted  by  the  same  artist  as  the  portrait  of  Madison  owned  by  the  State  Histori- 
cal Society  of  Wisconsin.  The  name  of  the  artist  of  the  New  Orleans  portraits  was,  therefore, 
found  to  be  George  Catlin.  Mrs.  C.  B.  Surget,  of  107  Rue  de  la  Course,  Bordeaux,  France, 
says  of  the  New  Orleans  portraits :  "  They  were  executed  for  my  father  very  many  years  ago 
in  Virginia,  and  they  have  been  in  my  possession  since  the  death  of  my  parents,  not  forming 
part  of  the  bequest  of  my  sister  to  Tulane  University,  but  being  my  gift  to  that  institution. 


'See  "Notes  on  Portraits"  of  Mrs.  William  Few,  Mrs.  Elbridge  Gerry,  and  Mrs.  Isaac  Coles. 


run  centennial  of  Washington's  inauguration. 


My  father  was  a  well-known  merchant  of  New  Orleans,  John  Linton  byname.  He  left  his 
native  place,  Dumfries,  Virginia,  when  very  young,  and  when  the  portraits  in  question  were 
painted  for  him  he  was  a  resident  of  North  Carolina."  Of  these  two  portraits,  now  in  Tulane 
University,  the  profile  one  is  "  painted  on  a  wood  panel,  and  has  not  nearly  so  much  finish  as 
the  other  portrait,  which  is  painted  on  canvas.  Both  portraits  are  twenty-five  by  thirty-six 
inches  in  size."  1  Regarding  the  bust  of  James  Madison  executed  in  1792  by  Ceracchi,  and 
reproduced  on  page  354,  James  G.  Blaine,  Secretary  of  State,  says  :  "  The  medallion  portrait  of 
Madison  passed  into  the  possession  of  Mrs.  Madison,  and  was  purchased  of  her  and  her  son, 
Payne  Todd,  by  Mr.  J.  C.  McGuire,  of  Washington.  On  the  death  of  Mr.  McGuire  it  was, 
among  other  relics  of  the  ex- President,  sold  in  the  settlement  of  his  estate,  with  a  large  collec- 
tion of  paintings.  Mr.  Worthington  C.  Ford,  then  in  the  Department  of  State,  learned  of  its 
intended  sale,  and  called  the  attention  of  the  Secretary,  Mr.  Bayard,  to  it.  The  Secretary  at 
once  directed  him  to  purchase  it  for  the  department.  This  was  done,  and  Mr.  Frederick  B.  Mc- 
Guire, one  of  the  sons  of  James  C.  McGuire  presented  to  the  department  a  letter  from  Cerac- 
chi relating  to  the  piece.  The  same  artist,  as  you  doubtless  know,  made  similar  portraits  of 
the  prominent  Americans  of  the  day,  and  had  planned  to  use  them  in  a  great  national  monu- 
ment— a  scheme  that  was  never  carried  out."  In  Rives's  "  Life  and  Times  of  James  Madi- 
son," frontispiece  to  volume  i,  the  above-described  medallion  is  reproduced.  Regarding  the 
portrait  of  James  Madison  by  Asher  B.  Durand,  Dunlap  says  :2  "  This  last  portrait  was  made 
by  Mr.  Durand  in  1833,  ana"  f°r  the  purpose  he  visited  the  ex-President  at  his  residence  in 
Virginia,  experiencing  the  pleasure  of  the  conversation  of  the  veteran  statesman,  and  that  flow- 
ing from  the  first  approbation  elicited  by  his  picture."  The  Durand  portrait  of  Madison, 
twenty  by  twenty-four  inches  in  size,  was  presented  by  P.  Kemble  Paulding  to  the  New 
York  Historical  Society.  It  was  engraved  by  J.  W.  Casilear  for  the  New  York  Mirror,3 
for  the  engraving  of  the  first  seven  Presidents  of  the  United  States.  Of  the  portraits 
which  Gilbert  Stuart  painted  of  James  Madison,  the  one  owned  by  Bowdoin  College  is  thus 
described  by  the  librarian,  George  T.  Little  :  "  Bowdoin  College  possesses  an  original  por- 
trait of  James  Madison  painted  by  Gilbert  Stuart  for  Hon.  James  Bowdoin.  There  are,  I  be- 
lieve, several  replicas  in  existence,  but  according  to  tradition  ours  was  the  portrait  first  painted, 
and  afterward  copied  by  the  artist  for  succeeding  orders."  A  copy  of  this  portrait  by  A.  B. 
Durand  is  owned  by  the  New  York  Historical  Society.  The  portrait  of  Madison  by  Stuart, 
which  President  Madison  himself  owned,  and  which  hung  on  the  walls  at  Montpelier  for 
some  two  or  three  years  after  the  death  of  Mr.  Madison,  or  until  Mrs.  Madison  removed  to 
Washington  in  [817,  was  finally  sold  on  Mrs.  Madison's  death  to  Judge  Edward  Coles,4 


1  Prof.  Woodward,  Art  Department,  Tulane  University. 

'  Dunlap's  "  History  of  the  Arts  of  Design,"  vol.  ii,  p.  288. 

*  Vol.  xii,  August  9,  1834. 

4  "  Edward  Coles,  born  in  Virginia,  December  5.  1786,  was  the  first  anti-slavery  Governor  of  Illinois  ("and  was  elected  on  that 
issue),  from  December  5,  1822,  to  December  5, 1826.  He  removed  to  Philadelphia  in  1833."— (William  F.  Poole,' LL.  D.,  of  Chicago.) 


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the  private  secretary  to  President  Madison,  and  is  now  owned  by  Judge  Coles's  son,  Mr. 
Edward  Coles,  of  Philadelphia.  The  portrait,  which  measures  twenty-four  by  twenty-nine 
inches,  represents  Madison  seated,  looking  to  the  right,  and  was  exhibited  in  Philadelphia 
in  1887  at  the  Loan  Exhibition  of  Historical  Portraits.  It  has  been  engraved  by  D.  Edwin 
and  W.  A.  YVilmer.  The  engraving  last  named  appears  in  the  "  National  Portrait  Gallery," 
vol.  iii.  Mrs.  Mary  C.  C.  Kunkel,  grandniece  of  Madison,  and  the  owner  of  Stuart's  portrait 
of  Mrs.  Madison,  received  by  inheritance  a  companion  portrait  of  James  Madison  which  she 
says  was  likewise  painted  by  Gilbert  Stuart.  Mrs.  Kunkel's  mother  left  a  memorandum  stat- 
ing this  fact.  Another  Stuart  portrait  of  Madison  is  in  the  set  of  portraits  of  the  first  five 
Presidents,  which  is  owned  by  Thomas  Jefferson  Coolidge,  of  Boston.1  There  was  another 
set  of  portraits  by  Stuart  of  the  first  five  Presidents  of  the  United  States,  but,  unfortunately, 
three  have  been  destroyed.  The  remaining  two  are  of  James  Madison  and  James  Monroe, 
the  property  of  A.  A.  Low,  of  Brooklyn,  New  York.  The  set  of  Presidents,  two  of  which,  as 
above  stated,  are  owned  by  Mr.  Low,  were  exhibited  in  Boston  in  1822,- and  were  painted 
by  Gilbert  Stuart  for  John  Doggett,3  of  Boston,  a  well-known  picture-dealer.  On  April  20, 
1839,  the  five  portraits,  which  were  still  at  the  store  of  John  Doggett  &  Co.,  in  Tremont 
Row,  Boston,  were  sold  by  Charles  Beaumont,  of  Roxbury,  to  Abel  Phillips,  of  Boston, 
for  the  sum  of  two  thousand  eight  hundred  and  sixty-one  dollars  and  fifty  cents.  The  por- 
traits were  removed  to  Washington,  and  an  attempt  was  made  to  sell  them  to  the  Gov- 
ernment and  place  them  in  the  White  House.  Four  thousand  five  hundred  dollars  was 
asked  for  one  of  the  portraits,  and  later  six  thousand  dollars  for  the  lot.  It  was  stated 
that  Gilbert  Stuart  endeavored  to  make  the  backgrounds  of  the  portraits  emblematical  of 
the  character  of  the  administration  of  each  President — that  is,  to  quote  the  words  of  John 
Doggett,  Jr.,  to  Charles  Beaumont:4  "In  the  picture  of  Washington,  which  I  heard  Stuart 
pronounce  to  my  father  as  the  best  portrait  he  ever  painted  of  that  illustrious  man,  a 
sheathed  sword  and  a  rainbow  are  represented,  signifying  that  war  and  strife  had  ceased, 
and  the  storms  of  the  Revolution  passed  away.  In  each  one  of  the  pictures  tassels  are 
introduced  appended  to  the  draperies ;  they  were  intended  to  illustrate  the  number  of  terms 
that  each  served."  A  bill  Xvas  introduced  in  Congress  in  1846  to  purchase  the  portraits  for 
the  Executive  Mansion  at  a  sum  not  exceeding  one  thousand  dollars  each,  and,  although 
Caleb  Cushing  and  Martin  Wan  Buren  heartily  favored  the  purchase,  the  bill  failed  to  be- 
come a  law.  The  portraits  remained  for  some  years  in  the  Congressional  Library,  or  until 
185 1,  when  a  fire  occurred  and  destroyed  three  of  the  portraits.  The  portrait  of  Monroe 
was  carried  by  a  by-stander,  with  frame  damaged,  to  a  house  on  Capitol  Hill.    The  por- 


1  Cf.  "  Notes  on  Portraits  "  of  Thomas  Jefferson. 

2  Daily  Advertiser,  June  20,  1822. 

*  "  Mr.  John  Doggett,  a  wealthy  and  worthy  frame-maker  of  Boston."—  <  Dunlap's  "  History  of  the  Arts  of  Design,"  vol. 
ii,  p.  1 34. 1 

4  Letter  dated  Boston,  December  28,  1837. 
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trait  of  Madison  was  also  saved.  These  two  portraits  passed  into  the  possession  of  a  mem- 
ber of  Congress,  Colonel  Peter  A.  Porter,  of  Niagara  Falls,  New  York,  who  kept  them 
until  1856,  when  they  were  sold  in  New  York  at  auction  and  bought  by  A.  B.  Douglass, 
of  Brooklyn,  who  sold  them  the  following  year  to  A.  A.  Low,  the  present  owner.  A  copy 
of  Stuart's  portrait  of  Madison,  by  Miss  Drinker,  is  in  the  National  Museum  (old  State- 
House),  Philadelphia  ;  and  other  copies  are  in  the  Redwood  Library,  Newport,  Rhode  Isl- 
and ;  in  the  Boston  Museum  ;  and  in  the  Yirginia  Historical  Society.  The  portrait  of 
lames  Madison  owned  by  Mrs.  Gouverneur,  of  Washington,  was  painted  by  John  Vander- 
Lyn  in  1816,  and  was  exhibited  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  in  New  York  in  1889  (No.  158). 
It  was  thought  at  the  time  of  the  Centennial  celebration  in  1889  that  Mrs.  Gouverneur's 
portrait  was  painted  by  Henry  Inman,  but  after  the  celebration  letters  of  Vanderlyn  came 
into  the  possession  of  Mrs.  Gouverneur's  son-in-law,  Rev.  R.  R.  Hoes,  which  stated  that  Van- 
derlyn  painted  a  portrait  of  Mr.  Madison  for  Mr.  Monroe  in  18 16,  and  that  this  portrait 
was  afterward  in  the  possession  of  Mr.  Gouverneur.  As  this  is  the  only  portrait  of  Madi- 
son which  has  been  in  the  Gouverneur  family,  it  is  thus  known  to  be  the  portrait  of  Madi- 
son by  Vanderlyn.1  A  copy  of  the  portrait  last  named  is  owned  by  Madison's  grand- 
niece,  Mrs.  Henry  Clews,  of  New  York.  The  engravings  on  copper  made  by  St.  Memin 
in  1807,  and  owned  by  the  Corcoran  Gallery  of  Art,  Washington,  and  by  Edward  Dexter, 
of  New  York,  although  claimed  to  represent  James  Madison,  are  really  portraits  of  his 
brother,  General  William  Madison,  whose  granddaughter,  Mrs.  J.  D.  McGuire.  of  Ellicott 
City,  Maryland,  owns  a  similar  St.  Memin  engraving,  which  is  marked  in  her  father's  own 
hand  as  "  General  William  Madison."  Other  portraits  include  a  picture  by  Trumbull  in  the 
painting  entitled  "Washington  resigning  his  Commission";  two  miniatures,  one  presented 
by  Miss  Mary  Cruger  to  the  New  York  Historical  Society,2  and  another  owned  by  Mrs. 
John  Kunkel,  a  grandniece,  of  Washington,  D.  C,  the  artists  of  which  are  unknown  ;  and 
a  portrait,  the  location  of  which  is  unknown,  which  was  painted  by  Henry  Williams,  the 
artist  who  painted  the  portrait  of  George  Thacher,  member  from  Massachusetts  of  the 
First  Congress  under  the  Constitution.3  Thomas  Sully  finished  a  portrait  of  Madison, 
April  6,  1809,4  and  a  full-length  cabinet  ot  Madison  by  Sully  is  now  owned  by  the  Corcoran 
Gallery  of  Art  in  Washington,  given  in  1877  by  Frederic  E.  Church.5    There  is  also  a  por- 


1  Dunlap's  "  History  of  the  Arts  of  Design,"  vol.  ii,  p.  36,  is  also  authority  for  the  statement  that  Vanderlyn  painted  Madison. 

3  See  "  Notes  on  Portraits  "  of  James  Monroe. 

•  See  will  of  Henry  Williams  in  Probate  Records  of  Suffolk  County,  in  Boston,  found  by  Peter  Thacher,  a  grandson 
of  George  Thacher.  Williams's  widow,  Cecilia  C.  Williams,  applied  for  administration  on  her  husband's  estate  November 
8,  1830.  The  inventory  contains:  "Six  unfinished  pictures,"  and  "one  portrait  painting  of  Bishop  Cheverus,  and  "1  do. 
of  Rev.  Benjamin  I!.  Wisner,"  minister  of  Old  South  Church,  Boston,  and  "  I  do.  of  James  Madison,"  and  "  I  do.  on  glass  of 
George  Washington."— (Cf.  "Notes  on  Portraits"  of  George  Thacher.) 

4  Manuscript  Journal  of  Thomas  Sully,  owned  by  his  daughter,  Miss  Blanche  Sully,  of  Philadelphia. 

*  Mr.  Church  says :  "  I  purchased  the  portrait  at  auction.  I  recognized  the  hand  of  the  artist.  The  catalogue  stated  that 
it  was  a  portrait  of  Madison.    I  presume  that  it  was  a  reduced  copy  made  for  the  engraver." 


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trait  of  Madison  painted  by  Joseph  Wright,  the  location  of  which  is  not  known.1  Bass  Otis, 
too,  painted  Madison's  portrait.-  Harding  also  painted  a  portrait  of  Madison,'  which 
is  at  Washington  and  Lee  University,  Lexington,  Virginia.  The  artist's  daughter,  Mrs. 
Margaret  D.  White,  of  Brookline,  Massachusetts,  says:  "My  sister  and  I  both  think 
that  the  general  look  of  the  picture  is  like  my  father's.  1  hardly  think,  however,  that  father 
could  have  painted  it  when  in  Richmond  in  1 829,  among  the  eighteen  portraits  he  painted,' 
for  it  seems  as  if  he  would  have  mentioned  the  fact."  Charles  H  enry  Hart  adds  :  "  1  think 
it  not  at  all  unlikely  that  the  portrait  of  Madison  belonging  to  Washington  and  Lee  Univer- 
sity is  by  Chester  Harding.  He  was  a  good  artist,  and  it  is  a  good  picture."  The  picture 
is  a  genuine  Harding  canvas,  for  the  reason  that  1.  P.  Butler,  of  Natchez,  Mississippi,  owns 
an  autograph  letter  by  Chester  Harding  proving  the  authenticity  of  the  portrait.  Mr.  Butler 
is  a  connection  of  the  late  Dr.  William  X.  Mercer,  of  New  Orleans,  who  gave  in  1875  the  por- 
trait to  Washington  and  Lee  University.  A  copy  by  G.  P.  A.  Healy  of  the  Harding  portrait 
is  in  the  Corcoran  Gallery  of  Art,  Washington.  C.  W.  Peale  painted  the  portrait  of  Madison 
which  was  in  Peale's  Museum,  Philadelphia,  in  1795,  and  which  was  sold  in  the  Peale  sale  in 
1854.  In  1866  Dr.  Robert  Madison,  of  Staunton,  Virginia,  owned  another  portrait,  and  it  is  still 
in  the  possession  of  the  family.  Mrs.  J.  D.  McGuire,  a  grandniece,  of  Ellicott  City,  Maryland, 
owns  a  drawing  of  Madison  by  T.  C.  Liebbers.  The  drawing  belonged  to  Mrs.  McGuire's 
father-in-law,  James  C.  McGuire,  of  Washington,  who  received  the  same  from  Payne  Todd, 
Madison's  step-son.  The  sculptor  Houdon  made  a  bust  of  Madison,  and  J.  B.  Longacre  made 
a  drawing  from  life  of  Madison  at  Montpelier,  Virginia,  in  July,  1833,  when  Madison  was 
eighty-two  years  old.  In  the  third  volume  of  the  "  National  Portrait  Gallery  "  is  an  engraving 
by  T.  B.  Welch  from  this  drawing.  In  "  The  Medallic  History  of  the  United  States  of  Amer- 
ica," by  J.  F.  Loubat,  LL.  D.,  is  a  reproduction  of  a  portrait  of  James  Madison,  by  John  Reich, 
in  the  United  States  Mint. 

Madison,  Mrs.  James. — Of  the  portraits  of  Mrs.  James  Madison,  one  is  a  miniature 
painted  by  James  Peale  in  1  794,  and  owned  by  Mrs.  Richard  D.  Cutts,  of  Brookline,  Massa- 
chusetts. The  owner  did  not  know  the  name  of  the  artist,  but  at  the  time  the  miniature  was 
photographed  she  was  asked  to  have  it  examined  carefully  with  a  magnifying  glass,  and  the 
following  was  found  on  the  face  :  "J.  P.,  1794."  In  like  manner  were  discovered  most  of  the 
other  miniatures  painted  by  James  Peale  and  reproduced  in  this  volume.  The  miniature  be- 
longed to  the  late  Colonel  Richard  D.  Cutts,  who  was  a  son  of  Ann  Payne  Kunkel,  of  Balti- 
more, the  younger  sister  of  Mrs.  James  Madison.    The  portrait  of  Mrs.  Madison  painted  by 


1  Dunlap's  "  History  of  the  Arts  of  Design,"  vol.  i.  p.  314  :  "  Among  other  distinguished  men  Joseph  Wright  painted 
portrait  of  Mr.  Madison.  I  have  before  me  a  note  from  Mr.  Madison  to  the  painter,  containing  an  apology  for  not  sitting  al 
appointed  time,  and  fixing  another  time,  if  agreeable  to  Mr.  Wright." 

"  Paul  Leicester  Ford.    The  Otis  picture  of  Madison  has  been  engraved. 

'"Cyclopaedia  of  Painters  and  Paintings,"  edited  by  John  D.  Champlin,  Jr.,  vol.  ii,  p.  210. 

4  See  "  Notes  on  Portraits  "  of  John  Randolph. 


50S       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


Rembrandt  Peale  was  originally  in  the  Peale  Museum,  Philadelphia,  and  is  now  owned  by 
the  New  York  Historical  Society  (catalogue  No.  484),  to  which  institution  it  was  presented 
in  1867  by  Thomas  J.  Bryan.1  In  addition  to  the  portrait  by  James  Sharpless,  owned  by  the 
city  of  Philadelphia,  and  deposited  in  the  National  Museum  (Old  State-House),  there  is  a 
portrait  of  Mrs.  Madison  which  was  painted  by  Gilbert  Stuart  and  is  owned  by  a  grandniece, 
Mary  Carvallo  Causten  Kunkel  (Mrs.  John  Kunkel),  of  Washington,  D.  C.  Mrs.  Kunkel 
also  possesses  a  miniature  of  Mrs.  Madison,  the  artist  of  which  is  unknown.  Joseph  Wood 
made  a  portrait  of  Mrs.  Madison,  which  is  reproduced  in  volume  iii  of  the  "National  Portrait 
Gallery."  Yanderlyn  is  also  said  to  have  made  a  pencil-drawing  of  Mrs.  Madison  ;  but  the 
drawing,  which  is  owned  by  a  grandniece  of  James  Madison,  Mrs.  J.  D.  McGuire,  of  Ellicott 
City,  Maryland,  was  done  by  T.  C.  Liebbers,  and  was  received  through  Madison's  step-son, 
Payne  Todd,  from  Mrs.  McGuire's  father-in-law,  James  C.  McGuire,  of  Washington. 

Malcom,  General  William. — The  only  known  portrait  of  General  William  Malcom, 
Brigadier-General  of  the  Militia  of  the  City  and  County  of  New  York,  and  of  Richmond 
County,  in  1789,  is  the  miniature  owned  by  his  granddaughter,  Miss  Matilda  Cruger 
Snowden,  of  Sing  Sing,  New  York.  The  miniature  is  painted  on  brass,  back  of  which  is 
plaster  of  Paris,  and  is  set  in  ebony  and  gilt  in  the  form  of  a  shield.  Mrs.  Fannie  Malcom 
White,  great-granddaughter,  of  Sing  Sing,  New  York,  says  the  miniature  is  by  Malbone. 

Mathews,  George. — No  portrait  of  George 
Mathews,  member  from  Georgia  of  the  First 
Congress  under  the  Constitution,  has  been  dis- 
covered. 

Maxwell,  James  Homer. — The  portrait  of  James  Homer  Maxwell,  with  whose  wife 
Washington  danced  at  the  ball  given  a  week  after  his  inauguration,  is  owned  by  a  great- 
grandson,  Robert  A.  Chesebrough,  of  New  York.    The  name  of  the  artist  is  unknown. 

Maxwell,  Mrs.  James  Homer. — The  only  portrait  of  Mrs.  James  Homer  Maxwell 
(born  Catharine  Van  Zandt)  is  a  silhouette  in  the  possession  of  a  great-grandson,  Maxwell 
Van  Zandt  Woodhull,  of  Washington,  D.  C. 

Mifflin,  Thomas. — Trumbull,  C.  W.  Peale,  and  Stuart,  painted  portraits  of  Thomas 
Mifflin,  President  of  the  Supreme  Executive  Council  of  the  State  of  Pennsylvania  in  1789, 
who  met  Washington  at  the  Delaware  line  on  his  way  from  Mount  Yernon  to  New  York 
to  be  inaugurated  President.  The  oil-miniature  by  John  Trumbull  was  painted  in  1 79 1 , 
and  is  owned  by  Yale  University.    A  portrait  by  C.  W.  Peale  is  owned  by  the  city  of  Phila- 


1  Art-collector,  born  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  about  1800;  died  at  sea,  May  15,  1870,  while  on  his  way  to  New  York 
with  additional  pictures  for  the  "Bryan  Gallery  of  Christian  Art,"  which,  with  a  collection  of  American  portraits,  he  pre- 
sented in  1867  to  the  New  York  Historical  Society. — (William  Kelby,  Assistant  Librarian  New  York  Historical  Society.) 


NOTES  ON  PORTRAITS.  509 

delphia.and  is  deposited  in  Independence  Hall  (Old  State-House).  It  was  in  Peale's  Museum, 
Philadelphia,  in  1795,  and  was  sold  at  the  Peale  sale  in  1854.  Another  portrait  by  Peale  be- 
longs to  the  Maryland  Historical  Society,  the  gift  of  Peale's  son,  Franklin  Peale,  proprietor  of 
the  Baltimore  Museum  and  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Maryland  Historical  Society.1  The 
owner  of  the  Gilbert  Stuart  portrait  of  Mifflin,  Alexander  J.  Dallas  Dixon,  of  Philadelphia, 
says:  "General  Thomas  Mifflin  was  not  related  to  my  family;  he  and  my  great-grandfather, 
Alexander  J.  Dallas,  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  under  President  Madison,  were  strong  personal 
friends,  and  General  Mifflin  had  the  Stuart  portrait  painted  for  Mr.  Dallas,  from  whom  it  has 
descended  to  me.  Mr.  Dallas  gave  one  of  his  sons  the  name  of  Mifflin,  as  a  token  of  this 
friendship.  This  was  my  grandfather,  George  Mifflin  Dallas,  afterward  V ice- President  of  the 
United  States,  1845-49."  Stuart's  portrait  of  Thomas  Mifflin  was  exhibited  in  the  "Exhi- 
bition of  Historical  Portraits"  in  Philadelphia  in  1887,  and  is  reproduced  in  vol.  iv  of  the 
"National  Portrait  Gallery."  A  copy  by  James  R.  Lambdin  was  presented  by  him  in  1852 
to  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania.  The  Stuart  portrait  has  been  engraved  by  Well- 
more,  and  by  Bridport,  the  miniature-painter.  Copley  is  also  said  to  have  painted  a  portrait 
of  Mifflin.'    In  the  Capitol  at  Harrisburg,  Pennsylvania,  are  two  portraits  of  General  Mifflin. 

Monroe,  James. — The  portrait  of  James  Monroe,  member  from  Virginia  of  the  First 
Congress  under  the  Constitution,  which  belongs  to  Mrs.  Martha  Stanard  of  Washington, 
D.  C,  the  wife  of  the  late  Judge  Robert  Stanard,  of  Richmond,  Virginia,  was  painted  by 
John  Paradise  in  December  of  1830.3  The  scroll  which  Mr.  Monroe  holds  in  his  hand 
in  the  portrait  contains  his  address  to  the  National  Convention  in  Paris,  on  August  14, 
1794.4  On  the  back  of  the  frame  of  the  portrait  are  written  these  words:  "James  Mon- 
roe, taken  December,  1830,  for  Silas  E.  Burrows.  A  most  perfect  likeness  ;  the  most 
accurate,  Mr.  Monroe  said,  that  had  been  taken,  and  did  great  credit  to  the  artist,  Mr. 
Paradise."  The  portrait  remained  in  Mr.  Burrows's  house,  No.  1  Carroll  Place,  Bleecker 
Street,  New  York,  until  1842.  Ogden  Hoffman  Burrows,  the  son  of  Silas  E.  Burrows, 
says  that  he  does  not  know  how  the  portrait  came  into  the  possession  of  Mrs.  Stanard, 
but  presumes  that,  when  his  father  gave  up  his  residence  in  New  York  in  [842  to  go 
to  South  America,  he  presented  the  portrait  to  Judge  Stanard,  a  warm  friend.  Many 
letters  from  Silas  E.  Burrows  to  his  friend  President  Monroe  are  in  the  possession  of  Mr. 


1  See  '*  Notes  on  Portraits  "  of  John  Jay. 

*  "No.  68.  Portrait  of  Governor  Mifflin  and  lady,  painted  1773.  Artist,  Copley." — (Catalogue  of  the  "Sixth  Annual  Exhi- 
bition of  the  Pennsylvania  Academy  of  the  Fine  Arts,"  Philadelphia,  May,  1817,  owned  by  Paul  Leicester  Ford,  of  Brooklyn, 
New  York  )  Charles  Henry  Kart  says :  "  I  do  not  believe  Copley  ever  painted  Governor  Thomas  Mifflin,  and  he  certainly  did 
not  paint  Governor  Mifflin  and  wife  in  1773.  for  Mifflin  is  not  credited  with  having  a  wife.  In  the  possession  of  Mr.  McMurtrie, 
of  Philadelphia,  are  two  portraits  of  Samuel  Mifflin  and  wife,  which  in  Boston  were  attributed  to  Copley,  but  which  I  have 
shown  to  have  been  painted  by  Charles  Willson  Peale." 

3  John  Paradise,  a  native  of  New  Jersey,  born  October  24.  1783.  painted  portraits  in  New  York  from  18 10  to  1833.  He 
died  at  Springfield,  New  Jersey,  November  26.  1833 — (Dunlap's  "History  of  the  Arts  of  Design,"  vol.  ii.  pp  204,  205.) 

4  Hildreth's  "  History  of  the  United  States,"  vol.  iv,  p.  652. 


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Monroe's  granddaughter,  Mrs.  Gouverneur,  of  Washington,  D.  C.  When  Mr.  Monroe  re- 
tired from  the  presidency  in  embarrassed  circumstances,  Mr.  Burrows  made  generous  prof- 
fers of  assistance  to  him.  As  Monroe  died  July  4,  1 83 1 ,  the  portrait  by  John  Paradise 
was  the  last  one  painted  of  him.  This  portrait  was  engraved  by  J.  W.  Casilear  for  the 
New  York  Mirror,1  in  the  engraving  of  the  first  seven  Presidents  of  the  United  States. 
There  are  three  known  portraits  of  James  Monroe  painted  by  Gilbert  Stuart.  Two  of 
these  portraits  were  included  in  the  two  sets  which  Stuart  painted  of  the  first  five  Presi- 
dents of  the  United  States.  One  set  is  owned  by  Thomas  Jefferson  Coolidge,  of  Bos- 
ton.-' Of  the  second  set  three  have  been  destroyed;  but  two,  the  portraits  of  Monroe 
and  Madison,  are  owned  by  A.  A.  Low,  of  Brooklyn.3  The  two  portraits  of  Monroe 
above  referred  to  are  reproduced  in  this  volume.  The  third  portrait  of  Monroe  by 
Stuart,  which  is  also  reproduced,  is  owned  by  Mrs.  George  R.  Goldsborough,  of  Easton, 
Maryland,  a  great-granddaughter  of  Monroe.  This  portrait  was  given  by  Monroe  to  the 
father  of  the  present  owner,  Lloyd  N.  Rogers,  of  Baltimore,  who  married  a  granddaughter 
of  Monroe.  President  Monroe  sat  to  Stuart  in  Boston  in  1817.  The  story  is  told  that, 
a  few  days  after  Monroe's  arrival  in  Boston,  "  he  went  out  early  one  morning  in  his  car- 
riage to  sit  to  the  painter.  A  stranger  in  the  place,  he  stopped  a  countryman  seated  in 
his  cart,  and  asked  him  to  direct  him  to  Mr.  Stuart's  house.  The  countryman  looked 
steadily  at  him  for  a  moment,  and  then  exclaimed,  '  It  is  the  President,  I  vow!'  Instantly 
taking  off  his  hat,  he  gave  three  loud  and  hearty  cheers,  and  then  drove  off,  leaving  the 
President  unanswered  and  astonished."1  The  New  York  Historical  Society  owns  a  copy 
of  a  Stuart  portrait  of  Monroe  by  A.  B.  Durand,  and  the  Virginia  Historical  Society 
owns  a  copy  by  James  Bogle,  and  another  copy  is  in  the  Boston  Museum.  Thomas  Jeffer- 
son Coolidge's  Monroe  is  reproduced  in  the  "Wide  Awake"  for  June,  1888.  In  addition 
to  the  full-length  portrait  of  James  Monroe  which  was  finished  by  Thomas  Sully  Septem- 
ber 17,  1832/'  and  which  is  owned  by  the  officers  of  the  Corps  of  Engineers  in  the 
United  States  Army,  and  deposited  in  the  library  of  the  United  States  Military  Academy  at 
West  Point,  there  is  another  portrait  belonging  to  Mrs.  John  S.  Richardson,  Jr.,  great-great- 
granddaughter  of  James  Monroe,  of  Belair,  Maryland,  which  was  finished  by  Sully  in  June  of 
1829.5  A  head-size  portrait  was  also  painted  by  Sully  for  the  city  of  Washington.  Sully 
painted  the  W7est  Point  portrait  of  Monroe  two  years  after  he  painted  the  Jefferson  portrait 5 
for  the  same  institution.  In  this  large  portrait  Sully  represents  Monroe  as  standing  on 
the  steps  of  the  Capitol  in  Washington,  delivering  his  inaugural  address  as  President  of 
the  United  States.  General  George  W.  Cullum  says:  "James  Monroe,  while  ad  interim 
Secretary  of  War8  under  Madison,  and  during  his  own  presidency  of  the  United  States,  was 


1  Vol.  xii,  August  9,  1834.  3  See  "James  Madison,"  in  "Notes  on  Poitraits." 

'  Cf.  "Notes  on  Portraits"  of  Thomas  Jefferson.  *  Mason's  "The  Life  and  Works  of  Gilbert  Stuart,"  p.  229. 

6  Miss  Blanche  Sully,  of  Philadelphia,  daughter  of  the  artist,  who  obtained  the  dates  from  her  father's  journal. 
"  From  September  27,  1814,  to  March  2,  181 5. 


NOTES  ON  PORTRAITS. 


5" 


much  interested  in  the  welfare  of  the  Military  Academy.  One  of  his  earliest  acts  as 
Chief  Magistiate  was  to  make  an  official  visit  to  West  Point,  resulting  in  the  removal  of 
Captain  Partridge  from  command,  and  supplying  the  place  of  this  inefficient  officer  by 
brevet  Major  Thayer,  who  thoroughly  reorganized  the  Military  Academy,  and  made  the 
institution  a  pre-eminent  seminary  of  science.  In  consideration  of  Mr.  Monroe's  steadfast 
interest  in  the  Military  Academy,  the  Corps  of  Engineers  had  Sully  to  paint  his  full-length 
portrait,  now  in  the  library  of  the  Academy."  The  portrait  of  James  Monroe,  which  is 
owned  by  his  granddaughter,  Mrs.  Gouverneur,  Washington,  D.  C,  and  which  was  exhibited 
in  the  Loan  Exhibition  in  New  York  in  1889  (No.  162),  was  painted  by  John  Yanderlyn 
in  1 8 16,  which  was  very  soon  after  Yanderlyn's  return  from  Europe  to  the  United  States.1 
The  full-length  of  Monroe  by  Yanderlyn,  which  belongs  to  the  city  of  New  York,  and  was 
engraved  by  A.  B.  Durand  for  the  "  National  Portrait  Gallery,"  vol.  iii,  represents  Monroe 
as  the  Sully  portrait  does,  as  President  of  the  United  States.  There  is  still  another  portrait 
of  Monroe  by  Yanderlyn,  which  is  owned  by  Monroe's  great-grandson,  James  Monroe 
Heiskell,  of  Baltimore,  Maryland,  and  which  was  exhibited  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  in  New 
York  in  1889  (No.  161).  Regarding  this  portrait  Mrs.  Mary  D.  Gouverneur,  of  Petersville, 
Frederick  County,  Maryland,  writes:  "It  was  done  for  an  admirer  and  friend  of  President 
Monroe,  whose  name  I  have  forgotten.  My  husband  saw  it  in  an  auction-room  as  he  passed 
along  the  street,  and  purchased  it  and  gave  it  to  his  daughter,  Mrs.  Heiskell.  Yanderlyn 
painted  two  other  portraits  of  President  Monroe,  and  also  a  portrait  of  Mrs.  Monroe."  This 
portrait  was  not  painted  by  Gilbert  Stuart,  as  has  been  stated,  but  by  John  Yanderlyn,  as  a 
comparison  with  the  other  portraits  of  Monroe  by  Yanderlyn  abundantly  shows.  Colonel 
Monroe,  the  nephew  of  James  Monroe,  had  a  copy  made  from  the  Vanderlyn  portrait  of 
Monroe,  which  is  now  owned  by  Mrs.  Douglas  Robinson,  of  New  York.  Another  copy  by 
G.  P.  A.  Healy,  after  Yanderlyn,  is  in  the  Corcoran  Gallery  of  Art,  Washington.  Regard- 
ing the  miniatures  of  Monroe  and  Madison  in  the  New  York  Historical  Society,  Miss  Mary 
Cruger,  of  Montrose,  Westchester  County,  New  York,  says:  "I  found  them,  about  1865, 
in  an  old  trunk  which  had  belonged  to  my  grandmother,  Mrs.  Brockholst  Livingston,  and 
had  remained  unopened  for  over  thirty  years,  in  the  care  of  my  uncle,  Mr.  Gouverneur 
Kortright,  who  was  her  son  by  her  first  marriage  with  Captain  Kortright,  of  the  British 
Army.  I  had  no  positive  means  of  identifying  the  miniatures  beyond  their  strong  resem- 
blance to  Madison  and  Monroe.  As  the  latter  had  married  my  grandfather's  sister,  Eliza- 
beth Kortright,  it  was  natural  that  we  should  have  his  picture,  and  my  mother,  as  well  as 
others  of  the  family,  believed  it  was  certainly  his  likeness.  That  of  Madison  I  showed  to 
Mr.  Elbridge  Gerry  (the  elder),  whose  father  was  Yice-President  during  Madison's  adminis- 
tration, and  he  decided  its  strong  resemblance  to  be  distinct  proof  of  its  identity.  It  was 
at  his  suggestions  that  I  presented  these  miniatures  to  the  New  York  Historical  Society." 


1  Dunlap's  "  History  of  the  Arts  of  Design,"  vol.  ii,  p.  36. 


THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


Other  portraits  of  Monroe  reproduced  in  this  volume  are :  one  by  Sharpless,  in  the  National 
Museum  (old  State-House),  Philadelphia,  which  was  bought  at  the  Peale  sale  in  1854;  the 
miniature  painted  in  Paris  in  1794  by  the  French  artist  Sene,'  and  owned  by  Charles 
Wilmer,  of  Baltimore,  Maryland;  and  the  full  length  seated,  of  which  only  the  head  is  repro- 
duced in  this  volume,  which  is  in  Trumbull's  historical  painting  owned  by  Yale  University, 
entitled  "  Washington  resigning  his  Commission,"  a  replica  of  which  is  in  the  Capitol  at 
Washington.  In  the  Council  Chamber  of  the  City  Hall,  the  property  of  the  city  of  Charles- 
ton, South  Carolina,  is  a  full-length  of  Monroe  painted  in  Washington  during  the  winter 
of  1818-19,  by  S.  F.  B.  Morse.  "I  began,"2  said  Morse,"  on  Monday  to  paint  the  Presi- 
dent, and  have  almost  completed  the  head.  I  am  thus  far  pleased  with  it,  but  I  find  it 
very  perplexing,  for  he  can  not  sit  more  than  ten  or  twenty  minutes  at  a  time;  so  that,  the 
moment  I  feel  engaged,  he  is  called  away  again.  I  set  my  palette  to-day  at  ten  o'clock  and 
waited  until  four  o'clock  this  afternoon  before  he  came  in.  He  then  sat  ten  minutes,  and  we 
were  called  to  dinner.  Is  not  this  trying  to  one's  patience?  My  room  is  at  his  house,  next  to 
his  cabinet-room,  for  his  convenience.  When  he  has  a  moment's  leisure  he  comes  in  to  sit 
to  me."  A  replica  was  afterward  painted  for  President  Monroe.  A  full-length  of  Monroe, 
seated  in  a  chair,  was  also  painted  by  Charles  B.  King,  and  has  been  engraved  by  Robert 
Pigott.  It  was  exhibited  at  the  Pennsylvania  Academy  of  the  Fine  Arts  in  181  7.  Champ- 
lin 3  says  that  Chester  Harding  painted  a  portrait  of  Monroe;  but  Harding's  daughter,  Mrs. 
Margaret  E.  White,  knows  nothing  of  such  a  portrait.  The  Chappel  portrait  is  a  made-up 
picture.  In  "The  Medallic  History  of  the  United  States  of  America,"  by  J.  F.  Loubat, 
LL.  D.,  is  a  reproduction  taken  from  a  medal  at  the  United  States  Mint  of  a  profile  por- 
trait of  James  Monroe  by  Moritz  Fiirst. 

Monroe,  Mrs.  James. — The  miniature  of  Mrs.  James  Monroe  (born  Elizabeth  Kort- 
right)  was  painted  by  Sene1  in  Paris  in  1794,  and  is  owned  by  the  husband  of  Mrs.  Mon- 
roe's great-granddaughter,  Charles  Wilmer,  of  Baltimore,  Maryland.  Mr.  Wilmer  inherited 
this  miniature,  and  one  of  James  Monroe  painted  at  the  same  time,  from  his  late  wife,  the 
daughter  of  Lloyd  N.  Rogers,  of  "Druid  Hill,"  now  Druid  Hill  Park,  Baltimore;  and  the 
latter's  wife,  Mrs.  Lloyd  N.  Rogers,  inherited  the  miniatures  from  Mrs.  Judge  Hay,  of 
Virginia,  who  was  a  daughter  of  James  Monroe.    This  miniature  of  Mrs.  Monroe  was  re- 


1  The  artist  Sene  exhibited  in  1776,  at  the  Exhibition  of  the  Coliseum,  "The  Two  Cripples  healed  by  St.  Peter 
and  St.  John  when  entering  the  Temple,"  and  two  wash  drawings,  one  "  The  Adieu  of  Rebecca  to  her  Father," 
the  other  "The  Reception  of  Rebecca  by  Isaac."  In  the  Salon  of  1804  Sene  exhibited  several  portraits  and  a  minia- 
ture of  a  gentleman.  At  a  sale  in  1829  a  miniature  by  him  of  Kotzebue  was  sold  for  twelve  shillings. — (Bellier  de  la 
Chavignerie's  "  Dictionnaire  General  des  Artistes  de  l'Ecole  Francaise.")  Henry  Vignaud,  of  the  United  States  Legation. 
Paris,  on  the  authority  of  Eugene  Muntz,  the  librarian  of  the  "  £cole  des  Beaux-Arts,"  says  but  little  is  known  of  the 
artist  Sene. 

"  Letter  written  to  his  wife  from  Washington  late  in  the  year  1 8 1 8. —  ("  Life  of  Samuel  F.  B.  Morse,"  by  Samuel  Irenams 
Prime,  p.  1 19.    Cf.  Dunlap's  "  History  of  the  Arts  of  Design,"  vol.  ii,  pp.  314.  315.) 

a  "Cyclopaedia  of  Painters  and  Paintings,"  edited  by  John  D.  Champlin,  Jr.,  vol.  i,  p.  212. 


NOTES  ON  PORTRAITS. 


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produced,  with  an  article  by  Mrs.  Harriet  Taylor  Upton,  in  the  "Wide  Awake"  for  Julv, 
1888.  The  only  other  known  portrait  of  Mrs.  James  Monroe  is  that  painted  by  Benjamin 
West  in  1790,  and  belonging  to  Mrs.  Monroe's  granddaughter,  Mrs.  Gouverneur,  of  Wash- 
ington, D.  C.  At  the  time  of  the  Loan  Exhibition  in  1889,  at  which  the  portrait  was  ex- 
hibited (No.  164),  the  name  of  the  artist  was  unknown;  but  the  portrait  having  since  been 
cleaned,  the  artist's  name  and  the  year  in  which  it  was  painted  were  discovered.  The  sig- 
nature is:  "  B.  West,  1790."  A  copy  of  the  West  portrait  of  Mrs.  Monroe  was  made  for 
Colonel  Monroe,  nephew  of  James  Monroe,  and  is  now  owned  by  Colonel  Monroe's  daugh- 
ter, Mrs.  Douglas  Robinson,  of  New  York.  Charles  Henry  Hart  says:  "Benjamin  West 
never  returned  to  this  country  after  he  went  to  England  in  1763.  Therefore,  if  Mrs.  Monroe 
did  not  go  to  Europe  until  1794,  Benjamin  West  could  not  have  painted  her  portrait  in  1790." 

Moore,  Andrew. — The  only  known  portrait  of  Andrew  Moore,  member  from  Virginia 
of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  was  that  painted  by  C.  W.  Peale  in  Phila- 
delphia in  1796,  and  now  owned  by  Andrew  Moore's  grandson,  John  Harvey  Moore,  of 
Lexington,  Virginia.  Mrs.  John  Harvey  Moore  writes:  "My  father,  S.  McDowell  Moore, 
was  the  eldest  of  Andrew  Moore's  eight  children,  and  he  owned  the  miniature.  At  my 
father's  death,  I,  his  only  child,  gave  it  to  my  cousin,  John  Harvey  Moore,  whom  I  after- 
ward married.  We  had  a  large  portrait  painted  in  Florence,  Italy,  some  six  years  ago,  from 
the  miniature,  but  it  is  not  very  satisfactory." 

Morris,  Gouverneur.— The  portrait  of  Gouverneur  Morris  by  Thomas  Sully  was  ex- 
hibited in  the  Loan  Exhibition  of  1889  (No.  165),  and  is  owned  by  his  grandchildren,  of 
Morrisania,  New  York.  A  copy  of  this  portrait,  by  Marchant,  is  owned  by  the  city  of 
Philadelphia,  and  is  deposited  in  the  National  Museum  (old  State-House).  Another  portrait 
of  Gouverneur  Morris,  by  Ezra  Ames,  was  presented  in  181 7,  by  Stephen  Van  Rensselaer, 
of  Albany,  to  the  New  York  Historical  Society  (Catalogue,  No.  75).  The  French  artist, 
Du  Simitiere,  also  made  a  drawing  from  life  of  Gouverneur  Morris,  which  was  engraved 
by  B.  Reading,  and  published  in  London  by  William  Richardson  in  1 783.1 

Morris,  Robert. — The  portrait  of  Robert  Morris,  Senator  from  Pennsylvania  in  the  First 
Congress  under  the  Constitution,  by  Gilbert  Stuart,  is  owned  by  his  great-grandson,  C.  F.  M. 
Stark,  of  Winchester,  Massachusetts.  It  descended  from  Robert  Morris  to  his  son,  Thomas 
Morris,  and  from  the  latter's  daughter,  who  formerly  lived  at  Bay  Ridge,  Long  Island,  it  came 
to  the  present  owner.  The  portrait  is  twenty-four  by  thirty  inches,  and  a  copy  by  Sully  was 
in  the  possession  of  a  granddaughter,  Miss  Nixon,  of  Philadelphia,2  who  presented  it  to  the 
Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania.    This  was  etched  by  H.  B.  Hall  and  Albert  Rosenthal. 


1  See  "  Notes  on  Portraits  "  of  John  Jay. 

'  In  Mason's  "  Life  and  Works  of  Gilbert  Stuart,"  p.  225,  the  Sully  copy  is  called  a  Stuart  replica. 
66 


5i4       THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


A  copy  by  J.  W.  Jarvis  was  presented  by  Thomas  Morris,  in  1817,  to  the  New  York  His- 
torical Society.  Besides  the  portrait  of  Robert  Morris  by  C.  W.  Peale,  which  is  in  the  Penn- 
sylvania  Academy  of  Fine  Arts,  there  are  two  others  by  the  same  artist,  one  in  Independence 
Hall,  and  the  other  in  the  National  Museum,  Philadelphia.  Of  the  two  portraits  of  Robert 
Morris  by  C.  W.  Peale  sold  in  the  Peale  sale  in  Philadelphia  in  1854,  and  now  respectively  in 
the  Pennsylvania  Academy  of  Fine  Arts  and  Independence  Hall,  it  is  not  known  which  is  the 
original  and  which  the  replica.  The  miniature  of  Morris  belonging  to  his  great-grandson,  J. 
C.  Van  Den  Heuvel,  descended  to  his  son  Thomas,  and  through  the  latter's  daughter  to  the 
present  owner.  Charles  Henry  Hart,  of  Philadelphia,  writes:  "The  original  portraits  of  Rob- 
tit  Morris,  so  far  as  I  know,  are  by  Robert  Edge  Pine,  1785  ;  John  Trumbull,  1790;  Charles 
Willson  Peale  and  Gilbert  Stuart,  1  795  ;  and  the  Van  Den  Heuvel  miniature,  probably  painted 
by  C.  W.  Peale."  The  Pine  portrait,  owned  by  Gouverneur  Morris,  of  Yonkers,  New  York, 
was  exhibited  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  of  1889  (No.  166),  and  was  engraved  by  T.  B.  Welch, 
from  a  copy  by  J.  B.  Longacre,  for  the  "  National  Portrait  Gallery,"  vol.  iv,  by  J.  Heath  for 
Delaplaine's  "  Repository  "  in  1818,  and  by  J.  B.  Longacre  for  Sanderson's  "Signers  of  the 
Declaration  of  Independence."  The  portrait  of  Morris  by  Edward  Savage  and  John  Trumbull 
appears  in  the  paintings,  "  Signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence,"  owned  respectively  by 
the  Boston  Museum  and  Yale  University.  A  replica  of  the  painting  last  named  is  in  the 
Capitol  at  Washington.  Trumbull  painted,  in  1790,  an  oil-miniature  of  Morris  which  was  in 
the  Loan  Exhibition  of  1889  (No.  167),  and  is  owned  by  Morris's  granddaughter,  Mrs.  Susan 
M.  Ambler,  of  Hume,  Fauquier  County,  Va.    The  Chappel  portrait  is  a  made-up  picture. 

Morris,  Mrs.  Robert. — The  portrait  of  Mrs.  Robert  Morris,  by  Gilbert  Stuart,  is  unfin- 
ished. In  1836  it  came  into  the  possession  of  John  P.  Beaumont,  of  New  York,  and  at  the 
sale  of  his  pictures,  in  1870,  was  bought  by  James  Lenox  for  one  thousand  dollars,  and  is  now 
owned  by  the  Lenox  Library.  It  is  claimed  that  this  portrait  is  the  last  female  head  painted 
by  Stuart.1  The  miniature  of  Mrs.  Robert  Morris,  owned  by  her  great-grandson,  J.  C.  Van 
Den  Heuvel,  has  always  been  in  the  possession  of  the  family,  who  claim  that  it  was  painted  by 
James  Peale;  but  Charles  Henry  Hart,  of  Philadelphia,  is  of  the  opinion  that  the  miniature 
was  painted  by  C.  W.  Peale.  The  oval  miniature  of  Mrs.  Morris  painted  by  John  Trumbull 
in  1790  is  three  by  four  inches  in  size,  and  is  owned  by  Mrs.  Morris's  granddaughter,  Mrs. 
Susan  M.  Ambler,  of  Hume,  Fauquier  County,  Virginia,  and  was  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  of 
1889  (No.  168).  The  only  other  original  portrait  of  Mrs.  Morris  is  the  one  painted  by  C.  W. 
Peale,  and  sold  at  the  Peale  sale  in  Philadelphia  in  1854.  It  is  now  owned  by  the  city  of 
Philadelphia,  and  deposited  in  the  National  Museum  (Old  State-House). 

Morton,  Major  Jacob. — There  is  a  portrait  of  Major  Jacob  Morton,  aide-de-camp  to 
Colonel  Morgan  Lewis  at  Washington's  inauguration,  which  was  painted  by  J.  W.  Jarvis, 


1  Mason's  "  Life  and  Works  of  Gilbert  Stuart,"  p.  225. 


NOTES  OX  PORTRAITS. 


5i5 


for  the  corporation  of  the  city  of  New  York,  and  is  deposited  in  the  Governor's  Room, 
City  Hall  (Loan  Exhibition  of  1889,  Xo.  170).  The  portrait  was  painted  by  Jarvis  in 
Morton's  old  age,  when  he  bore  the  title  of  general.  On  his  breast  appears  the  badge  of 
the  "  Society  of  the  Cincinnati,"  and  in  the  background  is  a  picture  of  Castle  Clinton, 
now  Castle  Garden,  at  the  Battery,  New  York.  A  copy  of  this  portrait  is  owned  by 
Jacob  Morton's  great-grandson,  Henry  H.  Morton,  M.  D.,  of  Brooklyn,  New  York.  Other 
portraits  of  Jacob  Morton  are  owned  by  his  grandson  George  C.  Morton,  of  Newburgh, 
New  York,  and  by  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Free  and  Accepted  Masons  of  the  State  of  New 
York,  Masonic  Temple,  New  York  city.  The  two  last  named  were  painted  by  Jacob 
Morton's  son,  John  L.  Morton.1  The  Masonic  Temple  portrait  is  a  panel  painting  exe- 
cuted for  General  Morton's  only  daughter,  Sophia,  afterward  Mrs.  Dr.  Robert  Bullis,  of 
New  York.  As  she  desired  a  portrait  on  canvas,  another  one  was  painted  for  her,  and 
at  her  death  these  two  portraits  came  into  the  possession  of  George  C.  Morton,  of  New- 
burgh, New  York,  and  his  brother  Ellison  M.  Morton,  of  New  York.  George  Baker 
secured  subscriptions  from  prominent  Masons  to  purchase  this  portrait  for  the  Masonic 
Temple.    Henry  Inman  also  painted  a  portrait  of  General  Morton.- 

Mortox,  Eliza. — (See  "Notes  on  Portraits"  of  Mrs.  Josiah  Ouincy). 

Mortox,  Mrs.  Washington*. — (See  '  Notes  on  Portraits"  of  Cornelia  Schuyler). 

Moustier,  Comte  de. — The  only  known  portrait  of  Comte  de  Moustier,  French  min- 
ister to  the  United  States  in  1789,  is  the  one  painted  in  1796  by  Pierre  Danloux,  and 
owned  by  a  great-grandson,  Pierre  Rene,  Marquis  de  Moustier,  "  Depute  et  Conseiller 
General  du  Doubs."  The  portrait  above  referred  to  is  at  the  chateau  of  the  Marquis  de 
Moustier  in  Franche-Comte — the  Chateau  de  Bournel,  near  Rougemont,  Baume-les-Dames, 
Doubs.  Henry  Yignaud,  United  States  charge-d 'affaires  in  Paris,  through  whose  courtesy 
a  negative  of  the  portrait  was  obtained,  writes  :  "  The  present  owner  of  the  portrait  is  a 
member  of  the  Chamber  of  Deputies.  He  inherited  the  title  of  Marquis  from  his  father, 
Rene  de  Moustier,  who  was  Minister  for  Foreign  Affairs  till  1868.  The  father  of  Rene\ 
was  Clement  Edouard,  son  of  Elenore-Francois-Elie,  Count  of  Moustier,  the  French  min- 
ister when  Washington  was  inaugurated.  By  the  death  in  1801  of  his  elder  brother, 
who  had  no  children,  the  title  of  marquis  passed  to  his  branch  of  the  family."  The  pres- 
ent owner  of  the  portrait  of  the  French  minister  in  New  York  in  1 789,  in  writing  to 
the  American  legation  regarding  his  chateau,  where  the  portrait  of  his  great-grandfather 
is  deposited,  says  :  "  That  has  been  the  principal  home  and  residence  of  my  family  since 
the  close  of  the  fifteenth  century.    To  be  exact,  my  great-grandfather,  who  was  a  younger 


1  George  C.  Morton,  Newburgh,  New  York. 

1  Tuckerman's  "  Book  of  the  Artists."  p.  242.  "  No.  28.  Portrait  of  the  late  General  Morton.  Owned  by  John  L.  Morton, 
Esq."— (Catalogue  of  the  works  of  the  late  Henry  Inman,  New  York,  1846,  owned  by  Paul  Leicester  Ford,  of  Brooklyn.  New  York.) 


5 16       THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 

brother,  never  owned  or  inhabited  that  place.  He  was  born  in  Paris  in  1751,1  where 
His  mother  owned  a  mansion  in  the  Rue  du  Cloitre  Notre  Dame." 

Muhlenberg,  Frederick  A. — No  original  portrait  of  Frederick  A.  Muhlenberg,  mem- 
ber from  Pennsylvania  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  is  known,  besides 
the  one  painted  by  Joseph  Wright,  in  1790,  and  now  owned  by  his  great-granddaughter, 
Mrs.  Edward  K.  Tullidge,  of  Philadelphia.  Of  the  several  copies  one  is  owned  by  Mrs. 
Mary  F.  Schieffelin,  a  great-great-grandniece,  of  New  York  ;  another  by  Henry  A.  Muhlen- 
berg,  of  Reading,  Pennsylvania,  a  great-grand  nephew  ;  and  a  third  by  Nicholas  H.  Muhl- 
enberg, a  great-grandnephew,  of  Reading,  Pennsylvania.  The  two  last-named  portraits  were 
copied  by  Jacob  Eichholtz  in  1838.  The  portrait  of  ex-Speaker  F.  A.  Muhlenberg,  in  the 
Capitol  at  Washington,  is  a  copy  of  the  Joseph  Wright  portrait. 

Muhlenberg,  John  Peter  Gabriel. — The  only  known  portraits  of  General  John  Peter 
Gabriel  Muhlenberg,  member  from  Pennsylvania  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Consti- 
tution, are  one  by  C.  W.  Peale,  in  Independence  Hall ;  one  by  John  Trumbull,  at  Yale 
College;  the  miniature  belonging  to  his  great-grandson,  Isaac  Hiester,  of  Reading,  Penn- 
sylvania, and  the  bust  portrait  belonging  to  Mrs.  Mary  Ann  Chisolm,  of  College  Point, 
Long  Island,  New  York.  A  copy  of  the  last-named  portrait,  painted  by  the  artist  Jacob 
Eichholtz,  is  owned  by  Nicholas  H.  Muhlenberg,  a  great-grandnephew,  of  Reading,  Penn- 
sylvania. The  Peale  portrait  represents  a  young  man,  and  the  portrait  owned  by  Mrs. 
Chisolm  a  man  of  more  advanced  years,  yet  they  are  so  nearly  alike  that  C.  W.  Peale 
may  have  painted  both  portraits.  An  etching  of  the  Peale  portrait  was  made  in  1871  by 
H.  B.  Hall,  for  some  Philadelphia  gentlemen. 

Nicholson,  Commodore  James. — The  only  known  portrait  of  Commodore  James  Nich- 
olson, the  commander  of  the  barge  that  conveyed  Washington  from  Elizabethtown  Point 
to  the  foot  of  Wall  Street,  on  April  23,  1789,  is  the  miniature  owned  by  his  great-grand- 
daughter, Miss  Josephine  Stevens,  of  New  York.  The  miniature  was  probably  painted 
about  1 784,  when  Commodore  Nicholson  was  fifty  years  old.  The  name  of  the  artist  is 
unknown,  but  it  is  probably  the  same  who  painted  the  miniature  of  a  relative,  Joshua 
Seney,  member  from  Maryland  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution.  The  minia- 
ture belonging  to  Miss  Stevens  was  copied  for  James  Gallatin,  who  died  in  Paris,  and 
whose  grandson  gave  the  copy  to  its  present  owner,  William  Few  Chrystie,  of  .  Hastings- 
on-Hudson,  New  York,  a  great-grandson  of  Commodore  Nicholson. 

Osgood,  Colonel  Samuel. — John  Trumbull  painted  portraits  of  Colonel  Samuel  Osgood, 
Postmaster-General  in  1789,  one  of  which  was  exhibited  by  his  grandson,  George  Clinton 


1  The  Nouvelle  Biographic  G6nerale  (1861)  states  that  Comte  Elenore-Francois-£lie  Moustier  died  January  28,  1817.  The 
old  edition  of  the  " Biographie  Universelle"  (i 82 1 )  states  that  he  died  February  I,  181 7,  the  correct  date  according  to  the 
statement  of  the  Marquis  de  Moustier,  the  great-graljpson. 


NOTES  ON  PORTRAITS. 


5i7 


Genet,  of  New  York,  at  the  Loan  Exhibition  in  1889  (Xo.  174).  Mr.  Genet  savs  of  Colo- 
nel and  Mrs.  Osgood's  portraits:  "  Four  sets  were  painted  at  the  same  time  by  the  same 
artist.  One,  for  my  mother  Martha  Brandon  Osgood,  is  owned  by  my  brother,  Colonel  E.  J. 
Genet,  of  Greenbush,  New  York.  Another  belonged  to  my  mother's  sister,  Julia  Osgood, 
afterward  married  to  her  cousin,  Samuel  Osgood,  and  is  now  in  possession  of  her  daughter, 
Mrs.  William  Eddy,  of  Middleboro,  Massachusetts.  The  third  belonged  to  another  sister, 
Miss  Susan  Osgood,  who  became  Mrs.  Field,  and  is  now  owned  by  Mr.  Osgood  Field, 
her  son,  who  resides  at  Rome,  Italy,  but  is  deposited  with  his  niece,  Miss  Mary  Field,  of 
New  York.  The  fourth  set  belonged  to  Hannah  Franklin,  a  daughter  of  Mrs.  Osgood 
by  her  first  marriage.  Miss  Franklin  became  the  wife  of  George  Clinton,  a  brother  of 
De  Witt  Clinton,  and  upon  her  decease  her  family  presented  them  to  me.  This  last  is 
the  set  that  I  exhibited  at  the  late  Centennial  Loan  Exhibition."  In  Trumbull's  painting 
entitled  "  Washington  resigning  his  Commission,"  owned  by  Yale  University,  a  replica  of 
which  is  in  the  Capitol  at  Washington,  there  also  appears  a  portrait  of  Samuel  Osgood. 

Osgood,  Mrs.  Samuel. — John  Trumbull  painted  portraits  of  Mrs.  Samuel  Osgood 
(born  Maria  Bowne),  wife  of  Samuel  Osgood,  Commissioner  of  the  Treasury  in  1789. 
One  of  these  portraits  was  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  in  1889  (Xo.  175),  and  is  the  propertv 
of  Mrs.  Osgood's  grandson,  George  Clinton  Genet,  of  New  York.  (See  "  Notes  on  Por- 
traits "  of  Samuel  Osgood.) 

Otis,  Samuel  Alleyne. — The  only  known  portrait  of  Samuel  Alleyne  Otis,  the  Sec- 
retary of  the  Senate  in  1789,  is  the  one  painted  by  Gilbert  Stuart  about  the  year  1800, 
and  owned  by  a  great-great-grandson,  Harrison  Gray  Otis,  of  Nahant,  Massachusetts.  This 
portrait,  with  other  portraits  of  the  Otis  family,  is  deposited  in  the  rooms  of  the  "  Bostonian 
Society,"  in  the  Old  State-House,  Boston.  The  portrait  was  inherited  by  Harrison  Gray 
Otis  from  Mrs.  James  W.  Otis,  of  Xew  York,  who  died  in  May  of  1888. 

Otis,  Mrs.  Samuel  Alleyne. — The  portrait  of  Elizabeth  Gray,  the  wife  of  Samuel  A. 
Otis,  and  mother  of  Harrison  Gray  Otis,  was  painted  by  John  Singleton  Copley,  and  is 
now  owned  by  Mrs.  Otis's  great-great-grandson,  Harrison  Gray  Otis,  of  Nahant,  Massachu- 
setts. The  portrait  is  deposited  in  the  Old  State-House  in  Boston.  Augustus  T.  Perkins1 
says  of  this  portrait :  "  The  picture  is  of  half-length.  It  was  cut  down  many  years  since,  but 
is  still  very  beautiful.  She  is  dressed  as  a  shepherdess,  in  brown  satin,  trimmed  with  blue, 
holding  a  crook  and  a  lamb  by  a  blue  ribbon." 

Page,  John  . — The  only  known  portraits  of  John  Page,  member  from  Virginia  of  the  First 
Congress  under  the  Constitution,  are  those  by  C.  W.  Peale  and  Benjamin  West.  The  Peale 
portrait  was  sold  in  the  Peale  sale  in  Philadelphia  in  1854,  and  is  now  owned  by  the  city  of 


1  "  A  Sketch  of  the  Life  and  a  List  of  some  of  the  Works  of  John  Singleton  Copley,"  by  Augustus  Thorndike  Per- 
kins, p.  91. 


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Philadelphia,  and  is  deposited  in  the  National  Museum  (Old  State-House).1  The  portrait  of 
John  Page  in  the  State  Capitol  at  Richmond,  Virginia,  was  copied  in  part  by  G.  P.  A.  Healy 
from  the  original  portrait  by  West  in  the  possession  of  R.  C.  M.  Page,  M.  D.,  of  New  York,  a 
grandson  of  a  first  cousin  of  John  Page.  Dr.  Page  says  that  a  daughter  of  John  Page,  now- 
dead,  informed  him  that  the  portrait  was  painted  in  New  York,  by  Benjamin  West,  in  i  7 58.'- 

Parkkr,  Josiah. — There  are  two  portraits  in  existence  of  Josiah  Parker,  member  from 
Virginia  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution:  one  is  the  original  crayon  drawing 
by  the  artist  St.  Memin,  owned  by  Anderson  Keith  Parker,  great-grandson,  of  Portsmouth, 
Virginia;  the  other  appears  in  the  large  painting  by  John  Trumbull  entitled  "Capture  of 
the  Hessians,"  which  is  owned  by  Yale  University,  a  replica  of  which  appears  in  the  Capi- 
tol at  Washington.  A  copy  of  the  St.  Memin  portrait  is  owned  by  a  grandson  of  Josiah 
Parker,  Judge  George  D.  Parker,  of  Berkeley,  Norfolk  County,  Virginia. 

Partridge,  George. — Dr.  Rufus  Hathaway,  who  painted,  in  1793,  the  portrait  of  George 
Partridge,  member  from  Massachusetts  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  lived 
in  Duxbury,  Massachusetts,  and  was  a  well-known  physician  of  that  time.  The  portrait 
was  given  by  George  Partridge  to  his  nephew,  George  Partridge  Richardson,  who  gave 
it  to  his  son,  Partridge  C.  Richardson,  of  Brooklyn,  New  York,  the  present  owner.  A 
copy  of  the  portrait  is  owned  by  the  Partridge  Academy,  Duxbury,  Massachusetts,  an  insti- 
tution founded  by  George  Partridge.  The  owner  of  the  Hathaway  portrait  of  Partridge 
also  owns  a  small  profile  painting,  the  artist  of  which  is  unknown.  A  third  portrait  of 
George  Partridge,  by  the  artist  John  Trumbull,  which  appears  in  the  painting  entitled 
"  Washington  resigning  his  Commission,"  is  owned  by  Yale  University,  a  replica  of  which 
is  in  the  Capitol  at  Washington. 

Paterson,  William. — It  is  not  known  who  painted  the  portrait  of  Judge  William  Pater- 
son,  member  from  New  Jersey  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution.  The  original, 
owned  by  a  granddaughter,  Mrs.  J.  Lawrence  Boggs,  of  Perth  Amboy,  New  Jersey,  was 
in  the  Loan  Exhibition  of  1889  (No.  176),  and  copies  are  owned  by  Mrs.  A.  B.  Paterson, 
of  Princeton,  and  Judge  Paterson,  of  Perth  Amboy,  New  Jersey,  and  by  the  city  of  Philadel- 
phia (Independence  Hall). 

Provoost,  the  Right  Rev.  Samuel,  Bishop  of  New  York. — Regarding  the  portrait, 
presented  to  the  New  York  Historical  Society  in  1824,  of  the  Right  Rev.  Samuel  Provoost, 
Bishop  of  New  York  in  1789,  William  Kelby,  Assistant  Librarian  of  the  New  York  Histori- 
cal Society,  says  :  "  The  Society's  portrait  of  Bishop  Provoost  is  by  Thomas  S.  Duche\  and 
is  an  original  portrait.    It  was  presented  to  the  Society  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cadwalader  D. 


1  Ettmg's  ,:  Independence  Hall,"  p.  182. 

*  The  water-color  drawing  owned  by  John  Page's  granddaughter,  Miss  Page  Saunders,  of  Baltimore,  is  a  copy  of  the  West 
portrait. 


NOTES  ON  PORTRAITS. 


5i9 


Colden.  Mrs.  Colden  was  the  daughter  of  the  Bishop."  A  periodical  published  in  New 
York,  "The  Evergreen"  for  July,  1844,  reproduces  the  Duche  portrait,  with  a  sketch  of 
Bishop  Frovoost.  Dunlap1  is  also  authority  for  the  statement  that  Duche  painted  an  origi- 
nal portrait  of  Bishop  Provoost.  There  is  another  portrait  of  Bishop  Provoost  which  is 
claimed  '  to  be  an  original  portrait,  painted  in  1787  by  Benjamin  West,  and  owned  by  the 
Corporation  of  Trinity  Church,  and  deposited  in  the  sacristy  of  Trinity  Chapel,  New  York  ; 
but  this  portrait  is  evidently  after,  or  a  replica  of,  the  Duche-  portrait  in  the  New  York 
Historical  Society,  or  possibly  it  may  be  an  original  by  Duche.  In  comparing  the  Trinity 
Chapel  portrait  with  the  one  in  the  New  York  Historical  Society,  it  is  seen  that  the  chair 
in  which  the  Bishop  sits  is  in  both  portraits  a  red  chair.  In  the  Duche  portrait  the  Bish- 
op's robe  is  gray  ;  in  the  other  portrait,  white.  The  sleeves,  or  rochet,  are  black,  and  the 
bands  are  white  in  both  portraits.  There  is  much  coloring  in  both  pictures.  It  is  unlikely, 
therefore,  that  the  two  portraits  could  be  originals  by  different  artists.  The  so-called  West 
portrait  was  purchased  in  1865  by  Trinity  Church,  of  James  Miller,  a  bookseller,  suc- 
cessor to  C.  S.  Francis  &  Co.,  of  New  York.  The  purchase  was  made  on  the  report  and 
recommendation  of  a  special  committee,  consisting  of  Rev.  Dr.  Morgan  Dix  and  Mr.  John 
Travers.  Dr.  Dix  says:  "Some  nine  years  before  we  purchased  the  painting  by  Benjamin 
West,  a  portrait  of  Bishop  Provoost  was  offered  to  the  vestry  by  Rev.  William  W.  Bran- 
son, of  Philadelphia,  who  said  that  it  had  been  for  a  long  time  in  the  family  of  Bishop 
White.  The  vestry,  as  appears  from  our  records,  accepted  the  gift,  but  I  do  not  know  what 
became  of  the  picture."  The  Right  Rev.  A.  Cleveland  Coxe,  Bishop  of  Western  New  York, 
says :  "  The  Duche  portrait  I  suppose  unquestionably  authentic  ;  that  in  the  chapel  I  never 
inquired  about,  but  supposed  it  confessedly  a  copy."  After  Trinity  Church  had  purchased 
the  portrait  in  their  possession,  it  was  cleaned  and  repaired.  Dunlap3  says  that  Duche 
was  a  pupil,  in  England,  of  the  artist  Benjamin  West,  and  that  when  Bishop  White,  of  Penn- 
sylvania, Bishop  Provoost,  of  New  York,  and  Bishop  Seabury,  of  Connecticut,  visited  Eng- 
land after  the  close  of  the  Revolutionary  War,  Duche  painted  a  portrait  of  Bishop  Seabury, 
which  is  now  at  Trinity  College,4  Hartford,  Connecticut,  an  engraving  of  which,  by  Sharp,  was 
dedicated  to  Benjamin  West ;  and  that  he  also  painted,  as  before  stated,  a  portrait  of  Bishop 
Provoost.  Bishop  Coxe  also  owns  a  pastel-portrait  of  Bishop  Provoost,  by  an  unknown 
artist.    Of  the  last-named  portrait,  Bishop  Coxe  says :  "  It  is  an  old  thing  in  pastel — nobody 


1  Dunlap's  "  History  of  the  Arts  of  Design,"  vol.  i,  p.  230. 

'  "Centennial  History  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  the  Diocese  of  New  York,  1785-1885,"  edited  by  General 
James  Grant  Wilson,  New  York,  1886.  In  a  foot-note  on  page  138  General  Wilson  says  that  in  the  vestry-room  of  Trinity 
Chapel,  New  York,  is  .  .  .  "the  admirable  portrait,  by  Benjamin  West,  of  Bishop  Provoost,  from  which  the  frontispiece 
of  this  volume  is  engraved.  A  good  copy  of  the  painting  is  in  the  gallery  of  the  New  York  Historical  Society,  the  gift  of 
Cadwalader  D.  Colden,  the  Bishop's  son-in-law.  Another  portrait  of  Provoost  is  in  the  possession  of  the  Bishop  of  West- 
em  New  York.'' 

'  Dunlap's  "  History  of  the  Arts  of  Design."  vol.  i,  p.  230. 

i  The  property  of  the  Diocese  of  Connecticut. 


THE  CENTENNIA L  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


knows  by  whom.  It  represents  the  Bishop  in  his  gown  and  bands  and  a  very  spare  wig 
(not  full-bottomed,  like  his  episcopal  wig),  and  I  see  little  resemblance  between  it  and  his 
episcopal  portraits." 

Quincv,  Mrs.  Josiah. — There  are  three  portraits  of  Mrs.  Josiah  Quincy  (born  Eliza  Mor- 
ton), of  which  one  is  a  crayon  drawing  by  the  French  artist  St.  Memin,  done  at  27  Pine 
Street,  New  York,  in  1797,  when  Eliza  Morton  was  twenty-two  years  old,  and  the  year  she 
married  Josiah  Ouincy.  Miss  Abby  P.  Quincy,  a  daughter  of  Mrs.  Josiah  Quincy,  living  in 
Quincy,  Massachusetts,  at  the  age  of  eighty-eight,  is  under  the  impression  that  the  crayon 
drawing  was  destroyed  by  the  family  because  it  was  so  unsatisfactory.  Engravings  on  copper 
of  the  drawing  were  made  by  St.  Memin  at  the  same  time,  and  are  owned  by  the  Corcoran 
Gallery  of  Art,  in  Washington,  and  by  Edward  Dexter,  of  New  York.  Another  portrait  of 
Mis.  Ouincy  was  painted  by  Gilbert  Stuart  in  1806,1  when  Mrs.  Quincy  was  thirty-one  years 
of  age,  and  is  now  owned  by  her  grandson,  Henry  Parker  Quincy,  of  Dedham,  Massa- 
chusetts, who  also  owns  a  third  portrait  of  Mrs.  Quincy,  taken  in  1824,  by  Chester  Harding, 
when  Mrs.  Quincy  was  fifty  years  old. 

Randolph,  Edmund. — The  original  portrait  of  Edmund  Randolph,  Attorney-General 
under  President  Washington,  was  destroyed  by  fire.  The  portrait  of  Randolph  in  the 
State  Capitol  in  Richmond  is  a  copy.  Of  the  one  in  the  Yirginia  Historical  Society, 
Moncure  D.  Conway  writes:  "The  Virginia  Historical  Society  picture  is  utterly  worthless. 
I  was  told  by  Edmund  Randolph's  grandchildren,  Peter  V.  Daniel,  Jr.,  and  Mrs.  Elizabeth 
Cocke,  that  when  that  picture  was  painted  Randolph's  family  were  indignant,  regarding  it 
as  almost  a  caricature."  Mr.  Conway  speaks  further  of  this  portrait,2  which  is  defaced 
and  blistered  and  hardly  distinguishable:  "In  a  room  of  the  Virginia  Historical  Society 
there  is  a  portrait,  so  blurred  that  the  face  is  repulsive.  It  is  the  alleged  portrait  of  a 
man  described  by  his  contemporary,  William  Wirt,  as  of  '  a  figure  large  and  portly;  his 
features  uncommonly  fine ;  his  dark  eyes  and  his  whole  countenance  lighted  up  with  an 
expression  of  the  most  conciliatory  sensibility;  his  attitudes  dignified  and  commanding; 
his  gesture  graceful  and  easy  ;  his  voice  perfect  harmony  ;  and  his  whole  manner  that  of 
an  accomplished  and  engaging  gentleman.'  The  portrait  at  Richmond,  repudiated  when 
painted,  suffered  all  .  manner  of  ill-usage ;  and  its  fate  resembles  that  of  the  man  for 
whom  its  dauber  meant  it — Edmund  Randolph."  Edmund  R.  Cocke,  of  Penrith,  Cum- 
berland County,  Virginia,  a  great-grandson  of  Edmund  Randolph,  writes :  "  My  mother 
was  the  owner  of  the  original  portrait  of  Randolph,  but  it  was  not  a  good  like- 
ness. After  having  had  several  copies  made,  one  of  which  is  now  in  my  possession, 
she  deposited  the  original  in  an  institution  of  art  and  literature  in  Richmond,  called  the 


1  Mason's  "  Life  and  Works  of  Gilbert  Stuart,"  p.  243. 
*  Preface  of  Moncure  D.  Conway's  "  Edmund  Randolph." 


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521 


'Athenaeum.'  This  building  was  destroyed  by  fire  about  1862  or  1863,  and  the  picture  lost. 
We  considered  the  portrait  in  the  Capitol  at  Richmond  a  fine  picture."  Mrs.  Charles  P. 
Moncure,  Orange  Court-House,  Virginia,  a  granddaughter  of  Edmund  Randolph,  also  has 
a  copy  of  the  original  portrait  of  Randolph  destroyed  by  fire  in  Richmond.  She  says: 
"  I  have  an  indifferent  copy  taken  from  a  portrait  which,  in  his  life,  was  kept  in  the  gar- 
ret, as  being  a  slander  on  his  handsome  face.  My  cousin,  Moncure  D.  Conway,  found  a 
portrait  somewhere  the  existence  of  which  my  mother  was  ignorant  of,  and  had  it  engraved 
for  his  life  of  my  grandfather.  I  am  sure  it  is  a  correct  likeness,  from  its  resemblance  to 
my  mother  and  my  aunt.  None  of  the  portraits  do  justice  to  my  grandfather's  brilliant 
eyes.  I  have  heard  the  old  ladies  in  Richmond  expatiate  on  their  beauty."  The  portrait 
referred  to  by  Mrs.  Moncure  is  the  copy  which  was  exhibited  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  in 
1889  (No.  181),  and  is  owned  by  Edmund  Randolph's  great-grandson,  Edmund  Randolph 
Robinson,  of  New  York.  A  steel  engraving  of  this  copy  appears  in  Moncure  D.  Conway's 
"  Edmund  Randolph."  The  portrait  in  the  Department  of  Justice,  Washington,  is  a  copy, 
by  Stanley  from  a  cabinet-size  picture,  made  at  the  time  that  Caleb  Cushing  was  Attorney- 
General  of  the  United  States.1  The  portraits  of  Randolph  belonging  to  Edmund  Randolph 
Robinson  and  to  the  State  of  Virginia 2  are  artistically  finer  pictures ;  but,  historically,  the 
portraits  of  Randolph  belonging  to  Mrs.  Charles  P.  Moncure,  of  Orange,  Virginia,  and  Cap- 
tain Edmund  Randolph  Cocke,  of  Penrith,  Virginia,  are  equally  valuable,  because  they  are 
copies  of  the  lost  original. 

Randolph,  John. — Regarding  portraits  of  John  Randolph  of  Roanoke,  who  at  the  age 
of  sixteen,  as  a  student  of  Columbia  College,  was  present  at  Washington's  inauguration 
(his  uncles,  Theodoric  Bland  and  Thomas  Tudor  Tucker,  being  both  members  of  the  new 
Congress),  one,  by  Chester  Harding,  is  owned  by  the  Corcoran  Gallery  of  Art,  in  Wash- 
ington. This  was  painted  in  Richmond,  Virginia,  in  1829,  which  city  Harding  visited,  and 
executed  there  eighteen  portraits  of  members  of  the  Constitutional  Convention  of  Virginia, 
including  four  portraits  of  Randolph.  Harding  says  of  his  interviews  with  Randolph  in 
Richmond  at  that  time:3  "I  do  assure  you  that  I  have  never  seen  a  more  perfect  gentle- 
man in  all  respects,  or  a  more  entertaining  or  instructive  companion,  than  he  was.  His 
memory  is  stored  with  everything  that  can  be  called  for  by  any  occasion  or  any  remark, 
no  matter  upon  what  subject  or  in  what  strain."  Besides  the  portrait  in  Washington,  other 
Harding  portraits  of  Randolph  are  owned  in  Lexington,  Virginia,  by  John  Randolph 
Tucker  and  James  A.  Harrison.  The  New  York  Historical  Society  owns  a  portrait  of 
John  Randolph,  which  was  painted  by  John  Wesley  Jarvis  in  181 1,  and  was  presented  to 


1  William  Henry  Harrison  Miller,  Attorney-General  of  the  United  States. 
a  Deposited  in  the  State  Library  in  the  Capitol  at  Richmond. 

8  "A  Sketch  of  Chester  Harding,  Artist."  edited  by  his  daughter,  Margaret  E.  White,  pp.  198,  200. 
67 


THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


the  society  by  Washington  Irving.1  Gilbert  Stuart  also  painted  a  portrait  of  John  Ran- 
dolph in  [805.  Mrs.  Cynthia  Beverley  Tucker  Coleman,  a  niece  of  John  Randolph,  says 
of  this  portrait :  "  I  have  it  by  inheritance  from  my  father,  who  was  John  Randolph's  half- 
brother.  1  have  often  heard  my  father  say  that  he  was  thirty-two  at  the  time  he  sat  to 
Stuart  for  his  portiait.  The  face,  which  is  of  wonderful  beauty  and  amiability,  represents 
him  a  boy  of  sixteen,  but  the  figure  is  that  of  a  tall  man,  if  you  will  observe  the  slouch- 
ing posture  as  he  seems  to  recline  indolently  in  his  chair.  I  have  also  heard  my  father 
say  that,  as  a  likeness,  the  picture  was  excellent — the  artist  making  the  mistake,  however 
of  omitting  the  wrinkles  that  had  already  begun  to  furrow  his  face.  John  Randolph  had 
no  beard.  These  facts  will  account  for  the  very  youthful  appearance  of  his  portrait."  A 
portrait  of  John  Randolph  by  Joseph  Wood,  once  owned  by  E.  S.  Key,  is  reproduced  in 
vol.  iv  of  the  "  National  Portrait  Gallery."  The  Virginia  Historical  Society  and  Dr.  Spotts- 
wood  Carmichael,  of  Fredericksburg,  Virginia,'-  own  portraits  of  John  Randolph  of  Roanoke, 
and  a  full-length  silhouette  belongs  to  Charles  Henry  Hart,  of  Philadelphia. 

Read,  George. — Of  portraits  of  George  Read,  member  from  Delaware  of  the  First  Con- 
gress under  the  Constitution,  one  painted  by  Trumbull  appears  in  the  historical  painting 
"  Signing  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence,"  owned  by  Yale  University,  a  replica  of  which 
is  in  the  Capitol  at  Washington  ;  another,  by  R.  E.  Pine,  is  owned  by  a  great-grandson,  Will- 
iam Read  Fisher,  of  Philadelphia,  and  has  been  etched  by  Albert  Rosenthal;  a  third  is  a  copy 
of  the  Pine  portrait  by  Thomas  Sully,  which  is  owned  by  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  and  has 
been  engraved  by  Samuel  Sartain;3  and  a  fourth  portrait  belongs  to  George  Read's  great- 
granddaughters,  Miss  Emily  Read  and  Mrs.  Annie  Dorsey  Reeves,  of  New  Castle,  Delaware. 
The  last-named  picture  was  found  about  1818  in  the  garret  of  Leonard  Eicholtz,  in  Lancaster, 
Pennsylvania,  whose  brother,  the  artist,  on  brushing  up  the  painting,  discovered  the  words 
"  George  Read  "  and  "  Baltimore  "  on  the  canvas,  and  kept  it  for  some  years  in  his  studio. 
The  picture  next  passed  into  the  hands  of  a  Mr.  Armstrong,  of  Lancaster,  and  was  bought  in 
1828  by  George  Ross  and  given  to  William  T.  Read,  of  New  Castle,  Delaware,  a  grandson  of 
George  Read.  The  portrait  has  been  ascribed  to  Gilbert  Stuart,  but  every  evidence  shows 
that  it  was  painted  by  or  after  R.  E.  Pine.  The  Pine  portrait,  though  begun  in  1785,  was 
not  finished  until  1 792.'    General  John  Meredith   Read  says  of  the  portraits  of  his  great- 


'  In  the  New  York  Historical  Society  are  two  letters,  one  of  which  is  written  by  Washington  Irving  to  Henry  Brevoort. 
dated  Philadelphia,  March  16,  1811  :  "Jack  Randolph  was  at  Baltimore  for  a  day  or  two  after  my  arrival.  He  sat  to  Jarvis 
for  a  likeness  for  one  of  the  Ridgeleys,  and  consented  that  I  should  have  a  copy.  I  am  in  hopes  of  receiving  it  before  I 
leave  Philadelphia,  and  of  bringing  it  home  with  me."    The  other  letter  is  from  Washington  Irving  to  Luther  Bradish, 

President  of  the  New  York  Historical  Society: 

"  Sunnyside,  May  15,  1858. 

"MY  DEAR  Sir:  I  have  recently  sent  to  the  care  of  Mr.  Moore,  the  Librarian  of  the  New  York  Historical  Society,  a 
portrait  of  the  Hon.  John  Randolph  of  Roanoke,  of  which  I  beg  the  society's  acceptance.  It  was  copied  for  me,  with  Mr. 
Randolph's  consent,  by  Jarvis.  in  Baltimore,  in  181 1,  from  the  original  portrait  by  himself.    It  is  an  excellent  likeness. 

"  With  great  regards,  yours  very  truly,  Washington  Irving." 

'  Statement  of  Moncure  D.  Conway,  of  New  York.  s  Scharf's  "  History  of  Delaware,"  vol.  i,  p.  186  b. 

4  "  Life  and  Correspondence  of  George  Read,"  by  W.  T.  Read,  pp.  572,  574  (Philadelphia,  1870;. 


NOTES  ON  PORTRAITS. 


523 


grandfather:  "Whoever  may  have  painted  the  portrait  attributed  to  Gilbert  Stuart,  there  is 
one  thing  absolutely  certain,  and  that  is  that  it  was  considered  a  good  likeness.  The  portrait 
by  Sully  enjoyed  the  advantage  of  having  been  painted  under  the  influence  of  the  suggestions 
of  George  Read's  son,  my  grandfather,  the  Hon.  John  M.  Read,  of  Philadelphia,  and  it  certainly 
approached  more  nearly  to  what  tradition  has  always  asserted  was  the  appearance  and  general 
air  of  George  Read  than  any  other  portrait  of  him  known  to  exist.  The  portrait  attributed  to 
Stuart  and  the  portrait  by  R.  E.  Pine  are  so  nearly  alike,  that  it  would  seem  that  the  two  por- 
traits above  referred  to  were  painted  by  Pine.  The  portrait  of  Read  by  Trumbull  represents  a 
much  older  person,  to  whom  age  has  given  more  fullness  of  feature.  It  is  a  strong  face  and 
a  good  one,  but  sad." 

St.  Clair,  General  Arthur. — There  is  a  portrait  of  General  Arthur  St.  Clair,  Gov- 
ernor of  the  Northwest  Territory  in  1789,  and  present  at  Washington's  inauguration,  which 
was  painted  by  C.  W.  Peale,  and  is  owned  by  the  city  of  Philadelphia  and  deposited  in 
Independence  Hall  (old  State-House).  This  portrait  was  in  Peale's  Museum,  Philadelphia, 
in  1795,  and  was  sold  at  the  Peale  sale  in  1854.  A  copy  by  James  B.  Sword  is  owned 
by  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania.  An  engraving  of  this  portrait  appears  in  the 
"National  Portrait  Gallery,"  vol.  iii.  A  pencil-drawing  from  life,  by  Colonel  John  Trumbull, 
is  reproduced  in  Irving's  "Life  of  Washington,"1  in  the  St.  Clair  Papers,2  and  in  John 
Schuyler's  "  Society  of  the  Cincinnati  in  New  York." 3 

Schu reman,  J ames. — Richard  Wynkoop,  of  Brooklyn,  New  York,  owns  a  portrait  of 
his  grandfather,  James  Schureman,  member  from  New  Jersey  of  the  First  Congress  under 
the  Constitution  (Loan  Exhibition  of  1889,  No.  187).  A  thorough  investigation  to  dis- 
cover the  name  of  the  artist  has  been  made,  but  without  avail. 

Schuvler,  Cornelia. — In  1792,  when  Cornelia  Schuyler  was  sixteen,  an  oil-miniature 
of  her  was  painted  by  John  Trumbull,  which  is  now  owned  by  Yale  University.  A  crayon 
drawing  of  Miss  Schuyler  was  made  by  St.  Memin  in  1797,  engravings  on  copper  of 
which  are  owned  by  the  Corcoran  Gallery  of  Art,  in  Washington,  D.  C,  and  by  Edward 
Dexter,  of  New  York. 4  Cornelia  Schuyler  was  the  daughter  of  General  Philip  Schuyler, 
and  the  sister  of  Mrs.  Alexander  Hamilton.  She  was  born  December  22,  1776,  and  mar- 
ried Washington  Morton. 

Schuyler,  Philip. — The  only  known  portraits  of  Philii)  Schuyler  are  the  two  oil-minia- 
tures by  Trumbull,  one  of  which  belongs  to  Yale   University  and  the  other  to  his  great- 


1  Vol.  iii,  p.  100 

2  1882. 

a  Page  285. 

4  "  The  St.  Memin  Collection  of  Portraits,"  by  Elias  Dexter.  New  York,  1862. 


524       THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


grandson,  Philip  Schuyler,  of  New  York.  The  last  named  was  exhibited  in  the  Loan  Exhibi- 
tion in  New  York  in  1889  (No.  189),  and  represents  Schuyler  in  citizen's  clothes.  Philip 
Schuyler,  the  present  owner,  says :  "This  miniature  was  painted  by  Trumbull  in  Philadelphia 
in  1792.  It  belonged  to  Schuyler's  daughter,  Mrs.  Alexander  Hamilton.  At  her  death  her 
widowed  daughter,  Mrs.  Holly,  gave  it  to  my  father,  George  L.  Schuyler."  The  portrait 
in  Independence  Hall  is  a  copy  by  Lazarus  of  the  Trumbull  miniature,  and  was  presented  by 
Philip  Schuyler.  The  Yale  University  portrait,  also  painted  in  1  792,  represents  Schuyler  in 
military  uniform,  and  has  been  engraved  in  Lossing's  "  Life  of  Schuyler,"  and  by  H.  B.  Hall 
for  Irving's  "  Life  of  Washington."  A  copy  of  this  portrait  is  owned  by  Mrs.  VVilmot  John- 
son, of  Baltimore,  Maryland.  It  is  also  reproduced  in  the  "  National  Portrait  Gallery,"  vol. 
ii,  and  in  John  Schuyler's  "The  Society  of  the  Cincinnati  in  the  State  of  New  York,"1  and 
was  engraved  by  H.  B.  Hall.  The  Chappel  painting,  engraved  by  W.  VV.  Rice,  is  a  made-up 
picture. 

Schuyler,  Mrs.  Philip. — The  portrait  of  Mrs.  General  Philip  Schuyler,  reproduced  in 
this  volume,  was  painted  in  Albany,  New  York.  When  the  portrait  was  exhibited  in  the 
Loan  Exhibition  in  1889  (No.  190),  it  belonged  to  Mrs.  Schuyler's  grandson,  George  Lee 
Schuyler,  and  is  now  the  property  of  her  great-grandson,  Philip  Schuyler,  of  New  York,  who 
says :  "  The  portrait  is  attributed  to  Copley,  which  might  very  well  be,  for  she  was  forty  years 
old  in  1774.  I  should  think  she  was  about  thirty-five  to  thirty-eight  when  the  portrait  was 
painted.  I  know  of  no  other  original  portrait  of  her."  This  portrait  is  engraved  in  Loss- 
ing's "  Life  of  Schuyler." 

Scott,  Thomas. — No  portrait  has  been  discovered  of  Thomas  Scott,  member  from  Penn- 
sylvania of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution. 

Scriba,  Colonel  George  Ludwig  Christian. — The  only  known  portrait  of  Colonel 
George  Scriba,  who  assisted  at  Washington's  inauguration,  is  the  medallion,  by  an  unknown 
artist,  owned  by  Colonel  Scriba's  grandnephew,  A.  M.  Scriba,  of  Montrose-on-Hudson. 
New  York. 

Sedgwick,  Theodore. — -A  portrait  of  Theodore  Sedgwick,  member  from  Massachusetts 
of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  was  painted  by  Gilbert  Stuart,  and  is  now 
owned  by  a  great-granddaughter,  Miss  Grace  Stanley  Parker,  of  Stockbridge,  Massachusetts. 
Copies  of  this  portrait  are  owned  by  a  grandson,  Henry  D.  Sedgwick,  of  Stockbridge,  Massa- 
chusetts, and  by  a  great-grandson,  Arthur  G.  Sedgwick,  of  New  York.  A  pencil-drawing 
was  also  made  by  the  artist,  Henry  Williams,  and  was  engraved  by  I.  R.  Smith.'-'  Besides 
the  original  crayon  drawing  of  Theodore  Sedgwick  made  by  the  artist  St.  Memin  in  1801, 


1  Page  281. 

'Issued  in  the  "Worcester  Magazine  and  Historical  Journal,"  vol.  ii,  Worcester.  Massachusetts,  1826. 


From  a  miniature  attributed  to  Iani- 
met.  Owned  by  Charles  Henry  Hart. 
Sculpdr,  Giusepps  Cbracchi.  Owseu       Sculptor.  Jew  Antoine  Houdon.   Owned  Philadelphia. 

BV    Ch\RLES    AkERT.    *'  HoMEWOOD."  BVTHB  METROPOLITAN  "MUSEUM  OFART,  New 

Norbeck,  Montgomery  Co.,  Maryland.  York. 


Sculptor.  Jean  Antoine  Houdon.  Owned  by  the 
Boston  Atheveum. 


Artist.  F.  Baricolo.  1783.  Owned  by  the  National  Por- 
trait Gallery.  London.  England. 


From  a  miniature  owned  by  Charles 
Henry  Hart.  Philadelphia. 


From  a  bust  owned  by  the  Royal  Society. 
London.  England. 


Sculptor.  Jean  Antoine  Houdon.  Owned  by  the 
American  Philosophical  Society.  Philadelphia. 


Sculptor.  Giuseppe  Cekacchi.    Owned  by 
the  Pennsylvania  Academy  of  the  Fine  Arts. 


Artist,  Joseph  Sifrede  Duplessis.  1782.  Owned  by  the 
Corcoran  Galleki  of  Art.  Washington.  D.  C. 


FROM  A  PORTRA1  I  PRESENTED  IN  1700,  BY  CALEB  WH1TEFOORI 

F  R.  S..  to  the  Royal  Society,  London,  England. 


PORTRAITS  OF  BENJAMIN  FRANKLIN. 


NOTES  ON  PORTRAITS. 


525 


which  belongs  to  Henry  D.  Sedgwick,  there  are  engravings  on  copper  by  St.  Memin  owned 
by  the  Corcoran  Gallery  of  Art,  Washington,  by  Henry  D.  Sedgwick  and  by  Edward  Dexter, 
of  New  York.  An  oil-miniature  of  Theodore  Sedgwick  was  painted  by  John  Trumbull  in 
1  791,  and  is  owned  by  Vale  University.  There  is  also  in  the  national  Capitol  at  Washington, 
among  the  likenesses  of  the  ex-Speakers  of  the  House  of  Representatives,  a  portrait  of  Theo- 
dore Sedgwick,  but  it  is  a  copy. 

Sedgwick,  Mrs.  Theodore. — The  portrait  of  Mrs.  Theodore  Sedgwick  was  painted  by 
Ralph  Earle,  and  was  owned  by  her  daughter,  Miss  Catharine  M.  Sedgwick  ;  it  is  now  in 
the  possession  of  Mrs.  Theodore  Sedgwick's  grandson,  Henry  D.  Sedgwick,  of  Stockbridge, 
Massachusetts.  The  little  girl  in  the  portrait  is  Henry  D.  Sedgwick's  aunt,  Miss  Catha- 
rine M.  Sedgwick,1  the  authoress.  An  engraving  of  this  portrait  appears  at  page  325  of 
Thomas  Wentworth  Higginson's  "  Larger  History  of  the  United  States."  An  engraving 
also  appears  at  page  326  of  Griswold's  "  Republican  Court,"  and  the  name  of  the  artist 
is  wrongly  given  as  W.  Stuart.  By  comparing  the  portrait  with  the  portraits  of  Baron 
de  Steuben,  William  Floyd,  and  Chief-Justice  and  Mrs.  Oliver  Ellsworth,  it  is  seen  that 
Ralph  Earle  is  probably  the  artist  who  painted  the  portrait  of  Mrs.  Sedgwick.  In  the  Ells- 
worth and  Floyd  portraits  by  Earle,  the  houses  that  belonged  to  Chief-Justice  Ellsworth 
and  William  Floyd  are  represented  in  the  background.  The  house  painted  in  this  portrait 
of  Mrs.  Sedgwick  is  the  one  occupied  at  one  time  by  Aaron  Burr,  and  at  another  time  by 
the  theologian,  Jonathan  Edwards,  who  wrote  in  this  house  his  celebrated  treatise  on 
the  "  Freedom  of  the  Will." 2 

Senev,  Joshua. — The  only  original  portrait  of  Joshua  Seney,  member  from  Maryland 
of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  is  in  the  possession  of  William  M.  Ingra- 
ham,  of  Brooklyn,  New  York,  who  married  a  granddaughter  of  Joshua  Seney.  This  min- 
iature once  belonged  to  Mrs.  Joshua  Seney.  A  miniature  copy  was  owned  by  George  I. 
Seney,  of  Bernardsville,  New  Jersey,  a  grandson  of  Joshua  Seney,  and  is  now  the  property 
of  his  daughter,  Mrs.  Albert  T.  Plummer,  of  New  York.  A  small  oil-painting  was  also 
copied  from  the  original  miniature,  and  is  in  the  possession  of  the  family  of  Charles  H. 
Taft,  of  New  York." 

Sevier,  John. — There  are  only  two  known  original  portraits  of  John  Sevier,  member 
from  North  Carolina  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution.  One  is  the  oil-portrait 
which  Charles  W.  Peale  painted  in  Philadelphia  in  1792,  and  which  was  given  during  the 
spring  of  1891  by  three  of  John  Sevier's  grandchildren  to  the  Tennessee  Historical  Society 


'An  engraving  by  A.  B.  Durand  of  Miss  Sedgwick's  portrait,  painted  by  Charles  Ingham,  is  in  the  "  National  Portrait 
Gallery,"  vol.  i. 

1  Statement  of  Theodore  Sedgwick,  a  grandson. 

*  See  "  Notes  on  Portraits  "  of  Commodore  James  Nicholson. 


526       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


of  Nashville,  Tennessee.  Mrs.  Eliza  Sevier  Donald,  one  of  the  three  donors,  says:1  "The 
original  picture  of  John  Sevier,  painted  by  C.  W.  Feale  while  he  was  in  Philadelphia,  was 
given  to  my  father,  Colonel  George  W.  Sevier  (the  eldest  child  of  John  Sevier  by  his  sec- 
ond wife),  by  his  mother.  At  my  father's  death,  my  brother,  John  V.  Sevier,  inherited  the 
picture,  and  he  died  a  few  years  ago  without  children.  The  portrait  is  now  at  my  family 
home  in  Mississippi,  and  I  am  just  on  the  eve  of  sending  for  it,  as  members  of  the  State- 
are  desirous  of  possessing  it."  A  copy  of  this  portrait  was  made  in  1845  by  Washington 
B.  Cooper,  of  Nashville,  and  is  also  in  the  possession  of  the  Tennessee  Historical  Society. 
The  other  original  portrait  of  John  Sevier  is  a  miniature  owned  by  his  grandson,  Daniel 
Vertner  Sevier,  M.  D.,  of  Russellville,  Alabama.  Dr.  Sevier  says  the  miniature  is  gold- 
incased,  and  has  been  in  his  family  for  about  one  hundred  years.  He  supposes  it  was 
painted  by  C.  W.  Peale,  in  Philadelphia. 

Seymour,  Mary  Julia. — John  Trumbull  painted  in  1792  an  oil-miniature,  owned  by 
Yale  University,  of  Mary  Julia  Seymour,  a  young  lady  friend  of  Catharine  and  Harriet 
Wadsworth.  She  was  twenty-three  years  old  when  the  miniature  was  painted,  and  was  the 
daughter  of  Colonel  Thomas  Seymour,  the  first  Mayor  of  Hartford  (1 784-1814).  Prof. 
Thomas  D.  Seymour,  of  Yale  University,  speaks  of  the  miniature  as  follows :  "  I  have  con- 
sulted my  cousin,  Miss  Talcott,  and  can  say  definitely  that  this  is  Miss  Mary  Julia  Seymour, 
daughter  of  Hon.  Thomas  Seymour  (Yale,  1 755,  Judge,  etc.,  first  Mayor  of  Hartford,  etc.), 
and  his  wife,  Mary  Ledyard.  She  was  born  February  6,  1769;  married  in  November,  1794, 
Captain  John  Chenevard  (see  Hinman's  "Genealogy  of  the  Puritans,"  p.  555),  and  died  June 
8,  1843."    Her  daughter,  Mary  Chenevard,  married  Dr.  John  L.  Comstock,  the  author. 

Sherman,  Roger. — The  miniature  of  Roger  Sherman,  member  from  Connecticut  of  the 
First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  in  the  possession  of  his  great-grandson,  J.  Evarts 
Tracy,  may  have  been  painted  from  life  by  the  New  Haven  artist,  Amos  Doolittle  ;  but  United 
States  Senator  William  M.  Evarts,  of  New  York,  a  grandson  of  Roger  Sherman,  suggests 
that  the  miniature  may  have  been  copied  from  the  original  portrait  by  Ralph  Earle,  in  the 
possession  of  Roger  Sherman  White,  of  New  Haven.  However,  the  miniature  is  certainly 
an  old  one,  having  been  in  the  possession  of  the  family  for  many  years.  The  full-length 
Ralph  Earle  portrait  of  Sherman  above  referred  to  is  owned  by  a  great-grandson,  Robert 
Sherman  White,  of  New  Haven,  and  is  reproduced  in  Sanderson's  "  Signers  of  the  Declara- 
tion of  Independence."  The  picture  in  Independence  Hall,  Philadelphia,  is  a  copy  by  Thomas 
I  licks,  and  was  presented  by  William  M.  Evarts.  A  copy  by  Charles  B.  King  is  owned  by 
Roger  Sherman's  grandson,  United  States  Senator  George  F.  Hoar,  of  Worcester,  Massa- 
chusetts. Besides  the  Earle  portrait  of  Roger  Sherman,  there  is  one  by  John  Trumbull,  in 
the  painting  entitled  "  Signing  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence,"  which  is  owned  by  Yale 


1  Letter  dated  Nashville,  Tennessee,  February  [6,  1891. 


NOTES  ON  PORTRAITS. 


527 


University,  a  replica  of  which  is  in  the  Capitol  at  Washington.  Thomas  I  licks  copied  in  1856 
the  last-named  portrait  for  Mrs.  Maria  Moore,  of  Trenton  Falls,  New  York.  In  Edward  Sav- 
age's "Signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence,"  owned  by  the  Boston  Museum,  there 
also  appears  a  portrait  of  Roger  Sherman.    The  picture  by  Chappel  is  a  composition  one.1 

Silvester,  Peter.— The  only  known  portrait  of  Peter  Silvester,  member  from  New  York 
of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  is  a  copy  of  an  engraving  in  the  State  Library  at 
Albany,  New  York.  It  is  evidently  after  the  artist  St.  Memin,  although  it  is  not  included  in 
the  list  of  St.  Memin  portraits  which  are  owned  by  the  Corcoran  Gallery  of  Art,  Washing- 
ton ;  but  not  all  the  portraits  taken  by  St.  Memin  in  this  country  are  included  in  that  list. 
That  the  portrait  was  taken  at  the  time  St.  Memin  was  in  this  country,  is  shown  from  the  fact 
that  underneath  appear  the  words  "  Mr.  Silvester,  Middle  Dt.,"  meaning  the  Middle  District  of 
New  York,  which  Mr.  Silvester  represented  in  Congress,  and  in  the  State  Legislature.  The 
reproduction  of  the  portrait  is  on  canvas  stretched  on  a  frame,  and  the  canvas  has  engrav- 
ings or  copies  of  engravings  of  Senators  and  members  of  the  Assembly  of  New  York  in 
1798,  in  which  year  Mr.  Silvester  was  a  member  of  the  New  York  State  Senate.  A  copy 
of  this  engraving  of  Silvester  appears  in  the  "  Documentary  History  of  New  York."2 

Sinnickson,  Thomas. — C.  H.  Sinnickson,  of  Salem,  New  Jersey,  and  Robert  Sinnickson, 


of  Trenton,  New  Jersey,  descend- 
ants of  Thomas  Sinnickson,  mem- 
ber from  New  Jersey  of  the  First 
Congress   under   the  Constitution, 


have  made  an  unsuccessful  search  for  a  portrait  of  Thomas  Sinnickson. 

Smith,  William. — The  only  known  portrait  of  William  Smith,  member  from  Maryland 
of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  is  the  one  painted  by  C.  W.  Peale  in  1781, 
and  now  owned  by  his  great-granddaughter,  Mrs.  Anne  von  Kapff,  of  Baltimore,  Marvland. 
The  child  in  the  portrait  is  Robert  Smith  Williams,  a  grandchild  of  William  Smith,  and 
a  son  of  General  Otho  Holland  Williams,3  of  the  Revolutionary  War.  The  house  in  the 
background  of  the  picture  is  "  Eutaw,"  a  country-seat  of  William  Smith,  near  Baltimore.4 

Smith,  William  Loughton. — The  only  three  portraits  of  William  L.  Smith,  member 
from  South  Carolina  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  are  :  one  by  Gilbert  Stuart, 
owned  by  the  Carolina  Art  Association,  Charleston,  South  Carolina  ;  another,  an  oil-minia- 


1  Charles  Henry  Hart  says  :  "  All  the  so-called  Chappel  pictures  are  made  up.  I  have  heard  it  said  there  is  no  Chap- 
pel.    It  is  merely  a  name  used." 

■  Facts  obtained  from  D.  V.  R.  Johnston,  of  the  State  Library,  Albany,  and  Hon.  Francis  Silvester,  of  Kinderhook, 
New  York,  a  grandson  of  Peter  Silvester. 

3  An  oil-miniature  of  General  Williams,  painted  by  John  Trumbull  in  1790,  is  owned  by  Yale  University.  Other  portraits 
of  him  by  C.  W.  Peale  are  in  Independence  Hall,  Philadelphia,  and  in  the  Maryland  Historical  Society. 

4  Statement  of  John  Donnell  Smith,  great-grandson,  of  Baltimore,  Maryland. 


528       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 


ture  painted  in  1792  by  John  Trumbull,  and  owned  by  Yale  University;  and  a  third,  painted 
by  John  Trumbull,  owned  by  G.  E.  Manigault,  M.  D.,  of  Charleston,  and  exhibited  in  the 
Loan  Exhibition  in  New  York  in  1889  (No.  192).  There  is  an  exceedingly  rare  engrav- 
ing of  the  Stuart  portrait,  by  Edward  Savage,  belonging  to  Henry  Whelcn,  Jr.,  of  Phila- 
delphia.1 

Smith,  Lieutenant-Colonel  William  Stephens. — Gilbert  Stuart  painted  a  portrait  of 
Lieutenant-Colonel  William  Stephens  Smith,  one  of  the  Masters  of  Ceremony  at  Washing- 
ton's inauguration.  It  is  owned  by  Colonel  Smith's  niece,  Mrs.  Mary  Ann  Buchanan 
Smith,  ot  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania.  John  Trumbull  painted  Colonel  Smith  in  some  of  his 
historical  paintings,  which  are  owned  by  Yale  University,  and  replicas  of  which  are  in  the 
Capitol  at  Washington.  The  portrait  in  the  painting  entitled  "Capture  of  the  Hessians" 
is  reproduced  in  this  volume.  Another  portrait  is  also  given,  which  was  painted  by  Trum- 
bull in  1 784,  and  represents  Colonel  Smith  in  uniform,  and  wearing  the  badge  of  the 
Society  of  the  Cincinnati.  This  portrait  is  owned  by  Colonel  Smith's  granddaughter,  Mrs. 
Gabriel  Furman,  of  East  Orange,  New  Jersey.  Still  another  portrait  of  Colonel  Smith  was 
painted  by  Mather  Brown,  in  London,  in  1 786,  at  the  time  the  portrait  of  his  wife  was 
painted,  Abigail  Adams  by  name,  the  only  daughter  of  John  Adams.  This  picture  is  owned 
by  Brooks  Adams,  of  Quincy,  Massachusetts,  a  grandnephew  of  Colonel  Smith's  wife. 

Smith,  Mrs.  William  Stephens. — The  portrait  of  Mrs.  Colonel  William  Stephens 
Smith  (born  Abigail  Adams),  the  daughter  of  John  Adams,  was  painted  in  London  by 
Mather  Brown3  in  1786,  when  Mrs.  Smith  was  twenty-one,  and  is  owned  by  a  grand- 
nephew,  Brooks  Adams,  of  Quincy,  Massachusetts.  As  the  original  portrait  of  Mrs.  Colo- 
nel Smith,  by  Copley,  which  was  owned  by  her  daughter,  Mrs.  John  P.  de  Windt,  was 
destroyed  by  fire  in  1862,  when  the  De  Windt  homestead  at  Fishkill-on-Hudson,  New 
York,  was  burned,  an  engraving,  by  H.  S.  Sadd  after  the  Copley  portrait,  is  reproduced, 
which  belongs  to  Mrs.  Smith's  grandson,  Arthur  de  Windt.  The  late  Charles  Francis 
Adams  says  of  the  Copley  portrait  of  his  aunt : 8  "  This  portrait  was  a  portrait  of  the  only 
daughter  of  John  Adams,  who  married  Colonel  W.  S.  Smith,  of  New  York,  then  secretary 
of  legation  to  Mr.  Adams  in  London,  and  died  in  1815.  It  must  have  been  taken  some- 
where about  the  year  1787.  It  belonged  to  her  brother,  John  Quincy,  and  was  by  him  given 
to  Mrs.  Smith's  only  daughter,  Mrs.  De  Windt,  of  Fishkill,  Dutchess  County,  New  York.  It 
was  a  remarkably  attractive  picture,  as  I  remember  it,  but  unfortunately  it  was  destroyed  in  a 
conflagration  which  took  place  a  few  years  since  in  the  mansion  of  Mr.  De  Windt.    It  is 


1  Charles  Henry  Hart. 

J  Dunlap's  "  History  of  the  Arts  of  Design,"  vol.  i,  p.  228. 

*  "  A  Sketch  of  the  Life  and  a  List  of  some  of  the  Works  of  John  Singleton  Copley,"  by  Augustus  Thorndike  Perkins, 
p.  108.    Cf.  "John  Singleton  Copley:  his  Domestic  and  Artistic  Life,"  by  Martha  Babcock  Amory,  pp.  87,  88,  328. 


NOTES  ON  PORTRAITS. 


529 


understood  that  one  or  two  copies  made  in  oil  by  different  artists  in  New  York  still  exist 
Mr.  Charles  F.  Adams  also  has  a  miniature  copy  of  this." 

Stanton,  Joseph,  Jr.— There  is  no  portrait  of  Joseph  Stanton,  Jr.,  member  from  Rhode 
Island  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Consti- 


ton,  Connecticut,  William  C.  Stanton,  of  Prov-  //  (  / 

idence,  and  other  descendants  of  Joseph  Stan-   

ton,  Jr.,  who  have  been  consulted,  can  give  no  information  regarding  a  portrait. 

Steele,  John. — The  only  known  portrait  of  John  Steele,  member  from  North  Carolina  of 
the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  is  the  one  owned  by  his  great-grandson,  S.  F. 
Lord,  of  Salisbury,  North  Carolina.  It  is  a  miniature  painted  on  ivory  by  James  Feale  in 
1797.  The  exact  lettering  on  the  miniature  is  "I.  P.,  1797,"  the  usual  way  in  which  James 
Peale  signed  all  miniatures. 

Steuben,  General  Frederick  William,  Baron  de. — Among  the  portraits  of  Baron  de 
Steuben,  who  stood  by  Washington  when  he  was  inaugurated,  Du  Simitiere  made,  in  Phila- 
delphia, a  drawing  from  life.1  The  city  of  Philadelphia  owns  a  portrait  of  Steuben,  by  C.  W. 
Peale,  which  is  deposited  in  Independence  Hall  (old  State-House).  This  portrait  was  in 
Peale's  Museum  in  Philadelphia  in  1795  and  was  sold  at  the  Peale  sale  in  1854.  There  is 
another  portrait  by  C.  W.  Peale,  deposited  in  the  Pennsylvania  Academy  of  the  Fine  Arts, 
which  formerly  belonged  to  Richard  Peters.  John  Trumbull  also  represents  Steuben  in  the 
historical  painting  entitled  "  Surrender  of  Cornwallis,"  which  is  owned  by  Yale  University,  a 
replica  of  which  is  in  the  Capitol  at  Washington.  Ralph  Earle  painted  a  portrait  of  Baron  de 
Steuben,  which  was  exhibited  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  of  1889  (No.  194),  and  belongs  to  Mrs. 
F.  B.  Austin,  of  New  York,  who  inherited  the  same  from  her  great-grandfather,  Major  William 
North,  Steuben's  aide-de-camp.  This  portrait  was  given  by  the  Baron  to  Major  North.  In 
addition  to  the  badge  of  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati,  Baron  de  Steuben  is  represented  in  the 
Earle  portrait  as  wearing  a  decoration  received  in  the  service  of  Frederick  the  Great.  A 
copy  of  the  Earle  portrait  of  Steuben  is  owned  by  the  city  of  New  York,  and  is  deposited  in 
the  Governor's  Room,  City  Hall.  The  copyist  has  omitted  certain  details  in  the  dress,  in- 
cluding the  watch-chain,  and  also  the  scenery  in  the  background,  for  which  Earle's  portraits 
are  noted.  The  Earle  portrait  was  engraved  for  Irving's  "  Life  of  Washington."  It  is  also 
stated  that  the  artist  R.  E.  Pine  had  a  portrait  of  Baron  de  Steuben  among  his  "  Distin- 
guished Heads."2  Another  portrait  of  Baron  de  Steuben  is  reproduced  in  the  book  entitled 
"The  Society  of  the  Cincinnati  in  New  York,"  by  John  Schuyler,  Secretary  of  the  New 
York  State  Society.3 


1  See  "  Notes  on  Portraits  "  of  John  Jay. 
3  "  Book  of  the  Artists,"  by  Henry  T.  Tuckerman,  p.  46. 
3  Page  297. 


tution.    George  D.  Stanton,  M.  D.,  of  Stoning 


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Stirling,  Lord. — Of  the  portraits  of  Lord  Stirling,  the  father  of  Lady  Mary  Watts  and 
Lady  Catharine  Ducr,  one,  attributed  to  Benjamin  West,  belongs  to  Lord  Stirling's  great- 
great-grandson,  Dr.  Robert  Watts,  of  New  York.  C.  W.  Peale  painted  a  portrait  of  Lord 
Stilling  which  is  owned  by  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  and  is  deposited  in  Independence  Hall. 
A  miniature  of  Lord  Stirling  is  reproduced  in  "  The  Life  of  William  Alexander,  Earl  of 
Stirling,"  a  book  written  by  his  grandson,  William  Alexander  Duer,  LL.  D.  An  etching  of 
the  portrait  last  named  was  made  by  H.  B.  Hall  in  1871  for  some  Philadelphia  gentlemen. 
A  cut  of  another  miniature  is  in  Winsor's  "  Narrative  and  Critical  History  of  America."1 

Stirling,  Lady. — There  are  two  portraits  of  Lady  Stirling,  one  owned  by  her  great- 
great-grandson,  Robert  Watts,  M.  D.,  of  New  York,  who  says  that  the  portrait  was  painted 
by  Benjamin  West ;  and  the  other  by  an  unknown  artist,  owned  by  Lady  Stirling's  great- 
grandniece,  Miss  Henrietta  Livingston,  of  New  York.  A  copy  of  the  last-named  canvas 
is  owned  by  Lady  Stirling's  great-great-grandnephew,  Dr.  F.  Le  Roy  Satterlee,  of  New  York. 

Stone,  Michael  Jenifer. — Judge  Frederick  Stone,  of  La  Platta,  Maryland,  and  Miss 
Margaret  Stone,  of  Haberdebenture,  Port  Tobacco,  Maryland,  know  of  no  portrait  of  Michael 
Jenifer  Stone,  member  from  Maryland  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution.  A 
searching  inquiry  has  failed  to  elicit  any  information  regarding  a  possible  portrait. 

Strong,  Caleb. — The  portrait  of  Caleb  Strong,  member  from  Massachusetts  of  the  First 
Congress  under  the  Constitution,  which  was  painted  by  Gilbert  Stuart,  was  engraved  by 
Longacre.2  Rev.  Dr.  Augustus  C.  Thompson,  of  Boston,  the  owner  of  this  portrait, 
inherited  the  same  over  forty  years  ago  from  his  father-in-law,  Theodore  Strong,  the  oldest 
son  of  Caleb  Strong.  A  beautiful  and  faithful  copy  of  the  Stuart  portrait,  painted  by 
Chester  Harding,  is  now  in  the  possession  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  having 
been  given  to  that  institution,  October  9,  1865,  by  Joseph  Lyman.3  N.  Davies  Cotton 
presented  to  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  in  185 1,  a  portrait  of  Caleb  Strong 
which  was  painted  by  the  artist  J.  B.  Marston  in  March  of  1807.  A  copy  of  the  Marston 
portrait  of  Strong  hangs  in  Faneuil  Hall,  Boston.  The  only  other  known  original  por- 
trait of  Strong  was  painted  by  the  artist  William  M.  S.  Doyle.  It  now  hangs  in  the 
Boston  Museum,  Boston.4  An  engraving  of  the  Doyle  portrait  of  Strong  is  in  the  posses- 
sion of  the  Bostonian  Society,  in  the  old  State-House,  Boston. 


1  Vol.  vi,  p.  280.  *  George  C.  Mason's  "Life  and  Works  of  Gilbert  Stuart,"  p.  261. 

3  "  Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,"  vol.  viii  (1864-1865),  p.  476.— (Cf.  engraving  by  J.  B.  Longacre 
in  "  Proceedings,"  etc.,  vol.  i,  p.  290.) 

'  William  M.  S.  Doyle  was  born  in  1769,  and  was  the  son  of  a  British  soldier.  When  he  was  six  years  old  he  was 
deserted  by  his  father,  and  Doyle  grew  up  ignorant  of  his  origin.  In  1803  his  name  appears  in  the  Boston  Directory 
as  a  miniature-painter  at  the  Columbian  Museum.  He  was  proprietor  of  the  Museum  at  his  death,  in  1828.  The  Bos- 
tonian Society  owns  a  life-size  portrait  of  Doyle  painted  by  himself.  It  is  signed  and  dated  April  22,  1828,  eleven  days 
before  Doyle's  death.    His  work  shows  good  taste  and  commendable  skill.— (Statement  of  Samuel  H.  Russell,  of  Boston.) 


NOTES  ON  PORTRAITS. 


531 


Stuart,  Gilbert. — Besides  the  miniature1  of  Gilbert  Stuart  by  Sarah  Goodridge  (Loan 
Exhibition  of  1889,  No.  198),  which  is  owned  by  Samuel  R.  Honey,  of  Newport,  Rhode- 
Island,  an  engraving  of  which,  by  Durand,  appears  in  the  "  National  Portrait  Gallery," 
there  is  a  bust  which  Stuart  himself  painted  in  1778,  at  the  age  of  twenty-four,  which 
is  owned  by  the  Redwood  Library,  Newport,  Rhode  Island.  Stuart  painted  another  por- 
trait of  himself,  which  is  owned  by  Mrs.  Waterhouse,  of  Cambridge,  Massachusetts.  Anson 
Dickinson  painted  a  miniature  of  Gilbert  Stuart  in  1825,  which  was  presented  by  S.  W. 
and  V.  M.  Francis  to  the  New  York  Historical  Society.  Another  miniature  by  the  same 
artist  belongs  to  H.  H.  Houston,  of  Philadelphia.  John  Neagle,  the  son-in-law  of  Sully, 
painted  a  likeness  of  Stuart  which  is  in  the  possession  of  the  Boston  Athenaeum.  A 
replica  belonging  to  James  H.  Sherrerd,  of  Philadelphia,  was  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  of 
Historical  Portraits  in  Philadelphia  in  1887.  The  Neagle  portrait  was  engraved  by  David 
Edwin,  his  last  plate.  James  M.  Falconer,  of  New  York,  owned  a  pen-and-ink  likeness  of 
Stuart,  by  himself.  "  It  is  on  the  back  of  a  letter  addressed  to  Mr.  Bennett,  then  Curator 
of  the  Academy  of  Design."2  Portraits  of  Gilbert  Stuart,  by  his  daughter,  Miss  Jane 
Stuart,  are  owned  by  Brown  University  and  by  Clarence  Winthrop  Bowen,  of  Brooklyn, 
New  York.  A  portrait  of  Gilbert  Stuart,  by  Rembrandt  Peale,  was  sold  at  the  Peak's 
Museum  sale  of  portraits  in  Philadelphia,  in  1854,  to  P.  E.  Erben  for  one  hundred  and 
thirty-five  dollars.  There  is  a  bust  of  Stuart  made  by  John  H.  I.  Browere,  in  1825,  and 
now  in  the  Historical  Society  of  Newport,  Rhode  Island  ;  and  a  Stuart  medal  was  issued  by 
the  Art  Union  of  New  York.  His  own  portrait  in  silhouette  is  introduced  into  his  portrait 
of  Mrs.  Joseph  Hopkinson.3 

Sturges,  Jonathan. — Frederick  Sturges,  of  Fairfield,  Connecticut,  and  other  members 
of  the  Sturges  family,  and  R.  B.  Lacey,  the  President  of  the  Fairfield  County  Historical 
Society,  of  Bridgeport,  Connecticut,  know  of  no  portrait  of  Jonathan  Sturges,  member  from 
Connecticut  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution.  A  granddaughter  of  Jonathan 
Sturges,  living  at  New  Milford,  Connecticut,  at  the  age  of  eighty-six,  is  certain  that  there 
is  no  portrait  of  Jonathan  Sturges  in  existence. 

Sumter,  Thomas. — The  portrait  which  Sully  painted  of  Thomas  Sumter,  member  from 
South  Carolina  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  and  now  the  property  of  his 
great-granddaughters,  the  Misses  Brownfield,  of  Summerville,  South  Carolina,  was  taken  to 
Italy  in  1845  by  a  member  of  the  family  and  brought  back  to  this  country  in  i860.  It  was 
then  sent  to  Columbia,  South  Carolina,  as  the  Legislature  of  the  State  desired  to  have  it 
copied.  The  painting  remained  in  Columbia,  without  being  copied,  until  April,  1864,  when 
the  family  grew  anxious  about  the  portrait,  and,  as  Miss  Brownfield  writes:  "A  faithful 


1  Page  99. 


2  Tuckerman's  "Book  of  the  Artists,"  p.  III. 


3  Charles  Henry  Hart. 


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Servant  was  sent  for  it,  but  he  returned  without  the  picture,  which  would  not  he  given  to 
him  unless  he  could  procure  a  box.  The  man  walked  over  Columbia  in  vain  trying  to  buy  a 
box,  but,  as  it  was  only  two  or  three  days  before  the  town  was  burned,  there  was  not  a  box 
large  enough  to  be  found  for  love  or  money,  so  many  people  had  packed  up  their  goods  and 
fled.  The  good  old  servant  said  he  would  return  with  an  order  for  it  and  bring  it  in  his 
hands  ;  and  a  heavy  load  it  was,  for  the  frame  is  a  massive  one  of  carved  Florentine  wood, 
which  was  procured  in  Italy.  A  copy  of  this  portrait  is  in  the  South  Carolina  room  at 
Mount  Vernon,  painted  by  Stoll,  a  German  artist,  who  did  some  good  work  in  Charleston  a 
few  years  ago."  The  portrait  of  Thomas  Sumter  by  C.  W.  Peale,  which  is  in  Independence 
Hall  (old  State-House),  Philadelphia,  was  engraved  for  Washington  li  ving's  "  Life  of  Wash- 
ington," 1  and  is  reproduced  in  the  "  National  Portrait  Gallery,"  vol.  iv.  The  only  other  known 
portrait  of  Thomas  Sumter  is  the  one  painted  by  the  artist  Harvey  Mitchell  just  before 
Sumter's  death,  in  1832.  This  portrait  is  owned  by  his  great-granddaughters,  the  Misses 
Brownfield,  of  Summerville,  South  Carolina.  It  has  been  lithographed  by  Pendleton,  of 
Boston. 

Temple,  Sir  John  and  Lady. — The  following  portraits  of  Sir  John  Temple,  Bart., 
consul-general  to  the  United  States  in  1789,  and  of  his  wife  Lady  Temple  (born  Elizabeth 
Bowdoin),  are  reproduced  in  this  volume:  1.  Pastels  painted  about  1765  by  J.  S.  Copley, 
and  owned  by  Sir  John's  great-grandson,  Winthrop  Tappan,  of  Washington,  D.  C. ; 
2.  Portraits  in  oil  by  Gilbert  Stuart,  the  one  of  Sir  John  being  copied  by  Stuart  from 
Trumbull ;  these  portraits  are  at  the  residence  of  a  grandson,  Hon.  Robert  C.  Winthrop, 
of  Boston ;  and,  3.  A  group  portrait  painted  in  London  by  John  Trumbull,  owned  by  a 
great-great-grandson,  George  S.  Bowdoin,  of  New  York.  In  this  portrait,  besides  Sir  John 
and  his  wife,  who  was  a  daughter  of  Governor  Bowdoin,  of  Massachusetts,  there  is  repre- 
sented their  eldest  child,  who  is  just  returning  from  college — Grenville  Temple,  afterward  Sir 
Grenville  Temple,  Bart.  The  little  girl  is  a  daughter  of  Sir  John  and  Lady  Temple,  who 
afterward  became  Mrs.  Palmer,  the  mother  of  Mrs.  Rufus  Prime.  A  list  of  portraits  of  Sir 
John  and  Lady  Temple,  including  the  above,  is  given  by  a  great-grandson,  Robert  C. 
Winthrop,  Jr.,  of  Boston:2 

"  1.  Two  pastels  (half-length)  of  Sir  John  and  Lady  Temple,  painted  by  Copley  about  1767,  formerly 
belonging  to  the  late  Mrs.  Thomas  Lindall  Winthrop,  of  Boston,  and  now  to  Winthrop  Tappan,  Esq.,  Wash- 
ington, I).  ('. 

"2.  Small  cabinet  portrait  (full-length)  in  oil  of  Sir  John,  painted  by  Copley  about  1772;  formerly  be- 
longing to  the  late  Mrs.  Thomas  Lindall  Winthrop  aforesaid,  and  now  to  Thomas  Lindall  Winthrop,  Esq., 
of  Buckland  Grange,  Ryde,  Isle  of  Wight,  England. 

"3.  A  copy  or  replica  of  the  preceding,  long  retained  by  Copley  in  his  studio;  afterward  the  property  of 


1  Last  volume  (five  volumes  of  text  and  one  of  illustrations,  published  by  George  P,  Putnam.  New  York,  1 855— '59). 
a  Cf.  "Some  Account  of  the  Temple  Family,"  by  Temple  Prime,  p.  93  (privately  printed,  N«w  York,  1887);  also 
Mason's  "  Life  and  Works  of  Gilbert  Stuart,"  pp.  265-267. 


NOTES  ON  PORTRAITS.  533 

the  late  Sir  John  Rose,  Bart.,  who  married  (for  his  first  wife)  a  great-niece  of  Sir  John  Temple  ;  probably  now 
in  possession  of  Sir  William  Rose,  Bart. 

"  4.  '  Family  group,'  so  called,  containing  portraits  in  oil,  much  reduced,  of  Sir  John  and  Lady  Temple, 
their  son  Grenville  and  daughter  Augusta,  painted  in  London  by  Trumbull  about  1784.  Formerly  belonged  to 
Hon.  James  Bowdoin,  of  Boston  ;  afterward  to  Bowdoin  College  ;  now  to  George  Sullivan  Bowdoin,  Esq.,  of 
New  York.  Trumbull's  original  sketch  for  this  picture  is,  or  was,  in  possession  of  the  Silliman  family  of  New 
Haven. 

"5.  Two  oil-portraits  (three-quarters  length)  of  Sir  John  and  Lady  Temple,  painted  by  Trumbull  about 
1785.  Property  of  heirs  of  Sir  Grenville  Temple,  Bart.  Long  deposited  with  the  late  Mrs.  General  Byam 
(born  Temple)  at  Warblington  Lodge,  Hants,  and  now  with  Thomas  Lindall  Winthrop,  Esq.,  of  Buckland 
Grange  aforesaid. 

"6.  Two  small  pastels  of  Sir  John  and  Lady  Temple,  painted  by  Sharpless  about  1796.  Property  of 
Hon.  Robert  C.  Winthrop. 

"7.  Oil  portrait  (half-length)  of  Sir  John  Temple,  copied  by  Gilbert  Stuart  in  1807  from  the  Trumbull 
portrait  of  1785.    Property  of  Hon.  Robert  C.  Winthrop. 

"8.  Oil-portrait  of  Lady  Temple,  painted  by  Stuart  in  1807  as  a  companion  to  the  preceding.  Property 
of  heirs  of  the  late  General  Grenville  Temple  Winthrop,  but  temporarily  deposited  with  Hon.  Robert  C. 
Winthrop. 

"9.  Small  miniature  of  Lady  Temple,  supposed  to  have  been  painted  by  Malbone.  Formerly  belonged  to 
her  granddaughters,  Mr.  George  Sullivan,  and  now  to  George  Sullivan  Bowdoin,  Esq.,  of  New  York. 

"  10.  Portrait  of  Hon.  James  Bowdoin  and  his  sister.  Lady  Temple,  when  children.  Supposed  to  have 
been  painted  about  1760.    Artist  unknown.    Property  of  Bowdoin  College. 

"n.  Two  large  miniatures  of  Sir  John  and  Lady  Temple,  the  property  of  the  heirs  of  the  late  James 
Temple-Bowdoin,  Esq.  They  were  destroyed  by  fire  in  London  about  1871.  Whether  they  were  originals,  or 
copies  of  other  portraits,  is  uncertain." 

Terry,  Mrs.  Nathaniel. — (See  "Notes  on  Portraits"  of  Catharine  Wadsworth.) 

Thacher,  George. — The  only  known  original  portrait  of  Judge  George  Thacher,  member 
from  Massachusetts  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  is  the  one  painted  in  1814, 
by  Henry  Williams,1  and  owned  by  the  Cape  Cod  Association2 of  Boston;  it  was  exhibited 
in  the  Loan  Exhibition  in  New  York  in  1889  (No.  201).  A  copy  of  the  Williams  portrait 
of  Judge  Thacher  belongs  to  a  granddaughter,  Miss  Thacher,  of  Roxbury,  Massachusetts. 
Another  copy  of  the  same  portrait  belongs  to  a  grandson,  J.  H.  Thacher,  of  Portsmouth,  New 
Hampshire,  and  another  copy  was  in  Akron.  Ohio.  James  Thacher,  grandnephew,  and  Peter 
Thacher,  of  Boston,  own  small  lithographs  of  the  Williams  portrait  of  George  Thacher, 
marked  "  L.  Grozelier,  Lith.,  Boston." 

Thomson,  Charles. — Among  the  portraits  of  Charles  Thomson  are  a  drawing  by  Du 
Simitiere,3  and  paintings  by  Otis,  Trumbull,  Savage,  and  C.  W.  Peale.  Peale  painted  at  least 
two  portraits  of  Thomson,  one  of  which  was  in  Peale's  Museum  in  Philadelphia  in  1795,4 


1  The  artist,  Henry  Williams,  painted  in  oil  and  miniature  in  Boston,  his  studio  being  at  No.  6  School  Street. — (Dunlap's 
"  History  of  the  Arts  of  Design,"  vol.  ii,  p.  263.)  Williams  painted  a  good  portrait  of  Isaiah  Thomas,  founder  of  the 
American  Antiquarian  Society. 

■  Peter  Thacher  says  that  Judge  Thacher  gave  the  portrait  to  his  nephew,  Thomas  Thacher,  a  Boston  merchant,  who  gave 
it  to  the  present  owners.  3  See  "  Notes  on  Portraits  "  of  John  Jay. 

4  Catalogue  of  "  List  of  Portraits  in  Peale's  Collection  of  Paintings,  Philadelphia,  1795,"  owned  by  the  Historical  Society  of 
Pennsylvania. 


534      THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


and  two  were  sold  at  auction  at  the  Pcale  sale  in  1854/  one  of  which  is  owned  by  the  city 
of  Philadelphia,  and  deposited  in  Independence  Hall  (old  State-House).  Another  portrait 
of  Thomson  was  in  Peale's  Museum,  Baltimore,  and  was  given  by  Peale's  son,  Franklin 
Pcale,  manager  of  the  Baltimore  Museum,  to  the  Maryland  Historical  Society.2  An  etching 
of  the  Pcale  portrait  of  Thomson  was  made  by  H  B.  Hall  in  1871  for  some  Philadelphia 
gentlemen.  Portraits  of  Charles  Thomson  also  appear  in  the  historical  paintings  entitled  : 
"Signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence,"  one  painted  by  Trumbull  and  owned  by  Yale 
University,  a  replica  of  which  is  in  the  Capitol  at  Washington,  and  the  other  painted  by 
Edward  Savage  and  owned  by  the  Boston  Museum.  Bass  Otis  painted  a  portrait  of 
Charles  Thomson  for  Joseph  Delaplaine,  which  was  exhibited  in  Philadelphia  in  181  7,  at  the 
Pennsylvania  Academy  of  the  Fine  Arts. 

Toppan,  Colonel  Christopher. — (See  "  Notes  on  Portraits  "  of  Paine  Wingate.) 

Trumbull,  Faith. — Faith  Trumbull's3  uncle,  the  artist  John  Trumbull,  painted  in  1777 
a  portrait  of  his  niece,  in  which  she  appears  as  a  little  girl  with  her  father  and  mother,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Jonathan  Trumbull.4  Trumbull  also  painted  in  1791  an  oil-miniature  of  Faith 
Trumbull,  which  represents  her  at  the  age  of  twenty-two ;  it  is  owned  by  Yale  Univer- 
sity. In  1788,  or  three  years  before  the  miniature  was  painted,  Dr.  Mason  F.  Cogswell,  of 
Hartford,  at  that  time  a  young  man,  visited  Lebanon,  Connecticut,  and  speaks  as  follows5 
regarding  Faith  Trumbull :  "  Miss  Trumbull  made  us  happy  an  hour  or  so  with  her  com- 
pany. Her  person  is  elegant,  though  small ;  her  countenance  agreeably  expressive,  and  what 
is  generally  called  handsome.  Her  first  appearance  is  much  in  her  favor.  I  will  wait  till  I 
see  her  again  before  I  say  anything  more  about  her.  .  .  .  We  walked,  or  rather  waded,  over 
to  Colonel  Trumbull's,  and  sat  and  chatted  an  hour  with  him  ;  Mrs.  Trumbull  and  Faithy 
all  agreeable,  the  former  peculiarly  so,  and  the  appearance  of  the  latter,  though  reserved, 
such  as  inspires  you  with  a  desire  of  becoming  intimately  acquainted."  Prof.  Oliver  P. 
Hubbard,  of  New  York,  whose  late  wife  was  a  niece  of  Faith  Trumbull  (Mrs.  Daniel  Wads- 
worth),  owns  a  cabinet-size  portrait  of  her  at  the  age  of  thirty-three,  painted  in  1802  by 
Tisdale,0  of  Lebanon,  Connecticut.  It  is  a  companion  picture  to  the  portrait  of  Faith 
Trumbull's  sister  Harriet  (Mrs.  Hubbard's  mother),  afterward  Mrs.  Prof.  Benjamin  Silliman, 
Sr.,  of  New  Haven.    Mrs.  B.  F.  D.  Adams,  of  Colorado  Springs,  Colorado,  owns  a  portrait 


1  Catalogue.  a  Cf.  *'  Notes  on  Portraits  "  of  John  Jay. 

3  Faith  Trumbull,  afterward  Mrs.  Daniel  Wadsworth,  and  the  eldest  daughter  of  Jonathan  Trumbull,  Jr.,  was  born 
February  I,  1767,  and  died  October  19,  1846.  When  Jonathan  Trumbull's  name  is  mentioned,  the  member  of  Congress  in 
1789  and  the  son  of  "Brother  Jonathan,"  the  Revolutionary  war  Governor,  is  referred  to. 

'  See  "  Notes  on  Portraits  "  of  Jonathan  Trumbull. 

6  From  the  "  Diary  of  Dr.  Mason  F.  Cogswell,"  of  Hartford,  who  graduated  from  Yale  College  in  1780,  and  died  December 
17.  1830,  which  is  quoted  in  a  paper  read  at  a  meeting  of  the  New  Haven  Colony  Historical  Society,  March  8,  1879,  by  Rev. 
Leonard  Bacon,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  of  Yale  College. — ("  New-Englander,"  January,  1882,  pp.  21,  22.) 

c  Cf.  "  Reminiscences  of  His  Own  Times,"  by  Colonel  J.  Trumbull,  p.  15. 


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of  Faith  Trumbull  when,  as  Mrs.  Daniel  Wadsworth,  she  was  quite  an  old  lady.  There  is  a 
copy,  by  Henry  Bryant,  of  the  Trumbull  miniature  of  Faith  Trumbull  in  the  Wadsworth 
Gallery,  Hartford. 

Trumbull,  Jonathan. — The  artist,  John  Trumbull,  was  twenty-one  years  old  when 
he  painted  the  family  group,  consisting  of  his  brother,  Jonathan  Trumbull,  member  from 
Connecticut  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  and  the  hitter's  wife  and  eldest 
daughter  Faith.  The  portrait  is  four  feet  by  three  feet,  and  was  painted  in  1777  at  Leba- 
non, Connecticut.1  The  ivory  miniature  of  Jonathan  Trumbull  was  painted  by  Archi- 
bald Robertson  in  Philadelphia  in  1 791-93,  when  Trumbull  was  Speaker  of  the  House  of 
Representatives.  These  two  portraits  are  now  owned  by  Prof.  Oliver  P.  Hubbard  and 
by  Trumbull's  great-grandchildien  in  New  York,  the  heirs  of  his  granddaughter,  Mrs.  Prof. 
Oliver  P.  Hubbard  (born  Faith  Wadsworth  Silliman).  A  painting  after  the  Robertson 
miniature,  by  Henry  L.  Thompson,  hangs  in  the  Capitol  at  Washington  among  the  ex- 
Speakers  of  the  House  of  Representatives.  The  oil-miniature  owned  by  Vale  Univer- 
sity was  painted  by  John  Trumbull  in  1 792  ;  and  another  miniature  by  the  same  artist  is 
owned  by  a  grandnephew,  Dr.  John  McClellan,  of  Woodstock,  Connecticut.  The  portrait 
owned  by  Mrs.  Harriet  C.  Stickney  (born  Trumbull),  a  grandniece,  was  painted  by  Thomas 
Sully  in  1807,  less  than  two  years  before  Trumbull's  death.2  A  copy  of  the  Sully  portrait 
is  in  the  Wadsworth  Gallery,  Hartford,  and  another  copy,  by  Hunt,  is  owned  by  a  great- 
grandson,  Benjamin  Silliman,  of  Yonkers,  New  York.  The  copy  in  the  State-House,  Hart- 
ford, was  made  after  the  Sully  portrait  by  the  late  George  F.  Wright. 

Trumbull,  Mrs.  Jonathan. — Of  the  portraits  of  Mrs.  Jonathan  Trumbull  (born  Eunice 
Backus),  wife  of  Jonathan  Trumbull,  member  from  Connecticut  of  the  First  Congress  under 
the  Constitution,  one  was  painted  by  Mrs.  Trumbull's  brother-in-law,  the  artist  John  Trum- 
bull, in  1777.  This  portrait  represents  a  family  group,  consisting  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jona- 
than Trumbull  and  their  daughter  Faith,  afterward  Mrs.  Daniel  Wadsworth,  and  is  owned 
in  New  York  by  the  heirs  of  Mrs.  Jonathan  Trumbull's  granddaughter,  Mrs.  Faith  Wads- 
worth Silliman  Hubbard.  John  Trumbull  painted,  in  1793,  another  portrait  of  his  sister- 
in-law,  Mrs.  Jonathan  Trumbull,  which  is  an  oil-miniature,  owned  by  Yale  University.  This 
portrait,  which  can  not  represent  Mrs.  Jonathan  Trumbull,  Sr.  (born  Faith  Robinson),  as 
she  died  in  1 780,  or  thirteen  years  before  the  miniature  was  painted,  is  thus  described  by 
Mrs.  Henrietta  Silliman  Dana,  the  wife  of  Prof.  James  D.  Dana,  of  Yale  University  :  "  I  have 
before  me  a  Bible  formerly  belonging  to  the  second  Governor  Trumbull,  my  grandfather, 
from  which  these  words  are  taken:  'Jonathan  Trumbull,  Jr.,  born  March  26,  1740,  mar- 


1  "  Reminiscences  of  His  Own  Times,"  by  Colonel  J.  Trumbull,  p.  60. 

2  Miss  Blanche  Sully,  of  Philadelphia,  the  artist's  daughter,  finds  reference  to  this  portrait  in  her  father's  "  Journal  "  as 
having  been  finished  October  13,  1807. 


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ricd  to  Eunice  Backus  (born  Aug.,  17491),  March  26,  1767.'  You  are  therefore  correct 
in  saying  that  this  lady  was  forty-four  years  of  age  at  the  time  that  this  miniature  was 
painted.  Certainly  she  looks  older,  but  this  is  largely  the  effect  of  the  cap.  If  you  will 
cover  the  cap  so  as  to  show  only  the  face,  you  will  see  that  it  does  not  look  too  old  for  the 
above-named  age.  The  only  other  Mrs.  Trumbull  of  that  date  was  her  sister,  Sarah  Backus, 
the  wife  of  David  Trumbull,  brother  of  Jonathan,  the  second  Governor  Trumbull.  She 
was  bom  in  1  759,  and  consequently  was  then  thirty-four  years  of  age.  I  feel  entirely  satis- 
fied that  the  picture  you  send  represents  my  grandmother."  Jonathan  Trumbull,  of  Nor- 
wich, Connecticut,  a  great-grandnephew  of  Mrs.  Jonathan  Trumbull,  Jr.,  also  says:  "The 
picture,  as  I  remember  it,  looks  rather  old  for  a  woman  of  forty-four,  but  that  may  be  due 
to  the  style  of  dress,  which,  if  adopted  by  a  woman  of  that  age,  would  certainly  give  her  an 
older  appearance  than  the  present  style  gives  to  the  dames  of  to-day."  A  granddaughter 
of  the  Mrs.  David  Trumbull  above  referred  to,  Mrs.  S.  B.  Ripley,  of  Pomfret  Centre,  Con- 
necticut, says :  "  There  seems  to  me  to  be  a  resemblance  between  this  miniature  and  the  pict- 
ure of  Mrs.  Jonathan  Trumbull,  Sr.,  in  '  The  Life  of  Trumbull,'  by  Stuart ;  also  to  a  cabinet 
portrait  in  the  possession  of  Dr.  John  McClellan,  of  Woodstock,  Connecticut.  I  am  myself 
the  owner  of  a  lovely  miniature  of  the  first  Mrs.  Governor  Jonathan  Trumbull,  evidently 
taken  in  her  youth."  No  evidence,  however,  has  been  found  to  show  that  the  miniature  is 
that  of  any  other  person  than  Mrs.  Jonathan  Trumbull,  Jr.  No  other  portraits  of  Mrs. 
Jonathan  Trumbull  could  be  found  which  were  painted  at  about  the  time  the  above- 
described  oil-miniature  was  painted,  which  is  owned  by  Yale  University. 

Tucker,  Thomas  Tudor. — The  only  known  portrait  of  Thomas  Tudor  Tucker  is  the 
one  by  St.  Memin,  made  in  1805,  an  original  crayon  drawing  of  which  is  owned  by  his 
grandniece,  Mrs.  Cynthia  Beverley  Tucker  Coleman,  of  Williamsburg,  Virginia,  and  an 
engraving  on  copper  of  which  is  owned  by  the  Corcoran  Gallery  of  Art,  in  Washington,  and 
also  by  Edward  Dexter,  of  New  York.  Mrs.  Coleman  also  has  a  small  St.  Memin  engraving 
similar  to  the  one  in  Washington.  The  original  crayon  drawing  of  Tucker  was  given  by 
him  to  the  family  named  Dashiell,  with  whom  Tucker,  as  Secretary  of  the  Treasury,  boarded 
while  living  in  Washington.  A  son,  Rev.  Mr.  Dashiell,  gave  the  crayon  to  the  present  owner, 
because  she  was  Tucker's  grandniece. 

Van  Cortlandt,  Lieutenant-Governor  Pierre. — The  portrait  by  John  W.  Jarvis  of 
Pierre  Van  Cortlandt,  Lieutenant-Governor  of  the  State  of  New  York  in  1789,  is  owned  by 
his  great-grandson,  James  Stevenson  Van  Cortlandt,  of  the  Manor-House,  Croton-on-Hudson, 
ew  \  ork.    Lieutenant-Governor  Van  Cortlandt  was  the  grandson  of  Stephanus,  the  first 
lord  of  the  Manor  of  Cortlandt,  who  was  the  son  of  Oloff,  the  first  of  the  family  to  come  to 


'She  died  February  3,  1826,  in  New  Haven,  at  the  house  of  Prof.  Benjamin  Silliman. 


NOTES  ON  PORTRAITS. 


537 


this  country.  Lieutenant-Governor  Pierre  Van  Cortlandt  married  his  second  cousin  Joanna 
Livingston.  The  portrait  above  referred  to  descended  to  their  son  General  Pierre  Van  Cort- 
landt;  thence  to  the  only  son  of  the  last  named,  also  named  Pierre  Van  Cortlandt,  the  father 
of  the  present  owner.  There  is  also  at  the  Manor-House  a  full-length  portrait  of  Lieutenant- 
Governor  Pierre  Van  Cortlandt,  taken  when  he  was  ten  or  twelve  years  of  age  by  an  unknown 
artist.  St.  Memin  made,  in  i  796,  a  crayon  drawing  of  Lieutenant-Governor  Van  Cortlandt, 
engravings  on  copper  of  which  are  owned  by  the  Corcoran  Gallery  of  Art,  Washington,  and 
by  Edward  Dexter,  of  New  York. 

Van  Horn,  Major  David. — The  only  known  portrait  of  Major  David  Van  Horn,  aide- 
de-camp  to  Colonel  Morgan  Lewis  at  Washington's  inauguration,  is  the  one  owned  by 
Charles  I  sham,  the  Librarian  of  the  New  York  Historical  Society.  William  Kelby,  the 
assistant  librarian,  says  that  the  portrait  was  probably  painted  by  William  Dunlap. 

Van  Rensselaer,  Jeremiah. — There  is  no  portrait  of  Jeremiah  Van  Rensselaer,  member 
from  New  York  of  the  First  Congress  of  the  United  States  under  the  Constitution.  There  is 
a  portrait  by  the  artist  J.  W.  Jarvis,  which  belongs  to  Miss  Catherine  Van  Rensselaer,  of 
Albany  (Greenbush  Post  Office),  New  York,  which  it  has  been  stated  is  a  portrait  of  Jere- 
miah Van  Rensselaer,  member  of  Congress  in  1  789,  but  it  is  a  portrait  of  another  member  of 
the  Van  Rensselaer  family,  whose  name  was  John  Jeremiah  Van  Rensselaer,  who  was  born 
December  10,  1782,  and  died  in  1828.  Miss  Catherine  Van  Rensselaer  also  owns  a  portrait 
of  Jeremiah  Van  Rensselaer,  who  was  born  in  1738,  married  Judith  Bayard,  and  died  in 
Charleston,  South  Carolina,  in  1764.  This  man  was  the  father  of  John  Jeremiah  Van  Rens- 
selaer, and,  of  course,  was  not  the  member  of  Congress  in  1789.  In  fact,  a  most  thorough 
search  for  the  portrait  of  the  member  of  Congress  has  been  made,  but  without  success. 

Varick,  Richard. —  Ralph  Earle  painted,  in  1  79 1 ,  a  portrait  of  Richard  Varick,  Recorder 
of  the  City  of  New  York  in  1789,  which  is  owned  by  Varick's  grandnephew,  Richard  Varick 
De  Witt,  of  Albany,  New  York.  The  badge  of  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati  is  worn  by 
Varick  in  the  portrait.  Another  portrait  of  Richard  Varick,  which  his  grandnephew,  Mr.  De 
Witt,  owns,  was  painted  by  Henry  Inman  in  1829,  when  Varick  was  seventy-six  years  old. 
Mr.  De  Witt  says  of  this  portrait :  "  My  father  always  said  that  after  he  had  brought 
In  man's  remarkable  ability  into  notice,  by  employing  him  instead  of  his  master — Jarvis 
— to  paint  the  portrait  I  possess,  other  relatives  of  the  colonel  employed  him  to  paint  like- 
nesses of  the  colonel.  My  father  '  discovered'  Inman,  so  to  speak,  and  I  am  certain  that  my 
portrait  of  Colonel  Varick  was  the  first  painting  ever  made  of  him  by  Inman.  When  this 
portrait  was  exhibited  in  New  York,  it  attracted  the  notice  of  all  judges  of  painting  to 
Inman."1    Another  portrait  of  Colonel  Richard  Varick  by  Inman,  with  the  Cincinnati  badge 


1  From  memorandum  made  by  the  father  of  Richard  Varick  De  Witt. 
69 


538       THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


on  the  coat,  is  owned  by  Varick's  great-grandnephew,  John  B.  Varick,  of  Manchester,  New 
I  [ampshire.  Henry  Inman  received  a  thousand  dollars1  for  the  full-length  portrait  of  Richard 
Varick,  representing  Yarick  standing,  with  paper  in  hand,  and  the  badge  of  the  Cincinnati  on 
the  lapel  of  his  coat.  Varick  gave  this  portrait  to  the  American  Bible  Society,  of  which  he 
was  the  third  president,  and  it  was  exhibited  at  the  National  Academy  of  Design  in  1832,  the 
year  after  Varick's  death.  This  portrait  was  also  exhibited  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  of  1889 
(No.  204),  and  now  hangs  in  the  Directors'  Room  in  the  Bible  House,  New  York.  Still 
another  portrait  in  oil  of  Richard  Varick  by  Henry  Inman  is  owned  by  Miss  Maria  Antoi- 
nette Varick  and  her  sister,  Miss  Julia  Clinton  Varick,  of  New  York.  Another  portrait  of 
Varick,  either  a  copy  or  the  work  of  an  unknown  artist,  is  owned  by  the  city  of  New  York, 
and  deposited  in  the  Mayor's  office,  City  Hall.  A  steel  engraving  by  H.  B.  Hall  of  the 
portrait  last  named  appears  in  John  Schuyler's  "  Society  of  the  Cincinnati  in  New  York."2 
At  the  Washington  Headquarters  at  Morristown,  New  Jersey,  is  an  Inman  portrait  of 
Richard  Varick,  the  gift  of  Varick's  grandnephew,  Colonel  Richard  Varick. 

Vining,  John,  and  Mrs.  Vining  (born  Anna  Maria  Seaton). — Watson  R.  Sperry,  of 
Wilmington,  Delaware,  writes  of  the  portrait  of  John  Vining,  member  from  Delaware 
of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution:  "In  the  painting,  Vining  wears  a  grayish- 
blue  coat,  white  satin  waistcoat  with  heavy  lids  to  pockets,  and  his  hair  is  tied  in  a  queue. 
The  portraits  [of  John  Vining  and  wife]  were  given  away  long  ago  by  one  of  the  Ridgelys ; 
but  Mrs.  Charles  I.  (Ann  Ridgely)  Du  Pont,  of  Wilmington,  discovered  them  in  Phila- 
delphia, and  purchased  them  and  had  them  restored.  Mrs.  Du  Pont  says  that  it  has  been 
handed  down  as  a  tradition  in  the  Ridgely  family,  partly  because  of  the  blue  scarf  which 
appears  in  the  portrait  of  Mrs.  Vining,  that  the  portraits  were  painted  by  Gilbert  Stuart." 
The  dress,  however,  shows  that  they  were  painted  before  1792,  when  Stuart  returned  to  the 
United  States.3 

Wadsworth,  Catharine. — The  artist  John  Trumbull  painted  in  1792  the  oil-miniature 
owned  by  Yale  University  of  Catharine  Wadsworth,  daughter  of  Colonel  Jeremiah  Wads- 
worth  and  afterward  wife  of  General  Nathaniel  Terry.  The  late  Dr.  Leonard  Bacon,  of  New 
Haven,  thus  speaks  of  Catharine  Wadsworth's  portrait:4  "  Her  miniature  is  one  of  the  five 
which  I  have  mentioned,  being  directly  under  her  sister's  ;  and  it  shows  that  when  she  was  in 
her  eighteenth  year  her  face,  still  indicative  of  a  good  heart,  was  in  the  full  bloom  of  beauty  ; 
and  on  the  wall  of  an  apartment  in  my  house  is  a  portrait5  (copied  from  the  original  by 
Sully)  which  shows  what  she  was  when  '  a  few  more  years,'  without  effacing  the  glow 
of  maiden  beauty,  had  blended  with  it  the  charm  of  matronly  dignity  and  grace."  Dr. 


1  Tuckerman's  "Book  of  the  Artists,"  p.  236.  5  Page  331.  '  Charles  Henry  Hart. 

'  A  paper  entitled  "Old  Times  in  Connecticut,"  read  before  the  New  Haven  Colony  Historical  Society,  March  8,  1879, 
by  Rev.  Leonard  Bacon,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  of  Yale  College. — ("  New-Englander,"  January,  1882,  p.  15.) 
t  Now  owned  by  Ur.  Bacon's  daughter.  Mrs.  Henry  B.  Closson,  of  Orange,  New  Jersey. 


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539 


Cogswell,  who  visited  Catharine  Wadsworth  three  years  hefore  the  miniature  was  painted, 
speaks  of  her  as  follows:1  "Caty  is  her  younger  sister,  with  a  face  as  indicative  of  a  good 
heart  as  a  lamb's  is  of  meekness.  She  seems  to  possess  all  the  virtues  of  her  sister,  but 
they  are  of  a  younger  growth.  She  wants  a  little  of  that  grace  which  enables  Harriet  to  do 
everything  to  advantage  ;  and  a  few  more  years  will  probably  add  to  the  list  of  her  agree- 
ables."  Mrs.  B.  F.  D.  Adams,  granddaughter,  of  Colorado  Springs,  Colorado,  also  has  a 
miniature  of  Catharine  Wadsworth,  taken  by  Trumbull,  which  belonged  to  her  great-uncle. 
Daniel  Wadsworth,  the  brother  of  Catharine  Wadsworth.  In  the  Wadsworth  Gallery, 
Hartford,  Connecticut,  is  a  copy  of  a  portrait  of  Catharine  Wadsworth.  The  original 
portrait  of  Catharine  Wadsworth,  referred  to  by  Dr.  Bacon,  was  painted  by  Thomas 
Sully  in  1807,  and  is  owned  by  a  grandson,  Rev.  Richard  B.  Post,  of  Hoboken,  New 
Jersey. 

Wadsworth,  Daniel. — Besides  the  portrait  of  Daniel  Wadsworth  by  Trumbull,  which 
is  owned  by  his  granddaughter,  Mrs.  B.  F.  D.  Adams,  of  Colorado  Springs,  Colorado,  '  there 
is  another  portrait,  owned  by  Alfred  T.  Bacon,  of  Greeley,  Colorado. 

Wadsworth,  Mrs.  Daniel  (born  Faith  Trumbull). — (See  "Notes  on  Portraits"  of 
Faith  Trumbull.) 

Wadsworth,  Harriet. — In  1791,  when  Harriet  Wadsworth,  the  daughter  of  Colonel 
Jeremiah  Wadsworth,  was  twenty-two,  an  oil-miniature  of  her  was  painted  by  John  Trum- 
bull, which  is  now  owned  by  Vale  University.  This  miniature  is  thus  described  by  the 
late  Rev.  Dr.  Leonard  Bacon,  of  New  Haven  : 3  "  We  will  pause  a  moment  before  this 
pen-portrait.  Among  the  Trumbull  pictures  in  the  School  of  Fine  Arts,  there  are  five 
miniatures  of  ladies  in  one  frame — No.  22.  The  date  is  1 79 1 ,  three  years  later  than  the 
date  of  this  journal.  The  first  of  the  five  is  Harriet  Wadsworth,  and  the  painter  has  made 
her  countenance — I  will  not  say  an  ideal  beauty,  but  beautiful  as  well  as  beautifully  express- 
ive. Perhaps  affection  added  something  of  poetry  to  the  likeness,  for  the  family  tradition 
is  that  the  painter  was  her  lover."  Dr.  Bacon's  son,  Rev.  Thomas  R.  Bacon,  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  California,  adds :  "  The  Trumbull  miniatures  of  Harriet  Wadsworth  do  not  alto- 
gether bear  out  the  family  tradition  of  her  extraordinary  beauty,  although  painted  by  the 
hand  of  her  lover."  Mrs.  B.  F.  D.  Adams,  of  Colorado  Springs,  Colorado,  a  grandniece 
of  Harriet  Wadsworth,  owns  a  profile  portrait  of  her ;  and  there  is  a  copy  of  a  portrait 
in  the  Wadsworth  Gallery,  Hartford,  Connecticut.  Harriet  Wadsworth  died  of  consumption 
in  the  island  of  Bermuda  in  1793,  aged  twenty-four. 


1  "  Diary  of  Dr.  Mason  F.  Cogswell,"  in  the  "  New-Englander,"  January,  1882.  p.  15.— (See  foot-note  to  "  Notes  on  Por- 
traits" of  Miss  Faith  Trumbull.) 

1  See  "  Notes  on  Portraits  "  of  Jeremiah  Wadsworth. 
3  "  Old  Times  in  Connecticut."  page  538,  foot-note. 


540       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 

Wadsworth,  Jeremiah. — The  portrait  of  Jeremiah  Wadsworth,  member  from  Connecti- 
cut of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  and  of  his  son  Daniel,  was  painted  by 
the  artist  John  Trumbull  in  London,  in  1784,  and  belongs  to  a  great-granddaughter,  Mrs. 
B.  F.  D.  Adams,  of  Colorado  Springs,  Colorado.  The  portrait  is  thus  described  by  the 
artist  himself:1  "In  the  early  part  of  my  studies,  in  1784,  my  friend  Colonel  Wadsworth 
and  his  son  were  in  London,  and  I  was  desired  to  paint  their  portraits.  I  attempted  it— 
the  father  dressed  in  gray  cloth,  sitting,  the  son  leaning  on  his  shoulder — small,  whole-length 
figures.  This  picture  still  exists,  in  possession  of  Mrs.  Terry,  of  Hartford,  the  daughter  of 
the  former  and  sister  of  the  latter  of  these  two  gentlemen,  and  is,  in  truth,  bad  enough. 
I  had  the  vanity,  however,  to  take  it  to  show  to  Sir  Joshua  Reynolds.  The  moment  he 
saw  it  he  said,  in  a  sharp,  quick  tone :  '  That  coat  is  bad,  sir — very  bad  ;  it  is  not  eloth  ;  it  is 
tin — bent  tin.'  The  criticism  was  but  too  true,  but  its  severity  wounded  my  pride,  and  I 
answered  (taking  up  the  picture) :  '  I  did  not  bring  this  thing  to  you,  Sir  Joshua,  merely 
to  be  told  that  it  is  bad.  I  was  conscious  of  that :  and  how  could  it  be  otherwise,  consid- 
ering the  short  time  I  have  studied?  I  had  a  hope,  sir,  that  you  would  kindly  have  pointed 
out  to  me  how  to  correct  mv  errors.'  I  bowed  and  withdrew,  and  was  cautious  not  again 
to  expose  my  imperfect  works  to  the  criticism  of  Sir  Joshua."  A  copy  of  this  portrait  of 
Wadsworth  and  son,  and  also  a  copy  by  Henry  Bryant  of  the  portrait  of  Wadsworth  alone, 
is  in  the  Wadsworth  Gallery,  in  Hartford,  Connecticut.  Rev.  Richard  B.  Post,  of  Hobokcn, 
New  Jersey,  owns  a  miniature  of  his  great-grandfather,  Colonel  Jeremiah  Wadsworth.  An- 
other portrait  of  Wadsworth  is  the  colored  crayon  drawing  by  James  Sharpless  in  the  pos- 
session of  Charles  A.  Brinley,  a  great-grandson,  of  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania.  Mrs.  Eugene 
Smith,  of  New  York,  a  descendant,  also  owns  a  portrait. 

Wadsworth,  Mrs.  Jeremiah. — A  portrait  of  Mrs.  Jeremiah  Wadsworth,  the  wife  of  the 
member  from  Connecticut  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  was  painted  by 
Thomas  Sully  in  1807,  and  is  owned  by  Charles  A.  Brinley,  great-grandson,  of  Philadelphia. 
A  copy  by  Henry  Bryant  is  in  the  Wadsworth  Gallery,  in  Hartford,  Connecticut.  Mr.  Brin- 
ley says:  "  Mrs.  Jeremiah  Wadsworth  was  Mehitabel  Russell.  She  was  born  in  1735,  and 
died  March  26,  181 7.  Her  father  was  the  Rev.  William  Russell,  of  Middletown,  Connecti- 
cut, and  her  grandfather  Rev.  Noadiah  Russell  (Harvard,  1681).  Her  mother  was  Mary 
Pierpont,  daughter  of  Rev.  James  Pierpont,  one  of  the  founders  of  Vale  College.  Her  ma- 
ternal grandmother  was  Mary  Hooker,  daughter  of  Rev.  Samuel  Hooker,  and  granddaughter 
of  Rev.  Thomas  Hooker,  first  minister  of  Hartford."  Rev.  Thomas  R.  Bacon,  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  California,  a  descendant,  owns  a  miniature  of  Mrs.  Wadsworth  in  her  old  age. 

Walker,  John. — There  is  no  portrait  of  John  Walker,  member  from  Virginia  of  the  bust 
Congress  under  the  Constitution.    Dr.  Thomas  Addis  Emmet,  of  New  York,  could  find  no 


'  "  Reminiscences  of  His  Own  Times"  (from  1756  to  1841),  by  Colonel  J.  Trumbull,  pp.  91,  92. 


NOTES  ON  PORTRAITS.  541 

trace  of  a  portrait  of  John  Walker  several  years  ago,  when  he  made  a  thorough  investigation. 
A  second  investigation  has  also  failed  to  discover  such  a  portrait. 

Washington,  George.— The  portraits  of  George  Washington1  reproduced  in  this  vol- 
ume are : 

1.  By  C.  W.  Peale,  1772,  owned  by  General  G  W.  C.  Lee,  of  I  ^exington,  Virginia 

2.  Miniature  by  C.  W.  Peale,  1777,  in  the  Huntington  Collection,  owned  by  the  Metro- 
politan Museum  of  Art,  New  York  (Loan  Exhibition,  No.  7). 

3.  By  C.  W.  Peale,  1784,  owned  by  Princeton  College  (Loan  Exhibition,  No.  11). 

4.  By  C.  W.  Peale,  owned  by  Miss  J.  J.  Boudinot,  of  Bernardsville,  New  Jersey  (Loan 
Exhibition,  No.  13). 

5.  Miniature  by  C.  W.  Peale,  1785,  owned  by  Mrs.  John  P.  C.  Foster,  of  New  Haven, 
Connecticut  (Loan  Exhibition,  No.  10). 

6.  By  C.  W.  Peale.  1787,  owned  by  Mrs.  Joseph  Harrison,  of  Philadelphia  (Loan  Ex- 
hibition, No.  9). 

7.  By  C.  W.  Peale,  1795,  owned  by  New  York  Historical  Society. 

8.  Miniature  by  James  Peale,  1782,  owned  by  Durant  da  Ponte,  of  New  Orleans,  Lou- 
isiana (Loan  Exhibition,  No.  16). 

9.  Miniature  by  James  Peale,  1788,  owned  by  the  Artillery  Corps,  Washington  Grays, 
of  Philadelphia  (Loan  Exhibition,  No.  15). 

10.  By  James  Peale,  owned  by  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  and  deposited  in  Independence 
Hall. 

11.  By  R.  E.  Pine,  1785,  owned  by  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  and  deposited  in  the  Na- 
tional Museum  (old  State-House). 

12.  Miniature  by  John  Ramage,  1789,  owned  by  Mrs.  M.  S.  Beach,  of  Peekskill,  New 
York  (Loan  Exhibition,  No.  22). 

13.  Miniature  by  Archibald  Robertson,  1791-92,  owned  by  Mrs.  S.  M.  Mygatt,  of 
Brooklyn,  and  Mrs.  C.  W.  Darling,  of  Utica,  New  York  (Loan  Exhibition,  No.  23). 

14.  Miniature  by  Walter  Robertson,  1794,  owned  by  Edmund  Law  Rogers,  of  Balti- 
more, Maryland  (Loan  Exhibition,  No.  24). 

15.  By  Edward  Savage,  1790,  owned  by  Henry  Adams,  of  Washington,  D.  C.  (Loan 
Exhibition,  No.  26). 

16.  By  Edward  Savage,  1790,  owned  by  Harvard  University. 

17.  Miniature,  "  W.  V.,"  owned  by  John  C.  Jay,  of  Rye,  New  York  (Loan  Exhibition, 
No.  42). 

18.  By  Joseph  Wright,  1790,  owned  by  G.  L.  McKean,  of  Chicago,  Illinois  (Loan  Ex- 
hibition, No.  43). 


1  Cf.  Miss  Elizabeth  Bryant  Johnston's  "  Original  Portraits  of  Washington  " ;  William  S.  Baker's  "  Engraved  Portraits  of 
Washington";  and  Winsor's  "Narrative  and  Critical  History  of  America,"  vol.  vii,  pp.  562  582. 


THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


19.  By  Joseph  Wright,  1790,  owned  by  Clarence  Winthrop  Bowen,  of  Brooklyn,  New 
York  (Loan  Exhibition,  No.  44). 

20.  By  John  Trumbull,  1  790,  owned  by  Edmund  Law  Rogers,  of  Baltimore,  Maryland, 
(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  38). 

21.  By  John  Trumbull,  1792  (full-length),  owned  by  Yale  University. 

22.  By  John  Trumbull,  1793  (bust),  owned  by  Yale  University. 

23.  By  Gilbert  Stuart,  1795,  owned  by  Mrs.  Joseph  Harrison,  of  Philadelphia  (Loan 
Exhibition,  No.  30). 

24.  By  Gilbert  Stuart,  owned  by  S.  P.  Avery,  of  New  York  (Loan  Exhibition,  No.  31). 

25.  A  miniature  by  Robert  Field,  1800,  after  Gilbert  Stuart,  owned  by  Mrs.  Louise  Lear 
Eyre,  of  Philadelphia  (Loan  Exhibition  No.  2). 

26.  By  Gilbert  Stuart,  1 796,  owned  by  the  Pennsylvania  Academy  of  the  Fine  Arts. 

27.  By  Gilbert  Stuart,  owned  by  Henry  E.  Pierrepont,  of  Brooklyn,  New  York  (Loan 
Exhibition,  No.  32). 

28.  By  Gilbert  Stuart,  1 796,  owned  by  the  Boston  Athenaeum,  and  deposited  in  the 
Museum  of  Fine  Arts,  Boston. 

29.  By  Gilbert  Stuart,  owned  by  Thomas  Jefferson  Coolidge,  of  Boston. 

30.  By  St.  Memin,  1 798,  owned  by  Mrs.  Cooper  Smith,  of  Philadelphia  (Loan  Exhi- 
bition, No.  385). 

31.  By  Giuseppe  Ceracchi,  1792  (bust),  owned  by  the  estate  of  Gouverneur  Kemble, 
and  deposited  in  the  Metropolitan  Museum  of  Art,  New  York  (Loan  Exhibition,  No.  294). 

32.  By  Jean  Antoine  Houdon,  1785  (bust),  owned  by  Hamilton  Fish,  of  New  York 
(Loan  Exhibition,  No.  298). 

33.  By  Jean  Antoine  Houdon  (statue),  owned  by  the  State  of  Virginia,  and  deposited 
at  the  Capitol,  Richmond. 

Of  original  portraits  of  Washington,  Charles  Henry  Hart  says : 

"  In  addition  to  the  portraits  of  George  Washington,  either  original  or  replica,  by  C.  W.  Peale, 
James  Peale,  John  Ramage,  Archibald  Robertson,  Walter  Robertson,  Edward  Savage,  Gilbert  Stuart,  John 
Trumbull,  and  Joseph  Wright,  exhibited  at  the  Loan  Exhibition  in  New  York  in  1889,  particulars  regard- 
ing which  are  given  below,  there  were  made  of  Washington  the  first  portrait  by  C.  W.  Peale  in  1772,  the 
small  study  for  which  belongs  to  Charles  S.  Ogden,  of  Philadelphia,  and  the  finished  picture  to  General 
G.  W.  C.  Lee;  the  Du  Simitiere  profile,  drawn  'in  black  lead-pencil,'  February  1,  1779,  in  Philadelphia,  and 
only  known  by  engravings;  Dunlap's  pastel-portrait,  made  at  Rocky  Hill,  New  Jersey,  in  the  fall  of  1783, 
and  which  belonged,  a  quarter  of  a  century  ago,  to  Dr.  Samuel  C.  Ellis,  of  New  York ;  Joseph  Wright's 
first  portrait,  also  made  at  Rocky  Hill  in  1783,  which  belongs,  the  small  original  study  to  Oliver  Hopkin- 
son,  of  Philadelphia,  a  grandson  of  Francis  Hopkinson,  and  the  large  finished  kit-cat  portrait  to  the 
Powel  family  at  Newport,  Rhode  Island;  Robert  Edge  Pine's  portrait,  1785,  in  the  National  Museum, 
State-House,  Philadelphia;  the  Marchioness  de  Brehan's  profile  en  camaicu,  1789,  belonging  to  Mrs.  F.  T. 
Moorhead,  of  Allegheny,  Pennsylvania;  Giilager's  portrait  of  the  same  year,  belonging  to  Mrs.  Arthur 
Codman,  of  Bristol,  Rhode  Island;  Trumbull's  full-length  of  1792,  and  bust  of  1793,111  the  Trumbull  Gal- 
lery at  Yale  College;  full-length  of  1793,  belonging  to  the  city  of  Charleston,  South  Carolina,  and.  cabinet- 
portrait  of  1794,  in  the  National  Museum  at  Washington;  Williams's  portrait  of  1794,  in  Washington 
Lodge,  No.  22,  of  Alexandria,  Virginia;  Wertmiiller's  portrait  of  1795,  the  original  of  which,  signed  by  the 
artist,  is  claimed  to  belong  to  W.  J.  Dannstrom,  of  Stockholm  ;  James  Peale's  military  portrait,  in  Inde- 


XOTES  OX  PORTRAITS. 


543 


pendence  Hall,  Philadelphia,  and  in  the  Lenox  Library,  New  York,  and  water-color  miniature  profile,  1795, 
belonging  to  the  writer  of  this  note;  Rembrandt  Peale's  portrait  of  1795,  tlle  original  of  which  did  belong, 
in  1876,  to  the  De  Saussure  family  of  South  Carolina;  Stuart's  Athenaeum  head  of  1795;  profile  portrait 
in  pastel,  by  James  Sharpless,  1796,  owned  by  General  G.  W.  C.  Lee,  Lexington,  Virginia;  and  J.  B.  F.  de 
Saint-Memin,  November,  1798,  the  last  known  portrait  of  Washington  from  life,  profile  in  black  crayon, 
did  belong  to  the  late  J.  Carson  Brevoort,  of  Brooklyn.  The  above,  with  those  exhibited,  constitute  all 
the  authentic  known  original  portraits  of  Washington,  unless  we  include  silhouettes  made  by  Miss  De  Hart, 
1785,  and  S.  Folwell,  1795,  and  shadow-profiles  by  S.  Powel,  1796,  and  Eleanor  Custis,  1796.  The  miniatures 
by  William  Birch,  Robert  Field,  Peticolas,  Labatut,  and  Trott,  are  all  copies  from  Stuart,  while  the  oil- 
paintings  by  Charles  Peale  Polk  are  copied  from  his  uncles,  C.  W.  or  James  Peale.  Some  others,  claimed 
to  be  from  life,  are  without 'doubt  apocryphal.  Joseph  Wright,  in  1784,  Houdon,  in  1785,  and  Ceracchi, 
in  1792,  modeled  Washington  from  life.  The  identity  of  the  first  is  uncertain,  but  the  statue  by  Houdon 
at  Richmond,  Virginia,  and  the  bust  by  Ceracchi,  are  well  known  and  justly  esteemed." 

From  the  catalogue  of  the  Loan  Exhibition  are  copied  the  following  corrected  notes 
pertaining  to  the  portraits  of  Washington  above  mentioned.  These  notes  were  prepared 
by  Charles  Henry  Hart,  of  Philadelphia,  a  member  of  the  Art  and  Exhibition  Committee, 
and  an  authority  on  Washington  portraits: 

2.  George  Washington,  by  R.  Field,  after  Gilbert  Stuart's  first  portrait.  Miniature,  bust,  oval,  full 
face  to  right ;  two  and  one  half  by  three  inches.  "  Has  Washington's  hair  in  back,  and  was  given  by  Mrs. 
Washington  to  Colonel  Tobias  Lear,  and  is  now  owned  by  his  granddaughter,"  Mrs.  Louise  Lear  Eyre,  of 
Philadelphia. 

7.  George  Washington,  by  C.  W.  Peale.  Miniature,  oval,  bust,  three  quarters  to  right;  one  and  one 
quarter  by  one  and  one  haif  inches.  This  is  the  miniature  that  was  engraved  by  De  Mare  for  Irving's 
"Life  of  Washington,"  and  was  inscribed  "  Washington  at  the  age  of  twenty-five."  "From  a  miniature  on 
ivory  presented  by  Washington  to  his  niece  Harriet,  and  now  belonging  to  her  daughter's  family."  The 
lettering  on  this  print  undoubtedly  laid  the  foundation  for  the  assumption,  so  widely  accepted,  that  Copley 
painted  Washington  in  1757,  and  that  this  was  the  Copley  miniature.  A  comparison  of  this  miniature 
with  one  by  Copley  plainly  shows  that  it  is  not  the  work  of  that  artist,  and  the  uniform  as  plainly  shows 
that  it  is  of  the  Revolutionary  period.  Rembrandt  Peale  said  it  was  painted  by  his  father  in  1777,  and 
this  is  most  probably  correct,  as  in  that  year  he  painted  Washington  for  Mrs.  Washington.  This  miniature 
did  belong  to  Harriet  Washington,  daughter  of  Samuel,  the  brother  of  George  Washington.  This,  it  is 
hoped,  will  set  at  rest  the  Copley  story— no  authentic  portrait  of  Washington  by  Copley  being  known. 
Owned  by  the  Metropolitan  Museum,  New  York. 

9.  George  Washington,  by  C.  W.  Peale,  1787.  Bust,  three-quarters  to  right;  nineteen  by  twenty-four 
inches.  Engraved  by  the  painter  in  mezzotint.  During  the  sittings  of  the  Convention  to  frame  a  Consti- 
tution for  the  United  States,  Washington  records  in  his  diary  three  sittings  to  Peale,  "  who  wanted  my 
picture  to  make  a  print  or  mezzotinto  by."  From  this  original  picture,  purchased  at  the  Peale  Museum 
sale,  the  etching  by  Max  Rosenthal  has  been  made,  which  is  the  frontispiece  to  this  volume,  and  for  fidelity 
to  the  original  and  beauty  of  execution  is  of  the  highest  merit.  Owned  by  Mrs.  Joseph  Harrison,  of 
Philadelphia. 

10.  George  Washington,  by  C.  W.  Peale,  1785.  Miniature,  full  face,  in  uniform;  one  and  three  eighths 
by  one  and  five  eighths  inches.  "  Given  by  General  Washington  to  Mrs.  Constable,  wife  of  the  original 
owner  of  the  Stuart  portrait  of  Washington,  now  owned  by  Henry  E.  Pierrepont,  Esq.,  of  Brooklyn." 
Owned  by  Mrs.  John  P.  C.  Foster,  of  New  Haven,  Connecticut. 

11.  George  Washington,  by  C.  W.  Peale,  1784.  Full-length,  life-size,  to  left,  in  uniform,  holding  in  right 
hand  an  uplifted  sword ;  to  the  right,  the  death  of  General  Mercer  is  represented  with  attending  surgeon,  and 
standard-bearer  holding  flag  over  Washington ;  to  the  left,  the  battle  of  Princeton,  with  Nassau  Hall  in  the 
background.    Fifty-seven  by  ninety-four  inches.    "This  picture  replaced  a  portrait  of  George  II,  which  was 


544       THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


ruined  by  a  shot  from  the  American  artillery  when  the  British  were  quartered  in  the  college  building." 
Owned  by  Princeton  College. 

13.  George  Washington,  by  C.  \V.  Peale.  Three-quarters  length,  standing,  facing  left,  right  hand  on  hip 
holding  hat,  left  hand  resting  on  a  field-piece,  Nassau  Hall  in  background ;  at  right  of  picture  an  orderly 
holding  a  horse's  head.  Thirty-nine  by  fifty-one  inches.  This  picture  is  a  replica  of  a  portion  of  the  full- 
length  painted  in  1778,  and  has  the  blue  sash,  about  the  meaning  of  which  there  has  been  so  much  fruit- 
less controversy.  Colonel  Asa  Bird  Gardiner  says:  "The  blue  ribband  worn  by  General  Washington, 
and  represented  in  Peale's  portrait,  is  the  designation  which  he  prescribed  for  himself  as  'command 
er-in- chief  '  in  General  Orders.  Major-generals  and  brigadier-generals  of  the  Continental  army  were 
required  to  wear  ribbands  of  different  colors."  Owned  by  Miss  J.  J.  Boudinot,  of  Bernardsville,  New 
Jersey. 

15.  George  Washington,  by  James  Peale,  1788.  Miniature,  oval,  three-quarters  to  right,  flowing  hair,  in 
uniform;  one  and  a  half  by  two  inches.  Engraved  by  H.  B.  Hall.  The  painter  of  this  miniature  was  a 
younger  brother  of  Charles  Willson  Peale,  and,  as  this  work  shows,  the  better  miniaturist  of  the  two.  It 
remained  in  his  possession  and  that  of  his  family  until  purchased  by  the  present  owners.  The  case  has  this 
inscription  :  "This  likeness,  painted  from  life  by  the  late  James  Peale  in  1788,  and  purchased  from  his  son, 
James  Peale,  by  the  Artillery  Corps,  Washington  Grays,  in  1843."  Owned  by  the  Artillery  Corps,  Washington 
Grays,  of  Philadelphia. 

22.  George  Washington,  by  John  Ramage,  1789.  Miniature,  bust,  full  face,  in  uniform,  oval  ;  one  and  a 
half  by  two  inches.  October  3,  1789,  Washington  in  his  diary  records:  "Sat  for  Mr.  Ramage  nearly  two 
hours  to-day,  who  was  drawing  a  miniature  picture  of  me  for  Mrs.  Washington."  This  artist  was  an  Irish- 
man, and  the  principal  miniature-painter  in  New  York  from  1777  until  his  death,  which  occurred  soon  after 
he  painted  the  miniature  of  Washington.    Owned  by  Mrs.  M.  S.  Beach,  of  Peekskill,  New  York. 

23.  George  Washington,  by  Archibald  Robertson,  i79i-'92.  Miniature,  oval,  bust,  three-quarters  to 
right ;  two  by  two  and  a  half  inches.  "  Archibald  Robertson  is  the  Scotch  artist  who  carried  from  David,  Earl 
of  Buchan,  to  Washington  the  gift  of  the  celebrated  box  made  from  the  wood  of  the  oak-tree  which  sheltered 
Sir  William  Wallace  after  his  defeat  at  Falkirk.  Mr.  Robertson  arrived  in  New  York  in  December,  1791,  and 
Washington  sat  to  him  on  the  13th  for  a  miniature  from  which  a  large  picture  was  painted  for  the  Earl  of 
Buchan." — ("The  Century,"  April,  1889.)  Owned  by  granddaughters  of  the  artist,  Mrs.  S.  M.  Mygatt, 
of  Brooklyn,  and  Mrs.  C.  W.  Darling,  of  Uticr.,  New  York. 

24.  George  Washington,  by  Walter  Robertson,  1794.  Miniature,  bust,  three-quarters  to  right,  in  uniform, 
oval ;  two  and  three  eighths  by  three  inches.  Walter  Robertson  was  an  Irishman  who  came  to  this  country 
with  Stuart  in  1793,  and  the  next  year  painted  a  miniature  of  Washington,  which  bears  little  or  no  resemblance 
to  the  other  portraits  of  the  subject,  notwithstanding  the  statement  of  Robert  Field,  who  made  a  contempo- 
raneous but  very  unsatisfactory  engraving  of  it,  that  it  "  is  as  good  a  likeness  and  as  fine  a  piece  of  painting 
as  I  ever  saw."    Owned  by  Edmund  Law  Rogers,  of  Baltimore,  Maryland. 

26.  George  Washington,  by  Edward  Savage.  Bust,  to  right,  in  uniform  ;  twenty-five  by  thirty  inches. 
In  i789-'90  Washington  sat  to  Savage  for  a  portrait  for  Harvard  University,  where  it  now  hangs  in  Memorial 
Hall.  The  present  exhibit  is  a  replica  of  that  portrait,  with  some  variations  in  costume.1  Owned  by  Henry 
Adams,  of  Washington,  D.  C. 

30.  George  Washington,  by  Gilbert  Stuart,  1795.  The  Vaughan  portrait.  Bust,  to  right  ;  twenty-four 
by  twenty-nine  inches.  This  is  believed  to  be  the  original  portrait,  painted  from  life  in  the  spring  or  fall  of 
1 795,  at  the  southeast  corner  of  Fifth  and  Chestnut  Streets,  Philadelphia.  It  presents  the  right  side  of  the 
face,  and  is  the  first  portrait  of  Washington  that  Stuart  painted.  Of  this  portrait  there  are  but  three  replicas 
known,  and  the  present  picture  has  every  indication  of  being  the  original.    From  it  Holloway's  print  was  en- 


1  Besides  the  Harvard  University  portrait,  and  the  replica  owned  by  Henry  Adams  and  painted  for  his  great-grandfather 
President  John  Adams,  Savage  executed  two  other  portraits  of  Washington  :  one  for  the  artist  himself,  and  now  owned 
hy  his  grandson,  Charles  H.  Savage,  of  Chicago,  and  the  other  the  large  painting  of  the  Washington  family  owned  by  the 
Boston  Museum.  Josiah  Quincy,  who  knew  Washington  personally,  used  to  say  that  the  Savage  portraits,  though  not  the 
best  paintings,  were  the  best  likenesses  of  Washington  in  existence. — (Statement  of  Stephen  M.  Allen,  of  Boston). — Editor. 


Owned  bv  the  Metropolitan  Misecm  of  Art,  New  York. 


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graved  and  published,  November,  1796,  in  Lavater's  "  Physiognomy."  It  was  at  this  time  in  the  possession  of 
Mr.  Samuel  Vaughan,  of  London,  a  stanch  friend  of  Franklin  and  admirer  of  Washington,  from  which  fact  it 
has  become  known  as  the  Vaughan  portrait.  Stuart  stated,  in  1823,  of  the  original,  that  he  had  "  rubbed  it 
out."  This  must  have  been  an  error  of  memory,  as,  from  the  date  the  engraving  was  published  in  London, 
allowing  for  transportation  and  the  time  the  engraver  would  occupy  engraving  a  quarto  plate  in  pure  line, 
this,  it  would  seem,  must  be  the  original  picture  painted  as  above.  As  a  likeness  of  Washington  it  is  doubt- 
less more  correct  than  the  accepted  Lansdowne  and  Athenaeum  heads,  the  familiar  Stuart's  Washington. 
Owned  by  Mrs.  Joseph  Harrison,  of  Philadelphia. 

31.  George  Washington,  by  Gilbert  Stuart.  Bust,  to  right;  twenty-five  by  thirty  inches.  Known  as  the 
Gibbs-Channing  Washington.  Dr.  W.  F.  Channing  makes  the  following  statement:  "The  Gibbs  Washington 
was  sold  by  Stuart,  at  an  early  date,  to  his  warm  personal  friend,  Colonel  George  Gibbs,  of  New  York,  with 
the  statement  that  it  was  on  the  easel  while  Washington  was  sitting,  and  worked  from  life."  Owned  bv  Sam- 
uel P.  Avery,  of  New  York. 

32.  George  Washington,  by  Gilbert  Stuart.  Full-length,  standing,  facing  left,  right  hand  extended  as  if  in 
speaking,  left  hand  holding  a  sheathed  dress-sword  by  his  side  ;  in  the  left  foreground  a  library-table  with 
books,  etc. ;  an  arm-chair  to  the  right  behind  the  figure;  curtains  and  massive  pillars  in  the  background,  with 
glimpses  of  landscape  between  ;  part  of  a  rainbow  in  the  extreme  left  distance ;  sixty  by  ninety-five  inches. 
On  April  12,  1796,  Washington,  at  the  request  of  Mrs.  Bingham,  sat  to  Stuart  for  a  full-length  portrait 
for  the  Marquis  of  Lansdowne.  Of  this  he  painted  the  replica  here  exhibited.  It  is  claimed  that  the 
full-length  in  possession  of  the  Pennsylvania  Academy  of  the  Fine  Arts,  signed  "  G.  Stuart,  1796,"  which 
belonged  to  William  Bingham,  is  the  original.  Owned  by  Henry  E.  Pierrepont,  of  Brooklyn,  New 
York. 

33.  George  Washington,  by  Gilbert  Stuart.  Replica  of  the  Athenaeum  portrait.  Bust,  three-quarters,  fac- 
ing left ;  twenty-four  by  thirty  inches.  Repeatedly  engraved.  The  third  and  last  of  Stuart's  portraits  of 
Washington  was  painted  on  the  sitter's  order,  but  purposely  left  unfinished,  and  by  Washington's  consent 
retained  by  the  artist.  After  Stuart's  death  it  passed  into  the  possession  of  the  Boston  Athenaeum,  and  is 
now  deposited  in  the  Museum  of  Fine  Arts,  Boston.  It  is  only  a  vignette  head  ;  but  a  large  number  of 
finished  copies  were  made  from  it  by  the  artist,  and  it  became  in  popular  estimation  the  typical  portrait  of 
Washington.    Owned  by  William  H.  AspinwaJl,  of  New  York. 

38.  George  Washington,  by  John  Trumbull.  Full-length,  standing,  three-quarters  left,  right  arm  resting 
on  horse;  twenty  by  thirty  inches.  The  original  of  the  life-size  portrait  in  the  City  Hall,  New  York.  In 
Washington's  diary  will  be  found  the  following  entries  in  1790  :  July,  "Tuesday,  8th.  .  .  .  Sat  from  9  o'clock 
till  after  10,  for  Mr.  Jno.  Trumbull,  who  was  drawing  a  portrait  of  me  at  full-length,  which  he  intended  to  pre- 
sent to  Mrs.  Washington."  "  Monday,  12th.  Exercised  on  horseback  between  five  and  six  in  the  morning. 
Sat  for  Mr.  Trumbull  from  9  until  half  after  10.  .  .  .  "  "  Tuesday,  13th.  Again  sat  for  Mr.  Trumbull  from  9 
until  half-past  10  o'clock."  The  following  bequest  will  be  found  in  the  will  of  Martha  Washington :  "Item. 
I  give  and  bequeath  to  my  granddaughter,  Elizabeth  Parke  Law,  the  dressing-table  and  glass  that  stands  in 
the  chamber  called  the  yellow  room  and  General  Washington's  picture  painted  by  Trumbull."  Owned  by 
Edmund  Law  Rogers,  of  Baltimore.  Maryland. 

42.  George  Washington,  by  "  W.  V."  Miniature,  oval,  three-quarters  to  right,  in  uniform,  with  Order  of 
Cincinnati ;  one  and  a  quarter  by  one  and  a  half  inches.  Apparently  after  the  portrait  by  Savage.  In  back, 
hair  of  General  and  Mrs.  Washington.    Owned  by  John  C.  Jay,  of  Rye,  New  York. 

43.  George  Washington,  by  Joseph  Wright.  Bust,  full  front,  head  profile,  facing  right ;  seventeen  by 
twenty-one  inches.  When  and  where  this  portrait  was  painted  is  not  known.  Wright  drew  and  etched  a  pro- 
file-portrait of  Washington  in  1790,  and  it  is  stated  painted  him  the  same  year.  This  may  be  that  portrait. 
It  was  engraved  by  W.  Evans,  and  published,  London,  March  1,  1800,  by  Thomas  Medland,  Abingdon  Street, 
Westminster.    Owned  by  G.  L.  McKean,  Chicago,  Illinois. 

44.  George  Washington,  by  Joseph  Wright.  Three-quarters  length,  seated  at  table,  holding  plan  of  Dis- 
trict of  Columbia  ;  thirty-nine  by  forty-nine  inches.  "  Mr.  C.  W.  Bowen  has  a  most  interesting  and  impor- 
tant portrait  of  Washington  by  Wright,  but  whether  it  is  an  original,  which  it  would  inherently  indicate,  can 
not  be  positively  settled.    This  last-named  picture  would  seem  to  have  given  to  Savage  the  pose  and  acces- 

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sories  for  his  familiar  and  large  mezzotinto  plate." — ("The  Century,"  April,  1889.)  Owned  by  Clarence  Win- 
throp  Bowen,  of  Brooklyn,  New  York. 

385.  Cold  ring  with  profile-portrait  of  Washington,  by  St.  Memin.  This  portrait  was  drawn  by  St.  Memin 
in  1798,  and  this  miniature  engraving  made  from  it  by  the  artist  himself,  after  Washington's  death,  for  the 
purpose  here  used,  as  memorial  mourning  rings. — C.  H.  H.  "  St.  Memin  was  a  Frenchman,  who  came  to  this 
country  to  introduce  the  physiognotrace,  an  invention  of  Chretien,  by  which  an  accurate  profile  outline  could 
be  obtained  and  subsequently  reduced  to  any  required  size  by  the  use  of  the  pantograph.  These  reduced  pro- 
files were  etched  on  copper  and  finished  with  the  graver.  In  November,  1798,  when  Washington  was  in 
Philadelphia  organizing  the  army  for  the  threatened  war  with  France,  St.  Memin  secured  a  sitting,  and  the 
profile  then  made  is  the  last  portrait  from  life  of  the  Father  of  his  Country.  It  is  very  strong,  and  necessarily 
correct.  The  original  life-size  drawing  on  pink  paper  in  black  crayon  did  belong  to  the  late  Mr.  Brevoort,  of 
Brooklyn." — ("The  Century,"  April,  1889.)    Owned  by  Mrs.  Cooper  Smith,  of  Philadelphia. 

Washington,  Martha. — Of  the  portraits  of  Martha  Washington  the  following  are 
reproduced  in  this  volume:  First,  a  miniature  painted  by  John  Trumbull  in  1792,  and 
owned  by  Yale  University  ;  second,  a  miniature  painted  by  Archibald  Robertson,1  in  1  792, 
and  owned  by  the  granddaughters  of  the  artist,  Mrs.  S.  M.  Mygatt,  of  Brooklyn,  and  Mrs. 
C.  VV.  Darling,  of  Utica,  New  York  (Loan  Exhibition  of  1889,  No.  51);  third,  a  miniature 
painted  by  James  Peale  in  1782,  and  owned  by  Durant  da  Ponte,  of  New  Orleans,  Louisiana 
(Loan  Exhibition  of  1889,  No.  48  A);  fourth,  an  unfinished  portrait  by  Gilbert  Stuart, 
owned  by  the  Boston  Athenaeum,  and  deposited  in  the  Museum  of  Fine  Arts,  Boston  ;  fifth, 
a  portrait  by  Edward  Savage,  owned  by  Henry  Adams,  of  Washington,  D.  C.  (Loan 
Exhibition  of  1889,  No.  52);  sixth,  a  portrait  said  to  have  been  painted  by  John  Woolaston 
in  1757,  two  years  before  Martha  Custis's  second  marriage,  and  owned  by  her  great-great- 
grandson,  General  G.  W.  Custis  Lee,  of  Lexington,  Virginia;2  and,  seventh,  a  portrait 


1  Miniatures  of  Martha  and  George  Washington,  by  Archibald  Robertson,  are  owned  by  Gen.  G.  W.  C.  Lee,  of  Lexington,  Va. 

2  Regarding  this  picture,  Prof.  William  G.  Brown,  Ph.  D  ,  of  Washington  and  Lee  University,  Lexington,  Virginia,  says  : 
"According  to  the  '  Recollections  of  George  Washington,'  by  G.  W.  P.  Custis  (New  York,  i860),  Mrs.  Washington's  portrait 
was  painted  by  Woolaston  in  1757.  She  was  then  Mrs.  Custis,  and  was  aged  twenty-five.  At  that  time  Mrs.  Custis  lived 
at  the  White  House,  New  Kent  County,  Virginia.  The  picture  probably  went  from  there  to  Mount  Vernon,  and  then  to 
Arlington,  where  it  remained  until  1861.  When  Arlington  was  deserted  by  General  R.  E.  Lee's  family,  the  picture  was,  with 
the  family  pictures,  hidden  in  the  cellar  of  a  friend's  house  in  Virginia  until  after  1865,  when  it  was  brought  to  Lexington,  Vir- 
ginia, by  rail  to  Lynchburg,  and  by  canal  from  Lynchburg  to  Lexington.  Coming  from  Lynchburg  the  canal-boat  sunk,  and 
the  picture,  along  with  others,  was  under  water  for  some  time.  The  original  frame  of  the  picture  was  left  at  Arlington. 
The  picture  is  owned  by  General  G.  W.  C.  Lee.  All  the  engravings  that  I  have  seen  change  both  the  shape  and  expression 
of  the  eyes.  The  engraving  of  this  portrait  in  G.  W.  P.  Custis's  '  Recollections  of  Washington  '  differs  considerably  in  the  eyes 
from  the  original.  In  the  original,  one  notices  the  eyes  at  once,  which  forcibly  remind  one  of  the  '  almond-eyed  '  Celestials." 
The  above  portrait  is  claimed  by  Moncure  D.  Conway  to  be  a  portrait  of  Mrs.  Colonel  Fielding  Lewis,  sister  of  George  Wash- 
ington.—("  George  Washington  and  Mount  Vernon :  a  Collection  of  Washington's  Unpublished  Agricultural  and  Personal 
Letters,"  edited,  with  Historical  and  Genealogical  Introduction,  by  Moncure  D.  Conway. — .\femoirs  of  the  Long  Island  His- 
torical Society,  vol.  iv,  iSSg.fi.  li.)  In  the  book  above  referred  to,  Mr.  Conway  reproduces  the  Martha  Washington  portrait 
and  the  following  fac-simile  letter  by  L.  W.  Washington  :  "  This  engraving  is  taken  from  the  portrait  of  Betty  Washington, 
only  sister  of  the  Gen'l,  who  married  Col.  Fielding  Lewis.  One  of  the  original  portraits  is  at  Marmion,  the  residence  of  the  late 
Dangerfield  Lewis,  of  King  George  Co.,  Va.,  one  other  at  the  residence  of  the  late  Lorenzo  Lewis,  of  Clarke  Co.,  Va.,  and  one  in 
my  possession."  Mr.  Conway  adds  :  "  It  is  one  of  the  many  curiosities  of  Washington  portraiture,  that  the  portrait  of  Betty  Lewis 
at '  Marmion  '  (probably  by  Woolaston;  should  be  going  about  the  world  as  that  of  Martha,  General  Washington's  wife  !  There 
are  portraits  representing  Martha  Washington  at  all  ages,  and  it  appears  inconceivable  that  any  one  could  discover  a  resemblance 
between  her  and  the  portrait  published  as  hers  in  Sparks  (vol.  i,  p.  106),  in  the  '  Republican  Court,'  and  even  in  the  centennial 
'Century  Magazine,'  April,  1889.    How  this  delusion  originated  one  can  hardly  conjecture.    I  have  asked  several  artists  whether 


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by  Joseph  Wright,  owned  by  Clarence  Winthrop  Bowen,  of  Brooklyn,  New  York  (Loan 
Exhibition  of  1889,  No.  53).  The  last-named  portrait,  like  the  one  of  Washington  by  the 
same  artist,  "  was  painted  by  the  artist  Joseph  Wright  during  Washington's  first  administra- 
tion, and  was  exhibited  in  the  New  York  Museum,  or  Gardner  Baker's  Museum  as  it  was 


they  could  imagine  the  Martha  Washington  in  the  last  volume  of  Sparks  identical  at  any  period  of  her  life  with  her  so  called  in  the 
first,  and  they  have  declared  it  unimaginable.  The  accompanying  copy  of  the  misnamed  picture  in  Sparks  hears  an  inscription 
from  the  late  Colonel  Lewis  W.  Washington,  written  in  the  home  and  in  the  presence  of  my  friend  Frederick  McGuire,  of 
Washington.  In  1855  Colonel  Lewis  Washington  made  a  special  study  of  the  family  portraits,  and  his  judgment  as  well  as  his 
information  are  trustworthy.  He  corresponded  with  many  members  of  the  Washington  and  Lewis  families  then  living  and  com- 
paratively near  to  the  sources  of  information  ;  among  others  with  G.  W.  Parke  Custis,  who  has  been  supposed,  no  doubt  errone- 
ously, to  be  responsible  for  the  mistake  of  Sparks.  In  one  of  his  letters  (August  4,  1855)  Mr.  Custis  says:  'Mrs.  Lewis,  the 
only  sister,  whom  I  very  well  remember,  was  the  most  majestic  and  imposing-looking  female  I  ever  beheld,  and  she  was  very 
dearly  beloved  by  the  great  man.  There  is  a  good  portrait  of  her.'  The  portrait  alluded  to  is  certainly  that  copied  in  this  vol- 
ume. The  original  at  Marmion  (the  Lewis  homestead  in  King  George)  is  beside  its  companion  picture,  that  of  Colonel  Fielding 
Lewis.  Fine  copies  of  both  are  in  the  possession  of  Captain  Williams,  of  New  York,  a  descendant  of  the  family.  Another  copy 
of  Betty  Lewis's  portrait,  now  at  Mount  Vernon,  is  probably  that  alluded  to  by  Colonel  Lewis  Washington  as  in  his  possession, 
placed  there,  I  believe,  by  his  widow,  Mrs.  Ella  Bassett  Washington,  a  Vice-regent  of  Mount  Vernon."  In  a  recently  written 
letter  Mr.  Conway  says :  "  I  hope  you  will  accept  my  assurance,  given  under  all  responsibility,  that  Betty  Lewis,  whose  portrait  it 
can  be  proved  to  be,  is  here  the  same  lady  as  in  General  Lee's  picture.  Their  faces  could  not  be  told  apart.  The  portraits 
were  made  at  the  same  time,  the  lady  being  in  the  same  dress.  I  hope  I  have  satisfied  you  of  the  impossibility  of  its  being 
Martha  Washington,  who  could  not  have  been  painted  in  that  gay  dress,  being  in  mourning  for  children  and  afterward  husband 
for  years,  until  her  marriage  with  Washington,  January,  1759,  when  she  was  twenty-seven  years  of  age,  too  old  for  this  girlish 
picture.  It  could  not  have  been  painted  after  her  marriage  with  Washington,  for  every  such  item  is  mentioned  in  his  diary. 
During  all  these  years  Betty  Lewis  was  a  happy  young  wife,  a  year  younger  than  Martha  Washington."  Lawrence  Washington, 
of  Alexandria,  Virginia,  also  says  of  the  Martha  Washington  and  Mrs.  Colonel  Fielding  Lewis  portraits  above  alluded  to :  "I 
have  seen  the  originals  or  copies  in  oil  (I  am  uncertain  which),  and  while  I  took  no  special  interest  in  them  and  can  not  say 
how  I  got  the  impression,  I  have  always  supposed  they  represented  Betty  Washington  (Mrs.  Fielding  Lewis),  at  different  periods 
of  her  life.  My  sister  was  under  the  same  impression  as  myself,  but  neither  of  us  has  any  positive  information."  H.  L.  D. 
Lewis,  of  "Audley,"  Berryville,  Clark  County,  Virginia,  until  recently  the  owner  of  the  Woolaston  portrait  of  Mrs.  Fielding 
Lewis,  says :  "  I  have  thought  that  Mr.  Conway  was  right,  as  the  pictures  resembled  each  other  in  face,  and  the  one  marked 
Mrs.  Washington  is  exactly  like  all  the  pictures  I  have  seen  of  Mrs.  Fielding  Lewis.  Woolaston's  portraits  (all  I  have  seen) 
resemble  each  other."  In  reply  to  the  above,  Prof.  William  G.  Brown,  Ph.  D.,  says :  "  I  think  one  may  very  safely  take  Mr. 
Custis's  statement  as  final  as  to  who  was  represented.  Mr.  Custis  was  born  in  1781,  and  was  brought  up  by  Mrs.  Washington 
at  Mount  Vernon,  where  he  lived  until  her  death  in  1802,  he  being  at  that  time  about  twenty-one  years  old.  The  picture  was 
taken  with  others  to  Arlington,  where  Mr.  Custis  died  in  1857.  Among  other  pictures  taken  from  Mount  Vernon  to  Arlington 
was  one  (a  copy  of  which  I  inclose)  representing  Mrs.  Washington's  two  children,  John  Parke  Custis  (the  father  of  G.  W.  P. 
Custis)  and  Martha  Parke  Custis,  who  died  aged  about  seventeen.  Is  it  at  all  likely  that  Mr.  Custis,  living  as  he  did  from  his 
earliest  childhood  (six  months  old)  until  manhood  at  Mount  Vernon,  should  never  have  discovered  that  the  portrait  which  he 
believed  was  that  of  his  grandmother  was  in  fact  that  of  General  Washington's  sister  (Mrs.  Lewis)?  Can  you  possibly 
imagine  that  he  never  knew  that  the  children  (his  own  father  and  aunt)  were  not  the  children  of  the  lady  (his  grandmother) 
whose  portrait  hung  at  Mount  Vernon  ?  In  such  a  household  as  Washington's,  do  you  think  Mr.  Custis  could  possibly  have 
never  heard  that  the  picture  that  he  took  for  his  grandmother  was  that  of  no  relative  of  his?  But  there  is  more  than  this.  Mr. 
Custis  knew  Mrs.  Lewis,  for  he  says  in  his  '  Recollections  '  in  his  paper  on  the  '  Mother  of  Washington  ' :  '  The  sister  of  the  chief 
he  perfectly  well  remembers.  She  was  a  most  majestic-looking  woman,  and  so  strikingly  like  the  brother  that  it  was  a  matter  of 
frolic  to  throw  a  cloak  around  her,  and,  placing  a  military  hat  on  her  head,  such  was  her  amazing  resemblance,  that  on  her 
appearance  battalions  would  have  presented  arms,  and  senates  risen  to  do  homage  to  the  chief.'  Does  Mrs.  Washington's 
portrait  look  like  Washington  ?  Would  Mr.  Custis  not  have  noticed  the  resemblance  of  the  portrait  to  Mrs.  Lewis  if  it  had  been 
Mrs.  Lewis's  portrait  and  not  his  grandmother's  ?  Mr.  Custis  in  his  '  Recollections  '  of  his  grandmother,  '  Martha  Washington,' 
says  of  this  very  portrait,  'To  judge  from  her  portrait  at  Arlington  House,  painted  by  Woolaston  in  1757.'  Now,  Mr.  Custis 
knew  both  ladies,  his  grandmother  and  Mrs.  Lewis,  and  never  doubted  the  character  of  the  portrait.  On  what  possible 
grounds  can  we  ?  Not  satisfied  with  these  statements  of  Mr.  Custis,  I  called  on  General  Lee,  with  the  blue  prints,  to  show 
them  to  him  and  inquire  if  he  had  ever  heard  of  the  portrait  being  called  in  question.    As  soon  as  he  saw  that  of  Mrs.  Lewis,  he 


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called  after  1795.  After  the  death  of  Gardner  Baker,  in  1798,  the  picture  came  into  the 
possession  of  a  creditor,  John  Bailey,  in  whose  family  it  remained  for  three  generations, 
until  bought  in  1887  by  Clarence  Winthrop  Bowen,  of  Brooklyn."1  All  these  portraits,  with 
the  exception  of  the  first  and  sixth,  are  companion  portraits  to  portraits  of  George  Wash- 
ington, and  are  elsewhere  described.2  Most  of  the  artists  who  painted  portraits  of  Wash- 
ington likewise  executed  likenesses  of  Martha  Washington.  Charles  Henry  Hart  says:  "In 
addition  to  the  foregoing  portraits  of  Martha  Washington,  there  are  the  following:  Minia- 
ture on  ivory  by  C.  W.  Peale,  painted  in  1772,  reproduced  in  'The  'Century'  for  February, 
1892,  owned  by  Mrs.  Britannia  W.  Kennon,  of  Georgetown,  D.  C,  the  oldest  living  descend- 
ant, great-granddaughter  of  Mrs.  Washington  ;  miniature  on  ivory  by  C.  W.  Peale,  1 789, 
belonging  to  William  Fearing  Gill,  of  Boston ;  miniature  by  unknown  artist  reproduced  in 
'The  Century,'  May,  1890,  belonging  to  E.  L.  Rogers,  of  Baltimore;  miniature  by  John 


said  :  '  This  looks  like  the  Washingtons.  It  is  not  Mrs.  Washington.'  I  further  asked  him  if  he  knew  or  had  seen  the  por- 
traits at  Lorenzo  Lewis's,  in  Clark  County,  Virginia.  He  said  '  Yes.'  He  had  been  there  more  than  once,  and  had  never 
seen  any  picture  there  that  was  claimed  to  be  that  of  Mrs.  Washington,  or — I  had  better  say — a  Mrs.  Lewis  which  looked 
like  that  of  Mrs.  Washington.  The  picture,  of  which  I  inclose  a  copy,  was  painted  by  Woolaston,  and  you  will  notice 
his  treatment  of  the  eyes  is  the  same  as  in  that  of  Mrs.  Washington,  and  you  will  also  see  the  resemblance  of  Miss 
Custis  to  her  mother.  General  Lee  has  another  portrait  by  Woolaston,  Daniel  Parke  Custis  (Mrs.  Washington's  first 
husband),  and  in  this  the  eyes  are  painted  in  the  same  manner.  I  mention  this  because  I  think  in  Mrs.  Lewis's  por- 
trait the  eyes  are  the  most  strikingly  alike  part  in  the  two  portraits.  This  may  be  a  mannerism  of  Woolaston.  I  think 
you  can  very  safely  say  that  the  Mrs.  Washington  portrait  is  Mrs.  Washington,  and  not  Mrs.  Lewis  (Betty  Washington)." 

Charles  Henry  Hart  also  says  ("Century  Magazine,"  February,  1892,  pp.  595,  596):  "The  portraits  of  Betty  Lewis 
and  her  husband,  Fielding  Lewis,  named  by  Lewis  W.  Washington  as  being  'at  the  residence  of  the  late  Lorenzo 
Lewis,'  were  both  exhibited  in  New  York  at  the  Washington  Loan  Collection,  in  April,  1889,  and  at  Philadelphia  in 
December,  1890,  when  they  were  sold  by  Birch's  Sons  to  Mr.  Charles  Gunther,  of  Chicago.  On  each  of  these_  occa- 
sions the  writer  critically  examined  the  portrait  of  Mrs.  Lewis,  and  in  Philadelphia,  in  view  of  what  Mr.  Conway  had 
written,  paid  especial  attention  to  a  comparison  with  the  engraving  of  Martha  Washington  from  Sparks.  This  com- 
parison showed  satisfactorily  that  the  engraving  of  Martha  Washington  from  Sparks  was  not  made  from  the  portrait 
of  Betty  Lewis.  The  pose  and  the  arrangement  of  the  hair  are  very  similar,  but  the  crudely  painted  features,  drapery, 
and  points  of  detail  are  very  different.  The  chief  resemblance  is  in  the  handling,  such  as  artists  much  more  eminent 
than  itinerant  John  Woolaston  are  not  unapt  to  carry  through  their  work.  Particularly  is  this  likely  to  be  the  case 
in  portraits  painted  about  the  same  time,  and  Martha  Washington  and  Betty  Lewis  were  probably  limned  together. 
As  an  illustration  of  the  correctness  of  this  remark,  many  readers  will  recall  how  the  portraits  painted  by  Stuart  about 
the  time  he  was  painting  Washington  are  tinctured  with  the  General's  characteristics.  So  much  is  this  the  case,  that 
Stuart's  portraits  of  Thomas  Willing  and  William  Shippen  are  frequently  taken  for  portraits  of  the  Pater  Patria?,  and 
that  too  not  by  the  uninitiated.  This  is  the  direct  evidence  on  the  subject.  The  circumstantial  evidence  is  possibly 
stronger.  The  portrait  of  Martha  Washington  in  Sparks's  work  was  published  in  1837.  It  is  inscribed,  'From  the 
original  picture  by  Woolaston  in  the  possession  of  G.  W.  P.  Custis,  Esq.,  Arlington  House.'  At  this  time  Lawrence 
Lewis,  Washington's  favorite  nephew,  the  son  of  his  sister  Betty,  was  living  at  Arlington  House  with  his  wife,  Eleanor 
Custis,  the  granddaughter  of  Martha  Washington,  by  whom  she  had  been  reared.  Is  it  to  be  believed  that  George 
Washington  Parke  Custis,  Martha  Washington's  grandson,  with  whom  he  had  lived  from  his  infancy  to  her  death, 
would  give  Sparks  a  picture  to  publish  as  a  portrait  of  his  grandmother  in  his  possession,  when  it  was  not?  Or  that 
Lawrence  Lewis  would  allow  his  own  mother's  portrait  to  be  engraved  and  published  as  a  portrait  of  his  aunt  and  his 
wife's  grandmother?  Or  that  he  did  not  know  his  own  mother's  portrait?  Or  that  Eleanor  Custis  Lewis  would 
quietly  stand  by  and  allow  her  husband  and  brother  to  perpetrate  such  an  ignoble  fraud  upon  the  nation?  Such 
propositions  are  too  absurd  for  serious  consideration,  yet  they  must  be  accepted,  just  as  here  stated,  before  Mr.  Conway's 
iconoclasm  can  avail." 

1  "Century  Magazine,"  April,  1889,  p.  805. 

'  See  "  Notes  on  Portraits  "  of  George  Washington. 


NOTES  ON  PORTRAITS.  S49 

Trumbull,  1794,  in  National  Museum,  Washington,  D.  C. ;  miniature  by  Robert  Field,  1801, 
one  owned  by  E.  L.  Rogers,  of  Baltimore,  and  another  similar  owned  by  Mrs.  F.  T.  Moor- 
head,  of  Allegheny,  Pennsylvania;  shadow-profile  by  Eleanor  Parke  Custis,  presented  to 
the  Everett  Public  School,  Boston,  by  Edward  Shippen,  of  Philadelphia,  who  received  it 
from  Mrs.  James  Gibson,  to  whom  it  was  given  by  her  friend  Nelly  Custis;  portrait  by 
W.  Woolley  (see  Dunlap,  vol.  ii,  63),  known  only  by  mezzotinto  plate  by  artist  (Loan  Ex- 
hibition, No.  222), — the  painting,  if  there  was  one,  is  unknown;  profile-portrait  in  pastel 
by  James  Sharpless,  1798,"  owned  by  General  G.  W.  C.  Lee,  of  Lexington,  Virginia. 

Watts,  Lady  Mary. — The  only  known  portrait  of  Lady  Mary  Watts  is  that  owned  by 
her  great-grandson,  Robert  Watts,  M.  D.,  of  New  York,  but  the  name  of  the  artist  is  un- 
known. 

Webb,  General  Samuel  Blatchley. — The  only  known  portrait  of  General  Samuel 
Blatchley  Webb,  one  of  the  Masters  of  Ceremony  at  Washington's  inauguration,  is  the 
miniature  painted  by  C.  W.  Peale,  and  owned  by  General  Webb's  granddaughter,  Mrs.  Jane 
Webb  Laidley,  of  Elizabeth,  New  Jersey.  The  miniature  was  exhibited  in  the  Loan  Ex- 
hibition in  1889  (No.  207).  The  miniature  must  have  been  painted  after  1783,  as  it  bears 
the  badge  of  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati,  and  family  tradition  says  before  1  790,  in  which 
year  he  married  his  second  wife.1 

West,  Benjamin. — Only  one  portrait  is  known  of  Benjamin  West,  who  was  elected  from 
New  Flampshire  a  member  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  but  failed  to  take 
his  seat,  and  that  portrait  belongs  to  Mrs.  Charles  H.  West,  of  Charlestown,  New  Hampshire. 
Mrs.  West  is  the  widow  of  Charles  H.  West,  who  was  a  grandnephew  of  Benjamin  West. 
Benjamin  West  left  no  children.  The  portrait  is  a  small  picture  about  six  inches  square. 
The  artist  is  unknown. 

White,  Alexander. — There  is  no  portrait  extant  of  Alexander  White,  member  from 
Virginia  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution.  S.  L.  Flournoy,  of  Charleston,  Ka- 
nawha County,  West  Virginia,  refers  to  the  portrait  of  his  relative,  Alexander  WThite,  as  fol- 
lows :  "  An  unfortunate  fire  destroyed  my  wife's  father's  house  some  thirty-odd  years  ago,  and 
the  portrait  (of  Alexander  White)  with  it."  In  correspondence  with  members  of  the  family 
of  Alexander  White,  and  with  historical  students  in  Virginia,  no  trace  of  a  portrait  could  be 
found. 

Williamson,  Hugh.— The  only  known  portraits  of  Hugh  Williamson,  member  from  North 
Carolina  of  the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  are  two.  One  is  in  John  Trum- 
bull's painting  entitled  "  Washington  resigning  his  Commission,"  owned  by  Yale  Univer- 


1  Statement  of  Mrs.  Jane  Webb  Laidley,  granddaughter,  of  Elizabeth,  New  Jersey. 


55Q      THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


sitv,  replica  of  which  is  in  the  Capitol  at  Washington,  and  the  other  portrait  is  said  to 
have  been  painted  by  John  \V.  Jarvis  but  really  by  John  Trumbull,  and  is  owned  by 
Dr.  Williamson's  grandnieces,  the  Misses  Hamilton,  of  New  York.  The  last-named  por- 
trait was  exhibited  in  the  Loan  Exhibition  in  New  York  in  1889  (No.  209),  and  was 
wrongly  attributed  to  the  artist  Jarvis.  David  Hosack,  M.  D.,  F.  R.  S.,  wrote  a  memoir  of 
Dr.  Hugh  Williamson,  which  was  printed  by  the  New  York  Historical  Society  in  its  collec- 
tions for  1 82 1,  illustrated  by  a  picture  of  Dr.  Williamson,  which  was  engraved  by  A.  B. 
Durand,  from  the  portrait  owned  by  Dr.  Hosack  and  painted  by  Trumbull.1  But  the  only 
portrait  of  Hugh  Williamson  that  Dr.  Hosack  ever  owned,  according  to  the  statement  of 
the  only  surviving  daughter  of  Dr.  Hosack,  Mrs.  J.  Kearney  Rogers,  is  the  portrait  now  in 
the  possession  of  the  Misses  Hamilton,  which  is  reproduced  in  this  volume.  Dr.  Thomas 
Addis  Emmet,  who  owns  a  copy  of  the  Durand  engraving  from  the  Williamson  portrait  by 
Trumbull,  is  of  the  opinion  that  Trumbull,  and  not  Jarvis,  painted  the  portrait  owned  by  the 
Misses  Hamilton.  The  mistake  as  to  the  authorship  of  the  portrait  no  doubt  arose  from  the 
fact  that  the  Misses  Hamilton  own  a  portrait  by  Jarvis  of  their  grandfather,  Mr.  Van  den 

Heuvel,  a  brother-in-law  of  Hugh  Williamson, 
and  also  from  the  fact  that  Jarvis's  son  painted 
portraits  of  the  father  of  the  Misses  Hamilton 
and  of  their  brother  General  Schuyler  Hamilton. 
Hugh  Williamson  declined  to  have  the  Italian 
sculptor  Ceracchi  make  a  bust  of  him.2 

Wingate,  Paine. — There  is  no  portrait  of 
Paine  Wingate,  member  from  New  Hampshire  of 
the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution.  His 
grandson,  J.  C.  A.  Wingate,  of  Stratham,  New 
Hampshire,  says :  "No  portrait  of  Paine  Wingate 
was  ever  painted.  When  he  was  quite  aged  his 
nephew,  General  Joshua  Wingate,  of  Portland, 
colonel  Christopher  toppan.  Maine— or  rather,  I    think,   Mrs.  Wingate,  who 

From  a  miniature  owned  by  his  great-granddaughter  '  , 

Mrs.  Charles  n  Heaiy,  stratham,  New  Hampshire.        vvas  a   daughter  of  General  Henry   Dearborn — 


1  "  Collections  of  the  New  York  Historical  Society  for  the  Year  1821,"  vol.  iii.  The  frontispiece  is  an  engraving  ;  lettered  on 
the  plate  are  these  words:  "Hugh  Williamson,  M.  D.,  LL.  D  ,  painted  by  J.  Trumbull,  engraved  by  A.  B.  Durand.  En- 
graved from  the  original  portrait  in  the  possession  of  Dr.  D.  Hosack."  Dr.  Hosack  read  the  memoir  on  Hugh  Williamson 
before  the  New  York  Historical  Society,  November  I,  1819.  At  the  meeting  of  the  Society,  November  9,  1 8 1 9,  the  artist  Trum- 
bull was  appointed  one  of  the  committee  to  thank  Dr.  Hosack.  When  the  memoir  was  read  Trumbull  was  present,  and  was 
referred  to  by  Dr.  Hosack  as  the  artist  of  the  portrait,  and  "  the  original  portrait  of  Dr.  Williamson  in  possession  of  the  author 
of  this  memoir  vvas  suspended  in  the  college  [College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons]  hall  at  the  time  this  discourse  was  pro- 
nounced."— ("Collections  of  the  New  York  Historical  Society,"  vol.  iii,  p.  171.) 

3  Dunlap's  "  History  of  the  Arts  of  Design,"  vol.  i,  p.  409. 


NOTES  ON  PORTRAITS. 


55* 


sent  an  artist  of  reputation  to  paint  his  portrait.  My  grandfather  consented  to  sit  for  the 
picture  if  his  wife  would  have  hers  also.  My  grandmother  said  that  Mr.  Wingate  might 
have  his  taken,  but  that  she  was  not  good-looking  enough  to  have  her  likeness  preserved. 
My  grandfather  then  said  that  if  madam  would  not  have  hers  taken  it  would  not  he  worth 
while  to  have  his.  Although  there  is  no  picture  of  Paine  Wingate,  there  is  a  miniature 
of  his  cousin,  Colonel  Christopher  Toppan,  of  Hampton,  New  Hampshire,  which  any  one 
who  had  seen  Mr.  Wingate  and  had  not  seen  Colonel  Toppan  would  say  was  a  picture 
of  the  former.  I  showed  this  miniature  to  one  of  my  sisters,  who  is  eighty  years  old. 
She  says  it  is  very  much  like  grandfather,  but  that  grandfather's  features  were  larger  than 
Colonel  Toppan's.  The  lower  part  of  Mr.  Wingate's  face  was  fuller,  and  his  nose  was  not 
so  thin.  Paine  Wingate  was  a  large  man,  full  six  feet  high,  but  he  never  was  fleshy. 
Colonel  Toppan  died  February  28,  181 8.  My  grandfather  attended  the  funeral.  The  day 
being  cold,  he  did  not  go  to  the  grave,  but,  after  the  procession  had  started,  took  his 
seat  by  the  fire  in  Colonel  Toppan's  chair.  A  young  lady,  who  had  occasion  to  return 
to  the  house,  saw  Mr.  Wingate,  and  thought  it  was  Colonel  Toppan,  whose  body  she 
had  just  seen  carried  out,  and  was  so  frightened  that  she  fainted.  The  sight  of  any  old  man  in 
Colonel  Tappan's  accustomed  seat  might  have  startled  the  lady,  but  the  story  has  always  been 
told  as  illustrating  the  striking  likeness  between  the  two  cousins." 

Wynkoop,  Henry. — William  R.  Wright,  the  agent  for  Mrs.  Isabella  M.  Bailey,  of  Tren- 
ton, New  Jersey,  granddaughter  of  Judge  Henry  Wynkoop,  member  from  Pennsylvania  of 
the  First  Congress  under  the  Constitution,  writes  as  follows :  "  This  is  the  only  original 
portrait  of  Judge  Henry  Wynkoop,  and  Rembrandt  Peale  made  no  copies.  He  painted 
this  a  short  time  before  the  judge's  death,  March  25,  1816." 


ERRATA. 


Page  facing  10.    For  Edward  Law  Rogers,  read  Edmund  Law  Rogers. 

Page  facing  12.    For  Dr.  W.  F.  Channing,  Providence,  R.  I.,  read  Samuel  P.  Avery,  New  York. 

Pages  31,  423.    For  George  Scriba,  read  George  L.  C.  Scriba. 

Page  facing  34.    For  steel  engraving,  read  engraving  on  copper. 

Page  facing  59.    For  Mary  Cbles  Whittle,  read  Mary  Coles  Whittle. 

Pages  facing  59,  69.    For  I.  C.  Van  Den  Heuvel,  read  J.  C.  Van  Den  Heuvel. 

Pages  63,  145,  496.    For  Mrs.  Susan  Eyre  Lear,  read  Mrs.  Susan  Lear  Eyre. 

Page  64,  foot-note.    For  Mrs.  Charles  J.  Du  Pont,  read  Mrs.  Charles  I.  Dupont. 

Page  70,  foot-note  3.    For  Shoud's,  read  Shourd's. 

Page  facing  71.    For  Peter  Muhlenberg,  read  John  Peter  G.  Muhlenberg. 

Pages  78,  79.    For  Sharf's,  read  Scharf's. 

Page  89,  line  1.    For  Nichol  Floyd,  read  Nicoll  Floyd. 

Page  94.    For  Joseph  Stanton,  read  Joseph  Stanton,  Jr. 

Page  facing  99.    Insert  in  title  Joshua  Seney. 

Page  facing  108.    For  Seme,  read  Sene. 

Page  facing  1 1 5.    For  Ashur  B.  Durand,  read  Asher  B.  Durand. 

Page  120,  line  18.    For  F.  Stuyvesant  Morris,  read  Stuyvesant  F.  Morris. 

Page  facing  123.    For  From  an  engraving  by  St.  Memin,  read  From  an  engraving  after  St.  Memin. 

Page  facing  123.    For  John  Lawrence,  read  John  Laurance. 

Pages  143,  542,  543     For  Mrs.  Louise  Lear  Eyre,  read  Mrs.  Susan  Lear  Eyre. 

Page  144,  No.  108.    For  Unknown,  read  John  Trumbull,  1804. 

Page  145,  Nos.  144,  145.    For  John  Wollaston,  read  John  Woolaston. 

Page  145,  Nos.  180,  205.    For  Unknown,  read  Copy. 

Pages  145,  164,  170.    For  Eliza  Parke  Custis,  read  Eleanor  Parke  Cuslis. 

Pages  206,  354.    For  Guiseppe  Ceracchi,  read  Giuseppe  Ceracchi. 

Page  221,  line  19.    For  Philip  L.  Biglin,  read  Philip  S.  Biglin. 

Page  221,  line  37.    For  P.  H.  Grove,  read  F.  H.  Grove. 

Page  226.    For  Captain  Sterns,  read  Inspector  Steers. 

Page  230,  line  4.    For  Boudinot  Atterbury,  great-grandson,  read  Boudinot  Atterbury,  great-grand-nephe 

Page  231,  line  6.    For  Joseph  Jackson,  Jr.,  read  Joseph  C.  Jackson,  Jr. 

Page  231,  line  36.    For  General  McPherson,  read  Senator  McPherson,  of  New  Jersey. 

Page  234.    For  William  Allen  Butler,  read  William  Allen  Butler,  Jr. 

Page  237,  line  1.    For  Watts,  read  Warts. 

Page  240,  line  37.    For  Assistant  District- Attorney  Foster,  read  Assistant  District- Attorney  Forster. 
Page  248,  line  17.    For  George  N.  Gardner,  read  George  N.  Gardiner. 
Page  facing  256.    For  John  Wollaston.  read  John  Woolaston. 

Page  259,  line  33.    For  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Russell  Harrison,  read  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Russell  B.  Harrison. 

Page  260,  line  6.    For  Col.  Seaton  Grantlands,  read  Col.  Seaton  Grantland. 

Page  261,  line  30.    For  Mrs.  Orme  Wilson,  read  Mrs.  M.  Orme  Wilson. 

Page  facing  262.    For  G.  Manigault,  M.  D.,  read  G.  E.  Manigault,  M.  D. 

Page  264,  line  20.    For  Col.  Gaithers,  read  Col.  Gaither. 

Page  267,  line  14.    For  Lawrence  Turner,  read  Lawrence  Turnure. 

Page  280,  line  7.    For  Peter  C.  Jay,  read  Peter  A.  Jay. 

Page  358,  line  28.    For  F.  J.  Pierson,  read  J.  F.  Pierson. 

Page  360.  line  18.    For  Henry  M.  Grady,  read  Henry  W.  Grady. 

Page  404,  line  32.    For  Rev.  Dr.  Sutherland,  read  Rev.  Dr.  Sunderland. 

Page  418,  line  36.    For  Peter  Muhlenberg,  read  John  Peter  G.  Muhlenberg. 

Pages  422,  423.    For  John  Peter  Muhlenberg,  read  John  Peter  G.  Muhlenberg. 

Pages  422,  441,  543.    For  Eleanor  Custis,  read  Eleanor  Parke  Custis. 

Page  facing  424.    For  Joseph  Siffrein  Duplissis,  read  Joseph  Sifrede  Duplessis. 

Page  439,  line  18.    For  J.  B.  Forest,  read].  B.  Forrest. 

Page  442,  line  2.    For  Mrs.  F.  J.  Moorehead,  read  Mrs.  F.  T.  Moorehead. 

Page  479,  line  31.    For  Eliza  C.  Jay,  read  Elizabeth  C.  Jay. 

Page  529.    For  A  decoration  received  in  the  service  of  Frederick  the  Great,  read  The  cross  of  the  orde 
"  De  la  Fidelite,"  presented  to  the  Baron  by  the  Margrave  of  Baden,  May  28,  1769. 

Note. — The  usual  way  of  spelling  the  name  of  the  artist  Mason  Chamberlain  is  Mason  Chamberlin 
but  Chamberlain  is  followed,  as  in  Pilkington's  "  Dictionary  of  Painters  "  and  Bryan's  "  Dictionary  of  Paint 
ers  "  (both  English)  ;  also  in  Spooner's  Dictionary  (American). 


INDEX. 


Abbe,  Miss,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Abbey,  Henry  E.,  invited  to  meet  president 

Harrison,  244. 
Abbott,  Austin,  at  reception,  justices  U.  S. 

supreme  court,  402. 
Abbott,  Frank,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 

262. 

Abbott,  Rev.  Lyman,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245,  246,  248. 

Abeel,  John  H.,  Jr.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Abert,  Charles,  bust  of  Benjamin  Franklin, 
property  of,  461,  facing  524. 

Abingdon  Square,  N.  Y.  city,  display  of  fire- 
works, 352. 

Abrahams,  Annie  A.,  delegate  from  normal 
college,  reception  of  president  Harrison, 
city  hall,  237  ;  address  of  welcome  to  the 
president,  239. 

Abrams,  J.  C,  seventh  N.  Y.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  334. 

Acker,  Charles  L  ,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  246. 

Acker,  Milo  M.,  member  of  assembly,  N.  Y., 
243. 

Acosta,  Mary  C,  portrait  of  Charles  Car- 
roll, property  of,  97,  434. 

Acton,  Thomas  C,  member  of  citizens'  com- 
mittee, 104. 

Adams,  Abigail,  wife  of  William  Stephens 
Smith,  528. 

Adams,  Austin,  escort  to  president  Harrison, 
223. 

Adams,  Mrs.  B.  F.  D.,  portraits  of  Faith 
Trumbull,  Catharine,  Daniel,  Harriet,  and 
Jeremiah  Wadsworth,  property  of,  80,  534, 
538,  539-  540. 

Adams,  Brooks,  portraits  of  John  Adams 
and  wife,  property  of,  17,  144,  260,  424, 
426  ;  member  of  platform  committee,  308, 
309  ;  portraits  of  William  S.  Smith  and 
wife,  property  of,  facing  18,  260,  528. 

Adams,  C.  Barton,  fourteenth  Ohio  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  342. 

Adams,  C.  K.,  at  banquet,  360. 

Adams,  Charles  Francis,  Sr.,  the  Copley 
portrait  of  John  Adams,  423  ;  the  por- 
traits of  Franklin,  447  ;  portrait  of  Jeffer- 
son, property  of,  486  ;  the  Copley  portrait 
of  Mrs.  William  S.  Smith,  528. 

Adams,  Charles  Francis,  portraits  of  John 
71 


Adams  and  wife,  property  of,  facing  18, 
424,  425,  426  ;  the  Gainsborough  portrait 
of  Franklin,  457. 
Adams,  Mrs.  Charles  Francis,  portraits  of 
George  Washington,  Martha  Washington, 
and  Thomas  Jefferson,  property  of,  144, 
145- 

Adams,  Charles  H.,  member  of  general  com- 
mittee, 108,  114,  236;  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224  ;  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  262  ;  at  banquet,  360  ;  subscriber  to 
celebration,  400. 

Adams,  E.  C,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
262. 

Adams,  Miss  E.  C,  portrait  of  John  Adams, 
property  of,  425. 

Adams,  Edward  D.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245  ;  member  of  committee 
on  erection  of  memorial  arch,  409  ;  sub- 
scriber to  memorial  arch,  413, 

Adams  Express  Co.,  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Adams,  Francis  P.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  262. 

Adams,  George,  member  of  reception  com- 
mittee, ancestry  of,  230. 

Adams,  Henry,  owner  of  portraits  of  George 
Washington,  facing  9,  541,  544  ;  and 
Martha  Washington,  facing  14,  546. 

Adams,  John,  mentioned,  5,  6,  note  \  his 
opinion  of  Oliver  Ellsworth,  8  ;  chosen 
vice-president  of  U.  S.,  12,  135,  232  ;  char- 
acter of,  12,  note ;  his  journey  and  recep- 
tions on  his  way  to  N.  Y.,  17  ;  arrival  and 
reception  at  N.  Y.,  18,  49;  delivers  his 
inaugural  address,  18  ;  portraits  painted 
by  Blyth,  facing  18;  Copley,  17;  Doyle, 
18  ;  Morse,  17  ;  C.  W.  Peale,  18  ;  Sharp- 
less,  17;  Stuart,  17,  150:  Trumbull,  17; 
West,  31  ;  Winstanley,  18  ;  his  N.  Y.  resi- 
dence, 18  ;  favors  a  title  for  the  president 
of  U.  S.,  38,  39,  note  ;  remarks  in  congress 
on  the  mode  of  receiving  the  president, 
43  ;  at  the  inauguration  of  Washington, 
44,  46,  50  ;  guest  of  John  Jay,  49  ;  calls 
on  Washington,  58  ;  attends  assembly 
ball,  58  ;  guest  of  the  Society  of  the  Cin- 
cinnati, at  St.  Paul's  chapel,  N,  Y.,  1790, 
169,  note  ;  notes  on  the  portraits  of,  144, 
420-426,  481  ;  portraits  of  Jefferson  and 
Washington  painted  for,  486,  544,  note. 


Adams,  Mrs.  John,  portrai'ts  painted  by 
Blyth  and  Stuart,  facing  18,  260  ;  notes  on 
the  portraits  of,  144,  421,  422,  426. 

Adams,  John  C,  member  of  assembly,  N.Y., 
242  ;  at  banquet,  metropolitan  opera- 
house,  359. 

Adams,  John  P.,  commissioner  of  public- 
works,  Brooklyn,  243. 

Adams,  John  Quincy,  portraits  of  John 
Adams  and  Thomas  Jefferson,  property 
of,  facing  17,  21,  424,  486  ;  his  opinion  of 
the  diplomatic  representative  of  Spain  at 
N.  Y.,  32,  note;  oration  at  the  semi-cen- 
tennial celebration  of  the  inauguration  of 
Washington,  95  ;  his  reply  to  toast  at  ban- 
quet, 98  ;  extract  from  his  diary,  99  ;  ex- 
tract from  the  speech  of,  363,  373  ;  por- 
trait of  Mrs.  William  S.  Smith,  property 
of,  528. 

Adams,  John  W.,  seventh  N.  J.  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  320. 
Adams,  Julius  W.,  invited  to  meet  president 

Harrison,  244. 
Adams,  Orsen,  subscriber  to  Wall  street 

arch,  253. 

Adams,  Percy  D.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  262. 

Adams,  Robert,  at  banquet,  361. 

Adams,  Robert,  Jr.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  262. 

Adams,  Samuel,  member  of  Massachusetts 
convention,  2. 

Adams,  Samuel,  Jr.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  262. 

Addoms,  Mortimer  C,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  262. 

Addoms,  William,  at  commemorative  ban- 
quet, society  of  the  Cincinnati,  150  ;  his 
death,  151. 

Adee,  David,  member  of  citizens'  commit- 
tee, 103. 

Adee,  Frederic  W.,  at  centennial  ball,  261  ; 
subscriber  to  centennial  ball,  262. 

Adjusters  of  averages,  representatives  in- 
vited to  meet  president  Harrison,  246. 

Adler,  Rev.  Felix,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  244. 

Adriance,  Edward,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  262. 

Agan,  B.  F.,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
262. 


554      THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S 


INAUGURATION. 


Agate,  Ambrose  J.,  of  St.  John's  Lodge, 

286  ;  at  literary  exercises,  2S9. 
Agens,  F.  G.,  escort  to  president  Harrison, 

222. 

Agnew,  John  T.,  at  banquet  to  president 
Harrison,  234,  244. 

Ahearn,  M.  J.,  in  command  of  St.  Patrick's 
benevolent  association,  civic  parade,  397. 

Ahrcnfeldt,  Charles,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Ahrcns,  G.  \\\,  second  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  323. 

Aikin,  James  C,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 223. 

Ainger,  Daniel  B.,  adjutant-general  of 
Mich.,  at  military  parade,  320,  344  ;  at 
banquet,  metropolitan  opera-house,  358. 

Ainsworth,  Danforth  E.,  member  of  assem- 
bly,  N.  Y.,  243. 

Airy,  Sarah,  at  reception  to  Washington, 
Trenton,  X.  J.,  26,  not,: 

Aisle  committee,  see  committees. 

Aitken.  John  \V.,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  246. 

Aitken,  Son  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  celebra- 
tion, 400. 

Akin  &  Harrison,  Jr.,  engravers  of  portrait 

of  Thomas  Jefferson,  4S7. 
Akron,  Ohio,  portrait  of  George  Thacher  at, 

533- 

Alabama,  governor  and  commissioner  of, 
214,  215,  233  ;  admitted  into  the  union, 
233  ;  sons  of  the  American  revolution  of, 
organized,  402. 

Alaska,  governor  and  commissioners  of, 
216,  233. 

Albany,  X.  Y.,  tenth  battalion  at  military 
parade,  337  ;  portraits  the  property  of 
the  state,  Clinton,  34,  155,  439  ;  Colum- 
bus, 14,  note  ;  Hamilton,  473;  Jay,  479  ; 
Lafayette,  494  ;  Silvester,  123,  419,  527. 

Albers,  C.  F.,  fifth  Md.  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  330. 

Albert  Gallatin,  United  States  revenue  cut- 
ter, at  naval  parade,  202. 

Albertson,  Rev.  C.  C,  address  at  banquet, 
Chicago,  405. 

Albro,  Alfred  T.,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  246  ;  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  262. 

Alcyone  Boat  Club,  Elizabethport,  N.  J., 
presidential  party  embark  from  the  club- 
house of,  184,  197,  199. 

Alden,  Henry  M.,  aide  to  grand-marshal, 
military  parade,  320. 

Alden,  R.  Percy,  at  banquet  of  society  of  the 
Cincinnati.  150  ;  at  banquet,  metropolitan 
opera-house,  358. 

Alden,  Mrs.  R.  Percy,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 

Alden,  William  G.,  at  literary  exercises,  289. 

Alderson,  J.  C,  commissioner  from  West 
Va.,  216  ;  aide  to  grand-marshal,  military 
parade,  320. 

Aldrich,  Elizabeth  W.,  subscriber  to  memo- 
rial arch,  414. 

Aldrich  Estate,  subscribes  to  memorial  arch, 
414. 

Aldrich,  Nelson  W.,  U.  S.  senator  from  R. 
I.,  at  reception  to  president  Harrison,  241  ; 
at  centennial  ball,  25S. 


Aldridge,  D.  R.,  twenty-third  X.  Y.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  337. 

Alemannia  Maennerchor,  at  Madison  square 
concert,  350. 

Alemannia  Quartet  Club,  at  Madison  square 
concert,  350  ;  at  civic  parade,  393. 

Alemannia  Society,  at  civic  parade,  395. 

Alexander,  Henry,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  2O2. 

Alexander,  C.  A.,  fourteenth  Ohio  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  342. 

Alexander,  Charles  B.,  member  of  Pa.  so- 
ciety of  the  Cincinnati,  149,  151  ;  address 
at  commemorative  banquet,  165  ;  at  re- 
ception supreme  court  justices,  402. 

Alexander,  Rev.  George,  favors  holding  re- 
ligious services  April  30,  1S89,  123. 

Alexander  Hamilton,  United  States  revenue 
cutter,  at  naval  parade,  202. 

Alexander,  Henry  A.,  member  of  reception 
committee,  ancestry  of,  230. 

Alexander,  James,  father  of  Lord  Stirling, 
58,  note. 

Alexander,  James  W.,  at  reception  and  ban- 
quet to  president  Harrison,  229,  234  ;  por- 
trait facing  234. 

Alexander,  Mrs.  John  E.,  at  centennial  ball, 
261. 

Alexander,  Marianne,  wife  of  Gen.  Jonathan 

Williams,  453. 
Alexander,   Robert,   portrait  of  Benjamin 

Franklin  painted  for,  453. 
Alexander,  W.  U.,  commissioner  from  Iowa, 

215. 

Alexander,  William,  portrait  of  Benjamin 
Franklin,  property  of,  453. 

Alexandre,  John  E.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246  ;  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  262. 

Alexandria,  Va.,  Washington  entertained 
at,  list  of  toasts,  21  ;  firemen  at  civic 
parade,  X.  Y.,  389  ;  the  celebration  at, 
404. 

Aliano,  Antonio,  at  civic  parade,  392. 

Alison,  Rev.  Francis,  mentioned,  404. 

Alix,  P.  M.,  engraver  of  portrait  of  Benja- 
min Franklin,  448. 

Allaire,  Anthony  J.,  captain  of  police, 
236. 

Allan,  John,  sale  of  his  library,  mentioned, 
471. 

Allen,  A.  E.,  seventh  X.  Y.  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  334. 
Allen,  Andrew,  chief-justice  of  Pa.,  476  ; 

portrait  of,  mentioned,  477. 
Allen,  B.  Nelson,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  262. 

Allen,  Charles  F.,  member  of  general  com- 
mittee, 114,  236;  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  262  ;  at  banquet,  360. 

Allen,  Edward  D.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  262. 

Allen,  Elisha  H.,  consul-general  of  the  Ha- 
waiian Islands,  24S. 

Allen,  Rev.  F.  B.,  officiates  at  centennial 
celebration  services,  Boston,  403. 

Allen,  Henry  W.,  judge  court  of  common 
pleas,  243  ;  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
262  ;  at  banquet,  359. 

Allen,  John  B.,  at  banquet,  359. 


Allen,  Rev.  John  C,  favors  holding  religious 

services  April  30,  18S9,  123. 
Allen,  John  F.,  the  Catlin  portrait  of  Thomas 

Jefferson,  4S6,  note. 
Allen,  John  Penn,  portrait  of  Ralph  Izard, 

property  of,  477. 
Allen,  Messrs.,  portraits  of,  in  painting  of 

Ralph  Izard,  and  fellow-students,  facing 

180. 

Allen,  Miss,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Allen,  Stephen  M.,  the  Savage  portraits  of 
Washington,  544,  note. 

Allen,  William  IL,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 225. 

Allentown,  Pa.,  fourth  regiment,  at  military 

parade,  325. 
Allin,  Louis  L.,  escort  to  president  Harrison, 

223. 

Alline,  W.  H.,  first  corps  cadets,  Boston,  at 
military  parade,  329. 

Allison,  William  B.,  U.  S.  senator  from  Iowa, 
at  reception  to  president  Harrison,  241  ; 
at  literary  exercises,  2S9. 

Alston,  K.,  second  battalion,  S.  C,  at  mili- 
tary parade.  331. 

Altoona,  Pa.,  fifth  regiment  at  military  pa- 
rade, 325. 

Ambler,  Susan  M.,  portraits  of  Robert  Mor- 
ris and  wife,  property  of,  facing  59,  69, 
M5.  514- 

Ambrose,  W.  H.,  eighth  Ohio  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  342. 

America,  represented  in  tableau,  civic  pa- 
rade, 392. 

American  Academy  of  arts  and  sciences, 
Boston,  portrait  of  Franklin,  property  of, 
452- 

American  Academy  of  fine  arts,  X.  Y.,  men- 
tioned, 429,  479,  500. 

American  Art  union,  X.  Y.,  Stuart  medal 
issued  by  the,  531. 

American  Bank-note  company,  signs  call  for 
citizens'  committee,  103. 

American  Bible  Society,  mentioned,  II,  42, 
note ;  founded,  12,  note;  owner  of  por- 
trait of  Richard  Yarick,  facing  36  ;  por- 
traits of  Boudinot,  Jay,  and  Yarick,  prop- 
erty of,  I4J,  145,  429,  4S0,  53S. 

American  Church,  Paris,  France,  services, 
April  30,  1SS9,  406. 

American  College,  Rome,  Italy,  centennial 
celebration  services,  April  30,  1S89,  406. 

American  Philosophical  society,  portraits  in 
possession  of,  Franklin,  444,  453,  454,  461, 
524;  Jefferson,  21,  4S5,  4S9 ;  Lafayette, 
493- 

American  Press,  freedom  of  the,  13. 

American  Revolution,  descendants  of  offi- 
cers of  the,  invited  to  the  celebration.  24S  ; 
sons  of  the,  organized,  402. 

American  Tract  society,  mentioned,  42,  note. 

Americus  Hook  and  Ladder  company,  at 
civic  parade,  3S9. 

Ames,  Rev.  Charles  G.,  officiates  at  centen- 
nial celebration  services,  Boston,  403. 

Ames,  Ezra,  artist,  illustrations  of  his  por- 
traits of  George  Clinton,  facing  34  ;  notes 
on  his  portraits  of  George  Clinton,  Alex- 
ander Hamilton,  and  Gouverneur  Morris, 
439.  4/2,  513- 


INDEX. 


555 


Ames,  Fisher,  representative  in  congress, 
1789,  from  Mass.,  his  services,  8,  135,  232  ; 
escort  to  Washington,  42  ;  his  opinion  of 
Washington's  inaugural  address,  54  ;  at- 
tends services  at  St.  Paul's  chapel  with 
Washington,  55  ;  biographical  sketch  of, 
74 ;  portraits,  painted  by  Sharpless,  facing 
89;  Stuart,  65,  89;  Trumbull,  89;  notes 
on  the  portraits  of,  418,  422,  426. 

Ames,  Miss,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Ames,  Nathaniel,  mentioned,  74. 

Ames,  Oliver,  governor  of  Mass.,  214,  233  ; 
at  reception  to  president  Harrison,  241  ; 
at  centennial  ball,  257  ;  at  military  parade, 
329  ;  portrait,  329  ;  at  banquet,  359. 

Ammidovvn,  E.  H.,  at  banquet,  358. 

Ammidown  &  Smith,  subscribers  to  celebra- 
tion, 400. 

Amoskeag  Veterans,  N.  H.,  at  military  pa- 
rade, 332. 

Amsden,  Charles  H.,  commissioner  from  N. 
H.,  216. 

Amsinck,  Gustav,  consul  of  Portugal,  248. 

Amsterdam,  N.  Y.,  forty-sixth  separate  com- 
pany at  military  parade,  338. 

Ancient  and  Honorable  Artillery  Company, 
Boston,  at  military  parade,  329  ;  view  of, 
330. 

Ancient  Order  of  Hibernians,  at  civic  pa- 
rade, 395,  397. 

Anderson,  Charles  J.,  brigadier-general  of 
Va.  troops,  at  military  parade,  333  ;  por- 
trait, 334. 

Anderson,  E.  Ellery,  member  of  committee 
on  states,  109,  114,  206,  207,  20S,  209,  220, 
228,  236,249  ;  of  general  committee,  114, 
236;  escort  to  president  Harrison,  220; 
at  reception  to  the  president,  231  ;  at  ban- 
quet to  president  Harrison,  234 ;  sub- 
scriber to  centennial  ball,  262  ;  at  banquet, 
metropolitan  opera-house,  359  ;  subscriber 
to  celebration,  400. 

Anderson,  Edward  C,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  222. 

Anderson,  Finley,  at  reception  to  president 
Harrison,  232  ;  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  262  ;  aide  to  grand-marshal,  military 
parade,  320 ;  at  banquet,  358. 

Anderson,  George  E.,  at  banquet,  358. 

Anderson,  George  S.,  U.  S.  army,  escort  to 
grand-marshal,  military  parade,  320. 

Anderson,  Harry  R.,  U.  S.  army,  at  military 
parade,  320. 

Anderson,  Henry,  at  reception  to  president 
Harrison,  232. 

Anderson,  Henry  A.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  262. 

Anderson,  Henry  H.,  at  centennial  ball, 
260  ;  subscriber  to  ball,  263  ;  at  banquet, 
356. 

Anderson,  Lee  O.,  sixth  Ohio  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  342. 
Anderson,  P.  C,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  262. 

Anderson,  Rufus,  commissioner  from  Mo., 
216. 

Anderson  &  Howland,  subscribers  to  me- 
morial arch,  414. 

Andre,  Maj.  John,  takes  possession  of  por- 
trait of  Franklin,  458,  note. 


Andrews,  A.,  lieutenant  fifth  U.  S.  artillery, 
escort  to  president  Harrison,  220. 

Andrews,  A.  D.,  U.  S.  army,  aide  to  grand- 
marshal,  military  parade,  319. 

Andrews,  Charles,  associate  judge,  court  of 
appeals,  N.  Y.,  243  ;  at  banquet,  358. 

Andrews,  Clarence,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 

Andrews,  Constant  A.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Andrews,  Rt.  Rev.  Edward  G.,  at  literary 
exercises,  2S9. 

Andrews,  George  P.,  judge  supreme  court, 
243  ;  at  banquet,  359. 

Andrews,  W.  C,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Andrews,  William  L.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  263. 

Andrews,  William  S.,  excise  commissioner, 
243  ;  subscriber  to  centennial  ball,  262. 

Andrus,  Leroy,  member  of  assembly,  N.  Y., 
242. 

Aner,  Michael,  fifth  battery,  N.  Y.,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  339. 

Angell,  Malcolm  H.,  at  commemorative  ban- 
quet of  society  of  the  Cincinnati,  150  ;  es- 
cort to  president  Harrison,  224. 

Angus,  W.,  engraver  of  portrait  of  Benjamin 
Franklin,  451,  note. 

Annan,  William  C,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Annin,  Benjamin  F.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Anthon,  John,  at  literary  exercises,  289 ; 
member  of  platform  committee,  308  ;  at 
banquet,  35S. 

Anthony,  James  L.,  member  of  floor  com- 
mittee, centennial  ball,  259  ;  at  banquet, 
358. 

Anthony,  Richard  A.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Apgar,  Allen  S.,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son 221. 

Apollo  Singing  Society,  at  Madison  square 
concert,  350. 

Appelles,  Frederick  A.,  fourth  N.  J.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  327. 

Applegate,  Rev.  O.,  at  literary  exercises, 
289. 

Appleton,  Daniel,  member  of  floor  commit- 
tee, centennial  ball,  259  ;  seventh  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  334. 

Appleton,  D.,  &  Co.,  acknowledgment  to, 
in  preface,  vi  ;  subscribers  to  celebration 
and  memorial  arch,  400,  414. 

Appleton,  Daniel  F.,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  104  ;  at  reception  to  president 
Harrison,  232,  247  ;  at  literary  exercises, 
289 ;  subscriber  to  memorial  arch,  414. 

Appleton,  F.  H.,  first  corps  cadets,  Boston, 
at  military  parade,  329. 

Appleton,  F.  R.,  at  banquet,  358. 

Appleton,  Nathan,  at  celebration  of  the 
semi-centennial  of  Washington's  inaugu- 
ration, 96,  99. 

Appleton,  W,  S.,  the  Franklin  medals,  462, 
note. 

Appleton,  William  H.,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  104. 

Appleton,  William  W.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 


Applin,  George  C,  fifth  Mass.  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  329. 
Arbuckle,  J.  W.,  commissioner  from  West 

Va.,  216. 

Arbuckle,  John,  invited  to  meet  president 

Harrison,  245. 
Archer,  E.  A.,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 

263. 

Archer,  J.  B.,  escort  to  president  Harrison, 
223. 

Archer,  Oliver  H.  P.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  263. 

Archer  &  Pancoast,  subscribers  to  celebra- 
tion, 400. 

Architects,  list  of,  invited  to  meet  president 

I  larrison,  244. 
Arco-Valley,  Count  Ludwig  von,  German 

minister,  invited  to  centennial  ball,  257. 
Arent,  A.,  escort  to  president  Harrison,  223. 
Arion  Society,  represented  at  reception  to 

president    Harrison,    231  ;  at  Madison 

square  concert,  350 ;  at  civic  parade,  with 

float,  395. 

Arizona,  governor  and  commissioner  of,  216, 
233- 

Arkansas,  admitted  into  the  union,  233  ; 
governor  and  commissioners  of,  215,  233. 

Arkell,  William  J.,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  246. 

Arkenburgh,  Oliver  M.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  263. 

Arlington  League  Club,  at  civic  parade,  396. 

Arment,  Moses  E.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 221. 

Arminia  Singing  Society,  at  Madison  square 
concert,  350. 

Armitage,  Rev.  Thomas,  favors  holding  re- 
ligious services  April  30,  1889,  123  ;  at 
reception  to  president  Harrison,  232,  244. 

Armour,  Herman  D.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245  ;  subscriber  to  cele- 
bration, 400. 

Armstrong,  David  B.,  at  banquet,  359. 

Armstrong,  David  H.,  commissioner  from 
Mo.,  216,  233. 

Armstrong,  Eleanor,  at  reception  to  George 
Washington,  Trenton,  N.  J.,  26,  note. 

Armstrong,  George  E.,  at  banquet,  358. 

Armstrong,  J.  T.,  tenth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  325. 

Armstrong,  James  E.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Armstrong,  Maj.  John,  letter  to  Gen.  Gates 
on  the  proposed  titles  to  the  president  of 
U.  S.,  39,  note. 

Armstrong,  Mr.,  of  Lancaster,  Pa.,  men- 
tioned, 522. 

Armstrong,  Mrs.  John,  mentioned,  501. 

Armstrong,  William  H.,  escort  to  grand- 
marshal,  G.  A.  R.,  at  military  parade,  345. 

Army  committee,  see  Committees. 

Army  and  Navy  Journal,  criticism  on  the 
marching  of  the  troops,  military  parade, 
347- 

Arne,  Horace  J  ,  of  St.  John's  Lodge,  2S6  ; 

at  literary  exercises,  289. 
Arnold,  Gen.  Benedict,  mentioned,  4,  note ; 

portrait  of,  mentioned,  481,  note. 
Arnold,   Benjamin  G.,  member  of  special 

committee  of  chamber  of  commerce,  102  ; 


556       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


invited  to  moot  president  Harrison,  245  ; 

at  banquet,  360. 

Arnold,  Charles  II.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247  ;  at  banquet,  360. 

Arnold,  Frank  B.,  slate  senator,  N.  Y.,  242. 

Arnold,  John  II .  V.,  president  of  board  of 
aldermen  of  N.  Y.,  address  at  the  Open- 
ing of  the  loan  exhibition,  143  ;  at  ban- 
quet to  president  Harrison,  234,  243  ;  por- 
trait facing  234  ;  at  banquet  metropolitan 
opera-house,  356,  359. 

Arnold,  Jonathan,  agent  from  Vt.  to  con- 
gress, 12,  note. 

Arnold,  Constable  &  Company,  subscribers 
to  celebration  and  memorial  arch,  400, 
4M- 

Arnold  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  Wall  street 
arch,  253. 

Arnoux,  W  illiam  1 1.,  bust  of  Alexander  Ham- 
ilton, properly  of,  473. 

Aronson,  Rudolph,  at  centennial  ball,  261  ; 
subscriber  to  centennial  ball,  263. 

Art,  represented  in  tableau,  civic  parade,  395  ; 
committee  on,  see  Committees. 

Arthur,  Chester  A.,  member  of  general  com- 
mittee, 114,  236;  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263  ;  at  banquet,  360. 

Arthur,  Edward  G.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 222. 

Arthur,  Miss,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Artists,  illustrations  of  portraits,  painted  by, 
Ames,  facing  34 ;  Baricolo,  facing  524  ; 
Birch,  106  ;  BlacUburn,  facing  78,  89 ; 
Blyth,  facing  18  ;  Brandt,  facing  76 ; 
Boucher,  facing  25  ;  Brown  (M.),  facing 
18,  21,  260  ;  Burlin,  facing  39  ;  Carmon- 
telle,  facing  484;  Catlin,  facing  116; 
Chamberlain,  facing  444  ;  Champlain,  fac- 
ing 444  ;  Cochin,  facing  484,  544  ;  Copley, 
facing  17,  36,  46,  172,  180,  260  ;  Danloux, 
facing  46;  Doyle,  facing  18,  89;  Duche, 
facing  45  ;  Dunlap,  facing  42  ;  Duplessis, 
facing  424,  444,  464,  524  ;  Durand,  facing 
115  ;  Du  Simitiere,  facing  172  ;  Duvivier, 
facing  51,  156;  Earle,  facing  3b,  57,  78, 
80,  123,  166,  258  ;  Elmer,  facing  464 ; 
Fairman,  facing  25  ;  Field,  facing  97 ; 
Fragonard,  facing  484 ;  Fulton,  facing 
444;  Fulton  (Mrs.),  facing  156;  Gains- 
borough, facing  59,  464;  Goodridge,  99; 
Greuze,  facing  444,  464;  Harding,  facing 
63,  97,  112,  160,  262  ;  Hathaway,  facing 
91  ;  Herring,  facing  39  ;  Hubard,  facing 
97;  Huntington,  facing  80,  158;  Inman, 
facing  36,  39,  41,  57,  168  ;  Janinet,  facing 
524  ;  Jarvis,  facing  42,  78,  160,  166  ;  Jouett, 
facing  119;  Kilbrun,  facing  59;  King, 
facing  97  ;  Kosciuszko,  facing  is  ',  Leslie, 
facing  464  ;  Leutze,  facing  76;  Liebbers. 
facing  03,  262  ;  Lucientes,  facing  46 ; 
Maier,  facing  76  ;  Malbone,  facing  4r,  42, 
262;  Marston,  facing  89;  Martin  (C), 
facing  57;  Martin  (D.),  facing  424,444; 
Mitchell,  facing  102;  Morse,  facing  17, 
63,  160  ;  Morton,  facing  155  ;  Otis,  facing 
21  ;  Paradise,  facing  108  ;  Pealc  (C.  \V.), 
frontispiece,  facing  6,  9,  10,  18,  21,  26,  28, 
33,  36,  41,  42,  59.  63,  69,  71,  72,  97,  99, 
102,  in,  121,  125,  155,  156,  166,  184,  2C0, 
2C2,  424,  444  ;  1'cale  (J.),  facing  9,  10,  25, 


81,  ill,  125,  258;  Peale  (R.),  facing  21, 
03,  69,  152,  155,  258  ;  Pine,  facing  9,  41, 
67,  69,  78,  99,  158  ;  Pratt,  facing  484  ;  Rae- 
burn,  facing  42;  Ramage,  facing  51,  59, 
76,  92,  lit,  155,  178  ;  Reynolds,  facing  97  ; 
Robertson  (A.),  65  ;  facing  82  ;  Robertson 
(W.),  10  ;  St.  Mentis,  facing  21,  34,  45,  51, 
07,  72,  76,  92,  97,  100,  112,  116,  119,  123, 
160,  260 ;  Savage,  facing  9,  14,  25,  105, 
168 ;  Sene,  facing  108,  258  ;  Sharpless, 
facing  17,  21,  26,  45,  65,  So,  89,  105,  108, 
119,  168,  256,  258  ;  Stuart,  facing  4,  12,  17, 
21,  23,  25,  28,  31,  33,  41,  45,  46,  59,  63, 
65,  69,  72,  78,  89,92,  102,  106,  m,  112, 
115,  121,  123,  150,  155,  156,  160,  172,256, 
258,  260,  262;  Sully   (1..),  facing  156; 
Sully  (T.),  facing  21,  23,  63,  65,  67,  72,  97, 
99,  102,  10O,  160,  166,  262  ;  Thouron,  fac- 
ing 484,  544  ;  Trumbull,  facing  2,  5,  7,  10, 
17,  21,  23,  25,  26,  28,  31,  33,  39,  41,  42, 
45.  4",  51.  59.  65,  67,  69,  71,  72,  78,  80,  82, 
89,  91,92,97,  100,102,  105,  108,  III,  112, 
119,  121,  123,  125,  155,  156,  158,  166,260, 
264,  266,  424  ;  unknown,  facing  23,  25,  26, 
28,  36,  41,  42,  45,  51,  57,  59,  63,  65,  67, 
69,  71,  72,  80,  91,  99,  100,  102,  105,  io8_ 
in,  112,  116,  119,  125,  126,  152,  155,  156, 
166,  168,  256,  258,  260,  262,  444,  464,  484, 
524,  544  ;  V.  \V.,  facing  10  ;  Vanderlyn, 
facing  41,  45,  92,  106,  10S,  115  ;  Waldo, 
facing  51  ;  Waldo  and  Jewett,  facing  65  ; 
West,  facing  31,  57,  III,  180,  258,  484; 
Williams,  facing  91  ;  Winstanley,  facing 
18  ;  Woolaston,  facing  256,  262  ;  Wright, 
facing  10,  14,  31,  34,  71,  91  ;  Zoffany,  facing 
100  ;  invited  to  meet  president  Harrison, 
244. 

Artists,  notes  on  portraits  painted  by,  Ames, 

144,  420,  439,  492,  513  ;  Ashe,  427  ;  Bari- 
colo, 420,  453,  454  ;  Birch,  144,  472,  485, 
543  ;  Blackburn,  419,  421,  442  ;  Blyth, 
420,  421,  425,  426;  Bogle,  510;  Borel, 
460  ;  Boucher,  420,  421,  488  ;  Bounieu, 
461,  note  ;  Brandt,  144,  145,  419  ;  Brown, 

145,  420,  421,  486,  528  ;  Bryant,  535,  540  ; 
Burlin,  420,  421,  498  ;  Carmontelle,  459  ; 
Catlin,  419,  421,  486,  503  ;  Chamberlain, 

420,  421,  457  ;  Champlain,  421,  448,  476; 
Chappel,  491,  497,  512,  514.  524.  527; 
Cochin,  460  ;  Cooper,  526  ;  Copley,  144, 

419,  420,  421,  423,  426,  442,  454,  477-  473, 
495.  497.  note,  501,  502,  509,  517,  524,  528, 
532,  543  ;  Curtis,  543,  549  ;  Danloux,  420, 

421,  515  ;  De  Brehan,  442,  542  ;  De  Hart, 
543;  Dickinson,  531;  Doolittle,  526; 
Doyle,  419,  420,  421,  426,  530  ;  Drinker, 
506;  Duche,  420,  421,  518,  519;  Dunlap, 

420,  421,  537,  542  ;  Duplessis,  144,  418, 
420,  421,  449  ;  Dupr6,  462  ;  Durand,  419, 
421,424,485,  504,  510  ;  Du  Simitiere,  420, 
481,  496,  513,  529,  533,  542  ;  Duvivier, 
474  ;  Earle,  419,  420,  421,  444,  446,  473, 
525,526,529,537;  Eichholtz,  516  ;  Elmer, 
420,  421,  458,  462  ;  Etter,  455  ;  Fairman, 
421,472;  Field,  143,  419.  421,433.485. 
542,  543.  549  I  Filleul,  460 ;  Flagg,  475  ; 
Folwell,  543;  Fragonard,  460;  Frothing- 
ham,  438,  470  ;  Fulton,  144,  419,  420,  421, 
427,  428,  458,  501  ;  Mrs.  Fulton,  420,421, 
500;  Gainsborough,  417,  418,  420,  421, 


456,  478  ;  Gibbs,  470 ;  Goodridge,  145. 
420,  421,  531;  Gray,  479;  Greuze,  418, 

420,  421,  451  ;  Grimaldi,  143  ;  Gulager, 
542;  Harding,  419,  420,  421,  433,  464, 
507,  512,  520,  521,530;  Hathaway,  419, 

421,  518  ;  Ilealy,  452,  480,  485,  494,  507, 

511,  518;  Herring,  420,  421,  445,  492, 
498;  Hicks,  526,  527;  Hoyt,  492;  Hu- 
bard, 419,  421,434  ;  Hunt,  535  ;  Hunting- 
ton, 419,  476,  483  ;  Ingham,  494,  525  ;  In- 
man, 144,  420,  421,  444,  446,  472,  473, 
490,  498,  506,  515,  537,  538  ;  Janinet,  420, 
421,  458;  Jarvis,  145,  419,  420,  421,  428, 
444.  485.  489,  513.  514.  521,  53".  537,  550 ; 
Jay,  438  ;  Jewett,  423  ;  [ocelyn,  463,  464  ; 
Jouett,  419,  421,  432,  494;  Kilbrun,  420, 

421,  428  ;  King,  419,  421,  436,  450,  494, 

512,  526  ;  Kosciuszko,  488  ;  Labatut,  543  ; 
Eatrobe,  143  ;  Eatty,  433  ;  Lavoisier,  45S  ; 
Lawson,  442,  443 ;  Lay,  479 ;  Lazarus, 
524  ;  Leslie,  458  ;  Leutze,  419,  427  ;  Le 
Vachez,  494  ;  Liebbers,  419,  420,  421,  507, 
508  ;  Lienard,  460  ;  Livingston,  501  ; 
Longacre,  507,  514;  Lucientes,  420,  421, 
463  ;  Maier,  478  ;  Malbone,  420,  421,  446, 
467,478,  508,  533;  Marchant,  440,  513; 
Marston,  419,  421,  530;  Martin  (Charles), 
420,421,  473;  Martin  (David),  420,  421, 
453,  454;  Mason,  424;  Meyer,  477; 
Mitchell,  419,  421,  532;  Moore,  144,  145, 
419,  420,  422,  425,  474,  512  ;  Morton,  420, 

422,  515  ;  Myers,  466  ;  Neagle,  531  ;  New- 
ton, 424,  427  ;  Ordway,  452  ;  Otis,  419, 

421,  425,  464,  465,  487,  507,  533,  534; 
Paradise,  419,  422,  442,  445,  509  ;  Peale 
(C.  W.),  143,  144,  145,  417, 418,  419.  420, 

422,  425,  430,  431,  432,  433,  436,  440,  441, 
442,  443,  448,  454,  463,  465,  467,  470,  475, 
479,  482,  487,  490,  491,  492,  494,  495,  496, 
497,  500,  507,  508,  513,  514,  516,  517,  523, 
525,  526,  527,  529,  530,  532,  533,  541,  542, 
543,  544.  548,  549  I  Peale  (J.),  419,  420, 
422,  440,  470,  471,  490.  507,  514,  528,  541, 
542,  544,  546,  548  ;  Peale  (Rembrandt), 
143,  144,  419,  420,  422,  435,  476,  487,  489, 
508  531,  543,  551  ;  Peale  (Rubens),  420, 
422,  481,  487,  489  ;  Peticolas,  543  ;  Pirn, 
460  ;  Pine,  145,  418,  419,  420,  422,  429, 
434,  436,  483,  489,  514,  522,  523,  529,  541, 
542,  543  ;  Polk,  143,  543  ;  Powel,  543  ; 
Pratt,  420,  422,  455,  456,  500;  Raeburn, 

418,  420,  422,  438;  Ramage,  143,  417, 

419,  420,  422,  440,  441,  445,  463,  464,  502, 
503,  541,  542,  544;  Ransom,  487;  Rey- 
nolds, 418,  419,  422,  434,  477  ;  Robertson 
(A.),  144,  419-  420,  422,  471,  479-  535.  541. 
542,  544  ;  Robertson  (W.),  144,  472,  54*i 
542,  544  ;  Rothermel,  475  ;  Rutter,  458  ; 
St.  Memin,  145,  417,  419,  420,  421,  422, 
427,  428,  429,  430,  431,  435,  439-  478,  487. 
500,  502,  506,  518,  520,  523,  524,  527,  536, 
537.  542,  543.  54"  ;  Savage,  144,  145.412, 

420,  422,  426,  436,  440,  446,  455,  464,  489, 
493,  494,  496,  500,  514,  527,  533,  534,  541. 
542,  544,  546  ;  Schaffer,  494  ;  Sene,  419, 
420,  422,  512;  Sharpless  (E),  144,  472; 
Sharpless  (J.),  144,  145,  417,  419,  420,  422, 
425,  427,431,441,467,  470,  474,  487,494. 
495,  499.  500,  507,  512,  533,  540,  543,  549; 
Sicardi,  145  ;  Snyder,  459  ;  Stanley,  521  ; 


INDEX. 


557 


Sloll,  532  ;  Stuart  (G.),  144.  145.  417.  419. 
420,  422,  423,  424,  425-429,  433,  437,  438, 
441,  447,  465,  468,  475,  479-  48o,  483,  489- 
493.  5oo,  501,  504,  507,  508,  510,  5«,5I3. 
514,  517,  520,  522,  523,  524,  527,  528,  530- 
532.  538,  542-546  ;  Stuart  (J.).  491,  531  ; 
Stuart  (W.),  525  ;  Sully  (L  ),  420,  422,  468, 
474;  Sully  (T.),  144,  417,  419,  420,  422, 
429,  433,  435,  461.  474.  4§5.  486,  493,  494, 
50O,  510,  513,  522,  523,  531,  535,  538,  539, 
540  ;  Sword,  492,  523  ;  Thompson,  535  ; 
Thornton,  485  ;  Thouron,  418,  420,  422, 
458  ;  Tisdale,  534  ;  Trolt,  440,  543  ; 
Trumbull,  144,  145,  417-420,  422,  425, 
427,  429.  431,434,  43M38,  440-4i2,445- 
447.  455,  462,  464,  466,  469,  472,  474,  476, 
478-481,  486,  49°-493,  495,  49°,  498,  506, 
508,  512,  514,  516-518,  522,  523-529,  532- 
535,  53S-540,  542,  545,  546,  548-550  ;  Val- 
denuit,  500,  502;  V.  \V.,  420,  541,  545  ; 
Vallee,  144 ;  Vanderlyn,  419,  420,  423, 
463,  464,  489,  499,  500,  506,  508,  511; 
Vanloo,  448  ;  Waldo,  423,  438,  490,  502  ; 
Waldo  and  Jewett,  419,  420,  429,  430  ; 
Weaver,  472  ;  Wedgwood,  460 ;  Wert- 
miiller,  497,  note,  542  ;  West,  419,  420, 
423,  426,  455,  456,  476,  477,  481,  482,  495, 
513,  517,  5l8,  519,  530;  Williams,  41S, 
419,  423,  467,  506,  524,  533,  542  ;  Wilson, 
456  ;  Winstanley,  420,  423,  425  ;  Wood, 
144,  490,  491,  507,  522  ;  Woolaston,  145, 
419, 420,  423,  497,  498,  546,  548  ;  Woolley, 
549  ;  Wright  (G.  F.),  535  ;  Wright  (J.), 
144,  419,  420,  423,  439.  467,  480,  507,  5l6, 
541,  542  ;  Zoffany,  418,  419,  423,  476. 

Artists,  see  Engravers  and  Sculptors. 

Asch,  Morris  K.,  at  banquet,  360. 

Ashe,  John  Baptista,  representative  in  con- 
gress from  N.  C,  90,  135  ;  biographical 
sketch,  90  ;  portrait,  facing  125  ;  notes  on 
the  portrait  of,  418,  423,  427. 

Ashe,  Mrs.  John  Baptista,  portrait  facing 
258  ;  notes  on  the  portrait  of,  423,  427. 

Ashe,  Margaret  L.,  paints  portrait  of  John 
Baptista  Ashe,  427. 

Ashe,  Mary  L.,  portraits  of  John  Baptista 
Ashe  and  wife,  property  of,  427. 

Ashe,  Samuel,  mentioned,  90. 

Ashley,  John  J.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 222. 

Ashman,  A.  L.  &  Son,  subscribers  to  cele- 
bration, 401. 

Aspinall,  Joseph,  member  of  assembly,  N. 
Y.,  242  ;  at  banquet,  359. 

Aspinwall,  George,  of  choir,  St.  Paul's 
chapel,  271. 

Aspinwall,  H.  C,  twelfth  N.  V.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  336. 

Aspinwall,  J.  Lawrence,  at  literary  exer- 
cises, 289  ;  member  of  platform  commit- 
tee, 308,  309. 

Aspinwall,  Lloyd,  member  of  floor  commit- 
tee, centennial  ball,  259  ;  at  banquet,  358. 

Aspinwall,  William  H.,  portrait  of  Wash- 
ington, property  of,  144,  545. 

Assumpink  Creek,  N.  J.,  Washington  crosses, 
24. 

A-tley.  William,  fifth  N.  J.  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  327. 
Astor,  John  Jacob,  member  of  citizens'  com- 


mittee, 104 ;  subscriber  to  celebration, 
400. 

Astor,  John  Jacob,  Jr.,  member  of  general 
committee,  114,  236;  aide  to  chairman  of 
executive  committee,  120 ;  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  263  ;  at  banquet,  358  ; 
member  of  memorial  arch  committee,  409  ; 
subscriber  to  memorial  arch,  413. 

Astor,  William,  at  centennial  ball,  260;  at 
banquet,  356  ;  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  413. 

Astor,  Mrs.  William,  at  centennial  ball,  258. 

Astor,  William  Waldorf,  member  of  com- 
mittee of  sons  of  the  revolution,  106  ;  gen- 
eral committee,  107,  114,  236;  of  commit- 
tee on  entertainment,  112,  113,  236,  256  ; 
guest  of  Stuyvesant  Fish,  258  ;  at  centen- 
nial ball,  260  ;  subscriber  to  ball,  263  ; 
member  of  vestry,  Trinity  church,  at  St. 
Paul's  chapel,  270;  at  banquet,  356,  359  ; 
portrait  of  Margaret  B.  Livingston,  prop- 
erty of,  501. 

Astor,  Mrs.  William  Waldorf,  at  centennial 
ball,  258,  261. 

Astoria  Hook  and  Ladder  company,  at  civic 
parade,  338. 

Atkins,  George  S.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263 

Atkinson,  E.  J.,  memorial  committee,  G.  A. 
R.,  at  military  parade,  345. 

Atkinson,  William  M.,  mentioned,  88,  note. 

Atlanta,  United  States  vessel,  at  naval  pa- 
rade, 193,  201. 

Atterbury,  B.  Bakevvell,  portrait  of  Elias 
Boudinot,  property  of,  430. 

Atterbury,  Boudinot,  member  of  reception 
committee,  ancestry  of,  250. 

Atterbury,  Miss  M.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Auburn,  N.  V.,  second  separate  company,  at 
military  parade,  338. 

Auchincloss,  Edgar  S.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Auchincloss,  Hugh,  at  banquet  to  president 
Harrison,  234. 

Auchincloss,  Hugh  D.,  aide  to  chairman  of 
committee  on  states,  120,  217,  255  ;  escort 
to  president  Harrison,  220  ;  at  banquet, 
358. 

Auchincloss,  John  W  ,  at  banquet,  358  ;  sub- 
cribers  to  celebration,  401. 

Auchincloss  Brothers,  subscribers  to  celebra- 
tion and  memorial  arch,  400,  414. 

Auchmuty,  Richard  T  ,  member  of  general 
committee,  114,  236;  member  of  vestry, 
Trinity  church,  superintends  decoration  of 
St.  Paul's  chapel,  170 ;  escort  to  president 
Harrison  and  vice-president  Morton,  at 
St.  Paul's  chapel,  269,  270 ;  member  of 
special  committee  in  charge  of  services  at 
St.  Paul's  chapel,  281  ;  at  banquet,  358  ; 
subscriber  to  memorial  arch,  414. 

Auchmuty,  Rev.  Samuel,  rector  of  Trinity 
church,  283. 

Auctioneers,  representatives  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  246. 

Austen,  David  E.,  colonel  thirteenth  N.  Y. 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  337. 

Austin,  Amory,  portrait  of  Elbridge  Gerry, 
property  of,  463. 


Austin,  Rev.  E.  A.,  commissioner  from  Alas- 
ka, 216. 

Austin,  Mrs.  F.  B.,  baron  Steuben's  gold 
watch  and  snuff-box,  properly  of,  69,  71  ; 
portraits  of  James  Duane  and  Steuben, 
property  of,  facing  36,  166,  442,  529. 

Austro-Hungarian  sharpshooters,  at  civic  pa- 
rade, 393. 

Authors,  invited  to  meet  president  Harrison, 
244. 

Avery,  Miss,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 
Avery,  Samuel  P.,  portrait  of  Washington, 

property  of,  facing  12  ;  144,  542,  545  ; 

subscriber  to  memorial  arch,  414. 
Avery.  Truman  G,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  263. 

Avignon,  Fiance,  portrait  of  Benjamin  Frank- 
lin in  the  Galerie  Pomrad,  450. 

Avis,  William  A.,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  Wall 
street  arch,  253. 

Awl,  William  W.,  eighteenth  Pa.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  325. 

Axline,  Henry  A.,  adjutant-general  of  Ohio, 
at  military  parade,  341  ;  at  banquet,  361. 

Ayer,  Frederick  F.,  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Ayers,  Mrs.  M.  S.,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Ayling,  A.  D.,  commissioner  of  N.  H.,  208  ; 
adjutant-general  of  N.  H.,  at  military  pa- 
rade, 332  ;  portrait,  333  ;  at  banquet,  361. 

Babbitt,  Mrs.  Benjamin  T.,  subscriber  to 
memorial  arch,  414. 

Babcock,  C.  E  P.,  sixty-fifth  N.  V.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  339. 

Babcock,  D.  S.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
bail,  263. 

Babcock,  the  Misses,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 

Babcock,  Samuel  D.,  acknowledgment  to, 
in  preface,  vii  ;  member  of  special  com- 
mittee of  chamber  of  commerce,  102,  106  ; 
citizens'  committee,  104  ;  of  geneial  com- 
mittee, 107,  1 14,  236  ;  plan  and  scope  com- 
mittee, 109,  112,  225,  236,  317;  escort  to 
president  Harrison,  225  ;  at  banquet  to 
president  Harrison,  234  ;  at  centennial 
ball,  260  ;  subscriber  to  ball,  263  ;  at  lit- 
erary exercises,  289:  at  military  parade,  31 7  ; 
at  banquet,  metropolitan  opera-house,  356, 
360  ;  subscriber  to  celebration,  400  ;  mem- 
ber of  memorial  arch  committee,  409  ;  por- 
trait,413  ;  subscriber  to  memorial  arch, 413. 

Bacchus,  represented  in  tableau,  civic  pa- 
rade, 394. 

Bache,  Richard,  mentioned,  461. 

Bache,  Mrs.  Richard,  mentioned,  461. 

Bache,  Siegmund,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  247. 

Bache,  Thomas  H.,  portraits  of  Benjamin 
Franklin,  property  of,  453,  462,  484. 

Bachman,  F.  H.,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 221. 

Bachman,  Florence  N.,  of  choir,  St.  Paul's 

chapel,  271. 
Bachman,  S., subscriber  tocentennial  ball, 263. 
Backer.  S.  T.,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 

263. 

Backus,  Eunice,  wife  of  Jonathan  Trumbull, 
535,  536. 


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Backus,  Henry  C,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Backus,  Sarah,  wife  of  David  Trumbull,  536. 

Bacon,  Alexander  S.,  colonel  second  pro- 
visional regiment,  N.  Y.,  at  military  pa- 
rade, 337. 

Bacon,  Alfred  T.,  portrait  of  Daniel  Wads- 
worth,  property  of,  539. 

Bacon,  Daniel,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
263. 

Bacon,  Edward,  third  battalion,  S.  C,  at 
military  parade,  331. 

Bacon,  Francis  M.,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  246. 

Bacon,  Henry,  member  of  congress,  N.  Y., 
at  reception  to  president  Harrison,  241. 

Bacon,  John  G.,  signs  call  for  citizens'  com- 
mittee, 104. 

Bacon,  Rev.  Leonard,  mentioned,  534,  note; 
the  Trumbull  miniatures  of  Catharine  and 
Harriet  Wadsworth,  538. 

Bacon,  Rev.  Thomas  R.,  the  Trumbull  min- 
iature of  Harriet  Wadsworth,  539;  por- 
trait of  Mrs.  Jeremiah  Wadsworth,  540. 

Iiadger,  W.  W.,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 221. 

Badger,  William  E.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 221. 

Badger,  William  W.,  escort  to  president 

Harrison,  224. 
Bailey,  Edwin  G.,  fourteenth  Ohio  regiment, 

at  military  parade,  342. 
Bailey,  F.  L.,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 

263. 

Bailey,  Isaac  H.,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  244. 

Bailey,  Mrs.  Isabella  M.,  portrait  of  Henry 
Wynkoop,  property  of,  facing  69,  551. 

Bailey,  John,  mentioned,  548. 

Bailey,  Nathaniel  P.,  member  of  vestry, 
Trinity  church,  at  services  St.  Paul's 
chapel,  270. 

Bailey,  Samuel  II.,  of  Kilpatrick  post,  es- 
cort to  president  Harrison,  221  ;  at  mili- 
tary parade,  345. 

Bainbridge,  A.  R.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Baird,  Andrew  D.,  in  command  seventy- 
ninth  N.  Y.  regiment  veterans,  at  civic  pa- 
rade, 387. 

Baird,  Miss,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Baird,  William,  U.  S.  army,  escort  to  grand 
marshal,  military  parade,  320. 

Baiz,  Jacob,  consul-general  of  Guatemala 
and  Honduras,  248. 

Baiz  &  Wakeman,  subscribers  to  Wall  street 
arch,  253. 

Baker,  Abisha  B.,  member  of  assembly,  N.  Y., 
243. 

Baker,  Amos  II.,  member  of  assembly,  N.  Y., 
242. 

Baker,  Charles  S.,  member  of  congress, 
N.  Y., 

at  reception  to  president  Harrison,  241  ; 
at  bancmet,  359. 

Baker,  F.  C,  fifteenth  Pa.  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  325. 

Baker,  Gardner,  proprietor  of  N.  Y.  museum, 

547.  548. 
Baker,  George,  mentioned,  515. 


Baker,  George  F.,  member  of  citizens'  com- 
mittee, 103 ;  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  244,  245  ;  subscriber  to  memo- 
rial arch,  414. 

Baker,  J.  C,  Jr.,  second  Va.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  333. 

Baker,  John  T.,  escort  to  president  Harrison, 
222. 

Baker,  M.  N.,  sixteenth  Pa.  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  325. 
Baker,  S.  A.,  escort  to  president  Harrison, 

221. 

Baker,  Smith  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Batch,  A.  W.,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
263. 

Balch,  G.  B.,  escort  to  president  Harrison, 
222. 

Balcomb,  II.  C,  seventy-fourth  N.  Y.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  339. 

Baldwin,  Abraham,  member  of  congress 
from  Ga.,  37,  135,  232  ;  portrait,  facing 
76;  member  of  federal  convention,  1787, 
136  ;  biographical  sketch  of,  70,  135  ; 
notes  on  the  portrait  of,  419,  427. 

Baldwin,  Austin,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  246. 

Baldwin,  C.  C,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  245  ;  at  centennial  ball,  260  ; 
subscriber  to  ball,  263  ;  at  banquet,  356, 
361  ;  subscriber  to  memorial  arch,  414  ; 
mentioned,  428. 

Baldwin,  Frederick  H.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223  ;  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Baldwin,  George  R.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  222. 

Baldwin,  Leroy  W.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  263. 

Baldwin,  Michael,  mentioned,  70. 

Baldwin,  Miss,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 

Baldwin,  Octavius  D.,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  104. 

Baldwin,  Simeon  E.,  commissioner  from 
Conn.,  215. 

Baldwin,  Theodore  Z.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  263. 

Baldwin,  Walter  S.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 224. 

Baldwin,  William,  mentioned,  428. 

Baldy,  W.  B.,  twelfth  Pa.  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  325. 

Ball,  May  7,  1789,  city  assembly  rooms, 
N.  Y.,  58  ;  names  of  guests  present,  58  ; 
Washington  dances  in  the  cotillion,  59, 
note  ;  burlesque  account  of  the  ball,  59, 
note  ;  April  29,  1889,  metropolitan  opera- 
house,  programme  of  the  ball,  128  ;  list  of 
invited  guests,  256  ;  foreign  ministers, 
257  ;  number  of  persons  present,  257  ; 
arrival  and  reception  of  president  Harri- 
son, 258  ;  opening  quadrille,  names  of 
those  taking  part,  258  ;  order  of  dancingj 
25S  ;  floor  committee,  259  ;  names  of  per- 
sons present,  259  ;  fac-simile  of  ticket, 
260  ;  list  of  subscribers  to  the  ball,  262  ; 
fac-simile  of  press  ticket,  264  ;  menu  of 
the  supper,  267. 

Ball,  Thomas  P.,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  245. 


Ballantine,  Peter,  invited  to  meet  president 

Harrison,  247. 
Ballard,  F.  II.,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 

263. 

Ballard,  II.  P.,  fifth  Mass.  regiment  at  mili- 
tary parade,  329. 

Ballard,  Sumner,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Ballard,  William  W.,  member  of  N.  T.  soci- 
ety of  the  Cincinnati,  at  commemorative 
banquet,  150. 

Ballou,  Henry  A.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Baltazzi,  Xenophon,  consul-general  of  Tur- 
key, 248. 

Baltes,  Fernando,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Baltimore,  Md.,  mentioned,  19  ;  Martha 
Washington  entertained  at,  2 r,  note;  re- 
ception to  George  Washington,  22  ;  fifth 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  330. 

Baiz,  John,  escort  to  president  Harrison,  223. 

Bancroft,  Edward,  mentioned,  453. 

Bancroft,  George,  at  banquet,  360  ;  men- 
tioned, 362,  369,  487. 

Bancroft,  John  C,  portrait  of  Thomas  Jef- 
ferson property  of,  facing  21,  487. 

Bancroft,  William  A.,  colonel  fifth  Mass. 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  329. 

Banette,  J.  B.,  U.  S.  army,  at  military  pa- 
rade, 320. 

Bangs,  Charles  W.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263  ;  at  reception  of  U.  S.  supreme 
court  justices,  402. 

Bankers,  list  of,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  245. 

Banks,  presidents  of,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Banks,  Bleecker,  at  banquet,  359. 

Banks,  David,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
263  ;  member  of  memorial  arch  committee, 
409. 

Banks,  H.  W.,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  Wall 

street  arch,  253. 
Banks,  Henry  W.,  invited  to  meet  president 

Harrison,  245  ;  at  literary  exercises,  289. 
Banks,  Henry  \V„  Jr.,  member  of  reception 

committee,  230. 
Banks,  Robert  L  ,  invited  to  meet  president 

Harrison,  248  ;  at  banquet,  358. 
Banman,  G.,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 

263. 

Banquet  at  metropolitan  opera-house,  N.Y. 
city,  April  30,  1889,  decorations  of  the 
tables  and  interior  of  building,  354  ;  menu 
of  the  banquet,  355  ;  number  of  guests, 
356  ;  names  of  guests,  356,  358,  361  ;  fac- 
simile of  diagram,  showing  the  location 
of  tables,  357  ;  list  of  toasts  and  senti- 
ments, 362  ;  address  of  mayor  Grant, 
governor  Hill,  363,  364;  fac-simile  of 
ticket  to  the  banquet,  364  ;  address  of 
Grover  Cleveland,  governor  Fitzhugh  Lee, 
chief-justice  Fuller,  senator  Daniel,  Ruth- 
erford B.  Hayes,  senator  Evarts,  general 
Sherman,  Charles  W.  Eliot,  James  Rus- 
sell Lowell,  and  president  Harrison,  366- 
381. 

Banyer,  Maria,  portrait  at  loan  exhibition, 
facing,  149  ;  mentioned,  483. 


INDEX. 


559 


Baptist  church,  N.  Y.  city,  39,  note. 

Bar,  list  of  members  of  the,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  244. 

Bar  association,  N.  Y.  city,  reception  to  the 
justices  of  U.  S.  supreme  court,  402. 

Barbarossa,  Frederick,  represented  in  tab- 
leau, civic  parade,  395. 

Barber,  Amzi  L.p  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Barber,  Thomas  II.,  colonel  twelfth  N.  Y. 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  336  ;  mar- 
shal of  division  A,  civic  parade,  386. 

Barber,  William  P.,  member  of  New  Jersey 
society  of  the  Cincinnati,  at  commemora- 
tive banquet,  150. 

Barbey,  Henry  I.,  at  centennial  ball,  260  ; 
at  banquet,  356  ;  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Barbey,  Mrs.  Henry  I.,  at  centennial  ball, 
261. 

Barbey,  the  Misses,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 

Barbour,  J.  S.,  third  Va.  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  333. 

Barbour,  Lucius  A.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263  ;  adjutant-general  of  Conn  ,  at 
military  parade,  328  ;  portrait,  328  ;  at 
banquet,  361. 

Barbour  Brothers,  subscribers  to  celebration 
and  memorial  arch,  400,  414. 

Barclay,  C.  A.,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
263. 

Barclay,  James  J.,  portrait   of  Benjamin 

Franklin,  property  of,  448. 
Bard,  Samuel,  vestryman  Trinity  church, 

1788,  283. 

Barger,  the  Misses,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 
Barger,  Samuel  F.,  at  centennial  ball,  260 ; 

at  banquet,  356. 
Barger,  Mrs.  Samuel  F.,  at  centennial  ball, 

261. 

Baricolo,  Francois,  artist,  notes  on  his  por- 
traits of  Franklin,  420,  453,  454  ;  illustra- 
tion of  his  portrait  of  Franklin,  facing 
524. 

Barker,  D.  I.,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 
Barker,  Fordyce,  M.  D.,  invited  to  meet 

president   Harrison,  244  ;   subscriber  to 

centennial  ball,  263. 
Barker,  Mrs.  Fordyce  D.,  Jr.,  at  centennial 

ball,  261. 

Barker,  George  P.,  sixteenth  Ohio  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  342. 

Barker,  Lewis,  commissioner  from  Me.,  216; 
at  literary  exercises,  2S9. 

Barker,  William  H.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  248. 

Barlow,  Francis  C,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 222  ;  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  244. 

Barlow,  J.  R.  K.,  fourteenth  N.  Y.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  337. 

Barlow,  Joel,  portrait  at  loan  exhibition,  144. 

Barlow,  Peter  T.,  at  centennial  ball,  261  ; 
at  banquet,  360. 

Barlow,  S.  L.  M  ,  member  of  committee  on 
entertainment,  109,  113,  236  ;  general 
committee,  114,  236  ;  portrait  of  Joel 
Barlow,  property  of,  144  ;  Washington 
vases,  property  of,  facing  149  ;  at  centen- 
nial ball,  260  ;  subscriber  to  ball,  263  ; 


Washington's  prayer-book,  the  property 
of,  281,  note  ;  at  banquet,  356,  359  ;  sub- 
scriber  to  celebration,  400  ;  portrait  and 
statuette  of  Franklin,  property  of,  451,  462; 
mentioned,  471. 

Barnard,  B.  S.,  twelfth  N.  Y.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  336. 

Barnard,  C.  S.,  sixth  N.  J.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  326. 

Barnard,  Daniel  D.,  at  celebration  of  the 
semi-centennial  of  Washington's  inaugu- 
ration, 96. 

Barnard,  Frederick  A.  P.,  invited  to  meet 

president  Harrison,  244. 
Barnard,   Mrs.  G.  G.,  at  centennial  ball, 

262. 

Barnard,  Horace,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 224. 

Barnard,  Levi  R.,  colonel  fifth  N.  J.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  327. 

Barnard,  William  II.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Barnes,  Alfred  C,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Barnes,  C.  W.,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
263. 

Barnes,  Franklin  R.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Barnes,  John  S.,  member  of  committee  on 
navy,  109,  113,  189,  190,  191,  236;  gen- 
eral committee.  114,  236  ;  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  199,  200;  at  centennial 
ball,  261  ;  subscriber  to  ball,  263  ;  at  ban- 
quet, 361  ;  subscriber  to  celebration,  400. 

Barnes,  Martha  S.,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Barnes,  William  D.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  263. 

Barnet,  Isaac  C,  U.  S.  consul-general  at 
Paris,  450,  note. 

Barney,  Charles  T.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263  ;  at  banquet,  358  ;  subscriber  to 
memorial  arch,  414. 

Barney,  L.  T.,  aide  to  grand-marshal,  mili- 
tary parade,  319. 

Barney,  Stella,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Barney,  Stewart,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Barnum,  Henry  A.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  248  ;  at  banquet,  359. 

Barnum's  museum,  N.  Y.,  portraits  of  Will- 
iam Floyd  and  William  B.  Giles,  destroyed 
by  fire  at,  447,  466. 

Barr,  Thomas  F.,  U.  S.  army,  acting  aide 
to  secretary  of  war,  at  naval  parade,  200  ; 
military  parade,  316  ;  at  banquet,  360. 

Barr,  Thomas  T.,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  245  ;  subscriber  to  Wall  street 
arch,  253. 

Barratt,  Oliver,  invited  to  meet  president 

Harrison,  247. 
Barre,  Vt.,  company  E,  first  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  341. 
Barret,  Mrs.  William  F.,  portrait  of  John 

Brown,  property  of,  431. 
Barrett,  George  C,  judge  supreme  court,  243. 
Barrett,  Miss  L.,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 
Barrett,  Lawrence,  subscriber  to  memorial 

arch,  414. 

Barrett,  Thomas  H.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  221,  252. 


Barrett,  W.  C,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
263. 

Barrctte,  J.  Arthur,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Barron,  John  C,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Barrows,  Rev.  John  H.,  at  banquet,  Chicago, 
406. 

Barry,  David,  alderman,  243. 
Barry,  L.  Frank,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 223. 

Barry,  Redmond  J.,  alderman,  243. 

Barry,  William  J.,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 221  ;  at  military  parade,  346. 

Bartell,  E.  L.,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
263. 

Bartholdi  Battalion,  school  No.  15,  Brook- 
lyn, at  civic  parade,  386. 

Bartholdi  Hotel  Co.,  subscribers  to  celebra- 
tion, 401. 

Bartholomew,  George,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  263. 

Bartine,  H.  F.,  commissioner  from  Nevada, 
216,  233. 

Bartlett,  Albert  A.,  eighth  Ohio  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  342. 

Bartlett,  Clifford  A.  H.,  judge-advocate-gen- 
eral, N.  Y.,  242  ;  at  banquet,  358. 

Bartlett,  Franklin,  twenty-second  N.  Y. 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  335. 

Bartlett,  Josiah,  mentioned,  499. 

Bartlett,  Willard,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Bartley,  Ruby,  delegate  from  public  school 
No.  69,  reception  of  president  Harrison, 
city  hail,  238. 

Barton,  Edmund  M.,  acknowledgment  to, 
in  preface,  vi. 

Barton,  George  De  F.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  221,252;  invited  to  meet  the 
president,  245  ;  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Barton,  Oliver  G.,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 223  ;  at  centennial  ball,  261  ;  sub- 
scriber to  ball,  263. 

Barton,  Scott,  member  of  assembly,  N.  Y„ 
242. 

Bartow,  Samuel  B.,  Jr.,  escort  to  president 

Harrison,  224. 
Bascom,  G.  A.,  seventy-first  N.  Y.  regiment, 

at  military  parade,  336. 
Baskett,  Mark,  publisher  of  bible  used  at 

inauguration  ot  Washington,  52,  note. 
Bassett,    Ebenezer   D.,   consul-general  of 

Hayti,  248. 

Bassett,  Mrs.  Ella,  miniature  of  Robert 
Lewis,  property  of,  145. 

Bassett,  Michael,  mentioned,  63. 

Bassett,  Richard,  U.  S.  senator  from  Del., 
10,  135,  232  ;  biographical  sketch  of,  63  ; 
portrait,  by  St.  Memin,  facing  67  ;  mem- 
ber of  federal  convention,  136  ;  notes  on 
the  portrait  of,  422,  428. 

Batcheller,  George  S.,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  243. 

Batchellor,  A.  S.,  mentioned,  82,  note. 

Batdorf,  Edwin,  first  Mo.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  343. 

Bate,  William  B.,  governor  of  Tenn.,  103, 
note. 


560       THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


Bate  man,  Arthur  F..,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  104;  commander  of  yacht 
Meteor,  at  naval  parade,  199;  subscriber 
to  memorial  arch,  414. 

Rates,  Charles  F.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  263. 

Bates,  Charles  S.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  263. 

Hates,  David  II.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Bates,  G.  C,  first  Vt.  regiment,  at  military 
parade,  341. 

Bates,  Joshua,  portrait  of  Franklin,  prop- 
erty of,  457,  458. 

Bates,  Levi  M.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Bates,  NT.  G.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Battery  Park,  N.  Y.  city,  display  of  fire- 
works, 352. 

Battin,  Richard,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Bauer,    Joseph,    member   of  assembly, 

N.  Y.,  242. 
Bauer,  Louis,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  263. 

Bauman,  Col.  Sebastian, designs  fireworks 
for  the  evening  of  the  inauguration  of 
Washington,  47,  57;  mentioned,  54,  note; 
fac-simile  of  his  report,  1789,  showing 
amount  of  powder  used  at  the  in- 
auguration, 55;  his  services,  57,  note. 

Bavarian  Schuetzen  Corps,  at  civic  parade, 
393- 

Baxter,  Archie  E.,aide  to  grand-marshal, 

military  parade,  320. 
Bayard,  Judith,  wife  of  Jeremiah  Van 

Rensselaer,  537. 
Bayard,  the  Misses,    at  assembly  ball, 

1789,  59. 

Bayard,  Nicholas,  alderman  N.  Y.  city, 
1789,  136,  229. 

Bayard,  R.  H.,  portrait  of  Richard  Bes- 
sett,  property  of,  facing  67,  428. 

Bayard,  Thomas  F.,  ancestry  of,  10  ; 
mentioned,  63,  note,  64,  504;  commis- 
sioner from  Delaware,  215,  233  ;  at 
reception  to  president  Harrison,  231, 
248  ;  at  literary  exercises,  289  ;  at  ban- 
quet, 356,  359. 

Bayles,  James  C,  commissioner  board  of 
health,  243. 

Baylies,  Edmund  L.,  at  commemorative 
banquet,  society  of  the  Cincinnati,  149; 
subscriber  to  centennial  ball,  263. 

Baylies,  Rev.  Henry,  portrait  of  Benja- 
min Franklin,  property  of,  458. 

Baylies,  Mrs.  Nathaniel,  at  banquet,  356. 

Baylies,  William,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Bayne,  Samuel  G.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  263. 

Bayonne,  N.  J.,  firemen  at  civic  parade, 
389- 

Bazley,  John  E.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Beach,  Rev.  Abraham,  assistant  minister 
Trinity  church,  N.  Y.,  39,  note. 

Beach,  John  K.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 


Beach,  Lizzie,  at  centennial  ball,  26r. 

Beach,  Mrs.  M.  S.,  miniature  of  Wash- 
ington, property  of,  143,  178,  541,  544. 

Beach,  Miles,  judge  court  of  common 
pleas,  243;  at  banquet,  359. 

Beach,  Warren  C,  member  of  general 
committee,  114,  236;  at  centennial  ball, 
261;  subscriber  to  ball,  263;  at  banquet, 
360;  subscriber  to  celebration,  401. 

Beadle,  H.  B..  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 223. 

Beadleslon,  Alfred  N.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  247. 

Beadleston  &  Woerz,  subscribers  to  cele- 
bration, 400. 

Beagle,  W.  E.,  fifth  battalion,  D.  C,  at 
military  parade,  344. 

Beale,  C.  F.  T.,  twenty-third  separate 
company,  N.  Y.,  at  military  parade, 
338. 

Beals,  Miss,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Beam,  John  R.,  first  battalion,  N.  J.,  at 
military  parade,  327. 

Beaman,  Charles  C,  at  banquet,  361; 
subscriber  to  celebration,  401;  at  recep- 
tion to  justices  U.  S.  supreme  court, 
402. 

Beanham,  W.  H.,  La.  artillery,  at  military 
parade,  343. 

Beard,  James  A.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Beardsley,  Charles  S. ,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  263. 

Beardsley,  Rev.  E.  Edwards,  mentioned, 
489. 

Beardsley,  M.,  invited  to  meet  president 

Harrison,  245. 
Beasley,  W.  F.,  commissioner  from  N.  C, 

216,  233. 

Beaty — Pownall,  Rev.  C.  C,  portrait  of 
Benjamin  Franklin,  property  of,  455. 

Beaumont,  Charles,  mentioned,  505. 

Beaumont,  John  P.,  mentioned,  514. 

Beaver,  James  A.,  governor  of  Pa.,  214, 
233;  at  reception  to  president  Harrison, 
241;  at  centennial  ball,  257;  at  military 
parade,  323;  portrait,  324;  at  banquet, 
359- 

Beavers,  Joseph,  colonel  continental 
army,  282. 

Becht,  Charles,  first  Ohio  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  342. 

Beck,  George  T.,  commissioner  from  Wy- 
oming territory,  216. 

Beck,  James  B.,  U.  S.  senator  from  Ky., 
241. 

Beck,  Louis  D.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Beck,  William  B.,  U.  S.  army,  248  ;  at 
military  parade,  320. 

Becker,  Max  J.,  invited  to  meet  president 
1  larrison,  244. 

Beckford,  Mr.,  portrait  in  painting  of 
Ralph  Izard,  and  fellow  students,  facing 
180;  mentioned,  477. 

Beckhardt,  Joseph,  seventeenth  Ohio  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade  342. 

Beckwith,  J.  Carroll,  at  banquet,  360. 

Beckwith,  John  A.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent I  larrison,  246. 


Beckwith,  Leonard  F.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223,  224  ;  invited  to  meet 
the  president,  244. 

Beckwith,  Miss,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 

Bedell,  Daniel  B.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Bedford,  Gunning,  member  of  federal  con- 
vention, 1787,  136. 

Beebe,  Albert  O.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Beebe,  Charles  E.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Beecher,  John  S.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Beekman,  Charles  K.,  member  of  recep- 
tion committee,  ancestry  of,  230;  at  cen- 
tennial ball,  261. 

Beekman,  Gererd,  at  banquet,  360;  sub- 
scriber to  memorial  arch,  414;  portrait 
of  Mrs.  James  Beekman,  property  of, 
facing  59,  428. 

Beekman,  Henry  R.,  corporation  counsel, 
N.  Y.  243;  at  banquet,  359. 

Beekman,  Mrs.  James,  attends  assembly 
ball,  1789,  59;  portrait,  by  Kilbrun,  fac- 
ing 59;  notes  on  the  portrait  of,  421, 
428. 

Beekman,  James  IL,  at  centennial  ball, 
260;  subscriber  to  ball,  263;  at  banquet. 
356. 

Beekman,  Mrs.  James  H.,  at  centennial 
ball,  261. 

Beekman,  James  William,  member  of  gen- 
eral committee,  114,  236;  at  centennial 
ball,  258;  member  of  floor  committee, 
centennial  ball,  259;  subscriber  to  ball, 
263;  at  banquet,  360;  subscriber  to  cele- 
bration, and  memorial  arch,  400,  414. 

Beekman,  William,  mentioned,  428. 

Beekman,  William  B.,  member  of  com- 
mittee on  entertainment,  109,  113,  236, 
256;  general  committee,  114,  236;  at 
centennial  ball,  261;  subscriber  to  ball, 
263;  at  banquet,  269. 

Beelan,  Frederico  A.,  consul-general  of 
Chili,  248. 

Beers,  William  H.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Beethoven,  Ludwig  van,  hymn  composed 
by.  35 1 ;  represented  in  tableau,  civic 
parade,  394. 

Beethoven  Maennerchor,  at  Madison 
square  concert,  350. 

Beinecke,  Bernhard,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Belcher,  Edward  H.  K.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  246. 

Belden,  James  J.,  member  of  congress 
from  N.  Y.  at  reception  to  president 
Harrison,  241. 

Belknap,  A.  W.,  seventy-first  N.  Y.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  335. 

Belknap,  Charles,  U.  S.  navy,  at  military 
parade,  321. 

Belknap,  Morris  B.,  aide  to  grand-mar- 
shal, military  parade,  320. 

Belknap  Rifles,  Texas,  at  military  parade, 
216,  note,  344. 

Belknap,  Robert  L.,  member  of  general 
committee,   10S,   114,  236;   escort  to 


INDEX. 


56i 


president  Harrison,  224  ;  at  centennial 
ball,  261  ;  subscriber  to  ball  and  cele- 
bration, 263,  400. 

Bell,  Charles  H.,  the  portraits  of  Nicho- 
las Gilman,  466,  467. 

Bell,  Mrs.  Charles  H.,  portrait  of  Nicho- 
las Gilman,  property  of,  facing  105. 

Bell,  Frank  M.,  second  Ohio  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  342. 

Bell,  George,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  247. 

Bell,  Isaac,  subscriber  to  memorial  arch, 
414. 

Bell,  J.  W.,  subscriber  to  celebration, 
401. 

Bell,  Capt.  James  D.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  220,  250. 

Bell,  James  D.,  police  commissioner, 
Brooklyn,  243  ;  at  civic  parade,  390. 

Bell,  M.,  Jr.,  fifth  Pa.  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  325. 

Bell,  M.  L.,  commissioner  from  Arkansas, 

215- 

Bellarosa,  Luigi  B.,  at  civic  parade,  392. 

Belmont,  August,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Belmont,  August,  Jr  ,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223  ;  member  of  reception 
committee,  ancestry  of,  230. 

Belmont,  Mrs.  August,  Jr.,  at  centennial 
ball,  261. 

Belper,  George,  West's  painting  of  the 
U.  S.  commissioners,  1782,  property 
of,  facing  31  ;  portrait  of  John  Jay, 
property  of.  481. 

Belper,  Lord,  portrait  of  Franklin,  prop- 
erty of,  482. 

Belting  Industry,  represented,  civic  pa- 
rade, 397. 

Bement,  Clarence  B.,  portrait  of  Benja- 
min Franklin,  property  of,  451,  460, 
note,  facing  4S4. 

Bend,  Amy.  at  centennial  ball,  2C1. 

Bend,  George  H.,  member  of  floor  com- 
mittee, centennial  ball,  259  ;  subscriber 
to  ball,  263  ;  at  banquet,  361. 

Bend,  Mrs.  George  H.,  at  centennial 
ball,  261. 

Benedict  Brothers,  subscribers  to  cele- 
bration, 401. 

Benedict,  Charles  A.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Benedict.  Charles  L.,  judge  U.  S.  district 
court,  at  literary  exercises,  289. 

Benedict.  James  A.,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to 
Wall  street  arch,  253. 

Benedict,  Legrand  L.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  263. 

Benedict,  Read,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Benedict,  Seelye,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison.  246. 

Beneke,  H.  A.,  twenty-second  N.  Y. 
regiment,  acting  adjutant  first  provi- 
sional regiment  N.  Y.,  at  military  pa- 
rade, 337. 

Benette,  Edward  W.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  263. 

Benhew,  J.  J.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

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Benjamin,  Mrs.  E.  Bedell,  at  centennial 
ball,  262. 

Benjamin,  Frederick  A.,  member  of  com- 
mittee sons  of  the  revolution,  106  ;  of 
general  committee,  107,  114,  236;  es- 
cort to  president  Harrison,  224 ;  at 
centennial  ball,  261  ;  subscriber  to  ball, 
263  ;  at  banquet,  360  ;  subscriber  to 
celebration,  401. 

Benjamin,  Frederick  J.,  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  263. 

Benjamin,  George  P.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224  ;  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  263. 

Benjamin,  Lee  &  Co.,  subscribers  to 
celebration,  401. 

Benn,  W.  C,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Bennett,  Mr.,  curator  of  academy  of  de- 
sign. 531- 

Bennett,  F.  A.,  fourth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  325. 

Bennington,  Vt.,  company  K.,  first  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  341. 

Benson,  E.  G.,  fifth  battalion,  D.  C,  at 
military  parade,  344. 

Benson,  Egbert,  escort  to  Washington, 
28,  42  ;  representative  in  congress  from 
N.  Y.,  37,  232  ;  portraits,  painted  by 
Stuart,  facing  65,  123  ;  Trumbull,  65, 
123  ;  biographical  sketch  of,  88,  notes 
on  the  portraits  of,  144,  422,  428,  429. 

Benson,  James,  second  N.  J.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  327. 

Benson,  Robert,  mentioned,  88,  428. 

Benton,  Josiah  H.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  221,  224;  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  263. 

Beresford,  John  G.,  at  centennial  ball, 
261. 

Berger,  Samuel,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Bergh,  Henry,  member  of  general  com- 
mittee, 108. 

Berghaus,  Alexander,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  247. 

Bergholz.  Leo,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Berkeley  County,  Va.,  country-seat  of 
general  Gates  at,  3,  note. 

Bernard,  J.  J.,  first  N.  C.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  340. 

Bernheim,  Abram.  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  263;  at  literary  exercises,  289. 

Bernheim,  J.  C,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Berrand,  E.  J.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Berry,  A.  S.,  commissioner  from  Ky.,  216. 

Berry,  Annie,  delegate  from  normal  col- 
lege, reception  of  president  Harrison, 
city  hall,  237. 

Berry,  Earl,  at  laying  of  corner-stone 
memorial  arch,  413. 

Berry,  Frank  W.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Berry,  J.  J.,  first  N.  J.  regiment,  at  mili 

tary  parade,  326. 
Berry,  S.  S.,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball. 

263. 


Berryman,  Miss,  at  centennial  ball,  26:. 
Bertc-I  Thorwaldson's  Association,  at  civic 

parade,  392. 
Berlini,  Bartolonco,  at  civic  parade,  392. 
Bertron,  S.  R.,  commissioner  from  Miss., 

216. 

Bcrtschmann,  Jacob,  consul  of  Switzer- 
land, 249. 

Berwin,  Edward  J.,  subscriber  to  me- 
morial arch,  414. 

Betts,  A.  A.,  fourth  Conn,  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  329. 

Betts,  Rev.  Beverley  R.,  portraits  of  Will- 
iam Duer  and  Lady  Kitty  Duer,  prop- 
erty of,  443. 

Betts,  Fanny,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Betts,  Frederick  H..  subscriber  to  memo- 
rial arch,  414. 

Betts.  George  F.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Betts,  Samuel  R.,  at  semi-centennial  cele- 
bration of  the  inauguration  of  Washing- 
ton, 96. 

Betts,  William,  portraits  of  Col.  William 
Duer  and  Lady  Kitty  Duer,  painted  for, 
443- 

Bianchi,  Victoria,  at  civic  parade,  392. 

Bibb,  William  G.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  263. 

Bibby,  Andrew  A.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Bibby,  Artemus,  at  banquet,  359. 

Bibby,  Henry  W.,  member  of  floor  com- 
mittee, centennial  ball,  259;  at  banquet, 
358. 

Bibles,  views  of  the  bible  upon  which 
Washington  took  the  oath  of  office,  45, 
51,  52,  53;  of  Mrs.  Mary  Ball  Washing- 
ton, 67,  146;  of  Thomas  Jefferson,  186. 

Bicker,  Major  Henry,  escort  to  Washing- 
ton, 43. 

Bicker,  Henry  K.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 221 ;  invited  to  meet  the  president, 
248. 

Biddle,  Christine,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Biddle,  Henry  W. ,  portrait  of  Benjamin 
Franklin,  properly  of,  facing  424,  453. 

Bierer,  D.  M.,  tenth  Pa.  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  325. 

Bierstadt,  Albert,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  244;  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Bierstadt,  Edward,  acknowledgment  to, 
in  preface,  v;  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  247;  at  literary  exercises,  289; 
mentioned,  43S,  471. 

Bigelow,  Charles  E.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Bigelow,  Clarence  O.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Bigelow,  John,  acknowledgment  to,  in  pref- 
ace, vi ;  portrait  of  Benjamin  Franklin, 
property  of,  144,  facing  424,  449,  and 
note;  the  Greuze  portrait  of  Franklin, 
452,  note;  the  Huntington  collection  of 
Franklin  portraits,  462. 

Biggs,  Benjamin  T.,  governor  and  com- 
missioner of  Delaware,  208.  212,  214, 
233  ;  at  reception  to  president  Harrison, 
241;  at  centennial  ball,  257;  subscriber 


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to  centennial  ball,  2(13;  at  military  pa- 
rade, 322;  portrait,  323;  at  banquet,  359. 
Biggs,  Marion,  commissioner  from  Cal., 
215. 

Biglin,  Philip  S.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 221 ;  invited  to  meet  the  president, 
246,  247;  at  military  parade,  346. 

Hillings,  Chester,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Hillings,  Frederick,  subscriber  to  memo- 
rial arch,  414. 

Hillings,  J.  N.,  ninth  X.  Y.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  335. 

Binford,  J.  M.,  fourth  Va.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  333. 

Bingham,  David  A.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Bingham,  S.  Dexter,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  221;  at  military  parade,  345. 

Bingham,  William,  mentioned,  545. 

Bingham,  Mrs.  William,  portrait  of,  men- 
tioned, 479,  545. 

Binghamton,  N.  Y.,  twentieth  separate 
company,  and  sixth  battery,  at  military 
parade,  338. 

Binon,   ,  sculptor,  his  bust  of  John 

Adams,  426. 

Biographical  Notes,  Ames,  Fisher,  8,  74; 
Ashe,  John  B.,  90  ;  Baldwin,  Abraham, 

37,  70;  Baricola,  Frangois,  453,  note ; 
Barnet,  Isaac  C,  450,  note;  Bassett, 
Richard,  10,  63;  Benson,  Egbert,  37, 
88;  Bland,  Theodorick,  11,  note,  83; 
Bleecker,  Leonard,  42,  note;  Blood 
worth,  Timothy,  92;  Blyth,  Robert, 
425,  note;  Boudinot,  Elias,  11,  68; 
Bourne,  Benjamin,  93;  Bourne,  Syl- 
vanus,  17;  Brehan,  Madame  de,  59, 
note;  Broome,  John,  40,  note;  Brown, 
John,  84;  Bryan,  Thomas  J.,  508,  note; 
Burke,  jEdanus,  37,  80;  Butler,  Pierce, 
80;  Cadwalader,  Lambert,  37,  68;  Car- 
roll, Charles,  38,  77  ;  Carroll,  Daniel, 
77;  Chew,  Harriet,  437;  Chew,  Sophia, 
437  ;  Clymer,  George,  37,  64;  Cochin, 
Charles  N.,  460,  note;  Cogswell,  Mason 
F.,  534,  note;  Coles,  Edward,  504,  not' 
Coles,  Isaac,  37,  84;  Coles,  Mrs.  Isaac 
441,  note;  Contee,  Benjamin,  37,  78; 
Dalton,  Tristram,  6,  38,  74;  Dickinson 
Philemon,  69;  Doyle,  W.  M.  S.,  530, 
note;  Duane,  James,  58,  note;  Duer 
William,  59,  note;  Duplessis,  Joseph  S., 
449,  note;  Du  Simitiere,  P.  E.,  481,  note; 
Elmer, Jonathan,  10, 69;  Elmer, Stephen, 
457,  note;  Ellsworth,  Oliver,  7,72;  Few, 
William,  8,  71;  Fish,  Nicholas,  42,  note; 
Fitzsimons,  Thomas,  37,  64;  Floyd, 
William,  37,  89;  Foster,  Abiel,  82;  Fos- 
ter, Theodore,  93,  Fragonard,  Honore, 
460,  note;  Gale,  George,  78;  Gardoqui, 
Don  Diego  de,  32,  note;  Gerry,  El- 
bridge,  8,  74;  Gerry,  Mrs.  El  bridge, 
441,  note;  Giles,  William  B.,  84;  Gil- 
man,  Nicholas,  II,  82;  Goodhue,  Ben- 
jamin, 11,  75;  Grayson,  85,  467,  note; 
Greuze,  Jean  B.,  451,  note;  Griffin,  Mrs. 
Cyrus,  59,  note;  Griffin,  Samuel,  85; 
Grout,  Jonathan,  37,  75;  Gunn,  James, 

38,  71;   Hartley,  Thomas,  9,  64;  Ha- 


thorn, John,  37,  89;  Hawkins,  Benjamin, 
92;  Henry,  John,  38,  78;  Hiestcr, Daniel, 
65;  Howell,  Richard,  26,  note;  Huger, 
Daniel,  37,  80;  Huntington,  Benjamin, 
8,  72;  Izard,  Ralph,  38,  80;  Jackson, 
James,  37,  71;  Johnson,  William  S.,  6, 
72;  Johnston,  Samuel,  92;  Jouett,  Mat- 
thew H  ,  432,  note;  Kilbrun,  Lawrence, 
428,  note;  King,  Rufus,  89;  Langdon, 
John  S.,  82;  Latty,  Michael,  433,  note; 
Laurance,  John,  37,  89;  Lee,  Richard 

B.  ,  86;  Lee,  Richard  H.,  10,  86;  L'En- 
fant,  Pierre  C,  14;  Leonard,  George, 
8,  75;  Lewis,  Morgan,  42,  note;  Linn, 
Rev.  William,  39,  note;  Livermore, 
Samuel,  82;  Livingston,  John  R.,  42, 
note;  Low,  Samuel,  29,  note;  Lucientes, 
Francisco  G.,  463,  note;  Maclay,  Will- 
iam, 8,  65;  Madison,  James,  11,  86; 
Madelina,  Susanna,  449,  note;  Malcom, 
William,  35,  note;  Mathews,  George. 
72;  Monroe,  James,  86;  Moore,  An- 
drew, 87;  Morris,  Robert,  8,  24,  note, 
66;  Morton,  Eliza,  35,  note;  Morton, 
Jacob,  51,  note;  Moustier,  Comte  de, 
32,  note;  Muhlenberg,  F.  A.,  9,  66;  Muh- 
lenberg, J.  P.  G.,  9,  66;  Osgood,  Sam- 
uel, 36,  note;  Otis,  Samuel  A.,  51,  note; 
Page,  John,  87;  Paradise,  John,  509, 
note;  Parker,  Josiah,  87;  Partridge, 
George,  37,  76;  Paterson.  William,  9, 
70;  Provoost,  Bishop,  39,  note;  Quincy, 
Mrs.  Josiah,  35,  note;  Ramage,  John, 
445,  note,  544;  Read,  George,  38,  63; 
Robertson,  Archibald,  544;  Robertson, 
Walter,  544;  Russell,  Mehitabel,  540; 
St.  Memin,  C.  B.  J.  F.  de,  546;  Schure- 
man,  James,  70;  Schuyler,  Philip,  90; 
Scott,  Thomas,  68;  Scriba,  George  L. 

C,  31,  note;  Sedgwick,  Theodore,  76; 
Seney,  Joshua,  37,  79;  Sevier,  John,  92; 
Sherman,  John,  92;  Sherman,  Roger, 
11,  73;  Silvester,  Petc-r,  37,  90;  Sin- 
nickson,  Thomas,  37,  70;  Smith,  Will- 
iam, 79;  Smith,  William  L.,  37,  81; 
Smith,  William  S.,  42,  note;  Stanton. 
Joseph,  94;  Steele,  John,  93;  Stewart, 
Christina,  59,  note;  Stone,  Michael  J., 
80;  Strong,  Caleb,  6,  76;  Sturges,  Jona- 
than, 11,  73;  Sumter,  Thomas,  81;  Tem- 
ple, Sir  John,  31,  note;  Thacher,  George, 
8,  76;  Thomson,  Charles,  18,  19,  note; 
Thompson,  James,  441,  note;  Thornton, 
William,  485,  note;  Trumbull,  Faith, 
534,  note;  Trumbull,  Jonathan,  9,  73; 
Tucker,  Thomas  T.,  81;  Van  Dorsten, 
Rudolph.  49,  note;  Van  Rensselaer, 
Jeremiah,  90:  Van  Zandt,  Jacobus,  59, 
note;  Venable,  A.  B.,  466,  note;  Vena- 
ble,  R.  N.,  466,  note;  Vining,  John  M., 
64;  Wadsworth,  Mrs.  Daniel,  534,  note; 
Wadsworth,  Jeremiah,  9,  74;  Wads- 
worth,  Mrs.  Jeremiah,  540;  Walker. 
John,  88;  Walton,  Catherine,  441,  note; 
Webb,  Samuel  B.,  42,  note;  West,  Ben- 
jamin, 83;  White,  Alexander,  88;  Will- 
iamson, Hugh,  93;  Wilson,  Benjamin, 
456,  note;  Wingate,  Paine,  6,  note,  83; 
Wynkoop,  Henry,  68  ;  Zoffany,  John, 
476,  note. 


Birch,  William,  artist,  illustration  of  his 
portrait  of  Jefferson,  106  ;  notes  on  por- 
traits painted  by,  of  Hamilton,  144,  472  ; 
Jefferson,  144,  485  ;  Washington,  543. 

Birchby,  Rev.  H.  G.,  favors  holding  relig- 
ious services  April  30,  1889,  123. 

Bird,  John  II.,  member  of  general  com- 
mittee, 114,  236  ;  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  263  ;  at  banquet,  360. 

Birmingham,  Ala.,  the  celebration  at,  405. 

Birmingham,  Conn.,  firemen  at  civic  pa- 
rade, 3S9. 

Birmingham,  R.  H.,  escort  to  president 

Harrison,  221  ;  at  military  parade,  346. 
Bishop,  George  H.,  thirty-second  N.  Y. 

regiment,  at  military  parade,  337. 
Bishop,  Heber  R.,  member  of  citizens' 

committee,  104. 
Bissell,  E.,  escort  to  president  Harrison, 

223. 

Bissell,  Eugene,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 224. 

Bissell,  Pelham  St.  G.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  263. 

Bissell,  William  H.,  member  of  general 
committee,  114,  236  ;  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  224  ;  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  263  ;  at  banquet,  360. 

Bissinger,  Philip,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Blackburn,  Jonathan,  artist,  portrait  of 
Tristram  Dalton,  facing  89  ;  of  William 
S.  Johnson,  facing  78  ;  number  of  con- 
gressmen painted  by,  412  ;  notes  on  his 
portraits  of  Dalton  and  Johnson,  421, 
442. 

Blackburn,  Joseph  C.  S.,  U.  S.  senator 
from  Ky.,  at  reception  to  president 
Harrison,  241. 

Blackford,  Eugene  G.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  246. 

Bladen,  Charles  H.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Blagden,  George,  subscriber  to  celebra- 
tion, 401. 

Blagden,  George  M.,   invited    to  meet 

president  Harrison,  245. 
Blagden,  Samuel    P.,    invited   to  meet 

president  Harrison,  246. 
Blagge,  Benjamin,  alderman,  N.  Y.  city, 

1789,  136,  229. 
Blaine.  James  G.,  secretary  of  state,  U.  S., 

126  ;  illness  prevents  his  attendance  at 

the  banquet,  metropolitan  opera-house, 

362,  371  ;  the  Ceracchi  bust  of  Madison, 

504. 

Blaine,  Walker,  representative  of  U.  S. 
state  department,  at  naval  parade,  200, 
219,  225  ;  at  banquet  to  president  Har- 
rison, 227,  229  ;  at  literary  exercises, 
289  ;  at  banquet,  metropolitan  opera- 
house,  361. 

Blair,  Rev.  John,  mentioned,  65. 

Blair,  John,  member  of  federal  conven- 
tion, 17S7,  136. 

Blake,  Charles  P.,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y..  242. 

Blake,  Hortcnse,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  3,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  237. 


INDEX. 


563 


Blanchard,  A.  C„  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Blanchfield,  William,  member  of  assem- 
bly, N.  Y.,  242. 

Blanck,  T.  J.,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 222. 

Blanck,  T.  J.,  2d,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 222. 

Blanck,  W.  F.,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 222. 

Bland,  George  W.,  third  Ohio  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  342. 

Bland,  Theodorick,  Sr.,  mentioned,  83. 

Bland,  Theodorick,  member  of  congress 
from  Va.,  II,  232  ;  escort  to  Washing- 
ton, 28  ;  biographical  sketch  of,  83  ;  no 
portrait  of,  418,  429  ;  mentioned,  521. 

Bland,  Theodorick,  chancellor  of  Md. , 
note  on  the  portrait  of,  429. 

Blashfield,  Edwin  H.,  hisdesignsof  cen- 
tennial souvenir,  facing  136,  140,  141  ; 
at  banquet,  360. 

Blatchford,  Samuel,  associate-justice  of 
the  U.  S.  supreme  court,  at  naval  par- 
ade, 200  ;  at  banquet  to  president  Har- 
rison, 234  ;  portrait,  facing  234  ;  at 
centennial  ball,  257,  259  ;  at  military 
parade,  317  ;  at  banquet,  metropolitan 
opera-house,  359  ;  fac-simile  of  his 
ticket  to  banquet,  364  ;  reception  to, 
402. 

Blatchford,  Mrs.  Samuel,  at  centennial 
ball,  259. 

Bleecker,  Charles  B.,  at  literary  exercises, 
285,  289  ;  member  of  platform  commit- 
tee, 308,  309  ;  aide  to  grand-marshal, 
military  parade,  320. 

Bleecker,  James,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 223. 

Bleecker,  Maj.  Leonard,  portraits  of, 
painted  by  Pine  and  unknown,  facing 
41;  escort  to  Washington,  41,  285,  note; 
his  services,  41,  note  ;  notes  on  the  por- 
trait of,  422,  423,  429. 

Blenker,  Gen.  Louis,  lepresented  in  tab- 
leau, civic  parade,  393. 

Bliss,  Archibald  M.,  member  of  congress 
from  N.  Y.,  at  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  241. 

Bliss,  Cornelius  N.,  acknowledgment  to, 
in  preface,  v,  vi,  vii;  member  of  special 
committee  of  chamber  of  commerce, 
102;  of  citizens'  committee,  104;  gen- 
eral committee,  107,  114,  236;  executive 
committee,  108  ;  plan  and  scope  com- 
mittee, 108,  109,  112,  225,  236,  317; 
member  of  publication  committee,  122; 
escort  to  president  Harrison,  225;  at 
banquet  to  the  president  234,  246  ; 
at  centennial  ball,  260  ;  subscriber  to 
ball,  263;  at  military  parade,  317;  at 
banquet,  metropolitan  opera-house,  356, 
359  ;  subscriber  to  celebration  and  me- 
morial arch,  400,  414. 

Bliss,  Mrs.  Cornelius  N.,  at  centennial 
ball,  261. 

Bliss,  George,  member  of  general  com- 
mittee, 108,  114,  236;  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  244;  at  banquet, 
360. 


Bliss,  George  T.,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  263;  at  banquet,  358. 
Bliss,  Tasker  H.,  U.  S.  army,  aide  to 

general  Schofield,  at  naval  parade,  198; 

aide  to  grand-marshal,  military  parade, 

3I9- 

Bliss,  William  M.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Bliss,  Fabyan  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  me- 
morial arch,  414. 

Bliss ville,  N.  Y.,  firemen  at  civic  parade, 
389. 

Block,  J.  C.  C,  commissioner  from  Ga., 
215. 

Blodget,  William,  at  banquet  society  of 

the  Cincinnati,  150. 
Blodgett,  Tilden,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  263. 

Bloodgood,  Delavan,  U.  S.  navy,  escort 
to  president  Harrison,  248,  252. 

Bloodgood,  John,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison.  245;  at  centennial  ball, 
261;  subscriber  to  ball,  263. 

Bloodworth,  Robert  N.,  mentioned,  429. 

Bloodworth,  Timothy,  representative  in 
congress  from  N.  C,  biographical 
sketch,  92;  no  portrait  of,  418,  429. 

Bloomingdale,  L.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  263. 

Bloomingdale  Liederkranz,  at  Madison 
square  concert,  350. 

Blount,  William,  member  of  federal  con- 
vention, 1787,  136. 

Blumenthal,  Joseph,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  242;  at  banquet,  359. 

Blunt,  Albert  C,  U.  S.  army,  aide  to 
grand-marshal,  military  parade,  319. 

Blunt,  E.  C,  at  centennial  ball,  257. 

Blunt,  John,  at  semi-centennial  celebra 
tion  of  the  inauguration  of  Washing- 
ton, 96. 

Blunt,  Stanhope  E.,  U.  S.  army,  chief 

aide  to  the  chairman  of  committee  on 

army,  120;  chief  aide  to  grand-marshal, 

military  parade,  315,  319. 
Blyth,  James,  artist,   portraits  of  John 

Adams  and  wife,  painted  by,  facing  18, 

420,  421,  425,  426. 
Bochert,  G.,  eighteenth  Pa.  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  325. 
Bogardus,  Edward  W. ,  invited  to  meet 

president  Harrison,  247. 
Bogart,  John,  state  engineer,  N.  Y.,  242  ; 

invited  to   meet   president  Harrison, 

244;  at  banquet,  359. 
Bogert,  Albert  G.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 
Boggs,  J.    Lawrence,    invited    to  meet 

president  Harrison,  248. 
Boggs,  Mrs.  J.    Lawrence,    portrait  of 

William  Paterson,  property  of,  facing 

72,  518. 

Boggs,  J.   Lawrence,  Jr.,  subscriber  to 

centennial  ball,  263. 
Bogle,  James,  artist,  his  portrait  of  James 

Monroe,  510. 
Bohemian  National  Association,  at  civic 

parade,  396. 
Bohrmann,   Herrman,   invited   to  meet 

president  Harrison,  247. 


Boice,  Alonzo,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Bok,  Edward  W.,  subscriber  toccntennial 
ball,  263. 

Bole,  J.  K.,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
263. 

Boiling,  Thomas,  Jr.,  the  miniature  of 
Patrick  Henry,  475,  note. 

Boiling,  Mrs.  Thomas,  Jr.,  portrait  of  Pat- 
rick Henry,  property  of,  facing  166  474. 

Bonalde,  Juan  A.  P.,  consul-general  of 
Salvador,  248. 

Bond,  Phineas,  British  consul  at  Phila., 
one  of  the  founders  of  the  University  of 
Pa.,  24,  note. 

Bonfils,  Sereno  D.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Bonham,  M.  S.,  Jr.,  adjutant-general  of 
S.  C,  at  military  parade,  331  ;  por- 
trait, 332  ;  at  banquet,  361. 

Bonnaffon,  S.,  colonel  third  Pa.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  324. 

Bonner,  Robert,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Boody.  David  A.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Book  Publishers,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Booker,  William  L.,  consul-general  of 
Great  Britain,  248. 

Bookstaver,  Henry  W.,  judge  court  of 
common  pleas,  243  ;  at  literary  exer- 
cises, 289  ;  at  banquet,  359. 

Boone,  B.  G.,  commissioner  from  Mo., 
216. 

Booth,  Edwin,  member  of  general  com- 
mittee, 114,  236  ;  subscriber  to  celebra- 
tion and  memorial  arch,  400,  414. 

Booth,  Rev.  Robert  R.,  favors  holding 
religious  services  April  30,  1889,  123. 

Borden,  Elizabeth,  at  reception  to  Wash- 
ington, at  Trenton,  N.  J.,  26,  note. 

Borden,  Matthew  C.  D.,  park  commis- 
sioner, 243  ;  at  banquet,  359. 

Borel,  A.,  paints  allegorical  portrait  of 
Benjamin  Franklin,  460. 

Borg,  Simon,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  cele- 
bration and  memorial  arch,  400,  413. 

Borrowe,  Halle tt  A.,  aide  to  governor  Hill, 
at  reception  to  president  Harrison,  229; 
at  centennial  ball,  261 ;  member  of  aisle 
committee,  St.  Paul's  chapel,  272,  282, 
283  ;  ancestry  of,  282  ;  at  unveiling  of 
memorial  tablet,  283  ;  at  literary  exer- 
cises, 289  ;  at  banquet,  358. 

Borrowe,  Samuel,  member  of  committee 
on  states,  112,  113,  206,  207,  208,  209, 
220,  228,  236,  249,  255  ;  general  com- 
mittee, 114,  236;  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  220  ;  at  banquet  to  the  presi- 
dent, 229,  234;  at  centennial  ball,  260, 
261;  subscriber  to  ball,  263;  at  literary 
exercises,  289;  at  banquet,  metropolitan 
opera-house,  356,  360  ;  portrait  of  Mrs. 
James  Beekman,  property  of,  428. 

Borrowe,  W.  K.,  at  banquet,  358. 

Bors,  Christian,  consul  of  Norway  and 
Sweden,  248. 

Bossieux,  C.  G.,  first  Va.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  333. 


564       THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


Boston,  Mass.,  convention  of  17S8,  meet 
at  3  ;  arrival  and  reception  of  John 
Adams,  17  ;  fifth  regiment  and  first 
corps  of  cadets,  with  ancient  and  hon- 
orable artillery  company,  signal  and 
ambulance  corps,  at  military  parade, 
N.  Y.,  329;  the  celebration  and  1  elis- 
ions services  at,  413  ;  portraits,  prop- 
erty of  the  city,  of  John  Adams,  426  ; 
Fisher  Ames,  427;  Benjamin  Franklin, 
facing  464  ;  Elbridge  Gerry,  463;  gen. 
Knox,  facing  28,  492;  Samuel  A.  Otis 
and  wife,  517;  and  Caleb  Strong, 
530. 

Boston,  United  States  vessel,  at  naval 
parade,  193,  I95,  201. 

Boston  Athen.xum,  portraits  in  possession 
of,  John  Adams,  424,  426;  Fisher  Ames, 
427;  Franklin,  451,  461 ,  facing  464,  524; 
Hamilton,  473;  Jay,  483;  Lafayette,  493; 
Gilbert  Stuart,  531  ;  George  Washing- 
ton, facing  12,  542,  545;  and  Martha 
Washington,  facing  12,  546. 

Boston  Museum,  portraits  in  possession 
of,  John  Adams,  facing  18  ;  Charles 
Carroll,  facing  63,  435;  George  Clymer, 
440;  gen.  Humphreys,  facing  155,  476  ; 
Jay,  482  ;  Jefferson,  485  ;  gen.  Knox, 
facing  168,  492:  Chancellor  Livingston, 
500;  Madison,  506;  Monroe,  510;  Caleb 
Strong,  facing  89,  530;  and  the  Wash- 
ington family,  544,  note;  Savage's  pic- 
ture "  signing  of  the  declaration  of  in- 
dependence,"  property  of,  426,  436, 

446,  455.  404,  489. 497.  514.  527.  534  ; 
West's  picture  of  the  U.  S.  commission- 
ers, 1782,  property  of,  482. 

Boston  Public  Library,  portraits  of  Ben- 
jamin Franklin,  property  of,  449,  450, 
451,  460,  462  ;  collection  of  Franklin 
engravings  at  the,  458,  note. 

Bostonian  Society,  portraits  of  Samuel  A. 
Otis  and  Caleb  Strong,  property  of, 
517.  530. 

Bostwick,  Jabez  A.,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  103  ;  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  244. 

Bostwick,  William  C,  sixth  Ohio  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  342. 

Botessi,  Demetrius  N.,  consul-general  of 
Greece,  248. 

Botsford,  C.  H.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Bouche,  Auguste  G.  L.,  artist,  portrait 
of  Thomas  Jefferson,  painted  by,  fac- 
ing 25,  420,  421,  488. 

Boudinot,  Elias,  member  of  congress  from 
N.  J.,  11,  135,  232  ;  Washington  the 
guest  of,  28  ;  escort  to  Washington,  28  ; 
letter  to  his  wife  describing  Washing- 
ton'sjourney  from  Elizabethtown,  N.  J., 
to  N.  Y.,  28  ;  portraits  of,  painted  by 
C.  W.  Peale,  facing  63,  72;  St.  Memin, 
72  ;  Sully,  72  ;  unknown,  63  ;  Waldo 
and  Jewctt,  65  ;  biographical  sketch  of, 
68  ;  notes  on  the  portraits  of,  144, 
418,  421,  422,  423,  429,  430;  portrait  of 
Hamilton,  property  of,  470. 

Boudinot,  Mrs.  Elias,  portraits  of,  painted 
by  C.  W.  Peale,  facing  260  ;  unknown, 


262;  notes  on   the  portraits  of,  144, 
422,  423,  430. 
Boudinot,  Elisha,  portrait  of,  mentioned, 
429,  note. 

Boudinot,  Miss  J.  J.,  owner  of  portraits  of 
Elias  Boudinot,  facing  63,  72,  430; 
Mrs.  Elias  Boudinot,  facing  260,  262, 
431;  Mrs. William  Bradford,  144;  George 
Washington,  facing  4,  143,  541,  544; 
subscriber  to  centennial  ball,  263. 

Boulton,  Bliss  and  Ballet,  subscribers  to 
Wall  street  arch,  253. 

Bounieu,  M.  H.,  artist,  portrait  of  Frank- 
lin, painted  by,  461,  note. 

Bourne,  Benjamin,  member  of  congress 
from  Rhode  Island,  biographical  sketch 
of,  93;  portrait,  facing  126;  notes  on 
the  portrait  of,  418,  423,  431. 

Bourne,  Frederick  G.,  signs  call  for  citi- 
zens' committee,  104. 

Bourne,  Sylvanus,  appointed  by  congress 
to  inform  John  Adams  of  his  election 
as  vice-president  of  U.  S..  13  ;  his  jour- 
ney to  Braintree,  Mass.,  17;  amount  of 
his  expenses,  17,  note. 

Boutelle,  Charles  A  ,  at  banquet,  359. 

Boutwell,  George  S.,  at  literary  exercises, 
289;  at  banquet,  359. 

Bowden,  J.  B.,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  cel- 
ebration, 401. 

Bowdish,  Rev.  Wellesley,  favors  holding 
religious  services  April  30,  1889,  123. 

Bowdoin  College,  portraits  in  possession 
of,  James  and  Elizabeth  Bowdoin.  533; 
Jefferson,  facing  23,  4S4  ;  gen.  Knox, 
492;  Madison,  facing  115,  504;  Sir  John 
Temple  and  wife,  533. 

Bowdoin,  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Sir  John 
Temple,  31,  note,  532. 

Bowdoin,  George  S.,  portraits  of  Sir  John 
Temple  and  Lady  Temple,  property  of, 
facing  46,  532,  533  ;  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  245  ;  at  centen- 
nial ball,  260;  at  banquet,  356,  360. 

Bowdoin.  Mrs.  George  S.,  at  centennial 
ball,  261. 

Bowdoin,  James,  governor  of  Mass.,  31, 

note. 

Bowdoin,  James,  portraits  of  Jefferson, 
Madison,  and  Sir  John  Temple  and 
wife,  property  of,  484,  504,  533. 

Bowdoin,  Miss,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 

Bowdoin,  Temple,  member  of  aisle  com- 
mittee, St.  Paul's  chapel,  272,  282;  an- 
cestry of,  282. 

Bowen,  Clarence  W.,  the  inauguration  of 
George  Washington,  as  president  of  U. 
S.,  1;  the  semi-centennial  of  Washing 
ton's  inauguration,  95;  preliminary  work 
of  the  centennial  celebration  of  the  in- 
auguration of  Washington,  100;  secrc 
tary  of  citizens'  committee,  104,  105; 
member  of  general  committee,  107,  114, 
236  ;  secretary  of  general  committee, 
107,  108,111,  112,  116,  119,  132,  134, 
142,  178,  181,  191,  207,  218,  225,  228, 
234,  236,  249,  255,  269,  316,  356,  397; 
secretary  of  executive  committee,  108, 
112,  208;  secretary  of  committee  on 
literary  exercises,  109,  113,  236,  285, 


286,  288,  292  ;  member  of  committee 
on  press,  119,  264;  medal  worn  by,  121; 
requested  to  prepare  memorial  volume 
of  the  celebration,  122;  address  at  meet- 
ing of  clergymen,  123;  address  at  open- 
ing of  loan  exhibition,  143  ;  at  com 
memorative  banquet  of  the  society  of 
the  Cincinnati,  151;  at  naval  parade, 
198  ;  receives  president  Harrison  at 
foot  of  Wall  street,  204  ;  at  meeting  of 
commissioners  of  states  and  territories, 
207,  213  ;  escort  to  president  Harrison, 
224,  225,  236;  at  banquet  to  president 
Harrison,  234;  portrait,  facing  234;  at 
centennial  ball,  260;  subscriber  to  ball, 
263  ;  escorts  Mrs.  Harrison  and  Mrs. 
Morton  to  St.  Paul's  chapel,  269;  the 
services  at  St.  Paul's  chapel,  269;  the 
literary  exercises  at  the  sub-treasury, 
285;  reads  Whittier's  poem,  at  literary 
exercises,  292;  at  military  parade,  316; 
the  banquet,  metropolitan  opera-house, 
354;  at  banquet,  356,  358;  subscriber 
to  celebration,  400 ;  the  celebration 
throughout  the  U.  S.,  402;  member  of 
committee  on  erection  of  memorial 
arch,  409;  subscriber  to  memorial  arch, 
414;  notes  on  portraits,  417;  owner  of 
portraits  of  Benjamin  Franklin,  facing 
484;  William  B.  Giles,  facing  112.  465; 
Alexander  Hamilton,  facing  25,  471  • 
Gilbert  Stuart,  531;  George  Washing- 
ton, facing  14,  144,  541,  545;  Martha 
Washington,  facing  14,  144,  547,  548. 
Bowen,  Edward  A.,  at  literary  exercises, 
289. 

Bowen,  Franklin  D.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  263. 

Bowen,  Grace  A.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  263. 

Bowen,  Henry  C,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245;  at  centennial  ball, 
261;  subscriber  to  ball,  263;  at  literary 
exercises,  289;  at  banquet,  360. 

Bowen,  Mrs.  Henry  C,  at  centennial  ball, 
261. 

Bowen,  Herbert  W.,  at  centennial  ball, 
261;  at  literary  exercises,  289;  at  ban- 
quet, 361. 

Bowen,  John  Eliot,  member  of  reception 
committee,  ancestry  of,  230;  at  centen- 
nial ball,  261;  subscriber  to  ball,  263. 

Bowen,  Mrs.  L.  J.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  263. 

Bowen,  Miss,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 

Bowen,  Wendell  P.,  colonel  first  Pa.  reg- 
iment, at  military  parade,  324. 

Bowers,  J.  J.,  Rawlins  post,  G.  A.  R.,  at 
military  parade,  345. 

Bowers,  John  M.,  at  banquet  to  president 
Harrison,  234;  member  of  floor  com- 
mittee, centennial  ball,  259  ;  at  ban- 
quet, metropolitan  opera-house,  358. 

Bowes,  John  T.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 22 1 . 

Bowie, Oden,  commissioner  from  Md.,216. 
Bowling  Green,  N.  Y.  city,  display  of 

fireworks  at,  17S9,  47,  57;  1889,  352. 
Bowlsby,     William      1L,  commander 

Knights  of  Pythias,  386. 


INDEX. 


565 


Bowman,  F.  J.,  at  banquet,  358. 
Bowman,  H.  A.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 221. 

Bowman,  J.  B.,  commissioner  from  New 

Mexico,  216. 
Bowne,  Maria,  wife  of  Samuel  Osgood, 

517- 

Bowrosan,  Charles,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  222. 

Boyd,  George  W.,  assistant  general  pas- 
senger agent,  Pa.  railroad,  181,  182, 
187  ;  at  banquet,  358. 

Boyd,  J.,  engraver  of  portraits,  Fisher 
Ames  and  Elias  Boudinot.  427,  429. 

Boyd,  James  R.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Boyd,  Robert,  sheriff  of  N.  Y.,  1789,  43, 
136;  escort  to  Washington,  43. 

Boyd,  William  A.,  corporation  attorney, 
N.  Y.,  243. 

Boyer,  A.  A.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Boyesen,  Hjalmar  H.,  member  of  gen- 
eral committee,  108,  114,  236;  of  art 
committee,  108,  113,  134,  142,  236,  409; 
at  centennial  ball,  261;  at  banquet,  361; 
subscriber  to  celebration,  401;  member 
of  memorial  arch  committee,  409. 

Boylan,  J.,  Lincoln  post,  G.  A.  R.,  es- 
cort to  president  Harrison.  221;  at  mil- 
itary parade,  345. 

Boylan,  J.  F.,  twelfth  N.  Y.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  336. 

Boylston,  Ward  N.,  mentioned,  423. 

Brackett,  L.  Curtis,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  220,  250,  252. 

Bradburn,  Stewart  R.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  263. 

Bradford,  Vt.,  company  G.  first  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  341. 

Bradford,  Mrs.  William,  portrait  at  loan 
exhibition,  144;  mentioned,  430. 

Bradish,  G.  Johnston,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Bradish,  Luther,  mentioned,  522,  note. 

Bradley,  Rev.  E.  A.,  favors  holding  relig- 
ious services  April  30,  1889,  123. 

Bradley  George  B.,  associate  judge,  court 
of  appeals,  N.  Y.,  243;  at  banquet, 
359- 

Bradley,  J.  Payson,  ancient  and  honora- 
ble artillery,  Boston,  at  military  parade, 
329.  330. 

Bradstreet  Co.,  the  J.  M.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  246. 

Brady,  Abner  S.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 223 

Brady,  J.  II.,  escort  to  president  Harri 
son,  223. 

Brady,  John  R.,  judge  supreme  court, 

243;  at  banquet,  359. 
Brady.  Oliver  G.,  of  St.  John's  lodge, 

286;  at  literary  exercises,  289. 
Brady,  Thomas  J.,  at  banquet,  358. 
Braem,  Henri  M.,  consul  of  Denmark, 

248. 

Bragg,  Charles  F.,  commissioner  from 
Me.,  216. 

Braine,  Charles  R.,  aide  to  grand-mar- 
shal, military  parade,  320. 


Braine,  Charles  R.,  Jr.,  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  263. 

Braintree,  Mass.,  residence  of  John 
Adams  at,  17. 

Braisted,  Frank,  captain  of  "  Erastus 
Wiman,"  naval  parade,  217. 

Bramwell,  E.  Percy,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  263. 

Bramwell,  George  W.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  263. 

Branch,  James  G. ,  commissioner  from 
Tenn.,  216. 

Brandon,  V.,  company  C,  first  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  341. 

Brandreth,  Ralph,  commissary-general  of 
subsistence,  N.  Y.,  242;  at  banquet.  358. 

Brandt,  Carl  L.,  artist,  portrait  of  Will- 
iam Few,  painted  by,  facing  76,  144, 
419,  445- 

Brattleboro,  Vt.,  company  I,  first  regi- 
ment, and  Fuller  light  battery,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  341. 

Braughler,  A.  C,  fifth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  325. 

Breger,  T.  T.,  Pa.  stale  fencibles,  at 
military  parade.  324. 

Brearly,  David,  member  of  federal  con- 
vention, 1787.  136. 

Breck,  Duer,  member  of  reception  com- 
mittee, ancestry  of,  230. 

Brennan,  M.,  sixty-ninth  N.  Y.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  335. 

Brennan,  Thomas  S.,  commissioner  of 
charities  and  correction,  243;  at  ban- 
quet, 359. 

Brenner,  George,  first  Ohio  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  342. 

Brensinger,  J.  H.,  fourth  N.  J.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  327. 

Brent,  Joseph  L.,  commissioner  from  La., 
216;  at  banquet,  358. 

Brentano,  Simon,  subscriber  to  celebra- 
tion, 401. 

Brevoort,  Henry,  portrait  of  Washington, 
property  of,  98;  mentioned,  522,  note. 

Brevoort,  J.  Carson,  portraits  of  George 
Washington,  property  of,  543,  546. 

Brewer,  Gardner,  mentioned,  451. 

Brewer,  William  A.,  Jr.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  246. 

Brewers,  invited  to  meet  president  Harri- 
son, 247. 

Brewerton,  Henry  F. ,  U.  S.  army,  at 
military  parade,  320. 

Brewster,  Benjamin  H.,  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  263. 

Brewster,  Gertrude  A.,  delegate  from 
normal  college,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  237. 

Brewster,  James  B.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Brewster,  N.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Brewster,  W.  H..  Jr.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  263. 

Brewster  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  celebra- 
tion, 401. 

Brick    Manufacture,    represented,  civic 

parade,  397. 
Bricklayers,  at  civic  parade,  396. 


Bridge,  Charles  E.,  aide  to  grand-marshal, 

military  parade,  320. 
Bridgeport,  Conn.,  fourth  regiment  and 

fourth  machine  gun  platoon,  at  military 

parade,  329;   firemen  at  civic  parade, 

389. 

Bridgetown,  N.  J.,  Washington  at,  27. 

Bridgham,  Samuel  YV..  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  263. 

Bridgman,  Rev.  Charles  De  W.,  favors 
holding  religious  services,  April  30, 
1889.  123. 

Bridport,  Hugh,  engraver  of  portrait  of 
Thomas  Mifflin,  509. 

Brigg,  Benjamin  L.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  263. 

Briggs,  Rev.  G.  W.,  officiates  at  centen- 
nial celebration  services,  Boston,  403. 

Briggs,  Samuel  A.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Bright,  Osborn  E.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  263. 

Bright,  William  II.,  aide  to  grand-mar- 
shal, military  parade,  320. 

Brightman,  Henry  J.,  at  banquet  society 
of  the  Cincinnati,  150;  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  224. 

Brinck,  C.  F.,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 222. 

Brinckerhoff ,  G.  G.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Brinckle,  John  R.,  U.  S.  army,  at  military 
parade,  321. 

Brinley,  Charles  A.,  portrait  of  Jeremiah 
Wadsworth,  and  wife,  property  of,  fac- 
ing 80,  262,  540. 

Bristol,  R.  I.,  company  C.  second  R.  I. 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  340. 

Bristoll,  A.  L..  first  batallion,  S.  C,  at 
military  parade,  331. 

Bristow,  Benjamin  H.,  member  of  citi- 
zens' committee,  103;  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  244;  at  banquet, 
360. 

Bristow,  William  B.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  263. 

Britton,  Eugene,  escort  to  president  Har 
rison,  223. 

Britton,  R.  Adams,  subscriber  to  centen 

nial  ball,  263. 
Broadhead,  W.  H.,  ninth  Pa.  regiment, 

at  military  parade,  324. 
Broadhurst,    Jemima,    at    reception  to 

George  Washington,  Trenton,  N.  J.,  26, 

note. 

Broadlcy,  J.  S.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Broas,  Katharine,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  63,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

Broch,  Mrs.  Horace,  at  centennial  ball, 
262. 

Brock,  Robert  A.,  acknowledgment  to,  in 
preface,  vi. 

Brockner,  W.,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 222. 

Brockway,  Mrs.  L.  Freeman,  subscriber 

to  centennial  ball,  263. 
Brod,    William,   first   Pa.  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  324 


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Brodsky,  John  E.,  at  reception  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  city  hall,  240. 

Brodwick,  D.  S.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Brokaw,  Isaac  \'.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247;  subscriber  to  cen 
tennial  ball,  263. 

Bronson,  Frederic,  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Bronson,  Mrs.  Isaac,  at  cen  tennial  ball,  2b  1 . 
Bronson,  Miss,  at  centennial  ball,  2bl. 
Mronson,  Rev.  William  W.,  mentioned, 
519. 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y  .  members  of  citizens' 
committee  from,  104;  list  of  clergymen 
at  meeting  of  the  clergy  to  arrange 
religious  services  for  April  30,  1889, 
123  ;  grand  army  of  the  republic,  escort 
to  president  Harrison,  221  ;  mayor 
and  board  of  aldermen,  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  225  ;  list  of  officials  of, 
invited  to  meet  president  Harrison, 
243  ;  thirteenth,  fourteenth,  twenty- 
third,  thirty-second,  forty-seventh  regi 
ments,  with  signal  corps,  and  third 
battery,  at  military  parade,  33b,  337  ; 
number  of  grand  army  of  the  republic, 
at  military  parade,  34b  ;  Concordia  and 
Zocllner  maennerchor  at  madison 
square  concert,  350  ;  scholars  of  schools 
Nos.  10  and  15,  at  civic  parade,  3Sb  ; 
firemen  and  police,  at  civic  parade, 
389,  390  ;  carpenters,  gas-fitters  and 
plumbers,  at  civic  parade,  392  ;  Danish 
and  Scandinavian  societies  at  civic- 
parade,  392,  393  ;  independent  rifles, 
Landwehr-Verein,  rifle,  riding  clubs  and 
sharpshooters,  at  civic  parade,  393  ; 
bridge  represented  in  tableau,  394  ; 
bricklayers,  at  civic  parade,  39b  ; 
banquet  April  30,  1889,  held  at,  403. 

Brooklyn  Sugar-refining  Co.,  subscribers 
10  the  Wall  street  arch,  253. 

Brooklyn,  United  States  steamer,  at  naval 
parade,  195,  197,  201  ;  view  of,  197. 

Brooks,  Rev.  Arthur,  favors  holding 
religious  services  April  30,  1889,  123. 

Brooks  Brothers,  subscribers  to  celebra- 
tion, 400. 

Brooks.  Edward,  portrait  of  Benjamin 
Franklin,  property  of,  449,  450. 

Brooks,  Edwin  A.,  escort  to  president 
1  [arrison,  223. 

Brooks,  F.  A.,  the  silhouette  of  Jonathan 
Grout,  4b9,  note. 

Brooks,  John  E.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Brooks,  Nicholas,  captain  of  police,  22b. 

Brooks,  Rev.  Phillips,  officiates  at  centen- 
nial celebration  services,  Boston,  403. 

Broom,  Jacob,  member  of  federal  con  ven- 
tion,  1787,  13b. 

Broome,  G.  C,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  2b3. 

Broome,  Isaac,  sculptor,  his  bust  of 
Franklin,  4b2. 

Broome,  John,  president  of  chamber  of 
commerce,  introduces  the  members  to 
Washington,  40  ;  at  Washington's  inau- 
guration, 40,  note. 


Broome,  John  I...  mentioned,  40,  note. 

Brophy,  Rev.  Martin  J.,  one  of  the  com- 
mittee of  clergymen  on  religious  ser- 
vices, 124,  125  ;  at  banquet,  3bo. 

Brouner,  Rev.  John  J.,  favors  holding 
religious  services  April  30,  1889,  123. 

Browder,  Milbur  F.,  commissioner  from 
Ky.,  216. 

Brower,  George  W.,  Tilden  post,  G.  A. 
R, ,  escort  to  president  Harrison.  221; 
at  military  parade,  345. 

Brower,  William  I..,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  2b3. 

Browere,  John  H.  I.,  sculptor,  his  bust  of 
Gilbert  Stuart,  531. 

Brown  A.,  escort  to  president  Harrison, 
222. 

Brown,   A.    K.,  first   battalion,  Vt.,  at 

military  parade,  341. 
Brown,  Addison,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  263. 

Brown,  Alexander,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247  ;  at  centennial  ball, 
2bo  ;  at  banquet,  35b,  358. 

Brown,  Mrs.  Alexander,  at  centennial 
ball.  2b  1. 

Brown,  B.  I.,  first  N.  II .  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  333. 

Brown,  B.  J.,  commissioner  from  Arkan- 
sas, 215. 

Brown  Brothers  &  Co.,  subscribers  to 
celebration  and  memorial  arch,  400, 
413. 

Brown,  C,  Jr.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  2b3. 

Brown,  Charles  F.,  associate  judge  court 
of  appeals,  N.  Y.,  243. 

Brown,  Charles  S.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  24b. 

Brown,  Edward  F.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Brown,  Edward  T.,  lieut.  fifth  U.  S.  artil- 
lery, escort  to  president  Harrison,  220. 

Brown,  Elisha  R  ,  commissioner  from 
N.  H.,  2tb. 

Brown,  Ci.  A.,  twelfth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  325. 

Brown,  George  W.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  221 ;  invited  to  meet  the  presi- 
dent, 248. 

Brown,  J.  Clifton,  portraits  of  Jay  and 
Jefferson,  property  of,  facing  152,  48:, 
487. 

Brown,  J.  G.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Brown,  James  M.,  chairman  of  special 
committee  of  chamber  of  commerce, 
102  ;  member  of  general  committee, 
107,  114,  23b;  of  finance  committee, 
109,  113,  23b,  398,  400;  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  245  ;  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  2b3  ;  at  literary  exer- 
cises, 289  ;  at  banquet,  361. 

Brown,  John,  member  of  congress  from 
Va.,  84,  13b,  232  ;  biographical  sketch 
of,  84  ;  portraits  of,  painted  by  Jouett, 
St.  Memin,  Sharpless,  Trumbull  and 
unknown,  facing  119;  notes  on  the 
portraits  of,  418,  419,  note,  420,  422, 
423.  431- 


Brown,  John,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 221. 

Brown,  John,  sketch  of  Joshua  Seney,  79, 

note. 

Brown.  Rev.  John,  mentioned,  84. 

Brown,  John  C,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  244. 

Brown,  John  G.,  invited  to  meet  president 
I  [arrison,  244. 

Brown,  Mrs.  John  M.,  portraits  of  John 
Brown,  property  of,  facing  1 19,  431,  432. 

Brown.  Rev.  John  W.,  one  of  the  com- 
mittee of  clergymen  on  religious  ser- 
vices, 124,  125  ;  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  244  ;  at  banquet,  3bo. 

Brown,  Martin  B.,  at  centennial  ball,  2bi  ; 
subscriber  to  ball,  2(>3. 

Brown,  Mather,  artist,  his  portraits  of 
Jefferson,  William  Smith  and  wife,  fac- 
ing 18,  21,  2bo  ;  notes  on  the  portraits, 
145,  420,  421,  48b,  note,  528. 

Brown,  Orlando,  portrait  of  John  Brown, 
property  of,  facing  119,  432. 

Brown,  R.  P.,  fifth  Md.  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  330. 

Brown,  R.  R.,  fifth  Md.  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  330. 

Brown,  Richard  A.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  221. 

Brown,  Robert  B.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  2b3. 

Brown,  Sevellan  A.,  mentioned,  8b,  note. 

Brown,  Thomas  G.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Brown  University,  portrait  of  Gilbert 
Stuart,  property  of,  531. 

Brown,  Vernon  H.,  member  of  special 
committee  of  chamber  of  commerce, 
102  ;  invited  to  meet  president  Harri- 
son, 24b. 

Brown,  Walter  L.,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  242. 

Brown,  W7alston  II.,  &  Brothers,  subscrib- 
ers to  celebration,  401. 

Brown,  Watson  A.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  2b3. 

Brown,  Sir  William,  purchases  portrait  of 
John  Jay,  481. 

Brown,  William  G.,  the  Woolaston  por- 
trait of  Martha  Washington,  54b,  note, 
547,  note. 

Brown,  William  II.,  escort  to  president 

I  Iarrison,  223. 
Browne,  Edward,  judge  city  court,  N.  Y., 

243. 

Browne,  J.  J.,  commissioner  from  Wash- 
ington territory,  21b  ;  at  banquet,  358. 

Brownell,  Lewis,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  242. 

Brownell,  S.  B.,  at  banquet,  358. 

Brovvnfield,  the  Misses,  portraits  of 
Thomas  Sumter,  property  of,  facing 
102,  531,  532. 

Brownfield,  Susan  P.,  mentioned,  82,  note. 

Browning,  William  C,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  247. 

Brundage,  M.  T.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 223. 

Brunt),  Julius  W.,  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  247. 


567 


Bruns,  Philip,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Bruns,  VV.  F.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Brunswick,  N.  J.,  Washington  at.  27. 

Brush,  George  W.,  at  reception  to  pres- 
ident Harrison,  232. 

Bryan,  Charles  P.,  at  banquet,  360. 

Bryan,  Fred.  C,  eighth  Ohio  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  342. 

Bryan,  Mrs.  Mary  E.,  at  centennial  ball, 
262. 

Bryan,  Thomas  J.,  mentioned,  423,  4S7, 
508;  biographical  note,  508. 

Bryant,  Edward  F.  second  Ohio  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  342. 

Bryant,  Henry,  artist,  his  portraits  of 
Faith  Trumbull,  Jeremiah  Wadsworth, 
and  wife,  535,  540. 

Bryant,  Joseph  D.,  M.D.,  surgeon  gen- 
eral, N.Y..  242,  243,244;  at  banquet,  358. 

Bryant,  Stanley  A.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Bryant,  William  Cullen,  composes  ode 
for  the  semi-centennial  celebration  of 
Washington's  inauguration,  97. 

Bryas,  Comtesse  de,  portrait  of  George 
Clymer,  property  of,  440. 

Bryce.  Lloyd  S.,  member  of  congress 
from  N.  Y.,  at  reception  to  president 
Harrison,  241  ;  at  banquet,  360. 

Buchan,  Earl  of,  presents  Washington 
with  oak  box,  544;  portrait  of  Wash- 
ington painted  for,  544. 

Buchanan,  C.  P.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Buchanan.  James,  at  banquet,  359. 

Buchanan,  Jean,  fan,  with  portrait  of 
Washington,  property  of,  256. 

Buchanan,  W.  C.,  at  banquet,  358. 

Buchanan,  W.  W.,  at  inauguration  of 
Washington,  45  ;  his  account  of  a  visit 
to  George  Washington,  58,  note. 

Buchanan,  William,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  263. 

Buchanan,  William,  Jr.,  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball.  263. 

Buchanan  &  Lyall,  subscribers  to  Wall 
street  arch,  253. 

Buck,  A.  J.,  seventh  N.  J.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  326. 

Buck,  Charles,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  247. 

Buck,  John  H.,  proposes  a  collection  of 
gold  and  silver  plate  for  the  loan  exhi- 
bition, 138. 

Buckel,  Peter,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Bucki,  Charles  L.,  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  247. 

Buckley,  J.,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
263. 

Buckley,  Michael,  in  command  of  plaster- 
ers' society,  civic  parade,  391. 

Buckner,  Simon  B.,  governor  of  Ky.,  214, 
233  ;  at  reception  to  president  Harrison, 
241  ;  at  centennial  ball,  257;  at  mili- 
tary parade.  341  ;  at  banquet.  360. 

Budd,  J.  J.,  escort  to  president  Harrison, 
222. 


Budd,  Samuel,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 223. 

Budlong,  A.  J.,  thirty-first  separate  com- 
pany, N.  Y.,  at  military  parade,  338. 

Buffalo,  N'.  Y.,  sixty-fifth  and  seventy- 
fourth  regiments,  at  military  parade, 
339. 

Buhler,  Miss,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Building  Trades,  representatives  invited 
to  meet  president  Harrison,  247. 

Bulger,  William  O  ,  sixteenth  Ohio  reg- 
iment, at  military  parade,  342. 

Bulkeley,  Morgan  G.,  governor  of  Conn., 
214,  233  ;  at  reception  to  president  Har- 
rison, 241  ;  at  centennial  ball,  257;  at 
military  parade,  328  ;  portrait,  328  ;  at 
banquet.  359. 

Bulkley,  Charles  E.,  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  247. 

Bulkley,  J.  G.,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 

Bulkley,  Jonathan,  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  247. 

Bulkley.  Justus  L.,  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  246  ;  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  263. 

Bull,  William  L.,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  245;  at  banquet,  358. 

Bull,  William  T..  M.  D.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  244;  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  263. 

Bullard,  Lewis  H.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Bullis,  Mrs.  Robert,  portraits  of  Jacob 
Morton,  painted  for,  515. 

Bundy,  Jonas  M.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Bunker  Hill,  centennial  of  the  battle  of, 
100. 

Bunker's  Hotel.  N.  Y.  city,  36,  note. 

Bunner,  Henry  C,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison.  244. 

Burbeck,  William  H.,  at  banquet  society 
of  the  Cincinnati,  149. 

Burbridgc,  John  G.,  at  banquet,  359. 

Burbridge.  John  Q.,  commissioner  from 
Florida,  215,  233;  at  banquet.  359. 

Burch,  Hamlin  D.,  seventeenth  Ohio  reg- 
iment, at  military  parade,  343. 

Burchfield,  Theodore,  colonel  fifih  Pa. 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  325. 

Burden,  I.  Townsend,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  263. 

Burden,  James  A.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246;  at  centennial  ball, 
260;  subscriber  to  ball,  263;  at  banquet, 
356;  subscriber  to  memorial  arch,  414. 

Burger,  Maxwell  C,  thirty-second  N.  Y. 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  337. 

Burgess,  C.  L.,  aide  to  grand-marshal, 
military  parade,  320 

Burgess,  John  W.,  at  banquet,  360 

Burgess,  Mrs.  John  W.,  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  263. 

Burgh,  J.  H.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Burgin,  Herman,  at  banquet  of  society  of 
the  Cincinnati,  150;  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224;  invited  to  meet  the 
president,  248. 

Burke.  .-Edanus,  member  of  congress  from 


S.  C,  37,  136,  232;  biographical  sketch 
of,  80;  portrait,  facing  100;  notes  on 
the  portrait  of,  418,  423,  432. 
Burke,  Mrs.  John  W.,  portraits  of  Thomas 
Jefferson,  property  of,  facing  21,  485, 
486. 

Burke-Roch,  Mrs.  James  B.,  at  centennial 
ball,  261. 

Burkhalter,  Charles,  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  246. 

Burleigh,  Edwin  C,  governor  of  Me.,  214, 
233;  at  reception  to  president  Harrison, 
241;  at  banquet,  359. 

Burleigh,  H.  G. ,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Burlin,  Richard,  artist,  his  portrait  of 
Morgan  Lewis,  facing  39,  420,  421,  498. 

Burlington,  N,  J.,  firemen  at  civic  parade, 
389- 

Burn,    Alexander,    escort    to  president 

Harrison,  223. 
Burnes.  Ella,  delegate  from  public  school 

No.  41,  reception  of  president  Harrison, 

city  hall,  238. 
Burnet,  Robert  W.,  at  banquet  society  of 

the  Cincinnati,  150. 
Burnett,  Henry  L.,  aide  to  grand-marshal, 

military  parade,  319. 
Burnett,  Mrs.   Henry  L.,  at  centennial 

ball,  261. 

Burnett.    lames  G.,   member  of  general 

commitiee,  114,  236. 
Burnett,  W.  J.,  first  X.  C.  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  340. 
Burnham,  T.  B.,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  263. 

Burns,  Charles  De  F.,  invited  to  meet 

president  Harrison,  246. 
Burns,  Charles  S.,  twelfth  \.  Y.  regiment. 

at  military  parade,    336;   marshal  of 

division  D,  civic  parade,  390. 
Burns.    1.   W  ,  ninth   Pa.    regiment,  at 

military  parade,  324. 
Burns,  James  J.,  at  banquet,  358. 
Burns,  John  N.,  fourth  N.  J.  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  327. 
Burns,  Louise  H.,  delegate  from  public 

school  No.  54,  reception  of  president 

Harrison,  city  hall,  23S. 
Burns,  William  W.,  U.  S.  army,  24S. 
Burr,  Aaron,  residence  of,  in  N.  Y.  city, 

18.  525. 

Burrall,  F.  A.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 224. 

Burrell,  I.  P.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 223. 

Burroughs,  James  S.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Burrows.  Ogden  H.,  the  Paradise  por- 
trait of  James  Monroe,  509. 

Burrows,  Silas  E.,  portrait  of  James  Mon- 
roe, painted  for,  509. 

Burt.  C.  W.,  Orchard  Lake  military 
academy  cadets,  Mich.,  at  military  pa- 
rade, 344. 

Burt,  Edwin  C,  invited  to  meet  president 

Harrison,  247. 
Burt,  Silas  N.,  at  reception  to  president 

Harrison,  232. 
Burt,  Silas  W.,  at  banquet,  359. 


568 


THE  CEXTHXXIAL  OI-   WASIIIXGTOX'S  IXAUGURATIOX. 


Burt,  W.  G.,  adjutant-general  of  La.,  at 

military  parade,  343. 
Huscr,  C,  escort  to  president  Harrison, 

Hush,  Howard  G.,  U.  S.  army,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  320. 

Hush,  George  H. ,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y..  242. 

Hush,  Robert  I'.,  member  of  assembly. 
N.  Y.,  242. 

Hush,  Robert  P.,  twenty-sixth  separate 
company.  X.  Y.,  at  military  parade, 
339- 

Bushnell.  Asa  S.,  commissioner  from 
Ohio,  216. 

Butchers,  invited  to  meet  president  Har- 
rison, 246. 

Butler,  Charles,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball  and  memorial  arch,  263,  414. 

Butler,  Charles  E.,  subscriber  to  memo- 
rial arch,  414. 

Butler.  Rev.  Edwin  E.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  248. 

Butler,  Franklin  C,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  263. 

Butler  Guards,  S.  C,  at  military  parade, 
331- 

Butler,  I.  P.,  mentioned,  507. 
Butler,  J.  A.,  subscriber   to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Butler,  J.  G.,  forty-first  separate  com- 
pany, N.  Y.,  at  military  parade,  339. 

Butler,  James  F.,  alderman,  243. 

Butler,  Louis,  mentioned,  431. 

Butler,  Pierce,  U.  S.  senator  from  S.  C, 
80,  135,  232  ;  biographical  sketch  of, 
80  ;  portraits,  facing  100  ;  member  of 
federal  convention,  1787,  136  ;  notes  on 
the  portraits  of,  418,  423,  432. 

Butler,  Sir  Richard,  mentioned,  80. 

Butler,  William  Allen,  member  of  citi- 
zens' committee,  103  ;  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison  244  ;  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  263  ;  at  reception  to 
justices  U.  S.  supreme  court,  402. 

Butler,  William  Allen,  Jr.,  president  of 
lawyers'  club,  228  ;  at  reception  and 
banquet  to  president  Harrison,  229, 
234;  at  centennial  ball,  261. 

Buttenbaum,  T.,  second  N.  J.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  327. 

Buttenweiser,  Mrs.  L  ,  at  centennial  ball, 
262. 

Buttcrfield,  C.  G.,  third  Mo.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  343. 

Buttcrfield  Gen.  Daniel,  chief  marshal  of 
civic  and  industrial  parade,  120,  130, 
313.  383,  384,  386  ;  at  centennial  ball, 
257  ;  subscriber  to  ball,  263  ;  aide  to 
grand-marshal,  military  parade,  319  ; 
at  banquet,  360 ;  his  staff  and  aides, 
383.  387  i  portrait,  386. 

Buttcrfield,  Frederick  W.,  subscriber  to 
memorial  arch,  414. 

Butts,  Alexander  B.,  in  command  of 
veterans  of  U.  S.  army  and  navy,  at 
civic  parade,  385. 

Byam,  Mrs.,  mentioned,  533. 

Bycrs,  Moses  G.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  263. 


Byrne,  Bernard,  in  command  Daniel 
O'Connell  association,  civic  parade.  397. 

Byrne,  George  A.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  263. 

Byrne,  |  X '.,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 221. 

Byrne,  Kitty,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 
Byrnes.  Thomas,    inspector    of  police. 
N.  Y.,  217  ;  portrait,  255. 

Cabot,  George,  U.  S.  senator  from  Mass., 
1791,  6;  portraits  of  Fisher  Ames,  and 
Hamilton,  property  of,  426,  469,  472. 

Cadwalader,  Charles  E.,  portrait  of  Lam- 
bert Cadwalader,  property  of ,  facing  72, 
433;  member  of  Pa.  society  of  the 
Cincinnati,  151. 

Cadwalader,  Elizabeth,  at  reception  to 
George  Washington,  Trenton,  N.  J  ,  26, 
note. 

Cadwalader,  John  L.,  portrait  of  Lambert 
Cadwalader,  property  of,  facing  72,  144, 
433;  member  of  general  committee,  108, 
114,  236;  of  committee  on  exhibition, 
109;  committee  on  art,  113,  134,  142, 
236,  409;  member  of  New  Jersey  society 
of  Cincinnati,  150;  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224;  at  centennial  ball,  261; 
subscriber  to  ball,  263;  subscriber  to 
celebration,  400;  member  of  committee 
memorial  arch,  409;  subscriber  to  me- 
morial arch,  413. 

Cadwalader,  Lambert,  member  of  congress 
from  X.  J.,  37,  135,  232;  biographical 
sketch  of,  68;  portraits,  painted  by  C. 
W.  Peale,  and  Stuart,  facing  72;  notes 
on  the  portraits  of,  144,  422,  433. 

Cadwalader,  Thomas,  mentioned,  68. 

Cady,  J.  Cleveland,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  244. 

Caffery,  E.  H.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Caffery,  James  J.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  263. 
Caine,  John  T.,  at  banquet,  359. 
Caldern,  C,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 

263. 

Calderon,  Climaco,  consul-general  of  Col- 
ombia, 248. 

Caldwell,  Alfred,  commissioner  from  West 
Va.,  216. 

Caldwell,  Francis  M.,  invited    to  meet 

president  Harrison,  248. 
Caldwell,  J.  M.,  twelfth  Pa.  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  325. 
Caldwell,  John   P.,  commissioner  from 

N.  C,  216. 
Caldwell,  W.  H..  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  263. 

Caldwell,  William  H.,  at  banquet,  358. 
Caledonian  Club,  N.  Y.,  at  civic  parade, 
387. 

Calhoun,  Catherine,  at  reception  to  George 
Washington,  Trenton,  N.  J.,  26,  note. 

Calhoun,  John  C,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247;  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  263;  at  banquet,  360;  speech 
before  Southern  society,  402;  subscriber 
to  memorial  arch,  414. 


Calhoun,  P.,  commissioner  from  Ga.,  215; 

at  banquet,  358. 
Calhoun,  Patrick,  at  banquet,  358. 
Calhoun,  S.  S.,  commissioner  from  Miss., 

216. 

California,  commissioners  from.  215,  233; 
loyal  legion,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 221;  admitted  into  the  union,  233. 

Calkins,  Rev.  Lyman  D. ,  favors  holding 
religious  services  April  30,  1889,  123. 

Call,  Lettie,  delegate  from  public  school 
No.  45,  reception  of  president  Harrison, 
city  hall,  238. 

Callahan,  Mrs.  C.  M.,  at  centennial  ball, 
262. 

Callahan,  John,  one  of  the  crew  of  the 
president's  barge,  which  conveyed 
George  Washington  to  N.  Y.,  28,  note. 

Callender,  William  E.,  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  223. 

Calley,  D.  M.,  third  N.  H.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  332. 

Calumet  Club,  N.  Y.,  represented  at  re- 
ception to  president  Harrison,  231. 

Calvert,  Sir  George,  represented  in  tab- 
leau, civic  parade,  387. 

Calvert,  Gov.  Leonard,  represented  in 
tableau,  civic  parade,  3S7. 

Calvo,  Adolph,  consul  of  the  Argentine 
Republic,  248. 

Calvo,  E.  E.,  governor's  guards,  S.  C,  at 
military  parade,  331. 

Cambridge,  Mass.,  reception  of  John 
Adams  at,  17. 

Camden,  N.  J.,  sixth  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  326. 

Cameron,  Benehan,  aide  to  grand-mar- 
shal, military  parade,  320. 

Cameron,  John  L.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Cameron,  Mrs.,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 

Cameron,  Roderick  W.,  at  centennial 
ball,  261. 

Cameron.  R.  W.,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to 
memorial  arch,  414. 

Cammack,  Addison,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  263. 

Cammack,  Mrs.  Addison,  at  centennial 
ball,  262. 

Cammann,  Hermann  H.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  245  ;  member  of 
vestry,  Trinity  church,  at  services  St. 
Paul's  chapel,  270  ;  at  banquet,  360. 

Cammever,  Alfred  J.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball  and  memorial  arch,  263, 
414. 

Camp,  John  T.,  colonel  twenty-second 
N.  Y.  regiment,  at  military  parade,  335. 

Campbell,  A.  B.,  fourteenth  N.  Y.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  337. 

Campbell,  A.  D.,  second  battalion  N.  J., 
at  military  parade.  327. 

Campbell,  Alexander,  portrait  of  Wash 
ington,  engraved  by,  145. 

Campbell,  Allan,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  105  ;  of  general  committee, 
107,  114,  236;  committee  on  finance, 
109,  113,  236,  398,  400;  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  263;  warden  of  Trinity 
church,   269  ;  escort  to  vice-president 


INDEX. 


569 


Morton,  at  St.  Paul's  chapel,  270  ;  at 
literary  exercises,  2S9;  at  banquet,  361, 
subscriber  to  celebration,  400. 

Campbell,  Douglas,  invited  10  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison.  244. 

Campbell,  Edward  A.,  colonel  first  N.  J. 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  326. 

Campbell.  Felix,  member  of  congress 
from  N.  Y. ,  at  reception  to  president 
Harrison,  241. 

Campbell,  J.  Richard,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  263. 

Campbell,  John  H.,  eighth  battalion, 
D.  C.j  at  military  parade,  345. 

Campbell,  Nicholas  L. ,  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  221. 

Campbell,  Pearl  A.,  second  Ohio  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  342. 

Campbell,  R.  E.,  thirteenth  Ohio  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  342. 

Campbell,  Samuel.  Jr.,  member  of  recep- 
tion committee,  ancestry  of,  230. 

Campbell,  Timothy  J.,  member  of  con- 
gress from  N.  Y.,  at  reception  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  241. 

Campbell,  William  J.,  acknowledgment 
to,  in  preface,  vi;  portraits  of  Jeffer- 
son, property  of,  facing  21,  25,  487,  488; 
notes  on  the  portraits  of  Jefferson,  4S3, 
note,  484,  and  note,  485,  486,  487.  488, 
489. 

Campbell,  William  L.,  at  semi-centennial 
celebration  of  the  inauguration  of 
Washington,  96. 

Canady,  William  P.,  at  centennial  ball, 
260  ;  at  banquet,  359. 

Canal  Street,  N.  Y.  city,  display  of  fire- 
works, 353. 

Canda,  Charles  J.,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  104. 

Canda,  John  M.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Candee,  Edward  W. ,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  247. 

Candee,  W.  L.,  twenty-third  N.  V.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  337. 

Cane,  Abram,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Cannon,  Henry  W. ,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  104  ;  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  244,  245. 

Cannon,  Le  Grand  B.,  member  of  special 
committee  of  chamber  of  commerce, 
102  ;  of  floor  committee,  centennial 
ball,  259  ;  at  banquet,  358,  360;  sub- 
scriber to  memorial  arch,  414. 

Cannstadt  Volksfest  Society,  at  civic 
parade,  395. 

Cantor,  Jacob  A.,  member  of  committee 
on  states,  109,  113,  206,  207,  208,  209, 
220,  228,  236,  249  ;  general  committee, 
114.  236;  escort  to  president  Harrison, 
220  ;  at  banquet  to  the  president,  234  ; 
state  senator,  N.  Y.,  242  ;  subscriber 
to  centennial  ball,  263  ;  at  banquet, 
metropolitan  opera-house,  359. 

Cape  Cod  Association,  portrait  of  George 
Thacher,  property  of,  facing  91,  533. 

Cappa,  C.  A.,  escort  to  president  Harri 
son,  222. 

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Carabinieri,  Reali,  at  civic  parade,  392. 
Caragnasa,    Giovanni,   at  civic  parade, 
392- 

Carberry,  James  B.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison.  245. 

Carey,  E.  L.,  in  command  of  ancient 
order  of  Hibernians,  civic  parade,  395. 

Carhart,  Amory  S.,  member  of  aisle 
committee,  St.  Paul's  chapel,  272,  281, 
282  ;  ancestry  of,  2S2  ,  at  banquet,  358. 

Carhart,  Cornelius,  major  continental 
army,  282. 

Carleton,  Charles  A.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  221,  252. 

Carleton.  Henry  Guy,  member  of  general 
committee,  114,  236;  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  263;  at  banquet,  360. 

Carlin,  John,  alderman.  N.  Y.,  243. 

Carlisle,  John  G..  his  services  in  congress, 
respecting  the  centennial  celebration, 
179. 

Carmen,  Nelson  G.,  Jr.,  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball.  263. 

Carmichael,  Spottswood,  portrait  of  John 
Randolph,  property  of,  522. 

Carmontelle,  Louis  C.  de,  artist,  his  por- 
trait of  Benjamin  Franklin,  459,  facing 
484. 

Carnegie.  Andrew,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246,  248;  at  literary  ex- 
ercises, 289;  subscriber  to  celebration 
and  memorial  arch,  400,  413. 

Carolina,  ship,  fires  salute,  and  illuminated 
on  the  evening  of  Washington's  inau- 
guration, 56. 

Carolina  Art  Association,  portrait  of 
William  L.  Smith,  property  of,  facing 
102,  527. 

Carpender,  John  N.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Carpender,  William,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Carpenter,  C.  T.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 222. 

Carpenter,  Charles  W.,  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  224. 

Carpenter,  Edward,  captain  of  police, 
237- 

Carpenter,  Leonard  J.,  invited  to  meet 

president  Harrison,  245. 
Carpenter,  Louis  H.,  U.  S.  army,  escort 

to  grand-marshal,  military  parade,  320, 

321. 

Carpenter,    Reese,   escort   to  president 

Harrison,  224. 
Carpenter,  Samuel,  member  of  citizens' 

committee,   103;  aide  to  chairman  of 

committee  on  navy,  120,  190,  191. 
Carpenters,  at  civic  parade,  392. 
Carr,  Joseph  B.,  at  centennial  ball,  257; 

aide  to  grand-marshal,  military  parade, 

319. 

Carr,  Julian  F.,  commissioner  from  N.  C, 
216. 

Carr,  William  H.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  263. 

Carr,  Rev.  William  T.,  favors  holding 
religious  services  April  30,  1889,  123. 

Carranza,  Carlos,  consul-general  of  the 
Argentine  Republic,  248. 


Carrara,  Antonio,  marshal  of  Italian  so- 
cieties, civic  parade,  392. 

Carriage  builders,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Carriage-making  industry,  represented, 
civic  parade,  397. 

Carroll,  Archbishop  John,  mentioned, 
437- 

Carroll,  Charles,  Sr.,  mentioned,  77. 

Carroll,  Charles,  U.  S.  senator  from  Md.. 
28,  135.  232;  escort  to  Washington,  28; 
his  services,  38,  135  ;  biographical 
sketch  of,  77  ;  portraits,  painted  by 
Field,  Harding,  Hubard,  King,  C.  W. 
Peale,  facing  97;  R.  Peale,  63;  Pine, 
99;  Reynolds,  St.  Memin,  97;  Sully, 
97,  99;  Trumbull,  97;  member  of  fed- 
eral convention,  17S7,  136;  notes  on  the 
portraits  of,  418,  421,  422,  433,  434. 

Carroll,  Charles,  Jr.,  portrait,  painted  by 
Pine,  facing  99. 

Carroll,  Mrs.  Charles,  portrait,  painted 
by  Pine,  facing  99;  notes  on  the  por- 
traits of,  436. 

Carroll,  Mrs.  Charles,  Jr.,  notes  on  the 
portraits  of,  436,  437. 

Carroll,  Daniel,  Sr.,  mentioned,  77. 

Carroll,  Daniel,  member  of  congress  from 
Md.,  42,  135,  232  ;  escort  to  Washing- 
ton, 42;  biographical  sketch  of,  77; 
member  of  federal  convention,  1787, 
136;  no  portrait  of,  418. 

Carroll,  Daniel,  brother  of  archbishop 
John  Carroll,  portrait,  437. 

Carroll,  Edward,  Jr.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison  224. 

Carroll,  John  Lee,  portrait  of  Charles 
Carroll,  and  Carroll  family  group,  prop- 
erty of,  facing  97,  99,  434. 

Carroll,  John  W.,  first  Ohio  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  342. 

Carroll,  Mrs.  S.  H.  W.,  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  263. 

Carroll,  Williamson,  mentioned.  437. 

Carson,  Hampton  L.,  secretary  of  the 
constitutional  centennial  commission, 
104,  105,  116;  at  banquet,  360 

Carson,  Henry,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Carson,  W.  R.,  sixth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  324. 

Carson,  William  A.,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  242. 

Carson.  William  A.,  third  Ohio  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  342. 

Cars  well,  E.  T.,  fifth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  325. 

Carter,  H.  A.  P.,  minister  from  Hawaii, 
invited  to  centennial  ball,  257. 

Carter.  James  C  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  104,  105  ,  of  general  com- 
mittee, 108,  114,  236;  executive  com- 
mittee, 108;  committee  on  states,  109, 
113,  206,  207,  208,  209,  220,  228,  236, 
249;  escort  to  president  Harrison,  220; 
at  banquet  to  the  president  234,  244  ; 
subscriber  to  centennial  ball,  263  ; 
at  literary  exercises,  289;  at  banquet, 
metropolitan  opera-house,  359  ;  sub- 
scriber to  celebration,  400 ;  at  recep- 


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tion  lo  the  justices  of  U.  S.  supreme- 
court,  402. 

Carter,  Jane,  delegate  from  public  school 
No.  78,  reception  of  president  Harri- 
son, city  hall.  238. 

Carter,  Oliver  S.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  263. 

Carter,  Robert,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  246. 

Carter,  Robert  G.,  mentioned.  468. 

Carter,  Macy  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  Wall 
street  arch,  253. 

Carthage  Light  Guard,  Mo.,  at  military 
parade,  343. 

Cary,  Mrs.  Clarence,  at  centennial  ball, 
261. 

Caryl,  Mrs.  J.  H.,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 
Caryll,  H.  D.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Case,  Dudley  &  Rattelle,  subscribers  to 

celebration,  400. 
Casey,   Mr.,  invited  to  meet  president 

Harrison,  245. 
Casilear,  John  W.,  engraver  of  portraits 

of  Jefferson,  Madison  and  Monroe,  486, 

504,  510. 

Cassard,  William  J.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  222. 

Cassidy,  George  H.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  263. 

Cassidy,  Hugh,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  246. 

Castinet,  J.  J.,  fifth  battalion,  D.  C,  at 
military  parade,  344. 

Castleman,  John  B.,  colonel  Louisville 
legion,  at  military  parade,  341. 

Castro,  Felix  de  L. ,  vice-consul  of  the 
Argentine  Republic,  248. 

Caswell,  John  H.,  member  of  vestry. 
Trinity  church,  at  services  St.  Paul's 
chapel,  269. 

Caswell,  Richard,  member  of  federal  con- 
vention, 1787,  136. 

Catholic  Societies,  at  civic  parade,  397. 

Catlin,  George,  artist,  his  portraits  of 
Madison,  facing  116;  notes  on  his  por- 
traits of  Jefferson  and  Madison,  419, 
and  note,  421,  425,  note,  486,  and  note, 
5°3- 

Catlin,  Isaac  S.,  at  literary  exercises,  289. 

Caton,  Mrs.  Robert,  portrait,  in  Carroll 
family  group,  facing  99  ;  mentioned, 
434,  and  note. 

Catskill,  N.  Y.,  sixteenth  separate  com- 
pany, at  military  parade,  338. 

Cattanach,  James  S.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  263. 

Cattell,  W.  C,  mentioned,  494. 

Catterick,  Charles,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Catton,  J.  VV.,  colonel  first  N.  C.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  340. 

Cavanagh,  James,  colonel  sixty-ninth 
N.  Y.  regiment,  at  military  parade,  335. 

Cavanaugh,  Colonel,  aide  to  grand-mar- 
shal, military  parade,  320. 

Ceballos,  Juan  M.,  vice-consul  of  Costa 
Rica,  248. 

Ceballos,  J.  M.,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to 
Wall  street  arch,  253. 


Centennial  Sharpshooters,  at  civic  parade, 
388. 

Central  Park  Plaza,  N.  Y.  city,  display  of 
fireworks,  352. 

Century  Club,  represented  at  reception  to 
president  Harrison,  231. 

Ceracchi,  Giuseppe,  illustrations  of  sculp- 
ture by,  busts  of  George  Clinton,  206; 
Benjamin  Franklin,  524;  Hamilton,  95; 
John  Jay,  100;  Madison,  354;  Washing- 
ton, 417;  number  of  busts  of  congress- 
men by,  419,  420  ;  notes  on  his  busts  of 
Adams,  426  ;  Benson,  492;  Clinton, 
421  ;  Franklin,  421,  461  ;  Hamilton. 
145,  421,  472;  Jay,  421,  483;  Jefferson, 
489;  Madison,  421;  Washington,  145, 
421,  542;  mentioned,  550. 

Cerren,  W.  Stagg,  of  choir,  St.  Paul's 
chapel,  271. 

Cesnola,  Louis  P.  di,  member  of  general 
committee,  108,  114,  115,  236;  at  cen- 
tennial ball,  261;  at  banquet,  360;  the 
Huntington  collection  of  Franklin  por- 
iraits,  462. 

Chace,  O.  M.,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 222. 

Chamber  of  Commerce,  N.  Y. ,  protrait  of, 
Hamilton,  property  of,  5,  facing  26, 
144,  469;  wait  upon  George  Washington 
in  a  body,  40;  organized,  41,  note; 
proceedings  regarding  the  centennial  of 
Washington's  inauguration,  101,  102, 
115;  committees  of,  105,  106,  107;  re- 
presented at  reception  to  president 
Harrison,  231,  244. 

Chamberlain,  Mason,  artist,  his  portrait  of 
Benjamin  Franklin,  420,  421,  facing 
444,  457- 

Chamberlain,  Mellen,  acknowledgment 
to,  in  preface  vi;  note  on  the  portrait  of 
Abiel  Foster,  447. 

Chamberlain,  Samuel  L.,  mentioned,  78, 

note. 

Chamberlaine,  Anna  M.,  portrait  of 
George  Gale,  property  of,  facing  99,  462. 

Chamberlin,  Lee,  aide  to  grand-marshal, 
military  parade,  320. 

Chamberlin,  H.  R.,  at  laying  of  corner- 
stone memorial  arch,  413. 

Chambers,  S.  J.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  221. 

Chambers,  T.  S.,  assistant  adjutant- 
general  second  brigade  N.  J.  troops, 
at  military  parade,  326. 

Chambers,  Rev.  Talbot  W.,  favors  hold- 
ing religious  services,  April  30,  1889, 
123;  address  before  the  meeting  of 
clergymen,  123;  member  of  committee 
of  clergymen,  124.  125;  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  244;  at  banquet, 
360;  note  on  the  portrait  of  Rev.  Will- 
iam Linn,  498. 

Champion,  Richard,  sculptor,  his  bust  of 
Franklin,  145,  460,  note. 

Champion  &  Standinger,  subscribers  to 
Wall  street  arch,  253. 

Champlain,  C.  B.,  first  N.  J.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  326. 

Champlain,  Miss,  artist,  portrait  of  Ben- 
jamin Huntington,  attributed  to,  476. 


Champlain,  Mrs.  Oliver,  artist,  her  por- 
trait of  Franklin,  421,  facing  444,  448. 

Chandler,  Albert  B.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  245. 

Chandler,  Charles  F.,  at  banquet,  360. 

Chandler,  H.  S.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Chandler,  Lewis  S.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  263. 

Chandler,  William  K.,  U.  S.  senator  from 
N.  H.,  at  reception  to  president  Harri 
son,  241. 

Chang  Yen  Hoon,  minister  from  China, 
invited  to  centennial  ball,  257. 

Channing,  W.  F.,  the  Gibbs-Channing 
portrait  of  George  Washington,  facing 
12.  545- 

Chapin,  Alfred  C,  mayor  of  Brooklyn,  at 
banquet  to  president  Harrison,  234,  243; 
at  centennial  ball,  257;  subscriber  to 
ball,  263  ;  at  banquet  metropolitan 
opera-house,  359;  presides  at  Brooklvn 
b'anquet,  403. 

Chapin,  Mrs.  Alfred  C  at  centennial 
ball,  257. 

Chapin,  Chester  W.,  subscriber  to  memo- 
rial arch,  414. 

Chapin,  Rev.  Henry  B.,  at  banquet 
society  of  the  Cincinnati,  150;  at  recep- 
tion to  president  Harrison,  232. 

Chapin,  William  H.,  sixty-fifth  N.  Y. 
regiment,  acting  adjutant  fourth  provi- 
sional regiment,  N.  Y.,  at  military- 
parade,  338. 

Chapman,  Charles  J.,  commissioner  from 
Me.,  2f6. 

Chapman,  Joseph  H.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Chapman,  S.  Hartwell,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  263. 

Chapman,  W.  H.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Chappel,  Alonzo,  artist,  notes  on  his 
portraits  of  Rufus  King,  R.  H.  Lee, 
James  Monroe,  Gen.  Schuyler  and 
Roger  Sherman,  491,  497,  512,  524,  527. 

Chappell,  George,  Vanderbilt  post,  G.  A. 
R.,  escort  to  president  Harrison,  221; 
at  military  parade,  345. 

Charles  IV.,  king  of  Spain,  his  health, 
toasted  at  dinner,  Phila.,  24. 

Charleston,  U.  S.  cruiser,  406. 

Charleston,  S.  C,  Washington  light  in- 
fantry, at  military  parade,  331;  the 
celebration  at,  405;  portraits  of  Monroe, 
facing  63,  512;  and  Washington  at,  542. 

Charleston,  West  Va.,  governor's  guard, 
and  Jefferson  guards,  at  military  parade, 
344- 

Charlestown,  Mass.,  reception  of  John 
Adams  at,  17. 

Charlottesville,  Va.,  third  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  333. 

Chase,  H.  M.,  commissioner  from  Wash- 
ington territory,  2  [6. 

Chase,  James  T.,  fifth  separate  company, 
N.  Y.,  at  military  parade,  337. 

Chase,  Stephen,  member  of  reception 
committee,  ancestry  of,  230  ;  subscriber 
to  centennial  ball,  263. 


INDEX. 


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Chase,  W.  M.,  at  banquet,  360. 

Chauncey,  Elihu,  member  of  vestry, 
Trinity  church,  at  services  St.  Paul's 
chapel,  270. 

Chauncey,  Henry,  portrait  of  Washington, 
property  of,  143. 

Chaumont,  Due  de,  mentioned,  460. 

Cheesman,  Timothy  M.,  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  222,  224. 

Cheever,  G.  N.,  third  N.  H.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  332. 

Chenevard,  John,  mentioned,  526. 

Chenevard,  Mary,  wife  of  John  L.  Corn- 
stock,  526. 

Cheney,  Alfred  C,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  104  ;  of  committee  on  navy, 
H2,  113,  189,  190,  191,  236;  general 
committee,  114.  236;  portrait,  facing 
190;  escort  to  president  Harrison,  199, 
200;  invited  to  meet  the  president,  245; 
at  banquet,  361. 

Cheney,  Frank,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  247. 

Cheney,  John  V.,  poem,  read  at  San 
Francisco.  406. 

Cheney,  Walter  W..  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  243  ;  at  banquet,  359. 

Chesebrough,  Robert  A.,  portrait  of 
James  H.  Maxwell,  property  of,  facing 
51,  508  ;  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  245. 

Chester,  Pa.,  reception  of  Washington  at 
22. 

Cheverus,  Rt.  Rev.  John,  portrait  of,  men- 
tioned, 506,  note. 

Chevillet,  Justus,  engraver  of  portraits  of 
Franklin,  449,  461,  note. 

Chew,  Benjamin,  chief  justice  of  Pa.,  437. 

Chew,  Harriet,  portrait,  painted  by 
Trumbull,  facing  264  ;  notes  on  the  por- 
traits of,  422,  437 

Chew,  R.  P.,  commissioner  from  West 
Va.,  216. 

Chew,  Sophia,  portrait,  painted  by  Trum- 
bull, facing  264  ;  notes  on  the  portrait 
of,  422,  437. 

Chew,  W.  W.,  Pa.  state  Fencibles,  at 
military  parade,  324. 

Chicago,  United  States  vessel,  at  naval 
parade,  193,  201. 

Chicago,  III.,  zouaves  and  company  E, 
fourth  regiment,  at  military  parade, 
327.  343  !  tne  celebration  at,  405. 

Chickering,  Charles  A.,  clerk  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  242. 

Chickering,  Charles  F.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  247  ;  subscriber  to 
memorial  arch,  414. 

Childs,  F.  W.,  first  Vt.  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  341. 

Childs,  Francis,  printer  of  the  acts  of 
congress,  1789,  91. 

Childs,  John  H.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Chillicothe,  Ohio,  sixth  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  342. 

China  Trade,  representatives  invited  to 
meet  president  Harrison,  247. 

Chisolm,  Mary  A.,  portrait  of  John  P.  G. 
Muhlenberg,  property  of,  facing  71,  516. 


Chittenden,  S.  B.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  263. 

Choate,  Charles  F.,  at  banquet,  358. 

Choate,  Joseph  H.,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  103  ;  invited  to  meet  presi 
dent  Harrison,  244  ;  at  banquet,  359  ; 
at  reception  to  justices  of  U.  S.  supreme 
court,  402  ;  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Choate,  William  G.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  244  ;  at  banquet,  360  ; 
at  reception  to  justices  U.  S.  supreme 
court,  402. 

Chosen  Friends,  at  civic  parade,  393. 

Christensen,  Christian  T.,  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  220. 

Christmas,  represented  in  tableau,  civic 
parade,  395. 

Christoffel,  J.  B.,  Jr.,  forty-seventh  N.  Y. 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  337. 

Christoph,  H.  J.,  fourth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  325. 

Chrystie,  Albert,  mentioned,  438. 

Chrystie,  Major  James,  portrait,  painted 
by  Raeburn,  facing  42;  escort  to  Wash- 
ington, 43  ;  notes  on  the  portrait  of, 
422,  438. 

Chrystie,    Thomas    M.   L.,    at  banquet 

society  of  the  Cincinnati,  150  ;  escort 

to  president  Harrison,  224. 
Chrystie,  William  F.,  owner  of  portraits 

of  Col.  Few,  and  wife,  facing  59.  76, 

445;    Maj.    Chrystie,  facing   42,  438; 

Commodore  Nicholson,  516. 
Church,  Benjamin  S.,  invited   to  meet 

president  Harrison,   244;  at  banquet, 

358. 

Church,  E.  Dwight,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  263. 

Church,  Frederic  E.,  portrait  of  James 
Madison,  property  of,  506. 

Church,  Frederick  S.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  244. 

Church,  William  C,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  220,  250;  at  reception  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  232,  246;  aide  to  grand- 
marshal,  military  parade,  320;  in  com- 
mand Loyal  Legion,  military  parade, 
345- 

Churches,  in  N.  Y.  city,  1789,  39,  note; 
list  of,  represented  at  meeting  of  clergy- 
men, to  arrange  plan  of  religious  ser- 
vices, April  30,  1889,  123. 

Cigar-box  industry,  represented,  civic  pa- 
rade, 397. 

Citizens'  Committee,  see  committees. 

City  Assembly  Rooms,  N.  Y.  city, 
masons  meet  at,  51,  and  note;  ball  in 
honor  of  Washington  held  at,  58,  59. 

City  Hall,  Wall  Street,  erected,  13;  views 
of,  13,  14,  15;  used  as  a  court  house  and 
jail,  13;  trial  of  Zenger,  1735,  held  at, 
13;  meeting  in  opposition  to  the  stamp 
act,  1765,  held  at,  13;  declaration  of  in- 
dependence read,  1776,  13;  continental 
congress  meet,  14;  selected  by  the  old 
congress  for  meeting  of  congress  of 
1789,  14;  money  advanced  for  the  al- 
teration of,  14;  called  federal  hall,  de- 
scription of  building,  15;  the  new  con- 


gress meets  at,  16,  36;  building  removed, 
16;  Washington's  arrival  and  reception 
at,  1789,  43;  Washington  inaugurated 
president  of  U.  S. ,  44. 

  Broadway,  citizens  committee  of  the 

centennial  celebration  of  Washington 
inauguration,  meet  in  conference  with 
committees  of  chamber  of  commerce, 
N.  Y.  historical  society,  and  sons  of 
the  revolution,  105,  106;  general  com- 
mittee organized,  107;  sub-committees, 
108,  109;  commissioners  of  slates  and 
territories  meet  at,  118,  207;  clergymen 
meet  to  arrange  plan  of  religious  service 
for  April  30,  1889,  I23!  reception  to 
president  Harrison,  April  29,  1889,  by 
the  girls  of  normal  college  and  the 
public  schools  of  the  city,  237;  public 
reception  of  president  Harrison,  240; 
view  of,  April  29,  1889,  254;  portraits, 
property  of  the  city,  of  gov.  Clinton, 
438;  James  Duane,  facing  36,  442; 
Alexander  Hamilton,  facing  26,  472, 
John  Jay,  facing  31,  480,  483;  Thomas 
Jefferson,  485;  Lafayette,  facing  160, 
493;  Morgan  Lewis,  facing  39,  498; 
James  Monroe,  facing  106,  511;  Jacob 
Morton,  facing  42,  515;  Baron  Steuben, 
529;  Richard  Varick,  facing  36,  538;  and 
George  Washington.  545. 

City  Hotel,  N.  Y.  city,  96;  banquet  held 
at,  1839,  97:  portraits  of  the  first  five 
presidents  of  U.  S.,  exhibited  at,  484. 

Civic  and  Industrial  Parade,  May  1st, 
1889,  programme  of,  130;  route  of 
march,  313,  383;  presentation  of  ad- 
dress, to  president  Harrison,  from  the 
civic,  industrial,  and  commercial  bodies 
of  N.  Y.  city,  383;  president  Harrison 
reviewing  the  parade,  384;  grand-mar- 
shal, and  aides,  384;  veterans  of  U.  S. 
army  and  navy,  385;  twenty-fifth  N.  Y. 
volunteers,  385;  tableau,  the  declaration 
of  independence,  385;  Star  Division, 
Columbia  college,  and  college  of  the 
city  of  N.  Y.,  385;  tableau,  Washington 
and  his  generals,  385;  Mayor  Grant 
delivering  address  to  president  Harri- 
son, 385;  scholars  of  public  schools  10 
and  15,  of  Brooklyn ;  Columbia  institute 
cadets,  386;  tableaux,  Washington  cross- 
ing the  Delaware,  and  Washington  at 
Valley  Forge,  escorted  by  eight  bat- 
talions from  public  schools,  386;  Divis- 
ion A,  Guard  Lafayette;  Liberty  guards; 
Irish  volunteers;  tableau,  Washington's 
farewell  to  his  officers  ;  knights  of 
temperance  ;  knights  of  Pythias;  tab- 
leau, Washington  resigning  his  com- 
mission ;  Lafayette  conclave  ;  King's 
Bridge,  and  Spuyten  Duyvil  cadets; 
Yonkers  continental  guards;  tableau, 
inauguration  of  Washington  ;  Phelps 
guard;  Washington  continental  guards; 
Excelsior  light  infantry;  Washington 
continentals;  tableau,  state  of  Virginia; 
sons  of  veterans;  portrait  of  chief-mar- 
shal, 386;  tableaux,  N.  Y..  Mass.,  Dela- 
ware, Md..  Pa.,  and  Ga.,  386,  387; 
United  Order  of  Foresters  ;  staff  and 


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aides  of  chief-marshal;  Caledonian  club, 
N.  Y.,  387;  Rheinischcr  schuetzen  band; 
centennial  sharpshooters  ;  Swiss  cen- 
tennial committee;  tableau.  Switzerland; 
Hungarian  schuetzen  band,  388;  Divis- 
ion B.  volunteer  firemen,  in  nine  divis- 
ions, 388;  view  of  students  of  Colum- 
bia college,  388;  view  of  volunteer  fire- 
men, 389;  Division  C,  view  of  Tammany 
society,  390;  Division  D,  Brooklyn 
police;  Manhattan  ship  joiners,  390; 
view  of  ship  joiners'  two  floats,  391; 
operative  plasterers'  society,  with  floats, 
391;  cloak  and  suit  industry;  mutual 
benefit  society  of  painters;  marble  cut- 
ters, with  float;  Brooklyn  plumbers'  and 
gas-fitters'  union,  392;  view  of  the  stu- 
dents, college  of  N.  Y.,  facing  392;  view 
of  the  Swiss  contingent  facing  392; 
Division  E,  carpenters  of  Brooklyn; 
carpenters  and  joiners  of  America,  392; 
Division  F,  United  Italian  societies, 
with  two  floats,  representing  Columbus 
and  Washington;  Italian  civic  societies; 
Scandinavian-American  societies,  392; 
Divisions  G  to  M,  German  societies, 
with  thirty  floats,  representing  the  in- 
fluence of  the  German  element,  393; 
view  of  the  exhibit  of  the  newspaper, 
the  "World,"  394;  Divisions  N  toT, 
Hibernians,  with  float;  Irish-American 
league,  with  floats,  395  ;  ninth  ward 
pioneer  corps;  bricklayers'  union  of 
Brooklyn  and  Long  Island  city,  with 
floats;  Loyal  Orange  institution;  Order 
of  Odd-Fellows,  with  float;  U.  S.  Grant 
hose  company,  with  overland  coach,  and 
pony  express;  Polish  societies;  Arling- 
ton league  club;  Bohemian  national 
association,  396;  views  of  tableaux, 
Washington's  farewell  to  his  officers, 
and  Federal  Hall,  396;  Colored  centen- 
nial committee,  397;  fac-simile  of  ticket 
to  grand  stand,  397;  Divisions  U  to  Z, 
United  Irish-American  and  Catholic 
societies,  with  twelve  floats,  represent- 
ing the  various  industries,  397. 

Civil  Engineers,  list  of,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  244. 

Claflin,  H.  B. ,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  cele- 
bration and  memorial  arch,  400,  413. 

Claflin,  John,  member  of  citizens'  com- 
mittee, 104;  of  committee  on  finance, 
iog;  general  committee,  114,236;  in- 
vited to  meet  president  Harrison,  246; 
subscriber  to  centennial  ball,  263;  at 
literary  exercises,  289;  at  banquet,  360. 

Clagett,  Alfred,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Clancy,  Charles  M.,  district  court  justice, 
243- 

Clancy,  John  M.,  member  of  congress 
from  N.  Y.  at  reception  to  president 
Harrison,  241. 

Clancy,  William,  alderman,  243. 

Claparcde,  Alfred  de,  minister  from  Switz- 
erland, invited  to  centennial  ball,  257;  at 
literary  exercises,  289;  at  banquet,  361. 

Clapp,  Anna  V.,  portrait  of  William  S. 
Johnson,  property  of,  facing  78,  489. 


Clark,  Abraham,  member  of  federal  con- 
vention, 1787,  136. 

Clark,  Alfred  C,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball  and  memorial  arch,  263,  413. 

Clark,  Mrs.  Alfred  C,  subscriber  to  me- 
morial arch,  413. 

Clark,  Augustus  M.,  aide  to  grand-mar- 
shal, military  parade,  320. 

Clark,  C.  C,  commissioner  from  N.  C, 
216. 

Clark,  C.  F.,  twenty-eighth  separate  com- 
pany, N.  Y.,  at  military  parade,  338. 

Clark,  C.  Stacy,  at  centennial  ball,  261  ; 
subscriber  to  ball,  263  ;  at  literary  exer- 
cises, 289. 

Clark,  Charles  P.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Clark,  David  C,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Clark,  Edward  S.,  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  413. 

Clark,  Emmons,  colonel  seventh  N.  Y. 
regiment,  at  centennial  ball,  261  ;  at 
military  parade,  334  ;  portrait,  338. 

Clark,  F.  C„  governor's  foot  guards, 
Conn.,  at  military  parade,  328. 

Clark,  Francis  B.,  commissioner  from 
Ala.,  233  ;  at  banquet,  358. 

Clark,  Gardiner  K.,  Jr.,  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball. 

Clark,  George  A.,  &  Brother,  subscribers 
to  memorial  arch,  414. 

Clark,  George  C,  portrait  of  Washing- 
ton, property  of,  144. 

Clark,  Harrison,  member  of  general  com- 
mittee, 114,  236  ;  at  banquet,  358. 

Clark,  Henry  0.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  263. 

Clark,  Hiram,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 224. 

Clark,  John  B.,  Jr.,  at  centennial  ball, 
260. 

Clark,  Jotham,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  242. 

Clark,  O.  D.,  first  Vt.  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  341. 

Clark,  W.  C,  seventy-first  N.  Y.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  335. 

Clark,  W.  H.,  Morgan  rifles,  S.  C,  at 
military  parade,  331. 

Clark,  William,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Clark,  William  N.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  263. 

Clarke,  Benjamin  G.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  246  ;  subscriber  to 
memorial  arch,  414. 

Clarke,  Christopher  C,  member  of  as- 
sembly, N.  Y.,  242. 

Clarke,  Miss  E.,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Clarke,  Mrs.  George,  at  centennial  ball, 
262. 

Clarke,  George  F.,  mentioned,  75,  note. 

Clarke,  J.,  mentioned,  70,  note. 

Clarke,  Mrs.  J.  T.  C,  at  centennial  ball, 

262. 

Clarke,  J.  W.,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 222. 

Clarke,  Thomas  C,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  244 


Clarke,  W.  A.,  commissioner  from  Mon- 
tana, 216. 

Clarke,  W.  H.,  at  banquet  to  president 
Harrison,  234  ;  at  banquet  metropolitan 
opera-house,  358. 

Clarke,  W.  P.,  twelfth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  325. 

Clarkson,  Ashton  C,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224  ;  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Clarkson,  Banyer,  member  of  general 
committee,  114,  236;  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  224  ;  at  centennial  ball, 
261  ;  subscriber  to  ball,  263  ;  member 
of  aisle  committee,  St.  Paul's  chapel, 
272,  282  ;  ancestry  of,  282  ;  at  banquet, 
358  ;  subscriber  to  celebration,  400. 

Clarkson,  Clermont  L.,  usher  at  commem- 
orative services  of  society  of  the  Cincin- 
nati, in  St.  Paul's  chapel,  170  ;  member 
of  reception  committee,  231  ;  ancestry 
of,  231  ;  at  literary  exercises.  289  ; 
member  of  platform  committee,  308,  309. 

Clarkson,  David,  warden  of  Trinity 
church,   1770,  282. 

Clarkson,  David  Augustus,  usher  at 
commemorative  services  society  of  the 
Cincinnati,  St.  Paul's  chapel,  170;  chair- 
man of  aisle  committee,  272,  281,  282, 
283;  ancestry  of,  2S2;  at  unveiling 
of  memorial  tablet,  283;  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  263;  at  banquet,  358. 

Clarkson,  Edward  L.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  263. 

Clarkson,  Floyd,  member  of  committee 
of  sons  of  the  revolution,  106;  general 
committee,  107,  114,  236;  committee  on 
states,  109,  113,  206,  207,  20S,  209,  228, 
236,  249;  marshal  of  the  escort  to  pres- 
ident Harrison,  April  29,  1889,  127, 
220,  235,  255;  at  banquet  to  president 
Harrison,  234;  report  as  marshal  of  the 
president's  escort,  249;  member  of  the 
seventh  regiment,  war  veterans,  253; 
subscriber  to  centennial  ball,  263;  at 
literary  exercises,  289;  aide  to  grand- 
marshal,  military  parade,  320. 

Clarkson,  Frederick,  member  of  general 
committee,  114,  236;  member  of  vestry, 
Trinity  church,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  and  vice-president  Morton, 
at  St.  Paul's  chapel  269,  270;  member 
of  special  committee  in  charge  of  ser- 
vices at  St.  Paul's  chapel,  281;  at 
banquet,  358,  359;  subscriber  to  cele- 
bration, 400. 

Clarkson,  George  T.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Clarkson,  John  V.  B.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224;  invited  to  meet  the 
president,  246. 

Clarkson,  Maj.  Matthew,  portrait,  painted 
by  Stuart,  facing  160;  vestrymen  of 
Trinity  church,  1789,  282;  notes  on  the 
portraits  of,  422,  438;  his  services,  438, 
note. 

Clarkson,  Matthew,  portrait  of  major 
Clarkson,  property  of,  facing  100,  438; 
fac-simile  of  his  ticket  to  naval  parade, 
208. 


INDEX. 


Clarkson,  Mrs.  Matthew,  bust  and  por- 
trait of  John  Jay,  and  miniature  of 
major  Clarkson,  properly  of,  100,  438, 
479.  483- 

Clausen,  Henry,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  247. 

Claxton,  Commodore  Alexander,  at  cele- 
bration of  the  semi-centennial  of  Wash- 
ington's inauguration,  96. 

Clay,  Catharine  T.,  portrait  of  Mrs.  El- 
bridge  Gerry,  property  of,  facing  59,  464. 

Clay,  John  W.,  mentioned,  464. 

Clearwater,  Alphonso  T.,  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  224. 

Cleary,  Thomas,  commander  of  third 
division,  volunteer  firemen.  civic 
parade,  388. 

Cleary,  William  E. ,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Clemens,  Horace  X.,  eighth  Ohio  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  342. 

Clemens.  S.  L.,  at  banquet,  360 

Clement,  C.  N.,  twelfth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  325. 

Clement,  George  A.,  aide  to  grand-mar- 
shal, military  parade,  320. 

Clergymen,  list  of,  in  N.  Y.  city,  1789,  39, 
note;  at  reception  to  president  Harrison, 
231,  244 — see  committees. 

Cleveland,  Clement,  M.  D.,  invited  to 
meet  president  Harrison,  244; subscriber 
to  centennial  ball,  263. 

Cleveland,  E.  S..  commissioner  from 
Conn.,  215. 

Cleveland,  Grover,  president  of  U.  S., 
memorial  of  general  committee,  re- 
specting the  celebration  of  the  centen- 
nial of  Washington's  inauguration, 
presented  to,  115;  fac-simile  of  his 
invitation  to  the  celebration  ,116;  extract 
of  his  message  to  congress,  Dec,  1888, 
relative  to  the  celebration,  118;  guest 
of  committee,  225,  248;  at  centennial 
ball,  257,  260;  fac-simile  of  his  ticket  to 
ball,  260;  attends  St.  Paul's  chapel,  270; 
at  literary  exercises,  285,  2S6,  308;  view 
of,  in  carriage  on  his  way  to  the  military 
parade,  313;  at  military  parade,  317; 
at  banquet,  metropolitan  opera-house, 
356.  358;  his  address  at  banquet,  362; 
at  reception  justices  U.  S.  supreme 
court,  402;  member  of  committee, 
memorial  arch.  409;  portrait,  413:  sub- 
scriber to  memorial  arch.  414. 

Cleveland,  Mrs.  Grover,  at  centennial 
ball,  257,  260. 

Cleveland,  Ohio,  first  and  fifth  regiments, 
with  troop  and  artillery,  at  military 
parade,  341,  342,  343. 

Cleveland,  W.  D.,  commissioner  from 
Texas,  216. 

Clewell,  Henry  M.,  first  artillery,  Ohio, 
at  military  parade,  343. 

Clews,  Henry  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  245;  at  centennial  ball,  260; 
at  banquet,  356,  35S;  subscriber  to 
memorial  arch,  414. 

Clews,  Mrs.  Henry,  at  centennial  ball, 
261;  portrait  of  James  Madison,  prop- 
erty of,  506. 


Clift,  B.  S.,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
263. 

Clift,  the  Misses,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 

Clift,  Smith,  at  centennial  ball,  260; 
subscriber  to  ball,  263;  at  banquet,  356. 

Clifton,  Charles,  assistant  adjutant- 
general,  fourth  brigade.  X.  Y.,  at 
military  parade,  338. 

Clinchy,  William  H.,  captain  of  police, 
236. 

Cline,  F.  Marion,  sixth  Ohio  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  342. 

Clinton,  Alexander  J.,  member  of  general 
committee,  114,  236;  of  X.  Y.  society 
of  the  Cincinnati,  150;  at  b.inquet,  360; 
subscriber  to  celebration,  400. 

Clinton,  Charles,  mentioned,  461. 

Clinton,  Charles  NT.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  263. 

Clinton,  Charles  W.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  244. 

Clinton,  Cornelia  Tappan,  miniature  at 
loan  exhibition,  144. 

Clinton,  DeWitt,  bust  of  Franklin,  exe- 
cuted for,  61  ;  extract  from  his  memo- 
rial address  of  major  Matthew  Clark- 
son, 438,  note  ;  mentioned,  503.  517. 

Clinton  Engine,  company,  at  civic  pa- 
rade, 388. 

Clinton,  George,  governor  of  X.  Y.,  op- 
poses adoption  of  the  constitution,  3  ; 
influences  the  non-appointment  of  elec 
tors  from  N.  Y.,  12;  view  of  his 
residence,  29;  at  reception  to  George 
Washington  at  N.  Y..  29,  31,  33,  34, 
35  ;  Washington  dines  with,  30.  31, 
36,  50;  portraits,  painted  by  Ames,  fac- 
ing 34;  Ramage,  155;  St.  Memin,  34, 
Trumbull,  7;  unknown,  155;  Wright,  34; 
at  inauguration  of  Washington,  44,  46, 
50;  proposed  statue  of,  51,  note;  calls  on 
Washington,  58;  attends  assembly  ball, 
17S9,  58;  notes  on  the  portraits  of,  136, 

144,  145,  420,  422,  423,  438;  Ceracchi's 
bust  of,  206. 

Clinton,  George,  brother  of  DeWitt  Clin- 
ton, mentioned,  517. 

Clinton,  Mrs.  George,  portrait,  painted  by 
St.  Memin,  facing  34;  attends  assembly 
ball,  17S9,  5S;  notes  on  the  portraits  of, 

145.  422.  439- 

Cloak  and  suit  industry,  at  civic  parade, 

392. 

Closson,  Mrs.  Henry  B.,  mentioned,  538, 
note. 

Clothing  trade,  representatives  invked  to 
meet  president  Harrison,  247. 

Cloud,  Rev.  Robert,  pastor  of  Methodist 
church,  X.  Y.,  1789,  39,  note. 

Clubs,  representatives  of,  at  reception  to 
president  Harrison,  231. 

Clymer,  Christopher,  mentioned,  64. 

Clymer,  Daniel  R.,  mentioned,  475. 

Clymer.  George,  member  of  congress  from 
Pa.,  1789,  37,  136,  232  ;  biographical 
sketch  of,  64;  portraits,  painted  by  C. 
W.  Peale  and  Trumbull,  facing  71  ; 
member  of  federal  convention,  1787, 
136;  notes  on  the  portraits  of,  144,  422, 
440. 


Clymer,  Mrs.  George,  portrait  of  George 
Clymer,  property  of,  facing  71.  144.  440 

Clyde,  M.  H.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Clyde,  William  P.,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  104;  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  244.  246. 

Clyde.  William  P.,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to 
celebration  and  memorial  arch,  400,  414. 

Coan,  Titus  M.,  U.  S.  navy,  escort  to 
president  Harrison,  252. 

Cobb,  Gen.  David,  portrait  at  loan  exhibi- 
tion, 144;  his  services,  154  177. 

Cobb,  E.  J.,  colonel  second  X.  H.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  332. 

Cobb,  M.  E.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Cobb,  Samuel  C,  president  Mass.  society 
of  the  Cincinnati,  149,  151;  his  address 
at  commemorative  banquet  of  the  so 
ciety,  153:  representative  of  society  of 
the  Cincinnati,  at  centennial  celebration 
of  Washington's  inauguration,  177;  in- 
vited to  meet  president  Harrison  248; 
at  banquet,  metropolitan  opera-house, 
360. 

Cocheu,  X.  L.,  ninth  X.  Y.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  335. 

Cochin,  Charles  X  ,  artist,  his  portrait  of 
Franklin,  facing  484,  544 

Cochran,  G.  L..  thirteenth  X.  Y.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  337. 

Cochran,  W.  H.  A.,  thirteenth  X.  V 
regiment,  at  military  parade.  337. 

Cochrane,  John,  member  of  executive 
commiitee,  108;  of  committee  on  army, 
109,  113,  208,  211,  236;  general  com- 
mittee, 114,  236  ;  member  of  X  Y. 
society  of  the  Cincinnati,  150  ;  sub- 
scriber to  centennial  ball.  263;  at  liter- 
ary exercises,  289;  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  316;  at  banquet,  361;  marshal 
of  Tammany  Society,  civic  parade.  390; 
subscriber  to  celebration,  400. 

Cocke,  Edmund  R.,  portrait  of  Edmund 
Randolph,  property  of,  520. 

Cocke,  Elizabeth,  mentioned,  520. 

Cockerill,  John  A.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245,  247;  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  263;  at  banquet,  360. 

Cockran,  William  B..  member  of  congress 
from  X.  Y.,  at  reception  to  president 
Harrison,  241. 

Codman,  Mrs.  Arthur,  portrait  of  George 
Washington,  properly  of,  542. 

Coe,  Charles  A.,  member  of  committee  of 
sons  of  the  revolution,  106;  of  general 
committee,  107,  114,  236;  invited  to 
meet  president  Harrison,  224  ;  sub- 
scriber to  centennial  ball,  263. 

Coe,  George  S.,  member  of  citizens'  com- 
mittee, 104;  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  245  ;  subscriber  to  celebra- 
tion, 401. 

Coffee  Exchange,  members  of,  invited  to 
meet  president  Harrison,  231,  245. 

Coffee  House,  N'.  Y.  city,  chamber  of 
commerce  meet  at.  40. 

Coffee,  William  K.,  third  Mo.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  343. 


Till:  UliNTENNIAT  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


Coffin,  Charles  B.,  escort  to  president 
1  larrison,  223. 

Coffin,  Frederick,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  263. 

Coffin,  Henry,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Coffin,  William  A.,  his  report  on  the 
organization  and  preliminary  work  of 
committee  on  art  and  exhibition,  131  ; 
manager  of  art  and  exhibition,  133, 
134,  142  ;  report  on  historical  portraits 
and  relics,  147  ;  presented  with  silver 
centennial  medal,  14S  ;  member  of  art 
committee,  233,  409  ;  at  centennial  ball, 
261  ;  at  banquet,  360  ;  member  of  me- 
morial arch  committee,  409. 

Cogcr,  John  1.,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 223. 

Coggeshall,    Henry    J.,    state  senator, 

N.  Y.,  242  ;  at  banquet,  359. 
Cogswell,  James  L.,  his  letter  describing 

the  arrival  and  reception  of  George 

Washington  at  N.  Y.,  1789,  30. 
Cogswell,    Mason    F.,  sketch    of  Faith 

Trumbull  and  Catharine  Wadsworth, 

534.  539- 

Cogswell,  William,  at  banquet,  359. 

Cohen  Mendes,  acknowledgment  to,  in 
preface,  v  ;  the  Peale  portrait  of  Jay, 
482  ;  the  Reynolds  portrait  of  Charles 
Carroll,  434  and  note. 

Cohoes,  N.  Y.,  seventh  separate  com- 
pany, at  military  parade,  337. 

Coit,  A.  B.,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
263. 

Coit,  George  M.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246  ;  vestryman  of 
Trinity  church,  at  St.  Paul's  chapel 
services,  270. 

Coit,  Rev.  Henry  A.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  244. 

Coit,  Milnor,  invited  to  meet  president 
1  larrison,  244. 

Colburn,  Jeremiah,  the  Franklin  por- 
traits, 459,  note. 

Colby,  Charles  L.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  263. 

Colby,  G.  II.,  third  N.  H.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  332. 

Colden,  Cadualader  D.,  mentioned,  519. 

Colden,  Mrs.  Cadwalader  D.,  daughter 
of  Bishop  Provoost,  519. 

Cole,  Fannie  B.,  delegate  from  Normal 
college,  reception  of  president  Harri- 
son, city  hall,  237. 

Cole,  Fremont,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  243  ;  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263  ;  at  banquet,  358. 

Cole,  G.  C,  fifth  Md.  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  330. 

Cole,  Hamilton,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  244. 

Cole,  Jacob  II..  Butler  post,  G.  A.  R.,  at 
military  parade,  346. 

Coleman,  Anna,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Coleman,  Cynthia  B.  T.,  owner  of  por- 
traits of  John  Randolph,  facing  160, 
522;  Thomas  T.  Tucker,  facing  100,  536. 

Coleman,  H.,  sixty-ninth  N.  Y.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  335. 


Coleman,  Michael,  tax  commissioner, 
N.  Y.  city,  243  ;  at  banquet,  359. 

Coles,  Agnes,  mentioned,  84,  note;  de- 
scribes portrait  of  Isaac  Coles,  440. 

Coles,  Edward,  portraits  of  Jefferson  and 
Madison,  property  of,  facing  25,  63, 
483,  484,  504. 

Coles,  Helen  C,  mentioned,  84,  note  \ 
portrait  of  Isaac  Coles,  property  of, 
facing  in,  440. 

Coles,  Isaac,  representative  in  congress 
from  Va.,  37.  136,  232  ;  biographical 
sketch  of,  84  ;  portraits,  painted  by 
James  Peale,  and  Ramage,  facing  m  ; 
notes  on  the  portraits  of,  422,  440  ;  fac- 
simile of  signature,  440. 

Coles,  Mrs.  Isaac,  portraits,  painted  by 
Ramage,  facing  59  ;  notes  on  the  por- 
traits of,  422,  441. 

Coles,  John,  mentioned,  84. 

Coles,  Lieutenant,  U.  S.  navy,  at  naval 
parade,  217. 

Colgate,  R.  R.,  at  banquet,  359. 

Colgate,  S.  J.,  at  banquet,  358. 

Colgate,  Samuel,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  244. 

Colgate,  Mrs.  Samuel,  at  centennial  ball, 
262. 

Collamore.  Gilman,  &  Co.,  subscribers 
to  celebration,  401. 

College  of  the  City  of  New  York,  students 
at  civic  parade,  385  ;  view  of  students, 
facing  392. 

Colleges,  list  of  representatives  of,  in- 
vited to  meet  president  Harrison,  244. 

Collier,  David,  seventeenth  Ohio  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  343. 

Collier,  P.  F.,  at  banquet,  358. 

Collier,  Thomas  S.,  the  Champlain  por- 
trait of  Franklin,  449,  note. 

Collier,  Mrs.  Thomas  S.,  portrait  of 
Franklin,  property  of,  facing  444,  448, 
449,  note. 

Collins,  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Richard  Bland 
Lee,  49O. 

Collins,  G.  W.,  aide  to  grand-marshal, 

military  parade,  320. 
Collins.  George  R.,  third  Mo.  regiment, 

at  military  parade,  343. 
Collins,  Michael  F.,  state  senator,  N.  Y., 

242. 

Collins,  Sarah,  at  reception  to  George 
Washington,  Trenton,  N.  J.,  26,  note. 

Collins,  W.  J.,  thirteenth  N.  Y.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  337. 

Collis,  C.  H.  T.,  reception  to  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  240. 

Collom,  George  S.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  263. 

Collver,  Rev.  Robert,  favors  holding  re- 
ligious services  April  30,  1889,  123  ;  at 
laying  of  corner-stone,  memorial  arch, 
410. 

Colorado,  governor  and  commissioner  of, 

2I5.  233  I  admitted  into  the  union,  233. 
Colored  Centennial  Committee,  at  civic 

parade,  397. 
Colquitt,  Alfred  II.,  senator   from  Ga., 

241;  at  centennial  ball,  259;  at  banquet, 

359- 


Colquitt,  Mrs.  Alfred  H.,  at  centennial 
ball,  259. 

Colt.  Boudinot,  member  of  reception  com- 
mittee, ancestry  of,  230. 

Colt,  E.  Boudinot,  letter  of  Elias  Boudi- 
not, describing  Washington's  journey 
from  Elizabethtown  Point,  N.  J.,  to 
N.  Y.,  property  of,  28,  note  ;  the  Waldo 
and  Jcwetl  portrait  of  Elias  Boudinot, 
430. 

Colt,  Lc  Baron,  at  banquet,  359. 
Colt,  Roswell  L. ,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Colton,  Stockton,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Colt,  Stockton  B.,  member  of  reception 

committee,  ancestry  of,  230. 
Columbia,  represented  in  tableau,  civic 

parade,  395. 
Columbia,    schooner,    decorated   on  the 

arrival  of  Washington  at  N.  Y.,  1789, 

29,  note. 

Columbia  College,  N.  Y.,  holds  com- 
mencement in  St.  Paul's  chapel,  1789, 
7  ;  students  at  civic  parade,  385  ;  view 
of  students,  388  ;  portrait  of  William  S. 
Johnson,  property  of,  490. 

Columbia  Hose  Company,  at  civic  parade, 
389. 

Columbia  Institute  Cadets,  at  civic  parade, 
386. 

Columbia,  S.  C,  governor's  guards  and 
Richland  volunteers,  at  military  parade, 
331- 

Columbus,  Christopher,  portrait  of,  men- 
tioned, 14,  note  ;  represented  in  tableau, 
civic  parade,  392. 

Columbus  Guard,  at  civic  parade,  392. 

Columbus,  Ohio,  eighth,  fourteenth  and 
seventeenth  regiments,  at  military 
parade,  342. 

Colvins  Ferry,  N.  J.,  Washington  crosses, 
24. 

Colwell,  A.W.,  Dix  post,  G.  A.  R.,  escort 

to  president  Harrison,  221;  at  military 

parade,  345. 
Colyer,  A.  S.,  commissioner  from  Tenn., 

216,  233;  at  banquet,  359. 
Colyer,    Edith,    delegate    from  normal 

college,  reception  of  president  Harrison, 

city  hall,  237. 
Comes,  Washington  I.,  invited  to  meet 

president  Harrison,  246. 
Comfort,  Charles  D.,  colonel  first  Mo. 

regiment,  at  military  parade,  343. 
Comins,  0.  R.,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  263. 

Commercial  Advertiser,  subscriber  to 
memorial  arch,  414. 

Commercial  Agencies,  representatives  in- 
vited to  meet  president  Harrison,  246. 

Commercial  Bodies,  represented  at  re- 
ception 10  president  Harrison,  231,  245, 
246. 

Commiskey,  F.  W.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Commissioners,  appointed  by  the  gov- 
ernors of  the  different  states  and 
territories,  to  take  part  in  the  centennial 
celebration,  meeting,  118,  207  ;  names 


INDEX. 


575 


of,  and  states  represented,  208,  215,  233; 
programme,  209  ;  reception  and  medals 
presented  to,  217  ;  at  naval  parade,  217. 
Committees    Centennial    celebration  of 

Washington's  inauguration : 
Aisle,  appointed  for  services  at  St.  Paul's 
chapel,  120  ;  medal  worn  by  members, 
I2i ;  diagram  of  main  floor  of  St.  Paul's 
chapel,  showing  assignment  of  guests, 
and  position  of  committee,  272;  list  of 
members,  281,  282;  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  281;  fac-simile  of  memorial 
tablet  erected  by  committee,  282;  ser- 
vices at  unveiling  of  the  tablet,  283. 
Army,  members,  log,  1 12,  113,  236,  310; 
duties,  1 10,  3 1 1 ;  apply  for  appropriation , 
117;   chief  aide  to  the  chairman  of, 
120;  headquarters  of,  120;  medal  worn  by 
members,  121;  organize,  310;  report  on 
military  parade,  310;    route  of  march, 
military  parade,  313;  civic  and  indus- 
trial  parade,  313;    receives  president 
Harrison  at  grand  stand,  317;  disburse- 
ments by,  399. 
Art  and  Exhibition,  members,  log,  112, 
113,  131,  134,  236,  4og;  duties  of,  no; 
officers,   117;    select   location  for  the 
loan  exhibition,  117,  132,133;  appoint 
manager,  117;  aides  to  the  chairman, 
120;  plan  of  loan  exhibition,  120.  121; 
medal  worn  by  members.    121;  pro- 
gramme of  exhibition,  126;  organization 
and  preliminary  work,  131;  change  of 
name  of  the  committee,  suggested,  132, 
133;     sub-committees,    133;  circular 
letter,  134;  fac  simile  of  season  ticket, 
134;  centennial  medal  designed,  I3g; 
centennial  souvenir  of,  140;  opening  of 
loan  exhibition.  142;  fac-simile  of  ticket 
to  opening  of   loan    exhibition,  142; 
catalogue  of  loan  exhibition,  142;  meet- 
ings,  147;    suggest  the  erection  of  a 
permanent  memorial  arch,  147;  organize 
Washington  memorial  arch  committee, 
147;  final  meeting,  and  report  on  loan 
exhibition,  147;   resolutions,  148;  re- 
ceipts and  disbursements,  3gg;  recom- 
mend erection  of  permanent  memorial 
arch,  407,  408. 
Citizens',  names  of,  103;  organize,  104; 
resolutions,    104;    committee   of  thir- 
teen appointed,  105;  second  meeting, 
committees  from  historical  society  and 
chamber  of   commerce    confer  with, 
105;  third  meeting,  committees  from 
historical   society,    chamber    of  com- 
merce,   and    sons  of  the  revolution 
added  to,  the,  106;  name  changed  to 
general  committee,  107. 

 See  General  Committee. 

Clergymen,  list  of,  123;  appointment  of 
committee,  124;  address  of,  to  the 
ministers  and  churches  of  the  U.  S., 
124;  address  to  the  president  of  U.  S. 
requesting  that  April  30,  1889,  be  de- 
clared a  day  of  national  thanksgiving, 
125. 

Entertainment,  members,  109,  112,  113, 
236,  256;  duties  of,  no;  applv  for 
appropriation,   117;   date  of  ball  and 


banquet,  117;  aides  to  the  chairman, 
120,  181;  plans,  for  ball  and  banquet, 
120,  132;  medal  worn  by  members,  121; 
programme  of  banquet  and  ball,  128, 
132;  price  of  ball  tickets,  256;  number 
of  tickets  printed,  257;  expenses,  257; 
order  of  dancing.  258;  banquet  at 
metropolitan  opera-house  under  the 
supervision  of,  354,  355;  escort  to 
guests  at  banquet,  355;  receipts  and 
disbursements,  3gg. 

Executive,  members,  108;  aides  to  chair- 
man, 120;  medals  worn  by  chairman 
and  secretary,  121;  receipts  and  dis- 
bursements, 399. 

Exhibition,  members,  109,  112,  113,  131; 
merged  into  the  art  committee,  117, 
133- 

  See  Art  and  Exhibition  Committee. 

Finance,  members,  109,  112,  113,  236. 
398:  duties  of,  no;  apply  for  appropri- 
ation, 117;  medal  worn  by  members. 
121;  report,  122,  398;  organize,  398; 
disbursements,  399. 

General,  organize,  members,  107,  10S, 
114,  236;  appoint  executive  committee, 
108;  sub-committees,  108,  109,  112,  113, 
236;  fac-simile  of  testimonial  of  thanks 
to  the  president  of  U.  S.,  in;  memo- 
rial to  president  of  U.  S.,  115,  178; 
fac-simile  of  invitation,  116,  119;  head- 
quarters of,  118;  amount  of  appropria- 
tion made  by  the  state  to  the  committee, 
118;  list  of  tickets  issued,  ng;  number 
of  tickets  for  grand  stand,  ng;  medal 
worn  by  the  chairman,  secretary,  mem- 
bers, and  guests.  121;  official  pro- 
gramme, 126;  fac-simile  of  tickets  to  loan 
exhibition,  134,  142;  centennial  medal 
designed  for,  I3g;  views  of  medal,  140, 
141;  presents  gold  medal  to  president 
Harrison,  182;  fac-simile  of  tickets, 
naval  parade,  igo,  191,  208;  escort  to 
president  Harrison,  225;  reception  and 
banquet  to  president  Harrison,  227; 
fac-simile  of  invitation  to  reception  and 
banquet,  228,  229,  232,  233,  236,  237; 
fac-simile  of  ball  ticket,  260;  of  press 
ticket,  264;  of  ticket  to  services  at  St. 
Paul's  chapel,  270. 

General  Government,  members,  log,  112, 
113,  178,  236;  duties  of,  no,  180;  aide 
to  the  chairman,  120;  medal  worn  by 
members,  121;  organize,  17S;  prelimin- 
ary work  of  committee  at  Washington, 
D.  C,  and  departure  of  presidential 
party  for  N.  Y.,  escorted  by  committee, 
178;  meet  at  Washington,  D.  C,  181; 
escort  to  president  Harrison,  182,  183. 

Literary  Exercises,  members,  iog,  113, 
236;  duties  of,  110;  recommend  religi- 
ous services  be  held  in  all  the  churches, 
117,  122;  medal  worn  by  chairman  and 
secretary,  121;  plan  of  religious  ser- 
vices, 122;  the  literary  exercises  at  sub- 
treasury  building,  2S5;  fac-simile  of 
ticket  and  invitation  to  literary  exer- 
cises, 286,  288. 

Navy,  members,  log,  112,  113,  189,  igo, 
igr,  236;  duties  of,  no,  189;  arrange 


to  meet  the  president  of  the  U.  S.  at 
Elizabcthport,  N.  J.,  and  escort  him  to 
N.  Y.  over  the  same  course  followed  by 
Washington  in  1789,  117,  189  ;  aides  to 
the  chairman.  120  ;  preparations  for  the 
naval  display,  120  ;  medal  worn  by 
members,  121  ;  programme  of  naval 
parade,  126,  igi  ;  the  naval  parade, 
and  landing  of  president  Harrison  at 
the  foot  of  Wall  street,  escorted  by 
committee,  i8g  ;  portraits  of  members 
of  committee,  facing  igo  ;  fac-simile  of 
tickets  for  naval  parade,  igo,  igi  ;  dis- 
bursements, 3gg. 

Plan  and  Scope,  members,  108,  log,  112, 
236;  sub-committees,  108;  outline  of 
celebration,  no;  duties  of,  no,  317; 
reports  from  sub-committees,  117; 
approves  plans  and  appropriations  to 
sub-committees,  118,  120;  medal  worn 
by  members,  121 ;  final  meeting,  author- 
ize publication  of  a  memorial  volume 
of  the  celebration,  122  ;  view  of  carriage 
containing  committee,  210 ;  escort  to 
president  Harrison,  225  ;  at  reception 
and  banquet  to  president  Harrison, 
227  ;  at  literary  exercises,  285  ;  at  mili- 
tary parade,  317. 

Platform,  at  literary  exercises,  sub-treas- 
ury building,  120,  285  ;  medal  worn  by 
members,  121;  members,  285.  286,  308. 

Press,  members,  120  ;  provide  tickets  to 
representatives  of  journals,  and  steam- 
boat for  the  naval  parade,  1 20  ;  fac- 
simile of  press  ticket,  264. 

Publication,  members,  122  ;  memorial 
volume  of  the  celebration,  prepared 
under  the  direction  of,  122. 

Railroads  and  Transportation,  members, 
iog,  112,  113,  236  ;  duties  of,  no;  aides 
to  the  chairman,  120  ;  arrange  excur- 
sion rates  with  railroads,  and  provide 
special  train  for  presidential  party  from 
Washington,  D.  C,  to  NT.  Y.  and  return, 
120;  medal  worn  by  members,  121  ; 
escort  to  president  Harrison,  182  ;  the 
journey  of  the  presidential  party  from 
Washington  to  N.  Y.  and  return,  and 
the  work  of  the  transportation  commit- 
tee, 184  ;  resolutions  of  thanks  to  the 
Pa.  railroad,  187. 

Reception,  duties  of,  120;  appointed,  120; 
medal  worn  by  members,  121  ;  mem- 
bers, 22g;  introduce  guests  to  president 
Harrison,  at  lawyers'  club,  22g. 

States,  members,  log,  112,  113,  206,  2og, 
236  ;  duties  of,  no,  206;  aides  to  the 
chairman,  120;  medal  worn  by  mem- 
bers, 121  ;  sends  invitations  to  govern- 
ors of  states  and  territories,  207  ;  fac- 
simile of  ticket  for  naval  display,  20S  ; 
programme  for  commissioners  of  states 
and  territories,  20g  ;  fac-simile  of  ticket 
to  reception  at  lawyers'  club,  20g  ;  list 
of  governors  and  commissioners,  214, 
215  ;  reception  to  governors  and  com- 
missioners, 216  ;  presents  medals  to 
guests,  217  ;  confer  with  police  depart- 
ment, 217;  number  of  invitations  issued 
for  naval  display,  217  ;  at  naval  parade, 


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217  ;  escort  to  president  Harrison,  220; 
escorts  guests  at  reception  to  president 
Harrison,  227  ;  fac-simile  of  invitation 
to  reception,  22S,  229,  232,  233,  236, 
237  ;  list  of  guests  at  reception  and 
banquet,  231,241  ;  banquet  to  president 
Harrison,  233  ;  directions  for  reception 
and  presentation  of  guests,  249  ;  report 
of  marshal  of  the  president's  escort, 
249;  president  Harrison  invited  to  ban- 
quet, and  his  reply,  254  ;  thanks  of 
committee,  255  ;  escort  to  president 
Harrison  and  other  guests,  at  St.  Paul's 
chapel,  269  ;  disbursements.  399. 
Comnn,  Thomas,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Comstock,  Andrew  C,  member  of  assem- 
bly, N.  Y..  242. 

Comstock,  Cornelius,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  263. 

Comstock.  Cyrus  B.,  U.  S.  army,  invited 
to  meet  president  Harrison,  248. 

Comstock,  John  L.,  mentioned,  526. 

Concord,  N.  H.,  third  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  332  ;  portraits  of  John 
Langdon  and  Samuel  Livermore  at, 
495.  499- 

Concordia     Maennerchor,    at  Madison 

square  concert,  350. 
Concordia  Sharpshooters,  at  civic  parade, 

393- 

Concordia  Society,  at  civic  parade,  392, 
395- 

Condon,  Amasa  S.,  poem,  read  at  Ogden, 
Utah,  406. 

Condon,  W.,  first  regiment,  Delaware,  at 

military  parade,  322. 
Cones,   Mrs.   Elliott,  at  centennial  ball, 

262. 

Coney  Island,  N.  Y.,  firemen,  at  civic 
parade,  389. 

Confederation  of  States,  the  expiration  of 
the,  saluted  with  thirteen  guns  at  New 
York  city,  4. 

Conger,  C.  R.,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 223. 

Conger,  Clarence  R.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Congress,  see  United  States  congress. 

Conkling,  Alfred  R.,  member  of  general 
committee,  114,  236  ;  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  263;  at  literary  exercises, 
289  ;  member  of  platform  committee, 
3°8,  309. 

Conkling,  Roscoe,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  104. 

Conlin,  Martin  F.,  Goss  post,  G.  A.  R., 
escort  to  president  Harrison,  221  ;  at 
military  parade,  345. 

Conlin,  Peter,  inspector  of  police,  N.  Y., 
217,  225,  255. 

Conlon,  J.,  sixty-ninth  N.  Y.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  335. 

Connecticut,  ratifies  the  constitution,  2  ; 
representation  of,  as  a  federal  pillar,  2  ; 
U.  S.  senators  from,  6  ;  representatives 
in  congress,  1789,  8,  11.  232;  average 
age  of  delegation  in  first  congress  under 
the  constitution,  62  ;  nativity  of  dele- 
gate, 62  ;  biographical  sketches  of  sen- 


ators and  members  of  first  congress, 
72  ;  list  of  senators  and  members  of 
congress,  135  ;  members  of  federal 
convention,  1787,  136  ;  governor  and 
commissioners  of,  at  centennial  cele- 
bration of  Washington's  inauguration, 
214,  215,  233  ;  admitted  into  the  union, 
233  ;  troops  at  military  parade,  N.  Y., 
328,  329,  346  ;  sons  of  the  American 
revolution  of,  organized,  402. 

Connolly,  John,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  242  ;  at  banquet,  359. 

Connolly,  P.,  twenty-fifth  regiment,  N.  Y. 
volunteer  veteran  association,  at  civic 
parade,  385. 

Connor,  Selden,  commissioner  from  Me., 
216,  233. 

Connor,  Washington  E.,  member  of 
general  committee,  114.  236;  invited 
to  meet  president  Harrison,  245  ;  at 
centennial  ball,  261  ;  subscriber  to  ball, 
263  ;  at  banquet,  360  ;  subscriber  to 
celeoration  and  memorial  arch,  400, 
414. 

Conover,  A.  W  ,  seventh  N.  Y.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  334. 

Conover,  Alonzo  E. ,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Conover,  Frank  E.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  247. 

Conover,  J.  S.,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  cele- 
bration, 401. 

Conrad,  Holmes,  commissioner  from  Va., 
216. 

Conrad,  J.  F.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Conrad,  P.  S.,  first  Pa.  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  324. 

Constable,  James  M.,  member  of  general 
committee,  114,  236;  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  244,  246  ;  at  ban- 
quet, 360. 

Constable,  William,  Washington  presents 
his  portrait  to,  543. 

Constantine,  R.  B.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  263. 

Constitution,  see  United  States  constitu- 
tion. 

Contanseau,  Ludovic,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  246. 

Contee,  Benjamin,  member  of  congress 
from  Md.,  1789,  37,  135,  232  ;  bio- 
graphical sketch  of,  78  ;  portrait,  fac- 
ing 99  ;  notes  on  the  portrait  of,  418, 
423.  44 1- 

Contee,  Philip  A.  L.,  portrait  of  Benja- 
min Contee,  property  of,  facing  99, 
441. 

Content,  W.,  twelfth  N.  Y.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  336. 

Continental  Congress,  receives  copy  of 
federal  constitution,  debate  on  its  adop- 
tion, 1  ;  adopts  the  constitution,  and 
submits  the  same  to  the  states  for  rati- 
fication, 2  ;  resolves  to  place  the  new 
government  into  operation,  appoints 
time  for  election  of  presidential  elec- 
tors, final  meeting,  3  ;  services  ren- 
dered by,  and  end  of,  4 ;  meet  in 
N.  Y.,  13  ;  meet  at  Phila.,  23. 


Continental  Money,  the  uses  of,  and  de- 
preciation, 4. 

Contoit,  Charles  H.,  member  of  vestry 
Trinity  church,  at  services,  St.  Paul's 
chapel,  269. 

Conventions,  federal,  at  Philadelphia,  1  ; 
Massachusetts,  2  ;  Virginia  and  New 
York,  3  ;  North  Carolina,  4,  note. 

Converse,  E.  S.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Converse,  Rev.  George  S.,  officiates  at 
centennial  celebration  services,  Boston, 
403. 

Conway,  Belle,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  72,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

Conway,  J.  B.,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 

Conway,  Margaret  E.  S.,  portrait  of 
Thomas  Jefferson,  property  of,  487,  note. 

Conway,  Moncure  D.,  acknowledgment 
to,  in  preface,  vi  ;  member  of  general 
committee,  114,  236  ;  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  263  ;  at  banquet,  360  ; 
claims  the  Woolaston  portrait  of  Mar- 
tha Washington  to  be  the  portrait  of 
Mrs.  Fielding  Lewis,  498,  note  ;  546, 
note  ;  notes  on  the  portraits  of  Edmund 
and  John  Randolph,  520,  522,  note. 

Conway,  Richard,  Washington's  letters 
to,  mentioned,  21,  note. 

Coogan,  James  J.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  263. 

Cook,  Frederick,  secretary  of  state, 
N.   Y.,  242  ;  at  banquet,  359. 

Cook,  G.  S.,  third  N.  J.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  326. 

Cook,  Henry  H.,  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Cook,  John  C,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  246. 

Cook,  John  H.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 221  ;  invited  to  meet  the  presi- 
dent, 248. 

Cook,  M.,  invited  to  meet  president  Har- 
rison, 246. 

Cooledge,  W.  A.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Cooley,  D.  N.,  commissioner  from  Iowa, 
215  ;  at  banquet,  360. 

Cooley,  James  C,  of  the  loyal  legion, 
253- 

Coolidge,  Joseph,  portraits  of  Benjamin 
Franklin,  property  of,  452,  461  ;  men- 
tioned, 484. 

Coolidge,  Thomas  J.,  acknowledgment 
to,  in  preface,  vi  ;  portraits  of  the  first 
five  presidents  of  U.  S.,  property  of, 
facing  23,  150,  424,  484,  485,  505,  510, 
542- 

Coolidge,  Thomas  J.,  Jr.,  at  literary  ex- 
ercises, 289  ;  member  of  platform  com- 
mittee, 308,  309. 

Coon,  Charles  E.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  263. 

Coon,  Ollie  C,  eighteenth  Pa.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  325. 

Coon,  S  Mortimer,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y„  242. 

Cooper,  E  H.,  Pa.  state  fencibles,  at 
military  parade,  324. 


INDEX. 


577 


Cooper,  Edward,  member  of  citizens' 
committee  104,  105  ;  of  general  com- 
mittee, 107,  IT4,  236  ;  geneial  govern- 
ment, 109,  113,  178,  181,  236  ;  escort 
to  president  Harrison,  181  ;  invited  to 
meet  the  president,  246  ;  at  centennial 
ball,  260  ;  at  banquet,  361  ;  member  of 
memorial  arch  committee,  409  ;  sub- 
scriber to  memorial  arch,  413  ;  portrait, 
413. 

Cooper,  Mrs.  Edward,  at  centennial  ball, 
258. 

Cooper,  Job  A.,  governor  of  Colorado, 
215,  233  ;  at  reception  to  president 
Harrison,  241  ;  at  banquet,  359. 

Cooper,  the  Misses,  subscribers  to  me- 
morial arch,  414. 

Cooper,  Theodore,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  244. 

Cooper,  Theodore  P..  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  263. 

Cooper,  Thomas,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 223. 

Cooper,  Washington  B.,  artist,  his  por- 
trait of  John  Sevier,  526. 

Cooper.  William  B.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  263. 

Cooper,  William  H.,  colonel  sixth  N.  J. 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  326. 

Cooper,  Hewitt  &  Co.,  subscribers  to 
celebration,  400. 

Copeland,  Theron  S.,  captain  of  police, 
237. 

Copley,  John  S.,  illustrations  of  the  por- 
traits painted  by,  of  John  Adams,  fac- 
ing 18  ;  James  Duane,  facing  36  ;  Ralph 
Izard,  facing  180  ;  Mrs.  Izard,  180  ; 
Mrs.  S.  A.  Otis,  facing  172  ;  Mrs.  W. 
S.  Smith,  facing  260  ;  John  Temple, 
facing  46  ;  Lady  Temple,  facing  46  ; 
number  of  portraits  of  congressmen 
painted  by,  419,  420  ;  notes  on  his  por- 
traits of  Adams,  421,  423,  426  ;  Duane, 
421,  442  ;  Franklin,  455  ;  Izard,  144. 
421,  477,  478  ;  Mrs.  Izard,  144,  421, 
477 ■  478  :  Laurens,  495  ;  col.  Lewis  and 
wife,  497,  note;  judge  Livingston,  420, 

501  ;   Mrs.   Livingston,   501  ;  Maclay, 

502  :  Mifflin,  509  ;  Mrs.  Otis,  421,  517; 
Mrs.  Schuyler,  524  ;  Mrs.  W.  S.  Smith, 
528  ;  Sir  John  and  Lady  Temple,  421, 
522  ;  Washington,  543. 

Copobianco,  Francesco,  at  civic  parade, 
392. 

Copp,  William  A.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247  ;  at  banquet,  360. 

Coppell,  George,  subscriber  to  celebra- 
tion and  memorial  arch,  401,  414. 

Coppenhagen,  Mrs.  John  H.,  subscriber 
to  centennial  ball,  263. 

Coppinger,  John  J.,  U.  S.  army,  aide  to 
grand-marshal,  military  parade,  319. 

Corbett,  Alexander  R.,  of  St.  John's 
lodge,  286  ;  at  literary  exercises,  289. 

Corbin,  Austin,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  245  ;  at  banquet,  358. 

Corbin,  Mrs.  Austin,  at  centennial  ball, 
261. 

Corbin,  H.  C,  aide  to  grand-marshal, 
military  parade,  320. 

74 


Corbin,  Miss,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 

Corcelle,  Madame  de,  portrait  of  Lafay- 
ette, property  of,  494. 

Corcoran  Gallery,  Washington,  I).  C. 
owner  of  the  portraits  of  Elias  Boudi- 
not,  facing  72  ;  John  Brown,  facing 
119 ;  Benjamin  Franklin,  450,  facing 
524  ;  James  Jackson,  facing  76;  Thomas 
Jefferson,  485  ;  Chancellor  Livingston, 
facing  45 ;  Mrs.  Alexander  Macomb, 
facing  51;  James  Madison,  facing  63. 
116,  507  ;  James  Monroe,  511  ;  Mrs. 
Quincy,  facing  260  ;  John  Randolph, 
facing  160,  521  ;  Thomas  Tudor  Tucker, 
facing  100 :  St.  Memin  engravings, 
property  of,  427,  428,  430,  431,  435, 
478,  486,  487,  500,  503,  506,  520,  523, 
525,  536,  537- 

Cordano,  M.,  marshal  of  Italian  military 
association,  civic  parade,  392. 

Cordialia  Singing  Society,  at  Madison 
square  concert,  350;  at  civic  parade,  393. 

Corlies,  Edmund  W.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  245. 

Cornell,  Alonzo  B.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245,  248. 

Cornell,  D.  E. ,  commissioner  from  Kan- 
sas, 215. 

Cornell,  Frank  M.,  second  R.  I.  regiment, 

at  military  parade,  340. 
Cornell,  G.  W.,  fourth  Conn,  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  329. 
Cornell  Hook  and  Ladder  Company,  at 

civic  parade,  388. 
Cornell  Hose  Company,  at  civic  parade, 

388. 

Cornell,  John  M.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Cornwall,  J.  Weeks,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  263. 

Corona,  A'ltalia,  at  civic  parade,  392. 

Corrigan,  Most  Rev.  Michael  A.,  arch- 
bishop of  N.  Y. ,  favors  holding  religious 
services  April  30,  1889,  123  ;  repre- 
sented on  committee  of  clergymen,  124, 
125  ;  pronounces  benediction  at  close 
of  the  literary  exercises,  129,  286,  288, 
30S  ;  invited  to  meet  president  Harrison, 
244  ;  at  military  parade,  317  ;  at  ban- 
quet, 360;  subscriber  to  memorial  arch, 
414- 

Cortland,  X.  Y.,  forty-fifth  separate  com- 
pany, at  military  parade,  339. 

Costa,  Jose  A.  F.  da.  minister  from  Brazil, 
invited  to  centennial  ball,  257  ;  at  ban- 
quet, 361. 

Costello,  Patrick  C,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  246. 

Coster,  Charles  H.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  245. 

Coster,  Edward  H.,  subscriber  to  me- 
morial arch,  414. 

Cotheal,  Alexander  I.,  consul-general  of 
Nicaragua.  248. 

Cotting,  Charles  N.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  263. 

Cottman,  J.  H.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Cotton  Exchange,  represented  at  reception 
to  president  Harrison,  231,  245. 


Cotton,  N.  Davies,  mentioned,  530. 
Cottrell,  Albert  B.,  member  of  assembly, 

N.  Y.,  242. 
Cottrell,   Calvert   B.,    invited   to  meet 

president  Harrison,  247. 
Coudert,    Charles,   at    centennial  ball, 

261. 

Coudert,  Frederic  R.,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  103;  of  general  committee, 
108,  114,  236  ;  committee  on  navy,  109, 
113,  189,  190,  191,  236;  portrait,  facing 
190;  escort  to  president  Harrison,  199, 
200,  202;  invited  to  meet  the  president, 
244;  at  centennial  ball.  261;  subscriber 
to  ball,  263;  at  banquet,  361;  subscriber 
to  celebration,  400  ;  at  reception,  jus- 
tices U.  S.  supreme  court,  402 

Coughlin,  W.  II.,  thirteenth  X.  V.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  337. 

Coughlin,  William,  at  civic  parade,  391. 

County  Fermanagh  Association,  at  civic 
parade,  397. 

Courtenay,  William  A.,  acknowledgment 
to,  in  preface,  vi;  note  on  the  portrait 
of  jEdanus  Burke,  432. 

Courtney,  Kate,  delegate  from  public- 
school  No.  41,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

Covell,  Charles  H.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  222. 

Covert,  James  W.,  member  of  congress 
from  N.  Y.,  241 

Covington,  Ohio,  third  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  342. 

Cowan,  Andrew,  commissioner  from  Ky., 
216. 

Coward,  Edward  F.,  at  centennial  bail, 
261. 

Cowen,  Philip,  invited  to  meet  president 

Harrison,  246. 
Cowie,  James  A.,  alderman,  243. 
Cowie,  John  A.,  first  battalion,  D.  C,  at 

military  parade,  344. 
Cowing,  Rufus  B.,  judge  general  sessions, 

N.  Y.,  243. 
Cowles,  W.  S.,  U.  S.  navy,  commander 

United  States  steamer  Despatch,  197. 
Cox,  A.  R.,  Jr.,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  263. 

Cox,  Esther,  at  reception  to  George 
Washington,  Trenton,  N.  J.,  26,  note. 

Cox,  James  F..  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  246. 

Cox,  M.,  sixty-ninth  X.  Y.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  335. 

Cox,  Mary,  at  reception  to  George 
Washington,  Trenton,  X.  J.,  26,  note. 

Cox,  Samuel  S.,  member  of  congress 
from  X.  Y.,  his  services  in  congress, 
respecting  the  centennial  celebration, 
179  ;  at  reception  to  president  Harri- 
son, 241  ;  at  banquet,  358. 

Coxe,  Rt.  Rev.  A.  Cleveland,  portrait  of 
Bishop  Provoost,  property  of,  519. 

Coxe,  Frank,  commissioner  from  N.  C, 
216. 

Coxe,  Macgrane,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Coykendall,  Samuel  D.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  247. 


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Coyle,  Alexander,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Cozzens,  Charles  L.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Crabtree,  Lillie,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  9,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

Craft,  Mrs.  M.  M.,  the  Robertson  minia- 
ture of  Alexander  Hamilton,  471,  note. 

Craig,  Louise,  delegate  from  public  school 
No.  Si,  reception  of  president  Harri- 
son, city  hall,  238. 

Craig,  Samuel  D.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  263. 

Grain,  Thomas  C.  T.,  at  banquet  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  234,  243  ;  at  reception 
to  the  president,  city  hall,  240;  at  ban- 
quet, 359. 

Cramkhitc,  L.  W.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  263. 

Cranch,  Mr.,  mentioned,  425. 

Crane,  A.  O.,  fourteenth  N.  Y.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  337. 

Crane,  Bella,  delegate  from  public  school 
No.  77,  reception  of  president  Harrison, 
city  hall,  238. 

Crane,  Charles  J.,  U.  S.  army,  at  military 
parade,  320. 

Cranston,  Henry,  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Crasto,  F.  P.,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 223. 

Crawford,  D.  S.,  fifteenth  Pa.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  325. 

Crawford,  Edgar  M.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  222. 

Crawford,  Mary  S.,  miniatures  of  John 
Baptista  Ashe  and  wife,  property  of, 
facing  125,  258,  427. 

Crawford,  Robert  L.,  subscriber  to 
memorial  arch,  414. 

Crawford,  William,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Creamer,  Thomas  J.,  member  of  assem- 
bly, N.  Y.,  243. 

Crimmins,  John  D.,  member  of  general 
committee,  114,  236;  at  banquet  to 
president  Harrison,  234  ;  at  literary 
exercises,  289  ;  subscriber  to  celebra- 
tion and  memorial  arch,  400,  414. 

Criscuolo,  Antonio,  marshal  Italian  civic 
organizations,  civic  parade,  392. 

Crittenden,  II.  W.,  fifth  Ohio  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  342. 

Crittenden,  Thomas  L.,  U.  S.  army,  248. 

Crocker,  George  A.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Crocker,  S.  A.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Crocker,  Samuel,  at  reception  to  president 
Harrison,  232. 

Croes,  J.  J.  R.,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  244. 

Crogan,  James  J.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  263. 

Croker,  Richard,  at  reception  to  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  240,  243  ;  at  ban- 
quet, 359. 

Crolin,  Albert,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 


Cromwell,  Frederic,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  263  ;  at  banquet,  360. 

Cronin,  Patrick,  ship-builder,  at  civic 
parade,  390. 

Cronin,  Philip  T.,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  242. 

Cronkhite,  Adelbert,  U.  S.  army,  at 
military  parade,  320. 

Crook,  George,  U.  S.  army,  24S  ;  at  ban- 
quet, 361. 

Crooks,  George  W.,  twenty-seventh 
separate  company,  N.  Y.,  at  military- 
parade,  337. 

Cropper,  John,  aide  to  president  of  cen- 
tennial committee,  120,  218  ;  member 
of  committee  of  arrangements  of  ban- 
quet and  religious  services,  society  of 
the  Cincinnati,  149,  150;  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  263  ;  at  literary  exer- 
cises, 289. 

Cropsey,  Jasper  F.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  244. 

Crosby,  Ernest  H.,  member  of  N.  Y. 
assembly,  242  ;  at  centennial  ball,  261  ; 
at  reception,  justices  U.  S.  supreme 
court,  402. 

Crosby,  Henry  A.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Crosby,  Rev.  Howard,  favors  holding  re- 
ligious services  April  30,  1889,  123;  in- 
vited to  meet  president  Harrison,  244; 
at  banquet,  360. 

Crosby,  J.  Schuyler,  aide  to  grand-mar- 
shal, military  parade,  320;  at  banquet, 
358. 

Crosby,  Livingston,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Crosby,  William  B.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Crosby,  William  H.,  member  of  general 
committee,  114,  236;  at  centennial  ball, 
261;  subscriber  to  celebration,  401. 

Cross,  R.  J.,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
263;  at  banquet,  358. 

Crossman,  George  W.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  245. 

Crowell,  B.  F. ,  commissioner  from  Colo- 
rado, 215. 

Crowen.  Anna,  of  choir,  St.  Paul's  chapel, 
271. 

Cruft,  Mr.,  mentioned,  424. 

Cruger,  Carrie,  delegate  from  public  school 
No.  72,  reception  of  president  Harrison, 
city  hall,  238. 

Cruger,  John,  first  president  of  the 
chamber  of  commerce,  41,  nnU-;  mayor 
of  N.  Y.,  283. 

Cruger,  Mary,  miniatures  of  Madison  and 
Monroe,  property  of,  506,  511. 

Cruger,  S.  Van  Rensselaer,  member  of 
general  committee,  108,  114,  236;  com- 
mittee on  army,  109;  chairman  of  com- 
mittee on  army,  113,  181,  208,  213,  236, 
310,  352,  397;  at  banquet  to  president 
Harrison,  234;  at  centennial  ball,  260; 
subscriber  to  ball,  263  ;  member  of 
vestry,  Trinity  church,  269,  270;  mem- 
ber of  special  committee  in  charge  of 
services  at  St.  Paul's  chapel,  281 ;  re- 
port on  the  military  parade,  310;  chief 


of  staff,  grand-marshal,  military  parade, 
319;  report  on  the  display  of  fireworks, 
352;  at  banquet,  metropolitan  opera- 
house,  356,  361;  report  on  the  civic  and 
industrial  parade,  383;  subscriber  to 
celebration,  400. 

Cruger,  Mrs.  S.  Van  Rensselaer,  at  cen- 
tennial ball,  258. 

Cruikshank,  Edwin  A.,  member  of  gen- 
eral committee,  114,  236;  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  244,  245;  subscriber 
to  centennial  ball,  263;  at  banquet, 
360;  subscriber  to  celebration,  400. 

Crumble,  Frank  R.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  263. 

Crumbie,  G.  B.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Crumbie,  W.  D.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Crump,  W.  W.,  commissioner  from  Va., 

216,  233;  at  banquet,  360. 
Crydee,  N.  W.,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  263. 

Cudlipp,  Florence,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  82,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

Cueva,  Manuel  de  la,  vice-consul  of  Spain, 
248. 

Culgin,  Guy,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  247. 

Cullom,  Fred.  H.,  of  choir,  St.  Paul's 
chapel,  271. 

Cullom,  Miss,  at  centennial  ball,  259. 

Cullom,  Shelby  M.,  U.  S.  senator  from  111., 
241;  at  centennial  ball,  259;  at  literary 
exercises,  289;  at  banquet,  359. 

Cullum,  Gen.  GeorgeW .,  acknowledgment 
to,  in  preface,  vi;  at  reception  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  231,  248;  Jefferson  a 
patron  of  the  U  S.  military  academy, 
486. 

Cummings,  Amos  J.,  member  of  congress 
from  N.  Y.,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  241,  247. 

Cunningham,  W  C,  second  Pa.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  323. 

Cunningham,  W.  D.  L.,  eighth  N.  Y.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  335. 

Currie,  D.  A.,  second  battalion,  N.  J.,  at 
military  parade,  327. 

Currier,  Charles  G.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  263. 

Currier,  E.  E.,  aide  to  grand-marshal, 
military  parade,  320. 

Currier,  Edward  W. ,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Curry,  E.  J.,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
263. 

Curry,  J.  L.  M.,  at  banquet,  361. 

Curtis,  Constance,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  263. 

Curtis,  F.  K.,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
263. 

Curtis,  George  E.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Curtis,  George  W.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245  ;  extract  from  address 
of.  362,366;  address  at  laying  of  corner- 
stone, memorial  arch,  409,  411;  portrait, 
4r3- 


INDEX. 


579 


Curtis,  H.  Holbrook,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  263. 

Cunis,  Herbert  P.,  U.  S.  army,  248. 

Curtis,  V.  Martin,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  248. 

Curtis,  Newton  M.,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  242. 

Curtis,  W.  E.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Cusack,  J.  W.,  sixth  separate  company, 
N.  Y.,  at  military  parade.  337. 

Cushing,  Caleb,  mentioned,  505,  521. 

Cushing,  Harry  C,  U.  S.  army,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  321. 

Cuskley,  P.  J.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Cussitt,  F.  M.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Custis,  Daniel  Parke,  portrait,  mentioned, 
547,  note. 

Custis,  Eleanor  Parke,  portraits  at  loan 
exhibition,  145;  Washington's  field- 
glass,  and  Martha  Washington's  snuff- 
box, property  of,  164,  170;  portraits, 
painted  by  Sharpless,  facing  256;  Stuart, 
25C;  Trumbull,  264;  notes  on  the  por- 
traits of,  441;  the  shadow  profile  of 
George  and  Martha  Washington  by, 
543,  549- 

Custis,  G.  W.  P.,  the  Woolaston  por- 
traits of  Martha  Washington,  and  Mrs. 
Fielding  Lewis,  547,  note. 

Custis,  John  Parke,  portrait  of,  at  loan 
exhibition,  144,  mentioned,  547,  note. 

Custis,  Martha,  view  of  family  bible,  67; 
portrait,  painted  by  Woolaston,  facing 
262;  notes  on  the  portrait  of,  423,  497, 
547,  note. 

Custom  House,  N.  Y.  city,  view  of,  15; 
erected  on  the  site  of  federal  hall,  16; 
decorations  of,  1SS9,  225. 

Cutler,  Arthur  H.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  244. 

Cutler,  Rev.  Manasseh,  D.D.,  his  de- 
scription of  federal  hall,  N.  Y.,  1789,  14; 
dines  with  Sir  John  Temple,  31,  note; 
his  opinion  of  the  Spanish  minister  at 
N.  Y.,  32,  note;  mentioned,  35,  note. 

Cutting,  Miss,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 

Cutting,  R.  Fulton,  subscriber  to  memo- 
rial arch,  414. 

Cutting,  Mrs.  R.  Fulton,  at  centennial 
ball,  262. 

Cutting,  Robert  L. ,  at  centennial  ball, 
260;  subscriber  to  ball,  263;  at  banquet, 
356- 

Cutting,  Robert  L.,  Jr.,  at  centennial 
ball,  261. 

Cutting,  Mrs.  Walter,  at  centennial  ball, 
261. 

Cutting,  W.  Bayard,  member  of  general 
committee,  108,  114,  236;  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  263;  at  literary  exer- 
cises, 2S9;  at  banquet,  356,  358;  sub- 
scriber to  celebration  and  memorial 
arch,  400,  414. 

Cutting,  Mrs.  W.  Bayard,  at  centennial 
ball,  258. 

Cutting,  William,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  263. 


Cutts,  John,  fourteenth  N.  Y.  regiment, 

at  military  parade,  337. 
Cutts,  Richard  D.,  mentioned,  507. 
Cutts,  Mrs.  Richard  D.,  portrait  of  Mrs. 

James  Madison,  property  of,  facing 

258,  507. 

Cuyler,  Thomas  DeWitt,  member  of  New 
York  society  of  the  Cincinnati,  150. 

Dabney,  Virginius,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Da  Costa,  Charles  M.,  at  reception,  jus- 
tices U.  S.  supreme  court.  402. 

Daily,  Mary,  delegate  from  public  school 
No.  30,  reception  of  president  Harrison, 
city  hall,  238. 

Dakota,  governor  and  commissioner  from, 
216,  233. 

Dale,  Richard,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  24S. 

Dallas,  Alexander  J.,  mentioned,  461,  509 

Dallas,  George  M.,  mentioned,  509. 

D'Almeirim,  Manuel  N.  B.  F.,  consul- 
general  of  Portugal,  248;  invited  to 
centennial  ball,  257;  at  banquet,  361. 

Dalton,  J.  F.,  second  corps  cadets,  Boston, 
at  military  parade,  329. 

Dalton,  Michael,  mentioned,  74. 

Dalton,  Samuel,  adjutant-general  of 
Mass.,  commissioner  from  Mass.,  208, 
212;  subscriber  to  centennial  ball,  263; 
at  military  parade,  329;  at  banquet, 
361. 

Dalton,  Tristram,  U.  S.  senator  from 
Mass.,  6,  38,  135,  232  ;  escort  to  Wash- 
ington, 42  ;  attends  assembly  ball,  1789, 
59  ;  biographical  sketch  of,  74  ;  por- 
traits, painted  by  Blackburn  and  Trum- 
bull, facing  89  ;  notes  on  the  portraits 
of,  421,  422,  442. 

Dalton,  W.  N.,  first  battalion,  D.  C,  at 
military  parade,  344. 

Dalton,  William,  at  centennial  ball,  261  ; 
subscriber  to  ball,  263. 

Daly,  Augustin,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  244. 

Daly,  Charles  F.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Daly,  Charles  P.,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  105  ;  of  general  committee, 
107,  114,  236  ;  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  244  ;  at  centennial  ball, 
261  ;  at  banquet,  360  ;  subscriber  to 
memorial  arch,  413. 

Daly,  Joseph  F.,  judge  court  of  common 
pleas,  243  ;  at  banquet,  359. 

Damit,  David  J.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Damrosch,  Frank  H.,  conductor  of  music, 
laying  of  corner-stone,  memorial  arch, 
409. 

Damrosch,  Walter  J.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  247. 

Dana,  Charles  A.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Dana,  Francis,  member  of  federal  con- 
vention, 1787,  136. 

Dana,  Henrietta  S.,  the  Trumbull  por- 
trait of  Mrs.  Jonathan  Trumbull,  535. 


Dana,  James  D.,  mentioned,  535. 

Dana,  Paul,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
263 ;  at  banquet,  358  ;  subscriber  to 
memorial  arch,  414. 

Dana  Society,  at  civic  parade,  392. 

Dance,  represented  in  tableau,  civic  pa- 
rade, 395. 

Dane,  Nathan,  opposes  the  adoption  of 

the  constitution,  1. 
Danforth,  George   F.,   associate  judge 

court  of  appeals,  N.  Y.,  243. 
D'Angelo,  Achillo,  president  societa  fra- 

terna,  civic  parade,  392 
Daniel,  John  M.,  mentioned,  487,  note. 
Daniel,  John  W.,  senator  from  Va.,  at 

reception  to  president  Harrison,  241  ; 

at  banquet,  359  ;  his  address  at  ban- 
quet, 362,  371. 
Daniel,  Margaret  E.  S.,  mentioned,  487, 

note. 

Daniel,  Matthew,  one  of  the  crew  of  the 
president's  barge,  which  conveyed 
Washington  to  N.  Y.,  28,  note. 

Daniel  O'Connell  Association,  at  civic 
parade,  397. 

Daniel,  Peter  V.,  Jr.,  mentioned,  520. 

Daniel,  W.  F.,  fourth  Conn,  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  329. 

Daniell,  John,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  246. 

Danish  Societies,  at  civic  parade,  392. 

Danloux,  Pierre,  artist,  his  portrait  of 
comte  de  Moustier,  facing  46,  515. 

Dannstrom,  W.  J.,  portrait  of  George 
Washington,  property  of,  542. 

Dante,  William  E.,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  242. 

Da  Ponte,  Durant,  portraits  of  George 
Washington  and  Martha  Washington, 
property  of,  facing  10,  149,  541,  546. 

Darling,  Mrs.  C.  W.,  miniature  of  Wash- 
ington and  Martha  Washington,  prop- 
erty of,  65,  143,  144,  541,  544,  546. 

Darling,  Charles  W.,  at  literary  exercises, 
289. 

Darlington,  John  L.,  Jr.,  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  224. 

Darragh,  Robert  L.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Darlington,  William  L.,  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  224. 

Darnall,  Eleanor,  mentioned,  437. 

Dart,  Edward,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 223. 

Dash,  Bowie,  member  of  vestry,  Trinity 
church,  at  services,  St.  Paul's  chapel, 
269. 

Dashiell,  Rev.  Mr.,  mentioned,  536. 

Dausseing,  Alexandre,  vice-consul  of 
France  and  Monaco,  24S. 

D'Autresne,  S.  L.,  in  command  of  liberty 
guards,  civic  parade,  386. 

Davenport,  Ira,  member  of  congress  from 
N.  Y.,  241. 

Davenport,  J.  Alfred,  at  banquet,  358. 

Daves,  Edward  G.,  member  of  Md. 
society  of  the  Cincinnati,  at  commemo- 
rative banquet,  151. 

Davidge,  Frances  D.  R.,  portrait  of  Lady 
Kitty  Duer,  property  of,  443. 


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Davidson,  George  A.,  member  of  assem- 
bly, N.  Y.,  242. 

Davidson,  K.  H.  M.,  at  banquet,  359. 

Davidson,  Robert  M  ,  seventeenth  Ohio 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  342. 

Davie,  William  R.,  member  of  federal 
convention,  1787,  136. 

Davies,  Julien  T.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  244;  at  centennial  ball, 
261;  subscriber  to  ball,  263  ;  at  litcrary 
exercises,  289. 

Davies,  Richard  T.,  member  of  general 
committee,  114,  236;  at  banquet,  360. 

Davis,  A.  J.,  fifteenth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  325. 

Davis,  C.  O.,  thirteenth  N.  Y.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  337. 

Davis,  Charles  L.,  second  Ohio  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  342. 

Davis,  Cordelia,  mentioned,  473. 

Davis,  Fellowes,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Davis,  Flora,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 

Davis,  H.  C,  commissioner  from  West 
Va.,  216. 

Davis,  Henry  H.,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  263. 
Davis,  Mrs.  J.  W.,  mentioned,  494. 
Davis,  James  J.,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  263. 

Davis,  John,  judge  U  S.  district  court, 
Mass.,  at  celebration  of  the  semi-cen- 
tennial of  Washington's  inauguration, 
96,  99. 

Davis,  John,  A.,  corps  commander, 
knights  of  temperance,  civic  parade, 
386. 

Davis,  John  H.,  at  banquet,  360;  sub- 
scriber to  memorial  arch,  414. 

Davis,  John  J.,  commissioner  from  West 
Va.,  216. 

Davis,  Joseph  P.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  244. 
Davis,  Llewellyn  R.,  fifth  Ohio  regiment, 

at  military  parade,  342. 
Davis    Noah,  invited  to  meet  president 

Harrison,    244;    at  reception,    U.  S. 

supreme  court  justices,  402. 
Davis,  R.  Coulton,  the  Peale  portrait  of 

Thomas  Jefferson,  487. 
Davis,  R.   P.,    in  command  of  mutual 

benefit   society   of  painters,  at  civic 

parade,  392. 
Davis,  Silas,  invited  to  meet  president 

Harrison,  245. 
Davis,  W.  H.,  second  Pa.  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  323. 
Davis,  W.  H.,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  263. 

Davison,  George  T.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  263. 

Davison,  Henry  J.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  263. 

Dawes,  Henry  L.,  U.  S,  senator  from 
Mass.,  241;  at  centennial  ball,  259;  at 
literary  exercises,  289;  at  banquet,  359. 

Day,  E.  S.,  commissioner  from  Conn., 

215- 
Day,  J.  R.,  fourteenth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  326. 


Day,  Melville  C  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Day,  N.  W.,  of  the  G.  A.  R  ,  invited  to 
meet  president  Harrison,  247. 

Day,  Nicholas  W.,  of  the  loyal  legion,  252. 

Dayton,  Charles  W.,  member  of  general 
committee,  108,  114,  236;  of  executive 
committee,  108;  committee  on  railroads 
and  transportation,  109,  113,  236; 
escort  to  president  Harrison,  224;  sub- 
scriber to  centennial  ball,  263;  at 
literary  exercises,  289;  at  banquet,  361; 
subscriber  to  celebration,  400. 

Dayton,  Jonathan,  member  of  federal 
convention,  1787,  136. 

Dayton,  Ohio,  thirteenth  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  342. 

Deady,  Judge,  address  at  celebration, 
Portland,  Oregon,  406. 

Dean,  David  J.,  at  reception,  justices 
U.  S.  supreme  court,  402. 

Dean,  Florence,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Dean,  Joseph  A  ,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Dean,  R.  J.,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  memo- 
rial arch,  414. 

Deane,  George  B.,  Jr.,  district  court  jus- 
tice, N.  Y.  city,  243. 

Deane,  Gilbert  A  ,  state  senator,  N.  Y., 
242. 

Deane,  John  H.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

Deane,  Silas,  mentioned,  4,  note;  481,  note. 

Dearborn,  George  A.,  member  of  marine 
society,  one  of  the  crew  of  the  presi- 
dent's barge,  202  ;  portrait,  203;  escort 
to  president  Harrison,  225. 

Dearborn,  Gen.  Henry,  mentioned,  550. 

Dearborn  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  Wall  street 
arch,  253. 

Deas,  Mrs.,  portrait  of  Ralph  Izard, 
property  of,  478. 

De  Bary,  Adolphe,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  263. 

De  Bary,  Frederick,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

De  Bary,  Frederick,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to 
celebration,  400. 

Deblois,  Matilda,  mentioned,  442. 

De  Brehan,  Madame,  sister-in-law  of 
Comte  de  Moustier,  designs  the  illumi- 
nated pieces  displayed  at  the  house  of 
the  latter,  on  the  night  of  Washington's 
inauguration,  32,  note  ;  Madison's 
opinion  of,  32,  note  ;  visits  Washington 
at  Mount  Vernon,  34,  note  ;  attends 
assembly  ball,  1789,  59;  portraits  of 
Eleanor  Custis,  and  George  Washing- 
ton, painted  by,  442,  542. 

De  Brehan,  Marquis,  mentioned,  32,  note. 

Debrowski,  F.,  in  command  of  Polish 
societies,  civic  parade,  396. 

De  Castro,  J.  H.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  220,  250. 

Dcchert,  Robert  B„  colonel  second  regi- 
ment Pa.,  military  parade,  323. 

Dcchert.  Yellott  D.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224;  at  military  parade,  335. 

Decker,  Abraham  I.,  member  of  assem- 
bly, N.  Y.,  243. 


Decker,  John,  commander  of  first  divis- 
ion, volunteer  firemen,  at  civic  parade, 

388. 

Decker,  John  J.,  invited  to  meet  president 

I  larrison,  247. 
Decker.  S.  W.  M.,  escort  to  president 

Harrison,  223. 
Decker,  W.  F.,  first  battalion,  N.  J.,  at 

military  parade,  327. 
Declaration  of  Independence,  represented 

in  tableau,  at  civic  parade,  385. 
Dedham,  Mass.,  portrait  of  Fisher  Ames 

at,  426. 

Deedes.  Henry,  mentioned,  454. 

Deems,  Clarence,  U.  S.  army,  at  military- 
parade,  320. 

Deering,  Milliken  &  Co.,  subscribers  to 
celebration,  400. 

De  Forest,  E.,  twenty-third  N.  Y.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  337. 

De  Forest,  George,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  2O3. 

De  Forest,  Mrs.  George  B. ,  at  centennial 
ball,  261. 

De  Forest,  Robert  W.,  member  of  com- 
mittee on  erection  of  memorial  arch, 
409;  subscriber  to  arch,  413. 

De  Grauw,  Walter  N.,Jr.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  247. 

Degraw,  Clarence  G.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

De  Hart,  Miss,  the  silhouette  of  George 
Washington  by,  543. 

De  Hart,  W.  H.,  third  N.  J.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  326. 

Deiham,  Clara  F.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  263. 

Deitrich,  V.,  Powell  post,  G.  A.  R.,  escort 
to  president  Harrison,  222. 

Deitz,  Ernest  P.,  first  Ohio  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  342. 

Dejarnette,  A.  G. ,  commissioner  from 
Ky.,  216. 

De  Kay,  Charles,  member  of  floor  com- 
mittee, centennial  ball,  259. 

De  Kay,  Sidney,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

De  Klyn,  Benjamin  F  ,  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  263. 

De  Klyn,  Charles  B.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  263. 

De  Lacy,  William,  Corcoran  post,  G.A.R., 
escort  to  president  Harrison,  221  ;  at 
military  parade,  346. 

Delafield,  Albert,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 224. 

Delafield,  Augustus  F.,  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  224. 

Delafield,  Clarence,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Delafield,  Mrs.  Clarence,  at  centennial 
ball,  262. 

Delafield,  Frederick  P.,  at  centennial 
ball,  261  ;  subscriber  to  ball,  263. 

Delafield,  Lewis  L.,  member  of  recep- 
tion committee,  ancestry  of,  229  ;  at 
banquet,  358. 

Delafield,  Maturin  L.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  263  ;  portrait  of  Morgan 
Lewis,  property  of,  facing  39,  498. 


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Delafield,  R.,  twelfth  N.  Y.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  336. 

Delafield,  Richard,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224  member  of  vestry  of 
Trinity  church,  at  services  St.  Paul's 
chapel  270. 

Delafield  Robert  H.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  263. 

Delafield,  Rufus,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 224. 

Delafield,  Tallmadge,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224  ;  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

De  Lamater,  Charles  H.,  member  of 
citizens'  committee,  104. 

Delamater,  Cornelius  H.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  246. 

De  Lancey,  Alice,  wife  of  Ralph  Izard, 
38,  note,  477  :  miniature  portrait  of,  73. 

De  Lancey,  Edward  F.,  member  of  com- 
mittee of  N.  Y.  historical  society,  105, 
106;  of  general  committee,  107,  114, 
236  ;  at  centennial  ball,  261  ;  subscriber 
to  ball,  263  ;  at  literary  exercises,  289  ; 
at  banquet,  358  ;  the  portraits  of  James 
Duane,  443,  note. 

Deland  Rifles,  Florida,  at  military  pa- 
rade, 344. 

Delano,  George,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

De  Lano,  Milton,  member  of  congress 
from  N  Y..  241. 

Delano's,  George,  Sons,  subscribers  to 
Wall  street  arch,  253. 

Delaplaine,  Joseph,  portrait  Charles 
Thompson,  painted  for,  534. 

Delavan,  Christian  S.,  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  224 

Delaware,  ratifies  the  constitution,  2  ; 
representation  of,  as  a  federal  pillar. 
2  ;  one  representative  in  congress,  10, 
62  ;  biographical  sketches  of  represen- 
tatives in  congress,  63  ;  list  of  mem- 
bers of  congress,  1789,  135,  232  ;  mem- 
bers of  federal  convention,  1787,  136  ; 
admitted  into  the  union,  233  ;  governor 
and  commissioner  of,  at  celebration, 
208,  212,  214,  215,  233  ;  troops  at 
military  parade,  322,  346  ;  represented 
in  tableau,  civic  parade,  387  ;  sons  of 
the  American  revolution  of,  organized, 
402. 

Delcambre,  A.  P.,  seventy-first  N.  Y. 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  336. 

Delehanty.  James,  Wade  post,  G.  A.  R., 
escort  to  president  Harrison,  221  ;  at 
military  parade.  345. 

Delmonico.  Charles,  subscriber  to  me- 
morial arch,  414. 

Demardi,  A.,  marshal  of  Italian  military 
association,  civic  parade,  392. 

De  Mare,  ,  engraver  of  portrait  of 
George  Washington,  543. 

Demarest,  Aaron  T.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  247. 

Demarest,  Abraham,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Demarest,  Frank  P.,  member  of  assem- 
bly, N.  Y.,  242. 

Demarest,    George    F.,  twenty-second 


N.  Y.  regiment,  at  military  parade. 
335- 

Demarest,  Minniebelle,  of  choir.  St. 
Paul's  chapel,  271. 

Demeritt,  G.  N.,  first  N.  H.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  333. 

Demfoldt,  Loomis  L.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  263. 

Demidoff,  Prince,  sale  of  his  pictures 
452. 

Deming,  A.  K.,  fourth  Conn,  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  329. 

Democrata,  Mexican  man-of-war,  406. 

Dempsey,  John  A.,  in  command  of  Col- 
umbia college  students,  civic  parade, 
385. 

Dempsey,  S.  Carleton,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  263. 

De  Neufitte,  F.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  263. 

De  Neufville,  J.  F.,  at  centennial  ball, 
262. 

Denison,  E.  V.,  tenth  battalion,  N.  Y., 

at  military  parade,  337. 
Dennison,  D.  S.,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  263. 

Dennison,  James  A.,  seventy-first  N.  Y. 

regiment,  in  command,  third  provisional 

regiment,  N.  Y.,  at  military  parade,  338. 
Dennithorne,  John.  Jr.,  battery  C  of  Pa., 

at  military  parade,  325. 
Denny,  Ebenezer,  acting  adjutant-general, 

135- 

Denon,  Baron,  Franklin  presents  his 
portrait  to,  452. 

Depew,  Chauncey  M.,  member  of  special 
committee  of  chamber  of  commerce, 
102;  of  citizens'  committee,  103;  general 
committee,  107,  114,  236;  committee 
on  railroads  and  transportation,  109, 
113,  236;  portrait  of  Washington, 
property  of,  144;  at  reception  at  the 
lawyers'  club,  227,  229,  245,  248;  at 
banquet  to  president  Harrison,  234;  at 
centennial  ball,  260;  subscriber  to  ball, 
263;  delivers  oration  at  literary  exer- 
cises, 117,  129,  2S6,  2S8,  293,  300;  por- 
trait, 300;  at  military  parade,  317;  at 
banquet,  metropolitan  opera-house, 
356,  359;  subscriber  to  celebration,  400; 
speech  at  southern  society,  402. 

De  Peyster,  Frederic  J.,  member  of  com- 
mittee on  general  government,  109,  113, 
236;  of  general  committee,  114,  178, 
236;  at  centennial  ball,  258,  260;  at 
banquet,  356,  360;  subscriber  to  cele- 
bration, 400. 

De  Peyster,  Mrs.  Frederic  J.,  at  cen- 
tennial ball,  258,  261. 

De  Peyster,  Johnston  L.,  member  of  N.  Y. 
assembly,  242;  chairman  of  platform 
committee,  285,  289,  308,  309;  aide  to 
grand-marshal,  military  parade,  320;  at 
banquet,  358. 

Dtquevauvillier,  Franz,  engraver  of  por- 
trait of  Thomas  Jefferson,  489. 

De  Rham,  Charles,  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

De  Rham,  Miss,  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 


Derrick,  Rev.  W.  B.,  at  reception  to 
president  Harrison,  231,  244. 

De  Sabia,  Theodore  J.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  245. 

Des  Marets,  E.  A.,  aide  to  grand-marshal, 
military  parade,  320. 

Desnoycrs,  A.,  engraver  of  portrait  of 
Thomas  Jefferson,  488,  489. 

Desnoyers,  Baron,  artist,  his  portrait  of 
Thomas  Jefferson,  420,  427,  488. 

Despatch,  U.  S.  steamer,  president  Har- 
rison, his  cabinet,  justices  of  the 
supreme  court,  and  guests  embark  in 
the,  181,  183,  186,  187,  189,  190,  199, 
200;  placed  at  the  service  of  committee 
on  navy,  190,  191;  fac-simile  of  ticket 
of  admission  to,  191;  view  of  the  presi- 
dent and  vice-president  of  the  U.  S. 
boarding  the,  193;  portrait  group  of 
president  Harrison  and  admiral  Porter 
on  board  the,  195;  list  of  guests  on  the, 
198,  200;  view  of,  in  the  East  river,  201. 

De  Saussure  Family,  portrait  of  George 
Washington,  property  of,  543. 

Deutcher,  Alexander,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  263. 

Deutscher  Licderkranz,  at  Madison 
square  concert,  350. 

Devereux,  Horace  K.,  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  263. 

De  Yinne,  Theodore  L.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  247. 

Devlin  &  Company,  subscribers  to  cele- 
bration, 400. 

Devoe,  Frederick  W..  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  246. 

De  Walters,  William,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  222. 

Devvar,  John  R.,  member  of  marine 
society,  one  of  the  crew  of  the  president's 
barge,  202;  portrait,  203;  escort  to 
president  Harrison,  225. 

Dewar.  William  H.,  eighth  N.Y.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  335. 

De  Wardmer,  Baun  R.,  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  263. 

De  Windt,  Arthur,  portrait  of  Mrs.  William 
S.  Smith,  property  of,  facing  260,  528; 
at  literary  exercises,  285,  290;  member 
of  platform  committee,  308,  309;  aide 
to  grand-marshal,  military  parade,  320. 

De  Windt,  Mrs.  John  P.,  portrait  of  Mrs. 
William  S.  Smith,  property  of,  destroyed 
by  fire,  528. 

De  Witt,  George  G.,  Jr.,  member  of 
general  committee,  114,  236;  invited  to 
meet  president  Harrison,  247;  sub- 
scriber to  centennial  ball,  263;  at  ban- 
quet, 360;  subscriber  to  celebration, 
401. 

De  Witt,  Julia  A.  W..  portrait  of  William 
Maclay,  property  of,  facing  69.  502. 

De  Witt,  Peter,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 223. 

De  Witt,  Richard  V.,  portraits  of  Richard 
Varick,  property  of,  facing  36,  537; 
member  of  general  committee,  115, 
236. 

De  Witt,  Rev.  William  R.,  mentioned, 
502. 


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Dexter.  Edward,  St.  Mcmin  collection  of 
engravings  on  copper,  property  of,  427, 
428,  430,  432,  435,  437,  note,  487,  500, 
503,  506,  520,  523,  525,  536,  537. 

Dexter,  Samuel,  member  of  reception  com- 
mittee, ancestry  of,  231,  263. 

Dexter,  Stanley  \V.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264. 

Diamond,  A.  J.,  Jr.,  first  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  324. 

Dick,  William  B.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Dick  &  Meyer  Co.,  subscribers  to  Wall 
street  arch,  253. 

Dicker,  A.  T.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264. 

Dickerson,  Edward  N.,  member  of  New 
Jersey  society  of  the  Cincinnati,  150; 
his  death,  151;  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent I  larrison,  244. 

Dickey,  James  M.,  tenth  separate  com- 
pany, N.  Y.,  at  military  parade,  337. 

Dickinson,  Anson,  artist,  his  portraits  of 
Gilbert  Stuart,  531. 

Dickinson,  Don  M.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  248. 

Dickinson,  John,  member  of  federal  con- 
vention, 1787,  136  ;  portrait  of,  men- 
tioned, 481,  note. 

Dic  kinson,  Mary,  at  reception  to  George 
Washington,  Trenton,  N.  J.   26,  note. 

Dickinson,  Philemon,  senator  from  N.  J., 
69,  135;  biographical  sketch,  69;  por- 
trait, painted  by  Trumbull,  facing  72; 
notes  on  the  portrait  of,  422,  442. 

Dickinson,  Piatt  K.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264. 

Dickinson,  S.  Meredith,  mentioned,  69, 
note;  aide  to  grand-marshal,  military 
parade,  320. 

Dickman,  William  H.,  Jr.,  second  Ohio 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  342. 

Dickson,  E.  H.,  third  N.  H.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  332. 

Dickson,  George  H.,  fifth  Mass.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  329. 

Dillavvay,  W.,aide  to  grand-marshal,  mili- 
tary parade,  320. 

Diller,  William  S.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  221. 

Dillingham,  A.  C,  U.  S.  navy,  at  military 
parade,  321. 

Dillingham,  George  W.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  246. 

Dillingham,  Thomas  M.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  264. 

Dillingham,  William  P.,  governor  of  Ver- 
mont, 214,  233;  at  reception  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  241;  at  centennial  ball, 
257;  at  military  parade,  341 ;  at  banquet, 
360. 

Dillon,    John,    in    command   St.  Paul's 

league,  civic  parade,  397. 
Dillon,  John  F.,  invited  to  meet  president 

Harrison,  244;  at  reception,  justices  of 

U.  S.  supreme  court,  402. 
Dillon,  Rhinelander,  at  centennial  ball, 

261. 

Dillont,  J.  F.,  thirteenth  N.  Y.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  337. 


D'Incastro,  Domenico,  at  civic  parade, 
392- 

Dinchart,  William,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  242. 

D'Infrcville,  George,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Dingman,  John  II.,  at  literary  exercises, 
289. 

Dinkelspiel,  Moses,  member  of  assembly, 

N.  Y.,  242. 
Dinsmore,  Julia  S.,  portrait  of  Alexander 

Macomb,  property  of,  facing  51,  502. 
Dinsmore,  William  P.,  member  of  special 

committee  of   chamber  of  commerce, 

102;  invited  to  meet  president  Harrison, 

246. 

Dinwiddie,  Robert,  escort   to  president 

Harrison,  223. 
Disston,  Hamlin  W\,  subscriber  to  cen 

tennial  ball,  264. 
District  of  Columbia,  commissioner  from, 

216,  233;  troops  at  military  parade,  344, 

346. 

Dittenhoefer,  Abram  J.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  264. 

Divver,  Patrick,  alderman,  243. 

Dix,  Rev.  Morgan,  member  of  general 
committee,  114,  236;  favors  holding  re- 
ligious services  April  30,  1889,  123;  per- 
mits use  of  St.  Paul's  chapel  for  com- 
memorative services  of  society  of  the 
Cincinnati,  169;  at  reception  and  ban- 
quet to  president  Harrison,  231,  234, 
244;  subscriber  to  centennial  ball,  264; 
receives  president  Harrison  and  vice- 
president  Morton  at  St.  Paul's  chapel, 
269,  270;  officiates  at  services  St.  Paul's 
chapel,  273;  member  of  special  com- 
mittee in  charge  of  services  at  chapel, 
281;  at  banquet,  358 ;  subscriber  to  cele- 
bration, 400;  the  West  portrait  of  bish- 
op Provoost,  519. 

Dixey,  John,  sculptor,  his  bust  of  Alex 
ander  Hamilton,  472. 

Dixon,  Alexander  J.  D,,  portrait  of 
Thomas  Mifflin,  property  of,  facing 
33-  509. 

Dixon,  J.  J.,  fourteenth  N.  Y.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  337. 

Dixon,  William  P.,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  104. 

Doane,  J.  W.,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  Wall 
street  arch,  253. 

Dockery,  Alexander  M.,  at  banquet,  359. 

Dodd,  David  C,  Jr.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Dodd,  Frank  H.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Dodd,  Marvin,  assistant  adjutant-general, 
N.  J.  troops,  326. 

Dodge,  Arthur  M.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247  ;  subscriber  to 
memorial  arch,  414. 

Dodge,  Charles  C,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  244,  246. 

Dodge,  C.  Stewart,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264. 

Dodge,  Richard  I.,  U.  S.  army,  in  com 
mand  of  brigade  U.  S.  army,  military 
parade,  320. 


Dodge,  William  E. ,  member  of  special 
committee  of  chamber  of  commerce, 
102  ;  of  citizens'  committee,  104  ;  gen- 
eral committee,  107,  114,  236;  art  com- 
mittee, 109,  113,  131,  134,  142,236,409; 
at  centennial  ball,  261  ;  subscriber  to 
ball,  263  ;  at  banquet,  361  ;  subscriber 
to  celebration,  400;  member  of  memorial 
arch  committee,  409;  subscriber  to  arch, 
413- 

Dodge,   Mrs.  William  E.,  subscriber  to 

memorial  arch,  413. 
Dodson,  R.  W. ,  engraver  of  portrait  of 

Benjamin  Franklin,  451. 
Dodworth,  Arline,  delegate  from  public 

school  No.  61,  reception  of  president 

Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 
Doggctt,  John,  portraits  of  the  first  five 

presidents  of  U.  S.  painted  for,  505. 
Doherty,  J.  B.,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  264. 

D'Ollone,  Comte,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  248. 

Domer,  C.  S.,  second  battalion,  D  C,  at 
military  parade,  344. 

Dominick,  W.  G.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223,  224. 

Dominick  &  Dickerman,  subscribers  to 
celebration,  400. 

Dominy,  J.  D.,  first  Vt  regiment,  at  mili 
tary  parade,  341. 

Don,  John,  aide  to  grand-marshal,  military 
parade,  320. 

Donahue,  Nellie  S.,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  37,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

Donahue,  Thomas  H.,  second  R.  [,  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade  340. 

Donald,  Rev.  E.  Winchester,  one  of  the 
committee  of  clergymen  on  religious 
services,  124,  125;  at  banquet,  358. 

Donald,  Eliza  S.,  portrait  of  John  Sevier, 
property  of,  facing  125,  526. 

Donald,  J.  M.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264. 

Donaldson,  Bessie,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  47,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

Donaldson,  Harvey  J.,  member  of  assem- 
bly, N.  Y.,  242. 

Dondero,  Antonio,  captain  guardia  saravi, 
civic  parade,  392. 

Donlin,  E.  A.,  commissioner  from  Mo., 
216. 

Donnell,  Ezekiel  J.,  invited  to  meet  presi 

dent  Harrison,  245. 
Donnelly,  R.  A.,  colonel  seventh  N  J. 

regiment,  at  military  parade,  326. 
Dooley,  J.  E.,  commissioner  from  Utah, 

216,  233. 
Dooley,  John  E.,  at  banquet,  359. 
Dooley,    P.    C,    captain     Irish  papal 

veterans,  civic  parade,  397. 
Doolittle,  Amos,  artist,  portrait  of  Wash- 
ington, engraved  by,  145  ;  his  portrait 

of  Roger  Sherman,  526. 
Dooner,  James  J.,  fifth  N.  J.  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  327. 
Dorchester,   Mass.,    reception    of  |ohn 

Adams  at,  1  7. 


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Doremus,  Arthur,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 
Doremus,  Charles  A.,  at  centennial  ball, 
261. 

Doremus,  Estelle,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 
Doremus,  R.  Ogden,  at  centennial  ball, 
261. 

Doremus,  Mrs.  R.  Ogden,  at  centennial 
ball,  261. 

Dorlon,  A.  &  P.,  invited  to  meet  president 

Harrison,  246. 
Dorselt,  R.  C,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  264. 

Dorsey,  George  W.  E.,  at  banquet,  359. 

Dorst,  Joseph  H.,  U.  S.  army,  at  centen- 
nial ba.l,  258. 

Doty,  Spencer  C,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264. 

Doubleday,  Gen.  Abner,  at  reception  to 
president  Harrison,  232. 

Dougherty  Maj.  John,  commandant  U. 
S.  battalion  of  artillery,  135. 

Douglas,  H.  Kyd,  commissioner  from 
Md.,  216. 

Douglas,  Harry,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 224. 

Douglass,  A.  B.,  portraits  of  Madison 
and  Monroe,  property  of,  505. 

Douglass,  Frederick,  at  literary  exercises, 
289. 

Douglass,  Robert  B.,  escort  to  president 

Harrison,  223. 
Douw.  Charles  G.,  escort  to  president 

Harrison,  224. 
Dow,  Abbott  L.,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  264. 

Dowd,  Alexander  J.,  alderman,  243. 

Dowd,  William,  member  of  citizens'  com- 
mittee, 103  ;  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  245. 

Dowers,  S.  L.,  at  banquet,  361. 

Dowling,  Victor  J.,  in  command  catholic 
benevolent  division,  civic  parade,  397. 

Downes,  E.  S.,  third  N.  H.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  332. 

Downes,  Shubael.  captain  continental 
army,  283. 

Downes,  William  H.,  in  command  tem- 
perance societies,  civic  parade,  397. 

Downey,  John,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  247. 

Downs,  W.  A.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264. 

Dows,  David,  Jr.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264 

Dows,  S.  L. ,  at  literary  exercises,  289. 

Doyle,  Peter  C,  brigadier-general,  fourth 
brigade,  N.  Y.,  at  military  parade,  33S. 

Doyle,  William  M.  S.,  artist,  portraits  of 
John  Adams,  facing  iS  ;  Caleb  Strong, 
facing  Sg  ;  number  of  portraits  of  con- 
gressmen painted  by,  419,  420  ;  notes 
on  his  portraits  of  John  Adams,  and 
Caleb  Strong,  421,  426,  530  ;  sketch  of, 
530,  note. 

Drachman,  Rev.  Bernard,  favors  holding 
religious  services  April  30.  18S9,  123. 

Drake,  Alexander  W.,  acknowledgment 
to,  in  preface,  vi  ;  member  of  commit- 
tee on  art,  112,  113,  134,  142,  236,  409  ; 
of  general  committee,  114,  236;  sub- 


scriber to  centennial  ball,  264  ;  at  ban- 
quet, 358  ;  member  of  memorial  arch 
committee,  409. 

Drake,  Francis  S.,  the  Stuart  portrait  of 
gen.  Henry  Knox,  492. 

Drake,  Frank  W.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Drake,  J.  Madison,  company  A  gatling 
gun,  N.  J.,  at  military  parade,  327. 

Drake,  James  M.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Drake,  John  R.,  commissioner  from  III., 
208,  213,  215,  233;  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  264  ;  at  banquet,  359. 

Drake,  Lawrence,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264. 

Drama,  representatives  of  the,  invited  to 
meet  president  Harrison,  244. 

Draper,  Andrew  S. ,  supt.  public  instruc- 
tion, N.  Y.,  242. 

Draper,  Anna  P.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264. 

Draper,  Edwin,  first  R.  I.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  340. 

Draper,  John  H.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Draper,  William  H.,  M.D.,  invited  to 
meet  president  Harrison,  244. 

Drayton,  Mrs.  J.  Coleman,  at  centennial 
ball,  262. 

Drayton,  William  H.,  mentioned,  481, 

note. 

Dreher,  J.  D.,  at  literary  exercises,  2S9. 

Dreher,  Jules  J.  D. ,  at  banquet,  358. 

Dressel,  J.  A.  H.,  seventy-first  N.  Y. 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  336. 

Dresser,  Horace  E.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  264. 

Dresser,  Leroy,  at  literary  exercises,  289. 

Dresser,  Miss  Le  Roy,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  264. 

Drew,  Jennie  M.,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  56,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

Drew,  Mary,  delegate  from  public  school 
No.  53,  reception  of  president  Harrison, 
city  hall,  238. 

Drexel,  Mrs.  Joseph  W.,  subscriber  to 
memorial  arch,  414. 

Drexel,  Morgan,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to 
celebration  and  memorial  arch,  400,  413. 

Driggs,  Elliott  F.,  subscriber  to  Wall 
street  arch,  253. 

Drinker,  Miss,  portrait  of  James  Madison, 
painted  by,  506. 

Driscoll,  M.  J.,  in  command  of  Brooklyn 
plumbers'  and  gas-fitters'  union,  at  civic 
parade,  392. 

Drisler,  Frank,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  244. 

Drisler,  Henry,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  244;  member  of  vestry  Trin- 
ity church,  at  services,  St.  Paul's  chapel, 
269;  at  literary  exercises,  289;  at  ban- 
quet, 359;  extract  from  address  of,  363, 
378. 

Drowne.  Henry  R.,  usher  at  commem- 
orative services  of  society  of  the  Cin- 
cinnati, in  St.  Paul's  chapel,  170;  escort 
to  president  Harrison,  224. 


Drowne,  Henry  T.,  member  of  committee 
of  arrangements,  commemorative  ban- 
quet and  religious  services,  society  of 
the  Cincinnati,  149,  150;  representative 
of  society  of  the  Cincinnati  at  cele- 
bration, 177;  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 224;  invited  to  meet  the  presi- 
dent, 246,  248  ;  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264  ;  at  literary  exercises, 
289. 

Drowne,  Solomon,  surgeon  of  the  Rhode 
Island  continental  line,  177. 

Drum,  Richard  C,  U.  S.  army,  at  ban- 
quet, 361. 

Dryburgh,  Thomas,  U.    S.  Grant  hose 

company,  at  civic  parade,  396. 
Dry  Goods  trade,  representatives  invited 

to  meet  president  Harrison,  246. 
Drug  and  Chemical  trade,  representatives 

invited   to  meet  president  Harrison, 

246. 

Duane,  James,  candidate  for  U.  S.  senator 
from  N.  Y.,  13;  mayor  of  N.  Y.  city, 
r789.  35.  1361  229,  236;  receives  George 
Washington  on  his  arrival  at  N'.  Y.,  35; 
portraits,  painted  by  Copley,  C.  W. 
Peale,  and  unknown,  facing  36;  attends 
assembly  ball,  1789,  58;  biographical 
sketch,  58,  note;  notes  on  the  portraits 
of,  421,  422,  423,  442;  descendants  of, 
442,  443- 

Duane,  Mrs.  James,  portraits,  painled  by 
C.  W.  Peale,  and  unknown,  facing  262; 
notes  on  the  portrait  of,  422,  423.  443. 

Duane,  James  C,  aqueduct  commis- 
sioner, 243;  portraits  of  James  Duane 
and  wife,  property  of,  facing  36,  262, 
442,  443- 

Duane,  James  M.,  miniature  of  Louis 

XVI.,  property  of,  145. 
Duane,  Mrs.  Mary  Livingston,  attends 

assembly  ball,  17S9,  58,  59,  note. 
Dubois,  Abram,  subscriber  to  memorial 

arch,  414. 

Du  Bois,  Charles  A.,  twenty-second  N.  Y. 

regiment,  at  military  parade,  335. 
Dubois,  E.,  sixth    N.  J.    regiment,  at 

military  parade,  326. 
Dubois,  Frederick  T.,  commissioner  from 

Idaho,  216,  233;  member  of  congress, 

241;  at  banquet,  359. 
Dubois,  Matthew  B.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  264. 
Ducey,  Rev.  Thomas  J.,  invited  to  meet 

president  Harrison,  244;  at  banquet, 

360. 

Duchc,  Thomas  S.,  artist,  his  portrait  of 

bishop  Provoost.  facing  45,  518. 
Dudley,  Henry,  at  literary  exercises,  289. 
Duer,  Catharine  A.,  portrait  of  William 

Duer,  property  of,  facing  57,  444. 
Duer,  Mrs.  George,  mentioned,  444. 
Duer,  James  G.  K.,  portrait  of  William 

Duer,  property  of,  facing  57,  444;  at 

banquet,  358. 
Duer,  Mrs.  James  G.  K.,  at  centennial 

ball,  261. 
Duer,  John,  at  banquet,  360. 
Duer,  John  B.,  invited  to  meet  president 

Harrison,  246. 


584     run  centennial  of  Washington's  inauguration. 


Ducr,  Lady  Kitty,  portrait,  facing  57  ; 
attends  assembly  ball,  1789,  59;  notes 
on  the  portraits  of,  423,  443. 

Duer,  the  Misses,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 

Ducr,  Col.  William,  portraits,  facing  57  ; 
biographical  sketch  of,  59,  note  ;  deliv- 
ers oration  before  the  society  of  the  Cin- 
cinnati, 169,  note,  176  ;  notes  cn  the 
portraits  of,  423,  444. 

Duer,  William  A.,  at  celebration  of  the 
semi-centennial  of  Washington's  inau- 
guration, 96,  9S,  99. 

Dufais.  John,  aide  to  chairman  of  com- 
mittee on  states,  120,  217,  255  ;  escort 
to  president  Harrison,  220. 

Dufais,  John  L.,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  244. 

Duffield,  Edward,  portraits  of  Franklin, 
property  of,  45s,  459,  461,  462. 

Duffield,  Rev  George,  gold  ring  presented 
by  Washington  to  Mrs.  Madison,  prop- 
erty of,  155. 

Duffield,  Henry  M.,  commissioner  from 
Mich.,  216. 

Duffv,  P.  F..  commissioner  from  W.  Va., 
216. 

Duffy,  Patrick  G.,  police  justice,  N.  Y., 
243. 

Duffy,  Patrick  J.,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  242. 

Duggan,  f.  II..  thirteenth  Pa.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  325. 

Dugro,  P,  Henry,  judge  superior  court, 
N.  Y.,  243  ;  at  banquet,  359. 

Dumont,  James  A.,  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  248. 

Dun,  Robert  G.,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  246. 

Dun,  R.  G.,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  memo- 
rial arch,  414. 

Duncan,  Alexander,  subscriber  to  memo- 
rial arch,  413. 

Duncan,  John,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  246. 

Duncan,  W.  B.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264. 

Duncan,  William  Butler,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  245  ;  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  263. 

Duncan  &  Johnston,  decorators  of  the 
stand  at  sub-treasury,  for  literary  exer- 
cises, 289. 

Dunham,  James  H.,  member  of  finance 
committee,  109  ;  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  24O  ;  subscriber  to  me- 
morial arch,  414. 

Dunham,  William  H.,  member  of  assem- 
bly, N.  Y.,  242. 

Dunlap,  Robert,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  247  ;  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264. 

Dunlap,  R.,&  Co.,  subscribers  to  celebra- 
tion and  memorial  arch,  400,  413. 

Dunlap,  W.  Barlow,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  242. 

Dunlap.  William,  artist,  portrait  of  major 
Van  Horn,  facing.  42  ;  at  inauguration 
of  Washington,  51,  note;  notes  on  his 
portraits  of  major  Van  Horn,  and 
Washington,  420,  421,  537,  542. 


Dunphy,  Edward  J.,  at  reception  to  pres- 
ident Harrison,  240,  241. 

Dunscomb,  J.  Hoard,  escort  to  president 
I  [arrison,  223. 

Dtiplessis,  Joseph  S.,  artist,  illustrations 
of  portraits  of  Franklin,  painted  by, 
facing  424,  444,  464,  524  ;  notes  on  his 
portraits,  144,  418,  420,  421,  449  ;  bio- 
graphical sketch  of,  449,  note. 

Du  Pont,  Mrs.  Charles  I.,  mentioned,  64, 
note  ;  portraits  of  John  Yining  and  wife, 
property  of,  facing  67,  258,  538. 

Dupre,  Augustin,  designs  medal  of  Ben- 
jamin Franklin,  462. 

Du  Quesne,  Marquis,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  248. 

Durand,  Asher  B.,  artist,  portrait  of  James 
Madison,  facing  115;  number  of  con- 
gressmen painted  by,  419  ;  his  portraits 
of  Adams,  424  ;  Jefferson,  485  ;  Mad- 
ison, 421,  504  ;  Monroe,  510,  511  ;  notes 
on  his  engraved  portraits  of  Boudinot, 
430  ;  Carroll,  433  ;  Floyd,  447  ;  Hamil- 
ton, 473  ;  Jay,  480  ;  Catharine  M.  Sedg- 
wick, 525,  note ;  Stuart,  531  ;  William- 
son, 550. 

Durand.  John  S.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264. 

Durando,  Lizzie  A.,  delegate  from  public 

school  No.  73,  reception  of  president 

Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 
Durang,  J.  T.,  second  Pa.  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  323. 
Durell,  Mis.,   subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  264. 

Durer,  Albrecht,  represented  in  tableau, 

civic  parade,  395. 
Durfee,  C.  S.,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  264. 

Durming,  William  A.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  264. 

Duryea,  Mrs.  S.  B.,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Duryee,  Rev.  Joseph  R.,  favors  holding 
religious  services  April  30,  1889,  123. 

Duryee,  Joseph  W.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Du  Simitiere,  Pierre  E.,  artist,  illustra- 
tions of  portraits  painted  by,  of  John 
Jay,  facing  172  ;  Baron  Steuben,  facing 
172  ;  Charles  Thomson,  facing  172 ; 
notes  on  his  portraits  of  John  Jay,  420, 
481  ;  Henry  Laurens,  496  ;  Gouverneur 
Morris,  513  ;  Baron  Steuben,  420,  529  ; 
Charles  Thomson,  420,  533  ;  George 
Washington,  542  ;  portraits  painted  by, 
481,  note. 

Dutcher,  Silas  B.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Dutton,  Edward  P.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison.  246. 

Dutton,  E.  P.,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to 
memorial  arch,  414. 

Duval,  B.  T.,  at  literary  exercises,  289. 

Duval,  Henry  R.,  member  of  Md.  society 
of  the  Cincinnati,  151. 

Duval,  Horace  C,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  104  ;  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264  ;  at  banquet,  360. 

Du  Vail,  B.  F.,  commissioner  from 
Arkansas,  215. 


Duvall,  Gabriel,  member  of  federal  con- 
vention, 1787,  136. 

Duvall,  J.  H.,  commissioner  from  West 
Va.,  216. 

Duvivier,  artist,  his  portraits  of  Ebenezer 
Hazard,  and  wife,  facing  51,  156  ;  notes 
on  the  portraits,  474. 

Du  Vivier,  Edward  A.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  247  ;  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  264. 

Dwight,  Edmund,  Jr.,  member  of  recep- 
tion committee,  ancestry  of,  230. 

Dwight,  Jonathan,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264. 

Dwight,  Theodore  W.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  244  ;  at  banquet, 
360;  at  reception  U.  S.  supreme  court 
justices,  402  ;  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Dwight,  Timothy,  president  of  Yale  uni- 
versity, at  literary  exercises,  289  ;  at 
banquet,  360  ;  at  organization  of  sons 
of  the  American  revolution,  402. 

Dyckman,  Isaac  M.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264. 

Dyer,  Elisha,  Jr.,  adjutant-general,  and 
commissioner  from  R.  I.,  208,  213,  216, 
233  ;  subscriber  to  centennial  ball,  264; 
at  military  parade,  340  ;  portrait,  340 ; 
at  banquet,  360. 

Dyer,  Elisha,  3d,  aide  to  chairman  of  com- 
mittee on  entertainment,  120;  member 
of  reception  committee,  ancestry  of,  231; 
at  banquet,  359. 

Eadie,  J.  H.,  escort  to  president  Harrison, 
221. 

Eagan,  William  T.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264. 
Eager,  Sibyl,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 
Eagle,  James  P.,  governor  of  Arkansas, 

233. 

Eakins,  Joseph    B.,  captain  of  police, 

N.  Y.,  237. 
Eames,  E.  E.,  at  banquet,  358. 
Earl,  Robert,  associate  judge,  court  of 

appeals,  N.  Y.,  243. 
Earl  &  Wilson,  subscribers  to  memorial 

arch,  414. 

Earle,  Edward,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 223. 

Earle,  Ferdinand  P.,  chief  of  artillery, 
N.  Y.,  242  ;  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264  ;  at  banquet,  358. 

Earle,  Ralph,  artist,  illustrations  of  the 
portraits  painted  by,  of  Oliver  Ells- 
worth and  wife,  facing  78  ;  William 
Floyd,  facing  123  ;  Mrs.  Alexander 
Hamilton,  facing  57  ;  Mrs.  Theodore 
Sedgwick,  facing  258  ;  Roger  Sher- 
man, facing  80  ;  Baron  Steuben,  fac- 
ing 166  ;  Richard  Varick,  facing  36  ; 
number  of  congressmen  painted  by, 
419,  420  ;  notes  on  his  portraits  of, 
Oliver  Ellsworth  and  wife,  421,  444  ; 
Floyd,  421,  446;  Mrs.  Hamilton,  421, 
473;  Mrs.  Sedgwick,  421,  525;  Sher- 
man, 421,  526;  Steuben,  421,  529; 
Varick,  421,  537. 


INDEX. 


5«5 


Earnest,  J.  P.,  fourth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  325. 

Easterbrooks,  Gilis  W.,  first  R.  I.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  340. 

Eastman,  Samuel  C,  commissioner  from 
N.  H.,  216,  233;  at  banquet,  360. 

Eastman,  Timothy  C,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  246. 

East  River  Park,  N.  Y.  city,  display  of 
fireworks,  353. 

Easton,  James  T.,  park  commissioner, 
Brooklyn,  243. 

Eaton,  A.  F.,  first  N.  H.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  333. 

Eaton,  Arthur  D.,  at  reception  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  232. 

Eaton,  Rev.  Charles  H.,  favors  holding 
religious  services  April  30,  1889,  123. 

Eaton,  D.  Cady,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264. 

Eaton,  D.  G.,  at  reception  to  president 
Harrison,  232. 

Eaton,  Dorman  B.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  248;  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  264. 

Eaton,  E.  A.,  second  N.  H.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  332. 

Eaton,  Henry  W.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Eaton,  John,  commissioner  from  Ohio, 
216. 

Eaton,  Robert,  one  of  the  crew  of  the 
barge  which  conveyed  Washington  to 
N.  Y.,  28,  note. 

Eaton,  S.  B.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264. 

Eaton,  W.  W.,  commissioner  from  Conn. , 

215- 

Eccles,  William  H.,  third  Ohio  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  342. 

Eckel,  Frederick,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 223. 

Eckels,  G.  W.,  first  regiment,  Delaware, 
at  military  parade,  322. 

Eckendorff,  Robert  G.,  company  B  gat- 
ling  gun,  N.  J.,  at  military  parade,  326. 

Eckerson,  J.  Esler,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264. 

Eckert,  Thomas  T.,  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  245. 

Eckstein,  John,  sculptor,  bust  of  Wash- 
ington by,  at  loan  exhibition,  145. 

Eddy,  C.  W.,  thirty-second  separate  com- 
pany, N.  Y.,  at  military  parade,  337. 

Eddy,  R.  A.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264. 

Eddy,  W.  H.,  forty -seventh  N.  Y.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  337. 

Eddy,  Mrs.  William,  portraits  of  Samuel 
Osgood  and  wife,  property  of,  517. 

Edgar,  William,  his  residence  illuminated 
on  the  arrival  of  Washington  at  N.  Y., 
3i- 

Edgar,  Mrs.  William,  attends  assembly 
ball,  1789,  59. 

Edgar,  George  P.,  of  the  seventh  regi- 
ment veterans,  253  ;  at  literary  exer- 
cises, 289. 

Edge,  Benjamin,  Jr.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  222. 

75 


Edge,  N.  J.  H.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 223. 

Edgecombe  Guards,  of  N.  C,  at  military 
parade,  340. 

Edison,  Thomas  A.,  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  245. 

Edmands,  Thomas  F.,  first  corps  cadets, 
Boston,  at  military  parade,  329. 

Edmunds,  George  F.,  U.  S.  senator  from 
Vt.,  at  reception  to  president  Harrison, 
241. 

Edmunds,  H.  W.,  sixth  N.  J.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  326. 

Edsall,  J.  S.,  second  battalion,  N.  J.,  at 
military  parade,  327. 

Edson,  Franklin,  member  of  special  com- 
mittee of  chamber  of  commerce,  102  ; 
of  citizens'  committee,  103,  105  ;  gen- 
eral committee,  107,  115,  236  ;  invited 
to  meet  president  Harrison,  245  ;  sub- 
scriber to  centennial  ball,  264  ;  at  ban- 
quet, 360. 

Edson,  Franklin,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to 
celebration,  401. 

Edwards,  Charles  J.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  264. 

Edwards,  E.  C,  second  battalion,  D.  C, 
at  military  parade,  344. 

Edwards,  Henry,  at  banquet,  361. 

Edwards,  Ira,  member  of  assembly,  N.  Y., 
242. 

Edwards,  Jonathan,  mentioned,  525. 

Edwards,  Pierrepont,  presents  freedom 
of  the  city  of  New  Haven  to  John 
Adams,  18  ;  portrait,  painted  by  Jarvis, 
facing  160  ;  notes  on  the  portraits  of, 
421,  444- 

Edwards,  Pierrepont,  portrait  of  Pierre- 
pont Edwards,  property  of,  facing  160, 
444. 

Edwards,  T.  A.,  third  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  324. 

Edwin,  David,  engraver  of  portraits  of 
Jefferson,  489  ;  gen.  Knox,  492,  note  ; 
Stuart,  531. 

Edye,  Henry  W.  O.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  246. 

Eger,  Michael,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  246. 

Eggleston,  George  C,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  244;  at  banquet, 360 

Eggleston,  Edward,  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  244. 

Egleston,  David  S.,  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  246. 

Egleston,  Thomas,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  244  ;  member  of  vestry, 
Trinity  church,  at  services,  St.  Paul's 
chapel,  269  ;  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Egolf,  Joseph,  twelfth  separate  company, 
N.  Y.,  at  military  parade,  337. 

Ehlers,  Edward  M.  L.,  grand  secretary 
of  masons,  N.  Y.,  52,  note  ;  member  of 
general  committee,  115,  136;  escort  to 
president  Harrison,  221  ;  at  centennial 
ball,  261  ;  at  banquet,  360  ;  subscriber 
to  celebration,  401. 

Ehrenritter  Gesangverein,  at  Madison 
square  concert.  350. 


Ehret,  George,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  247;  at  centennial  ball,  261; 
subscriber  to  ball  and  memorial  arch, 
264,  414. 

Ehrich,  Samuel  W.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Ehrlich,  Simon  M.,  judge  city  court,  243. 

Eichenkranz  Singing  Society,  at  Madison 
square  concert,  357;  at  civic  parade, 
395- 

Eichholtz,  Jacob,  artist,  his  portraits  of 
Frederick  A.  and  J.  P.  G.  Meuhlen- 
berg,  516. 

Eicholtz,  Leonard,  mentioned,  522. 

Eidlitz,  Marc,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  247. 

Elbrooke,  George  L.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  264. 

Elder,  George  W.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264. 

Elder,  R.  C,  fifth  Pa.  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  325. 

Elderkin,  John,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264. 

Eldridge,  C.  R.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264. 

Eldridge,  N.,  U.  S.  navy,  in  command  of 
barge  of  U.  S.  steamer  Despatch,  198. 

Electors,  presidential,  day  appointed  for 
the  choosing  of,  3  ;  number  of  votes 
for  Washington  and  Adams,  12;  none 
chosen  by  N.  Y.,  12,  and  note. 

Eliot,  Charles  W.,  president  of  Harvard 
university,  at  literary  exercises,  289;  at 
banquet,  metropolitan  opera-house,  359; 
his  address  at  banquet,  363,  378. 

Eliot,  Ellsworth,  M.  D.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  244. 

Eliot,  Samuel,  delivers  historical  address, 
Boston,  403. 

Elirt,  U.  S.,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
264. 

Elizabeth,  N.  J.,  reception  to  president 
Harrison,  his  cabinet  and  justices  of 
the  supreme  court  at,  183,  185;  third 
regiment  and  company  A  gatling  gun, 
with  veteran  zouaves,  at  military  parade, 
327. 

Elizabethport,  N.  J.,  Washington  meets 
his  wife  at,  21,  note ;  programme  for 
the  reception  of  president  Harrison,  at, 
117,  126  ;  view  of  the  embarkation  of 
the  president  and  vice-president,  facing 
184. 

Elizabethtown,  N.  J.,  Washington  re- 
ceives the  citizens,  and  committee  of 
congress,  27,  50;  embarks  in  a  barge 
for  N.  Y.,  28;  president  Harrison,  his 
cabinet,  and  justices  of  U.  S.  supreme 
court,  with  guests,  escorted  to,  183, 
186;  embark  for  N.  Y.,  183;  triumphal 
arches  erected  at,  186. 

Elkins,  Miss,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 

Elkins,  Stephen  B.,  at  centennial  ball, 
260  ;  subscriber  to  ball,  264  ;  at  ban- 
quet, 356,  359. 

Elkins,  Mrs.  Stephen  B.,  at  centennial 
ball,  261. 

Ellerson,  S.  R.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264. 


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Elliott,  Duncan,  member  of  floor  com- 
mittee, centennial  ball,  259. 

Elliott,  Frederic  B.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264. 

Elliott,  Samuel,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264. 

Elliott,  William,  member  of  congress 
from  N.  Y.,  241;  at  banquet,  359. 

Ellis,  A.  H.,  commissioner  from  Kansas, 
216. 

Ellis,  G.  E.,  at  banquet,  360. 

Ellis  Island,  N.  Y.,  United  States  vessels 
anchor  off,  at  naval  parade,  193. 

Ellis,  John  W.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball  and  memorial  arch,  264,  414. 

Ellis,  Samuel  C,  portrait  of  Washington, 
property  of,  542. 

Ellis,  Willis  A.,  member  of  marine  soci- 
ety, one  of  the  crew  of  the  president's 
barge,  202;  portrait,  203;  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  225. 

Ellis,  William  D.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264. 

Ellison,  Ismar  S.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264. 

Ellison,  John  S.,  Mitchell  post,  G.  A.  R., 
escort  to  president  Harrison,  221;  at 
military  parade,  345. 

Ellsworth,  Amie  F.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264. 

Ellsworth,  Edward,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Ellsworth,  Oliver,  U.  S.  senator  from 
Conn.,  6,  7,  135,  232  ;  biographical 
sketch  of,  72  ;  portraits,  painted  by 
Earle  and  Trumbull,  facing  78;  member 
of  federal  convention,  1787,  136;  notes 
on  the  portraits  of,  421,  422,  444;  his 
residence  mentioned,  525. 

Ellsworth,  Mrs.  Oliver,  portrait  painted 
by  Earle,  facing  78;  notes  on  the  por- 
traits of,  420,  444. 

Ellsworth,  Pinkney  W.,  commissioner 
from  Conn.,  215. 

Ellsworth,  William  W. ,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  264;  at  banquet,  358. 

Ellsworth,  Will  iam  Wolcott,  governor  of 
Conn.,  at  celebration  of  the  semi-cen- 
tennial of  Washington's  inauguration, 
96. 

Elmcndorf,   Florence  W.,  subscriber  to 

centennial  ball,  264. 
Elmenhorst  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  Wall 

street  arch,  253. 
Elmer,  Daniel,  mentioned,  69. 
Elmer,  David  P.,  mentioned,  445. 
Elmer,  Jonathan,  U.S.  senator  from  N.  J., 

1789,  10,  135,  232  ;  biographical  sketch 

of,  69;  no  portrait  of,  418,  445. 
Elmer,  Stephen,  artist,  his  portrait  of 

Franklin,  420,  421,  458,  462,  facing 

464. 

Elmira,  N.  Y.,  twenty-sixth  and  thirtieth 
separate  companies,  at  military  parade, 
338. 

Elting,  Peter,  alderman,  N.  Y.  city,  1789, 
136,  229. 

Elwyn,  Rev.  Alfred  L.,  portrait  of  John 
Langdon,  property  of,  facing  105,  145, 
494- 


Ely,  George  W.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264. 

Ely,  Horace  S.,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  245. 

Ely,  Smith,  Jr.,  member  of  citizens'  com- 
mittee, 105  ;  of  general  committee, 
107. 

Ely,  T.  N.,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  245. 

Ely,  William,  first  battery,  R.  I.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  340. 

Emerson,  John  W.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Emery,  John  J.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264. 

Emery,  Livingston,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224;  member  of  reception 
committee,  ancestry  of,  230;  subscriber 
to  centennial  ball,  264. 

Emmet,  Bache  McE. ,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  264. 

Emmet,  Charles,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264. 

Emmet,  Thomas  Addis,  letters  of  Hazard 
and  White  property  of,  3,  17,  19;  view 
of  federal  hall,  property  of,  35;  member 
of  general  committee,  108,  115,  236;  at 
centennial  ball,  261;  subscriber  to  ball, 
264;  at  banquet,  360;  subscriber  to  the 
celebration,  400;  portraits  of  Daniel 
Huger  and  R.  H.  Lee,  property  of,  475, 
497;  knows  of  no  portrait  of  John 
Walker,  540;  the  Trumbull  portrait  of 
Hugh  Williamson,  550. 

Empire  Engine  Company,  at  civic  parade, 
389. 

Empire  Hook  and  Ladder  Company,  at 
civic  parade,  389. 

Endicott,  William  C,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  248. 

Endres,  Matthias,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  242. 

Engleman,  P.  J.,  Orchard  Lake  military 
academy  cadets,  Mich.,  at  military  pa- 
rade, 344. 

Englis,  C.  M.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264. 

Englis,  W.  F.,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 223. 

Engravers,  notes  on  the  portraits  en- 
graved by  Akin  &  Harrison,  Jr.,  487; 
Alix,  448;  Angus,  450;  Blyth,  425,426; 
Boyd,  427,  429;  Bridport,  509;  Casilear, 
486,  504,  510;  Chevillet,  449,  461,  note; 
De  Mare,  543;  Dequevauvillier,  489; 
Desnoyers,  488,  489;  Dodson,  451;  Du- 
rand,  430,  433,  447,  473,  480,  511,  525, 
531.  55°;  Edwin,  489,  492,  note,  531; 
Evans,  462,  545;  Field,  544;  Fisher, 
457;  Forest,  427,  439;  Fiirst,  512:  Gim- 
brede,  489;  Graham,  471;  Grainger, 
460;  Green,  495;  Hall,  428,  433,  445, 
446,  448,  449,  470,  491,  494,  496.  513. 
516,  524,  530,  534,  538,  544;  Heath,  514; 
Holl,  488;  Hollo  way,  462,  544;  Hoog- 
land,  472,  note;  Hopwood,  462;  Jacinet, 
451;  Jacquemart,  489;  Kelly,  491;  Le 
Mire,  145;  Leney,  473,  479,491;  Levas- 
seur,  461;  Lienard,  460,  note;  Longacre, 
425,  433.  440,  45°.  403.  485.  497.  5M, 


530;  McArdell,  456;  Mackenzie,  445; 
Martinet,  459,  note;  Maverick,  439,  479; 
Miger,  448;  Mote,  433;  Neagle,  487, 
496;  Page,  459,  note,  462;  Paradise, 
430;  Peale  (C.  W.),  543;  Pelton,  426; 
Pigott,  512;  Pollard,  457;  Prud'homme, 
471;  Reading,  481,  496,  513;  Reich, 
489,  507;  Rice,  524;  Ritchie,  460,  476, 
490;  Rogers,  471,  479;  Rollinson,  471; 
Rosenthal  (A.),  frontispiece,  448,  467, 
513,  522;  Rosenthal  (M.),  543;  Ryder, 
458;  St.  Memin,  420,  427,  428,  430, 
431.  435,  439.  478,  500.  502,  506,  527, 
53°,  537;  Sadd,  528;  Sartain  (J.),  440; 
Sartain  (S.),  494,  522;  Savage,  454, 
489,493,  528;  Scoles,  459;  Sharp,  459, 
note,  519;  Smith  (H.  W.),  453,  479, 
493;  Smith  (J.  R.),  463,  524;  Storm, 
459;  Sweet,  458;  Thackera  &  Wallace, 
462,  note;  Thomson,  450;  Tiebout,  480, 
487,  489;  Turner,  458;  Welch,  454,  507. 
514;  Wellmore,  509;  Wilcox,  448,451; 
Will,  460;  Wilmer,  505;  Woolley,  549; 
Wright  (C.  N.),  458;  Wright  (J.),  545. 
Ennis,  John,  fire  commissioner,  Brook- 
lyn, 243. 

Ennis,  William,  U.  S.  army,  at  military 

parade,  320. 
Eno,  Amos  F.,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,,  264. 

Eno,  Amos  R.,  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Enos,  Alanson  T.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Entertainment  Committee,  see  commit- 
tees. 

Entrekin,  John  O,  colonel  sixth  Ohio 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  342. 

Enz,  Frank  J.,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  242. 

Equitable  Building,  N.  Y.  city,  commem- 
orative banquet  of  the  society  of  (he 
Cincinnati,  151;  views  of,  222,  233,  237; 
reception  to  president  Harrison,  held 
at  the,  227;  banquet  to  president  Har- 
rison and  the  governors  of  the  various 
states,  233,  235. 

Eras/us  Wiman,  steamer  for  guests  and 
general  committee,  at  naval  parade, 
126,  127,  191,  192,  208,  217. 

Erben,  Henry,  U.  S.  navy,  member  of 
committee  on  navy,  112,  113,  183,  189, 
190,  191,  219,  236  ;  of  general  com- 
mittee, 115,  236;  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  183,  184,  199,  200;  portrait, 
facing  190  ;  escort  to  vice-president 
Morton,  199  ;  at  banquet  to  president 
Harrison,  234;  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264  ;  at  banquet,  metropoli- 
tan opera-house,  361. 

Erben,  P.  E.,  mentioned,  531. 

Erhardt,  Joel  B.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  248;  at  banquet,  359. 

Erlick,  Leo,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
264. 

Erving,  John,  Washington's  letter  to  con- 
gress, property  of,  19,  note  ;  24,  note; 
portrait  of  John  Langdon,  property  of, 
facing  105,  145,  494;  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  264. 


INDEX. 


587 


Erving,  John  L.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 224;  member  of  aisle  committee, 
St.  Paul's  chapel,  272,  282;  ancestry  of, 
282. 

Erving,  Miss  E.  E.,  at  centennial  ball, 
262. 

Erwin,  George  Z.,  state  senator,  N.  Y., 

242;  at  banquet,  359. 
Espriella,  Justo  R.  de  la,  consul  of  Chili, 

248. 

Essex,  United  States  vessel,  at  naval 
parade,  193,  201. 

Essex  Institute,  Mass.,  portrait  of  Alex- 
ander Hamilton,  property  of,  469. 

Este,  William  M.,  at  commemorative  ban- 
quet, society  of  the  Cincinnati,  150. 

Estes,  William  P.,  at  literary  exercises, 
289. 

Estey,  Julius  J.,  first  Vt.  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  341. 
Estrazulas,  Enrique  M.,  consul-general  of 

Uruguay,  248. 
Etter,  artist,  his  portrait  of  Franklin,  455. 
Etting,  Jeannette  V.,  portrait  of  William 

S.  Johnson,  property  of,  facing  78,  489. 
Euen,  Matthias  S.,  of  the  loyal  legion,  253. 
Euker,  Charles,  first  regiment  cavalry, 

Va.,  at  military  parade,  333. 
Eureka,  Cal.,  the  celebration  at,  406. 
Eustis,  James  B.,  U.  S.  senator  from  La., 

at  reception  to  president  Harrison,  241; 

at  centennial   ball,  259;   at  banquet, 

359- 

Evans,  Anita  E. ,  Washington's  pencil 
case  and  gold  pen,  and  portrait,  prop- 
erty of,  85,  144. 

Evans,  C.  W.,  first  Vt.  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  341. 

Evans,  John  M.,  commissioner  from  Ari- 
zona, 216,  233  ;  at  banquet,  359. 

Evans,  Thomas  G.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Evans,  Thomas  W.,  mentioned,  494. 

Evans,  William,  engraver  of  portraits  of 
Franklin  and  Washington,  462,  545. 

Evarts,  Allen  W..  at  banquet,  360. 

Evarts,  William  M.,  member  of  commit- 
tee on  general  government,  112,  113, 
179,  181,  236  ;  of  general  committee, 
115,  236;  escort  to  president  Harrison, 
181,  225;  portrait,  facing  190;  at  naval 
parade,  19S;  at  reception  lawyers' club, 
229;  at  banquet  to  president  Harrison, 
234;  at  literary  exercises,  285,  2S9;  at 
military  parade,  317;  at  banquet,  met- 
ropolitan opera-house,  358;  address  at 
banquet,  363,  374  ;  subscriber  to  me- 
morial arch,  414;  notes  on  the  portrait 
of  Roger  Sherman,  526. 

Evening  Post,  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Everall,  George,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264. 

Everdell,  H.  C,  twenty-third  N.  Y.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  337. 

Everett,  Edward,  mentioned,  449. 

Everett  Public  School,  Boston,  portrait  of 
Martha  Washington  at,  549. 

Everett,  William,  U.  S.  army,  at  military 
parade,  320. 


Evertson,  Mrs.  George  R.,  mentioned, 
489. 

Evvart,  Joseph  C,  first  artillery,  Ohio,  at 
military  parade,  343. 

Ewell,  Benjamin  S.,  pen  and  ink  portrait 
of  Washington,  property  of,  143. 

Ewen,  Austin  D.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 223. 

Ewing,  William,  first  Pa.  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  324. 
Exall,  Henry,  commissioner  from  Texas, 

216;  at  banquet,  359. 
Excelsior  Light   Infantry,  Washington, 

D.  C,  at  civic  parade,  386. 
Executive  Committee,  see  committees. 
Exempt  Firemen,  at  civic  parade,  388, 

389. 

Exhibition,  committee  on, see  committees. 
Expresses,  representatives  of,  invited  to 

meet  president  Harrison,  246. 
Eyre,  Susan  Lear,  portraits  of  Tobias 

Lear,  and  Washington,  property  of,  63, 

143,  145.  496,  542.  543- 

Faber,  Eberhard,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  247. 

Fagan,  Peter,  commander  of  sixth 
division,  volunteer  firemen,  at  civic 
parade,  388. 

Fahnestock,  Harris  C,  member  of  general 
committee,  114,  236;  at  banquet,  359; 
subscriber  to  memorial  arch,  414. 

Fahnestock  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  cele- 
bration, 400. 

Fairbank,  Charles  O. ,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  264. 

Fairbanks,  Capt.,  commander  of  packet, 
1789,  17. 

Fairbanks.  C.  W.,   commissioner  from 

Ind.,  215;  at  banquet,  359. 
Fairbanks,  Charles  W.,  at  banquet,  359. 
Fairbanks,  Franklin,  commissioner  from 

Vt.,  216. 

Fairchild,  Charles  S.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  248;  at  banquet, 
359;  subscriber  to  memorial  arch,  414. 

Fairchild,  H.  M.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Fairchild,  Samuel  G.,  member  of  marine 
society,  one  of  the  crew  of  the  presi- 
dent's barge,  202;  portrait,  203;  escort 
to  president  Harrison,  225. 

Fairchild,  Thomas  B.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224;  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264. 

Fairlie,   Mrs.    James,   portrait  at  loan 

exhibition,  144;  mentioned,  500. 
Fairman,  Gideon,  artist,  his  portrait  of 

Hamilton,  facing  25,  472 
Falconer,  James  M.,  portrait  of  Gilbert 

Stuart,  property  of,  531. 
Fallon,  Joseph  P.,  district  court  justice, 

243. 

Falls,  De  Witt  C,  at  centennial  ball,  261; 

subscriber  to  ball,  264. 
Fancher,  Enoch  L.,  member  of  special 

committee  of  chamber  of  commerce, 

102;  invited  to  meet  president  Harrison, 

244. 


Fanning,  Mrs.  W.  J.,  at  centennial  ball, 
262. 

Fargo,  James  C,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246;  subscriber  to  me- 
morial arch,  414. 

Farini,  Carlos,  minister  from  Uruguay, 
invited  to  centennial  ball,  257. 

Faris,  Henry  L.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264. 

Farish  Family,  of  Va.,  portrait  of  Jeffer 

son,  property  of,  485. 
Farley,  Gustavus,  Jr.,  escort  to  president 

Harrison,  224. 
Farney,  J.  A.,  commissioner  from  N.  C, 

216. 

Farquhar,  John  M.,  member  of  congress 
from  N.  Y.,  242. 

Farr,  Morris  B.,  aide  to  grand-marshal, 
military  parade,  320. 

Farragut,  Loyall,  member  of  committee 
on  navy,  112,  113,  189,  190,  191,  236; 
of  general  committee,  114,  236;  por- 
trait, facing  190;  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  199,  200  ;  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  264  ;  at  banquet,  361  ;  sub- 
scriber to  celebration,  401. 

Farrar,  Frank  N.,  seventy-fourth  M.  Y. 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  339. 

Farrer,  Henry,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  244. 

Farwell,  Charles  B.,  U.  S.  senator  from 
111.,  at  reception  to  president  Harrison, 
241. 

Fassett,  J.  Sloat,  state  senator,  N.  Y., 
242  ;  at  banquet,  359. 

Fava,  Baron  de,  minister  from  Italy,  in- 
vited to  centennial  ball,  257. 

Fawcett,  Edgar,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264  ;  at  banquet,  358. 

Faxon,  William,  Washington  breastpin, 
property  of,  166. 

Fay,  P.  H.,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
264. 

Fay,  Sigourney  W.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264. 

Fearing,  D.,  at  banquet,  359. 

Fearing,  George  R.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264. 

Featherstonhaugh,  James  D.,  portrait  of 
Mrs.  James  Duane,  property  of,  facing 
262,  443. 

Federal  Congress,  see  United  States  con- 
gress. 

Federal  Constitution,  see  United  States 

constitution. 
Federal  Convention,  1787,  final  meeting, 

I  ;  list  of  members,  135. 
Federal  Farmer,  author  of  the  letters  of, 

10. 

Federal  Hall,  N.  Y.  city,  formerly  city 
hall,  erected,  13  ;  views  of,  13,  14,  15, 
233  ;  money  advanced  for  the  alteration 
of,  14  ;  portraits  in  the,  14  ;  description 
of  building,  15  ;  the  new  congress  meet 
at,  16,  36  ;  building  removed,  16  : 
Washington's  arrival  and  reception 
at,  17S9,  43  ;  Washington  inaugurated 
president  of  the  U.  S.,  44  ;  represented 
in  transparency,  1839,  99  ;  represented 
in  tableau,  1889,  civic  parade,  3S6,  396- 


588       THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


Federal  Pillars,  the  states  of  Delaware, 
Pennsylvania,  New  Jersey,  Georgia, 
Massachusetts,  Maryland,  South  Caro- 
lina, New  Hampshire,  Virginia  and 
New  York,  represented  as,  2. 

Federal  Procession,  in  New  York  city,  3. 

Federalist,  the,  Hamilton,  Madison  and 
Jay,  authors  of,  3. 

Federalists,  favor  the  adoption  of  the  con- 
stitution, 2  ;  propose  title  for  the  pres- 
ident of  U.  S.,  48. 

Feigel,  August,  consul-general  of  the 
German  empire,  248. 

Feigle,  Frederick  F.,  aide  to  grand-mar- 
shal, military  parade,  320. 

Feitner,  Thomas  L.,  tax  commissioner, 
243. 

Feldstein,  Theodore,  memorial  commit- 
tee, G.  A.  R.,  at  military  parade,  345. 

Fell,  J.  J.,  third  battalion,  N.  J.,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  327. 

Fellowcraft  Club,  N.  Y.  city,  exhibit  of 
newspapers  and  portraits,  at  loan  exhi- 
bition, 138,  143,  147. 

Fellows,  John  R.,  at  banquet,  359. 

Felton,  Charles  N.,  commissioner  from 
Cal.,  215. 

Felton,  John  C,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 223. 

Felton,  S.  M.,  at  banquet,  358. 

Felton,  Samuel  M.,  Jr.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  245. 

Fenner,  Charles  E.,  oration  at  New  Or- 
leans, 405. 

Ferie,  Charles,  vice-consul  of  the  German 
empire,  248. 

Fermanagh  County  Association,  at  civic 
parade,  397. 

Ferreira,  Adelino  A.,  chancellor  of  Portu- 
gal, 248. 

Ferris,  Daniel  O.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 221. 

Ferris,  Morris  P.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Ferry,  Arthur,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 

Ferry,  Thomas  W.,  commissioner  from 
Mich.,  216. 

Fessenden,  Joshua  A.,  U.  S.  army,  at 
military  parade,  320. 

Fethers,  Ogden  H.,  commissioner  from 
Wis.,  216. 

Fettrech,  Miss,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Few,  William,  U.  S.  senator  from  Ga.,  8, 
135,  232;  biographical  sketch  of,  71; 
portraits,  painted  by  Brandt  and  Ram- 
age,  facing  76;  member  of  federal  con- 
vention, 1787,  136  ;  notes  on  the  por- 
traits of,  144,  419,  422,  445. 

Few,  Mrs.  William,  portrait,  painted  by 
Ramagc,  facing  59  ;  notes  on  the  por- 
trait of,  422,  445. 

Ficht,  C.  O.,  escort  to  president  Harrison, 
222. 

Fiction,  represented  in  tableau,  civic 
parade,  395. 

Field,  Cyrus  W.,  at  reception  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  232,  245;  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  264;  at  banquet,  360. 

Field,  Mrs.  Dudley,  at  centennial  ball, 
261. 


Field,  Edward,  U.  S.  army,  at  military 
parade,  320. 

Field,  Edward  M.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264;  at  banquet,  358. 

Field,  George  S. ,  chief  of  engineers, 
N.  Y.,  242;  at  banquet,  358. 

Field,  Rev.  Henry  M.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  245. 

Field,  Isaac  N.,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 223. 

Field,  Mary,  mentioned,  517. 

Field,  Osgood,  portraits  of  Samuel  Osgood 
and  wife,  property  of,  517. 

Field,  Robert,  artist,  portrait  of  Charles 
Carroll,  facing  97;  number  of  congress- 
men, painted  by,  419;  notes  on  his  por- 
traits of  Carroll,  421,  433  ;  Jefferson, 
485;  Washington,  143,  542,  544;  Martha 
Washington,  549. 

Field,  Stephen  J.,  associate-justice  U.  S. 
supreme  court,  portrait,  facing  190,  234; 
at  naval  parade,  200,  219,  225;  at  recep- 
tion to  president  Harrison,  227  ;  at  cen- 
tennial ball,  257,  259;  at  literary  exer- 
cises, 285;  at  military  parade,  317;  at 
banquet,  359;  reception  to,  402. 

Field,  Mrs.  Stephen  J.,  at  centennial  ball, 
259- 

Fifer,  Joseph  W.,  governor  of  111.,  233; 
not  present  at  military  parade,  343  ;  at 
celebration,  Chicago,  405. 

Fifth  Avenue  hotel,  N.  Y.  city,  citizens' 
committee  meet  at,  104  ;  army  com- 
mittee headquarters,  120;  committee  on 
states  give  reception  to  governors  and 
commissioners,  217. 

Filleul,  Madame  C,  artist,  her  portrait  of 
Benjamin  Franklin,  460. 

Fina,  Donato,  at  civic  parade,  392. 

Finance  committee,  see  committees. 

Finch,  Francis  M.,  associate-judge  court 
of  appeals,  N.  Y.,  243. 

Finch.  James  W.,  twenty-second  N.  Y. 
regiment  at  military  parade,  335. 

Finkelmeier,  Louis,  colonel  thirty-second 
N.  Y.  regiment,  at  military  parade,  337. 

Finkelmeier,  William,  thirty-second  N.  Y. 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  337. 

Finlay,  George  F.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264. 

F'inn,  John  J.,  Farnham  post,  G.  A.  R., 
at  military  parade,  345. 

Finn,  Myer,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
264. 

Fire  Insurance,  representatives  of,  invited 
to  meet  president  Harrison,  246. 

Firemen,  at  civic  parade,  388;  view  of, 
389- 

Firestone,  Clinton  D.,  commissioner  from 
Ohio,  216. 

Fireworks  Display,  April  30,  1789,  at 
Bowling  Green,  45,  47,  49,  56,  57. 

— —  April  30,  1889,  at  Bowling  Green, 
Tompkins  square,  Abingdon  square, 
Madison  square,  Eighty-sixth  street 
and  Avenue  A,  Twenty-third  ward, 
Paradise  Park,  Washington  square, 
Central  Park  plaza,  Mount  Morris 
square,  Washington  Heights,  Twenty- 
fourth   ward,    Battery    park,  Union 


square,  Canal  street,  Fulton  Avenue 
park,  and  East  River  park,  352,  353. 

First  National  Bank,  subscriber  to  cele- 
bration, 400. 

Fish,  Ferdinand,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Fish,  Hamilton,  acknowledgment  to,  in 
preface,  vi  ;  bust  of  Washington,  by 
Houdon,  property  of,  1,  45,  542  ;  por- 
trait of  co'.onel  Nicholas  Fish,  property 
of,  facing  41,  144,  446  ;  president  of 
general  committee,  107,  108,  ill,  112, 
114,  116,  119,  127,  142,  178,  191,  192, 
203,  219,  225,  228,  234,  236,  249,  285, 
290,  316;  his  aide,  120,  219;  medal 
worn  by,  121  ;  president-general  of  the 
society  of  the  Cincinnati,  150,  159,  177  ; 
representative  of  the  society  of  the  Cin- 
cinnati at  celebration,  177  ;  receives 
president  Harrison  at  foot  of  Wall 
street,  204,  219 ;  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  225  ;  at  reception,  lawyers' 
club,  227,  229  ;  presides  at  banquet  to 
president  Harrison,  234  ;  portrait,  fac- 
ing 234  ;  guest  of  Stuyvesant  Fish,  257; 
at  centennial  ball,  260  ;  subscriber  to 
ball,  264  ;  remarks  at  literary  exercises, 
290;  at  military  parade,  316;  at  ban- 
quet, metropolitan  opera-house,  356  ; 
subscriber  to  celebration,  400  ;  sub- 
scriber to  memorial  arch,  413  ;  busts  of 
Hamilton,  property  of,  473. 

Fish,  Hamilton,  Jr.,  member  of  assem- 
bly, N.  Y.,  at  reception  to  president 
Harrison,  232,  243  ;  at  banquet,  359. 

Fish,  Mrs.  Hamilton,  Jr.,  at  centennial 
ball,  261. 

Fish,  Henry  L.,  Jr.,  seventy-fourth  N.  Y. 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  339. 

Fish,  Latham  A.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Fish,  Miss,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 

Fish,  Col.  Nicholas,  escort  to  Washing- 
ton, 28,  41  ;  portraits,  painted  by  In- 
man,  Malbone  and  Trumbull,  facing 
41  ;  his  services,  41,  note,  177  ;  mural 
tablet  in  memory  of,  41,  note  ;  at  inau- 
guration of  Washington,  2S5,  note  ; 
notes  on  the  portraits  of,  144,  421,  422, 
446. 

Fish,  Nicholas,  at  reception  to  president 
Harrison,  232,  245  ;  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  264  ;  at  literary  exercises, 
285,  289  ;  vice-chairman  of  platform 
committee,  306,  30S,  309;  aide  to  grand- 
marshal,  military  parade,  320  ;  at  ban- 
quet, 361. 

Fish,  Mrs.  Nicholas,  at  centennial  ball, 
261. 

Fish,  Stuyvesant,  member  of  citizens'  com- 
mittee, 105  ;  of  general  committee,  107, 
114, 236;  executive  committee,  108;  chair- 
man of  committee  on  entertainment, 
109,  113,  116,  181,  236,  256,  258  ;  ap- 
plies for  appropriation,  reports  the  date 
of  holding  the  centennial  ball  and  ban- 
quet, 117  ;  his  aides,  120,  181  ;  at  ban- 
quet to  president  Harrison,  234  ;  enter- 
tains president  Harrison  and  guests, 
257  ;  at  centennial  ball,  259,  260  ;  sub- 


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589 


scriberto  ball,  264;  at  literary  exercises. 
289  ;  escort  to  vice-president  Morton, 
355  ;  at  banquet,  metropolitan  opera- 
house,  356,  359  ;  subscriber  to  celebra- 
tion, 400. 

Fisher,  Alexander  J. ,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  222. 

Fisher,  Benedict,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Fisher,  Edward,  engraver  of  portrait  of 
Franklin,  457. 

Fisher,  George  E.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  221. 

Fisher,  George  P.,  at  banquet,  360. 

Fisher,  H.  C,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 223. 

Fisher,  Irving  R.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264. 

Fisher,  Nathaniel  C,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264. 

Fisher,  William  R.,  portrait  of  George 
Read,  property  of,  facing  67,  145,  522. 

Fisk,  Charles  J.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264. 

Fisk,  Harvey,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  245. 

Fisk,  Willard  C,  aide  to  grand-marshal, 
military  parade,  320. 

Fiske,  Joseph  W.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Fiske,  Josiah  M.,  member  of  committee 
of  chamber  of  commerce,  106  ;  of  gen- 
eral committee,  107,  114,  236  ;  of  com- 
mittee on  railroads  and  transportation, 
109,  113,  236  ;  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  246  ;  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264  ;  at  banquet,  361  ;  subscriber 
to  celebration  and  memorial  arch,  400. 
414. 

Fiston,  F.  Albert,  escort  to  president 

Harrison,  223. 
Fitch,  Ashbel  P.,  member  of  congress 

from  N.  Y.,  242. 
Fitch,  Benjamin,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  264. 

Fitch,  Francis  E.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Fitch.  John,  member  of  New  Jersey  soci- 
ety of  the  Cincinnati,  150  ;  address  at 
commemorative  banquet,  161  ;  his 
death.  161. 

Fitch,  William  E.,  tenth  battalion,  N.  Y., 
at  military  parade,  337. 

Fitchtel,  Martha  Z.,  delegate  from  Nor- 
mal college,  reception  to  president  Har- 
rison, city  hall,  237. 

Fitler,  E.  H.,  at  banquet,  360. 

Fitts,  Leander,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  242. 

Fitz,  A.,  second  corps  cadets,  Boston,  at 
military  parade.  329. 

Fitzgerald,  Miss  C,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264. 

Fitzgerald,  Frank  J.,  member  of  congress 
from  N.  Y.,  241. 

Fitzgerald,  Frank  T.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  264. 

Fitzgerald,  Lawrence  J.,  treasurer  N.  Y. 
state,  242;  at  banquet,  359. 

Fitzgerald,  Gen.  Louis,  member  of  general 


committee,  108,  114,  236;  executive 
committee,  108;  committee  on  finance, 
109,  113,  236,  398;  treasurer  of  finance 
committee,  398;  at  reception  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  232;  at  centennial  ball, 
258;  subscriber  to  ball,  264;  brigadier- 
general,  first  brigade,  N.  Y.,  at  military 
parade,  334;  portrait,  336;  at  banquet, 
356,  35S;  report  of,  as  treasurer  of  cen- 
tennial committee,  399;  subscriber  to 
celebration,  401;  vice-chairman  me- 
morial arch  committee,  408,  409;  at 
laying  of  corner-stone,  memorial  arch, 
409;  subscriber  to  arch,  414. 

Fitzherbert,  Mr.,  mentioned,  481. 

Fitzpatrick,  Jeremiah,  in  command  of 
Holy  Name  societies,  civic  parade,  397. 

Fitzpatrick,  Thomas,  McClellan  post, 
G.  A.  R.,  escort  to  president  Harrison, 
221:  at  military  parade,  345. 

Fitzsimmons.  T.  C. ,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264. 

Fitzsimons,  James  M.,  alderman,  243; 
at  banquet,  359. 

Fitzsimons,  Thomas,  member  of  con- 
gress from  Pa.,  37,  136,  232;  biographi- 
cal sketch  of,  64;  member  of  federal 
convention,  1787,  136;  no  portrait  of, 
4t8,  446. 

Fitzwilson,  George  H.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  264. 

Flack,  James  A.,  sheriff,  N.  Y.,  243;  at 
banquet,  359. 

Flag  Manufacturers,  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison.  247. 

Flagg,  G.  W.,  artist,  his  portrait  of  gen. 
David  Humphreys,  475. 

Flagg,  John  H.,  member  of  citizens'  com- 
mittee, 103. 

Flaherty,  James,  driver  of  president's 
coach,  225. 

Flaherty,  M.  H.,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  242. 

Flanagan.  James,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264. 

Flanagan,  W.  C,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Flandrau,  Charles  E.,  portrait  of  Alex- 
ander Macomb,  property  of,  facing  51, 
502. 

Flandrau,  Thomas  M.,  the  portraits  of 

Alexander  Macomb  and  wife,  property 

of,  facing  51,  502. 
Flannery,  J.  T.,  ninth  Pa.  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  324. 
Flatbush,  N.  Y.,  firemen,  at  civic  parade, 

389. 

Fleming,  Charles  L.,  escort  to  president 

Harrison,  223. 
Fleming,  Francis  P.,  governor  of  Fla., 

233;  invited  to  centennial  ball,  257:  at 

military  parade,  344. 
Fleming,  James  E.,  escort  to  president 

Harrison,  221. 
Fleming,  John   S.,   portrait  of  Patrick 

Henry,  property  of,  474. 
Fletcher,  Thomas,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 
Flick,  Frederick  H.,  colonel  fifth  Ohio 

regiment,  at  military  parade,  342. 


Fliess,  William  M.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Fling,  A.  E.,  escort  to  president  Harrison, 
221. 

Flint,  Austin,  Jr.,  M.  D.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  244. 

Flint,  C.  R.,  at  banquet,  358. 

Flint,  Charles  R.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245,  248. 

Flood,  Thomas  S.,  member  of  congress 
from  N.  Y.,  242. 

Florence,  William  J.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  244. 

Florida,  commissioners  from,  215,  233; 
admitted  into  the  union,  233;  troops  at 
military  parade,  344,  346. 

Florida- Klanca,  Count,  mentioned,  33, 
note,  46,  note. 

Flour  Merchants,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Flournoy,  S.  L.,  commissioner  from  West 
Va.,  216;  notes  on  the  portrait  of  Alex- 
ander White,  549. 

Flower,  Anson  R.,  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Flower,  Roswell  P.,  member  of  congress 
from  N.  Y. ,  241 ;  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Floyd,  David  G.,  portrait  of  William 
Floyd,  property  of,  447. 

Floyd,  John  G.,  portrait  of  William  Floyd, 
property  of.  facing  123,  446. 

Floyd,  Nicoll,  mentioned,  89. 

Floyd,  Nicoll,  Jr.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264. 

Floyd,  William,  member  of  congress  from 
N.  Y.,  37,  135,  232;  biographical  sketch 
of,  89;  portraits,  painted  by  Earle,  and 
Trumbull,  facing  123;  notes  on  the 
portraits  of,  421,  422,  446;  residence, 
mentioned,  525. 

Floyd-Jones,  De  Lancey,  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  224. 

Floyd-Jones,  George  S.,  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  224;  at  banquet,  358. 

Floyd-Jones,  Sarah,  at  centennial  ball, 
261. 

Flushing,  N.  Y.,  seventeenth  separate 
company,  at  military  parade,  337. 

Fly  Market,  N.  Y.  city,  mentioned,  31; 
illuminated  on  the  evening  of  Washing- 
ton's inauguration,  56. 

Flynn,  Cornelius,  alderman,  243. 

Foellger,  John,  first  Ohio  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  342. 

Fogg,  W.  W.,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 223. 

Foley,  [.,  escort  to  president  Harrison, 
222. 

Foley,  John,  state  senator,  N.  Y.,  242; 

subscriber  to  centennial  ball,  264. 
Foley,  John  R.,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  264. 

Foley,  Mrs.  John  R.,  at  centennial  ball. 
262. 

Foley,  Mrs.  K.,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 
Follett,  David  L.,  chief  judge,  court  of 

appeals,  N.  Y.,  243. 
Follett,  George,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  264. 


THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


Fohvell,  S.,   the  silhouette  of  George 

Washington  by,  543. 
Foote,  Emerson,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  264. 

Forakcr,  Joseph  R.,  governor  of  Ohio, 
214,  233  ;  at  reception  to  president 
Harrison,  241;  at  centennial  ball,  257; 
at  military  parade,  341  ;  at  banquet, 

359- 

Forbes,  W.  G.,  silversmith,  N.  Y.  city, 
1789,  54,  note. 

Forbes,  Rev.  Jesse  F.,  favors  holding  re- 
ligious services  April  30,  1889,  123. 

Ford,  Charles  A.,  commissioner  from  Vt. , 
216. 

Ford,  Frank  F.,  fourteenth  Ohio  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  342. 

Ford,  Gordon  L.,  acknowledgment  to,  in 
preface,  vi;  illustrations  from  the  col- 
lection of,  2;  portrait  of  George  Clin- 
ton, property  of,  facing  34,  144,  439; 
secretary  of  citizens'  committee,  104, 
105;  member  of  general  committee,  108, 
114,  236;  of  committee  on  exhibition, 
109;  art  committee,  113,  236,  409;  vice- 
chairman  of  art  committee,  117,  131, 
I33i  :34>  J42;  recommends  change  of 
name  of  art  committee,  132,  133;  sub- 
scriber to  centennial  ball,  264;  at  ban- 
quet, 361;  member  of  memorial  arch 
committee,  409;  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Ford,  J.  Henry,  police  justice,  243. 

Ford,  J.  N.,  escort  to  president  Harrison, 
222. 

Ford,  J.  W.  A.,  colonel  second  West  Va. 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  344. 

Ford,  Patrick,  at  literary  exercises,  289. 

Ford,  Paul  Leicester,  acknowledgment 
to,  in  preface,  vi;  biographical  sketches 
of  the  members  of  the  first  congress, 
61;  corrected  list  of  members  of  the 
federal  convention,  1787,  136;  invited 
to  meet  president  Harrison,  244 ;  at  ban- 
quet, 360;  notes  on  the  portraits  of 
Franklin,  448,  453,  458,  459,  484;  major 
Hamilton,  471;  Madison,  507;  Mifflin, 
509. 

Ford,  Robert  O.  N.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Ford,  Thomas  W.,  fourth  111.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  343. 

Ford,  William  H.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224, 

Ford,  William  L.,  subscriber  to  centen 
nial  ball,  264. 

Ford,  Worthington  C,  mentioned,  497, 
note;  504. 

Fordyce,  Robert  II.,  first  battalion,  N.  J., 
at  military  parade,  327. 

Foreign  Consuls,  in  N.  Y.,  escort  to 
George  Washington,  43;  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  225  ;  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  248. 

Foreign  Ministers,  invited  to  centennial 
ball,  257. 

Forest,  Madame  de  la,  attends  assembly 

ball,  1789,  59. 
Foresters,  united  order  of,  at  civic  parade, 

387. 


Forget,  Augustin    I".,  invited   to  meet 

president  Harrison,  246. 
Forney,   Matthias  N.,    invited  to  meet 

president  Harrison,  245. 
Forrest,  J.  B.,  engraver  of  portraits  of 

Abraham  Baldwin,  and  George  Clinton, 

427.  439- 

Forster,  William,  at  reception  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  city  hall,  240;  subscriber 
to  centennial  ball,  264. 

Forsyth,  George  A.,  first  R.  I.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  340. 

Forsyth,  George  W.,  at  centennial  ball, 
261. 

Fort  George,  N.  Y.  city,  salute  fired  in 
honor  of  Washington,  41  ;  display  of 
fireworks  on  the  evening  of  Washing- 
ton's inauguration,  57. 

Fort  Lee,  N.  J.,  firemen,  at  civic  parade, 
389- 

Foster,  Abiel,  member  of  congress  from 
N.  H.,  82,  135,232;  biographical  sketch 
of,  82;  portrait,  painted  by  Trumbull, 
facing  105;  notes  on  the  portrait  of,  418, 
422,  447. 

Foster,  Capt.  Asa,  mentioned,  82. 

Foster,  Rev.  Benjamin,  pastor  of  Baptist 
church,  N.  Y.,  1789,  39,  note. 

Foster,  F.  De  Peyster,  at  banquet,  358; 
subscriber  to  memorial  arch,  414. 

Foster,  Giraud,  at  literary  exercises,  289. 

Foster,  Isaac,  surgeon  continental  army, 
283. 

Foster,  Jedediah,  mentioned,  93. 
Foster,    Mrs.  John    P.  C  portrait  of 
Washington,  property   of,  facing  10, 

143.  54i,  543- 

Foster,  Seymour,  portrait  of  Theodore 
Foster,  property  of,  facing  126,  447. 

Foster,  Theodore,  U.  S.  senator  from 
Rhode  Island,  93,  135  ;  biographical 
sketch  of,  93  ;  portraits,  facing  126 ; 
notes  on  the  portraits  of,  423,  447. 

Fovargue,  Daniel,  fifth  Ohio  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  342. 

Fowle,  Daniel  G. ,  governor  of  North 
Carolina,  214,  216,  233;  at  reception  to 
president  Harrison,  241;  at  centennial 
ball,  257  ;  at  literary  exercises,  289  ; 
portrait,  339;  at  military  parade,  339, 
340;  at  banquet,  358. 

Fowle,  Helen,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Fowler,  David  H.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Fowler,  George  B.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264. 

Fowler,  Mrs.  Milton  A.,  portrait  of  gen. 
Henry  Knox,  property  of,  facing  168, 
492. 

Fowler,  Thomas  P.,  escort  to  president 

1  larrison,  224. 
Fox,  Andrew  J.,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  264. 

Fox,  Austen  G. ,  at  banquet,  360;  at 
reception,  justices  U.  S.  supreme  court, 
402. 

Fox,  George  C,  seventy-fourth  N.  Y. 

regiment,  at  military  parade,  339. 
Fox,  George  H.,  M.  D.,  invited  to  meet 

president  Harrison,  244. 


Fox,  J.  C,  sixteenth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  325. 

Fox,  W.  L.,  fifth  Mass.  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  329. 

Foxton,  Mary,  delegate  from  public  school 
No.  43,  reception  of  president  Harrison, 
city  hall,  238. 

Fragonard,  Honore,  artist,  allegorical  por- 
trait of  Franklin,  painted  by,  460,  facing 
484. 

Frame,  Charles  P.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Francis,  A.  T.,  seventy-first  N.  Y.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  335. 

Francis,  C.  S.,  &  Co.,  publishers,  477, 
519. 

Francis,  David  R.,  governor  of  Mo.,  214, 
233;  at  reception  to  president  Harrison, 
241;  at  military  parade,  343;  at  banquet, 
359- 

Francis,  Rev.  Lewis,  at  literary  exercises, 
289. 

Francis,  Samuel  W.,  mentioned,  531. 
Francis,  Valentine  M.,  mentioned,  531. 
Francklyn,    Charles    G.,    subscriber  to 

memorial  arch,  414. 
Frankenberger  Maennerchor,  at  Madison 

square  concert,  350. 
Frankfort,  Ky.,  portrait  of  Lafayette  at, 

494. 

Franklin,  Benjamin,  mentioned,  19;  mem- 
ber of  federal  convention,  136 ;  por- 
traits of,  painted  by  Baricolo,  facing 
524;  Carmontelle,  484;  Chamberlain, 
444;  Champlain,  444;  Cochin,  484,  544; 
Duplessis,  424,  444,  464,  524;  Elmer, 
464;  Fragonard,  484;  Fulton,  444; Gains- 
borough, 464;  Greuze,  444,  464;  Janinet, 
524;  Leslie,  464;  McArdell  (engraving), 
484;  Martin,  424,  444;  C.  W.  Peale, 
424,  444;  Pratt,  484;  Thouron,  484,  544; 
Trumbull,  424;  unknown,  444,  464, 
484,  524,  544;  West,  31,  484;  notes  on 
portraits  of,  144,  421,  422,  423,  447, 
481;  sculpture,  bust  by  Ceracchi,  facing 
524;  Houdon,  61,  facing  524;  Nini,  484, 
544;  unknown,  484,  524. 

Franklin,  Hannah,  wife  of  George  Clin- 
ton. 517. 

Franklin  Institute,  Phila.,  portrait  of 
Benjamin  Franklin,  property  of,  461. 

Franklin,  John,  mentioned,  457. 

Franklin,  Martha,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  80,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

Franklin,  Sarah,  mentioned,  461. 

Franklin  Square,  N.  Y.  city,  view  of 
Washington's  residence,  34. 

Franklin,  William  Temple,  portrait  paint- 
ed by  West,  facing  31;  mentioned,  423, 
481  ;  owner  of  portrait  of  Benjamin 
Franklin,  451. 

Franks,  Lieut.  Col.  David  S.,  escort  to 
Washington,  41. 

Franzheim,  A.  A.,  commissioner  from 
West  Va.,  216. 

Fraser,  Gilbert,  vice-consul  of  Great 
Britain,  248. 

Fraser,  James,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  246. 


INDEX. 


59i 


Fraser,  John  W.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264. 

Fratellanza  Cabrellesse,  at  civic  parade, 
392. 

Fraunces's  Tavern,  N.  Y.  city,  views  of, 
41;  chamber  of  commerce,  organize  at, 
41,  note ;  Washington's  headquarters, 
41,  note;  Washington's  farewell  to  his 
officers  at,  41,  note ;  represented  in 
tableau,  civic  parade,  386,  396;  national 
society  sons  of  the  American  revolu- 
tion, organize  at,  402. 

Frazar,  Everett,  consul-general  of  Korea, 
24S;  at  literary  exercises,  289. 

Frazee,  John,  sculptor,  architect  of  N.  Y. 
custom-house,  286;  his  busts  of  John 

Jay.  483- 

Frazer,  James  L.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Fredericksburg,  Va.,  Washington  visits 
his  mother  at,  21. 

Freed,  John  A.,  Jr.,  fifth  Ohio  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  342. 

Freedman,  John  J.,  judge  superior  court, 
243;  at  banquet,  358;  at  reception,  jus- 
tices U.  S.  supreme  court,  402. 

Freeland,  Henry  L.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  222  ;  invited  to  meet  the 
president,  246. 

Freeland,  Laurence,  Morgan  post,  G.  A. 
R.,  escort  of  president  Harrison,  221; 
at  military  parade,  345. 

Freeman,  F.  P.,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to 
celebration,  401. 

Freeman,  George  D.,  colonel  fourteenth 
Ohio  regiment,  at  military  parade,  342. 

Freer,  Frederick  W..  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  244. 

Freight  Agents,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  246. 

Frein,  J.  H.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264. 

Fremont,  Gen.  John  C,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  248;  at  banquet, 
360 

French,  Charles  E.,  fifth  Mass.  regiment, 

at  military  parade,  329. 
French,  Francis  O.,  at  centennial  ball, 

261;  subscriber  to  ball,  264;  subscriber 

to  memorial  arch,  414. 
French,  Mrs.  George  B.,  at  centennial 

ball,  261. 

French,  S.  B.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264. 

French,  Seth  B.,  at  centennial  ball,  260; 
at  banquet,  356. 

French,  Stephen  B.,  police  commissioner, 
243;  at  banquet,  359. 

French,  Thomas  J.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  264. 

French,  W.  A.,  thirteenth  N.  Y.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  337. 

Freneau,  Philip,  captain  of  the  schooner 
Columbia,  decorates  his  vessel  on  the 
arrival  of  Washington  at  N.  Y.,  29,  note. 

Freund,  Major,  first  Hungarian  scheutzen 
bund,  at  civic  parade,  388. 

Friendship  Engine  Company  of  Sheeps- 
head,  L.  I.,  and  Alexandria,  Va.,  at 
civic  parade,  389. 


Fries,  H.  H..  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264. 

Frisby,  Rev.  W.  B.,  officiates  at  centennial 
celebration  services,  Boston,  403. 

Frissell,  Algernon  S.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  245. 

Frith,  John,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
264. 

Fritz  Reuter  Lyra,  at  Madison  square 

concert,  350. 
Frobel,  Frederick,  represented  in  tableau, 

civic  parade,  395. 
Frost,  D.  M.,  commissioner  from  Mo., 

216. 

Frost,  Isaac  T.,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  245. 

Frost,  R.,  fourth  Conn,  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  329. 

Frothingham,  Charles  F.,  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  264. 

Frothingham,  James,  artist,  his  portraits 
of  majors  Clarkson  and  Hamilton,  438, 
470. 

Frothingham,  James  H.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  246. 

Frothingham,  John  B.,  assistant  adjutant- 
general,  second  brigade,  N.  Y.,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  336. 

Frothingham,  Theodore  L.,  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  264. 

Fry,  Charles  M.,  member  of  citizens'  com- 
mittee, 103;  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  244. 

Fry,  George  G.,  usher  at  commemorative 
services  of  society  of  the  Cincinnati,  in 
St.  Paul's  chapel,  170;  at  centennial  ball, 
261. 

Frye,  M.  G.,  first  N.  H.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  333. 

Frye,  William  P.,  U.  S.  senator  from  Me., 
at  reception  to  president  Harrison,  241. 

Fteley,  Alphonse,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  244. 

Fuller,  George  W.,  Jr.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  245. 

Fuller,  Levi  K.,  commissioner  from  Vt., 
208,  213,216;  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 224;  at  military  parade,  341. 

Fuller  Light  Battery,  Vt  ,  at  military 
parade,  341. 

Fuller,  Melville  W.,  chief-justice  U.  S. 
supreme  court,  at  naval  parade,  200, 
219  ;  at  reception  to  president  Harri- 
son, 225,  227;  at  banquet  to  the  presi- 
dent, 234;  portrait,  facing  234;  at  cen- 
tennial ball,  257,  259;  at  literary 
exercises,  285;  at  military  parade,  317; 
at  banquet,  metropolitan  opera-house, 
355.  35°.  35§!  his  address  at  banquet, 
362,  369;  reception  to,  402. 

Fuller,  Mrs.  Melville  W.,  at  centennial 
ball,  259. 

Fuller,  Newell  J.,  fifth  Ohio  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  342. 

Fulton  Avenue  park,  N.  Y.  city,  display 
of  fireworks,  353. 

Fulton,  Mrs.  Henry,  portrait  of  Mrs. 
Ralph  Izard,  property  of,  facing  59,  478. 

Fulton,  Robert,  artist,  portrait  of  Ben- 
jamin Franklin,  facing  444;  notes  on  his 


portraits  of  Joel  Barlow,  144  ;  Abraham 
Baldwin,  419,  420,  427,  428  ;  Franklin, 
421,  458. 

Fulton,  Mrs.  Robert,  portrait  of  Walter 

Livingston,    painted   by,   facing  156; 

notes  on  portrait,  420,  421,  501. 
Funk,   Rev.   Isaac  K.,  invited  to  meet 

president  Harrison,  246. 
Funk,  John,  one  of  the  crew  of  the  barge 

which  conveyed  Washington  to  N.  Y., 

28,  note. 

Funk,  Nathaniel,  one  of  the  crew  of  the 
president's  barge  which  conveyed 
Washington  to  N.  Y.,  28,  note. 

Funston,  H.  M.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 222. 

Furman,  Mrs.  Gabriel,  portrait  of  William 

S.  Smith,  property  of,  facing  41.  528. 
Furman,  John  C,  aide  to  chairman  of 

committee  on  entertainment,  120;  at 

banquet,  359. 
Furman,  Maria,  at  reception  to  George 

Washington,  Trenton,  N.  J.,  1789,  26, 

note. 

Furniss,  S.  R.  C,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264. 

Fiirst,  Moritz,  engraver  of  portrait  of 
James  Monroe,  512. 

Fust,  Johann,  represented  in  tableau, 
civic  parade,  393. 

Furniture  trade,  representatives  invited 
to  meet  president  Harrison,  247. 

Furriers,  invited  to  meet  president  Harri- 
son, 247. 

Fury,  W.  H.,  commander  of  seventh 
division,  volunteer  firemen,  at  civic 
parade,  388. 

Gainsborough,  Thomas,  artist,  his  por 
traits  of  Benjamin  Franklin,  facing 
464;  of  Mrs.  Ralph  Izard,  facing  59; 
notes  on  the  portraits,  45O,  478. 

Gair,  T.  Gerald,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264. 

Gaither,  Charles  D.,  colonel  fifth  Md. 
regiment;  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
264;  at  military  parade,  330. 

Galbert,  Comte  de,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  248. 

Gale,  F.  A.,  ninth  N.  Y.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  335. 

Gale,  George,  member  of  congress  from 
Md.,  11,  135,  232;  biographical  sketch 
of,  78;  portraits,  facing  99;  notes  on 
the  portraits  of,  418,  423,  462. 

Gale,  Levin,  mentioned,  78. 

Gallatin,  Mrs.  Albert,  at  centennial  ball, 
261. 

Gallatin,  Frederic,  member  of  general 
committee,  108,  114,  236;  of  army  com- 
mittee, 109,  113,  236.  310,  317:  sub- 
scriber to  centennial  ball,  264;  receives 
president  Harrison,  at  grand  stand,  317; 
at  banquet,  361;  subscriber  to  celebra- 
tion, 400. 

Gallatin,  James,  portrait  of  commodore 
James  Nicholson,  painted  for,  516. 

Gallaudet,  Rev.  Thomas,  favors  holding 
religious  services  April  30,  1889,  123. 


II  IT  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


Gallaway,  Robert  M.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  264. 
Galle,  Josephine,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  21,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 
Galloway,  Joseph,  mentioned,  4,  note. 
Gallup,  Albert,  N.  Y.  signal  corps,  at 

military  parade,  334. 
Gallup,  C.  Van  Eversdyck,  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  224. 
Gallup,  William  II.,  member  of  assembly, 

N.  Y.,  242. 
Galveston,  Spanish   man-of-war,  salutes 
Washington  on  his  arrival  at  N.  Y., 
17S9,  29,  and  note  ;  30,  33,  50;  salutes 
in  honor  of  the  inauguration  of  Wash- 
ington, 46;  mentioned,  205. 
Gambier,  Amilie,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  47,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 
Gambrinus,  represented  in  tableau,  civic 

parade,  394. 
Ganzenmiiller,  Ida,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  25,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 
Gardiner,  Asa  Bird,  member  of  general 
committee,  108,  114,  236;  of  executive 
committee,  108;  chairman  of  committee 
on  navy,  109,  113,  181,  183,  189,  190, 
191,  236;  addresses  meeting  at  Phila., 
1888,  116;  his  aides,  120;  the  society 
of  the  Cincinnati  in  the  celebration 
by,  149;  secretary-general  of  the  soci- 
ety of  the  Cincinnati  and  member  of  R. 
I.  Cincinnati,  149,  150;  address  at  ban- 
quet of  the  society  of  the  Cincinnati, 
154;  representative  of  that  society  at 
celebration,  177;  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  183,  184,  199,  202,  219,  224; 
report  on  the  naval  parade,  and  land- 
ing of  president  Harrison,  189;  portrait, 
facing  1  go,  234;  address  of  welcome  to 
president  Harrison,  199;  at  reception 
and  banquet  to  president  Harrison,  232, 
234;  at  centennial  ball,  260;  subscriber  to 
ball,  264;  at  literary  exercises,  289;  at 
banquet,  metropolitan  opera-house,  356, 
361;  subscriber  to  celebration,  401;  the 
blue  ribbon  in  the  Peale  portrait  of 
Washington  described  by,  544. 
Gardiner,  George  N.,  usher  at  commem- 
orative services  of  society  of  the  Cin- 
cinnati in  St.  Paul's  chapel,  170;  escort 
to  president  Harrison,  224;  invited  to 
meet  the  president,  248. 
Gardiner,  Henry  P.,  escort  to  president 

Harrison,  223. 
Gardiner,  J.  Lyon,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264. 
Gardiner,  John,  member  of  congress  from 

Rhode  Island,  3. 
Gardiner,  John  L.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264. 
Gardner,  Isaac  S.,  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  247. 
Gardoqui,  Cesareo  de,  portrait  of  Don 
Diego  de  Gardoqui,  property  of,  facing 
46,  463  ;  letter  of,  respecting  the  por- 
trait, 463,  note. 
Gardoqui,  Don  Diego  de,  chargi d'affaires 


from  Spain,  32,  note  ;  his  plan  of  making 
Kentucky  an  independent  state,  32, 
note  ;  describes  the  arrival  and  recep- 
tion of  Washington,  at  N.  Y.,  33  ; 
escort  to  Washington,  43 ;  portrait, 
painted  by  Lucientes,  facing  46  ;  de- 
scribes inauguration  of  Washington,  46; 
display  of  fireworks  and  fete  at  his  res- 
idence, 47,  50,  57,  and  note;  notes  on 
the  portraits  of,  421,  463. 

Garfield,  James  A.,  mentioned,  225. 

Garfield,  Mrs.  James  A.,  portrait  of  Jeffer- 
son, property  of,  487,  note. 

Garibaldi  Legion,  at  civic  parade,  392. 

Garland,  Augustus  H.  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  248. 

Garland,  James  A.,  subscriber  to  memo- 
rial arch,  414. 

Garr,  Charles  F.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264. 

Garrard,  T.  T.,  commissioner  from  Ky., 
216. 

Garret,  James  S.,  eighteenth  separate 
company,  N.  Y.,  at  military  parade,  337. 

Garretson,  George,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  241,  250. 

Garretson,  George  A.,  Cleveland  troop,  at 
military  parade,  341. 

Garrettson,  Mary  R.,  mentioned,  500. 

Garrigue,  Rudolph,  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  246. 

Garrison,  A.,  escort  to  president  Harrison, 
222. 

Garrison,  William  D.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  264. 

Garver,  Luis  C,  third  Ohio  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  342. 

Gas-fitters,  at  civic  parade,  392. 

Gaskill,  Charles  B.,  forty-second  separate 
company,  N.  Y.,  at  military  parade, 

339- 

Gast,  Alexander,  sculptor,  his  statue  of 
Thomas  Jefferson,  489. 

Gates,  Gen.  Horatio,  his  country-seat  and 
town  residence,  3,  note  ;  major  Arm- 
strong's letter  to,  on  the  proposed  titles 
for  the  president  of  U.  S.,  39,  note  ; 
mentioned,  481. 

Gates,  Merrill  E.,  at  literary  exercises,  289. 

Gates,  Theodore  B.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  241,  251,  253. 

Gautier,  Josiah  H.,  subscriber  to  memo- 
rial arch,  413. 

Gawtry,  E.  Harrison,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Gay,  Frank  B.,  acknowledgment  to,  in 
preface,  vi. 

Gay,  Frederick  A.,  first  artillery,  Ohio, 
at  military  parade,  343. 

Gaylor,  Edward  F.,  colonel  forty-seventh 
N.  Y.  regiment,  at  military  parade,  337. 

Gaynor,  Annie,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  53,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

Gedney,  E.  E.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264. 

Gedney,  Frederick  G.,  escort  to  president 

Harrison,  224. 
Gedney,  William  H,,  member  of  general 

committee,  114,  236  ;  at  banquet,  360. 


Geer,  Frederic  M.,  escort  to  president 
I  larrison,  224. 

Geer,  Walter,  aide  to  chairman  of  com- 
mittee on  railroads  and  transportation, 
120. 

Geer,  Rev.  William  M.,  assistant  minister 
of  St.  Paul's  chapel,  officiates  at  com- 
memorative services  of  society  of  the 
Cincinnati,  171  ;  at  centennial  services, 
273. 

Gcissenhainer,  Jacob  A.,  invited  to  meet 

president  Harrison,  248. 
Geissinger,  J.  B.,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  264. 

Genadias,  Jean,  minister  from  Greece, 
invited  to  centennial  ball,  257. 

General  Government,  committee  on,  see 
committees. 

General  Society  of  mechanics  and  trades- 
men, represented  at  reception  to  pres- 
ident Harrison,  231. 

Genet,  E.  J.,  portraits  of  Samuel  Osgood 
and  wife,  property  of,  517. 

Genet,  George  Clinton,  portraits  of  Sam- 
uel Osgood  and  wife,  property  of,  facing 
51,  156,  145,  517;  member  of  commit- 
tee of  sons  of  the  revolution,  106  ;  of 
general  committee,  107,  114,  236;  escort 
to  president  Harrison,  224  ;  at  centen 
nial  ball,  261  ;  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264  ;  at  banquet,  360. 

Genet,  L.  Franklin,  portraits  of  George 
Clinton  and  wife,  property  of,  439. 

Geneva,  N.  Y.,  thirty-fourth  separate 
company,  at  military  parade,  339. 

George,  Anna  L.  W.,  portrait  of  Tris- 
tram Dalton,  property  of,  facing  89,  442. 

Georgetown,  Md.,  reception  to  Washing- 
ton at,  22. 

Georgia,  ratifies  the  constitution,  2;  repre- 
sentation of,  as  a  federal  pillar,  2  ;  bio- 
graphical sketches  of  representatives  in 
first  congress,  70 ;  portrait  of  James 
Jackson,  property  of  the  state,  facing 
76,  478  ;  list  of  representatives,  135, 
232  ;  members  of  federal  convention, 
1 787,  136  ;  governor  and  commissioners 
of,  at  celebration,  214,  215,  233  ;  ad- 
mitted into  the  union,  233  ;  governor 
of,  and  his  staff,  at  military  parade,  328, 
346 ;  represented  in  tableau,  civic  pa- 
rade, 387. 

Gepfert,  Theodore,  second  Pa.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  323. 

Geraghty,  W.  J.,  in  command  of  cloak 
and  suit  industry,  at  civic  parade,  392. 

Gerard,  James  N.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264. 

Gerard,  James  W.,  at  centennial  ball, 
260  ;  subscriber  to  ball,  264. 

Gerard,  Mrs.  James  W.,  at  centennial 
ball,  261. 

Gerardin,  B.  M.,  fourth  N.  J.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  327. 

Gerbig,  J.  C,  eighth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  324. 

Gerlach,  Charles  A.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264. 

Germain,  Mrs  George  P.,  at  centennial 
ball,  262. 


INDEX. 


593 


German  Landwehr-Verein,  at  civic  pa- 
rade, 393. 

German-American  citizens,  N.  Y.  city, 
place  thirty  floats  in  the  civic  parade, 
representing  the  influence  of  the  Ger- 
man element  in  the  development  of  the 
national  progress,  the  advancement  of 
art  and  science,  and  social  pleasure, 
393  ;  meeting  of,  organize,  officers  and 
committees,  393,  note. 

German-American  sharpshooters,  at  civic 
parade,  393. 

German  Catholic  societies,  at  civic  pa- 
rade, 395. 

German  Grenadiers,  organize  and  parade 
at  the  reception  to  Washington,  at 
N.  Y.,  17S9,  32,  note  ;  escort  to  Wash- 
ington, 43  ;  uniform  of,  43. 

German  Opera,  represented  in  tableau, 
civic  parade,  394. 

German  Reformed  church,  N.  Y.  city, 
1789,  39,  note. 

German  Singing  societies,  at  Madison 
square  concert,  350. 

German  Society,  represented  at  reception 
to  president  Harrison,  231,  247. 

German  Tableaux,  civic  parade,  repre- 
senting the  influence  of  the  German 
element  in  the  development  of  the 
national  progress,  the  advancement  of 
art  and  science,  and  social  pleasure, 
393- 

German  Tradesmen,  at  civic  parade,  395. 
German  Washington  rifles,  at  civic  pa- 
rade, 393. 

Germania,  represented  in  tableau,  civic 

parade,  395. 
Germania  Singing  society,  at  Madison 

square  concert,  350  ;  at  civic  parade, 

393- 

Gerry,  Allston,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 224. 

Geny,  Elbridge,  member  of  congress, 
from  Mass.,  8,  135,  232  ;  portraits, 
painted  by  Ramage,  Trumbull,  and 
Vanderlyn,  facing  92  ;  biographical 
sketch  of,  74  ;  member  of  federal 
convention,  17S7,  136  ;  extract  from 
address  of,  291,  note  ;  notes  on  the 
portraits  of,  418,  422,  423,  441,  463  ; 
mentioned,  511. 

Gerry,  Mrs.  Elbridge,  portraits,  painted 
by  Ramage,  and  unknown,  facing  59  ; 
attends  assembly  ball,  17S9.  59  ;  notes 
on  the  portraits,  422,  423,  441,  464. 

Gerry,  Elbridge  T..  acknowledgment  to, 
in  preface,  vi ;  portraits  of  Elbridge 
Gerry  and  wife,  property  of,  facing  59, 
92,  463,  464;  member  of  citizens'  com- 
mittee, 103,  105  ;  of  sons  of  the  revo- 
lution, 106  ;  of  general  committee,  107, 
114,  236  ;  chairman  of  executive  com- 
mittee, 10S,  in,  112,  116,  117,  119, 
134,  142,  17S,  191,  206,  207,  218,  219, 
228,  234,  236,  249,  270,  316.  397  ;  medal 
worn  by,  121;  chairman  of  committee 
on  literary  exercises,  109,  113,  236,  285, 
286,  288,  290 ;  attends  legislature  at 
Albany,  118  ;  member  of  committee  on 
the  press,  119,  264  ;  appoints  sub-com- 
76 


mittees  and  aides,  120  ;  his  aides,  120  ; 
addresses  meeting  of  clergymen,  123  ; 
at  naval  parade,  198  ;  receives  presi- 
dent Harrison  at  foot  of  Wall  street, 
204  ;  at  meeting  of  commissioners  of 
states  and  territories,  207,  208  ;  escort 
to  president  Harrison,  224,  225,  236  ; 
at  reception,  lawyers'  club,  227  ;  at  ban- 
quet to  president  Harrison,  234  ;  por- 
trait, facing  234 ;  at  reception,  city 
hall,  23S,  240,  241  ;  guest  of  Stuyve- 
sant  Fish,  257  ;  at  centennial  ball, 
260  ;  subscriber  to  ball,  263  ;  address 
at  literary  exercises,  290 ;  at  military 
parade,  316  ;  escort  to  governor  Hill  at 
banquet,  355  ;  at  banquet,  metropolitan 
opera  house,  356,  358  ;  subscriber  to 
celebration,  400;  at  reception  to  jus- 
tices U.  S.  supreme  court,  402  ;  sub- 
scriber to  memorial  arch,  414. 
Gerry.  Mrs.  Elbridge  T.,  guest  of  Stuy- 
vesant  Fish,  257  ;  at  centennial  ball, 
258,  261. 

Gerry,  Emily  L.,  portraits  of  Elbridge 
Gerry,  property  of,  facing  92,  463. 

Gerry,  Thomas,  mentioned,  74. 

Gerry,  Thomas  R.,  note  on  the  portrait 
of,  464. 

Gessler,  Rev.  Theodore  A.  K.,  favors 
holding  religious  services,  April  30, 
1889,  123. 

Getz,  Albert,  fourteenth  Ohio  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  342. 

Gherst,  M.  A.,  assistant  adjutant-general, 
third  brigade  Pa.  troops,  at  military 
parade,  324. 

Ghormley,  William,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264. 

Giacomo,  Carione,  at  civic  parade,  392. 

Gibbons,  Henry  B..  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264. 

Gibbons,  John  J.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264. 

Gibbs,  Frederick  S.,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  242. 

Gibbs,  George,  portraits  of  the  first  five 
presidents  of  U.  S.,  painted  for,  9S,  484, 
545- 

Gibbs,  Laura  W.,  portrait  of  Hamilton, 
painted  by,  470  ;  portraits  of  the  first 
five  presidents  of  U.  S.,  property  of, 
484. 

Gibbs,  Theodore  K.,  at   banquet,  358  ; 

subscriber  to  celebration  and  memorial 

arch,  401,  414. 
Gibney,    Elizabeth    A.,    delegate  from 

public    school   \:o.    52,    reception  of 

president  Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 
Gibson.  Charles  H.,  at  banquet,  359. 
Gibson,    Eustace,    commissioner  from 

West  Va. ,  216. 
Gibson,  George  R.,  escort  to  president 

Harrison,    224  ;   invited   to  meet  the 

president,  245;  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  264. 

Gibson,  Horatio  G.,  U.  S.  army,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  320. 

Gibson,  Mrs.  James,  mentioned.  549. 

Gibson,  James  R.,  Jr.,  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  224 


Gibson,  Robert  R.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Gibson,  Walter  C,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264. 

Gibson,  Wood,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  247. 

Giffing,  John  C,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  222. 

Gihon,  Albert  L.,  medical  director,  U.  S. 
navy,  248. 

Gilbert,  D.  W.,  escort  to  president  Harri 
son,  221. 

Gilbert,  Frederick,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264. 

Gilbreath,  Erasmus  C,  U.  S.  army,  at 
military  parade,  320. 

Gilbert,  Jasper  W.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  244. 

Gilbert,  John,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  244. 

Gilbert,  William  W.,  alderman,  N.  Y. 
city,  1789,  136,  229. 

Gilchrist,  Albert  W.,  commissioner  from 
Florida,  215  ;  aide  to  grand-marshal, 
military  parade,  320. 

Gilchrist,  R.  C,  first  battalion,  S.  C,  at 
military  parade,  331. 

Gilder,  Richard  W.,  acknowledgment  to, 
in    preface,    vi;    member  of  citizens' 
committee,  104,  of  general  committee, 
108,  114,  236;  secretary  of  art  com 
mittee,  109,  113,  117,  132,  134,  142,  236, 

407,  409;  addresses  meeting  at  Phila., 
1888,  116,  132;  at  centennial  ball,  261  ; 
subscriber  to  ball,  264;  at  banquet,  361; 
subscriber  to  celebration,  401  ;  the 
Washington  memorial  arch,  407,  secre- 
tary memorial  arch  committee,  407, 

408,  409;  portrait,  413;  subscriber  to 
memorial  arch,  414. 

Gildersleeve,  Henry  A.,  judge  general 
sessions,  N.  Y.,  243;  at  banquet,  359. 

Giles,  Nancy  B.,  wife  of  William  Overton, 
465. 

Giles,  Thomas  T.,  mentioned,  465 
Giles,  William  Branch,  representative  in 
congress  from  Va.,  84,  136;  biographi- 
cal sketch,  84  ;  portraits,  painted  by 
Harding,  Stuart  and  unknown,  facing 
112;  notes  on  the  portraits  of,  418,  421, 
422,  423,  464. 
Giles,  William  O..  at  commemorative 
banquet,  society  of  the  Cincinnati,  150. 
invited  to  meet  president  Harrison, 
248. 

Gill,  W.  Fearing,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264  ;  portrait  of  Martha  Washing- 
ton, property  of,  548. 

Gillam,  Bernhard.  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Gillespie,  Elizabeth  D.,  portrait  of  Frank- 
lin, property  of,  facing  444,  451. 

Gillespie,  George  L. ,  U.  S.  army,  248. 

Gilliam,  W.  C,  subscriber  to  centennia'1 
ball,  264. 

Gilligan,  James,  alderman,  243. 

Gillispie,  G.  J.,  Jr. .  third  Pa.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  324. 

Oilman,  Arthur,  at  banquet,  358. 

Oilman,  Daniel  C,  at  banquet,  360. 


594        THli  CJiNTHNNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


Gilman,  Edward  II.,  portrait  of  Nicholas 
Gilman,  property  of,  facing  105,  467. 

Gilman,  George  F.,  subscriber  to  Wall 
street  arch,  253. 

Gilman,  John  G. ,  portrait  of  Nicholas 
Oilman,  property  of,  facing  105,  467. 

Oilman,  Nicholas,  Sr.,  mentioned,  82, 

Gilman,  Nicholas,  member  of  congress 
from  N.  II.,  11,  135,  232;  biographical 
sketch,  82;  portraits,  facing  105;  mem- 
ber of  federal  convention,  1787,  136; 
notes  on  the  portraits  of,  418,  423,  466. 

Gilmor,  Robert,  art  collector,  435  and  note. 

Gilmore,  Patrick  S. ,  director  of  music, 
at  literary  exercises,  286. 

Gilroy,  Thomas  F.,  deputy  sheriff,  N.  Y., 
243;  at  banquet,  358. 

Gimbrede,  Thomas,  engraver  of  portrait 
of  Thomas  Jefferson,  489. 

GittingS,  John  S.,  at  commemorative 
banquet,  society  of  the  Cincinnati,  151. 

(liven,  Robert,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 221. 

Gladwin,  Mrs.  Dr.,  at  centennial  ball,  2C2. 
Glassford,  Henry  A.,  of  the  loyal  legion, 
253. 

Glenn,  James  D.,  adjutant-general,  N.  C, 

at  military  parade,  340;  at  banquet,  358. 
Glens  Falls,  N.  Y.,  eighteenth  separate 

company,  at  military  parade,  337. 
Glover,  Mrs.  Francis  Livingston,  bust  of 

Washington,  property  of,  145. 
Glover,  Henry  S.,  at  centennial  ball,  261; 

subscriber  to  ball,  264. 
Glover,  R.,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 

264. 

Gobin,  J.  P.  S.,  brigadier-general  third 
brigade  Pa.  troops,  military  parade,  324. 

(ioddard,  E.  Ely,  subscriber  to  centen 
nial  ball,  264. 

(ioddard,  Mrs.  E.  Ely,  at  centennial  ball, 
261. 

Goddard,  William,  at  banquet,  360. 
Godfrey,  Mrs.  Charles,  at  centennial  ball, 
262. 

Godfrey,  Miss  E.,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Godfrey,  Miss,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Godfrey,  William  H.,  escort  to  president 
I  Iarrison,  223. 

Godkin,  Edwin  L.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245;  at  banquet,  360. 

Godwin,  Cortlandt,  captain  of  King's 
Bridge  cadet  corps,  at  civic  parade,  386. 

Godwin,  Harold,  aide  to  chairman  of 
committee  on  art  and  exhibition,  120. 

Godwin,  Mrs.  Harold,  at  centennial  ball, 
261. 

Godwin,  Nora,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 

Godwin,  Parke,  invited  to  meet  president 
I  Iarrison,  245. 

Goeggelman,  Sophie,  of  choir,  St.  Paul's 
chapel,  271. 

Goelet,  Ogden,  member  of  committee  on 
navy,  112,  113,  189,  190,  191,  236;  of 
general  committee,  1 14,  236;  portrait, 
facing  190,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 199,  200;  at  centennial  ball,  260; 
subscriber  to  ball,  264;  at  banquet,  356, 
361;  subscriber  to  celebration  and 
memorial  arch,  4(x>,  413. 


Goelet,  Mrs.  Ogden,  at  centennial  ball. 
261. 

Goelet,  Robert,  member  of  committee  on 
entertainment,  112,  113,  236,  256;  of 
general  committee,  114,  236;  guest  of 
Stuyvesant  Fish,  257;  at  centennial 
ball,  260;  subscriber  to  ball,  264;  at 
banquet,  356,  359;  subscriber  to  cele- 
bration and  memorial  arch,  400,  413. 

Goelet,  Mrs.  Robert,  guest  of  Stuyvesant 
Fish,  257;  at  centennial  ball,  261. 

Goepcl,  Paul,  member  of  committee  Ger- 
man-American citizens,  393,  note. 

Goetz,  Christian,  alderman,  243. 

Goetz,  Dorothea,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  29,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

Goff  Guards,  West  Va. ,  at  military  pa- 
rade, 344. 

Goff,  W.  H.,  fifih  Mass.  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  329. 

Gold-beating  industry,  represented,  civic 
parade,  396. 

Goldberg,  S.,  at  banquet,  358. 

Goldfogle,  Henry  M.,  district  court  jus- 
tice, 243. 

Golding,  John  N.,  aide  to  grand-marshal, 

military  parade,  320. 
Goldsborough,  Mrs.  George  R.,  portrait 

of  James  Monroe,  property  of,  facing 

106,  510. 

Goldsborough,  W.  L.,  fifth  Md.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  330. 

Gonzales,  Antonio,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264. 

Goodhue,  Benjamin,  Sr.,  mentioned,  75. 

Goodhue,  Benjamin,  member  of  congress 
from  Mass.,  11,  135,  232;  biographical 
sketch  of,  75  ;  portrait,  painted  by 
Wright,  facing  91  ;  notes  on  the  por- 
traits of,  423,  467. 

Goodier,  L.  E.,  forty-fourth  separate  com- 
pany, N.  Y.,  at  military  parade,  338. 

Goodman,  R.  F.,  seventh  N.  J.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  326. 

Goodrich,  Elam  I.,  chief  of  staff,  G.  A.  R., 
at  military  parade,  345. 

Goodridge,  Frederick,  subscriber  to 
memorial  arch,  414. 

Goodridge,  L.  O.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Goodridge,  Sarah,  artist,  her  portrait  of 
Gilbert  Stuart,  99;  notes  on  the  portrait 
of  Stuart  painted  by,  145,  420,  421,  531. 

Goodwin,  Frederick  A.,  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  223. 

Goold,  Clarence  W.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Gordon,  Caro  L.,  at  centennial  ball,  260. 

Gordon,  Hugh,  at  centennial  ball,  260. 

Gordon,  John  B.,  governor  of  Ga.,  21a, 
233;  at  reception  to  president  Harrison, 
241;  at  centennial  ball,  257,  260;  sub- 
scriber to  ball,  264;  at  military  parade, 
328;  portrait,  328;  at  banquet,  359. 

Gordon,  Mrs.  John  B.,  at  centennial  ball, 
260. 

Gore,  Christopher,  mentioned,  491,  note. 
Gorham  Manufacturing  Co.,  signs  call  for 
citizens'  committee,  104;  subscribes  to 


celebration,  and  memorial  arch,  400, 
414. 

Gorham,  Nathaniel,  member  of  Massa 
chusetts  convention,  2;  of  federal  con- 
vention, 1787,  136. 

Gorman,  John  J.,  police  justice,  243. 

Goss,  W.  D.,  seventy-first  N.  Y.  regi 
ment,  at  military  parade,  336. 

Gossler,  Oustav  H.,  vice-consul  of  Brazil, 
248. 

Gotthiel,  Rev.  Gustav,  favors  holding 
religious  services  April  30,  1889,  123; 
of  committee  of  clergymen,  124,  125, 
invited  to  meet  president  Harrison,  244, 
at  banquet,  359. 

Gouch,  W.  T. ,  seventy-fit st  N.  Y.  regi 
ment,  at  military  parade,  336. 

Gould,  George  W. ,  assistant  adjutant-gen- 
eral, N.  H  ,  at  military  parade,  332. 

Gould,  Jay,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  245. 

Gould,  R.  S.,  Jr.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 222. 

Gourlie,  Isabel  L.,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  50,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

Gouverneur,  Mary  I).,  the  Vanderlyn 
portrait  of  |ames  Monroe,  511. 

Gouverneur,  Samuel  L.,  mentioned,  486. 

Gouverneur,  Mrs.  Samuel  L.,  owner  of 
portraits  of  Madison,  facing  115,  145, 
506;  Monroe,  facing  106,  108.  511;  Mrs. 
Monroe,  facing  258,  513;  letters  to 
Monroe,  property  of,  510. 

Governors,  of  the  various  states,  at  cele- 
bration, medal  worn  by,  207,  214  , 
medals  presented  to,  217  ;  at  naval 
parade,  217;  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 225,  227,  229,  at  reception  to  presi 
dent  Harrison,  229,  241,  list  of  states 
represented  by  the,  233  ;  banquet  to, 
235;  attend  services  St.  Paul's  chapel, 
270;  invited  to  centennial  ball,  257;  at 
military  parade,  314,  322,  at  banquet, 
metropolitan  opera-house,  356. 

Governor's  Foot-Guards,  Conn.,  at  mil i 
tary  parade,  328. 

Governor's  Guard,  N  C,  and  West  Va., 
at  military  parade,  340,  344. 

Governor's  Guards,  S.  C,  at  military 
parade,  33  r. 

Grace,  J.  W.,  at  banquet,  358. 

Grace,  William  R.,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  105;  of  general  committee, 
107,  114,  236;  committee  on  general 
government,  109,  113,  178,  236,  invited 
to  meet  president  Harrison,  245  ;  at 
centennial  ball,  261  ;  at  banquet,  361; 
subscriber  to  memorial  arch,  414. 

Gracie,  Archibald,  member  of  reception 
committee,  ancestry  of,  230. 

Gracie,  James  K..,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245;  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  264;  at  banquet,  358. 

Grady,  Henry  W.,  at  banquet,  360,  speech 
at  Southern  society,  402. 

Grady, Thomas  F.,  state  senator,  N.  Y.  ,242. 

Graham,  Anna  E.,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  71,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 


INDEX. 


595 


Graham,  George,  engraver  of  portrait  of 
Hamilton,  471. 

Graham,  Miss  Hartley,  the  Otis  portrait 
of  William  B.  Giles,  464. 

Graham,  J.  Duncan,  U.  S.  navy,  aide  to 
grand-marshal,  military  parade,  319. 

Graham,  James  P.,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  242. 

Graham,  John,  fourth  N.  J.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  327. 

Graham,  Robert,  commander  of  knights 
of  temperance,  civic  parade.  386. 

Grainger,  W.,  engraver  of  portrait  of 
Franklin,  460. 

Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  appropria- 
tion made  by  the  state  of  N.  Y.,  118; 
escort  to  president  Harrison,  127,  186, 
219,  221,  236,  240,  250;  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  247  ;  number  at 
military  parade,  346. 

 Brooklyn  Posts:  Beecher,  222;  Burn- 
ett, 222;  Cushing,  222;  Dakin,  222; 
Dcvin,  222;  Doane,  222;  Dupont,  222  ; 
Farnsvvorth,  222;  Flandreau,  222;  Ford, 
222;  Frietchie,  222;  Garrison,  222;  Grant, 
22T,  222;  Hamilton,  222;  Head,  222; 
Hintsman,  222;  Kerswell,  222;  Hitch- 
ing, 221  ;  Lawrence,  222  ;  Lee,  221; 
Lenhart,  222  ;  McKenzie,  222  ;  Mc- 
Pherson,  222  ;  Mallory,  221  ;  Mans- 
field, 221  ;    Marks,  222  ;  Metternich, 

221  ;  Middleton,  222;  Morell,  221; 
Odell,  222;  Perry,  221  ;  Powell,  221; 
Rankin,  221;  Ricard,  222;  Richmond, 

222  ;  Ringold,  222  ;  Seymour,  222; 
Shaw,  221  ;  Smith,  222;  Strong,  222; 
Tefft,  222  ;  Thatford,  221;  Vosburg, 
221;  Wall,  222;  Warren,  222;  Winches- 
ter, 222;  Worth,  222. 

  Long  Island  Posts  :   Downing,  346; 

Huntting,  346;  Ringold,  346. 

  Mass.  Posts:  Lowell,  346. 

 Mt.  Vernon,  N.  Y.,  Posts:  Farns- 

worth,  346. 

 New  Jersey  Posts:  Butler,  346;  Gar- 
field, 346;  Thomas,  327;  Van  Houten, 
346. 

  New  York  City  Posts  :  Anderson, 

221;  Andrew,  221.  346;  Aspinvvall,  221; 
Bendix,  221,  346;  Cameron,  221,  345; 
Claflin,  221,  345;  Cooper,  221,  345; 
Corcoran,  221,  346;  Dahlgren,  221,  345; 
Dix,  221,  345  ;  Ellsworth,  221,  346; 
Farnham,  221,  345;  Farragut,  221,  346; 
Gilsa,  221,  345;  Goss,  221,  345;  Gree- 
ley, 221,  345  ;  Hamilton,  221,  346; 
Hancock,  221;  Hecker,  221,  346;  Hook- 
er, 221,  346 ;  Jackson,  221  ;  Kearny, 
221,345;  Kennedy, 221,  345;  Kilpatrick, 
221,  345;  Koltes,  221,  346;  Lafayette, 
221;  Lincoln,  221,  345;  McClellan,  221, 
345;  McQuade,  221,  345;  Meade,  221, 
345;  Meagher,  221;  Mitchell.  221,  345; 
Morgan,  221,  345  ;  Musicians,  221  ; 
Naval,  221,  345  ;  Powell,  221,  346; 
Rawlins,  221,  345  ;  Reno,  221,  346; 
Rice,  221,  345;  Riker,  221;  Sedgwick, 
221;  Sheridan,  221,  345;  Shields,  221, 
345  ;  Steinwehr,  221,  346  ;  Stevens, 
221,  345;   Sumner,  221,  345  ;  Tilden, 


221,  345;  Vanderbilt,  221,  345;  Vet- 
eran, 221,  345;  Volunteer,  221;  Wade, 
221,  345;  Wadsworth.  221,  346;  Wash- 
ington, 221;  Williams,  221. 

  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  Posts:  O'Rourke, 

346. 

  Staten  Island  Posts:  Richmond,  346. 

  Utica,  N.  Y.,  Posts:  McQuade,  345. 

Grand  Central  hotel,  subscribes  to  cele- 
bration, 401. 

Grand  Union  hotel,  subscribes  to  cele- 
bration, 400. 

Grant,  Daniel,  Washington  entertained 
at  the  tavern  of,  Baltimore,  Md.,  22. 

Grant,  F.  E.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264. 

Grant,  Francis  F..,  mentioned.  471. 

Grant,  Frederick  D.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  248;  at  centennial 
ball,  260. 

Grant,  Gabriel,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 221  ;  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264. 

Grant,  Mrs.  Guglielmo,  portrait  of  George 
Clymer,  property  of,  440. 

Grant,  Hugh  J.,  acknowledgment  to,  in 
preface,  v,  vii;  mayor,  city  of  N.  Y., 
chairman  of  committee  on  plan  and 
scope,  in,  112,  119,  236;  chairman  of 
general  committee,  112,  142,  191,  204, 
219,  228,  236,  249,  285,  316,  356;  medal 
worn  by,  121;  member  of  general  com- 
mittee, 114,  236;  appoints  publication 
committee.  122;  portrait,  facing,  190, 
234,  236;  at  naval  parade,  198;  tenders 
freedom  of  the  city  to  president  Harri- 
son, 204;  addresses  commissioners  of 
states  and  territories,  207,  209;  escort 
to  president  Harrison,  225,  236;  at  re- 
ception, lawyers'  club,  227,  229;  at 
banquet  to  president  Harrison,  234;  at 
reception,  city  hall,  238,  240;  guest  of 
Stuyvesant  Fish,  257;  receives  presi- 
dent Harrison  at  centennial  ball,  258; 
at  centennial  ball,  260;  subscriber  to 
ball,  264;  at  literary  exercises,  285;  at 
military  parade,  316;  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  at  banquet,  metropolitan 
opera-house,  355;  presides  at  banquet, 
355.  35°.  358;  address  at  banquet,  361, 
363;  presents  president  Harrison  with 
address,  in  behalf  of  the  civic  and  in- 
dustrial organizations,  383,  385  ;  sub- 
scriber to  celebration,  401;  member  of 
memorial  arch  committee,  409 ;  sub- 
scriber to  arch,  414. 

Grant,  Gen.  U.  S.,  mentioned,  225. 

Grant,  Mrs.  U.  S.,  at  banquet,  356. 

Grant,  Mrs.  William  G.,  mentioned,  471. 

Grant  &  Co..  subscribers  to  celebration, 
401. 

Granitch,  W.  I.  A.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264. 

Grantland,  Seaton,  at  centennial  ball,  260; 
aide  to  grand  marshal,  military  parade, 
320. 

Gravenhorst,  William  M.  B.,  vice  consul 

of  Netherlands,  248. 
Gray,  D.  W.,  Louisville  legion,  at  military 

parade,  341 


Gray,  George,  U.  S.  senator  from  Del.,  at 
reception  to  president  Harrison,  241;  at 
banquet,  360. 

Gray,  Henry  Peters,  artist,  his  portrait  of 
John  Jay,  479. 

Gray  Invincibles,  of  Pa.,  at  military  pa- 
rade, 324. 

Gray,  John  C,  associate  judge,  court  of 
appeals,  N.  Y.,  243. 

Gray,  L.  F.,  the  engraved  portrait  of  Ben- 
jamin Franklin,  4J8,  note. 

Gray,  Thomas,  one  of  the  crew  of  the 
barge,  which  conveyed  Washington  to 
N.  Y.,  28,  note. 

Gray's  Ferry,  Pa.,  Martha  Washington 
entertained  at,  21,  note;  reception  of 
Washington  at,  23  ;  view  of  triumphal 
arches  erected,  23. 

Grayson,  Doctor,  mentioned,  4S7,  note. 

Grayson,  William,  U.  S.  senator  from  Va.. 
I,  10,  232;  opposed  to  title  for  the  presi- 
dent of  U.  S. ,  his  opinion  of  John  Adams. 
39,  note;  biographical  sketch  of,  85,  135; 
no  portrait  of,  418,  467;  his  personal 
appearance,  467,  note. 

Greaton,  John  W.,  at  literary  exercises, 
289. 

Greeley,  Edwin  S.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  220,  221,  250. 

Green,  Mrs.  Caleb  S.,  letter  of  Washing, 
ton  to  the  ladies  of  Trenton,  N.  J., 
property  of,  27. 

Green,  Francis  M.,  U.  S.  navy,  248. 

Green,  G.  James,  tenth  battalion,  N.  Y. 
acting  adjutant  third  provisional  regi 
ment,  N.  Y.,  at  military  parade,  338. 

Green,  George  W.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264. 

Green,  Mrs.  John  C,  subscriber  to  memo 
rial  arch,  413. 

Green,  N.,  engraver  of  portrait  of  Henry 
Laurens,  495. 

Green,  Norvin,  member  of  citizens'  com- 
mittee, 103;  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  245;  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Green,  R.  B.,  third  Texas  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  344. 

Green,  Roberts.,  governor  of  New  Jersey, 
183,  214,  233;  president  Harrison  guest 
of,  183,  185;  escort  to  president  Harri 
son,  199;  at  reception  to  the  president, 
241;  at  centennial  ball,  257;  at  military 
parade,  326;  portrait,  327;  at  banquet, 
359- 

Green,  Samuel  A.,  acknowledgment  to,  in 
preface,  v;  mentioned,  450;  portraits  of 
Franklin,  property  of,  460. 

Green,  Volney,  &  Son,  subscribers  to 
Wall  street  arch,  253. 

Green,  William  W.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Greene,  Alister.  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 223. 

Greene,  Byron  W.,  escort   to  president 

Harrison,  223. 
Greene,  George  S.,  invited  to  meet  prcsi 

dent  Harrison,  244. 
Greene,  George  S.,  Jr.,  invited   to  meet 

president  Harrison,  244. 


596 


THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


Greene,  George  YV.,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  243. 

Greene,  John  A.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Greene,  M.  D.,  assistant  adjutant-gen- 
eral first  brigade,  Vt.,  at  military  parade, 
341- 

Grccne,  Matilda  R.,  portrait  of  Franklin, 
property  of,  459. 

Greene,  Gen.  Nathanael,  address  on  the 
life  and  services  of,  mentioned,  169, 
note,  176;  president  R.  I.  society  of  the 
Cincinnati  177. 

Greene,  Nathanael,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  248. 

Greene,  Nathanael,  Jr.,  usher  at  com- 
memorative services,  St.  Paul's  chapel, 
170. 

Greene,  Richard  H.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Greene,  Rev.  William  W.,  at  commem- 
orative banquet,  society  of  the  Cincin- 
nati, 150;  at  reception  to  president 
Harrison,  232. 

Greenleaf,  William  L.,  brigadier-general 
first  brigade,  Vt.,  at  military  parade,  341. 

Greenman,  Edward  W.,  member  of  con- 
gress from  N.  Y.,  242. 

Greenough,  Horatio,  sculptor,  mentioned, 
433,  note;  his  bust  of  Lafayette,  494. 

Greenough,  Richard  S.,  sculptor,  his 
statue  of  Franklin,  461. 

Greenough,  William  W.,  the  Greuze  por- 
trait of  Franklin,  452,  note. 

Greenville,  Pa.,  fifteenth  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  325. 

Greenville,  S.  C,  Butler  guards,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  331. 

Gregg,  Mrs.  John,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Gregg,  Thomas,  thirty-seventh  separate 
company,  N.  Y.,  at  military  parade, 
338. 

Gregory,  George,  alderman,  243;  at  ban- 
quet, 359. 

Gregory,  George,  at  banquet,  358. 

Gregory,  R.  O.,  commissioner  from  N.  C, 
216. 

Gregory,  W.  M.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 223. 

Gregory,  Willard,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264. 

Gremerl,  Samuel  C,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  264. 

Grenadiers,  N.  Y.  city,  escort  to  Wash- 
ington, 32,  note,  43;  uniform  of,  43. 

Gresham,  Walter  Q.,  address  at  banquet, 
Chicago,  405. 

Greuze,  Jean  Haptiste,  artist,  his  por 
traits  of  Franklin,  facing  444,  464; 
notes  on  the  portraits,  418,  420,  451; 
portraits  painted  by,  451,  note. 

Gridley,  Abraham,  first  separate  com- 
pany, N.  Y.,  at  military  parade,  339. 

Gridley,  Edward,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 222. 

Griffenberg,  W.  T.,  first  regiment,  Dela- 
ware, at  military  parade,  322. 

Griffin,  Christiana  S.,  attends  assembly 
ball,  1789,  59;  biographical  sketch  of, 
59,  note  ;  no  portrait  of,  468. 


GrifTin,  Cyrus,  president  of  Continental 
congress,  32,  note,  59,  note ;  portrait 
painted  by  L.  Sully,  facing  156;  notes 
on  the  portraits  of,  422,  468. 

Griffin,  Francis  B.,  escort  to  president 
I  larrison,  224. 

Griffin,  Lcroy,  mentioned,  85. 

Griffin,  M.  B.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264. 

Griffin,  Samuel,  member  of  congress  from 
Va.,  85,  136,  232;  biographical  sketch 
of,  85;  portraits,  painted  by  Stuart  and 
unknown,  facing  11 1  ;  notes  on  the  por- 
traits of,  418,  422,  423,  468. 

Griffin,  Rt.  Rev.  Thomas,  officiates  at 
centennial  celebration  services,  Wor- 
cester, Mass.,  403. 

Grigsby,  Hugh  Blair,  portraits  of  William 
B.  Giles  and  Patrick  Henry,  property 
of,  466,  475;  sketch  of  William  Gray- 
son, 4C7,  note. 

Grigsby,  Hugh  C,  the  Stuart  portrait  of 
William  B.  Giles,  466. 

Grimaldi,  William,  artist,  miniature  of 
Washington  by,  at  loan  exhibition,  143. 

Grinnell,  Frederick,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264. 

Grinnell,  J.  B.,  commissioner  from  Iowa, 
215. 

Grinnell,  Morton,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264. 

Grinnell,  William  M.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  264. 

Griswold,  Chester,  at  banquet,  359. 

Griswold,  John  N.  A.,  subscriber  to 
memorial  arch,  414. 

Groat,  Richard  P.,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  243. 

Grocers,  invited  to  meet  president  Harri- 
son, 246. 

Grosner,  Dora,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  20,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

Gross,  August,  in  command  guard  Lafay- 
ette, at  civic  parade,  386. 

Gross,  Rev.  John  D. ,  pastor  of  the  German 
Reformed  church,  N.  Y.,  1789,  39,  note. 

Gross,  W.  H.,  third  Ohio  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  342. 

Grosse,  Edward,  secretary  German-Amer- 
ican citizens,  393,  note. 

Grosvenor,  Thomas  W.,  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  264. 

Grote,  George,  the  painting,  U.  S.  com 
missioners  of  1782,  painted  for,  482. 

Grote,  Harriet,  mentioned,  482. 

Grout,  John,  mentioned,  75. 

Grout,  Jonathan,  member  of  congress 
from  Mass.,  37,  135,  232  ;  biographical 
sketch  of,  75;  portrait,  facing  91 ;  notes 
on  the  portraits  of,  418,  419,  423,  468. 

Grove,  F.  H.,  naval  post,  G.  A.  R.,  es- 
cort to  president  Harrison,  221  ;  at  mil- 
itary parade,  345. 

Grozelier,  L.,  lithographer,  533. 

Grubb,  E.  Burd,  member  of  N.  J.  society 
of  the  Cincinnati,  150;  U.  S.  minister 
to  Spain,  463,  note. 

Grudcr,  S.,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  245. 


Gruner,  Seigfried,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent I  larrison,  245. 

Grunow,  William,  portrait  of  Benjamin 
Franklin,  property  of,  451. 

Guancs,  Miguel  S.,  consul-general  of 
Spain,  248. 

Guard  Lafayette,  at  civic  parade,  386. 

Guardia  Sarvia,  at  civic  parade,  392. 

Gucnthcr,  Henry  H.,  member  of  assem- 
Dly,  N.  Y.,  242. 

Guidetti,  Rafaele,  at  civic  parade,  392. 

Guilmartin,  L.  J.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264. 

Guinaud,  C.  A.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 222. 

Gulark,  Mrs.  Charles,  at  centennial  ball, 
262. 

Gulager,  Christian,  artist,  his  portrait  of 
Washington,  542. 

Gummer,  Barker,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264. 

Gunn,  James,  U.  S.  senator  from  Ga.,  38, 
135,  232  ;  biographical  sketch  of,  71, 
135  ;  no  portrait  of,  418,  469. 

Gunther,  C.  F.,  owner  of  portraits  of 
Franklin,  facing  444,  458  ;  Fielding 
Lewis  and  wife,  497,  548,  note. 

Gunther,  F.  Frederic,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  247. 

Gunther,  Henry,  alderman,  243. 

Gunther's,  C.  G.,  Sons,  subscribers  to 
celebration,  400. 

Gurnee,  Mrs.  W.  S.,  subscriber  to  me- 
morial arch,  414. 

Gurry,  Thomas  F.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264. 

Gute,  Mamie,  delegate  from  public  school 
No.  78,  reception  of  president  Harrison, 
city  hall,  238. 

Guthrie,  William  D.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  264  ;  at  banquet,  358. 

Guttenberg,  Johann,  represented  in  tab- 
leau, civic  parade,  393. 

Guttenberg,  N.  J.,  firemen,  at  civic  pa- 
rade, 389. 

Guyon,  C.  F.,  twenty-third  N.  Y.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  337. 

Guzman,  Horacio,  minister  from  Nica- 
ragua, invited  to  centennial  ball,  257  ; 
at  banquet,  361. 

Gwynn,  Frances,  wife  of  William  B. 
Giles,  465. 

Gyger,  George  R.,  colonel  eighth  Ohio 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  342. 

Gynn,  Bernhard  C,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264. 

Hackensack,  N.  J.,  second  battalion,  at 
military  parade,  327. 

Hackett,  Bernard,  second  R.  I.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  340. 

Hackley,  Caleb  B.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Hackstaff,  William  G.,  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  224 

Hadden,  Mrs.  J.  E.  Smith,  at  centennial 
ball,  261. 

Hadden,  John  A.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 


INDEX. 


597 


Haddock,  William  M.,  escort  to  president 

Harrison,  222. 
Hadji,   Hassin   Ghooly  Khan,  minister 

from  Persia,  invited  to  centennial  ball, 

257- 

Haffa,  George  J.,  sixty-fifth  N.  Y.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  339. 

Hafner,  Frederick,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  242. 

Hagadorn,  Alonzo  C,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Hagan,  Edward  P.,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  242;  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264. 

Haggerty,  Henry  F.,  member  of  assem- 
bly, N.  Y.,  242. 

Haight,  Albert,  associate  judge,  court  of 
appeals,  N.  Y.,  243. 

Haight,  Charles  C.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  244;  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  264. 

Haight,  Edward,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 221. 

Hailstock,  Charles  A.,  Gray  Invincibles 
of  Pa.,  at  military  parade,  324. 

Hain,  Frank  K.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264. 

Haines,  Richard  T.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264. 

Hale,  Edward  E.,  the  portraits  of  Frank- 
lin, 447. 

Halford,  Elijah  W. ,  private  secretary  of 
president  Harrison,  181,  254,  255;  at 
naval  parade,  201;  at  reception  to  the 
president,  227;  at  centennial  ball,  259; 
at  banquet,  360. 

Hall,  F.  F.,  third  N.  H.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  332. 

Hall,  F.  L.,  at  banquet,  360. 

Hall,  F.  S.,  third  N.  H.  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  332. 

Hall,  Frank  A.,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  247. 

Hall,  Frank  L.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264. 

Hall,  Frederick  J.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Hall,  George  H.,  assistant  adjutant-gen- 
eral. Pa.  troops,  military  parade,  323. 

Hall,  Harrison,  publisher,  mentioned,  429. 

Hall,  Henry,  member  of  citizens'  com- 
mittee, 103;  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 224;  invited  to  meet  the  president, 
245- 

Hall,  Henry  B.,  engraver  of  portraits  of 
Egbert  Benson,  428;  Lambert  Cad- 
walader,  433;  Oliver  Ellsworth,  445; 
Nicholas  Fish,  446;  Benjamin  Franklin, 
448,  note,  449;  Rufus  King,  491;  Lafay- 
ette, 494:  Arthur  Lee,  496;  Robert 
Morris,  513;  J.  P.  G.  Muhlenberg,  516; 
Philip  Schuyler,  524;  Lord  Stirling,  530; 
Charles  Thomson,  534;  Richard  Varick, 
538;  George  Washington,  544. 

Hall,  Harry  B.,  Jr.,  engraver  of  miniature 
of  Alexander  Hamilton,  470. 

Hall,  Henry  H.,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  246. 

Hall,  Rev.  John,  one  of  the  committee  of 
clergymen  on  religious  services,  124, 


125;  invited  to  meet  president  Harrison, 
244;  at  banquet,  359. 

Hall,  L.  C,  Jr.,  third  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  324. 

Hall,  Miss,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 

Hall,  William  H.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Hallett,  George  H.,  aide  to  grand-mar- 
shal, military  parade,  320. 

Hallgarten,  William,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Hallock,  Joseph  T.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Halloway,  J.  F.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264. 

Halsey,  Rev.  Abram  W.,  favors  holding 
religious  services  April  30,  1889,  123. 

Halsey,  Frederick  R.,  at  centennial  ball, 
261. 

Halsey,  George  A.,  escort  to  president 

Harrison,  224. 
Hamblin,  Miss  M.  L.,  at  centennial  ball, 

262. 

Hamell,  W.,  invited  to  meet  president 

Harrison,  247. 
Hamersley,    Miss,  guest  of  Stuyvesant 

Fish,  258. 

Hamilton,  federal  ship,  part  of  the  presi- 
dent's barge,  used  in  the  construction 
of,  28,  note. 

Hamilton,  A.  W.,  commissioner  from 
Ky.,  216. 

Hamilton,  Adelaide,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264. 

Hamilton,  Alexander,  favors  the  adop- 
tion of  the  constitution  by  New  York, 
one  of  the  authors  of  the  federalist,  3  ; 
urges  Washington  to  accept  the  office 
of  president  of  U.  S.,  21  ;  recom- 
mended for  secretary  of  treasury,  24, 
note  ;  in  favor  of  two  national  holidays, 
40,  note  ;  views  the  inauguration  of 
Washington,  from  his  residence,  51  ; 
attends  assembly  ball,  1789,  59  ;  views 
of  his  writing  desk,  77,  79  ;  secretary 
of  treasury  of  U.  S. ,  135,  232  ;  member 
of  federal  convention,  1787,  136  ;  vice- 
president  of  New  York  society  of  the 
Cincinnati,  150;  his  death,  151,  159; 
his  address  on  the  services  of  gen. 
Greene,  169,  note.  176  ;  descendants  of, 
282  ;  view  of  his  tomb,  312  ;  represented 
in  tableau,  civic  parade,  386. 
—  portraits  of,  painted  by  Fairman,  fac- 
ing 25;  James  Peale,  25;  C.  W.  Peale, 
26;  Sharpless,  26,  168;  Trumbull,  5,  25, 
26;  unknown,  25  ;  notes  on  the  por- 
traits, 144,  420,  421,  423,  469;  sculpture, 
bust  by  Ceracchi,  95. 

Hamilton,  Mrs.  Alexander,  portraits, 
painted  by  Earle,  Inman,  and  Martin, 
facing  57  ,  attends  assembly  ball,  1789, 
59  ;  notes  on  the  portraits  of,  420, 
421,  473  ;  daughter  of  gen.  Philip 
Schuyler,  523,  524. 

Hamilton,  Alexander,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  248  ;  member  of 
vestry  of  Trinity  church,  269,  270. 

Hamilton,  Mrs.  Alexander,  portraits  of 
Alexander  Hamilton,  and  Mrs.  Ham- 


ilton, property  of,  facing  25,  57,  469, 
471,  472,  473  ;  and  portrait  of  Mrs. 
Margaret  B.  Livingston,  501. 

Hamilton,  Allen  McLane,  M.  D.,  owner 
of  portrait  of  Alexander  Hamilton, 
property  of,  facing  26,  144,  470  ;  writ- 
ing desk  of  Hamilton,  property  of, 
77.  79  ;  invited  to  meet  president  Har- 
rison, 244  ;  member  of  floor  committee, 
centennial  ball,  259. 

Hamilton  Club,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  portrait 
of  Alexander  Hamilton,  property  of, 
470. 

Hamilton,  Daisy,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 

Hamilton,  George  A.,  invited  to  meet 
president  I  larrison,  245. 

Hamilton,  James,  portrait  of  Franklin, 
property  of,  462. 

Hamilton,  Major  James,  supposed  por- 
trait of,  471,  note. 

Hamilton,  James  Augustus,  at  centen- 
nial ball,  260  ;  subscriber  to  ball,  264; 
at  banquet,  356  ;  portrait  of  Alexander 
Hamilton,  property  of,  471. 

Hamilton,  Rev.  Jay  B.,  favors  holding 
religious  services  April  30,  1889,  123. 

Hamilton,  the  Misses,  manuscript  of  Alex- 
ander Hamilton,  property  of,  40  ;  por- 
traits of  Hamilton  and  Mrs.  Hamilton, 
facing  25,  57,  168,  470,  472,  473  ;  and 
Hugh  Williamson,  property  of,  facing 
125,  550. 

Hamilton,  John  A.,  mentioned,  470. 

Hamilton,  John  C,  mentioned,  472. 

Hamilton,  John  L.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Hamilton,  Robert  R.,  member  of  assem- 
bly, N.  Y.,  243. 

Hamilton,  Schuyler,  portrait  of  Alexan- 
der Hamilton,  property  of,  facing  25, 
470  ;  member  of  general  committee,  108, 
114,  236  ;  at  reception  to  president  Har- 
rison, 231,  248  ;  mentioned,  550. 

Hamilton,  W.  J.,  fourteenth  Pa.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  326. 

Hamilton,  W.  Pierson,  member  of  recep- 
tion committee,  ancestry  of,  229  ;  at  lit- 
erary exercises,  289  ;  member  of  plat- 
form committee,  308,  309. 

Hamilton,  W.  S.,  first  West  Va.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  344. 

Hamilton,  William  Gaston,  member  of 
citizens'  committee,  105  ;  of  general 
committee,  107,  114,  236;  executive 
committee,  108  ;  chairman  of  committee 
on  states,  109,  113,  123,  127,  192,  206, 
207,  208,  209,  218,  219.  220,  227,  228, 
234,  236,  249,  255,  269  ;  his  aides,  120, 
217,  220  ;  receives  president  Harrison 
at  foot  of  Wall  street,  204  ;  report  on 
the  march  up  Wall  street,  the  entertain- 
ment at  the  lawyers'  club,  and  the  pub- 
lic reception  at  city  hall,  206  ;  addresses 
meeting  of  commissioners  of  states 
and  territories,  208  ;  report  on  pro- 
gramme for  commissioners,  209  ;  es- 
cort to  president  Harrison,  220,  224, 
227,  236  ;  at  reception,  lawyers'  club, 
227,  229,  244  ;  address  at  banquet  to 
president  Harrison,  234  ;  portrait,  fac- 


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THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 


inp:  234  ;  at  reception,  city  hall,  238, 
240,  241  ;  at  centennial  ball,  260  ;  sub- 
scriber to  ball,  264  ;  escorts  president 
Harrison  and  vice-president  Morton  to 
St.  Paul's  chapel,  209  ;  at  unveiling  of 
memorial  tablet,  St.  Paul's  chapel,  284; 
at  literary  exercises,  289  ;  at  banquet, 
metropolitan  opera-house,  356,  359  ; 
subscriber  to  celebration,  401  ;  member 
of  memorial  arch  committee,  409  ;  sub- 
scriber to  arch,  414. 

Hamilton,  Mrs.  William  Gaston,  at  cen- 
tennial ball,  261. 

Hamburger,  Samuel  B.,  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  264. 

Hamlin,  George  E. ,  subscriber  to  celebra- 
tion, 401. 

Hamlin,  George  F.,  twenty-third  N.  Y. 
regiment,  acting  adjutant  second  pro- 
visional regiment,  337. 

Hamlin,  Hannibal,  at  literary  exercises, 
289  ;  at  banquet,  359  ;  extract  from 
address  of,  363,  371. 

Hammond,  Charles  M.,  alderman,  243. 

Hammond,  Edmund,  portrait  of  Ralph 
Izard,  property  of,  477. 

Hammond,  Edward  A.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  264. 

Hammond,  the  Misses,  portrait  of  Ralph 
Izard,  property  of,  477. 

Hampton,  Wade,  U.  S.  senator  from 
S.  C.,  at  reception  to  president  Harri- 
son, 241  ;  at  centennial  ball,  259;  at 
banquet,  359. 

Hampton,  William  H.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Hamtramck,  Maj.  John  Francis,  first 
U.  S.  infantry,  135. 

Hancock,  J.  T.,  at  banquet,  360. 

Hancock,  John,  president  of  Mass.  con- 
vention, 2;  mentioned  as  a  candidate 
for  the  office  of  vice-president  of  U.  S., 
12,  note;  John  Adams  guest  of,  17. 

Hancock,  John,  commissioner  from 
Texas,  216,  233;  at  banquet,  360. 

Hancock,  John  S.,  at  literary  exercises, 
289. 

Hand,  Allen  F.,  invited  to  meet  president 

Harrison,  247. 
Handley,  George,  first  N.  J.  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  326. 
Handren,  John  W.,  escort  to  president 

I  Iarrison,  221. 
Hankee,  H.  W.,  fourth  Pa.  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  325. 
Hanna,  Thomas  L. ,  escort  to  president 

1  Iarrison,  223. 
Hanna,  W.  W.,  fifteenth  Pa.  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  325. 
Hansen,  H.  Matthison,   music  arranged 

by,  271. 

Hanson,  Ella,  delegate  from  public  school 
No.  59,  reception  of  president  Harri- 
son, city  hall,  238. 

Hanson,  Samuel,  extract  of  Washington's 
letter  to,  20. 

Han  way,  P.  J.,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  247. 

Hard,  Anson  W.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 


Hard,  George  M.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent 1  Iarrison,  245. 

Hard  &  Rand,  subscribers  to  Wall  street 
arch,  253. 

Hardcnbrook,  Myra,  at  centennial  ball, 
262. 

Harding,  Chester,  artist,  illustrations  of 
the  portraits  painted  by,  of,  Charles 
Carroll,  facing  97  ;  William  B.  Giles, 
facing  112;  James  Madison,  facing  63  ; 
Mrs.  Josiah  Quincy,  facing  262;  John 
Randolph,  facing  160;  number  of  por- 
traits of  congressmen,  painted  by,  419; 
notes  on  the  portraits  painted  by,  of, 
Charles  Carroll,  421,  433;  William  B. 
Giles,  421,  464;  James  Madison,  421, 
507;  James  Monroe,  512;  Mrs.  Josiah 
Quincy,  421,  520;  John  Randolph,  421, 
521;  Caleb  Strong,  530. 

Harding,  George  E.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  264. 

Harding,  Robert  M.,  seventy-fourth  N.  Y. 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  339. 

Harding,  Samuel,  escort  to  president 
I  Iarrison,  225. 

Harding,  William  J.,  thirteenth  N.  Y. 
regiment,  in  command  of  first  provi- 
sional regiment,  N.  Y.,  at  military 
parade,  337. 

Hare,  J.  Montgomery,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  264. 

Hargous,  Miss,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 

Harison,  Richard,  mentioned,  472. 

Harison,  Richard  M.,  portrait  of  Alex- 
ander Hamilton,  property  of,  facing 
25,  472;  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  244. 

Hariton,  Pa.,  residence  of  Charles  Thom- 
son, 19,  note. 

Harlan,  James,  commissioner  from  Iowa, 
233;  at  banquet,  359. 

Harlan,  John  M.,  associate  justice  U.  S. 
supreme  court,  address  at  banquet, 
Chicago,  405. 

Harlem  Eintracht,  at  Madison  square 
concert,  350. 

Harlem  Independent  sharpshooters,  at 
civic  parade,  393. 

Harlem  Maennerchor,  at  Madison  square 
concert,  350;  at  civic  parade,  393. 

Harmar,  Josiah,  general-in-chief  U.  S. 
army,  135. 

Harmon,  Mrs.  F.  D.,  at  centennial  ball, 
262. 

Harmonia  Society,  at  civic  parade,  395. 

Harness  Dealers,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Harnett,  Richard  V.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  245. 

Harper.  Edward  B.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246;  at  centennial  ball, 
261;  subscriber  to  ball,  264;  subscriber 
to  memorial  arch,  414. 

Harper,  Emily  L.,  portrait  of  Charles 
Carroll,  property  of,  facing  97,  435  ; 
and  David  Carroll,  437. 

Harper,  Franklin,  escort  to  president 
I  Iarrison,  223. 

Harper,  J.  T.,  seventh  N.  Y.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  334. 


Harper,  Joseph  W.,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  104;  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent 1  Iarrison,  246 

Harper,  Mrs.  Robert  G.,  portrait  in  Car- 
roll family  group,  facing  99  ;  men 
tioncd,  434. 

Harper,  Samuel  W.,  eighteenth  Pa.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  325. 

Harper  Brothers,  subscribers  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Harpst,  W.  F.,  fifteenth  Pa.  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  325. 
Harral,  George,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  264. 

Harrigan,  Edward,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  244. 
Harriman,  Edward  H. ,  at  centennial  ball, 

260  ;  subscriber  to  ball,  264  ;  at  ban- 
quet, 356,  358  ;  subscriber  to  celebra- 
tion, 400. 

Harriman,  Mrs.  Edward  H.,  at  centennial 
ball,  261. 

Harriman,  James,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 
Harriman,  Oliver,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 
Harriman,  Oliver,  Jr.,  at  centennial  ball, 

261  ;  aide  to  grand  marshal,  military 
parade,  320. 

Harriot,  S.  Carman,  Jr.,   subscriber  to 

centennial  ball,  264. 
Harriot,  Mrs.   Samuel  C,  subscriber  to 

memoric.l  arch,  414. 
Harris,  Charles  J.,  at  banquet,  360. 
Harris,  G.   W.,  third  Pa.  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  324. 
Harris,    John,    founder   of  Harrisburg, 

Pa.,  8. 

Harris,  Mrs.  Joseph,  portrait  of  Patrick 
Henry,  property  of,  475. 

Harris,  Joseph  H.,  thirteenth  Ohio  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  342. 

Harris,  Robert,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  245. 

Harrisburg,  Pa.,  founded,  8  ;  portraits  of 
Franklin  and  Mifflin  at,  461,  509. 

Harrison,  Benjamin,  member  of  Virginia 
convention,  opposes  the  adoption  of 
the  constitution,  3  ;  extract  of  Washing- 
ton's letter  to,  respecting  the  presi- 
dency, 21. 

Harrison,  Benjamin,  president  of  U.  S., 
fac-simile  of  testimonial  of  thanks  from 
the  committee  on  the  celebration  of  the 
centennial  of  Washington's  inaugura- 
tion, in  ;  medal  worn  by,  121  ;  his 
proclamation,  recommending  April  30, 
1889,  a  day  of  national  thanksgiving, 
126  ;  programme  for  the  reception  of, 
126,  181  ;  presented  with  gold  medal, 
181  ;  his  journey  from  Washington  to 
Elizabeth,  N.  J.,  and  return,  181,  182, 

184  ;  reception  at  Elizabeth,  N.  J.,  183, 

185  ;  guest  of  vice-president  Morton, 
183,  241,  2C9  ;  escorted  to  Elizabeth- 
town,  1S6  ;  his  letter  of  thanks  to  Pa. 
railroad,  187  ;  embarks  on  U.  S. 
steamer  Despatch  for  N.  Y.,  183,  184, 
187,  193,  199  ;  portrait  group  of,  vice- 
president  Morton,  and  admiral  Porter, 
193.  '95  !  portrait,  facing  195,  234,  236  ; 


INDJiX. 


599 


salutes  to,  199,  200,  201  ;  reviews  naval 
parade,  201  ;  embarks  in  his  barge  for 
the  foot  of  Wall  street,  N.  Y.  city,  202; 
his  arrival  and  reception,  203,  204,  218; 
his  reply  to  welcome  of  Hamilton  Fish, 
governor  Hill,  and  mayor  Grant,  204  ; 
tendered  the  freedom  of  the  city  of 
N.  Y.,  204 ;  escorted  through  Wall 
street,  210,  211,  214,  215  ;  fac -simile  of 
the  president's  flag,  218  ;  military  and 
societies  escort  to,  219,  220  ;  recep- 
tion at  the  lawyers'  club,  227  ;  ban- 
quet to,  233;  escorted  to  city  hall,  235  ; 
reception  at  city  hall,  237,  240 ;  pre- 
sented with  address  of  welcome  from 
the  scholars  of  the  public  schools,  239  ; 
guest  of  Stuyvesant  Fish,  257  ;  his 
arrival  and  reception  at  centennial 
ball,  25S  ;  subscriber  to  ball,  264  ; 
attends  services  at  St.  Paul's  chapel, 
and  occupies  the  Washington  pew,  269, 
270  ;  view  of  his  leaving  St.  Paul's 
chapel,  278  ;  escorted  to  U.  S.  sub- 
treasury  building,  285  ;  his  address  at 
the  literary  exercises,  307  ;  view  of 
Wall  street,  showing  the  president  de- 
livering his  address,  307  ;  entertained 
at  lunch,  escorted  to  the  grand  stand, 
31O  ;  view  showing  the  president  re- 
viewing the  military  parade,  316  ;  at 
banquet,  metropolitan  opera-house, 354, 
355.  35°.  35>>  I  h's  address  at  banquet, 
363,  3S1  ;  presented  with  a  tribute  to 
Washington  written  in  twenty-seven 
languages,  3S2  ;  address  of  the  civic 
and  industrial  organizations  of  N.  Y. 
presented  to,  3S3,  384  ;  view  showing 
the  president  reviewing  the  civic  and 
industrial  parade,  384. 
Harrison,  Mrs.  Benjamin,  at  centennial 
ball,  12S,  256,  25S,  259;  guest  of 
Stuyvesant  Fish,  257  ;  attends  services 
St.  Paul's  chapel,  269  ;  at  banquet, 
356. 

Harrison,   Burton    N.,  invited  to  meet 

president  Harrison,  244. 
Harrison,  Mrs.   Burton  N.,  at  centennial 

ball,  261. 

Harrison,  Hannah,  wife  of  Charles  Thom- 
son, 19. 

Harrison,  James  A.  ,  portrait  of  John 
Randolph,  property  of,  521. 

Harrison,  Mrs.  Joseph,  portraits  of  Wash- 
ington and  Franklin,  property  of,  front- 
ispiece, 143.  144,  facing  424,  44S,  451, 

454,  54i,  542,  543,  545- 
Harrison,  Richard,  mentioned.  19. 
Harrison,   Robert  Hanson,    member  of 

federal  convention,  1787,  136. 
Harrison,   Robert  L.,   invited    to  meet 

president  Harrison,  247. 
Harrison,  Russell  B.,  commissioner  from 

Montana,  216,  233  ;  at  centennial  ball, 

259  ;  at  banquet,  359. 
Harrison,  Mrs.  Russell  B..  at  centennial 

ball,  259. 

Harrison,  Thomas  B.,  third  battalion. 

D.  C,  at  military  parade,  344. 
Harrison,  William  B.,  portrait  of  Thomas 

Jefferson,  property  of,  facing  '1,484; 


describes  the  portraits  of  Jefferson, 
485,  488. 

Harrisville,  West  Va  ,  Goff  guards,  at 
military  parade,  344. 

Harrower,  Rev.  Charles  S.,  favors  hold- 
ing religious  services  April  30,  1889, 
123. 

Harsin,  George,  captain  of  grenadiers, 

escort  to  Washington,  43. 
Hart,  C.  B. ,  commissioner  from  West 

Va.,  216. 

Hart,  Charles  Henry,  acknowledgment  to, 
in  preface,  v;  mentioned,  86,  note;  Wash- 
ington's copy  of  the  acts  of  congress, 
property  of,  91  ;  member  of  art  com- 
mittee, log,  113,  131,  134,  142,  236  ;  of 
general  committee,  114,  236;  portrait 
of  Washington,  property  of,  144,  543  ; 
subscriber  to  centennial  ball,  264 ;  at 
banquet,  361  ;   portraits  of  Franklin, 

458,  462,  facing  524  ;  and  John  Ran- 
dolph, property  of,  522. 

 Notes    on    the  portraits    of  John 

Adams,  424  ;  Elias  Boudinot,  429,  430  ; 
Lambert  Cadwalader,  433  ;  Charles 
Carroll,  433,  435  ;  James  Duane,  443  ; 
Benjamin  Franklin,  447.449,  451,  453, 

459,  460  ;  Nicholas  Gilman,  467  ;  Alex- 
ander Hamilton,  470,  471  ;  Daniel 
H tester,  475  ;  Mrs.  William  Jackson, 
479  ;  Thomas  Jefferson,  48S,  note;  Ar- 
thur Lee,  496,  497;  William  Maclay,  502, 
note  ;  Madison  and  Monro<",  503,  507, 
513  ;  Thomas  Mifflin,  509,  note  ;  Robert 
Morris  and  Mrs.  Morris,  514  ;  William 
L.  Smith,  52S  ;  Gilbert  Stuart,  531  ; 
John  Vining  and  Mrs.  Vining,  538  ; 
George  Washington,  542  ;  Martha 
Washington,  54S. 

Hart,  Mrs.  Charles  Henry,  portrait  of 
Eleanor  Parke  Custis,  property  of,  442. 

Hart,  E.  B. ,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
264. 

Hart,  Emma,  delegate  from  public  school 
No.  77,  reception  of  president  Harri- 
son, city  hall,  238. 

Hart,  George  E.  B.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264  ;  twenty-second  N.  Y. 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  335. 

Hartford,  Conn.,  suit  of  broadcloth  worn 
by  John  Adams,  as  vice-president, 
manufactured  at,  17  ;  arrival  and  re- 
ception of  John  Adams,  18  ;  Washing- 
ton's clothing,  worn  at  his  inaugura- 
tion, manufactured  at,  50,  51  ;  govern- 
or's foot-guards,  at  military  parade, 
328  ;  portrait  of  Jonathan  Trumbull  at, 
535- 

Hartlev,  George,  mentioned,  64. 

Hartley,  Rev.  Isaac  J.,  bible  of  Thomas 
Jefferson,  property  of,  1S6. 

Hartley,  Marcellus,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  and  memorial  arch,  264,  414. 

Hartley,  Thomas,  member  of  congress 
from  Pa.,  9,  136,  232  ;  entertained  at 
dinner,  9,  note  ;  biographical  sketch  of, 
64  ;  no  portrait  of,  418,  473. 

Hartranft,  John  F.,  major-general  Pa. 
troops,  military  parade,  323. 

Hartridge,  Mrs.,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 


Hartung,  A.  H.,  second  Pa.  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  323. 
Hartwcll,  C.  F. ,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  264. 

Hartwell,  Thomas  H.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  264. 

Harugeri  Liederkranz,  at  Madison  square 
concert,  350;  at  civic  parade,  395. 

Harvard  University,  the  celebration  at, 
403  ;  portraits  in  the  possession  of, 
John  Adams,  facing  17,  423,  425  ; 
Fisher  Ames,  facing  65,  426;  Benjamin 
Franklin,  457,  458,  facing  464  ;  George- 
Washington,  facing  14,  541,  544. 

Harvey,  G.  E. ,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264. 

Harvey,  George,  Orchard  Lake  military 
academy  cadets,  Mich.,  at  military  pa- 
rade, 344. 

Harvey,  W.  D.,  eighteenth  Pa.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  325. 

Harvey,  W.  G.,  Va.  artillery,  at  military 
parade,  333. 

Harwood,  J.  Marville,  member  of  as- 
sembly, N.  Y.,  243. 

Haskins,  David  G.,  member  of  Mass. 
society  of  the  Cincinnati,  149  ;  address 
at  commemorative  banquet  society  of 
the  Cincinnati,  168. 

Haskins,  H.  C,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264. 

Haslin,  James  H.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264. 

Hastings,  D  H.,  adjutant-general  of  Pa., 
at  military  parade,  323  ;  portrait,  324  ; 
at  banquet,  361. 

Hastings,  H.  O.,  first  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  324. 

Hastings,  William  S. ,  at  celebration  of 
the  semi-centennial  of  Washington's  in- 
auguration, 96,  99. 

Hatch,  Arthur,  Jr.,  at  reception  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  232. 

Hatch,  Arthur  M.,  escort  to  president 
I  larrison,  224. 

Hatch,  Henry  P.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  264. 

Hatch,  Stephen  D.,  invited  to  meet  presi 
dent  Harrison,  244. 

Hatch,  Walter  T.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245  ;  at  literary  ex 
ercises,  289. 

Hatfield.  Josiah,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  24S. 

Hathaway,  Rufus,  artist,  his  portrait  of 
George  Partridge,  facing  91  ;  number 
of  portraits  of  congressmen  painted  by. 
419;  notes  on  the  portrait,  421,  518. 

Hathaway,  Mary  B.,  at  centennial  ball, 
262  ;  subscriber  to  ball,  264. 

Hathorn,  Almira  A.,  mentioned,  473 

Hathorn,  John,  member  of  congress  from 
New  York,  37,  135,  232;  biographical 
sketch  of,  89,  135;  no  portrait  of,  418, 
473;  his  descendants,  473. 

Hatters,  invited  to  meet  president  Har- 
rison, 247. 

Haubennestel,  L.,  nineteenth  separate 
company,  N.  Y.,  at  military  parade, 
338- 


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Ilaulcnbeck,  Peter,  in  charge  of  ship 
joiners'  float,  civic  parade,  390. 

Hanselt,  Charles,  member  of  general 
committee,  114,236;  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  247;  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  264;  at  banquet,  360; 
subscriber  to  celebration,  401. 

Hauser,  Samuel  T.,  commissioner  from 
Montana,  216;  at  reception  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  241;  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  264. 

Havemeyer,  Hector  C,  subscriber  to  me- 
morial arch,  413. 

Havemeyer,  Henry  O.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  246. 

Havemeyer,  James,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  247. 

Havemeyer,  Theodore  A.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  246,  248. 

Havemeyer  &  Elder  Co. ,  subscribers  to 
Wall  street  arch,  253. 

Havemeyer  Sugar-Refining  Co.,  sub- 
scribers to  Wall  street  arch,  253. 

Haven,  George  G. ,  member  of  general 
committee,  108,  114,  236;  of  executive 
committee,  108;  of  committee  on  navy, 
109,  189,  190,  191,  236;  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  199,  200;  at  centennial 
ball,  260;  subscriber  to  ball,  264;  at 
banquet,  356,  361;  subscriber  to  cel- 
ebration, 401. 

Haven,  George  G.,  Jr.,  member  of  recep- 
tion committee,  230;  member  of  floor 
committee,  centennial  ball,  259. 

Haviland,  Frank,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Hawes,  Gilbert  R.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Hawes,  Grenville  P.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  264. 

Hawk,  William  S.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Hawk  Wetherbee,  subscribers  to  cele- 
bration and  memorial  arch,  400,  414. 

Hawke,  R.  F.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  264. 

llawkes,  E.  MacDougall,  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  265. 

Hawkins,  A.  L.,  colonel  tenth  Pa.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  325. 

Hawkins.  Benjamin,  U.  S.  senator  from 
N.  C,  92,  135;  biographical  sketch  of, 
92;  portrait,  painted  by  Trumbull,  fac- 
ing 125;  notes  on  the  portrait  of,  474. 

Hawkins,  H.  C,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Hawkins,   Hamilton  S.,   (J.  S.  army,  in 

command  of  cadets  of  military  academy, 

military  parade,  320. 
Hawkins,  James  J.,  escort  to  president 

Harrison,  223. 
Hawkins,  Philemon,  mentioned,  92. 
Hawkins,  Samuel  W.,  commissioner  from 

Tenn.,  216. 
Hawkins,  Simeon  S.,  state  senator,  N.  Y., 

242. 

Hawley,  E.  J.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Hawley,  Henry  E.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 


Hawley,  Joseph  R.,  U.  S.  senator  from 
Conn.,  at  reception  to  president  Har- 
rison, 241  ;  at  literary  exercises,  289  ; 
at  banquet,  359. 

Hawley,  ().  F.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 222. 

Hay,  Mrs.  George,  daughter  of  James 
Monroe,  512. 

Hayden,  Henry  I.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Hayden,  Henry  W.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265. 

Hayden,  I  lorace  J.,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 

Hayes,  Jeremiah,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  242. 

Hayes,  R.  Summers,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265;  at  banquet,  361. 

Hayes,  Rutherford  B.,  address  at  com- 
memorative banquet  of  the  society  of 
the  Cincinnati,  151,  153;  commissioner 
from  Ohio,  208,  211,  216;  guest  of  the 
general  committee,  225,  227,  229  ;  at 
banquet  to  president  Harrison,  233, 
234  ;  portrait,  facing  234  ;  invited  to 
centennial  ball,  256;  subscriber  to  ball, 
265;  attends  services  St.  Paul's  chapel, 
270;  at  literary  exercises,  285,  286,  308; 
at  military  parade,  313,  317;  at  banquet 
metropolitan  opera-house,  356,  358  ; 
his  address  at  banquet,  363,  373. 

Hayes,  Mrs.  Rutherford  B.,  invited  to 
centennial  ball,  256. 

Hayes,  S.  B.,  tenth  Pa.  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  325. 

Havnes,  A.  E.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Hays,  De  Witt  C,  subscriber  to  celebra- 
tion, 401. 

Hay  ward,  James  W.,  invited    to  meet 

president  Harrison,  246. 
Hayward,  T.  J.,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  265. 

Hazard,  Ebenezer,  postmaster-general, 
extract  of  his  letter,  respecting  congress, 
3;  escort  to  Washington,  28;  his  char- 
acter of  the  Rev.  William  Linn,  40, 
note  ;  calls  on  Washington,  58;  portrait, 
painted  by  Duvivier,  facing  156;  notes 
on  the  portraits  of,  422,  423,  474. 

Hazard,  Mrs.  Ebenezer,  portrait,  painted 
by  Duvivier,  facing  51;  notes  on  the 
portrait  of,  422,  474. 

Hazard,  Willis  P.,  portrait  of  Ebenezer 
Hazard,  property  of,  facing  156,  474. 

Hazen,  Gen.  Moses,  mentioned,  42,  note. 

Hazen,  Mrs.,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 

Hazleton,  Frederick,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  247. 

Heald,  Daniel  A.,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  103  ;  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Hcaley,  Mrs.  Charles  N.,  portrait  of 
Christopher  Toppan,  property  of,  550. 

Healey,  Warren  M.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Ilealy,  Aaron,  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Healy,  George  P.  A.,  artist,  notes  on  the 
portraits  painted  by,  of  Franklin,  452; 
Jay,  480 ;   Jefferson,    485  ;  Lafayette, 


494;  Madison,  507;  Monroe,  511;  John 
Page,  518. 

Hearn,  George  A.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Hearn,  James  A.,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to 
memorial  arch,  414. 

Hearst,  George,  commissioner  from  Cal  , 
215. 

Heath,  J.,  engraver  of  portrait  of  Robert 
Morris,  514. 

Hebert,  Octave  B.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Hebrew  Benevolent,  and  orphan  asylum, 
at  civic  parade,  386. 

Hecker,  Friedrich,  mentioned,  393. 

Hecker,  George  F.,  at  centennial  ball, 
261 ;  subscriber  to  ball,  265. 

Hecker,  George  V.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Heckscher,  the  Misses,  at  centennial  ball, 
261. 

Hedden,  E.  George,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Hedden,  Edward  L.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Hegewald,  J.  F.  C,  Louisville  legion,  at 
military  parade,  341. 

Heidelbach,  Alfred  S.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265. 

Heilferty,  Robert  S. ,  Farragut  post,  G. 
A.  R.,  escort  to  president  Harrison, 
221;  at  military  parade,  345,  346. 

Heilner,  G.  C,  eighth  N.  Y.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  335. 

Heilner,  George  C,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Heinebund  Singing  Society,  at  Madison 
square  concert,  350. 

Heintz,  John  P.,  Gilsa  post,  G.  A.  R., 
escort  to  president  Harrison,  221;  at 
military  parade,  345. 

Heinzc,  Miss,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Heinze,  Mrs.  Otto,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Heiskell,  James  M.,  portrait  of  Monroe, 
property  of,  facing  108,  145,  511. 

Heifer,  J.,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
265. 

Heller,  Bessie  B.,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  22,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

Helmstetter,  Lizzie,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  10,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

Helvetia  Singing  Society,  at  Madison 
square  concert,  350. 

Henderson,  H.  B.,  eighth  separate  com- 
pany, N.  Y.,  at  military  parade,  338. 

Henderson,  Richard,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  246. 

Henderson,  T.  C,  fifth  Mass.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  329. 

Hendricks,  Edmund,  member  of  general 
committee,  108,  114,  236  ;  escort  to 
president  Harrison,  223;  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  265;  at  banquet,  360; 
subscriber  to  celebration,  401. 

Hendricks,  Francis,  state  senator,  N.  Y., 
242;  at  banquet,  359. 

Hendricks.  H.  W.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 


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Hendricks,  Joshua,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Hendry,  Paul  A.,  member  of  New  Jersey 
society  of  the  Cincinnati,  at  commem- 
orative banquet,  150. 

Henna,  Julio  J.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Hennessy,  John  C,  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  247. 

Henricks,  George  R.,  of  choir,  St.  Paul's 
chapel,  271. 

Henry,  Ambrose,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 

Henry,  Daniel  M.,  mentioned,  474. 

Henry,  Edward  L.,  artist,  his  portrait  of 
William  Floyd,  447. 

Henry,  George,  commissar)-  continental 
navy,  283. 

Henry,  Col.  John,  mentioned,  78. 

Henry,  John,  U.  S.  senator  from  Md., 
38,  135,  232;  biographical  sketch  of,  7S, 
135;  no  portrait  of,  418,  474. 

Henry,  John  F.,  at  literary  exercises,  2S9. 

Henry,  Patrick,  opposes  the  adoption  of 
the  constitution,  favors  a  confederacy 
of  states,  3;  mentioned,  lo,  H;  senator 
Grayson's  letter  to,  respecting  the  title 
of  president  of  U.  S.,  39,  note;  member 
of  federal  convention,  1787,  136;  por- 
traits, painted  by  Sully  and  unknown, 
facing  166;  notes  on  the  portraits  of, 
420,  474. 

Henry,  R.  S.,  mentioned,  79,  note. 

Henry,  Samuel,  Washington  dines  at 
tavern  of,  Trenton,  N.  J.,  26. 

Henry,  T.  D.,  fourteenth  N.  Y.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  337. 

Henry,  William,  lieutenant  continental 
army,  283. 

Henry,  William  Wirt,  acknowledgment  to, 
in  preface,  v;  mentioned,  SS.  note;  por- 
trait of  Patrick  Henry,  property  of,  fac- 
ing 166.  474;  at  literary  exercises  289; 
extract  from  address  of,  362,  367. 
Hentz,  Henry,  member  of  special  com- 
mittee of  chamber  of  commerce,  102; 
invited  to  meet  president  Harrison,  245. 
Hepworth,  George  H.,  at  banquet,  358. 
Herbert,  Mrs.  Michael  H.,  at  centennial 
ball,  261. 

Herbert,  Mrs.  William,  at  centennial  ball, 
258. 

Herford,  Rev.  Brooke,  officiates  at  cen- 
tennial celebration  services,  Boston, 
4°3- 

Herkimer,  Gen.  Nicholas,  represented  in 

tableau,  civic  parade,  393. 
Hermann,  Binger,  at  banquet,  359. 
Herrick,  Miss  C.  W.,  at  centennial  ball, 

262. 

Herrick,  Jacob  H.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Herrick,  John  V.  B.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Herrick,  Myron  T.,  commissioner  from 
Ohio,  216;  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Herriman,  John,  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414 

Herring,  James,  artist,  portrait  of  Morgan 
Lewis,  facing  39;  notes  on  his  portraits 
77 


of  Oliver  Ellsworth,  445;  general  Knox, 

492;  Morgan  Lewis,  420,  421,  498. 
Herring,  Miss,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 
Herrman,  Sternbach  &  Co.,  subscribers 

to  memorial  arch,  414. 
Herron,  H.  H.,  twenty-ninth  separate 

company,  N.  Y.,  at  militaiy  parade,  339. 
Herron,  John    W.,  commissioner  from 

Ohio,  216. 

Herts,  Abraham  H.,  aide  to  grand-mar- 
shal, military  parade,  320. 

Herts  Brothers,  subscribers  to  celebration, 
401. 

Hess,  Frank  W.,  U.  S.  army,  at  military 

parade,  320. 
Hester,  E.  W.,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  265. 

Hewitt,  Abram  S.,  acknowledgment  to, 
in  preface,  v,  vi,  vii,  mayor  city  of  N.  Y., 
Houdon's  bust  of  Franklin,  propertv  of, 
61,  145,  461;  Ceracchi's  bust  of  Hamil- 
ton, property  of.  95,  145,  472;  chairman 
of  citizens'  committee,  104;  member  of 
general  committee,  107,  114,  236;  chair- 
man of  general  committee,  107,  116, 
178,  1S9;  member  of  executive  commit- 
tee, 10S;  of  plan  and  scope  committee. 
108,  109,  112,  236;  letter  to  president  of 
U.  S.  requesting  the  announcement  of 
the  centennial  of  Washington's  inau- 
guration, be  incorporated  in  the  presi- 
dent's message  to  congress,  118;  mem- 
ber of  publication  committee,  122;  pre- 
sides at  meeting  of  clergymen,  123; 
Houdon's  bust  of  Washington,  property 
of,  145- 

Hewitt,  Peter  C,  member  of  reception 
committee,  231;  at  centennial  ball,  260; 
at  banquet,  356,  358. 

Hewitt,  Mrs.  Peter  C,  at  centennial  ball, 
261. 

Hewlett.  John  D.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Heve,  Gustav,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  247. 

Heyman,  George,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Heyward,  Alice,  granddaughter  of  Ralph 
Izard,  477,  and  note. 

Hibernia  Engine  Company,  at  civic  pa- 
rade, 3S9. 

Hibernian  Society,  Charleston,  S.  C, 
portrait  of  yEdanus  Burke,  property  of, 
facing  100,  432. 

Hibernian  Societies,  at  civic  parade,  395, 

397- 

Hickey,  Patrick  Y..  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Hickey,  Theresa  S. ,  mentioned,  497. 

Hickox,  Charles,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Hicks,  Belden  V.,  sixth  Ohio  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  342. 
Hicks,  Thomas,  artist,  his  portraits  of 

Roger  Sherman,  526,  527. 
Hide  and  Leather  trade,  representatives 

invited  to  meet  president  Harrison, 

246. 

Hiester,  Daniel,  member  of  congress  from 
Pa.,  9,  136,  232  ;  biographical  sketch  of, 


65  ;  portrait,  facing  69  ;  notes  on  the 

portrait  of,  418,  423,  475. 
Hiester,  Isaac,  portrait  of  John  P.  G. 

Muhlenberg,  property   of,   facing  71, 

516  ;  mentioned,  475. 
Hiester,  John  Daniel,  mentioned.  65. 
Hiester,  Samuel  P.,  mentioned,  65,  note. 
Higbee,  William  H.,  subscriber  to centen 

nial  ball,  265. 
Iiiggins,  A.  Foster,   member  of  special 

committee  of  chamber  of  commerce, 

102. 

Higgins,  Andrew  F.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245,  246. 

Higgins,  Anthony,  U.  S.  senator  from 
Delaware,  at  literary  exercises,  289  ;  at 
banquet,  358. 

Higgins,  Eugene,  at  centennial  ball,  261; 
subscriber  to  ball,  265. 

Higgins,  Mary,  delegate  from  Normal 
college,  reception  of  president  Harri- 
son, city  hall,  237. 

Higginson,  Henry  T.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265. 

Higley,  Mrs.  Warren,  at  centennial  ball, 
262. 

Highlanders,  escort  to  Washington,  43  ; 
at  civic  parade,  3S7. 

Hildeburn,  Charles  R.,  acknowledgment 
to,  in  preface,  vi.;  the  Sumner  portrait 
of  Benjamin  Franklin,  457.  note  ;  the 
Ceracchi  bust  of  Franklin,  461. 

Hill,  David  B.,  governor  of  New  York,  at 
naval  parade,  198  ;  welcomes  president 
Harrison  to  New  York,  204,  21S,  219; 
commissioner  of  the  state  to  celebra- 
tion, 214,  21b  ;  guest  of  centennial  com- 
mittee, 225,  227,  229,  234,  235,  238,  240, 
241;  portrait,  facing  190,  234,  236,  335; 
at  reception  to  president  Harrison,  241, 
242  ;  guest  of  Stuyvesant  Fish,  257  ;  at 
centennial  ball,  257,  258  ;  at  literary 
exercises,  289  :  at  military  parade,  334; 
at  banquet,  metropolitan  opera-house, 
35°.  358  ;  his  address  at  banquet,  362, 
3°4. 

Hill,  E.  S.,  fourteenth  Pa.  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  326. 
Hill.  Edwin  M.,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  265. 

Hill,  Elmer,  fifth  N.  J.  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  327. 

Hill,  J.  E.  R.,  first  corps  cadets,  Boston, 
at  military  parade,  329. 

Hill,  Rev.  J.  Wesley,  address  at  Ogden, 
Utah,  406. 

Hill.  James  R.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Hill,  Samuel  E.,  adjutant-general,  Ky.. 
at  military  parade,  341. 

Hillhouse,  Mrs.  Charles  B.,  at  centennial 
ball,  261  ;  subscriber  to  ball,  265. 

Hillhouse,  Thomas,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Hillier,  Alonzo,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Hillyer,  J.  B.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Hilton,  Albert  B.,  aide-de-camp  to  gov. 
Hill,  242  ;  at  banquet,  358. 


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Hilton,   Edward   B.,  at  centennial  ball, 

261 . 

Hilton,  Mrs.  Edward  B.,  at  centennial 
ball,  262. 

Hilton,  Henry,  at  centennial  ball,  261; 

subscriber   to  ball,  265  ;   at  banquet, 

360  ;  subscriber  to  celebration,  400. 
Hilton,  John  F.,  first  battalion,  N.  J.,' 

at  military  parade.  327. 
Hilton,  William  B.,  escort  to  president 

Harrison,  225. 
Hinck  &  Ould,  subscribers  to  celebration, 

401. 

Hincken,  Edward,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Hiadman,  M.  R.,  commissioner  from 
Ky.,  216. 

Hinds,  Marie  K.,  of  choir,  St.  Paul's 
chapel,  271. 

Hine,  E.  H.,  third  battalion,  N.  J.,  at 
military  parade,  327. 

Hine,  Francis  L.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison 224. 

Hinnian,  Matthew,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Htnton,  John  H.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Hippcnmeyer,  Geneva,  delegate  from 
public  school  No.  13,  reception  of  presi- 
dent Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

Hirst,  R.  I.,  U.  S.  army,  at  military 
parade,  321. 

Hiscock,  Frank,  member  of  committee 
on  general  government,  112,  113,  179, 
181,  236;  of  general  committee,  114, 
236  ;  escort  to  president  Harrison,  181, 
225  ;  at  naval  parade,  198  ;  at  Lawyers' 
club  reception,  229  ;  at  banquet  to 
president  Harrison,  234  ;  member  of 
committee  of  U.  S.  senate,  at  reception 
to  president  Harrison,  241  ;  at  centen- 
nial ball,  259  ;  at  literary  exercises,  285, 

259  ;  at  military  parade,  317  ;  at  ban- 
quet, metropolitan  opera  house,  358  ; 
at  reception,  justices  U.  S.  supreme 
court,  402. 

Historical  engravings,  dealers  in,  invited 
to  meet  president  Harrison,  247. 

Hitchcock,  Center,  at  centennial  ball, 
261. 

Hitchcock,  Hiram,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 
Hitchcock,  Thomas,  at  centennial  ball, 

260  ;  at  banquet,  356. 

Hitchcock,  Darling  &  Co.,  subscribers 
to  celebration  and  memorial  arch,  400, 
414. 

Ilitt,  Galen  R.,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  242. 

Hoadley,  Charles  J.,  acknowledgment  to, 
in  preface,  vi. 

lloag,  Daniel  T.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Hoag,  W.  E.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Hoadley,  George,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  248  ;  subscriber  to  me- 
morial arch,  414. 

Hoagland,  C.  N.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 


Hoagland,  Isaac  E.,  old  guard,  N.  Y.,  at 
military  parade,  339. 

Hoar,  George  F.,  U.  S.  senator  from 
Mass.,  at  reception  to  president  Harri 
son,  241  ;  portrait  of  Roger  Sherman, 
property  of,  526. 

Hoard,  William  D.,  governor  of  Wiscon- 
sin, 215,  233  ;  at  reception  to  president 
Harrison,  241  ;  at  banquet,  359. 

Hoare,  William  R.,  consul  of  Great  Brit- 
ain, 248. 

Hobart,  Garret  A.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Hobart,  Nathan,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Hoboken,  N.  J.,  second  regiment  at  mili- 
tary parade,  327  ;  firemen,  at  civic  pa- 
rade, 3S9. 

Hodge,  Casper  W.,  bust  of  Franklin, 
property  of ,  145,  460,  note. 

Hodges,  Alfred,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 224. 

Hodges,  H.,  fourth  Va.  regiment,  at  mil- 
itary parade,  333. 

Hodson,  William,  Franklin  presents  his 
portrait  to,  450. 

Hoe,  Robert,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  247. 

Hoe,  R.  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Hoenig,  George,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 223. 

Hoes,  Rev.  Roswell  R.,  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  224;  mentioned,  506. 

Hoey,  John,  invited  to  meet  President 
Harrison,  246. 

Hoey,  Joseph  E.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Hoffman,  C.  F.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Hoffman,  Charles  B.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265  ;  at  banquet,  358. 

Hoffman,  Rev.  Eugene  A.,  subscriber  to 
memorial  arch,  414. 

Hoffmann,  John  T.,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  105  ;  of  general  committee, 
107  ;  executive  committee,  10S. 

Hoffman,  W.,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 221. 

Hoffman,  Wickham,  member  of  New  York 
society  of  the  Cincinnati,  150. 

Hoguet,  Henry  L.,  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  245,  246. 

Holbein,  Hans,  represented  in  tableau, 
civic  parade,  395. 

Holbrook,  Edward,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  104  ;  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Holbrook,  W.,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  247. 

Holbrook,  Rev.  William  A.,  assistant 
minister  of  St.  Paul's  chapel,  officiates 
at  commemorative  services  of  society 
of  the  Cincinnati,  171,  273. 

Holden,  Daniel  J.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Holden,  Edgar,  member  of  Mass.  society 
of  the  Cincinnati,  at  commemorative 
banquet,  149. 

Holden,   Henry  W.,  member  of  Rhode 


Island  society  of  the  Cincinnati,  at 
commemorative  banquet,  150;  at  liter- 
ary exercises,  2S9. 

1  loll,  William,  engraver  of  portrait  of 
Thomas  Jefferson,  488. 

Holland,  Henry,  thirty  fifth  separate  com- 
pany, N.  Y.,  at  military  parade,  338. 

Holland  Society,  represented  at  reception 
to  president  Harrison,  231,  247. 

Holland,  Thomas,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  222. 

Hollins,  H.  B.,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  me- 
morial arch,  414. 

Hollister,  Henry  II.,  member  of  Rhode- 
Island  society  of  the  Cincinnati,  at 
commemorative  banquet,  150. 

Holloway,  Thomas,  engraver  of  por- 
traits of  Franklin  and  Washington,  462, 
544- 

Holls,  Mrs.  F.  W.,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Holls,  Frederick  W.,  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  247. 

Holly,  Henry  H.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 223. 

Holly,  Eliza,  daughter  of  Alexander  Ham 
ilton,  471,  524. 

Holman,  John  A.,  commissioner  from  In- 
diana, 215. 

Holme,  Leicester,  at  banquet,  360. 

Holmes,  A.  J.,  commissioner  from  Iowa, 
215. 

Holmes,  Artemas  H.,  at  reception,  jus- 
tices U.  S.  supreme  court,  402. 

Holmes,  F.  L.,  twenty-third  N.  Y.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  337. 

Holmes,  Oliver  W.,  extract  from  poem 
by,  363.  38r. 

Holmes,  W.  H.,  eighth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  325. 

Holmes,  Will  W.,  fourteenth  Ohio  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  342 

Holt,  George  C,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 224. 

Holt,  Grace,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 

Holt,  H.  J.,  at  banquet,  360. 

Holt,  Hamilton  B.,  at  literary  exercises, 
289. 

Holt,  Robert  S. ,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  246. 

Holy  Cross  Temperance  Society,  at  civic 
parade,  397. 

Holy  Name  Societies,  N.  Y.,  at  civic  pa- 
rade, 397. 

Homans,  Sheppard,  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  246. 

Homer,  William  McP.,  escort  to  pres- 
ident Harrison,  232. 

Hone,  John,  Jr.,  member  of  floor  commit- 
tee, centennial  ball,  259  ;  at  banquet, 
358. 

Hone.  Philip,  describes  the  semi-centen- 
nial celebration  of  Washington's  inaugu- 
ration, 99  ;  portrait  of  Lafayette,  prop- 
erty of,  493. 

Hone,  Robert  G..  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265, 

Honey,  Samuel  R.,  portrait  of  Gilbert 
Stuart,  properly  of,  99,  145,  531. 

Hood,  Calvin,  commissioner  from  Kan 
sas,  216. 


INDEX. 


Hoogland,  William,  engraver  of  portrait 
of  Hamilton,  472,  note. 

Hooker,  Mary,  mentioned,  540. 

Hooker,  Rev.  Samuel,  mentioned,  540. 

Hooker,  Rev  .  Thomas,  first  minister  of 
Hartford,  Conn.,  540. 

Hoon,  Samuel,  eighth  Ohio  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  342. 

Hoosick  Falls,  N.  Y.,  thirty-second  sepa- 
rate company,  at  military  parade,  337. 

Hope  Engine  Company,  at  civic  parade, 
389. 

Hope  Hose  Company,  at  civic  parade,  389. 
Hope,  M.  M.,  commissioner  from  Tenn., 
216. 

Hopkins,  Franklin  W.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265. 

Hopkins,  Owen  J.,  first  artillery,  Ohio, 
at  military  parade,  343. 

Hopkins,  Rev.  Perry,  favors  holding 
religious  services  April  30,  1889,  123. 

Hopkins,  Steven  T.,  member  of  con- 
gress from  N.  Y.,  242. 

Hopkinson,  Francis,  mentioned,  542. 

Hopkinson,  Mrs.  Joseph,  portrait  of, 
mentioned,  531. 

Hopkins,  Leonard  S.  R.,  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  265. 

Hopkinson  Oliver,  portrait  of  George 
Washington,  property  of,  542. 

Hopson,  Francis  J.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Hopwood,  J.,  engraver  of  portrait  of 
Franklin,  462. 

Horn,  Charles  E.,  mentioned,  98. 

Hornblower,  William  B.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  244;  at  reception 
to  justices  U.  S.  supreme  court,  402. 

Horner,  Edward  H.,  subscriber  to  Wall 
street  arch,  253. 

Horner,  James  B.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  221,  253. 

Horner,  William  M.,  member  of  Pa.  so- 
ciety of  the  Cincinnati,  at  commemora- 
tive banquet,  151. 

Hornidge,  William  H.,  member  of  as- 
sembly, N.  Y  ,  243. 

Horsman,  Edward  I.,  subscriber  to  cen 
tennial  ball,  265. 

Horton,  Henry  L. ,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Horton,  J.  C. ,  ninth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  324. 

Horton,  Jere  W.,  colonel  Newport  artil- 
lery, at  military  parade,  340. 

Horton,  W.  S.,  sixteenth  Pa.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  326. 

Hosack,  David,  portrait  and  bust  of  Alex- 
ander Hamilton,  property  of,  472  ; 
mentioned,  483. 

Hoss,  E.  Embry,  commissioner  from 
Tenn.,  216. 

Hotchkiss,  Horace  L. ,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  245. 

Hotmer,  Mary,  delegate  from  Normal 
college,  reception  of  president  Harri- 
rison,  city  hall,  237. 

Houdon,  Jean  Antoine,  sculptor,  illustra- 
tions of  his  busts  of  Franklin,  61,  fac- 
ing   524  ;   Jefferson,   131  ;  Lafayette, 


189  ;  Washington,  1,  statue,  149  ;  notes 
on  his  busts  of  Franklin,  145,  421,  461  ; 
Hamilton,  473  ;  Jay,  483  ;  Jefferson, 
421,  489;  Lafayette,  421,  493;  Madi- 
son, 507  ;  Washington,  145,  542,  (statue) 
543- 

Houget,  F.,  third  Pa.  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  324. 

Hough,  J.  Stockton,  at  centennial  ball, 
26 1. 

Houghtaling,  D.,  at  banquet,  358. 

Houghtating,  D.  H.,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to 
Wall  street  arch,  253. 

Houghton,  Frank  R.,  at  centennial  ball, 
261  ;  subscriber  to  ball,  265. 

I  loughton,  J.  R.,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 

Houston,  H.  H.,  portrait  of  Gilbert  Stu- 
art, property  of,  531. 

Houston,  Mrs.,  attends  assembly  ball, 
1789,  59- 

Houston,  William,  member  of  federal 
convention,  1787,  136. 

Houston,  William  C,  member  of  federal 
convention,  1787,  136. 

Hovey,  Alvin  P.,  governor  of  Indiana, 
214,  233  ;  at  reception  to  president 
Harrison,  241  ;  at  banquet,  359. 

Hovey,  Judson  II.,  seventeenth  Ohio  reg 
iment,  at  military  parade,  343. 

How,  Sarah,  at  reception  to  George  Wash- 
ington, Trenton,  N.  J.,  26,  note. 

Howard,  Bronson,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  244. 

Howard,  James,  adjutant-general  of  Md., 
at  military  parade,  330  ;  portrait,  331  ; 
at  banquet,  301. 

Howard,  L.  S.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Howard,  Gen.  Oliver  O.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  248  ;  at  centennial 
ball,  257  ;  at  banquet,  361. 

Howard,  T.  H.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Howe,  James  C,  colonel  second  Ohio 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  342. 

Howe,  Walter,  aqueduct  commissioner, 
N.  Y.,  243  ;  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  244  ;  at  banquet,  360. 

Howell,  Alexander  J.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265. 

Howell,  B.  H.,  Son  &  Co.,  subscribers 
to  Wall  street  arch,  253. 

Howell,  Benjamin  H.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  246. 

Howell,  Charles  P.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Howell,  E.  G.,  first  N.  C.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  340. 

Howell,  Franklin  D.,  member  of  New 
Jersey  society  of  the  Cincinnati,  at 
commemorative  banquet,  150. 

Howell,  Joseph,  Jr.,  paymaster-general, 
135- 

Howell,  Col.  Richard,  author  of  ode  to 
Washington,  his  services,  26,  note. 

Howell,  Sarah  B.,  at  reception  to  George 
Washington,  Trenton,  N.  J.,  26,  note. 

Howell,  Thomas  S.,  at  banquet,  359. 

Howells,  William  D.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  244. 


I  lowland,  Gardiner  G. ,  invited  to  meet 

president  Harrison,  245. 
Howland,   Henry    E. ,  invited    to  meet 

president  Harrison,  244  ;  member  of 

floor  committee,  centennial  ball,  259  ; 

subscriber  to  ball,  265  ;  at  banquet,  360. 
Howland,  John,  at   celebration    of  the 

semi-centennial  of  Washington's  inau- 
guration, 96. 
Howland,  Meredith,  member  of  reception 

committee,  230. 
Hoxie,  William  E. ,  escort  to  president 

Harrison,  223. 
Hoyt,  Albert,  artist,    portrait  of  Gen. 

Knox,  painted  by,  492. 
Hoyt,  Gerald  L.,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  265. 

Hoyt,  H.  L. ,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  cele- 
bration, 401. 

Hoyt,  Mrs.  Henry,  portrait  of  William 
Duer,  property  of,  444. 

Hoyt,  James  A.,  commissioner  from  S.  C, 
216,  233  ;  at  banquet,  360. 

Hoyt,  Jesse,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
265. 

Hoyt,  William,  invited  to  meet  president 

Harrison,  246. 
Hoyt  Brothers,  subscribers  to  memorial 

arch,  414. 

Hubard,  William  J.,  aitist,  his  portrait  of 
Charles  Carroll,  faring  97  ;  number  of 
portraits  of  congressmen  painted  by, 
419;  notes  on  the  Carroll  portrait,  421, 
434- 

Hubbard,  Faith  W.  S.,  portraits  of  Jona- 
than Trumbull,  and  wife,  property  of, 
facing  82,  535. 

Hubbard,  Oliver  P.,  portraits  of  Faith 
and  Jonathan  Trumbull,  property  of, 
534.  535- 

Hubbell,  W.  H.,  forty-seventh  N.  Y.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  337. 

Hudd,  T.  R.,  commissioner  from  Wis- 
consin 216. 

Hudgins,  H.  C,  colonel  fourth  Va.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  333. 

Hudson  Engine  Company,  at  civic  parade, 
389- 

Hudson,  Henry,  represented  in  tableau, 

civic  parade,  386. 
Hudson  Maenncrchor,  at  Madison  square 

concert,  350. 
Hudson,  N.Y.,  twenty-third  separate  com- 
pany, at  military  parade,  338. 
Hudson,  Susan  E.  J  ,  portrait  of  William 

S.  Johnson,  property  of,  facing  78,  490. 
Huger,  Daniel,  Sr.,  mentioned,  80. 
Huger,  Daniel,  member  of  congress  from 

S.  C,  37,  136,  232;  biographical  sketch 

of,  80;  portrait,  facing  102;  notes  on  the 

portraits  of,  418,  423,  475. 
Huger,   William  E.,  portrait  of  Daniel 

Huger,  property  of,  facing,  102,  475. 
Hughes,  Dixon  G.,  member  of  New  York 

society  of  the  Cincinnati,  at  commemn 

rative  banquet,  150. 
Hughes,   Hugh,    member  of  assembly, 

N.  Y.,  242. 
Hughes,  J.  T.,  second  Pa.  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  323. 


6o4       THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


Hughes,  James,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Hughes,  Richard  I).,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265. 

Hughes,  Robert  P.,  U.  S.  army,  248. 

Hughes,  W.  H.  T.,  tenders  use  of  pier  a 
foot  of  Wall  street  to  committee,  218, 
219;  aide  to  chairman  of  committee  on 
states,  220;  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 220;  invited  to  meet  the  president, 
246. 

Hughes,  William,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Hughes,  William  P.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265. 

Ilulin,  \.  S.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Ilulings,  W.  J.,  colonel  sixteenth  Pa. 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  325. 

Hull,  Harmon  D.,  aide  to  grand  marshal, 
military  parade,  320. 

Humboldt,  Baron  von,  represented  in 
tableau,  civic  parade,  394. 

Hume,  A.  K.,  sixty-fifth  N.  Y.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  339. 

Humor  Singing  Society,  at  Madison 
square  concert,  350. 

Humphrey,  H.  C,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Humphrey,  Lyman  V.,  governor  of  Kan- 
sas, 233. 

Humphreys,  A.  W.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Humphreys,  Col.  David,  accompanies 
Washington  on  his  journey  from  Mount 
Vernon,  to  N.  Y.,  21,  22  ;  represented 
in  a  caricature,  39,  note  ;  escort  to 
Washington,  43,  57;  assistant  secretary 
to  Washington,  136  ;  portraits,  painted 
by  R.  Pcale,  facing  155  ;  Stuart,  33  ; 
Trumbull,  158  ;  notes  on  the  portraits 
of,  422,  475. 

Humphreys,  F.,  portrait  of  Gen.  David 
Humphreys,  property  of,  475. 

Humphreys,  Rev.  Frank  L.,  escort  to 
president  Harrison.  224. 

Humphreys,  Frederick,  subscriber  to 
memorial  arch,  414. 

Humphreys,  John  J.,  Bendix  post,  G.  A. 
R.,  escort  to  president  Harrison,  221  ; 
at  military  parade,  346. 

Humphreys,  Solon,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Hungarian  Sharpshooters,  at  civic  parade, 
393- 

Hungarian  Scheutzen  Bund,  at  civic  pa- 
rade, 388. 

Hunt,  Alfred  E.  N.,  captain  battery  B, 

Pa.,  at  military  parade,  326. 
Hunt,  Carleton,  portrait  of  Mrs.  Margaret 

B.  Livingston,  property  of,  facing  172, 

501. 

Hunt,  J.  L.  N.,  at  literary  exercises,  289. 

Hunt,  the  Misses,  portrait  of  Mrs.  Mar- 
garet B.  Livingston,  property  of,  facing 
172,  501. 

Hunt,  Richard  M.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  244  ;  at  banquet,  360  ; 
member  of  memorial  arch  committee, 
408,  409;  subscriber  to  arch,  414. 


Hunt,  W.  A.,  Butler  guards,  S.  C.,  at 
military  parade,  331. 

Hunt,  William  L.,  Louisville  legion,  at 
military  parade,  341. 

Hunt,  William  M.,  artist,  his  portrait  of 
Jonathan  Trumbull,  535. 

Hunt,  Wilson  G.,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  103  ;  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245  ;  subscriber  to  cele- 
bration, 401. 

Hunter,  E.,  commissioner  from  Washing- 
ton Territory,  216. 

Hunter,  Harry  H.,  third  Ohio  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  342. 

Hunter,  John  W.,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  104. 

Hunter,  Thomas,  president  of  Normal 
college,  at  reception  to  president  Har- 
rison, city  hall,  237;  invited  to  meet  the 
president,  244. 

Hunter,  W.  C,  first  Ohio  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  342. 

Huntington,  Benjamin,  member  of  con- 
gress from  Conn.,  8,  135,  232 ;  biographi- 
cal sketch  of,  72  ;  portraits,  facing  80; 
notes  on  the  portraits,  419,  423,  476,  481. 
note. 

Huntington,  Collis  P.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  245. 

Huntington,  Daniel,  Sr.,  mentioned,  72. 

Huntington,  Daniel,  artist,  portraits  of 
Benjamin  Huntington  and  Mrs.  Jay, 
painted  by,  facing  80,  158;  member  of 
citizens'  committee,  103  ;  of  general 
committee,  108,  114,  236;  art  commit- 
tee, 109,  113,  131,  134,  142,236,409; 
chairman  protein,  of  art  committee,  132; 
at  reception  to  president  Harrison,  232, 
244;  at  centennial  ball,  261;  at  banquet, 
361  ;  subscriber  to  celebration,  401  ; 
member  of  memorial  arch  committee, 
409;  portrait,  413  ;  notes  on  the  por- 
traits of  Benjamin  Huntington,  and 
Mrs.  Jay,  painted  by,  413,  419,  476,  483. 

Huntington,  Mrs.  Edward,  portrait  of 
Benjamin  Huntington,  property  of, 
facing  80,  476. 

Huntington,  Frederick  J.,  member  of  New 
York  society  of  the  Cincinnati,  at  com- 
memorative banquet,  150. 

Huntington,  W.  H.,  his  collection  of  por- 
traits of  Franklin,  449,  458,  462,  541. 

Huntington,  Rev.  William  R.,  favors 
holding  religious  services  April  30, 
1889,  123. 

Huntington  &  Dorn,  subscribers  to  Wall 

street  arch,  253. 
Huntting,  Henry  E. ,  member  of  assembly, 

N.  Y.,  242. 
Hurd,  George  B.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 
Hurlbut,  Percy  D.,  escort  to  president 

Harrison,  224. 
Hurlbut,   William   11.,    invited  to  meet 

president  Harrison,  247. 
Hurrell,  Grace  C,  delegate  from  public 

school  No.  2,  reception  of  president 

Harrison,  city  hall,  237. 
Hurry,   E.  A.,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  265. 


Hurst,  Francis  W.  J.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  246. 

Hurtado,  Jose  M.,  minister  from  Colom- 
bia, invited  to  centennial  ball,  257;  at 
banquet,  361. 

Husscy,  George  A.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  222,  223. 

Husted,  James  W.,  member  of  committee 
on  states,  109,  113,  206,  207,  208,  209, 
220,  228,  236,  249  ;  of  general  commit- 
tee, 114,  236;  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 220;  at  banquet  to  the  president, 
234,  243  ;  portrait,  facing  234  ;  sub- 
scriber to  centennial  ball,  265  ;  at  liter- 
ary exercises,  289;  at  banquet  metro- 
politan opera  house,  359. 

Husted,  James  W.,  Jr..  member  of  recep- 
tion committee,  230. 

Husted,  William  H.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265;  at  banquet,  360. 

Hutchings,  E.  W.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Hutchings,  George  L.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265. 

Hutchins,  Rev  H.,  favors  holding  relig- 
ious services,  April  30,  18S9,  123. 

Hutchins,  Sol.,  Richmond  Blues,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  333. 

Hutchins,  Stillson,  commissioner  from 
N.  H,,  216. 

Hutchins,  Waldo,  park  commissioner, 
243;  address  at  laying  of  corner-stone, 
memorial  arch,  409. 

Hutchinson,  Perry,  commissioner  from 
Kansas,  216. 

Huttman,  Berend  H.,  of  the  loyal  legion, 
252. 

Hutton,  Laurence,  plaster  cast  of  face  of 

Franklin,  property  of,  461. 
Huyler,  John  S.,  subscriber  to  celebration, 

401. 

Hyames,  Gussie,  delegate  from  public- 
school  No.  76,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

Hyatt,  Charles,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 221. 

Hyatt,  Charles  E.,  Phil  Kearney  post, 
G.  A.  R.,  at  military  parade,  345. 

Hyatt,  J.  L.,  tenth  battalion,  N.  Y.,  at 
military  parade,  337. 

Hyde,  E.  J.,  escort  to  president  Harrison, 
222. 

Hyde,  Frank  E.,  commissioner  from 
Conn.  ,215. 

Hyde,  Henry  B.,  member  of  committee 
on  finance,  112,  113,  236,  398,  of  gen- 
eral committee,  114,  228,  236;  invited 
to  meet  president  Harrison,  246  ;  at 
centennial  ball,  261;  subscriber  to  cele- 
bration, and  memorial  arch,  400,  414. 

Hyde.  James  IL,  member  of  reception 
committee,  230. 

Hyde,  Russell  D.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Hyde,  W.  W.  commander  sons  of  vet- 
erans, civic  parade,  386. 

Hyndman,  William,  commissioner  from 
Idaho,  216  ;  at  banquet,  359. 

Hyssell,  James  B.,  sixth  Ohio  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  342. 


fXDHX. 


605 


Ice  Industry,  represented,  civic  parade, 
396. 

Idaho,  commissioners  from,  216,  233. 
Ide,  Charles  W.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 
Illinois,  commissioner  from,    208,  213, 

215.  233  i  admitted  into  the  union,  233; 
troops  at  military  parade,  343,  346  ; 
sons  of  the  American  revolution  of, 
organize,  402. 

Imlay,  Wessel  Ten  Broeck  S.,  member  of 
Mew  Jersey  society  of  the  Cincinnati, 
at  commemorative  banquet,  150;  escort 
to  president  Harrison,  224. 

Importers  and  Grocers'  Exchange,  mem- 
bers invited  to  meet  president  Harri- 
son, 245. 

Independence  Engine  Company,  at  civic 

parade.  3S9. 
Independent  Rifles,  at  civic  parade,  393. 
Indian    Territory,    commissioner  from, 

216.  233. 

Indiana,  governor  and  commissioners, 
214,  216,  233  ;  admitted  into  the  union, 
233- 

Indians,  represented  in  tableau,  civic  pa- 
rade, 387. 

Industrial  Parade,  see  civic  parade. 

Ingalls,  John  J.,  U.  S.  senator  from  Kan- 
sas, at  reception  to  president  Harrison, 
241  ;  at  centennial  ball,  259  ;  at  literary 
exercises,  2S9  ;  at  banquet,  359. 

Ingalls,  Phineas  H.,  aide  to  grand  mar- 
shal, military  parade,  320. 

Ingalls,  William  B.  B.,  at  literary  exer- 
cises, 289. 

Ingersoll,  Bertha,  describes  the  crowded 
condition  of  X.  Y.  with  visitors.  April, 
1789.  41. 

Ingersoll,  Rev.  Edward  P.,  favors  holding 
religious  services  April  30,  1S89,  123  ; 
escort  to  president  Harrison,  224. 

Ingersoll,  Henry  McL.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265. 

Ingersoll,  Jared,  member  of  federal  con- 
vention, 1787,  136. 

Ingham,  Charles  C,  artist,  his  portraits 
of  Lafayette  and  Catharine  M.  Sedg- 
wick, 494,  525,  note. 

Ingraham,  Duncan  N.,  mentioned,  495. 

Ingraham,  Edward  D.,  portrait  of  Ben- 
jamin Franklin,  property  of,  455. 

Ingraham,  George  L.,  judge  superior 
court,  243  ;  at  banquet,  358  ;  at  recep- 
tion to  justices  U.  S.  supreme  court, 
402. 

Ingraham,  William  M.,  portrait  of  Joshua 
Seney,  property  of,  facing,  99,  525. 

Inman,  Henry,  artist,  illustrations  of  por- 
traits painted  by,  of  Nicholas  Fish,  fac- 
ing 41;  Mrs.  Alexander  Hamilton,  fac- 
ing 57;  Morgan  Lewis,  facing  39;  Rich- 
ard Varick,  facing  36,  168;  notes  on  his 
portraits  of,  William  Duer,  444;  Mrs. 
William  Few,  446;  Nicholas  Fish,  144, 
421,  446;  Hamilton,  472;  Mrs.  Hamil- 
ton, 421,  473;  Samuel  Johnston,  490; 
Morgan  Lewis,  421,  498;  Madison,  506; 
Jacob  Morton,  515  ;  Richard  Varick, 
145,  421.  537.  538. 


Inman,  John  H.,  member  of  special  com- 
mittee of  chamber  of  commerce,  102; 
invited  to  meet  president  Harrison,  245; 
at  banquet,  360. 

Inman,  Swann  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  cele- 
bration, 400. 

Inness,  George,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  244. 

Insurance  Companies,  representatives  of, 
invited  to  meet  president  Harrison,  246. 

Iowa,  governor  and  commissioners  of,  214, 
215,  233;  admitted  into  the  union,  233. 

Iredell,  James,  governor  of  N.  C„  judge 
U.  S.  supreme  court,  490,  note. 

Ireland,  John  B.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 224;  at  banquet,  359;  subscriber 
to  memorial  arch,  414. 

Ireland,  John  De  C,  member  of  New 
York  society  of  the  Cincinnati,  150. 

Irish-American  League,  at  civic  parade, 
395- 

Irish-American  Societies,  at  civic  parade, 
397- 

Irish  Papal  Veterans,  at  civic  parade,  397. 

Irish  Volunteers,  at  civic  parade,  386. 

Iron  Trade,  representatives  invited  to 
meet  president  Harrison,  246. 

Iron-workers,  at  civic  parade,  396. 

Irvine,  Robert  J.  C,  U.  S.  army,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  320. 

Irving,  Washington,  mentioned,  45,  note; 
at  inauguration  of  Washington,  51,  note; 
his  letter  relative  to  the  Jarvis  portrait 
of  John  Randolph,  522,  note. 

Irwin,  Lulu  M.,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  49,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

Irwin,  Theodore,  at  banquet,  360. 

Isaacs,  Esther,  delegate  from  public  school 
No.  24.  reception  of  president  Harrison, 
city  hall,  238. 

Isaacs,  George  W.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Isaacs,  Myer  S.,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  244. 

Isaacson,  H.  M.,  Washington  artillery, 
La.,  at  military  parade,  343. 

Iselin,  Adrian,  member  of  general  com- 
mittee, 114,  236;  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245;  at  centennial,  260; 
subscriber  to  ball,  265;  at  banquet,  356, 
358;  subscriber  to  celebration,  400. 

Iselin,  Adrian,  &  Co  ,  subscribers  to  me- 
morial arch,  414. 

Iselin,  Adrian,  Jr.,  at  banquet,  358. 

Iselin,  Columbus  O'D.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265;  at  banquet,  356. 

Iselin,  Isaac,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265;  at  banquet,  358. 

Iselin,  William  E.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Isham.  Charles,  portrait  of  major  David 
Van  Home,  property  of,  facing  42,  537; 
member  of  general  committee,  114,  236; 
at  centennial  ball,  261;  subscriber  to 
ball,  265;  at  banquet,  360. 

Isham,  Charles  H.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Isham,  Mrs.  Charles  H.,  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  265. 


Isidor,  S.,  escort  to  president  Harrison, 
223. 

Ismay,  J.  Bruce,  invited  to  meet  president 

Harrison,  246. 
Ismay,  Mrs.  I.  Bruce,  at  centennial  ball, 

261. 

Israel,  Selina,  delegate  from  public  school 
No.  7,  reception  of  president  Harrison, 
city  hall,  238. 

Italian  Societies,  at  civic  parade,  392. 

Italy,  represented  in  tableau,  civic  parade, 
392. 

Ives,  Brayton,  member  of  citizens'  com- 
mittee, 104;  of  general  committee,  108, 
114,  236;  executive  committee,  108; 
chairman  of  finance  committee,  109,  113, 
236,  398,  400;  at  reception  to  president 
Harrison,  231;  at  banquet  to  the  presi- 
dent, 234;  portrait,  facing  234;  at  cen- 
tennial ball,  260  ;  subscriber  to  ball, 
265  ;  at  banquet,  metropolitan  opera- 
house,  356,  360;  report  on  finances  of 
the  celebration,  398. 

Ives,  Mrs.  Brayton,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 

Ives,  Brayton  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  cele- 
bration, 400. 

Ives,  Edward  R.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Ives,  Eugene  S.,  state  senator  N.  Y.,  242. 

Ives,  Miss,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 

Ivison,  Henry,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Ivison,  Blakeman  &  Co.,  subscribers  to 
memorial  arch,  414. 

Ivory,  Lindsay  C,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Izard,  Henry,  mentioned,  80. 

Izard,  Ralph,  U.  S.  senator  from  S.  C, 
6,  38,  135,  232  ;  one  of  the  committee 
to  escort  John  Adams  to  the  senate,  18; 
escort  to  Washington,  42  ;  his  remarks 
in  congress  on  the  mode  of  receiving 
the  president  of  the  U.  S. ,  43  ;  his  res- 
idence illuminated  on  the  evening  of 
Washington's  inauguration,  57  ;  bio- 
graphical sketch  of,  80;  portraits, 
painted  by  Copley,  facing  I  So;  Meyer, 
477;  Trumbull,  100;  West,  180;  Zoff- 
any,  100  ;  notes  on  the  portraits  of,  418, 
421,  422,  423,  476. 

Izard,  Mrs.  Ralph,  portraits,  painted  by 
Copley,  facing  180;  Gainsborough,  59; 
Malbone,  262;  and  unknown,  73  ;  notes 
on  the  portraitsof,  144,420,421,423,47s. 

Izard,  Walter,  portrait  of  Ralph  Izard, 
property  of,  facing,  180,  477. 

Jacinet,  engraver  of  portrait  of  Benjamin 
Franklin,  451. 

Jackson.  Ann  Willing,  mentioned,  479. 

Jackson,  Cornelia,  at  centennial  ball,  260. 

Jackson,  Elihu  E.,  governor  of  Md.,  214, 
233,  241,  331,  360  ;  illness  prevents  his 
attendance  at  the  celebration,  331,  note. 

Jackson,  Frederick  W. ,  aide  to  chairman 
of  committee  on  railroads  and  trans- 
portation, 120  ;  member  of  N.  J.  so- 
ciety of  the  Cincinnati,  150;  at  ban- 
quet, 358. 


THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


lackson,  Henry,  commissioner  from  Ga., 
215  ;  at  centennial  ball,  260. 

lackson,  Ida  L.,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  2,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  237. 

Jackson,  Jacob  B.,  commissioner  from 
West  Va.,  216. 

Jackson,  James,  Sr.,  mentioned,  71. 

Jackson,  James,  member  of  congress 
from  Ga.,  37,  135,  232;  biographical 
sketch  of,  71  ;  portraits,  painted  by 
Maicr  and  St.  Mcmin,  facing  76  ;  notes 
on  the  portraits  of,  419,  422,  47S. 

Jackson,  Joseph  C,  member  of  general 
committee,  114,  237  ;  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224  ;  at  banquet  to  president 
Harrison,  231,  234  ;  at  centennial  ball, 
257;  subscriber  to  ball,  265  ;  at  banquet, 
metropolitan  opera-house,  360;  aide  to 
grand  marshal,  military  parade,  319. 

Jackson,  Joseph  C,  Jr.,  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  224;  member  of  recep- 
tion committee,  ancestry  of,  231. 

Jackson,  Lewis  B.,  member  of  Pa.  soci- 
ety of  the  Cincinnati,  at  commemora- 
tive banquet,  151. 
Jackson,  Oswald,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247  ;  at  centennial  ball, 
261. 

Jackson,  Richard  H.,  U.  S.  army,  at 
military  parade,  320. 

Jackson,  Rosalie  V.  T.,  portrait  of  Ben- 
jamin Franklin,  property  of,  456,  facing 
484. 

Jackson,  Major  William,  portraits,  painted 
by  C.  W.  Peale,  and  Trumbull,  facing 
42  ;  secretary  of  federal  convention, 
candidate  for  secretary  of  U.  S.  senate, 
51,  note;  aide-de-camp  to  Washington, 
136;  notes  on  the  portraits  of,  422,  479. 

Jackson,  Mrs.  William,  portrait,  painted 
by  Stuart,  facing  262  ;  notes  on  the 
portraits  of,  422,  479. 

Jackson,  William  II.,  escort  to  president  » 
Harrison,  223,  224  ;   invited   to  meet 
president  Harrison,  247. 

Jackson,  William  II.,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to 
celebration,  401. 

Jackson,  Wolcott,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Jacobi,  Abraham,  M.  D.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  244,  247. 

Jacobs,  H.,  sixth  Pa.  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  324. 

Jacobs,  Rev.  Henry  S.,  favors  holding 
religious  services  April  30,  1889,  123  ; 
invited  to  meet  president  Harrison,  244. 

Jacobs,  W.  O.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Jacobus,  John  W.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247  ;  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  205  ;  aide  to  grand  mar- 
shal, military  parade,  320. 

Jacobus,  P.  II.,  second  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  323. 

Jacquemart,  Jules,  engraver  of  portrait  of 
Thomas  Jefferson,  489. 

laffray,  Edward  S.,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  104  ;  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent I  [arrison,  246. 


Jahn,  1'rcdcrick  L.,  represented  in  tableau, 
civic  parade,  395. 

Jahn,  Gustave  A.,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to 
Wall  street  arch,  253. 

Jamack,  Joseph,  of  Bohemian  national 
association,  at  civic  parade,  396. 

James,  Agnes,  delegate  from  public-  school 
No.  28,  reception  of  president  Harrison, 
city  hall,  238. 

James,  D.  Willis,  member  of  general  com- 
mittee, 108,  114,  236  ;  of  committee  on 
navy,  109,  113,  189,  190,  191,  236  ;  por- 
trait, facing  190 ;  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  199,  200  ;  at  centennial  ball, 
261  ;  subscriber  to  ball,  265  ;  at  banquet, 
361  ;  subscriber  to  celebration  and  me- 
morial arch,  400,  413. 

James,  Darwin  R.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

James,  Henry,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

James,  Thomas  L.,  member  of  citizens' 

committee,  103. 
Jameson,  J.  C,  at  banquet,  358. 
Jamestown,   N.   Y.,   thirteenth  separate 

company,  at  military  parade,  339. 
Jamestown,  United  States  training  ship,  at 

naval  parade,  196,  201  ;  view  of,  196. 
Janeway,  George,  ass't  alderman,  N.  Y., 

1789,  229. 

Janinent,  Franz,  artist,  his  portrait  of 
Franklin,  420,  421,  459,  facing  524. 

Japha,  S.  E.,  ninth  N.  Y.,  regiment,  at  mil- 
itary parade,  335. 

Jardine,  Joseph  P.,  aide  to  grand  mar- 
shal, military  parade,  320. 

Jarrett,  Arthur  R.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Jarvis,  John  Wesley,  artist,  illustrations 
of  portraits  painted  by,  of  Pierrepont 
Edwards,  facing  160  ;  William  S.  John- 
son, facing  78  ;  Jacob  Morton,  facing  42  ; 
John  Randolph,  facing  160  ;  Pierre  Van 
Cortlandt,  facing  166  ;  number  of  por- 
traits of  congressmen  painted  by,  419  ; 
notes  on  his  portraits  of  Egbert  Benson, 
428  ;  Pierrepont  Edwards,  421,  444  ; 
Thomas  Jefferson,  485  ;  William  S. 
Johnson,  421,  4S9  ;  Robert  Morris,  514  ; 
Jacob  Morton,  145,  421,  514  ;  John  Ran- 
dolph, 421,  521  ;  Pierre  Van  Cortlandt, 
421,  536  ;  John  J.  Van  Rensselaer,  537  ; 
Hugh  Williamson,  550  ;  Van  den  Heu- 
vel,  550. 

Jarvis,  Lilian  A.,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  49,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

Jasper,  John,  superintendent  of  public 
schools,  at  reception  to  president  Har- 
rison, city  hall,  237,  244. 

Jay,  Augustus,  portrait  of  John  Jay,  prop- 
erty of,  facing  31,  144,  479  ;  sits  for  un- 
finished portrait  of  John  Jay,  480. 

Jay,  Elizabeth  C,  sword  worn  by  John 
Jay,  property  of,  152  ;  owner  of  the  por- 
traits of  major  Matthew  Clarkson,  438  ; 
John  Jay,  479  ;  Mrs.  John  Jay,  facing 
158,  483. 

Jay,  John,  chief  justice,  in  favor  of  the 
adoption  of  the  constitution,  one  of  the 


authors  of  the  federalist,  3 ;  John  Adams, 
guest  of,  18,  49;  escort  to  Washington, 
28,  42,  43;  guests  at  dinner  given  by, 
178S,  32,  note;  invites  Washington  to 
be  his  guest,  36,  note;  calls  on  Wash- 
ington, 58;  attends  assembly  ball,  1789, 
58;  his  gold  watch  and  snuff-box,  97, 
98;  chief  justice  U.  S.,  136,  232;  sword 
carried  by  him  in  the  doctor's  mob, 

1788,  152  ;  his  gold  headed  cane,  168; 
warden  of  Trinity  church,  N.  Y.,  1789, 
282,  283;  extract  from  address  of,  362, 
364  ;  represented  in  tableau,  civic  pa- 
rade, 3S6,  396. 

 portraits  of,  painted  by,  Du  Simi- 

tiere,  facing  172;  C.  W.  Peale,  155; 
Stuart,  31,  155,  156;  Trumbull,  31;  un- 
known, 152  ;  West,  31  ;  Wright,  31  ; 
notes  on  portraits,  420,  479,  4S0. 

  sculpture,  bust  by  Ceracchi,  too  ; 

notes  on  sculpture,  483. 

Jay,   Mrs.  John,  attends  assembly  ball, 

1789,  5S;  portraits  painted  by  Hunting- 
ton, and  Pine,  facing  158  ;  notes  on 
the  portraits  of,  422,  483. 

Jay,  John,  acknowledgment  to,  in  pref- 
ace, vi,  gold  watch  of  chief  justice  Jay, 
property  of,  97;  member  of  committee 
of  N.  Y.  historical  society,  105;  of  gen- 
eral committee,  107,  114,  236;  of  gen- 
eral government,  109,  113,  178,  181, 
219,  225,  236  ;  fac-simile  of  his  ticket, 
art  exhibition,  134  ;  gold  headed  cane 
of  chief  justice  Jay,  property  of,  168; 
escort  to  president  Harrison,  181,  225; 
at  reception  to  president  Harrison,  232; 
subscriber  to  centennial  ball,  265  ;  at 
literary  exercises,  289;  at  banquet,  met- 
ropolitan opera  house,  359;  subscriber 
to  celebration,  401. 

  owner  of   the  portraits  of,  Maria 

Banyer,  facing  149  ;  Egbert  Benson, 
facing  65,  123,  144,  429  ;  Hamil- 
ton, facing  26,  144,  469  ;  chief  jus- 
tice John  Jay,  144,  facing  156,  479, 
480;  Mrs.  Jay,  facing  158,  483;  Peter 
Augustus  Jay,  144  ;  Sarah  L.  Jay, 
facing  149;  William  Jay,  144;  Stephen 
Van  Rensselaer,  145,  480  ;  the  paint- 
ing, U.  S.  commissioners  of  1782,  482; 
and  statuette  of  chief  justice  Jay,  482. 

Jay,  Mrs.  John,  at  centennial  ball, 
261. 

Jay,  John  C,  gold  snuff  box  of  chief  jus- 
tice Jay,  property  of,  98;  owner  of  the, 
portraits  of  major  Matthew  Clarkson, 
438;  o:  chief  justice  Jay,  facing  155 
480;  of  George  Washington,  facing  10, 

144,  541.  545- 

Jay,  John  C,  Jr.,  M.  D.,  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison, 224;  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  244;  member  of  aisle 
committee,  St.  Paul's  chapel,  272,  2S1, 
282,  283;  ancestry  of,  283. 

Jay,  Peter  A.,  portrait  at  loan  exhibition, 
144;  mentioned,  479,  480,  483. 

Jay,  Mrs.  Peter  A.,  portrait  of  major 
Matthew  Clarkson,  painted  by,  438. 

Jay,  Sarah  L.,  portrait  of,  at  loan  exhibi- 
tion, facing  149;  mentioned,  483. 


INDli.X. 


607 


Jay,  William,  judge,  portrait  at  loan  ex- 
hibition, 144;  mentioned,  480,  483. 
Jay,  William,  member  of  citizens'  com- 
mittee, 103;  of  committee  on  entertain- 
ment, 112,  113,  236,  256;  of  general 
committee,  114,  236  ;  report  on  the 
centennial  ball,  256  ;  guest  of  Stuyvc- 
sant  Fish,  258;  at  centennial  ball,  260; 
subscriber  to  ball,  265  ;  member  of 
vestry,  Trinity  church,  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  and  vice-president  Mor- 
ton, at  St.  Paul's  chapel,  269,  270; 
member  of  special  committee  in  charge 
of  services  at  St.  Paul's  chapel,  281;  at 
banquet,  356,  359;  subscriber  to  cele- 
bration, 401. 
Jay,  Mrs.  William,  guest  of  Stuyvesant 

Fish,  258;  at  centennial  ball,  261. 
Jefferson  Guards,  West  Va.,  at  military 

parade,  344. 
Jefferson,  Joseph,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  244;  subscriber  to  me- 
morial arch,  414. 
Jefferson  Society,  Va.,  portrait  of  Thomas 

Jefferson,  property  of,  4S6. 
Jefferson,  Thomas,  his  opinion  of  Comte 
de  Moustier,  the  French  minister  at 
N.  Y.,  32,  note;  view  of  his  bible,  186; 
secretary  of  state  of  U.  S. ,  135,  232, 
purchases  portrait  of  Franklin,  452;  his 
bust  of  Franklin,  461;  prices  paid  for 
his  portraits,  485,  note;  in  favor  of  the 
U.  S.  military  academy,  486  ;  portrait 
of  Lafayette  painted  for,  494. 

  portraits    of,  painted    by,  Birch, 

106;  Boucher  facing  25;  Brown,  21; 
Kosciuszko,  25;  Otis,  21;  C.  W.  Peale, 
21;  R.  Peale,  21,  152;  St.  Memin,  21; 
Savage,  25;  Sharpless,  21  ;  Stuart,  21, 
23,   25,  150;  Sully,  21,  23;  Trumbull, 
21,  23  ;  unknown,  23  ;  notes  on  por- 
traits, 144,   145,   420,  481,  483,  485; 
sculpture,  bust  by  Houdon,  131. 
Jencks,  Francis  M.,  at  banquet,  358. 
Jenifer,  Daniel,  member  of  federal  con- 
vention, 1787,  136 
Jenkins,  Charles  E.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 
Jenkins,  J.  S.,  fourth  Va.  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  333. 
Jenkins,  John  S.,  assistant  adjutant-gen- 
eral, Va. ,  at  military  parade,  333. 
Jenks,  William  W.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 
Jennings,  Annie  B.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265. 
Jennings,  Edward,  portrait  of  John  Adams, 

property  of,  426. 
Jennings,  Frederic  B.,  subscriber  to  me- 
morial arch,  414. 
Jeremiah,  George  A.,   invited    to  meet 

president  Harrison,  247. 
Jeroloman,  John,  districtcourt  justice,  243. 
Jersey  City,  N.  J.,  board  of  trade,  escort 
to  president  Harrison,  186;  fourth  reg- 
iment, at  military  parade,  327;  firemen 
and  Norden  society,  at  civic  parade, 
389,  393- 

Jesup,  C.  M.,  twelfth  N.  Y.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  336. 


Jesup,  Morris  K.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245;  subscriber  to  cele- 
bration and  memorial  arch,  400,  413. 

Jewell,  William  11.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  221. 

Jewellers'  Association,  members  invited 
to  meet  president  Harrison,  247. 

Jewctt,  William,  artist,  see  Waldo  ami 
Jewett. 

Jewish  Synagogue,  N.  Y.  city,  1789,  39, 
nule. 

Jocelyn,  Nathaniel,  artist,  his  portraits  ol 
Elbridge  Gerry  and  Thomas  R.  Gerry, 
463,  464. 

Joel,  J.  A.,  invited  to  meet  president 
1  larrison,  247. 

John  Street  Theatre,  N.  Y.  city,  illumin- 
ated on  the  evening  of  Washington's 
inauguration,  56. 

Johnson,  A.  B  ,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 223. 

Johnson,  A.  S.,  second  West  Va.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  344. 

Johnson,  Charles,  president  N.  C.  senate, 
490,  note. 

Johnson,  Charles  E.,  portrait  of  Samuel 
Johnston,  property  of,  490,  and  note. 

Johnson,  Mrs.  Charles  E  ,  mentioned, 
490,  note. 

Johnson,  Charles  F.,  portrait  of  William 
S.  Johnson,  property  of,  facing  78; 
commissioner  from  Conn.,  215. 

Johnson,  Eastman,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  244;  at  banquet,  360. 

Johnson,  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Daniel  C. 
Verplanck,  489. 

Johnson,  Rev.  George  D.,  officiates  at 
St.  Paul's  chapel,  273. 

Johnson,  George  F.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265. 

Johnson,  H.  A.,  at  centennial  ball,  260. 

Johnson,  H.  S.,  Bartholdi  battalion,  school 
No.  15,  Brooklyn,  at  civic  parade,  386. 

Johnson,  J.  G.,  eighth  Pa.  regiment,  at  • 
military  parade,  324. 

johnson,  John  Q.  A.,  aide  to  chairman  of 
committee  on  railroads  and  transporta- 
tion, 120. 

Johnson,    Robert    U.,  at  banquet,  358; 

hymn  arranged  by,  409. 
Johnson,    S.  A.,  second   corps  cadets, 

Boston,  at  military  parade,  329. 
Johnson,  Samuel,  mentioned,  72. 
Johnson,  Mrs.  Samuel  W. ,  portrait  of 

William  S.  Johnson,  property  of,  facing 

78,  4S9. 

Johnson,  Usual  S.,  colonel  seventy-fourth 
N.  Y.  regiment,  at  military  parade,  339. 

Johnson,  William,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Johnson,  William,  Stevens  post,  G.  A.  R., 
escort  to  president  Harrison,  221;  at 
military  parade,  346. 

Johnson,  William  C.,  portrait  of  John 
Adams,  property  of,  facing  17,  424. 

Johnson,  William  Samuel,  U.  S.  senator 
from  Conn.,  6,  135,  232  ;  escort  to 
Washington,  28;  biographical  sketch  of, 
72  ;  portraits,  painted  by  Blackburn, 
Jarvis,   Pine   and   Stuart,    facing  78; 


member  of  federal  convention,  1767, 
136;  notes  on  the  portraits  of,  41H,  421, 
489. 

Johnson,  Mrs.  Wilmot,  portrait  of  Gen. 

Philip  Schuyler,  properly  of,  524. 
Johnston,    I).    V.   R.,  the   portraits  of 

George  Clinton   and   Peter  Silvester, 

owned  by  the  state  of  N.  Y.,  439,  note, 

527. 

Johnston,  Emma,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  77,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

Johnston,  J.  Herbert,  subscriber  to  me- 
morial arch,  414. 

Johnston,  John,  mentioned,  92. 

Johnston,  John  T.,  subscriber  to  memo- 
rial arch,  413. 

Johnston,  Samuel,  U.  S.  senator  from 
North  Carolina,  92,  135;  biographical 
sketch,  92;  portraits,  painted  by  James 
Peale,  facing  125;  notes  on  the  portraits 
of,  422,  490. 

|ohnston,  Samuel  I.,  mentioned,  490. 

Johnstone,  W.  H.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Joiners,  at  civic  parade,  392. 

|ones,  Albert  S.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Jones,  C.  S.  W.,  captain  of  Sheridan 
troop,  Pa.,  at  military  parade,  326. 

|ones,  Mrs.  Cadwalader,  portraits  of 
Samuel  Johnston,  property  of,  facing 
125,  490,  and  note. 

|ones,  Charles  C,  Jr.,  acknowledgment 
to,  in  preface,  vi;  mentioned,  71,  note, 
469;  commissioner  from  Ga.,  215. 

[ones,  Charles  E.,  at  banquet,  359. 

|ones,  Charles  II.,  aide  to  grand-mar- 
shal, military  parade,  320. 

|ones,  D.  W.,  commissioner  from  Ar- 
kansas, 215. 

|ones,  Daniel  L.,  portrait  of  Morgan 
Lewis,  property  of,  facing  39.  498  ; 
sword  worn  by  Morgan  Lewis,  17S9. 
property  of,  310. 

[ones,  David  S.,  reminiscences  of  Gou 
verneur  Morris  and  gen.  Webb,  42, 
note. 

[ones,  De  Witt  C,  portraits  of  George 
Clinton  and  wife,  property  of,  facing 
34,  439;  at  centennial  ball,  261. 

ones,  Edward  F.,  lieut.-gov.  N.  Y. , 
216,  233;  escort  to  president  Harrison, 
225  ;  portrait,  facing  234;  at  reception 
to  the  president,  227,  241,  242  ;  guest 
of  Stuyvesant  Fish,  257  ;  at  centennial 
ball,  258  ;  at  literary  exercises,  289  ; 
at  military  parade,  317;  at  banquet, 
35",  358. 

ones,  Mrs.  Edward  F.,  at  centennial 
ball,  t2S,  25S;  guest  of  Stuyvesant  Fish, 
257- 

ones,  Enos  F.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 222. 

ones,  Frances,  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

ones,  George,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  245;  at  banquet,  360. 

ones,  George  A.,  invited  to  meet  presi 
ident  Harrison,  247. 


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THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHING  TONS  INAUGURATION 


|oncs,  George  W.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223;  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Jones,  Homer  C,  sixth  Ohio  regiment, 

at  military  parade,  342. 
Jones,  James  II.,  subscriber  to  memorial 

arch,  414. 

Jones,  John  D. ,  member  of  committee  of 
N.  Y.  historical  society,  105;  of  gen- 
eral committee,  107,  114,  236;  invited 
to  meet  president  Harrison,  246;  at 
centennial  ball,  261;  at  banquet,  358; 
subscriber  to  celebration,  and  memo- 
rial arch,  400,  414. 

Jones,  Mrs.  John  D.,at  centennial  ball,  261. 

Jones,  John  J.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Jones,  Mary,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 
Jones,  Mary  M.,  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  413. 

Jones,  Merrivvether,  first  Va.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  333. 

Jones,  Paul,  commissioner  from  Arkan- 
sas, 215. 

Jones,  Rebecca  M.,  subscriber  to  memo- 
rial arch,  414. 

Jones,  Shipley,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Jones,  Van  Cullen,  at  laying  of  corner- 
stone memorial  arch,  413. 

Jones,  W.  E. ,  eighth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  324. 

Jones,  W.  R.  T.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Jones,  W.  Strother,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Jones,  Walter  O.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Jones,  Wilber  R.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Jones,  Willie,  member  of  federal  conven- 
tion, 1787,  136. 

Jones,  Wylie,  second  battalion,  S.  C.,at 
military  parade,  331. 

Jordan,  Conrad  N.,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  103  ;  at  reception  to  presi 
dent    Harrison,    235  ;   entertains  the 
choir  of  Trinity  church,  235. 

Jouett,  Rear  Admiral  James  E.,  marshal 
of  naval  parade,  194  ;  at  centennial 
ball,  258  ;  at  banquet,  361. 

Jouett,  Matthew  H.,  artist,  his  portrait  of 
John  Brown,  facing  119  ;  notes  on  his 
portraits  of  John  Brown,  419,  421,  432; 
of  Lafayette,  494. 

Joy,  Langdon  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  cele- 
bration, 401. 

Judd,  Laura,  delegate  from  public  school 
No.  68,  reception  of  president  Harri- 
son, city  hall,  238. 

Judson,  Albert  L.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Judson,  Cyrus  F.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Judson,  Edmund  L.,  aide-de  camp  to  gov. 

Hill,  242  ;  at  banquet,  358. 
Judson,    Rev.    Edward,   favors  holding 

religious  services  April  30,  1889,  123. 
Judson,  William  V.,  U.  S.  army,  aide  to 

the   president   of    United   States,  at 


naval  parade,  201  ;  at  centennial  ball, 
258  ;  at  literary  exercises,  289  ;  at  mili- 
tary parade,  316  ;  at  banquet,  359. 

Juilliard,  Augustus  I).,  member  of  citi- 
zens' committee,  104  ;  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  246. 

Juilliard,  A.  D.,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to 
celebration,  and  memorial  arch,  401, 
413- 

J  alien,  Carlos,  consul  of  the  Dominican 

Republic,  248. 
Juniata,  United  States  vessel,  at  naval 

parade,  193,  201  ;  view  of,  198. 
Junor,  Rev.  Kenneth  F.,  favors  holding 

religious  services  April  30,  1889,  123. 

Kalb,  Baron  de,  represented  in  tableau, 

civic  parade,  393. 
Kane,  Charles  W.,  escort  to  president 

Harrison,  223. 
Kane,  Mrs.  John  I.,  at  centennial  ball, 

261. 

Kane,  S.  Nicholson,  member  of  commit- 
tee on  navy,  109  ;  secretary  of  commit- 
tee on  navy,  113,  183,  189,  190,  191, 
236  ;  member  of  general  committee, 
114,  236  ;  escort  to  president  Harrison, 
183,  199,  200;  portrait,  facing  190; 
subscriber  to  centennial  ball,  265  ;  at 
banquet,  361  ;  subscriber  to  celebration, 
401. 

Kane,  Woodbury,  member  of  reception 
committee,  ancestry  of,  230. 

Kansas,  commissioners  from,  215,  233  ; 
admitted  into  the  union,  233. 

Kansas  City,  Mo.,  third  regiment,  at  mil- 
itary parade,  343. 

Kapff,  Anne  von,  portrait  of  William 
Smith,  property  of,  facing  99,  527. 

Karn,  James,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Kase,  William  H.  H.,  of  choir,  St.  Paul's 

chapel,  271. 
Kaufmann,  Sigismund,   invited  to  meet 

president  Harrison,  244. 
Kautzman,  W.,  third  Ohio  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  342. 
Kavannah,  Lucy,    delegate  from  public 

school  No.   I,  reception  of  president 

Harrison,  city  hall,  237. 
Kay,  J.  W.,  escort  to  president  Harrison, 

222. 

Kay,  Joseph,  third  N.  J.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  326. 

Kean,  H.  F.,  at  banquet,  359. 

Kean,  John,  at  centennial  ball,  260  ;  at 
banquet,  356. 

Kean,  Mrs.  John,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 

Kean,  John,  Jr.,  aide  to  chairman  of  com- 
mittee on  entertainment,  120  ;  at  ban- 
quet, 359. 

Kean,  Mary  C,  at  reception  to  George 

Washington,  Trenton,  N.  J.,  26,  note. 
Kean,  the  Misses,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 
Kearney,  Isabel  F.,  delegate  from  public 

school  No.  46,  reception  of  president 

Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 
Kcarsage,  United  States  vessel,  at  naval 

parade,  facing  196,  201. 


Keating,  John,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  247. 

Keating,  M.  C,  Va.  artillery,  at  military 
parade,  333. 

Keck,  M.  J.,  colonel  ninth  Pa.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  324. 

Keck,  Thomas,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  246. 

Keck,  Mosser  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  me- 
morial arch,  414. 

Keenan,  J.  J.,  Veteran  post,  G.  A.  R.,  at 
military  parade,  345. 

Keenan,  James,  tenth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  325. 

Keenan,  John  J.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 221. 

Keep,  Martin  J.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Keese,  William  L..  member  of  general 
committee,  114,  236  ;  subscriber  to  cel- 
ebration, 401. 

Kehoe,  J.  E.,  in  command  St.  Paul's  so- 
cieties, civic  parade,  397. 

Keith,  Boudinot,  member  of  reception 
committee,  ancestry  of,  230 ;  portrait 
of  Elias  Boudinot,  property  cf,  430. 

Keith,  Jennie  B.,  portrait  of  Elias  Boudi- 
not, property  of,  430. 

Keith,  Miss,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Keith,  Ormes  B.,  portrait  of  Elias  Boudi- 
not, property  of,  facing  65. 

Keith,  Mrs.  Ormes  B.,  mentioned,  430. 

Kelby,  Edith,  delegate  from  public  school 
No.  25,  reception  of  president  Harrison, 
city  hall,  238. 

Kelby,  Robert  H.,  acknowledgment  to, 
in  preface,  v. 

Kelby,  William,  acknowledgment  to,  in 
preface,  v  ;  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  248  ;  note  on  Thomas  J. 
Bryan,  508  ;  the  Duche  portrait  of 
bishop  Provoost,  518  ;  the  Dunlap  por- 
trait of  major  Van  Home,  537. 

Kelheims,  J.  J.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Kelley,  Rev.  William  V.,  favors  holding 
religious  services  April  30,  1889,  123. 

Kellogg,  Charles,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 224  ;  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Kellogg,  Rowland  C,  state  senator, 
N.  Y.,  242. 

Kellow,  William,  thirteenth  Pa.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  325. 

Kelly,  Eugene,  member  of  general  com- 
mittee, 108,  114,  236;  of  committee  on 
finance,  109,  113,  236,  398,  400  ;  at  re- 
ception to  president  Harrison,  231  ;  at 
literary  exercises,  289  ;  subscriber  to 
celebration,  400  ;  member  of  memorial 
arch  committee,  409  ;  subscriber  to 
arch,  413. 

Kelly,  Eugene,  Jr.,  at  centennial  ball, 
261  ;  subscriber  to  memorial  arch, 
414. 

Kelly,  John,  member  of  assembly,  N.  Y., 
242. 

Kelly,  Thomas,  engraver  of  portrait  of 
Rufus  King,  491. 


INDEX. 


Kelly,  Thomas  S.,  captain  excelsior  light 

infantry,  civic  parade,  386. 
Kelly,  William  E.,  fifth  X.  ].  regiment, 

at  military  parade,  327. 
Kelly,  William  F.,  in  command  of  Irish 

volunteers,  at  civic  parade,  386. 
Kelsey,  S.   E.,  third    Mo.  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  343. 
Kemble,   Gouverneur,    bust    of  George 

Washington,  property  of  the  estate  of, 

145,  417.  542. 
Kemble,  Gouverneur,  escort  to  president 

Harrison,  223. 
Kemble,  R.  A.,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  265. 

Kemeys,  Mrs.  Edward,  at  centennial  ball, 
261. 

Kemeys,  Walter  S. ,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Kemp,  Edward,  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Kemp,  George,  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Kemper,  James  L.,  commissioner  from 
Va.,  216. 

Kendall,  Edward  H.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  244. 

Kendall,  George  H.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Kendall,  William  B.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  246. 

Kennan,  C.  L.,  fifth  Ohio  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  342. 

Kennedy,  C.  If.,  seventy-first  X.  Y. 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  335. 

Kennedy,  D.,  publisher,  4S9. 

Kennedy,  E.  G..  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Kennedy,  J.   P.,  fifth  Pa.   regiment,  at 

military  parade,  325. 
Kennedy,    John  S..  member  of  citizens' 

committee,  104 ;  of  committee  N.  Y. 

historical  society,  105,  106  ;  of  general 

committee,  107  ;  committee  on  finance, 

log  ;  subscriber  to  celebration,  400. 
Kennedy,  Michael,  in  command  ancient 

order    of    Hibernians,    civic  parade, 

397- 

Kennedy  P.  J.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 222. 

Kennedy,  Yan  Rensselaer,  member  of 
citizens'  committee,  104. 

Kenney  Rev.  Edward,  favors  holding 
religious  services  April  30,  1S89,  123. 

Kennon,  Britannia  W.,  portrait  of  Mar- 
tha Washington,  property  of,  548. 

Kenny,  Richard  R.,  adjutant  general, 
Delaware,  at  military  parade,  322  ;  por- 
trait 323. 

Kensil,  C.  T.,  first  Pa.  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  324. 

Kent,  J.  Harry,  member  of  assembly, 
N   Y.,  242. 

Kent,  William  J.,  Kennedy  post,  G.A.R., 
escort  to  president  Harrison,  221  ;  at 
military  parade,  345. 

Kenton,  Ohio,  second  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  342. 

Kentucky,  plan  for  an  independent  state 
of,  32,  note  ;  governor  and  commis- 
78 


sioners  of,  214,  216,  233  ;  troops  at 
military  parade,  341,  346. 

Kenyon,  John  S.,  clerk  of  X.  Y.  state 
senate,  242. 

Keppel,  Frederick,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Keppler,  Joseph,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245  ;  chairman  commit- 
tee on  art,  German-American  citizens, 
393,  note. 

Kerby,  W.,  thirteenth  N'.  Y.  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  337. 
Kernochan,  Frederick,  at  banquet,  360. 
Kernochan,  James  L. ,  at  centennial  ball, 

261. 

Kernochan,  James  P.,  at  centennial  ball, 
260  ;  subscriber  to  ball,  265  ;  at  ban- 
quet, 356. 

Kernochan,  Mrs.  James  P.,  at  centennial 
ball,  261. 

Kerr,  J.,  sixty-ninth  N'.  Y.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  335. 

Kerr,  Tessie,  delegate  from  public  school 
No.  82,  reception  of  president  Harri- 
son, city  hall,  238. 

Kerrigan,  John,  member  of  assemblv, 
N.  Y.,  243. 

Kerrymen's  Association,  at  civic  parade, 
397- 

Kershner,  Edward,  surgeon  U.  S.  navy, 
248. 

Kerwin,  Michael,  aide  to  grand-marshal, 
military  parade,  319. 

Kessler,  Gustave,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Kessler  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  celebration, 
401. 

Ketcham,  Charles  F. ,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265. 

Ketcham,  George  B.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265. 

Ketchum,  A.  P.,  marshal  of  star  division, 
civic  parade,  385. 

Key,  E.  S.,  portrait  of  John  Randolph, 
property  of,  522. 

Keyes,  Edward  L.,  M.  D.,  invited  to 
meet  president  Harrison,  244. 

Keyes,  Charles  M.,  colonel  sixteenth 
Ohio  regiment,  at  military  parade,  342. 

Kidd,  George  W.,  at  centennial  ball,  260; 
at  banquet,  356. 

Kidd,  Mrs.  George  W. ,  at  centennial  ball, 
261. 

Kidder,  Peabody  &  Co.,  subscribers  to 

memorial  arch,  413. 
Kilbreth,  James  T.,  police  justice,   243  ; 

at  banquet,  359. 
Kilbrun,  Lawrence,  artist,  his  portrait  of 

Mrs.  James  Beekman,  facing  59;  notes 

on  the  portrait,  420,  421,  428,  and  note. 
Kimball,  Gertrude,  of  choir,  St.  Paul's 

chapel,  271. 
Kimball,  James  H.,  at  centennial  ball, 

261. 

Kimball,  John  H.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Kimball,  William  H.,  member  of  assem- 
bly, N.  Y.,  243. 

Kimball,  William  S.,  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  247. 


Kincaid,  T.  H.  C,  Howell  post,  G.  A.  R., 

escort  to  president  Harrison,  221  ;  at 

military  parade,  346. 
Kinchardt,  Henry  B.,  Jr.,  subscriber  to 

centennial  ball,  265. 
King,  A.  Gracie,  invited  to  meet  president 

Harrison,  245;  portrait  of  Rufus  King, 

property  of,  49 1. 
King,  Mrs.  A.  Gracie,  at  centennial  ball, 

258. 

King,  B.  F.,  third  N.  J.  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  326. 

King,  Charles,  invited  to  meet  president 
I  larrison,  244. 

King,  Charles  B. .artist,  portrait  of  Charles 
Carroll,  facing  97  ;  number  of  portraits 
of  congressmen,  painted  by,  419;  notes 
on  his  portrait  of  Charles  Carroll,  421, 
436  ;  of  Franklin,  450  ;  Lafayette,  494  ; 
Monroe,  512  ;  Roger  Sherman,  526. 

King,  Charles  R.,  portraits  of  Rufus  King 
and  wife,  property  of,  facing  121,  260, 
145.  490.  491- 

King,  Clarence,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

King,  Cornelius  L. ,  portrait  of  Mrs.  Rufus 
King,  property  of,  491. 

King,  David  H.,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  247. 

King,  Edward,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  245;  at  banquet,  360;  sub- 
scriber to  memorial  arch,  414. 

King,  Francis  V.,  member  of  assembly, 
NT.  Y.,  242;  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

King,  George  G. ,  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

King,  Gilbert  S.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 222. 

King,  Horatio  C,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  221,  222,  224;  at  centennial 
ball,  257;  aide  to  grand  marshal,  mili- 
tary parade,  319. 

King,  James  G.,  mentioned,  491,  note. 

King,  Rev.  James  M.,  favors  holding  re- 
ligious services  April  30,  18S9,  123;  one 
of  the  committee  of  clergymen,  124,  125; 
invited  to  meet  president  Harrison,  244; 
at  banquet,  360. 

King,  John,  member  of  citizens'  commit- 
tee, 104;  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  245;  at  banquet,  360;  sub- 
scriber to  memorial  arch,  414. 

King,  John  A.,  president  N'.  Y.  historical 
society,  member  of  citizens'  committee, 
104,  105;  chairman  of  committee  NT.  Y. 
historical  society,  105,  106;  member  of 
general  committee,  107,  114,  236;  of 
executive  committee,  10S;  chairman  of 
committee  on  general  government,  109, 
113,  122,  178,  219,  225,  236;  presents 
memorial  of  general  committee  to  pres- 
ident of  U.  S.,  115,  179;  his  aide,  120: 
Stuart's  portrait  of  Rufus  King,  proper- 
ty of,  facing  121,  145,  491;  presents  the 
address  of  the  clergymen  to  president 
of  U.  S.,  124;  miniature  of  Washington, 
by  Grimaldi,  property  of,  143;  the  pre- 
liminary work  of  the  committee  at 
Washington,  and  the  departure  of  the 


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presidential  party  for  New  York,  178; 
presents  invitation  of  general  commit- 
tee to  the  president,  cabinet,  and  justices 
of  U.  S.  supreme  court,  179;  presents 
president  Harrison  with  gold  medal,  in 
behalf  of  general  committee,  182;  escort 
to  president  Harrison,  1S2,  183,  224, 
225;  at  reception  and  banquet  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  232,  234;  at  centennial 
ball,  260;  subscriber  to  ball,  265;  at  lit- 
erary exercises,  2S9;  at  banquet,  metro- 
politan opera-house,  356,  361 ;  subscriber 
to  celebration  and  memorial  arch,  400, 
413;  the  Stuart  portraits  of  Rufus  King, 
491,  note. 

King,  Mrs.  John  A.,  at  centennial  ball, 
261. 

King,  Mrs.  Percy  R.,  portrait  of  Benjamin 
Goodhue,  property  of,  facing  91,  467. 

King,  Richard,  father  of  Rufus  King,  89. 

King,  Richard,  member  of  citizens'  com- 
mittee, 104;  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  245;  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

King,  Rufus,  member  of  Mass.  conven- 
tion, 2;  mentioned,  6,  note ;  U.  S. 
senator  from  N.  Y.,  13,  135;  biographi- 
cal sketch  of,  89;  portraits,  painted  by 
C.  W.  Peale.  Stuart  and  Trumbull,  fac- 
ing 121 ;  member  of  federal  convention, 
1787,  136;  notes  on  the  portraits  of,  145, 
422,  490. 

King,  Mrs.  Rufus,  portrait,  painted  by 
Trumbull,  facing  260;  notes  on  the  por- 
traits of,  145,  422,  491. 

King  Rufus,  member  of  general  commit- 
tee, 114,  236. 

King,  W.  H.,  adjutant-general  of  Texas, 
at  military  parade,  344. 

King,  William  V.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

King's  Bridge,  N.  Y.,  reception  of  John 
Adams  at,  18;  cadets,  at  civic  parade, 
386. 

Kings  County,  N.  Y.,  Grand  Army  of  the 
Republic,  escort  to  president  Harrison, 
219,  221,  250. 

Kingsland,  Ambrose  C.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  245;  at  centennial 
ball,  260,  261;  at  banquet,  356. 

Kingsland,  Elisha,  commander  of  second 
division,  volunteer  firemen,  at  civic  pa- 
rade, 388. 

Kingsland,  George  L.,  at  centennial  ball, 
260;  subscriber  to  ball,  265;  at  banquet, 
356. 

Kingsland,  William,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Kingsland,  William  M.,  subscriber  to 
memorial  arch,  414. 

Kingsland,  William  S.,  at  centennial  ball, 
261. 

Kingsley,  L.  Z.,  commissioner  from  Vt., 
216. 

Kingsley,  Louis,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Kingston,  N.  Y.,  fourteenth  separate 
company,  at  military  parade,  337. 

Kinney,  Francis  S.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 


Kinney,  J.  R.,  at  banquet,  361. 

Kinney,  John  C,  commissioner  from 
Conn.,  215,  233  ;  at  military  parade, 
328  ;  at  banquet,  359. 

Kinney,  Thomas  T.,  member  of  New 
Jersey  society  of  the  Cincinnati,  at 
commemorative  banquet,  150. 

Kinney,  William  G.,  second  Va.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  333. 

Kinnicutt,  Francis  P.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265. 

Kip,  George  G. ,  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Kipp.  W.,  at  banquet,  358. 

Kirby,  C.  Wright,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Kirby,  W.  H.,  twelfth  N.  Y.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  336. 

Kirby,  William  M.,  second  separate  com- 
pany, N.  Y.,  at  military  parade,  338. 

Kirby  &  Halsted,  subscribers  to  Wall 
street  arch,  253. 

Kirchner,  William  F.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  221. 

Kirker,  Charles  F.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Kirkland,  Miss,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Kirkland,  William  A.,  U.  S.  navy,  248  ; 
at  military  parade,  321. 

Kirkpatrick,  S.  J.,  commissioner  from 
Tenn.,  216. 

Klee,  G.,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
265. 

Klein,  John,  thirty-second  N.  Y.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  337. 

Klinker,  H.  H.  D.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Kloeber,  Henry,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 223. 

Knabe,  Ernest,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  247. 

Knapp,  Arthur  M.  acknowledgment  to, 
in  preface,  vi. 

Knapp,  Florence,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  73,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

Knapp,  Grace,  delegate  from  public  school 
No.  68,  reception  of  president  Harrison, 
city  hall,  238. 

Knapp,  Herman,  M.  D.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  244,  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  265. 

Knapp,  Joseph  F.,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  104. 

Knapp,  Shepherd,  at  centennial  ball,  261; 
subscriber  to  ball,  265. 

Knapp,  Sheppard,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to 
celebration  and  memorial  arch,  401,  414. 

Knickerbacker,  Henry,  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  224. 

Knickerbocker  Club,  represented  at  recep- 
tion to  president  Harrison,  231. 

Knight,  Austin  M.,  U.  S.  navy,  aide  to 
grand  marshal,  military  parade,  319. 

Knight,  Charles,  &  Co.,  publishers,  men- 
tioned, 450,  488. 

Knight,  Charles,  H.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Knight,  Henry  W.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  221,  250. 


Knights  of  Pythias,  at  civic  parade,  386. 
Knights  of  Temperance,  at  civic  parade, 
386. 

Knoedler,  Edmond  L.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265. 

Knoedler,  Roland  F.,  at  centennial  ball, 
261. 

Knower,  Edward  C,  U.  S.  army,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  320. 

Knowles,  Frederick  C,  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  223. 

Knox,  Alexander,  member  of  general 
committee,  114,  236;  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265;  at  banquet,  358. 

Knox,  Charles,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  247. 

Knox,  Charles  E.,  third  Mo.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  343. 

Knox,  George  J.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Knox,  Harry,  U.  S.  navy,  at  military 
parade,  321. 

Knox,  Gen.  Henry,  extract  of  Washing- 
ton's letter  to,  respecting  the  office  of 
president  of  U.  S.,  21;  escort  to  Wash- 
ington, 28,  29,  42,  43;  portraits,  painted 
by  C.  W.  Peale,  facing  28;  Savage,  168; 
Stuart,  28;  Trumbull,  28,  156;  unknown, 
28,  168;  confidant  of  the  Spanish  min- 
ister at  N.  Y.,  32,  note  ;  at  inauguration 
of  Washington,  50;  calls  on  Washing- 
ton, 58;  attends  assembly  ball,  1789,  58; 
secretary  of  war,  135,  232;  notes  on  the 
portraits  of,  145,  422,  423,  492,  repre- 
sented in  tableau,  civic  parade,  386. 

Knox,  Mrs.  Henry,  attends  assembly  ball, 
1789,  58. 

Knox,  Rev.  John,  officiates  at  celebration 
of  the  semi-centennial  of  Washington's 
inauguration,  97. 

Knox,  John  Jay,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  103,  104;  finance  committee, 
112,  113,  236,  398,  400;  of  general  com- 
mittee, 114,  236  ;  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245;  at  centennial  ball, 
261 ;  at  literary  exercises,  289;  at  ban- 
quet, 361;  subscriber  to  celebration,  401. 

Knubel,  Herman,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Koch,  Edmund  T.,  of  choir,  St.  Paul's 
chapel,  271. 

Koch,  Henry  C.  F.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Kochersperger,  E.,  sixth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  324. 

Koehler,  D.  M.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Koehler,   Herman,  escort   to  president 

Harrison,  223. 
Koehling,  Bernard  H.,  in  command  of 

catholic  national  union,  civic  parade, 

397- 

Koenig,  H.  O.,  at  laying  of  corner-stone 

memorial  arch,  413. 
Kofler,  Leo,  choir-master  and  organist, 

St.  Paul's  chapel,  271. 
Kohn,  Julius  A.,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  265. 

Kohn,  Solomon,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 


INDEX. 


61  i 


Kolb,  Richard,  subscriber  to  Wall  street 
arch,  253. 

Kopper,  Frederick,  colonel  seventy-first 
X.  Y.  regiment,  at  military  parade, 
335- 

Kortwright,    Elizabeth,    wife   of  James 

Monroe,  511,  512. 
Kortright,  Gouverneur,  mentioned,  511. 
Kortright,  Capt.   Lawrence,  mentioned, 

511. 

Kosciuszko,  Tadeuz,  portrait  of  Thomas 
Jefferson,  painted  by,  488. 

Kountze,  Augustus,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Kountze,  Luther,  at  centennial  ball,  260  ; 
subscriber  to  ball,  265  ;  at  banquet,  356, 
359- 

Kountze,  Mrs.  Luther,  at  centennial  ball, 
261. 

Kountze  Brothers,  subscribers  to  celebra- 
tion and  memorial  arch.  400,  413. 

Krankling,  W.,  portrait  of  Benjamin 
Franklin,  property  of,  450. 

Kraus,  Moses,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Kraushaar,  C.  W.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball.  265. 

Kreamer,  Walter  V.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Kreger,  H.,  thirty-second  X.  Y.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  337. 

Kreps,  William  A.,  colonel  fifteenth  Pa. 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  325. 

Kretzschmar,  Paul  H.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265. 

Kreutzer,  C,  hymn  composed  by,  350. 

Kreutzer  Quartet  Club,  at  Madison  square 
concert,  350. 

Kreysser,  Russian  man-of-war,  406. 

Krieger  Bund,  at  civic  parade,  393. 

Krotel,  Rev.  Gottlob  F.,  favors  holding 
religious  services  April  30,  1889,  123; 
one  of  the  committee  of  clergymen,  124, 
125 ;  invited  to  meet  president  Harrison, 
244;  at  banquet,  360. 

Kuhn,  Loeb  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  cele- 
bration, 401. 

Kuhne,  Frederick,  subscriber  to  centen 
nial  ball,  265. 

Kuhne,  Percival.  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Kulp,  P.  C,  seventh  X.  T.  regiment,  at 

military  parade.  326. 
Kumph,   Henry  C,  commissioner  from 

Mo.,  216. 
Kunkel,  Ann  P.,  mentioned,  507. 
Kunkel,  Mrs.  John,  portraits  of  James 

Madison,  and  wife,  properly  of,  facing 

63,  258,  506. 
Kunkel,  Mary  C.  C,  portraits  of  James 

Madison,  and   wife,  property   of  505, 

508. 

Kuntze,  Edward  J.  A.,  sculptor,  his 
statuette  of  John  Jay,  482. 

Kunze,  Rev.  John  Christopher,  pastor  of 
Lutheran  church,  X.  Y.,  1789,  39,  note. 

Kursheedt,  E.  I.,  Washington  artillery, 
La.,  at  military  parade,  343. 

Kursheedt.  Frederic  A.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265. 


Kyle,  Alexander,  at  semi-centennial  cele- 
bration of  Washington's  inauguration, 
98. 

Labatut,   artist,  his  portrait  of  George 

Washington,  543. 
Labreche,  M.,  first  X.   H.  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  333. 
Lacey,  R.  B.,  mentioned,  531. 
Lachman,  Samson,  district  court  justice, 

243. 

Lacy,  Rowland  B.,  mentioned,  73,  note. 

Ladd,  Samuel,  commander,  Lafayette  con- 
clave, civic  parade,  386. 

Ladenburg,  Adolph,  at  banquet,  359. 

Ladew,  Edward  R.,  subscriber  to  memo- 
rial arch.  414. 

La  Farge,  John,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  244. 

Lafayette  College,  Easton,  Pa.,  portraits 
of  Lafayette,  property  of,  494. 

Lafayette  Conclave,  at  civic  parade,  386. 

Lafayette,  Edmond  de,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  248. 

Lafayette  Engine  Company,  at  civic  pa- 
rade, 389. 

Lafayette  Family,  portrait  of  Jefferson, 
property  of,  486,  and  note. 

Lafayette  Guard,  at  civic  parade,  386. 

Lafayette,  Marquis  de,  Washington's  let- 
ter to,  relative  to  the  presidency,  20;  his 
visit  to  Trenton,  X.  J.,  1824,  24,  note; 
mentioned,  42,  note;  presents  vases  to 
Washington,  facing  149;  portrait,  paint- 
ed by  Morse,  facing  160;  Houdon's  bust 
of,  189;  represented  in  tableau,  civic 
parade,  3S5,  3S6  ;  portrait  of  Franklin 
presented  to,  448 ;  engraved  portrait  of 
Jefferson  dedicated  to,  489;  presents 
his  portrait  to  Washington,  494;  notes 
on  the  portraits  of,  145,  421,  422,  493. 

La  France,  John,  at  civic  parade,  391. 

La  France,  John,  Jr.,  at  civic  parade,  391. 

La  Grassa,  S.,  Hecker  post,  G.  A.  R.,  es- 
cort to  president  Harrison,  221;  at  mili- 
tary parade,  345. 

Laidlaw.  William  G. ,  member  of  congress 
from  X.  Y.,  242. 

Laidley,  jane  W.,  portrait  of  Samuel  B. 
Webb,  property  of,  facing  41,  145,  549. 

Lainfiesta,  Francisco,  minister  from  Gua- 
temala, invited  to  centennial  ball,  257; 
at  banquet,  361. 

Lamaida,  Carlo,  marshal  Italian  civic  or- 
ganizations, civic  parade,  392. 

Lamb,  Rev.  Davis,  portrait  of  Franklin, 
property  of,  453. 

Lamb,  J.,  escort  to  president  Harrison, 
223. 

Lamb,  Martha  J.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246;  subscriber  to  cen 
tennial  ball,  265. 

Lamb,  William,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 223. 

Lambdin,  James  R.,  artist,  his  portrait 
of  Thomas  Mifflin,  509. 

Lamborn,  Robert  H.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265;  at  literary  exercises, 
2S9. 


La  Montagne,  A.,  at  centennial  ball, 
261. 

Lamontagne,  Edward,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  247. 

Lanborn,  Robert  II.,  at  banquet,  360. 

Landi,  Michele,  captain  Garibaldi  legion, 
civic  parade,  392. 

Landon,  Charles  G. .  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Landon,  J.  S.,  at  banquet,  358. 

Landwehr  Verein,  at  civic  parade,  393. 

Lane,  Edward  V.  Z.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265. 

Lane,  G.  M.,  colonel  first  X.  H.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  333. 

Lane,  George  T.,  member  of  Xew  Jersey 
society  of  the  Cincinnati,  at  commemo- 
rative banquet,  150. 

Lane,  Henry  J.,  member  of  assembly, 
X.  Y.,  242. 

Lane,  J.  VV.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Lang,  D.,  adjutant-general  of  Florida,  at 
military  parade,  344;  at  banquet,  358. 

Langbein,  George  F. ,  state  senator,  X.  Y.( 
242. 

Langdon,  Charles  S. ,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  221. 

Langdon,  John,  Sr.,  mentioned,  82. 

Langdon,  John,  U.  S.  senator  from  X.  H., 
5.  135.  232;  president  of  the  senate,  5; 
escorts  vice-president  Adams  to  the 
chair  in  the  senate,  iS;  Washington's 
letter  of  acceptance  to,  20,  24,  25;  escort 
to  Washington,  28;  attends  assembly 
ball,  1789,  59;  biographical  sketch  of, 
82;  portraits,  painted  by  Savage,  Sharp- 
less  and  Trumbull,  facing  105:  member 
of  federal  convention,  17S7,  136;  mem 
ber  of  continental  congress,  282;  notes 
on  the  portraits  of,  145,  422,  .194. 

Langdon,  Mrs.  John,  attends  assembly 
ball,  1789,  59. 

Langdon,  Woodbury,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  246. 

Langdon,  Mrs.  Woodbury,  subscriber  to 
memorial  arch,  .J14. 

Langdon,  Woodbury  G.,  at  centennial 
ball,  261;  at  banquet,  358;  subscriber  to 
memorial  arch.  414. 

Lange,  Frederick,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Lange,  J.,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
265. 

Langenbach,  O.  T.,  sixty-fifth  X.  Y.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  339. 

Langford.  Charles  W.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  246. 

Langley,  W.  C,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to 
celebration,  401. 

Langley,  William  C,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  104. 

Langston,  John  M.,  address  at  banquet, 
Chicago,  406. 

Lanier,  Charles,  member  of  citizens'  com- 
mittee, 103;  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  245;  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  413. 

Lanier,  James  F.  D.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265. 


612        THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


Lanier,  Mrs.  James  F.  D.,  at  centennial 
bail,  261;  subscriber  to  memorial  arch, 
414. 

Lansdownc,  Marquess  of,  portrait  of  Ben- 
jamin Franklin,  property  of,  456,  fac- 
ing 464;  portrait  of  Washington  painted 
for,  facing  4,  545. 

Lansing,  E.  D.,  quartermaster  gen'l,  N.Y., 
242. 

Lansing,  Frederick,  member  of  congress 
from  N.  Y.,  242. 

Lansing,  John,  Jr.,  member  of  federal 
convention,  1787,  136. 

Lansing,  William  F.,  aide-de-camp  to  gov. 
Hill,  242;  at  banquet,  358. 

Large,  W.  P.,  at  banquet,  360. 

Larkin,  Alfred  O.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Larkin,  Francis.  Jr.,  aide  to  chairman  of 
committee  on  railroads  and  transporta- 
tion, 120. 

Larkin,  Terence  J.,  in  command  catholic 
knights,  civic  parade,  397. 

Larmon,  Charles  W.,  member  of  assem- 
bly, N.  Y.,  243. 

Larocque,  Joseph,  at  banquet,  360  ;  sub- 
scriber to  memorial  arch,  414. 

Larpent,  George,  mentioned,  454. 

Larr,  W.  H.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball.  265. 

Larrabee,  E.  J.,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to 

Wall  street  arch,  253. 
Larrabee,   William,  governor   of  Iowa, 

215,  233;  at  reception  to  president  Har- 
rison, 241;  at  banquet,  359. 

Larremore,  Richard  L.,  judge  court  of 
common  pleas,  243;  at  banquet,  359. 

Lasar,  Sigismund,  at  literary  exercises, 
289. 

Lasby,  Rev.  Charles  C,  favors  holding 

religious  services  April  30,  1889,  123. 
Latham,  John  C,  commissioner  from  Ky., 

216,  233;  at  banquet,  360. 

Latham,  John  C,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Lathrop,  Austin,  supt.  prisons,  N.  Y., 
242. 

Lathrop,  Francis  H.,  escort  to  president 

Harrison,  224. 
Latimer,  James  W.,  mentioned,  473. 
Latimer,  W.  H.,  third  battalion,  N.  J.,  at 

military  parade,  327. 
Latore,  Elias,    consul-general   of  Peru, 

248. 

Latrobe,  Benjamin  H.,  pen  and  ink  por- 
trait of  Washington,  by,  at  loan  exhi- 
bition, 143. 

Latrobe,  Ferdinand  C,  note  on  the  por- 
trait of  Charles  Carroll,  436. 

Latrobe,  John  H.  B.,  commissioner  from 
Md.,  216,  233;  note  on  the  portraits  of 
Charles  Carroll,  434. 

Lattimore,  George  W.,  in  command  of 
colored  centennial  committee,  civic 
parade,  397. 

Latty,  Michael,  artist,  his  portrait  of 
Charles  Carroll,  433. 

I.aughlin,  John,  state  senator,  N.  Y.,242. 

Launitz,  R.  E. ,  represented  in  tableau, 
civic  parade,  395. 


Laurance,  John,  member  of  congress  from 
N.  Y.,  28,  37,  135,  232  ;  escort  to  Wash- 
ington. 28;  portraits,  painted  by  Trum- 
bull, and  unknown,  facing  65,  123;  bio- 
graphical sketch  of,  89;  notes  on  the 
portraits  of,  418,  422,  423,  495;  portrait 
of  Samuel  Livermore  represented  as  the 
portrait  of,  499. 

Laurens,  Henry,  portrait  in  West's  paint- 
ing, the  U.  S.  commissioners,  1782,  fac- 
ing 31;  member  of  federal  convention, 
17S7,  136;  notes  on  the  portraits  of, 
423.  481,  495. 

turens,  Henry  R  ,  portrait  of  Henry 
Laurens,  property  of,  495. 

Lausanne,  Switzerland,  portrait  of  Frank- 
lin in  the  art  museum,  459. 

Lavanburg,  F.  L.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Lavoisier,  Madame,  portrait  of  Franklin, 
painted  by,  458. 

Law,  Elizabeth  P.,  portrait  of  George 
Washington,  bequeathed  to,  545. 

Lawler,  Edward  J.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Lawrence,  Abraham  R.,  judge  supreme 
court,  N.  Y.,  243  ;  at  centennial  ball, 
261  ;  at  banquet,  359  ;  at  reception  to 
the  justices  U.  S.  supreme  court,  402. 

Lawrence,  Albert  T.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265. 

Lawrence,  Frank  R.,  member  of  general 
committee,  114,  236  ;  at  centennial  ball, 
261  ;  at  banquet,  358. 

Lawrence,  Henry  E.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265. 

Lawrence,  James,  portrait  of  Franklin, 
property  of,  452. 

Lawrence,  John,  alderman,  N.  Y.,  1789, 
136,  229. 

Lawrence,  John,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 224. 

Lawrence,  Joseph,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Lawrence,  Thomas,  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  245. 

Lawrence,  W.  V.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball.  265. 

Lawrence,  William  B.,  at  semi-centennial 
celebration  of  the  inauguration  of  Wash- 
ington, 96. 

Lawrence  &  Co.,  signs  call  for  citizens' 
committee,  104  ;  subscribers  to  cele- 
bration, 401. 

Lawson,  J.,  artist,  his  portrait  of  Tristram 
Dalton,  442  ;  William  Duer  and  Kitty 
Duer,  442,  443. 

Lawson,  L.  M.,  at  banquet,  358. 

Lawyers'  Club,  N.  Y.  city,  banquet  of 
'the  society  of  the  Cincinnati,  held  in 
the  rooms  of  the,  151  ;  entertainment 
and  reception  to  president  Harrison, 
held  in  the  rooms  of,  227  ;  list  of  guests, 
231,  241,  244  ;  banquet  to  president 
Harrison  and  the  governors  of  the  var- 
ious states,  held  in  the  rooms  of  the, 
233.  235  ;  portraits  of  guests  at  banquet 
to  the  president,  facing  234. 

Lay,  Oliver,  artist,  portraits  of  John  Jay, 
painted  by.  479. 


Laytin,  Mrs.  William  E.,  at  centennial 
ball,  262. 

Layton,  Rev.  William  A.,  favors  holding 
religious  services  April  30,  1889,  123. 

Lazard  Freres,  subscribers  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Lazarus,  J.  H.,  artist,  his  portrait  of  gen. 
Philip  Schuyler,  524. 

Lazarus,  Josephine,  subscriber  to  me- 
morial arch,  414. 

Lazarus,  Sarah,  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Lea,  John  M.,  commissioner  from  Tenn., 
216. 

Leale,  Charles  A.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  221. 

Learning,  James  R.,  M.D.,  bust  of  Wash- 
ington, property  of,  145  ;  invited  to 
meet  president  Harrison,  244  ;  sub- 
scriber to  centennial  ball,  265. 

Lear,  Tobias,  secretary  to  Washington, 
35>  43'  57.  t3°  ;  portrait,  63  ;  notes  on 
the  portrait  of,  145,  423,  496  ;  portrait 
of  Washington,  presented  to,  543. 

Learned,  Harry,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Leary,  Arthur,  member  of  general  com- 
mittee, 114,  236;  at  centennial  ball, 
261  ;  subscriber  to  ball,  265  ;  at  ban- 
quet, 360. 

Leary,  J.  D.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Leary,  Miss,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 
Leavitt,  C.  W.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Leavitt,  Mrs.  John  B.,  portrait  of  Elias 

Boudinot,  property  of,  430. 
Leavitt,  Miss,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  265. 

Le  Boutillier,  George,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  246. 

Le  Brun,  Napoleon,  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  244. 

Le  Compte,  Edward  W. ,  secretary  of 
state,  Md.,  at  centennial  ball,  257  ;  at 
military  parade,  330;  portrait,  331:  note 
on  the  portrait  of  Charles  Carroll,  436. 

Le  Count,  F.  J.,  Jr.,  forty-seventh  N.  Y. 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  337. 

Lecshhour,  C,  John  McQuade  post,  G. 
A.  R.,  at  military  parade,  345. 

Leddy,  Pauline  H.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Ledyard,  Henry  B.,  commissioner  from 
Mich.,  216,  233. 

Ledyard,  Henry  B.,  member  of  general 
committee,  114,  236;  at  centennial  ball, 
261;  at  banquet,  359. 

Ledyard,  L.  C,  at  banquet,  358. 

Ledyard,  Mary,  wife  of  Thomas  Sey- 
mour, 526. 

Lee,  A.  Collins,  Washington  breastpin, 
property  of,  166,  note. 

Lee,  Arthur,  escort  to  Washington,  2S, 
42;  calls  on  Washington,  58;  his  letter 
relative  to  the  new  government,  1789. 
60,  note;  commissioner  of  U.S.  treas- 
ury, 136;  portraits,  painted  by  C.  W. 
Peale,  and  Trumbull,  facing  155,  156; 
notes  on  the  portraits  of,  422,  496. 


INDEX. 


613 


Lee,  Cassius  F.,  Jr.,  portrait  of  Richard 
Henry  Lee,  property  of,  facing  65,  418, 
note,  497. 

Lee,  Gen.  Charles,  represented  in  tab- 
leau, civic  parade,  3S5. 

Lee,  Charles  N.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 223. 

Lee,  Elizabeth,  portrait  of  Richard  K. 
Lee,  property  of,  facing  112. 

Lee,  Fitzhugh,  governor  of  Va.,  214, 
233;  at  reception  to  president  Harri- 
son, 241;  at  centennial  ball,  257;  at 
military  parade,  333;  portrait,  334;  at 
banquet,  metropolitan  opera-house, 
360;  his  address  at  banquet,  362,  367. 

Lee,  G.  W.  C,  mentioned,  405;  portraits 
in  possession  of,  Daniel  P.  Custis,  548, 
ttoU-,  Eleanor  Custis,  441;  Martha  Cus- 
tis, facing  262;  Lafayette,  494;  Mrs. 
Fielding  Lewis,  facing  262;  Washing- 
ton, 9,  541,  542,  543,  546;  Martha 
Washington,  262,  546,  note,  549. 

Lee,  Henry,  mentioned,  86. 

Lee.  J.  Bowers,  member  of  floor  com- 
mittee, centennial  ball.  259:  subscriber 
to  ball.  265;  at  banquet,  359. 

L^e.  John  H.,  portrait  of  Jefferson, 
property  of,  488. 

Lee,  R.  H.,  the  C.  W.  Peale  portrait  of 
Richard  Henry  Lee,  497. 

Lee,  Richard  Bland,  member  of  congress 
from  Va.,  it,  136,  232;  biographical 
sketch  of,  S6;  portrait,  facing  112;  notes 
on  the  portraits  of.  423,  496. 

Lee,  Richard  Henry,  U.  S.  senator  from 
Va.,  1,10,  135,  232;  opposes  the  adop- 
tion of  the  constitution  1,  10;  men- 
tioned, 6,  note  ;  in  favor  of  a  title  for 
the  president  of  U.  S..  39,  note  :  escort 
to  Washington,  42  ;  his  remarks  in  con- 
gress on  the  mode  of  receiving  the 
president  of  U.  S.,  43  ;  at  inauguration 
of  Washington.  50  ;  biographical  sketch 
of,  86  ;  portraits,  painted  by  C.  W. 
Peale,  and  Trumbull,  facing  111,  and 
unknown,  65  ;  member  of  federal  con- 
vention, 17S7,  136  ;  notes  on  the  por- 
traits of,  41S.  422,  423,  496. 

Lee,  Robert  E.,  president  of  Washington 
and  Lee  college,  405. 

Lee.  S.  L.,  commissioner  from  Nevada, 
216. 

Lee,  Thomas,  mentioned,  86. 

Lee.  Thomas  Sim.  member  of  federal 

convention,  17S7,  136. 
Lee,  W.  H.  F.,  mentioned,  405. 
Lee,  W.  H.  L.,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  265. 

Lee,  William  C,  invited  to  meet  president 

Harrison,  246. 
Leeds,  Albert,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  265. 

Leek,  Clara  B  ,  of  choir,  St.  Paul's  chapel, 
271. 

Lefferts.  L.  E..  seventh  X.  Y.  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  334. 
Leftovich,  A.  T.,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  265. 
Legge,  Mr.,  at  banquet,  360. 
Leggett,   Francis    H.,  invited  to  meet 


president  Harrison,  246  ;  subscriber  to 
memorial  arch,  414. 

Leggett,  Francis  H.,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to 
celebration,  401. 

Lehman,  Emanuel,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Lehr,  S.  D.,  colonel  fourth  Pa.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  325. 

Leids,  Charles  A.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Leigh,  Frederick  T.,  signal  corps,  N.  Y., 
at  military  parade,  336. 

Leisler,  Jacob,  represented  in  tableau, 
civic  parade,  393. 

Leiter,  Z.  L  ,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Leland,  F.  L. ,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 223. 

Leland,  Francis  L.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Le  Mire.  Noel,  engraver  of  Washington's 
portraits,  145. 

Le  Mayne.  E.  M.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 223. 

Leney.  William  S.,  engraver  of  portraits 
of  Hamilton,  Jay,  and  Rufus  King,  473, 
479.  49i- 

L'Enfant,  Pierre  C,  architect  of  St. 
Paul's  chapel  and  Federal  hall,  N.Y.  ,14; 
designs  badge  of  the  Cincinnati  society, 
freedom  of  the  city  of  N.  Y.  presented 
to,  14,  note ;  author  of  the  plan  of  the 
city  of  Washington,  15  ;  appointed  as- 
sistant, inauguration  of  Washington, 
declines,  42,  note;  mentioned,  7S;  brevet- 
major,  136. 

Lennon,  Lizzie,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  28,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238 

Lennox,  A.,  third  battalion,  N.  J.,  at 
military  parade,  327. 

Lenox,  James,  mentioned,  514. 

Lenox  Library,  N.  Y.,  portraits  in  posses- 
sion of,  Lafayette,  493  ;  Mrs.  Robert 
Morris,  facing  59  ;  514;  and  Washing- 
ton, 543. 

Lent,  W.  H.,  escort  to  president  Harrison, 
223. 

Lent,  William  H.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Lentilhon,  Joseph,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 223. 

Leo,  John  P.,  twenty-second  N.  Y.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  335. 

Leonard,  George,  Sr.,  mentioned,  75. 

Leonard.  George,  member  of  congress 
from  Mass.,  8,  135,  232  ;  biographical 
sketch  of,  75;  portrait,  facing  91;  notes 
on  the  portraits  of,  419,  497. 

Leonard,  H.  W.,  ninth  N.  Y.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  335. 

Leonard.  Orville  W.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  220,  250,  253. 

Leonard,  P.  H.,  at  banquet,  358. 

Leonard,  Robert  W.,  assistant  adjutant- 
general,  first  brigade,  N.  Y.,  at  military 
parade,  334. 

Leonard,  Rosa,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  57,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 


Leoser,  Charles  McK.,  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  221  ;  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  247,  248;  subscriber 
to  centennial  ball,  265. 

Le  Roy,  Mrs.  Daniel,  portrait  of  Nicholas 
Fish,  property  of,  facing  41  ;  446  ;  sub- 
scriber to  memorial  arch,  414. 

Le  Roy,  Edward  A.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Le  Roy,  Edward  A..  Jr.,  member  of  aisle 
committee,  St.  Paul's  chapel,  272,  283  ; 
ancestry  of,  2S3. 

Le  Roy,  Henry  W.,  member  of  committee 
of  sons  of  the  revolution,  106  ;  of  gen- 
eral committee,  107,  114,  236;  commit- 
tee on  states,  109,  113,  206,  207,  208. 
209,  217,  220,  228,  236,  249  ;  escort  to 
president  Harrison,  220,  224  ;  at  ban- 
quet to  the  president,  234  ;  subscriber 
to  centennial  ball,  265  ;  at  banquet 
metropolitan  opera-house,  359  ;  sub- 
scriber to  celebration,  401. 

Le  Roy,  Jacob,  vestryman  of  Trinity 
church,  1795,  283. 

Le  Roy,  Newbold,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Le  Roy,  William  R. .member  of  asscml  ly, 
N.  Y.,  242. 

Leschorn,  Carl,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 221. 

Lesher,  Whitman,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to 
memorial  arch,  414. 

Leslie,  George  D.,  artist,  his  portrait  of 
Franklin,  458,  facing  464. 

Leslie,  Henry  A.,  first  artillery,  Ohio,  at 
military  parade,  343. 

Leslie,  P.  T.,  governor  of  Montana,  215. 

Letzeiser,  Frederick,  Koltes  post,  G.  A. 
R..  escort  to  president  Harrison,  221  ; 
at  military  parade  346. 

Leutze,  Emanuel,  artist,  portrait  of  Abra- 
ham Baldwin,  facing  76  ;  represented  in 
tableau,  civic  parade,  395  ;  notes  on  his 
portrait  of  Abraham  Baldwin,  419,  427. 

Le  Vachez,  artist,  his  portrait  of  Lafayette, 
494- 

Levasseur,  J.  C,  engraver  of  portrait  of 
Franklin,  461. 

Levergood,  J.  P.,  eighth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  324. 

Levey,  Clarence  D.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Levy,  B.  J.,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
265. 

Levy,  Edwin  J.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Levy,  Ferdinand,  Steinwehr  post,  G.  A. 

R.,  escort  to  president  Harrison,  221  ; 

at  military  parade,  346. 
Levy,  George,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  265. 

Levy,  J.  L.,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
265. 

Lew  Yuk  Lin,  vice-consul  of  China,  24S. 
Lewando,  J.,  third  N.  H.  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  332. 
Lewis,  A.  C,  sixty-fifth  N.  Y.  regiment, 

at  military  parade,  339. 
Lewis,  Alonzo  D.,  member  of  assembly, 

N.  Y.,  242. 


6.4        THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


Lewis,  Dangerfield,  portrait  o{  Mrs.  Field- 
ing Lewis,  property  of,  546,  note. 

Lewis,  Daniel,  M.  I),  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  244. 

Lew  is,  Kdward  1'.  C,  portraits  of  Eleanor 
Parke  Custis  and  Mrs.  Lawrence  Lewis, 
property  of,  145,  facing  262,  441. 

Lewis,  Fielding,  portrait,  painted  by 
Woolaston,  facing  256  ;  notes  on  the 
portraits  of,  145,  423,  497,  547,  note  ; 
548,  note  ;  mentioned,  441. 

Lew  is,  Mrs.  Fielding,  sister  of  Washing- 
ton, portraits  painted  by  Woolaston, 
facing  256,  262  ;  notes  on  the  portraits 
of,  145,  423,  497,  546,  note,  548,  note  ; 
the  Woolaston  portrait  of  Martha  Wash- 
ington, claimed  to  be  the  portrait  of, 
546,  note. 

Lewis,  Francis,  member  of  continental 
congress,  310. 

Lewis,  George,  Jr.,  subscriber  to  memo- 
rial arch,  413. 

Lewis,  Mrs.  George,  Jr.,  subscriber  to 
memorial  arch,  414. 

Lewis,  H.  L.  D.,  bible  of  Martha  Wash- 
ington, property  of,  67  ;  portraits  of 
Fielding  Lewis,  and  Mrs.  Lewis,  prop- 
erty of,  145,  facing  256,  497;  mentioned. 
441  ;  claims  the  Woolaston  portrait  of 
Martha  Washington  to  be  the  portrait 
of  Mrs.  Fielding  Lewis,  547,  note. 

Lewis,  Henry  A.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Lewis,  James,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  244. 

Lewis,  James  F.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Lewis,  Mrs.  Lawrence,  portraits,  painted 
by  Sharpless,  and  Stuart,  facing  256  ; 
portraits  at  loan  exhibition,  145  ,  notes 
on  the  portraits  of,  441. 

Lewis,  Lorenzo,  portrait  of  Mrs.  Fielding 
Lewis,  property  of,  546,  548,  note. 

Lewis,  Lorin  L.,  at  reception  to  the 
justices  of  U.  S.  supreme  court,  402. 

Lewis,  Col.  Morgan,  at  reception  to 
Washington,  17S9,  35;  portraits,  painted 
by  Burlin,  Herring,  Inman,  and  Trum- 
bull, facing  39  ;  grand  marshal  of  the 
escort  to  Washington,  42,  308  ;  his  wife, 
42,  note  ;  at  semi-centennial  celebration 
of  Washington's  inauguration,  42,  note, 
96,  98,  99  ;  mentioned,  136  ;  view  of 
sword  worn  by,  at  inauguration  of 
Washington,  310  ;  notes  on  the  por- 
traits of,  421,  422  498. 

Lewis,  Robert,  assistant  secretary  to 
Washington,  136  ;  portrait  at  loan  ex- 
hibition, 145 

Lewis,  Theodore  G.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265. 

Lewis,  Thomas  J.,  U.  S.  army,  aide  to 
grand  marshal,  military  parade,  319. 

Lewis,  W.  W.,  commissioner  from  Kan- 
sas, 2t6. 

Lewis,  Walter  H.,  member  of  citizens' 
committee.  104  ;  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246  ;  vestryman  of  Trin- 
ity church,  at  services,  St.  Paul's  chapel, 
269. 


Lewis,  William,  state  senator,  N.  Y., 
242 

Lewis    Rrothcrs,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to 

celebration,  401. 
Lexington,  Mass.,  centennial  of  the  battle 

of,  100. 

Lexington,  Va.,  the  celebration  at,  404. 

Leyburn,  Rev.  John,  mentioned,  468. 

Leyburn,  Louisa  S.  M.,  portrait  of  Cyrus 
Griffin,  property  of,  468. 

L'Hommedieu,  Kzra,  candidate  for  U.  S. 
senator  from  N.  Y.,  13,  note. 

Libbey,  Octavius  B.,  subscriber  to  me- 
morial arch,  414. 

Libby,  Charles  T.,  commissioner  from 
Me.,  216. 

Libby,  Cortenas,  commissioner  from  Me., 
216. 

Liberty,  schooner,  at  civic  parade,  391. 

Liberty  guards,  at  civic  parade,  386. 

Lichtenstadter,  Samuel,  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  265. 

Lichtenstein,  Paul,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Liddle,  Grace,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  62,  reception  of  presi- 
dent Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

Liebbers,  T.  C,  artist,  portraits  of  James 
Madison  and  wife,  facing  63,  262;  num- 
ber of  portraits  of  congressmen  painted 
by,  419,  420  ;  notes  on  his  portraits  of 
James  Madison,  and  Mrs.  Madison, 
421,  507,  508. 

Liederkranz  Society,  represented  at  re- 
ception to  president  Harrison,  231  ;  at 
civic  parade,  with  float,  395. 

Liedertafel  Society,  at  civic  parade,  395. 

Lienard,  John  Baptist,  engraver,  men- 
tioned, 460,  note.  ' 

Lienard,  T.,  medallion  in  porcelain  of 
Franklin  by,  460. 

Life  Insurance,  representatives  of,  in- 
vited to  meet  president  Harrison,  246. 

Lillie,  Abraham  B.  H  ,  U.  S.  navy,  248. 

Lilliendahl,  John  G.  R.,  twenty-second 
N.  Y.  regiment,  at  military  parade, 
335- 

Lillis,  James  A.,  first  Vt.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  341. 

Lincoln.  Abraham,  represented  in  tableau, 
civic  parade,  391,  393. 

Lincoln,  Benjamin,  Washington's  letter 
to,  respecting  the  presidency,  19. 

Lincoln  Club,  N.  Y.  subscriber  to  me- 
morial arch,  414. 

Lincoln,  George  H.,  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  245. 

Lincoln,  Robert  T.,  extract  from  address 
off  3°3.  375  I  delivers  address  at  ban- 
quet, Chicago,  406. 

Lincoln,  Rufus  P.,  M.D.,  invited  to 
meet  president  Harrison,  244. 

Lindpaintner,  P.  J.,  jubilee  overture  by, 
350. 

Lindsay,  William,  commissioner  from 
Ky.,  216. 

Linn,  Rev.  William,  pastor  of  reformed 
Dutch  church,  N.  Y.,  1789,  chaplain  of 
congress,  39,  note  ;  his  former  charge 
in  N.  J.,  40,  note  ;  portrait,  facing  45; 


at  inauguration    of    Washington,  46  ; 
notes  on  the  portrait  of,  423,  498. 
Linn,  William  A.,  at  literary  exercises, 
289. 

Linson,  John  J.,  state  senator,  N.  Y., 
242  ;  at  banquet,  359. 

Linton,  John,  portraits  of  James  Madison, 
painted  for,  504. 

Lippman,  Leonard,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265. 

Liquor  Merchants,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Litchfield,  Edward  H. ,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265;  at  banquet,  360. 

Literary  Exercises,  April  30,  1889,  at  sub- 
treasury.  Wall  street,  list  of  guests 
present,  285,  289  ;  fac  simile  of  ticket 
and  invitation,  286,  288  ;  bible  and 
chair  used  by  Washington,  286;  decora- 
tions of  building,  286;  view  of  building, 
290  ;  addresses  by  Hamilton  Fish  and 
Elbridge  T.  Gerry,  290;  prayer  by  Rev. 
Richard  S.  Storrs,  291  ;  poem  entitled, 
"The  Vow  of  Washington,"  by  John 
Greenleaf  Whittier,  read  by  Clarence 
W.  Bowen,  292  ;  oration  by  Chauncey 
M.  Depew,  293  ;  views  of  the  street, 
during  the  exercises,  294,  297,  300, 
307  ;  address  by  president  Harrison, 
307  ;  benediction  by  Archbishop  Cor- 
rigan,  308. 

Littauer,  Lucius  N.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265. 

Litter,  John,  at  banquet,  359. 

Little,  George  T.,  notes  on  the  portraits 
of  general  Knox  and  Madison,  492, 
note,  504. 

Little,  John  F.,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  242. 

Little,  Joseph  J.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246,  247. 

Little,  Robbins,  at  banquet,  358. 

Littlejohn,  Rt.  Rev.  Abram  N.,  bishop 
of  Long  Island,  244  ;  officiates  at  St. 
Paul's  chapel,  273;  at  banquet,  360. 

Live  Oak  Engine  Company,  at  civic  pa- 
rade', 388. 

Live  Oak  Hook  and  Ladder  Company, 
at  civic  parade,  388. 

Livermore,  Arthur,  the  Trumbull  por- 
trait of  Samuel  Livermore,  498. 

Livermore,  Rev.  Arthur  B.,  portrait  of 
Samuel  Livermore,  property  of,  facing 
105,  498. 

Livermore,  Samuel,  Sr.,  mentioned,  82. 
Livermore,  Samuel,  portraits  painted  by 

Sharpless  and  Trumbull,  facing  65,  105; 

member  of  congress  from  N.  H.,  82, 

135.  232  i  biographical  sketch  of,  82  ; 

notes  on  the  portraits  of,  422,  495,  498, 

499- 

Livingston,  Mrs.  Brockholst,  mentioned, 
511. 

Livingston,  Cambridge  L.,  subscriber  to 

centennial  ball,  265. 
Livingston,  Carola,  at  centennial  ball, 

258. 

Livingston,  Charles  O.,  portrait  of  John 
R.  Livingston,  property  of,  facing  41, 
499. 


IX  HEX. 


615 


Livingston,  Clarisse,  at  centennial  ball, 
261. 

Livingston,  Clermont,  portrait  of  Chancel- 
lor Livingston,  property  of,  lacing  45, 
145,  500. 

Livingston,  Edward  de  P.  .member  of  aisle 

committee,  St.  Paul's  chapel,  272,  283  ; 

ancestry  of,  283. 
Livingston,  Eliza  H.,  portraits  of  John  R. 

Livingston,  property  of,   facing  168, 

500. 

Livingston,  Gertrude,  wife  of  Morgan 
Lewis,  42,  note. 

Livingston,  Harriet,  wife  of  Robert  Ful- 
ton, portrait  of  Walter  Livingston, 
painted  by,  facing  156,  501. 

Livingston,  Henrietta,  portrait  of  Lady 
Stirling,  property  of,  facing  57,  530 

Livingston,  Lieut.  Col.  Henry  B.,  address 
before  the  New  York  society  of  the 
Cincinnati,  1790,  l6g,  note,  176. 

Livingston,  Henry  W.,  mentioned,  500. 

Livingston,  Herman  T.,  subscriber  to 
memorial  arch,  414. 

Livingston,  James  Duane,  member  of 
committee  of  sons  of  the  revolution, 
106  ;  of  general  committee,  107,  114, 
236 ;  secretary  of  committee  on  rail- 
roads and  transportation,  109,  113,  181, 
182,  184,  236;  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 182,  224  ;  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265;  at  literary  exercises,  289; 
at  banquet,  361. 

Livingston,  Joanna,  wife  of  Pierre  Van 
Cortlandt,  537. 

Livingston,  John,  ancestor  of  the  Living- 
ston family,  51,  note. 

Livingston,  John,  candidate  for  secretary 
of  the  U.  S.  senate,  1789,  51,  note. 

Livingston,  Rev.  John  H.,  pasior  of  re- 
formed Dutch  church,  N.  Y.,  1789, 
39,  note. 

Livingston,  John  R.,  portraits,  painted 
by  unknown,  and  Vanderlyn,  facing  41, 
168  ;  escort  to  Washington,  42  ;  his 
wife,  42,  note  ;  at  inauguration  of  Wash- 
ington, 285,  note  ;  notes  on  the  portraits 
of,  423,  499. 

Livingston,  Johnston,  member  of  gen- 
eral committee,  114,  236  ;  invited  to 
meet  president  Harrison,  246  ;  at  cen- 
tennial ball,  261  :  subscriber  to  ball, 
265  ;  at  banquet,  358  ;  subscriber  to 
celebration,  400. 

Livingston  Lewis  H.,  at  literary  exercises, 
285,  2S9  ;  member  of  platform  commit- 
tee, 308,  309  ;  aide  to  grand  marshal, 
military  parade,  320. 

Livingston,  Mrs.  Margaret  B.,  mother  of 
chancellor  Livingston,  portraits,  painted 
by  Stuart,  facing  172,  256;  unknown, 
256  ;  notes  on  the  portraits  of,  419, 
note,  422,  423,  501. 

Livingston,  Mary,  wife  of  James  Duane, 
58,  note. 

Livingston,  the  Misses,  attends  assembly 

ball,  1789,  59. 
Livingston,  Mrs.  Peter  V.  B.,  attends 

assembly  ball,  1789,  59;  note  on  the 

portrait  of,  500. 


Livingston,  Philip,  signer  of  the  decla- 
ration of  independence,  descendants  of, 
283. 

Livingston,  Philip  L. ,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224  ;  at  centennial  ball,  262  ; 
subscriber  to  ball,  265  ;  member  of 
aisle  committee,  St.  Paul's  chapel,  272, 
283  ;  ancestry  of,  283  ;  at  banquet,  358. 

Livingston,  Robert,  first  lord  of  Living- 
ston manor,  5t,  note. 

Livingston,  Robert,  third  lord  of  the 
manor,  58,  note. 

Livingston,  Robert  E.,  member  of  com- 
mittee of  N.  Y.  historical  society,  105; 
of  general  committee,  107;  committee 
on  navy,  109;  his  death,  189. 

Livingston,  Mrs.  Robert  E.,  portraits  of 
Mrs.  Margaret  B.  Livingston,  and  judge 
Robert  R.  Livingston,  property  of,  fac- 
ing 256,  501. 

Livingston,  Robert  R.,  member  of  the 
stamp  act  congress,  father  of  chancellor 
Livingston,  51,  note  ;  note  on  the  por- 
traits of,  501. 

Livingston,  Chancellor  Robert  R.,  escort 
to  Washington,  28,43;  his  wife,  42,  note; 
administers  the  oath  of  office  as  presi- 
dent of  U.  S.,  to  Washington,  45,  46,  48, 
52;  declares  Washington  president  of 
U.  S.,  45;  portraits,  painted  by  St.  Me- 
min,  Sharpless,  Stuart,  Trumbull,  and 
Vanderlyn,  facing  45  ;  Washington  his 
guest,  49,  57;  his  dress,  51 ;  grand  mas- 
ter of  the  grand  lodge,  of  masons,  state 
of  N.  Y.,  secures  bible  to  be  used  at 
Washington's  inauguration,  51  ;  an- 
cestry of,  his  services,  51,  note;  proposed 
statue  to,  51,  note;  attends  assembly 
ball,  1789,  58  ;  represented  in  trans- 
parency, 1839,99;  mentioned,  136;  por- 
traits at  loan  exhibition,  145;  vignette 
of,  232;  warden  of  Trinity  church,  1785, 
282;  descendants  of,  282,  2S3;  his  table 
used  at  literary  exercises,  1889,  286;  rep- 
resented in  tableau,  civic  parade,  386, 
396;  notes  on  the  portraits  of,  420,  422, 
423,  500. 

Livingston,  Mrs.  Robert  R.,  wife  of  the 
chancellor,  attends  assembly  ball,  1789, 
59;  no  portrait  of,  501. 

Livingston,  Judge  Robert  R.,  portraits, 
facing  256;  notes  on  the  portraits  of, 
420,  423,  501. 

Livingston,  Robert  R.,  member  of  recep- 
tion committee,  ancestry  of,  230;  mem- 
ber of  platform  committee,  2S6,  308, 
309  ;  table  of  chancellor  Livingston, 
property  of,  286;  at  literary  exercises, 
286,  289. 

Livingston,  Sarah  V.  B.,  wife  of  John 
Jay,  483. 

Livingstone,  Mrs.  Thompson,  mentioned, 
500. 

Livingston,  Van  Brugh,  mentioned,  500. 

Livingston,  Walter,  escort  to  Washing- 
ton, 28,  42  ;  commissioner  of  U.  S. 
treasury,  136;  portraits  painted  by  Mrs. 
Robert  Fulton,  and  unknown,  facing 
156;  notes  on  the  portraits  of,  421,  423, 
501. 


Livingston,  Mrs.  Walter,  note  on  the  por- 
trait of,  502. 

Livingston,  Mrs.  Walter  L.,  portrait  of 
Walter  Livingston,  property  of,  facing 
156,  501. 

Livingston,  William,  governor  of  N.  J., 
welcomes  Washington  to  Woodbridge, 
N.  J.,  27;  member  of  federal  conven- 
tion, 1787,  136. 

Livingston,  Mrs.  William  S.,  at  centen- 
nial ball,  262. 

Livingston,  William  S. ,  Jr.,  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  265. 

Lloyd,  Francis  G.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Lloyd,  James  H.,  twenty-first  separate 
company,  N.  Y..  at  military  parade, 
337- 

Lloyd,  Thomas  W. ,  colonel  twelfth  Pa. 

regiment,  at  military  parade,  325. 
Loan  Exhibition,  April  17,  1889,  views  of 

picture  gallery,  and  relics,  facing  129, 

I3[.  133.  134,  M2,  144,  146.  149;  of 
historical  portraits  and  relics,  131,  142; 
fac-simile  of  invitation  to  the  formal 
opening,  list  of  guests  invited,  142  ; 
catalogue  of  portraits  of  Washington, 
143 ;  catalogue  of  portraits,  144,  and 
busts,  145  ;  scholars  of  the  public 
schools  visit,  143;  report  of  manager, 
147  ;  number  of  visitors  to,  148. 

 illustrations  of  relics,  writing  desk  of 

Alexander  Hamilton,  77,  79;  gold  snuff- 
box of  Mrs.  Ralph  Izard,  73  ;  gold 
watch,  snuff-box,  sword,  and  gold 
headed  cane  of  John  Jay,  97,  98,  152, 
168;  bible  of  Thomas  Jefferson,  186  ; 
sword  of  Morgan  Lewis,  310;  saber  of 
general  Jacob  Morton,  162  ;  dress 
sword  of  governor  Benjamin  Pierce, 
158;  gold  watch,  and  snuff-box,  of 
Baron  Steuben,  69,  71;  George  Wash- 
ington's snuff-box,  75;  pencil  case  and 
gold  pen,  85;  acts  of  first  U.  S.  con- 
gress, 91  ;  surveying  instruments,  133  ; 
knee-buckles,  138;  Washington  sword, 
vases,  and  locket  with  hair,  facing  149  ; 
gold  ring,  with  his  hair,  155;  field-glass, 
164;  breastpin,  166  ;  camp  trunk,  1S2  ; 
fan,  with  portrait,  256;  Martha  Wash- 
ington's bible,  67;  gold  snuff-box,  170  ; 
Mary  B.  Washington's  bible,  146. 

 portraits  at  exhibition  see  portraits. 

Loar,  James  A  ,  tenth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  325. 

Locke,  Frederick  T.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  221;  invited  to  meet  the  presi- 
dent, 247. 

Lockman,  John  T.,  at  banquet,  358. 

Lockrow,  A.  V.  B.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Lockwood,  H.  D.,  aide  to  grand  marshal, 
military  parade,  320. 

Lockwood,  Howard,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224;  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Lockwood,  Isaac  F.,  escort  to  president 

Harrison,  224. 
Lockwood,  James  B.,  escort  to  president 

Harrison,  224. 


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Lockwood,  John  B.,  escort  to  president 
1  larrison,  221. 

Lodcr,  Edwin  A.,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  242. 

Loder,  G.  S.,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 223. 

Lodge,  Henry  C,  at  banquet,  360. 

Lodge,  Mrs.  John  E.,  portraits  of  Fisher 
Ames,  facing  89,  426  ;  and  Alexander 
Hamilton,  469,  property  of. 

Lodor,  Richard,  U.  S.  army,  at  military- 
parade,  320. 

Loeb,  James,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
265. 

Loew,  Edward  V.,  member  of  general 
committee,  108,  114,  236;  of  committee 
on  finance,  109,  113,  236,  398,  400;  at 
centennial  ball,  261 ;  subscriber  to  ball, 
265;  at  literary  exercises,  289;  at  ban- 
quet, 36r  ;  subscriber  to  celebration, 
401. 

Lohman,  H.  J.,  second  N.  J.  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  327. 
Loisette,  A.,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 

265. 

Lombardo,  F.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Lomia,  Luigi,  U.  S.  army,  at  military 
parade,  320. 

London,  national  portrait  gallery,  por- 
trait of  Franklin,  property  of,  460,  fac- 
ing 524- 

Long,  James  A.,  fifth  battalion,  D.  C,  at 
military  parade,  344. 

Long,  John  D.,  delivers  historical  address, 
at  Pittsfield,  Mass.,  403. 

Long  Island  City,  the  Downing,  Huntting, 
and  Ringold  posts,  G.  A.  R.,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  346;  firemen,  Scandinavian 
society,  and  bricklayers,  at  civic  parade, 
388,  389,  393,  396. 

Long  Island  Historical  Society,  portraits 
of  Egbert  Benson,  property  of,  facing 
65,  429. 

Longacre,  J.  B. ,  engraver  of  the  portraits 
of  John  Adams,  425  ;  Charles  Carroll, 
433  I  George  Clymer,  440  ;  Benjamin 
Franklin,  456  ;  Elbridge  Gerry,  463  ; 
Thomas  Jefferson,  485  ;  R.  H.  Lee, 
497;  Robert  Morris,  514;  Caleb  Strong, 
530,  notes  on  the  portraits  painted  by, 
of  Madison  and  Morris,  507,  514. 

Longley,  John  B.,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  242. 

Longnecker,  Edwin,  U.  S.  navy,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  321. 

Loomis,  Alfred  L.,  M.  D.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  244. 

Loomis,  Edward  E.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265. 

Lord,  George  De  F. ,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  244. 

Lord,  Henry  E.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 221. 

Lord,  S.  F.,  portrait  of  John  Steele, 
property  of,  facing  125,  529. 

Lord,  Samuel,  Jr.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent 1  larrison,  246. 

Lord  &  Taylor,  subscribers  to  celebra- 
tion, 400. 


Lorcley  Maennerchor.  at  Madison  square 
concert,  350;  at  civic  parade,  393. 

Lorigan,  G.  11.,  ninth  N.  Y.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  335. 

Lorillard,  Pierre,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247,  248. 

Loring,  Charles  G.,  the  portrait  of  Fisher 
Ames,  painted  by  G.  S.  Newton,  427, 
and  note. 

Loring,  Charles  W.,  acknowledgment  to, 
in  preface,  vi. 

Loring,  George  B.,  at  banquet,  360. 

Lorraine,  B.,  Va.  artillery,  at  military  pa- 
rade, 333. 

Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  the  celebration  at, 
406. 

Lossing,  Benson  J.,  mentioned,  23. 
Loth,  Joseph,  subscriber   to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Lothrop,  Thornton  K. ,  at  commemorative 
banquet,  society  of  the  Cincinnati,  149. 

Lottery,  to  pay  for  alterations  to  Federal 
hall,  15,  note. 

Louis  XVI. ,  portrait  of,  and  wife,  in  fed- 
eral hall,  N.  Y.,  14,  and  note  ;  his  health 
toasted  at  dinner,  Phila.,  24  ;  portrait 
at  loan  exhibition,  145  ;  portrait  of 
Franklin  painted  for,  450  ;  presents 
Franklin's  portrait  to  Mrs.  Franklin, 
450. 

Louis  Phillippe,  mentioned,  479  ;  portrait 
of  John  Jay  painted  for,  480. 

Louisiana,  governor  and  commissioner  of, 
216,  233  ;  admitted  into  the  union,  233; 
troops  at  military  parade,  343,  346. 

Louisville,  Ky.,  legion,  at  military  pa- 
rade, 341. 

Lounsbury,  P.  C,  at  banquet,  358. 

Love,  Mary,  delegate  from  public  school 
No.  60,  reception  of  president  Harrison, 
city  hall,  238. 

Lovell,  Edward  H.,  first  Ohio  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  342. 

Low,  Abiel  A.,  member  of  citizens'  com- 
mittee, 104  ;  portraits  of  Madison  and 
Monroe,  property  of,  facing  115,  116, 
484,  505,  506,  510  ;  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  248  ;  subscriber  to  me- 
morial arch,  414. 

Low,  Samuel,  author  of  ode  to  Washing- 
ton, 29,  note. 

Low,  Seth,  member  of  general  committee, 
108,  114,  236;  of  executive  committee, 
108  ;  secretary  of  committee  on  general 
government,  109,  113,  178,  181,  236  ; 
escort  to  president  Harrison,  181  ;  at 
reception  to  the  president,  232  ;  sub- 
scriber to  centennial  ball,  265  ;  at 
literary  exercises,  289  ;  at  banquet,  361; 
subscriber  to  celebration,  401. 

Low,  William  H.,  his  design  of  centen- 
nial souvenir,  138,  140,  141  ;  at  ban- 
quet, 360. 

Lowell,  James  Russell,  at  literary  exer- 
cises, 289  ;  at  banquet,  metropolitan 
opera-house,  359  ;  address  at  banquet, 
363.  379- 

Lowengard,  Otto,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 
Lowery,  John,  at  banquet,  358. 


Lowrey,  Mary,  at  reception  to  George 
Washington,  Trenton,  N.  J.,  1789,  26, 
note. 

Lowry,  Robert,  governor  of  Miss.,  233  ; 
invited  to  centennial  ball,  257. 

Lowry,  Thomas,  commissioner  from 
Minn.,  216  ;  at  banquet,  359. 

Loyal  Legion  of  U.  S.,  N.  Y.  command- 
ery,  escort  to  president  Harrison,  127, 
186,  219,  220,  235,  250,  252  ;  at  com- 
memorative services  of  society  of  the 
Cincinnati,  170;  at  military  parade, 
313,  314.  345.  346. 

  California  commandery,  escort  to 

president  Harrison,  221. 

Loyal  Orange  Institution,  at  civic  parade, 
396. 

Loyd,  Edward,  governor's  guard,  West 

Va.,  at  military  parade,  344. 
Lubin,    Minnie,    delegate    from  public 

school  No.  1,  reception  of  president 

Harrison,  city  hall,  237. 
Lucas,  D.  B.,  commissioner  from  West 

Va.,  216. 

Lucas,  J.  C,  third  N.  J.  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  326. 
Luce,  Cyrus  G.,  governor  of  Mich.,  214, 

216,  233  ;   at  reception   to  president 

Harrison,  241  ;  at  centennial  ball,  257  ; 

at  military  parade,  344  ;   at  banquet, 

359- 

Luce,  Richard,  member  of  marine  society, 
one  of  the  crew  of  the  president's  barge, 
202  ;  portrait,  203  ;  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  225. 

Luce,  S.  B.,  at  banquet,  361. 

Lucientes,  Francisco  Goya  y,  artist,  his 
portrait  of  Don  Diego  de  Gardoqui, 
facing  46,  420,  421,  463  ;  biographical 
sketch  of,  463,  note. 

Luckey,  C.  C,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 224. 

Ludwig,  Hans,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  248. 

Luetgens,  John  F.,  of  choir,  St.  Paul's 
chapel,  271. 

Lumber  Dealers,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Lunt,  W.  P.,  mentioned,  99. 

Luqueer,  F.  T.,  Jr.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Luqueer,  Robert  S.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Luquer,  Lea  Mcl.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Luquer,  Thatcher  T.  P.,  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  265. 

Lusar,  F.,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
265. 

Luscomb,  C.  H.,  thirteenth  N.  Y.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  337. 

Lusk,  Frank  S.,  commissioner  from  Wy- 
oming, 216,  233;  at  banquet,  359. 

Lusk,  William  T.,  M.  D.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  244. 

Lussman,  H.,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 223. 

Lutheran  Church,  N.  Y.  city,  founded,  9 

note  ;  39,  note. 
Lutigen,  Miss,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 


IXD/-X. 


Luttgen.  Walther,  member  of  floor  com- 
mittee, centennial  ball,  259;  at  literary 
exercises,  289;  at  banquet,  359. 

Lydecker,  Charles  E.,  seventh  X.  Y. 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  334. 

Lyman,  J.,  mentioned,  76,  note. 

Lyman,  Joseph,  mentioned,  530. 

Lyman,  Thomas  C,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Lynch,  Mrs.  Dominick,  attends  assembly 
ball,  1789,  59. 

Lynch,  E.  T.,  at  banquet,  358. 

Lynch,  W.,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  246. 

Lynch,  William  B.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Lynn,  William  H.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Lyon,  Edward  D.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  244. 

Lyon,  William  H.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245  ;  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265. 

Lyons,  Alfred,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Lyons,  Crossman,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

M'Henry,  James,  member  of  federal  con- 
vention, 17S7,  136. 

McAdam,  David,  judge  city  court,  243; 
at  banquet,  359;  at  reception,  justices 
U.  S.  supreme  court,  402. 

McAdam,  George  G.,  member  of  assem- 
bly, N.  Y.,  242. 

McAfee,  Charles  B.,  commissioner  from 
Mo.,  216. 

McAleeman,  A.  A.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

McAllister,  F.  M.,  at  banquet,  360. 

McAllister,  Ward,  member  of  committee 
on  entertainment,  109,  236;  secretary 
of  committee  on  entertainment,  116; 
of  general  committee,  114,  236;  at  cen- 
tennial ball,  260;  at  banquet,  356. 

McAlpin,  Edwin  A.,  aide  to  grand  mar- 
shal, military  parade,  320. 

McAlpine,  William  J.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  244. 

McArdell,  James,  engraver  of  portrait  of 
Benjamin  Franklin,  456,  facing  484. 

McArthur,  Belle,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  61,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

McBride.  R.  A.,  at  banquet,  359. 

McBride,  Robert  P.,  subscriber  to  Wall 
street  arch,  253. 

McBride,  T.  J.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

McBurney,  Charles,  M.  D.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  244. 

McCabe,  A.  D.,  third  N.  J.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  326. 

McCall,  James  X.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

McCann,  Peter  K.,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  242. 

McCarren,  Patrick  H.,  member  of  as- 
sembly, N.  Y.,  242. 

79 


McCarter,  Thomas  N.,  subscriber  to  cen 
tennial  ball,  265. 

McCarthy,  D.  C,  sixty-ninth  X.  Y.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  335. 

McCarthy,  Frank  D.,  first  artillery,  Ohio, 
at  military  parade,  343. 

McCarthy,  John  H.,  member  of  congress 
from  X.  Y.,  242;  in  command  St  Pat- 
rick's alliance,  civic  parade,  397. 

McCarthy,  Thomas  M.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  246. 

McClagg,  Louis  B.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

McClave,  Edmund  W.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  247. 

McClave,  John,  police  commissioner, 
243  ;  subscriber  to  centennial  ball,  265; 
at  banquet,  358. 

McClellan,  George  B.,  aide-de-camp  to 
gov.  Hill,  242  ;  at  banquet,  358. 

McClellan,  John,  lieut.  fifth  U.  S.  artil- 
lery, escort  to  president  Harrison,  220. 

McClellan,  John,  portraits  of  Jonathan 
Trumbull  and  wife,  property  of,  facing 
83.  535.  53°- 

McClelland,  Mary  C,  portrait  of  Isaac 
Coles,  property  of,  facing  III,  440. 

McClosky,  Frank  G.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

McClure,  Hugh  E.,  second  Ohio  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  342. 

McClure,  John  T.,  commissioner  from 
Ky.,  216. 

McClurg,  James,  member  of  federal  con- 
vention, 1787,  136. 

McCluskey,  Rev.  Thomas  J.,  at  banquet, 
360. 

McCombs,  E.  M.,  eighteenth  Pa.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  325. 

McConnell,  John  J.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265. 

McCook,  Anson  G. ,  secretary  of  U.  S. 
senate,  241  ;  at  centennial  ball,  258, 
260  ;  at  banquet,  359. 

McCoole,  Joseph  B.,  third  Ohio  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  342. 

McCoon,  J.  Henry,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

McCorkle,  Walter  L.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265. 

McCorkle,  Mrs.  Walter  L.,  at  centennial 
ball.  262. 

McCormick,  Eliot,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

McCormick,  R.  C,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

McCormick,  William,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265. 

McCosh,  A.  J.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

McCrea,  Maj.  Tully,  in  command  of  fifth 
U.  S.  artillery,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 219,  220,  227,  250. 

McCready,  Mrs.  W.  N.,  subscriber  to 
memorial  arch,  414. 

McCreery,  James,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

McCreery,  James,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to 
memorial  arch,  414. 

McCue,  Mary,  delegate  from  public  school 


No.  4,  at  reception  of  president  Harri- 
son, city  hall,  238. 

McCullagh,  John,  captain  of  police,  226. 

McCullagh,  John  H.,  captain  of  police, 
226. 

McCulloch,  J.G.,  commissioner  from  Vt.. 
216. 

McCulloch,  L.  R.,  second  N.  J.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  327. 

McCullough,  J.  G.,  at  banquet,  360. 

McCurdy,  Richard  A.,  member  of  special 
committee  of  chamber  of  commerce, 
101,  102  ;  of  citizens'  committee,  103  ; 
of  general  committee,  107  ;  invited  to 
meet  president  Harrison,  246. 

McDermott,  George  A.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265. 

McDonald,  Ella,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  9,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

McDonald,  John,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

McDonnell,  Rev.  Charles  E.,  at  literary 
exercises,  289. 

McDougall,  Col.  Alexander,  mentioned, 
42,  note. 

McDougall  &  Sprague,  subscribers  to 
Wall  street  arch,  253. 

McDowell,  William  O.,  mentioned,  101. 

McElligott,  Henry  M.,  member  of  floor 
committee,  centennial  ball,  259. 

McElroy,  Mrs.  John  E.,  at  banquet,  356. 

McErtee, William, Dahlgren  post,  G.A.R., 
escort  to  president  Harrison,  221  ;  in- 
vited to  meet  president  Harrison,  247  : 
at  military  parade,  345. 

McEvoy,  T.  S.,  in  command  Catholic 
mutual  benefit  association,  civic  pa- 
rade, 397. 

McEwan,  John  S.,  assistant  adjutant- 
general,  third  brigade,  X.  Y.,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  337. 

McEwen,  R.  C,  twenty-second  separate 
company,  N.  Y.,  at  military  parade, 
337- 

McGean,  Rev.  James  H.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  244. 

McGee,  Flavel,  member  of  Xew  Jersey 
society  of  the  Cincinnati,  at  commem- 
orative banquet,  150. 

McGill,  Alexander  T.,  commissioner  from 
X.  J.,  216  ;  at  banquet,  359. 

McGill,  George  W.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

McGinness,  Robert,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

McGinnis,  Robert,  commander  of  fourth 
division  volunteer  firemen,  at  civic  pa- 
rade, 388. 

McGlensey,  John,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison  247. 

McGown,  C.  Elbert,  of  choir,  St.  Paul's 
chapel,  271. 

McGown,  Helen  H.,  of  choir,  St.  Paul  's 
chapel,  271. 

McGown,  Henry  P.,  at  reception  to  pres- 
ident Harrison,  city  hall,  240,  24- 

McGown,  Margaret  A.,  of  choir,  St. 
Paul's  chapel,  271. 

McGown's  Pass,  X.  Y.  city,  40,  note. 


6i8        THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


McGuire,  Frederick,  mentioned,  547,  note. 

McGuire,  Frederic  B.,  bust  of  Washing- 
ton and  portrait  of  Jefferson,  property 
of.  145,  485. 

McGuire,  Mrs.  J.  D.,  portraits  of  James 
and  William  Madison,  and  Mrs.  Madi- 
son, property  of,  facing  63,  262,  506, 
507.  508. 

McGuire,  James  C.,  bust  and  portrait  of 
James  Madison,  property  of,  504,  507, 
508. 

McGuire,  John  C.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

McGuire,  P.  J.,  secretary  of  carpenters' 
association,  at  civic  parade,  392. 

McHenry,  Wilson  C,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  248. 

Mcllvane,  C.  H.,  forty-seventh  N.  Y. 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  337. 

Mcintosh,  John,  adjutant-general  of  Ga., 
at  military  parade,  328. 

Mclntyre,  A.  T.,  commissioner  from  Ga., 
215. 

Mclntyre,  Thomas  A.,  invited  to  meet 

president  Harrison,  245. 
McKay,  Nathaniel,  marshal  of  division 

E,  civic  parade,  392. 
McKean,  G.  L.,  portrait  of  Washington, 

property  of,  facing  10,  144,  541,  545. 
McKean,  H.  Pratt,  portrait  of  Franklin, 

property  of,  454. 
McKee,  Robert  J.,  at  centennial  ball,  259. 
McKee,   Mrs.   Robert  J.,  at  centennial 

ball,  259. 

McKee.  S.,  Jr.,  Louisville  legion,  at  mil- 
itary parade,  341. 

McKeen,  James,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  104. 

McKeever,  Daniel,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

McKeever,  J.  B.,  in  command  of  L.  I. 
city  bricklayers,  civic  parade,  396. 

McKenna,  Joseph,  commissioner  from 
Cal,  215. 

McKcnzie,  John  M.,  member  of  assem- 
bly, N.  Y.,  242. 

McKesson,  John,  Jr.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  246. 

McKibbin,  Gilbert  H.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  221. 

McKie,  Charles  W.,  in  command  of  Odd 
Fellows,  civic  parade,  396. 

McKim,  Anne  M.  C.,  portrait  of  Daniel 
Hiester,  property  of,  facing  69,  475. 

McKim,  Charles  F.,  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  244  ;  at  banquet,  3C0. 

McKim,  Clarence,  at  banquet,  358. 

McKim,  Mrs.  Haslett,  fan  with  portrait 
of  Washington,  property  of,  256. 

McKinney,  Philip,  commissioner  from 
Va.,  216. 

McKinstry,  Mrs.  Alexander,  at  centennial 
ball,  262. 

McKirtland,  Howard,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265. 

McKnight.  Charles  S.,  member  of  New 
York  society  of  the  Cincinnati,  150. 

McLanahan,  J.  \V.,  at  banquet,  358. 

McLane,  Robert  M.,  U.  S.  minister  to 
France,  address  delivered  at  Paris,  406. 


McLaughlin,  W.,  in  command  county 
Fermanagh  association,  civic  parade, 
397- 

McLaughlin,  William  G.,  subscriber  to 

centennial  ball.  265. 
McLaughlin,    William    H.,    member  of 

assembly,  N.  Y.,  242. 
McLean,  George  P.,  commissioner  from 

Conn.,  215. 
McLean,  George  W..  member  of  citizens' 

committee,   103  ;  in  command  of  the 

old  guard,  N.  Y.,  at  military  parade, 

339- 

McLean,  James  M.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

McLeer,  James,  brigadier-general  second 
brigade,  N.  Y.,  at  military  parade,  336. 

McMahon,  Frank  S.,  fourteenth  Ohio 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  342. 

McMahon,  Martin  T.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  221;  at  centennial  ball,  257; 
member  of  floor  committee,  centennial 
ball,  259;  aide  to  grand  marshal,  mili- 
tary parade,  319;  marshal  of  divisions 
U  to  Z,  civic  parade,  397. 

McMaster,  Charles  H.,  member  of  assem- 
bly. N.  Y.,  242. 

McMillan,  Robert  J.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  246. 

McMillan,  Samuel,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

McMurray,  L.  A.,  commissioner  from 
Iowa,  215. 

McNally,  Mary,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  72,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

McNamara,  R.  C,  fifth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  325. 

McNamee,  James  L. ,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265. 

McNaughton,  Donald,  state  senator, 
N.  Y.,  242. 

McNeil,  Thomas  R.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

McNutt,  Howard,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

McPherson,  John  R.,  U.  S.  senator  from 
N.  J.,  at  reception  to  president  Harri- 
son, 231. 

McQuade,  James,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

McQuaid,  Rt.  Rev.  Bernard  J.,  officiates 
at  centennial  celebration  services, 
Rome,  Italy,  406. 

McRae,  John  C,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

McSherry,  Richard  M.,  member  of  Md. 
society  of  the  Cincinnati,  151;  invited 
to  meet  president  Harrison,  248. 

McSweeney,  H.,  sixteenth  Pa.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  325. 

McSwyny,  Bryan  G. ,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265  ;  organizes  public  din- 
ner, April  30,  1889,  402. 

McVickar,  William  B.,  member  of  aisle 
committee,  St.  Paul's  chapel,  272,  2S3; 
ancestry  of,  283. 

McWhorter,  George  C  portrait  of  John 
Laurance,  property  of,  facing  65,  495. 

McWhorter,  J.  L.,  mentioned,  495. 


MacArthur,  Arthur,  U.  S.  army,  aide  to 

grand  marshal,  military  parade,  319. 
MacArthur,   Robert    S.,  favors  holding 

religious  services  April  30,  1 889,  123; 

one  of  the  committee  of  clergymen,  124, 

125;  invited  to  meet  president  I  larrison, 

244;  at  banquet,  360. 
MacBride,    R.   IL,   commissioner  from 

Dakota,  216. 
MacCracken,  Rev.  Henry  M.,  invited  to 

meet  president  Harrison,  244. 
MacDiarmid,  William  R.,  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  222. 
MacDonald,    Charles,    invited    to  meet 

president  Harrison,  244. 
MacDonald,  I.  H. ,  aide  to  grand  marshal, 

military  parade,  320. 
MacDonald,  P.   F.,  escort  to  president 

Harrison,  223. 
MacDonough,  James,  member  of  citizens' 

committee,  103. 
Macfarren,  G.  A.,  music  arranged  by,  271. 
MacGrath,  Hyland,  escort  to  president 

Harrison,  223;  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  265. 

Macintosh,  William,  second  Pa.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  323. 

Mack,  Harry  D.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Mackay,  Donald,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  104. 

Mackay-Smith,  Rev.  Alexander,  officiates 
at  St.  Paul's  chapel,  273. 

Mackenzie,  E.,  engraver  of  portrait  of 
Oliver  Ellsworth,  445. 

Mackie,  Mrs.  A.  L.  J.,  miniature  of  Cor- 
nelia T.  Clinton,  property  of,  144. 

Maclay,  Charles,  mentioned,  65. 

Maclay,  William,  U.  S.  senator  from  Pa., 
8,  135,  232  ;  opposes  holding  religious 
services  after  the  inauguration  of  Wash- 
ington, 39  ;  Washington  calls  upon, 
40,  note  his  account  of  Washington's 
inauguration,  54;  biographical  sketch 
of,  65;  portrait,  facing  09  ;  notes  on  the 
portrait  of,  418,  423,  502. 

MacLean,  Charles  F.,  police  commis- 
sioner, 243  ;  at  banquet,  358. 

Macomb,  Alexander,  commissioner  on 
the  alterations  of  federal  hall,  15,  note; 
his  residence  illuminated  on  the  arrival 
of  Washington,  31  ;  view  of  his  house, 
the  residence  of  Washington,  1790,  36, 
and  note  ;  portraits,  painted  by  Ram- 
age,  St.  Memin,  and  Waldo,  facing  51  ; 
notes  on  the  portraits  of,  422,  423, 
502. 

Macomb,  Mrs.  Alexander,  portraits, 
painted  by  Ramage,  and  St.  Memin, 
facing  51  ;  attends  assembly  ball,  1789, 
59  ;  notes  on  the  portraits  of.  423,  503. 

Mactavish,  Charles  C,  portraits  of 
Charles  Carroll  and  wife,  property  of, 
facing  97,  433,  435,  436. 

Mactavish,  Virginia  Si,  portraits  of 
Charles  Carroll,  property  of,  facing  97, 
433,  435- 

MacVeagh,  Wayne,  at  banquet,  361. 
Macy,  George  IL,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  24^. 


INDEX. 


619 


Macy,  R.  H.,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  memo- 
rial arch,  414. 

Macy,  William  H.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  222  ;  invited  to  meet  the 
president,  246. 

Madelina,  Susanna,  wife  of  Oliver  Cham- 
plain,  449,  and  note. 

Madison,  Col.  James,  mentioned,  86. 

Madison,  James,  member  of  Va.  conven- 
tion, one  of  the  authors  of  the  federal- 
ist, 3  ;  member  of  congress  from  Va. , 
11,  136,  232  ;  his  opinion  of  the  French 
minister,  32,  note  ;  opposes  title  for  the 
president  of  the  U.  S.,  38,  note  ;  assists 
Washington  in  preparing  his  inaugural 
address,  54,  note:  biographical  sketch  of, 
86;  member  of  federal  convention,  1787, 
136  ;  portrait  of  Jefferson,  painted  for, 
483.  488. 

  portraits  of,  painted  by  Catlin,  facing 

116;  Durand,  115;  Harding,  63;  Lieb- 
bers,  63;  St.  Memin,  116;  Stuart,  63; 
115,  150;  Sully,  63;  Vanderlyn,  115; 
unknown,  63,  116. 

 sculpture,   bust,  by  Ceracchi,  354  ; 

notes  on  the  portraits  of,  145,  418,  419, 
note,  425,  note,  503. 

Madison,  Mrs.  James,  gold  ring  presented 
to,  by  Washington,  155;  portraits, 
painted  by  Liebbers,  facing  262;  James 
Peale,  258;  Rembrandt  Peale,  258; 
Sharpless,  258  ;  Stuart,  25S  ;  and  un- 
known, 63;  notes  on  the  portraits  of, 
420,  507. 

Madison,  H.  R.,  thirteenth  Pa.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  325. 

Madison.  Robert,  portrait  of  James  Mad- 
ison, property  of,  507. 

Madison  Square,  X.  Y.  city,  concert, 
April  30,  1SS9,  arranged  under  the  lead- 
ership of  Theodore  Thomas,  350  ;  list 
of  German  singing  societies.  350;  num- 
ber of  singers,  350;  grand  march  from 
Wagner's  opera,  Tannhauser,  350;  jubi- 
lee overture,  by  Lindpaintner,  350  ;  Hail 
Columbia,  sung  by  the  chorus,  350;  Hal- 
lelujah Chorus,  from  Handel's  Messiah, 
350;  the  Lord's  Own  Day,  by  Kreut- 
zer,  sung  by  the  chorus.  350;  the  Invo- 
cation to  Battle,  from  Wagner's  opera, 
Rienzi,  351;  the  Star-spangled  Banner, 
sung  by  the  chorus,  351;  Meyerbeer's 
Torchlight  Dance,  351  ;  Beethoven's 
the  Heavens  are  Telling,  sung  by  the 
chorus,  351;  jubilee  overture,  by  We- 
ber, 351;  the  national  hymn  America, 
sung  by  the  public.  351  ;  display  of  fire- 
works, 352. 

Madison  Square  theatre,  X.  Y.,  subscriber 
to  memorial  arch,  413. 

Madison,  Gen.  William,  portrait,  painted 
by  St.  Memin,  facing  116;  portrait  of, 
attributed  to  be  the  portrait  of  his 
brother  James,  506. 

Magazines,  editors  of,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  246. 

Magee,  F.  J.,  colonel  eighth  Pa.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  324. 

Magill,  F.  W.,  first  Pa.  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  324. 


Maginniss,  T.  H.,  third  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  324. 

Magner,  Thomas  F.,  member  of  con- 
gress from  X.  Y.,  242;  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265. 

Magone.  Daniel,  collector,  port  of  X.  Y., 
225. 

Magoun,  George  C,  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  245;  at  banquet,  358. 

Magrath,  C.  S.,  sixth  X.  J.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  326. 

Maguire,  Charles  H.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265. 

Mahoney,  Catherine  D.,  delegate  from 
public  school  Xo.  37,  reception  of  pres- 
ident Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

Mahony,  M.,  third  battalion,  D.  C,  at 
military  parade,  344. 

Maidhoff,  William  J.,  twenty-second  X.  Y. 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  335. 

Maier,  John,  artist,  his  portrait  of  James 
Jackson,  facing  76,  478. 

Maine,  governor  and  commissioners  of, 
214,  216,  233;  admitted  into  the  union, 
233- 

Maine  Historical  Society,  represented  at 
celebration  of  the  semi-centennial  of 
Washington's  inauguration,  96,  98. 

Maitland,  Thomas,  at  banquet,  359. 

Maitland,  Phelps  &  Co.,  subscribers  to 
celebation,  401. 

Major,  Richard,  member  of  citizens'  com- 
mittee, 104. 

Malbone,  Edward  G. ,  artist,  illustrations 
of  his  portraits  of  Xicholas  Fish,  facing 
41;  Mrs.  Ralph  Izard,  facing  262  ;  Will- 
iam Malcom,  facing  42;  notes  on  the 
portraits  painted  by,  of  Xicholas  Fish, 
421,  446  ;  Xicholas  Gilman,  467  ;  Mrs. 
Ralph  Izard  and  daughters,  478  ;  Wil- 
liam Malcom,  421,  508  ;  Lady  John 
Temple,  533. 

Malcom,  Gen  William,  escort  to  Wash- 
ington, and  John  Adams,  35,  49;  por- 
trait, painted  by  Malbone.  facing  42; 
colonel  continental  army,  2S3;  notes  on 
the  portrait  of,  421,  508. 

Mali,  Charles,  consul  of  Belgium,  248. 

Mali,  H.  W.  T.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 222;  at  banquet,  358. 

Mali,  H.  W.  T.,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to 
celeb  ation,  401. 

Mallory,  Marshall  H.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  245. 

Malone,  X.  Y.,  twenty-seventh  separate 
company,  at  military  parade,  337. 

Maloney,  Estelle,  delegate  from  public 
school  Xo.  4,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

Maloney.  T.  F.,  eighth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  324. 

Man,  Albon  P.,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  244. 

Man,  William,  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Mancey,  J.  de,  mentioned,  449. 

Manchester,  X.  H.,  first  regiment  at  mili- 
tary parade,  333. 

Manderson,  Charles  F.,  U.  S.  senator 
from  Xebraska,  at  centennial  ball,  259  ; 


at  literary  exercises,  289  ;  at  banquet, 
359- 

Mandeville,  J.,  third  N.  J.  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  326. 
Manham  Association  Odd-fcllows,  at  civic 

parade,  393. 
Manhattan,  United  States  revenue  cutter, 
at  naval  parade,  202. 

Manhattan  Club,  represented  at  reception 
to  president  Harrison,  231. 

Manhattan  Company,  purchase  property 
in  Wall  St.,  X.  Y.,  32,  note. 

Manhattan  Ship  Joiners,  at  civic  parade, 
390  ;  view  of  their  two  floats,  391. 

Manigault,  Charles,  mentioned,  478. 

Manigault,  G.  E.,  acknowledgment  to,  in 
preface,  vi  ;  gold  snuff-box  with  minia- 
ture of  Mrs.  Ralph  Izard,  property  of, 
73  ;  mentioned,  80,  note,  81,  note  ;  por- 
traits cf  Ralph  Izard  and  Mrs.  Izard, 
and  William  L.  Smith,  property  of, 
facing  102,  144,  145,  180,  262,  478,  52S  ; 
notes  on  the  portraits  of  yEdanus 
Burke,  Daniel  Huger,  Ralph  Izard,  and 
Henry  Laurens,  432,  475,  476,  495. 

Manigault,  Louis,  portrait  of  Ralph  Izard, 
properly  of,  facing  100. 

Manigault,  Peter,  mentioned,  476. 

Manley,  Joseph  H.,  at  banquet,  360. 

Mann.  Samuel  V.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Manning,  Daniel,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  104. 

Manning,  Richard  L,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  248. 

Mansfield,  Francis  W.,  U.  S.  army,  at 
military  parade,  321. 

Mansfield.  G.  A.,  Orchard  Lake  military 
academy  cadets,  Mich.,  at  military 
parade,  344. 

Mansfield,  Rev.  R.  S.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  244. 

Mansion  House,  X.  Y.  city,  36,  note. 

Mapes,  Charles  V.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Mapes,  Daniel  S.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Mapes,  Lizzie,  delegate  from  public  school 
Xo.  65,  reception  of  president  Harrison, 
city  hall,  238. 

Maraggi,  Giralomo,  vice-consul  of  Italy, 
248. 

Marble  Cutters,  at  civic  parade,  392. 

Marbury,  Mrs.  J.  S.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265. 

March,  Clement,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

March,  F.  A.,  portrait  of  Jefferson,  prop- 
erty of,  facing  23,  145,  487. 

March,  Mildred  S.,  portraits  of  Thomas 
Stone  and  wife,  property  of,  145. 

Marchant,  Edward  D.,  artist,  his  portraits 
of  George  Clymer,  and  Gouverneur 
Morris,  440,  513. 

Marheinecke,  Charles  B.,  consul  of  the 
German  Empire,  248 

Marie-Antoinette,  portrait  at  federal  hall, 
X.  Y.,  14. 

Marie,  Peter,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265;  at  banquet,  361. 


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Marine  Insurance,  representatives  of,  in- 
vited to  meet  president  Harrison,  246. 

Marine  Society,  N.Y.,  mentioned,  42,  note; 
escort  to  president  Harrison,  127,  225; 
the  president's  barge  manned  by  repre- 
sentatives of  the,  202,  219;  portraits  of 
the  crew  of  the  president's  barge,  203. 

Marion,  Rose  T. ,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  52,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

Marion,  S.  C,  rifles,  at  military  parade, 
331- 

Markoe,  Thomas  M.,  M.  D.,  invited  to 
meet  president  Harrison,  244. 

Marks.  Wolcott,  ninth  N.  Y.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  335. 

Marlor,  Henry  S.,  guard  at  the  Washing- 
ton statue,  308. 

Marquand,  Henry,  aide  to  chairman  of 
committee  on  art  and  exhibition,  120; 
at  banquet,  360. 

Marquand,  Henry  G. ,  chairman  of  art 
committee,  109,  113,  117,  131,  133,  134, 
142,  236,  409;  member  of  general  com- 
mittee, 114,  236;  his  aides,  120;  address 
at  the  opening  of  the  loan  exhibition, 
143;  resolution  of  thanks  to,  by  art  com- 
mittee, 148;  at  reception  and  banquet 
to  president  Harrison,  232,  234;  at  cen- 
tennial ball,  260;  subscriber  to  ball,  265; 
at  banquet,  metropolitan  opera-house, 
35°,  358;  subscriber  to  celebration,  400; 
chairman  of  committee,  memorial  arch, 
408,  409;  his  address  at  laying  of  corner- 
stone of  arch,  409,  410;  subscriber  to 
arch,  413;  portrait,  413. 

Marquand,  Mrs.  Henry  G.,  at  centennial 
ball,  261. 

Marquand,  Miss,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 

Marschner  Maennerchor,  at  Madison 
square  concert,  350. 

Marsden,  Rev.  C.  P.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  244. 

Marsh,  Benjamin  F.,  member  of  marine 
society,  one  of  the  crew  of  the  president's 
barge,  202;  portrait,  203;  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  225. 

Marsh,  Charles  B.,  colonel  Bauman's  re- 
turn of  powder  used  at  inauguration  of 
Washington,  property  of,  54,  55;  escort 
to  president  Harrison,  224. 

Marsh,  E.  Grant,  consul  of  Honduras,  248. 

Marsh,  J.  L.,  first  N.  J.  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  326. 

Marshall,  A.  W.,  Washington  light  in- 
fantry, S.  C,  at  military  parade,  331. 

Marshall,  George  W.,  colonel  first  regi- 
ment, Delaware,  at  military  parade, 
322. 

Marshall,  Janet,  wife  of  Alexander  Ma- 
comb, 503. 

Marshall,  John,  member  of  Virginia  con- 
vention, 3;  portrait  at  loan  exhibition, 
145- 

Marshall,  John  W.,  aide  to  grand  mar- 
shal, military  parade,  320. 

Marshall,  Pierre  II.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Marsling,  F.  A.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 


Marston,  J.  B.,  artist,  his  portrait  of  Caleb 
Strong,  facing  89,  421,  530;  number  of 
portraits  of  congressmen  painted  by, 
419- 

Marthon,  Joseph,  U.  S.  navy,  subscriber 

to  centennial  ball,  265. 
Martin,  Alexander,  member  of  federal 

convention,  1787,  136. 
Martin,  Bradley,  subscriber  to  memorial 

arch,  414. 

Martin,  C.  Grayson,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Martin,  Charles,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 221. 

Martin,  Charles,  artist,  his  portrait  of  Mrs. 
Alexander  Hamilton,  facing  57,  420, 
421,  473- 

Martin,  David,  artist,  his  portraits  of 
Franklin,  facing  424,  444,  453,  454. 

Martin,  James  M.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Martin,  John,  member  of  assembly,  N.  Y., 
242. 

Martin,  Luther,  member  of  federal  con- 
vention, 1787,  136. 

Martin,  William  C,  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  247. 

Martin,  William  I.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224;  at  banquet,  358. 

Martine,  E.  F.,  at  banquet,  358. 

Martine,  Randolph  B.,  judge  general  ses- 
sions, 243;  at  banquet,  359;  at  recep- 
tion, justices  U.  S.  supreme  court,  402. 

Martinet,  Miss,  engraver  of  portrait  of 
Franklin,  459,  note. 

Martinez,  F.  N.  R.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Martiny,  Philip,  models  centennial  medal, 
'39.  141- 

Martrid,  C.  Greyson,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265. 

Maryland,  ratifies  the  constitution,  2; 
represented  as  a  federal  pillar,  2;  rep- 
resentatives in  congress,  1789,  11,  135, 
232;  nativity  of  members  of  congress, 
62;  biographical  sketches  of  congress- 
men, 77;  portrait  of  Charles  Carroll, 
property  of  the  state,  facing  99,  435; 
members  of  federal  convention,  1787, 
136;  members  of  society  of  the  Cincin" 
nati,  at  commemorative  banquet,  1889, 
151;  governor  and  commissioners  at 
celebration,  214,  233;  admitted  into  the 
union,  233;  fifth  regiment,  at  military 
parade,  330,  346;  represented  in  tableau, 
civic  parade,  387. 

Maryland  Historical  Society,  portrait  of 
John  Jay,  property  of,  facing  155;  por- 
traits of  Carroll,  Hamilton,  Jay,  Mifflin, 
Thomson  and  general  Williams,  prop- 
erty of,  433,  472,  482,  509,  527,  534. 

Marx,  Stephen,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Mase,  William  H.,  member  of  assembly, 

N.  Y  ,  242;  at  banquet,  359. 
Mason  A.  T.,  eighth  N.  Y.  regiment,  at 

military  parade;  335. 
Mason,  F.  S.,  at  banquet,  360. 
Mason,  George,  member  of  federal  con" 

vention,  1787,  136. 


Mason,  H.  H.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Mason,  Rev.  John,  pastor  of  Scotch  pres- 

byterian  church,  N.  Y.,  1789,  39,  note; 

mentioned,  431. 
Mason,  Rev.  John  M.,  mentioned,  431. 
Mason,  Jonathan,   his  portrait  of  John 

Adams,  424. 
Mason,  Joseph  T.,  the  Duplessis  portrait 

of  Franklin,  450. 
Mason,  Margaretta,  wife  of  John  Brown, 

of  Va.,  431. 
Mason,  T.  Bailey  Myers,  U.  S.  navy,  181, 

182;  aide  to  secretary  of  navy,  at  naval 

parade,  200;  at  literary  exercises,  289; 

at  military  parade,  316;  at  banquet, 

360. 

Masonic  Temple,  N.  Y.  city,  portrait  of 
maj.  Jacob  Morton  at,  facing  155, 
515- 

Massachusetts,  ratifies  the  constitution, 
with  proposed  amendments,  2;  number 
of  votes  cast,  2;  represented  as  a 
federal  pillar,  2;  representatives  in  con- 
gress, 1789,  6,  8,  II,  135,  232;  nativity 
of  members  of  congress,  62;  biographi- 
cal sketches  of  the  first  U.  S.  congress- 
men, 74;  members  of  federal  conven- 
tion, 1787, 136;  members  of  society  of  the 
Cincinnati,  at  commemorative  banquet, 
1789,  and  at  celebration,  149,  177; 
governor  and  commissioners  at  celebra- 
tion, 208,  212,  214,  216,  233;  admitted 
into  the  union,  233;  troops  at  military 
parade,  329,  330,  346;  Lowell  post, 
G.  A.  R.,  at  military  parade,  346;  rep- 
resented in  tableau,  civic  parade,  386; 
sons  of  the  American  revolution  of,  or- 
ganized, 402. 

Massachusetts  Historical  Society, portraits 
of  Fisher  Ames  and  Charles  Carroll, 
property  of,  facing  89,  97;  notes  on  the 
portraits  of  Adams,  Carroll,  Franklin, 
Hamilton,  Lafayette  and  Caleb  Strong, 
property  of,  424,  435,  459,  473,  494, 
530. 

Masti,  Jose,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
265. 

Masury,  John  W.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Mather,  Mrs.  De  Witt  C,  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  265. 

Mathews,  George,  member  of  congress 
from  Ga.,  72,  135,  232;  biographical 
sketch  of,  72;  fac-simile  of  his  signature, 
508;  no  portrait  of,  508. 

Mathieson,  William,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Matlack,  G.  S.,  twelfth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  325. 

Matt,  F.  M.,  in  command  of  sharp- 
shooters, civic  parade,  388. 

Matthews,  Brandner,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  244. 

Matthews,  James,  dock  commissioner, 
243- 

Malthiessen,  Francis  0.,  invited  to  meet 

president  Harrison,  246. 
Matthiessen  &  Wiecher  Co.,  subscribers 

to  Wall  street  arch,  253. 


INDEX. 


Maverick,  Peter,  engraver  of  portraits  of 
governor  Clinton  and  James  Jackson, 
439.  479- 

Maverick,  Samuel,  commissioner  from 
Texas,  216;  at  banquet,  359. 

Mavroyeni  Bey,  minister  from  Turkey, 
invited  to  centennial  ball,  257;  at  ban- 
quet, 361. 

Maxwell,  Edward  J.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265. 

Maxwell,  Edwin,  commissioner  from 
West  Va.,  216. 

Maxwell,  Henry  W.,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  104. 

Maxwell,  J.  Rogers,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Maxwell,  James  H.,  portrait,  facing  51; 
mentioned,  59,  note;  notes  on  the  por- 
trait of,  423,  508. 

Maxwell,  Mrs.  |ames  H.,  portrait,  facing 
51;  dances  with  Washington  at  assem- 
bly ball,  1789,  59;  note  on  the  portrait 
of,  423,  508. 

Maxwell,  Robert  A.,  superintendent  of 
insurance,  N.  Y.,  242. 

Maxwell,  William,  one  of  the  commis- 
sioners to  supervise  the  alterations  of 
federal  hall,  15,  note. 

Maxwell  &  Graves,  subscribers  to  cele- 
bration, 400. 

May,  Charles  H.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

May,  E.,  Washington  artillery.  La.,  at 
military  parade,  343. 

May,  Jeannette  S.,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  22,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

May,  Col.  John,  describes  the  portraits  in 
federal  hall,  N.  Y.,  14;  the  new  build- 
ings in  N.  Y.,  1788,  36,  note  ;  his  ac- 
count of  the  illuminations  in  N'.Y.  city, 
on  the  evening  of  Washington's  inaugu- 
ration, 57. 

May,  W.  A.,  thirteenth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  325. 

Mayer,  Bernhard,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Mayer,  Charles  F.,  at  banquet,  358. 

Mayer,  Edward,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 223. 

Mayer,  F.  B.,  the  artist  Latty,  433,  note. 

Mayflower,  ship,  represented  in  tableau, 
civic  parade,  386. 

Mayhew,  F.  C,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 223. 

Maynard,  Charles  E.,  member  of  assem- 
bly, N.  Y.,  242. 

Maynard,  George  W.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  244. 

Maynard,  John  P.,  sixth  Ohio  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  342. 

Mazeppa  Hose  Co.,  at  civic  parade,  389. 

Mead,  Frederick,  Jr.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  245. 

Mead,  George  O.,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  242. 

Mead,  W.  L.,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 223. 

Meade,  Abraham,  old  guard,  N.  Y.,  at 
military  parade,  340. 


Meadows  Engine  Company,  at  civic  pa- 
rade, 389. 

Mears,  Frederick,  U.  S.  army,  217. 

Mechanics  and  Tradesmen  Society,  rep- 
resented at  reception  to  president  Har- 
rison, 231. 

Mechling,  W.  S.,  fifteenth  Pa.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  325. 

Medland,  Thomas,  publisher,  mentioned, 
545- 

Meehan,  Michael,  Ellsworth  post,  G.  A. R., 
escort  to  president  Harrison,  221;  at 
military  parade,  346. 

Meeker,  Edward  P.,  U.  S.  marine  corps, 
225,  250;  at  military  parade,  321. 

Meigs.  Charles  A.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Meigs,  Charles  B.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Mellen,  Grenville,  ode  composed  by,  read 
at  the  semi-centennial  celebration  of 
Washington's  inauguration,  98. 

Mellette,  Arthur  C,  governor  of  Dakota, 
233- 

Melpomene  Society,  at  civic  parade,  with 
float,  395. 

Melsbroeck,  de  Bounder  de,  Belgium 
minister,  invited  to  centennial  ball, 
257- 

Mendes,  Rev.  Pereira,  favors  holding  re- 
ligious services  April  30,  1889,  123. 

Mendonca,  Salvador  de,  consul-general  of 
Brazil,  248. 

Menneskevenner  Society,  at  civic  parade, 
393- 

Menzies,  W.  J.,  at  banquet,  358. 

Mercer,  George  E. ,  commissioner  from 
Ga.,  215;  at  centennial  ball,  260. 

Mercer,  George  G.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Mercer,  Hugh,  mentioned,  468. 

Mercer,  James  F.,  member  of  federal  con- 
vention, 1787,  136. 

Mercer,  William  N.,  mentioned,  507. 

Merchant  Marine  Parade,  formation  and 
route  of,  195. 

Merchant's  Club,  N.  Y.,  subscriber  to 
memorial  arch,  413. 

Meredith,  Maria,  at  reception  to  George 
Washington,  Trenton,  N.  J.,  26,  note. 

Meredith,  Rev.  R.  R.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  244. 

Meriden  Britannia  Co.,  signs  call  for 
citizens'  committee,  104. 

Merington,  Ethel,  of  choir,  St.  Paul's 
chapel,  271. 

Merion,  Charles,  Jr.,  fourteenth  Ohio  reg- 
iment, at  military  parade,  342. 

Merrall,  William  J.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Merriam,  A.  L.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Merriam,  William  R.,  governor  of  Minn., 
215,  216,  233  ;  at  reception  to  president 
Harrison,  241  ;  at  banquet,  359. 

Merriman,  Truman  A.,  member  of  con- 
gress from  N.  Y.,  242  ;  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  247. 

Merritt,  C  E.,  seventh  N.  J.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  326. 


Merritt,  Edwin  A.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  221. 

Mersereau,  Joshua  D.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265. 

Merwin,  Augustus  W.,  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  224. 

Mesick,  DeWitt  J.,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  242. 

Messer,  W.  A.,  third  N.  H.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  332. 

Messiter,  Arthur  H.,  choir-master  of 
Trinity  church,  227. 

Metal  Trade,  representatives  invited  to 
meet  president  Harrison,  246. 

Metcalf,  O.,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball. 
265. 

Metcalfe,  John  T.,  M.  D.,  invited  to 
meet  president  Harrison,  244. 

Meteor,  yacht,  at  naval  parade,  199. 

Methodist  Church,  N.  Y.  city,  1789,  39, 
note. 

Metropolitan  Museum,  X.  Y.,  portraits 
in  possession  of,  Franklin,  420,  456, 
458,  461,  462,  facing  464,  484,  524,  544; 
Hamilton,  144,  469  ;  James  Jackson, 
478,  note;  Washington,  144,  184,  417, 
541,  542,  543. 

Metropolitan  Opera-House,  N.  Y. ,  select- 
ed for  holding  the  centennial  ball  and 
banquet,  and  art  and  memorial  exhibi- 
tion, 117,  120,  132,  133;  programme  of 
exhibition  of  portraits  at,  126;  opening 
of  loan  exhibition,  142;  close  of  the  loan 
exhibition,  147  ;  the  centennial  ball, 
held  at,  256;  banquet,  April  30,  1889, 
354;  diagram  of  interior,  357. 

Metts,  W.  A.,  assistant  adjutant-general, 
Md.,  at  military  parade,  331. 

Meuer,  Mollie,  delegate  from  public  school 
No.  20,  reception  of  president  Harri- 
son, city  hall,  238. 

Meyer,  Adolph,  brigadier-general  first 
brigade,  La.,  at  military  parade,  343. 

Meyer,  Albert  J.,  sixty-fifth  N.  Y.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  339. 

Meyer,  Edwin  O.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Meyer,  artist,  his  portrait  of  Ralph  Izard, 
477,  478. 

Meyerbeer,  Giacomo,  torchlight  dance, 

composed  by,  351. 
Meyers,  C.  H.,  invited  to  meet  president 

Harrison,  245. 
Meyers,  M.  F.,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  265. 

Michell,  H.  W.,  colonel  fourteenth  N.  Y. 

regiment,  at  military  parade,  337. 
Michener,  L.  T.,  commissioner  from  Ind., 

215- 

Michenor,  M.  C,  at  banquet,  358. 

Michigan,  governor  and  commissioners 
of,  214,  216,  233  ;  admitted  into  the 
union,  233  ;  Orchard  Lake  military 
academy  cadets,  at  military  parade. 
344- 

Mickley,  W.  D.,  fourth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  325. 

Middle  Dutch  Church,  N.  Y.  city,  celebra- 
tion of  the  semi-centennial  of  Washing- 
ton's inauguration,  held  in,  96,  97. 


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Middlcton,  G.  W.,  twenty-third  N.  Y.  reg- 
iment, at  military  parade,  337. 

Middleton,  William  II.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  246. 

Middletown,  M.  Y.,  twenty-fourth  sepa- 
rate company,  at  military  parade,  338. 

Mifflin,  Samuel,  portrait  of,  mentioned, 
509,  note. 

Mifflin,  Mrs.  Samuel,  portrait  of,  men- 
tioned, 509,  note. 

Mifflin,  Thomas,  welcomes  Washington 
to  Phila.,  22 ;  portraits,  painted  by 
C.  W.  Peale,  Stuart  and  Trumbull, 
facing  33  ;  member  of  federal  conven- 
tion, 1787,  136;  notes  on  the  portraits 
of,  422,  508. 

Miger,  Simon  C,  engraver  of  portrait  of 
Vanloo,  the  artist,  448,  note. 

Mijarcs,  Pedro  V.,  consul  general  Vene- 
zuela, 249. 

Miles,  Marston,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  248. 

Miley,  J.  D.,  U.  S.  army,  at  military  pa- 
rade, 320. 

Miley,  Robert  H.,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  242. 

Milford,  Delaware,  first  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  322. 

Milhau,  John  J.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 22r. 

Military  Parade,  April  30,  1889,  route  of 
march,  313  ;  number  of  troops  of  U.  S. 
army,  the  marine  corps,  sailors  of  the 
U.  S.  navy,  cadets  of  the  U.  S.  mili- 
tary academy,  the  national  guard,  state 
troops,  volunteer  militia,  grand  army 
of  the  republic,  and  the  loyal  legion 
of  U.  S.,  314  ;  view  of  arch  near  grand 
stand,  314;  fac-simile  of  ticket  to  grand 
stand,  315  ;  president  Harrison  review- 
ing the  parade,  316  ;  the  guests  on  the 
grand  stand,  316 ;  general  Schofield, 
grand  marshal,  317;  views  of  the  cadets 
of  the  U.  S.  military  academy,  318, 

319  ;  roster  of  the  troops,  319  ;  chief 
marshal  and  aides,  319  ;  escort  to  chief 
marshal,  320  ;  brigade  of  U.  S.  army, 

320  ;  cadets  of  U.  S.  military  academy, 
320  ;  view  of  U.  S.  artillery,  facing 
320  ;  the  naval  brigade,  321  ;  view  of 
naval  brigade,  322  ;  Delaware  troops, 
322  ;  governor  Biggs  of  Delaware  and 
staff,  323  ;  Pa.  troops,  323  ;  governor 
Reaver  of  Pa.  and  staff,  324  ;  New 
Jersey  troops,  326  ;  governor  Green  of 
N.  J.  and  staff,  327  ;  Georgia  troops, 
governor  Gordon,  328  ;  Conn,  troops, 
governor  Bulkeley  and  staff,  328  ; 
Mass.  troops,  governor  Ames,  329  ; 
the  ancient  and  honorable  artillery 
company  of  Boston,  330  ;  Md.  troops, 
330;  Edward  W.  Le  Compte,  secretary 
of  state,  Md.,  and  governor's  staff, 
331  ;  South  Carolina  troops,  331;  gov- 
ernor Richardson  of  S.  C.  and  staff, 
332;  New  Hampshire  troops,  332; 
governor  Sawyer  of  N.  H.  and  staff, 
333  ;  Virginia  troops,  333 ;  governor 
Lee  of  Va.  and  staff,  334  ;  New  York 
troops,  334;  governor  Hill  of  N.  Y. 


and  staff,  335  ;  brig.-general  Louis 
Fitzgerald  and  staff,  first  N.  Y.  bri- 
gade, 336  ;  view  of  seventh  regi- 
ment of  N.  Y.,  338;  governor  Fowle 
of  N.  C,  339;  North  Carolina  troops, 
340  ;  Rhode  Island  troops,  governor 
Taft,  340;  Vermont  troops,  341;  Ken- 
tucky troops,  341  ;  Ohio  troops,  341  ; 
Louisiana  troops,  343;  Illinois  troops, 
343  ;  Missouri  troops,  343  ;  Michigan 
troops,  344  ;  Florida  troops,  344  ; 
Texas  troops,  344  ;  West  Virginia 
troops,  344  ;  District  of  Columbia 
troops  ;  344  ;  loyal  legion  of  U.  S., 
345  ;  grand  army  of  the  republic, 
345  ;  total  of  officers  and  men,  346  ; 
report  of  the  chief  marshal,  347  ;  re- 
port on  the  condition  of  the  troops,  347. 

Millar,  W.  S.,  thirteenth  Pa.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  325. 

Millbank,  L.  A.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Miller,  A.  Ray,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Miller,  Andrew,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Miller,  B.  E.,  forty-fifth  separate  com- 
pany, N.  Y.,  at  military  parade,  339. 

Miller,Charles,  assistant  adjutant-general, 
second  brigade,  Pa.  troops,  at  military 
parade,  325. 

Miller,  Charles  D.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245  ;  member  of  floor 
committee,  centennial  ball,  259  ;  at 
banquet,  360. 

Miller,  Edgar  G.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265  ;  at  banquet,  358. 

Miller,  Edward,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  247. 

Miller,  George  S.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Miller,  Rev.  H.  G.,  favors  holding  re- 
ligious services  April  30,  1889,  123. 

Miller,  Hoffman,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Miller,  J.  Bleecker,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224  ;  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Miller,  Mrs.  J.  Bleecker,  portrait  of 
James  Duane,  property  of,  442. 

Miller,  J.  W.,  in  charge  of  division  of 
merchant  marine  parade,  202. 

Miller,  James,  bookseller,  mentioned, 
519- 

Miller,  Jervis  L.,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  242. 

Miller,  John  A.,  thirteenth  Ohio  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  342. 

Miller,  John  S.,  first  battalion,  D.  C,  at 
military  parade,  344. 

Miller,  Joseph  N.,  captain  U.  S.  navy, 
248. 

Miller,  Philip  S.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265;  at  banquet,  358. 

Miller,  Robert  B.,  in  command  ninth 
ward  pioneer  corps,  396. 

Miller,  Samuel  F.,  associate  justice,  in- 
vited to  centennial  ball,  257. 

Miller,  T.  M.,  commissioner  from  Miss., 
216,  233;  at  banquet,  359. 


Miller,  Thomas,  Jr.,  seventeenth  separate 
company,  X.  Y. ,  at  military  parade,  337. 

Miller,  Warner,  at  banquet.  360. 

Miller,  William,  commissioner  from 
Florida,  215. 

Miller,  William  H.  H.,  attorney-general, 
U.  S.,  at  naval  parade,  200,  219;  at 
reception  and  banquet  to  president 
Harrison,  225,  227,  229,  234;  at  literary 
exercises,  285;  at  military  parade,  317; 
at  banquet  metropolitan  opera-house, 
359;  extract  from  address  of,  363,  374. 

Millet,  Francis  D.,  member  of  art  com- 
mittee, 109,  113,  131,  134,  142,  236,  409; 
of  general  committee,  114,  236;  at  cen- 
tennial ball,  262;  at  banquet,  361;  mem- 
ber of  memorial  arch  committee,  409. 

Milliken,  David,  member  of  floor  com- 
mittee, centennial  ball,  259. 

Milliken,  J.  M.,  commissioner  from 
Mich.,  216. 

Milliken,  Seth  M.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Millot,  Ida,  delegate  from  public  school 
No.  10,  reception  of  president  Harrison, 
city  hall,  238. 

Milne,  David,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Milnor,  Elizabeth,  at  reception  to  George 
Washington,  Trenton,  N.  J.,  26,  note. 

Mills,  Alfred,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  248. 

Mills,  C.  P.,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  247. 

Mills,  Charles  F.,  assistant  adjutant- 
general,  III.,  military  parade,  343. 

Mills,  Darius  O.,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  104;  finance  committee,  112, 
113,  236,  398,  400  ;  of  general  com- 
mittee, 114,  236;  at  literary  exercises, 
289 ;  at  banquet,  361  ;  subscriber  to 
celebration  and  memorial  arch,  400, 
414. 

Mills,  John  C,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  246. 

Mills,  Mrs.  Ogden,  portrait  of  Morgan 
Lewis,  property  of,  facing  39,  498. 

Mills,  W.  W.,  captain  Washington  con- 
tinentals, at  civic  parade,  386. 

Mills  &  Gibbs,  subscribers  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Minims,  John  H.,  first  Vt.  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  341. 
Miner,  Asher,  ninth   Pa.    regiment,  at 

military  parade,  324. 
Minford,  L.  W.,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to 

Wall  street  arch,  253. 
Minnesota,  United  States  frigate,  at  naval 

parade,  201. 
Minnesota,  governor  and  commissioners 

of,  215,  216,  233  ;  admitted  into  the 

union,  233. 
Minnich,  J.  W.,  eighth  Pa.  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  325. 
Minor,  Robert  C,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  244. 
Minlurn,  Mrs.  John,  at  centennial  ball, 

261. 

Minturn,  Mrs.  John  W.,  subscriber  to 
memorial  arch,  414. 


INDEX. 


Minturn,  the  Misses,  at  centennial  ball. 
261. 

Minturn,  Mrs.  Robert  B.,  at  centennial 
ball,  261. 

Mississippi,  governor  and  commissioners 
of,  216,  223;  admitted  into  the  union, 
233- 

Missouri,  governor  and  commissioners 
of,  214,  216,  233  ;  admitted  into  the 
union,  233  ;  troops  at  military  parade, 
343,  346  ;  sons  of  the  American  revolu- 
tion of,  organize,  402. 

Mitchell,  Annie,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  43,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  23S. 

Mitchell,  Cornelia  P.,  subscriber  to  me- 
morial arch,  414. 

Mitchell,  E.,  Jr.,  first  regiment  Delaware, 
at  military  parade,  322. 

Mitchell,  Edward,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  244  ;  at  centennial  ball, 
262. 

Mitchell,  Harvey,  artist,  his  portrait  of 
Thomas  Sumter,  facing  102,  532  ;  num- 
ber of  portraits  of  congressmen  painted 
by,  419. 

Mitchell,  J.  Murray,  at  centennial  ball, 
262. 

Mitchell,  John  A.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Mitchell,  John  M.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Mitchell,  S.  Weir,  locket  with  Washing- 
ton's hair,  property  of,  facing  149;  por 
traits  of  Hamilton  and  Jefferson,  prop- 
erty of,  106,  144,  472,  485. 

Mitchell,  William,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265  ;  at  reception,  justices  U.S. 
supreme  court,  402. 

Mix,  James  B.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 224. 

Mockett,  William  P.,  sixth  N.  J.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  326. 

Moddy,  Winfield  S. ,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265. 

Moffat,  John  L.,  portrait  of  Thomas  Jef- 
ferson, property  of,  facing  25,  488. 

Moffat.  R.  C,  mentioned,  488. 

Moffitt,  John  H.,  member  of  congress 
from  X.  Y.,  242. 

Moffitt,  Stephen,  membei  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  242. 

Mohawk,  N.  Y.,  thirty-first  separate  com- 
pany, at  military  parade,  338. 

Mohle,  Oscar,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 222. 

Moies,  Benjamin  B  ,  escort  to  president 

Harrison,  223. 
Moir,  James,  thirteenth  Pa.  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  325. 
Moller,  George  H.,  subscriber  to  Wall 

street  arch,  253. 
Moller,  John,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  265. 

Moller,  Peter,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Monaco,  Attilio,  vice-consul  of  Italy,  24S. 
Moncure,  Mrs.  Charles  P.,  portrait  of 

Edmund  Randolph,  property  of,  facing 

168,  521. 


Monell,  Ambrose,  district  court  justice, 
243;  subscriber  to  centennial  ball,  265. 

Monell,  Mrs.  Ambrose,  at  centennial  ball, 
262. 

Monmouth,  steamer  for  guests  and  general 
committee,  at  naval  parade,  191,  192, 
217. 

Monroe  Guards,  West  Va.,  at  military 
parade,  344. 

Monroe,  Rev.  Henry  A.,  favors  holding 
religious  services  April  30,  1889,  123. 

Monroe,  Col.  James,  portrait  of  James 
Monroe  and  wife,  painted  for,  511,  512. 

Monroe,  James,  member  of  Va.  conven- 
tion, opposes  the  adoption  of  the  con- 
stitution, 3;  U.  S.  senator  from  Va. ,  86, 
135;  biographical  sketch  of,  86  ;  por- 
trait at  loan  exhibition,  145;  receives 
portrait  of  Franklin  at  Paris,  450;  por- 
trait of  Jefferson  painted  for,  486;  por- 
trait of  Madison,  named  as  the  portrait 
of,  503:  his  interest  in  the  U.  S.  mili- 
tary academy,  511. 

 portraits  of,  painted  by,  Morse,  facing 

63;  Paradise,  Sene,  Sharpless,  108; 
Stuart,  ic6,  150;  Sully,  65,  106;  Trum- 
bull, unknown,  ioS  ;  Vanderlyn,  106, 
108;  notes  on  the  portraits,  418,  419, 
note,  422,  509  ;  sculpture,  bust,  by 
Ccracchi,  354 

Monroe,  Mrs.  James,  portraits,  painted 
by  Sene,  and  West,  facing  25S;  notes 
on  the  portraits  of,  422,  423,  512. 

Monroe,  Spencer,  mentioned,  86. 

Monson,  A.  C,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265;  at  banquet,  358. 

Montague,  C.  E.,  fourth  Va.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  333. 

Montague.  Frederick  L.,  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  265. 

Montague,  George,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Montague,  W.  P.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Montana,  governor  and  commissioners  of, 
215,  216,  233. 

Montant,  A.  P.,  at  banquet,  358. 

Montant,  Auguste,  member  of  floor  com- 
mittee, centennial  ball,  259,  261. 

Montant,  Jules  A.,  at  centennial  ball.  262. 

Montanye,  W.  H.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  222. 

Montclair  Hose  Company,  at  civic  parade 
389. 

Montgomery,  E.  L.,  at  banquet,  358. 

Montgomery,  J.  L.,  at  banquet,  358. 

Montgomery,  James  M.,  introduces  reso- 
lution relative  to  the  centennial  of 
Washington's  inauguration,  101  ;  mem- 
ber of  committee  of  the  sons  of  the  revo- 
lution, lo5  ;  of  general  committee,  107, 
114,  236  ;  of  executive  committee.  108; 
secretary  of  committee  on  states,  109, 
113,  122,  206,  207,  208,  209,  217,  220, 
228,  236,  249,  255,  269  ;  member  of 
N.  J.  society  of  the  Cincinnati,  at  com- 
memorative banquet  of  the  society  of 
the  Cincinnati,  150;  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  220,  224,  236  ;  at  reception 
and  banquet  to  the  president,  232,  234  ; 


at  reception,  city  hall,  238,  241  :  at  cen- 
tennial ball,  260,  262;  subscriber  to  ball, 
265  ;  escorts  president  Harrison  and 
vice-president  Morton  to  St.  Paul's 
chapel,  269  ;  at  literary  exercises,  289  ; 
at  banquet,  metropolitan  opera-house, 
35°.  359  ;  at  civic  parade,  385  ;  sub- 
scriber to  celebration,  401. 

Montgomery,  John  H.,  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  265  ;  at  banquet,  358. 

Montgomery,  John  R.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  245. 

Montgomery,  Mrs.,  Richard,  attends  as- 
sembly ball,  1789,  59. 

Montgomery,  Richard  M.,  escort  to  pres- 
ident Harrison,  224  ;  invited  to  meet 
the  president,  246  ;  member  of  aisle 
committee,  St.  Paul's  chapel,  272,  283  ; 
ancestry  of,  283. 

Montgomery,  Richard  M.,  &  Co.,  sub- 
scribers to  the  Wall  street  arch,  253. 

Montgomery,  W.  E.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265. 

Montmorin,  Count  de,  French  minister 
of  foreign  affairs,  12,  note,  47,  note 

Montpelier,  Yt.,  company  H,  first  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  341. 

Moody,  Leonard,  subscriber  to  centen 
nial  ball,  265. 

Moody,  Robert,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  242. 

Moore,  Andrew,  member  of  congress  from 
Va.,  11.  136,  232;  biographical  sketch 
of,  87  ;  portrait,  painted  by  C.  W. 
Peale,  facing  11 1  ;  notes  on  the  por- 
traits of,  422,  513. 

Moore,  Rev.  Benjamin,  assistant  minister 
Trinity  church,  N.  Y.,  1789,  39,  note. 

Moore,  C.  L. ,  first  regiment  Delaware, 
at  military  parade,  322. 

Moore,  David,  mentioned,  87. 

Moore,  Ethel,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 

Moore,  Francis  C,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Moore,  Frederick  W.,  colonel  first  Ohio 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  342. 

Moore.  George  H.,  acknowledgment  to, 
in  preface,  vi;  member  of  committee 
N.  Y.  historical  society,  105,  106;  of 
general  committee,  107;  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  248;  mentioned, 
522,  note. 

Moore,  George  H.,  Greeley  post.G.  A.  R., 
escort  to  president  Harrison,  221;  at 
military  parade,  345. 

Moore,  Rev.  Halsey,  favors  holding  re- 
ligious services  April  30,  1S89,  123. 

Moore,  J.  Ridgway,  at  centennial  ball, 
262;  subscriber  to  ball,  265  ;  at  ban 
quet,  358. 

Moore,  Jacob  B.,  representative  of  N.  H. 
historical  society,  at  semi-centennial 
celebration  of  Washington's  inaugura- 
tion, 96. 

Moore,  Jacob  B.,  member  of  committee 
of  N.  Y.  historical  society,  105  ;  of 
general  committee,  107,  114,  236;  ex- 
ecutive committee,  108  ;  at  centennial 
ball,  262;  subscriber  to  ball,  265;  at 
banquet,  360. 


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Moore.    James    E.,  commissioner  from 

N.  C,  216. 
Moore,  James  V.,  lieut. -colonel  second 

battalion,   N.  J.,  at    military  parade, 

327- 

Moore,  John,  invited  to  meet  president 

Harrison,  247. 
Moore,  John  E.,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  265. 

Moore,  John  II.,  portrait  of  Andrew- 
Moore,  property  of,  facing  ill,  513. 

Moore,  Julia  F.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Moore,  Maria,  portrait  of  Roger  Sher- 
man, property  of,  527. 

Moore,  Miles  C,  governor  of  Washing- 
ton Territory,  215,  233;  at  reception  to 
president  Harrison,  241  ;  at  banquet, 
359- 

Moore,  Milton,  colonel  third  Mo.  regi 
ment,  at  military  parade,  343. 

Moore,  Orren  C. ,  at  banquet,  359. 

Moore,  S.  McDowell,  mentioned,  513. 

Moore,  Sarah,  at  reception  of  George 
Washington,  Trenton,  N.  J.,  26,  note. 

Moore,  Thomas  S.,  member  of  committee 
on  railroads  and  transportation,  112, 
113,  236;  of  general  committee,  115, 
236;  subscriber  to  centennial  ball,  265; 
at  banquet,  361 . 

Moore,  V.  Mumford,  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  245  ;  at  banquet,  361. 

Moore,  W.  D.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Moore,  William  G.,  colonel  in  command 
of  D.  C.  troops,  at  military  parade,  344. 

Moore,  William  H.  H.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  245. 

Moore  &  Schley,  subscribers  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Moorehead,  Mrs.  F.  T.,  portraits  of 
Eleanor  P.  Custis,  George  Washington, 
and  Martha  Washington,  property  of, 
442,  542,  549. 

Moores,  William,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Moorhouse,  Minnie  A.,  delegate  from 
public  school  No.  71,  reception  of  pres- 
ident Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

Moran,  Anson  B.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Moran,  E.  H.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Moran,  Percy,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  244. 

Morehead,  F.  C,  subscriber  to  centen 
nial  ball,  265. 

Morehead,  Mabel,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  45,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

Morehouse,  Rev.  Alonzo  L.,  favors  hold- 
ing religious  services  April  30,  1889, 
123. 

Morehouse,  E.,  fourth  Conn,  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  329. 

Moremus,  II.  H.,  thirty-third  separate- 
company,  N.  Y.,  at  military  parade, 
338. 

Morfit,  Clarence,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 224. 


Morgan,  B,  S.,  commissioner  from  West 
Va.,  216. 

Morgan,  Rev.  Mrockholst,  escort  to  pres- 
ident Harrison,  224. 

Morgan,  Rev.  I).  Parker,  favors  holding 
religious  services  April  30,  1889,  123. 

Morgan,  Edward  D.,  subscriber  to  me- 
morial arch,  414. 

Morgan,  Henry  K.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Morgan,  J.  Pierpont,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  104  ;  of  general  committee, 
108,  114,  236  ;  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245  ;  at  centennial  ball, 
260  ;  at  banquet,  356. 

Morgan,  Mrs.  J.  Pierpont,  at  centennial 
ball,  261. 

Morgan,  James  L.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Morgan,  John  C,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Morgan,  John  T. ,  U.  S.  senator  from 
Ala.,  241  ;  his  address  on  the  constitu- 
tion, at  Birmingham,  Ala.,  405. 

Morgan,  Junius  S.,  subscriber  to  memo- 
rial arch,  413. 

Morgan,  Maud,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Morgan,  the  Misses,  at  centennial  ball, 
261. 

Morgan,  Mrs.  P.  A.,  subscriber  to  me- 
morial arch,  414. 

Morgan,  P.  J.,  sixty-ninth  N.  Y.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  335. 

Morgan  Rifles,  S.  C  at  military  parade, 
331. 

Moriarty,  Stephen,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Morison,  David  M.,  at  centennial  ball, 
262. 

Morison,  Samuel  L.,  member  of  floor 
committee,  centennial  ball,  259. 

Mormon  Tabernacle,  Salt  Lake  city,  ser- 
vices April  30,  1889,  406. 

Morrell,  Rev.  Thomas,  pastor  of  Metho- 
dist church,  N.  Y.,  1789,  39,  note. 

Morrill,  Justin  S.,  U.S.  senator  from  Vt. , 
241. 

Morris,  A.  Newbold,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265. 

Morris,  Mrs.  A.  Newbold,  at  centennial 
ball,  258. 

Morris,  Arthur,  member  of  N.  Y.  society 
of  the  Cincinnati,  at  commemorative 
banquet,  1 50;  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  252. 

Morris,  Charles,  third  N.  J.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  326. 

Morris,  Charles  M.,  member  of  Md.  so- 
ciety of  the  Cincinnati,  at  commemora- 
tive banquet,  151. 

Morris,  Charles  W.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Morris,  David,  one  of  the  crew  of  the 
president's  barge,  which  conveyed 
Washington  to  N.  Y.,  28,  note. 

Morris,  Dwight,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 224. 

Morris,  Eva,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Morris,  Eva  V.  C,  at  centennial  ball, 
261. 


Morris,  George  B.,  alderman,  243  ;  sub- 
scriber to  centennial  ball,  265. 

Morris,  George  P.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Morris,  Gouverneur,  mentioned,  42,  note; 
member  of  federal  convention,  1787, 
136  ;  portrait  at  loan  exhibition,  145  ; 
portrait  painted  by  Sully,  facing  160; 
notes  on  the  portraits  of,  422,  481,  note, 
513- 

Morris,  Gouverneur,  portrait  of  Robert 
Morris,  property  of,  facing  69;  mem- 
ber of  citizens'  committee,  105  ;  of 
general  committee,  107,  115,  236;  of 
committee  on  entertainment,  109  ;  sec- 
retary of  committee  on  entertainment, 
113,  236,  256  ;  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 224 ;  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265  ;  at  banquet,  359. 

Morris,  Henry  S.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  222. 

Morris,  John  J.,  at  literary  exercises,  289. 

Morris,  Lewis,  candidate  for  U.  S.  sena- 
tor from  N.  Y.,  13,  note  ;  descendants 
of,  283. 

Morris,  Lewis  G.,  member  of  general 
committee,  108,  115,  236;  at  banquet, 
358  ;  subscriber  to  celebration,  401. 

Morris,  Louis  W.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  24C. 

Morris,  M.,  alderman,  1804,  481,  note. 

Morris,  Newbold,  member  of  reception 
committee,  230  ;  ancestry  of,  230,  283  ; 
of  aisle  committee,  St.  Paul's  chapel, 
272,  283  ;  at  centennial  ball,  260  ;  aide 
to  grand  marshal,  military  parade, 
320. 

Morris,  P.  W.,  commissioner  from  West 
Va.,  216. 

Morris,  Robert,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 224. 

Morris,  Robert,  U.  S.  senator  from  Pa., 
6,  8,  135,  232  ;  Washington  the  guest  of, 
24,  note  ;  declines  the  treasury  portfolio, 
24,  note  ;  biographical  sketch  of,  66 ; 
member  of  federal  convention,  1787, 
136;  portraits  at  loan  exhibition,  145. 

  portraits    of,    painted    by    C.  W. 

Peale,  Pine,  Stuart,  and  Trumbull, 
facing  69  ;  notes  on  the  portraits  of, 
513- 

Morris,  Mrs.  Robert,  Martha  Washington, 
guest  of,  21  note  ;  portraits,  painted 
by  C  W.  Peale,  Stuart  and  Trumbull, 
facing  59  ;  portrait  at  loan  exhibition, 
145  ;  notes  on  the  portraits  of,  420, 
422,  514. 

Morris,  Stuyvesant  F.,  aide  to  chairman 

of  committee  on  states,   120,  217,  255  ; 

escort  to  president  Harrison,  220  ;  at 

banquet,  358. 
Morris,  Theodore  W.,  invited  to  meet 

president  Harrison,  247. 
Morris,  Thomas,  mentioned,  514. 
Morris,  W.  F..  fourteenth  N.  Y.  regiment, 

at  military  parade,  337. 
Morris,  William  E.,  U.  S.  army  and  navy 

association,  at  military  parade,  346. 
Morrison,  Daniel  W.,  subscriber  to  Wall 

street  arch,  253. 


INDEX. 


625 


Morrison,  David,  aide  to  grand  marshal, 
military  parade,  320  :  marshal  of  divi- 
sion F.,  civic  parade,  392. 

Morrison,  David  M.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  265. 

Morrison,  George  A.,  at  centennial  ball, 
262  ;  subscriber  to  ball,  265  ;  subscriber 
to  memorial  arch,  414. 

Morrison,  J.  J.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 222. 

Morrison,  S.  L.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265  ;  at  banquet,  358. 

Morrison,  W.  E.,  fifth  Mass.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  329. 

Morrissey,  Herbert,  fifth  Mass.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  329. 

Morrissey,  John  H.,  second  R.  I.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  340. 

Morristown,  N.  J.,  portrait  of  Richard 
Varick  at  Washington's  headquarters, 
538. 

Morrow,  William  W.,  commissioner  from 
Cal.,  215. 

Morse,  A.  B.,  O'Rourke  post,  G.  A.  R., 
at  military  parade,  346. 

Morse,  Roscius,  thirtieth  separate  com- 
pany, N.  Y.,  at  military  parade,  339. 

Morse,  Samuel  F.  B.,  artist,  illustrations 
of  his  portraits  of  John  Adams,  facing 
17  ;  Lafayette,  facing  160  ;  James 
Monroe,  facing  63  ;  number  of  portraits 
of  congressmen  painted  by,  419  ;  notes 
on  his  portraits  of  Adams,  144,  425  ; 
Hazard,  474  ;  Lafayette,  145,  493  ; 
Monroe,  512. 

Morse,  Waldo  G.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224  ;  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Morss,  Thomas  E.,  commissioner  from 
Ky.,  216. 

Mortimer,  Stanley,  at  centennial  ball, 
262  ;  subscriber  to  ball,  265. 

Mortimer,  T.,  sixty-ninth  N.  Y.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  335. 

Morton,  Eliza,  describes  the  reception  to 
Washington,  at  N.  Y.,  35  ;  wife  of 
Josiah  Quincy,  35,  note  ;  describes  the 
inauguration  of  Washington,  44  ;  notes 
on  the  portraits  of,  520. 

Morton,  Ellison  M.,  portrait  of  Jacob 
Morton,  property  of,  515. 

Morton,  George  C,  portrait  of  Jacob 
Morton,  property  of,  515. 

Morton,  Harriet  B.,  portrait  of  George 
Leonard,  property  of,  497. 

Morton,  Henry  H.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224  ;  portrait  of  Jacob  Mor- 
ton, property  of,  515. 

Morton,  Henry  M.,  saber  of  gen.  Jacob 
Morton,  property  of,  162. 

Morton,  Major  Jacob,  mentioned,  35, 
note;  escort  to  Washington,  42;  por- 
traits, painted  by  Jarvis,  and  Morton, 
facing  42,  155  ;  carries  bible,  used  at 
inauguration  of  Washington,  51,  note  ; 
portrait  at  loan  exhibition,  145;  view  of 
his  siber,  162;  notes  on  the  portraits  of, 
420,  421,  514;  alderman,  1S04,  481,  note. 

Morton,  John,  called  the  rebel  banker,  35, 
note. 

80 


Morton,  John  L.,  portraits  of  Jacob  Mor- 
ton, painted  by,  facing  155,  422,  515. 

Morton,  Levi  P.,  vice-president  of  U.  S. 
member  of  special  committee,  chambei 
of  commerce,  102  ;  of  citizens'  com 
mittee,  103  ;  of  general  committee,  107  ; 
of  committee  on  entertainment,  109  ; 
president  Harrison,  guest  of,  183,  241, 
250  ;  embarks  at  Elizabethport,  N.  J., 
for  N.  Y.,  facing  184  ;  at  naval  parade, 
193,  199,  218,  229  ;  at  reception  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  234,  236,  238,  240,  241  ; 
portrait,  facing  234  ;  at  centennial  ball, 
256,  25S,  259,  260  ;  guest  of  Stuyvesant 
Fish,  257  ;  attends  services  at  St.  Paul's 
chapel,  269  ;  at  literary  exercises,  285, 
308  ;  at  military  parade,  316  ;  at  ban- 
quet, metropolitan  opera-house,  355, 
35<\  358  ;  at  civic  parade,  385  ;  at 
dinner  of  Southern  society,  402  ;  mem- 
ber of  memorial  arch  committee,  409. 

Morton,  Mrs.  Levi  P.,  at  centennial  ball, 
128,  256,  258,  259;  guest  of  Stuyvesant 
Fish,  257;  attends  services  at  St.  Paul's 
chapel,  269;  at  banquet,  356. 

Morton,  Mrs.  Washington,  see  Schuyler, 
Cornelia. 

Morton,  Bliss  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  cele- 
bration, and  memorial  arch,  400,  413. 

Mosher,  Jessie  T.,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  50,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

Moss,  J.  Osborn,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265;  at  banquet,  358. 

Moss,  Theodore,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  265. 

Mossman,  A.  M.,  fifth  Mass.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  329. 

Mote,  W.  H.,  engraver  of  portrait  of 
Charles  Carroll,  433. 

Mott,  Augusta,  delegate  from  Normal 
college,  reception  of  president  Harri- 
son, city  hall,  237. 

Mott,  Jordan  L.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245,  247. 

Mott,  Lewis  C,  escort  to  president  Harri 
son,  223. 

Molt,  the  J.  L.,  Iron  Works,  subscribers  to 

memorial  arch,  414. 
Moulton,  Joel  B.,  first  battalion,  Vt.,  at 

military  parade,  341. 
Moulton,   Mrs.  Joseph  W.,  mentioned, 

497,  note. 

Mount  Morris  Square,  N.  Y.  city,  dis- 
play of  fireworks,  352. 

Mount  Vernon,  N.  Y.,  eleventh  separate 
company,  and  Farnsworth  post,  G.  A. 
R.,  at  military  parade,  337,  346. 

Mount  Vernon,  Va.,  residence  of  Wash- 
ington, 19;  Washington  and  Mrs.  Wash- 
ington leave  for  N.  Y.,  21;  portraits  of 
Thomas  Sumter,  and  Mrs.  Fielding 
Lewis  at,  532,  547,  note. 

Moustier,  Comte  de,  French  ambassador 
at  N.  Y.,  5,  136;  his  views  of  congress, 
5,  note;  describes  the  election  of  Wash- 
ington, as  first  president  of  U.  S.,  12, 
note;  his  character  of  John  Adams,  12, 
note;  biographical  sketch  of,  32,  note; 
attends  dinner  to  Mrs.  Washington,  32, 


note;  his  house  illuminated,  32,  note  ; 
describes  reception  to  Washington  on 
his  arrival  at  N.  Y.,  34  ;  visits  Washing- 
ton at  Mt.  Vernon,  34,  note;  at  recep- 
tion to  Washington,  35  ;  his  former 
residence  occupied  by  Washington,  36, 
note  ;  escort  to  Washington,  43  ;  por- 
trait, painted  by  Danloux,  facing,  46; 
his  account  of  Washington's  inaugura- 
tion, 47;  his  house  illu  minated  on  even- 
ing of  the  inauguration,  47,  50,  57  ; 
Washington  views  the  fireworks  at  the 
residence  of,  49;  calls  on  Washington, 
58  ;  attends  assembly  ball,  1789,  58  ; 
gives  ball  in  honor  of  Washington,  59, 
note;  notes  on  the  portrait  of,  421,  515. 

Moustier,  Marquis  de,  portrait  of  Comte 
de  Moustier,  property  of,  facing  46, 
515  ;  ancestry  of,  515,  516. 

Mower,  Carl  K.,  thirteenth  Ohio  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  342. 

Mowry,  W.  W.,  tenth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  325. 

Mozart,  J.  C.  W.  G,  represented  in 
tableau,  civic  parade,  394. 

Mozart  Verein,  at  Madison  square  con- 
cert, 350. 

Muhlenberg,  Frederick  A.,  member  of 
congress  from  Pa.,  9,  136,  232;  bio- 
graphical sketch  of,  66;  portrait,  painted 
by  Wright,  facing  71  ;  notes  on  the 
portraits  of,  418,  423,  516. 

Muhlenberg,  Henry  A.,  portrait  of 
Frederick  A.  Muhlenberg,  property  of, 
516- 

Muhlenberg,  Rev.  Henry  M.,  founder  of 
the  Lutheran  church  in  America,  9,  note, 
66. 

Muhlenberg,  John  P.  G.,  member  of  con- 
gress from  Pa.,  g,  136,  232;  biographical 
sketch  of,  66  ;  portraits,  painted  by 
C.  W.  Peale,  Trumbull,  and  unknown, 
facing  71;  represented  in  tableau,  civic 
parade,  393  ;  notes  on  the  portraits  of, 
418,  422,  423,  516. 

Muhlenberg,  Nicholas  H.,  portraits  of 
Frederick  A.,  and  John  P.  G.  Muhlen- 
berg, property  of,  516. 

Muir,  James,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  247. 

Muir,  John,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
265. 

Mulcahy,  P.  J.,  in  command  holy  cross 
temperance  society,  civic  parade,  397. 

Mulchahey,  Rev.  James,  officiates  at  St. 
Paul's  chapel,  commemorative  services 
of  society  of  Cincinnati,  171;  at  services 
April  30,  1889,  273  ;  address  at  i.n veil- 
ing of  tablet,  2S4  ;  at  literary  exer- 
cises, 289. 

Muldoon,  James,  first  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  324. 

Mullaney,  Dominick  F.,  member  of  as- 
sembly, N.  Y.,  242. 

Mullen,  A.,  fifth  Pa.  regiment,  at  military 
parade,  325. 

Mullen,  Bernard,  Richmond  post.G.A.R, 
at  military  parade,  346. 

Mullenix,  Edward  E.,  thirteenth  Ohio 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  342. 


626       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


Muller,  George,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 223. 

Muller,  Thomas  J.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  265. 

Mullin,  H.,  escort  to  president  Harrison, 
222. 

Mullins,  J.  C,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 222. 

Munfield,  Richard,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Munn,  Alphonso  von,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  267. 

Mufioz,  Jose  M.,  consul-general  of  Costa 
Rica,  248. 

Munroe,  Rev.  W,  H..  officiates  at  centen- 
nial celebration  services,  Boston,  403. 

Munsell,  H.  M.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Muntz,  Eugene,  mentioned,  512,  note. 

Munzig,  George  S.,  at  banquet,  358. 

Murdock,  James  E.,  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  244. 

Murphy,  A.  M.,  sixteenth  separate  com- 
pany, N.  Y.,  at  military  parade,  33S. 

Murphy,  E.  C.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Murphy,  George  A.,  mentioned,  78,  note. 

Murphy,  Mrs.  George-Anna,  portrait  of 
George  Gale,  property  of,  facing  99,  462. 

Murphy,  J.  Francis,  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  244. 

Murphy,  John,  sixty-ninth  N.  Y.  regiment, 
at  military  parade.  335. 

Murphy,  M.  M.,  seventeenth  Ohio  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  343. 

Murphy.  Michael  C,  state  senator,  N.  Y., 
242  ;  at  banquet,  359. 

Murphy,  William  D.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 

Murphy,  William  H.,  clerk  of  the  com- 
mittee on  army,  319  ;  aide  to  grand 
marshal,  military  parade,  320,  336. 

Murray,  Anna,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Murray,  Charles  H.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Murray,  Francis  W.,  at  centennial  ball, 
262  ;  subscriber  to  ball,  266. 

Murray,  George  W.  A.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  222. 

Murray,  Henry,  police  justice,  243. 

Murray,  H.  Alexander,  at  centennial  ball, 
262. 

Murray,  John  A.,  commissioner  from  Ky., 
216. 

Murray,  John  W.,  escort  to  president 

I  larrison,  222. 
Murray,  Logan  C,  member  of  citizens' 

committee,  104  ;  of  finance  committee, 

109  ;  subscriber  to  centennial  ball,  266  ; 

at  banquet,  360. 
Murray,  M.  J.,  in  command  of  Brooklyn 

bricklayers,  civic  parade,  396. 
Murray,  Russell,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  266. 

Murray,  Thomas  E.,  district  court  justice, 
243. 

Murray  Wharf,  N.  Y.  city,  Washington 

lands  at,  34. 
Murray,  William,  member  of  assembly, 

N.  Y.,  242. 


Murray,  William,  superintendent  of  police, 
217,  218,  255  ;  portrait,  255  ;  at  banquet, 
358. 

Muruaga,  Emilio  de,  minister  from  Spain, 
invited  to  centennial  ball,  257. 

Mushback,  George  A.,  third  Va.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  333. 

Music,  represented  in  tableau.civic  parade, 
395- 

MutSU,  Munemitsu,  minister  from  Japan, 
invited  to  centennial  ball,  257  ;  at  ban- 
quet, 361. 

Mutual  Assurance  Co.,  Phila.,  portrait 
of  Franklin,  property  of,  facing  444, 
449- 

Muxxio,    Giovanni,    captain  Columbus 

guard,  civic  parade,  392. 
Muzzy,  Samuel  V.,  first  battalion,  N.  J., 

at  military  parade,  327. 
Myall,  James,  fortieth  separate  company, 

N.  Y.,  at  military  parade,  339. 
Myers,  B.,  fifteenth  separate  company, 

N.  Y.,  at  military  parade,  338. 
Myers,  J.   R.,   subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  266. 

Myers,  Mattie  P.,  portrait  of  William  B. 

Giles,  property  of,  465,  466. 
Myers,  Sinclair,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  266. 

Myers,  Theodore  W.,  member  of  general 
committee,  115,  236;  at  reception  to 
president  Harrison,  240,  243;  at  centen- 
nial ball.  260  ;  subscriber  to  ball,  266  ; 
at  banquet,  356,  360  ;  subscriber  to  cel- 
ebration, 401;  member  of  memorial 
arch  committee,  409  ;  portrait,  413  ; 
subscriber  to  memorial  arch,  414. 

Myers,  Mrs.  Theodore  W.,  at  centennial 
ball,  261. 

Myers,  W.  B.,  artist,  his  portrait  of  Will- 
iam B.  Giles,  466. 

Mygatt,  John  T.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 224. 

Mygatt,  Lemuel  C,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Mygatt,  S.  Matilda,  portraits  of  Wash- 
ington and  Martha  Washington,  prop- 
erty of,  65,  143,  144,  541,  544,  546; 
subscriber  to  centennial  ball,  266. 

Myrick,  John  R.,  U.  S.  army,  at  military 
parade,  320. 

Nalle,  William,  third  Va.  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  333. 
Napier,  T.  Stuart,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  266. 

Nash,  F.  R.,  fourth  Conn,  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  329. 

Nash,  G.  A.,  second  battalion,  Florida, 
at  military  parade,  344. 

Nash,  George  W.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Nash,  Gertrude,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  53,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

Nash,  James  R.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Nash,  Stephen  P.,  warden  of  Trinity 
church,  2C9:  escort  to  president  Harri- 


son, at  St.  Paul's  chapel,  270  ;  at  ban- 
quet, 360. 

Nashua,  N.  H.,  second  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  332. 

Nathan,  Frederick,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Naumburg,  Elkan,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Naval  Parade,  April  29,  1S89,  programme, 
126,  189,  191;  view  of  president  Harri- 
son, and  vice-president  Morton,  em- 
barking at  Elizabethport,  N.  J.,  for 
N.  Y.,  facing  184;  barge  containing  the 
president  and  vice-president,  facing 
186;  views  of  the  Despatch  under  way, 
facing  186,  189,  190;  fac-simile  of 
tickets,  190,  191,  208  ;  admiral  Porter, 
grand-marshal,  and  Charles  W.  Wool- 
sey,  deputy  marshal,  list  of  aides,  190; 
steamers  for  guests  and  presidential 
party,  191,  201;  map  of  line  of  forma- 
tion and  route,  192;  general  order  of 
parade,  193  ;  views  of  IT.  S.  vessels 
Chicago  and  Essex,  facing  193  ;  loca- 
tion of  U.  S.  vessels,  193,  201,  202;  view 
of  the  president  and  vice-president  of 
U.  S.  boarding  the  steamer  Des- 
patch, 193  ;  views  of  the  vessels  Bos- 
ton, and  Brooklyn,  facing  195;  forma- 
tion and  route  of  merchant  marine, 
195;  portrait  group  of  president  Har- 
rison and  admiral  Porter  on  board  the 
Despatch,  195  ;  order  of  salutes,  196; 
views  of  U.  S.  vessels  Brooklyn,  James- 
town, Juniata,  Kearsage,  Yantic,  and 
Yorktown,  facing  196,  197,  198,  199; 
list  of  guests  on  board  the  Despatch, 
198,  200;  president  Harrison  received 
on  board  the  Despatch,  200;  view  of 
steam  tugs  saluting  the  presidential 
party,  200;  view  of  the  Despatch  in  the 
East  River,  201;  the  display  of  flags  on 
vessels,  201;  the  president  embarks  in 
his  barge  for  the  foot  of  Wall  street, 
facing  199,  200,  202;  number  of  vessels 
in  parade,  202;  group  of  portraits  of 
ship-masters  of  the  marine  society, 
crew  of  the  president's  barge,  203;  re- 
ception of  president  Harrison  at  foot 
of  Wall  street,  facing  204. 

Navarre,  Catherine,  wife  of  Alexander 
Macomb,  502,  503. 

Navarro,  Antonio  F.  de,  at  centennial 
ball,  262;  subscriber  to  ball,  263. 

Navarro,  Juan  N.,  consul-general  of  Mex- 
ico, 248. 

Navy,  committee  on,  see  committees. 
Naylor,  Joseph,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Nazro,  Arthur  P.,  U.  S.  N. ,  aide  to  chair- 
man of  committee  on  navy,  120,  190,  191. 

Neagle,  John,  artist,  portrait  of  Gilbert 
Stuart,  painted  by,  531. 

Neagle,  John  B. ,  engraver  of  portraits  of 
Jefferson  and  Laurens,  487,  496. 

Nebraska,  commissioner  and  governor  of, 
208,  212,  215,  216,  233  ;  admitted  into 
the  union,  233. 

Neftel,  K.,  eighth  N.  Y.  regiment,  at  mil- 
itary parade,  335. 


INDEX. 


627 


Nehrbas,  Charles  J.,  judge  city  court,  243. 
Neely,  Rt.  Rev.  Henry  A.,  bishop  of  Me., 
273- 

Neill,  W.,  second  West  Va.  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  344. 
Neilson,  Belle,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  266. 

Neilson,  John,  member  of  federal  conven 

tion,  17S7,  136. 
Nelke,  Lillie  H.,  delegate  from  public 

school  No.  29,  at  reception  of  president 

Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 
Xelson,  Alfred,  portrait  of  Mrs.  James 

Fairlie,  property  of,  144. 
Xelson,  Mrs.  Alfred,  portrait  of  Robert 

R.  Livingston,  property  of,  145,  500. 
Xelson,  Edmund  Y.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 
Xelson,  Thomas,  assistant  secretary  to 

Washington,  136  ;  member  of  federal 

convention,  1787,  136. 
Xelson,  William,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  266. 

Xeptune  Engine  Company,  at  civic  pa- 
rade, 3S9 

Xesbit,  J.  W.,  fourteenth  Pa.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  326. 

Xesbitt,  D.  A.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266  :  seventh  X.  Y.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  334. 

Xeuschafer,  William  H.,  member  of  as- 
sembly, X.  Y.,  242. 

Nevada,  governor  and  commissioners 
from,  216,  233;  admitted  into  the  union, 
233. 

Xeville,  John  J.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Xewark,  X.  T-.  militia  escort  to  Washing- 
ton, 2S;  board  of  trade  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  1S6;  first  and  fifth  regi- 
ments, at  military  parade,  326,  327. 

Newbold,  Thomas  H.,  member  of  general 
committee,  115,  236;  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266;  at  banquet,  358;  sub- 
scriber to  celebration,  401. 

Newburg,  X.  Y.,  fifth  and  tenth  separate 
companies,  at  military  parade,  337. 

Xewburyport  Public  Library,  portrait  of 
Tristram  Dalton,  property  of,  442. 

Xewcomb,  Edith,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 

Xewcomb,  H.  Victor,  at  centennial  ball, 
260  ;  subscriber  to  ball,  266  ;  at  ban- 
quet, 356,  358. 

Xewcomb,  Mrs.  H.  Victor,  at  centennial 
ball,  261. 

Newell.  John  S.,  It. -commander  U.  S.  N., 
commissioner  from  Alaska,  216,  233. 

Xew  England,  the  celebration  in,  403. 

New  England  Historic  Genealogical  So- 
ciety, portrait  of  John  Adams  property 
of,  424, 

Newhall,  Henry  B.,  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  247. 

New  Hampshire,  ratifies  the  constitution. 
2;  represented  as  a  federal  pillar,  2;  rep- 
resentatives in  congress  17S9,  5,  II, 
J35.  232  ;  nativity  of  members  of  con- 
gress, 62  ;  biographical  sketches  of  the 
members  of  the  first  U.  S.  congress, 
82  ;    members  of   federal  convention, 


17S7,  136;  portrait  of  John  Langdon, 
property  of  the  state,  145;  governor 
and  commissioners  at  celebration,  208, 
213,  214,  216,  233;  admitted  into  the 
union,  233;  troops  at  military  parade, 
332,  333,  346;  sons  of  the  American 
revolution  of,  organize,  402. 
New  Hampshire  Historical  Society,  rep- 
resented at  celebration  of  the  semi- 
centennial of  Washington's  inaugura- 
tion, 96. 

Xew  Haven,  Conn.,  reception  and  pre- 
sentation of  the  freedom  of  the  city  to 
John  Adams,  tS;  packets  decorated  on 
the  arrival  of  Washington  at  N.  Y., 
30;  firemen,  at  civic  parade,  389. 

New  Jersey,  ratifies  the  constitution,  2; 
represented  as  a  federal  pillar,  2;  rep- 
resentatives in  congress,  1789,  9,  10, 
11,  135,  232  ;  plan  for  the  preservation 
of  the  states,  10;  nativity  of  represen- 
tatives in  congress,  62;  biographical 
sketches  of  members  of  congress.  17S9, 
68  ;  members  of  federal  convention, 
l7$7<  I3°:  society  of  the  Cincinnati  of, 
at  commemorative  banquet  and  cele- 
bration, 150,  177;  governor  and  com- 
missioners at  celebration,  208,212,  214, 
216.  233  ;  admitted  into  the  union,  233; 
troops  and  grand  army  posts  at  mili- 
tary parade,  326,  328,  346  ;  sons  of 
the  American  revolution  of,  organize, 
402. 

New  Jersey  Historical  Society,  mentioned, 
105;  escort  to  president  Harrison,  186. 

Newkirk,  Warren  B.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

New  Lots,  N.  Y.,  firemen,  at  civic  parade, 

389- 

Newman,  Charles  P.,  sixteenth  Ohio  reg- 
iment, at  military  parade,  342. 

Newman,  William  B.,  It. -commander 
U.  S.  Navy,  24S. 

New  Mexico,  governor  and  commissioner 
of,  216,  233, 

Newnham,  Charles.  Richland  volunteers, 
at  military  parade,  331. 

Xew  Orleans,  La.,  Washington  and  field 
artillery,  at  military  parade,  343;  the 
celebration  at,  405. 

Newport,  R.  I.,  artillery,  at  military  pa- 
rade, 340. 

Newport  Historical  Society,  bust  of  Gil- 
bert Stuart,  at  the,  531. 

Newport,  Yt.,  company  A,  first  battalion, 
at  military  parade,  341. 

Newspapers,  editors  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  245. 

Newton,  B.  F.,Van  Houtenpost,  G.  A.  R., 
at  military  parade,  346. 

Newton,  G.  Stuart,  artist,  portraits  of  John 
Adams,  and  Fisher  Ames,  painted  by, 
424.  427- 

Newton,  John,  member  of  citizens'  com- 
mittee, 104;  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  245. 

Newton.  Rev.  R.  Heber.  favors  holding 
religious  services  April  30,  1SS9,  123; 
invited  to  meet  president  Harrison, 
244- 


Newtown,  L.  I.,  firemen,  at  civic  parade, 
389- 

New  witter,  N.  J.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

New  York,  majority  of  delegates  to  con- 
gress 1789,  opposed  to  the  federal  con- 
stitution, 2;  importance  of  the  vote  of, 
2;  convention  meets,  opposition  to  the 
adoption  of  the  constitution,  3 ;  ratifies 
the  constitution,  votes  cast,  3;  no  elect- 
ors chosen  by,  12;  not  represented  in 
congress,  1789,  at  the  counting  of  the 
electoral  votes,  12  ;  senators  from, 
12,  13,  135;  assembly  disagree  on  the 
election  of  senators,  13;  representatives 
in  congress,  37,  135,  232  ;  average 
age  of  the  members  of  congress,  1789, 
62;  nativity  of  representatives  in  con- 
gress, 62;  biographical  sketches  of  rep- 
resentatives in  federal  congress,  83; 
appropriation  by  the  state  for  the  cen- 
tennial celebration  of  Washington's  in- 
auguration, 112,  117,  118,  400;  pro- 
gramme for  the  reception  of  the  gov- 
ernor and  officials  of  the  state,  at  cen- 
tennial celebration,  127;  list  of  mem- 
bers of  federal  convention,  1787,  136; 
commissioners  at  centennial  celebra- 
tion, 208,  212,  216;  governor  and  offi- 
cials at  centennial  celebration,  225,  241, 
242,  243;  date  of  admission  into  the 
union,  233;  troops  at  military  parade, 
334,  340,  346  ;  twenty-fifth  regiment 
volunteers,  at  civic  parade,  385;  rep- 
resented in  tableau,  civic  parade.  386. 

New  York  City, — Inauguration  of  Wash- 
ington, April  30,  17S9,  federal  pro- 
cession in,  3  ;  congress  to  meet  at,  3 
residence  of  general  Gates,  3  ;  the  old 
confederation  saluted  with  thirteen 
guns,  and  the  new  constitution  with 
eleven  guns,  4,  5;  congress  fails  to 
have  meeting  on  the  day  appointed, 
5  ;  members  of  congress  present, 
5,  8,  9,  11  ;  congress  meets  in  federal 
hall,  13;  historic  sketch  of  the  old 
city  hall  and  federal  hall,  13.  233; 
views  of  the  old  city  hall,  and  federal 
hall,  13,  14.  15  ;  the  freedom  of  the 
city  presented  to  major  L' Enfant.  14, 
note ;  view  of  the  custom  house,  15; 
lottery  to  pay  for  alterations  to  the 
city  hall,  15,  note  ;  the  eagle  in  front  of 
federal  hall  displayed,  16  ;  arrival  of 
John  Adams,  his  reception  and  resi- 
dence in,  iS  ;  Richmond  Hill,  18  ; 
Washington's  arrival  and  reception,  29- 
36  ;  view  of  the  residence  of  governor 
George  Clinton,  29  ;  ode  sung  on  the 
arrival  of  Washington,  29,  note  ;  the 
military  escort  to  Washington,  31.  35  ; 
houses  illuminated,  31,  32,  33,  36; 
dinner  to  Mrs.  Washington,  32,  note  ; 
view  of  the  Macomb  house,  residence  of 
Washington,  34  ;  new  buildings  in, 
1788,  36,  note  :  caricature  of  Washing- 
ton's arrival.  39,  note  ;  list  of  clergymen 
and  churches  in  1789,  39.  note  ;  Wash- 
ington's favorite  drive  in,  40,  note ; 
crowded  with    visitors,  41  ;    views  of 


628        THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON S  INAUGURATION. 


Fraunces's  tavern,  41  ;  Washington's 
headquarters,  41,  note ;  church  bells 
rung  anil  divine  service  held  April  30, 
1789,  41  ;  military  escort  Washington 
to  federal  hali,  42,  43,  46,  48  ;  inaugura- 
tion of  Washington,  44-56  ;  salute  of 
artillery,  and  church  bells  rung,  after 
the  inauguration  ceremonies,  45,  52  ; 
Washington  and  congress  attend  ser- 
vices at  St.  Paul's  chapel,  45,  47,  49, 
54  ;  fac-simile  of  plan  of  the  city,  1789, 
facing  48  ;  houses  illuminated,  and  dis- 
play of  fireworks,  45,  56,  57  ;  amount 
of  powder  used  for  salute,  54,  note  ; 
Washington  attends  assembly  ball, 
names  of  those  present,  58,  59  ;  bur- 
lesque account  of  the  ball,  59,  note. 

 Semi-Centennial  of  the  Inauguration 

of  Washington,  April  30,  1839,  by  the 
New  York  historical  society,  95;  ora- 
tion by  John  Quincy  Adams,  95,  97; 
held  in  the  middle  Dutch  church,  96; 
names  of  guests  present,  96  ;  order  of 
exercises,  97  ;  ode  by  William  Cullen 
Bryant,  97  ;  banquet  at  the  City  Hotel, 
97,  98;  address  by  John  Ouincy  Adams, 
98;  guests  present,  98;  extracts  from  the 
diaries  of  Philip  Hone  and  John  Quincy 
Adams,  describing  the  celebration,  99; 
transparency  representing  Washing- 
ton's inauguration,  1789,  displayed,  99. 

 Centennial  of  the  Inauguration  of 

Washington,  preliminary  work  of  the 
celebration,  101  ;  action  of  the  N.  Y. 
historical  society,  sons  of  the  revolu- 
tion and  chamber  of  commerce,  101  ; 
citizens'  committee  organize,  103,  104; 
general  committee  organize,  list  of 
names,  107,  108;  list  of  sub-committees, 
108,  109,  112;  plan  and  scope  of  the 
celebration,  no;  fac-simile  of  testi- 
monial of  thanks,  sent  to  the  president 
of  U.  S.,  in  ;  corrected  list  of  com- 
mittees, 112  :  names  of  general  com- 
mittee, 114  ;  board  of  apportionment 
authorized  to  make  an  appropriation 
for  the  celebration,  112;  fac-similes  of 
invitations,  116,  119  ;  appropriations 
applied  for  by  the  sub-committees,  117; 
outline  of  the  art,  entertainment,  literary 
and  navy  committees,  117;  the  city 
asked  for  an  appropriation,  117  ;  the 
president  of  U.  S.  announces  the  cele- 
bration in  his  message  to  congress, 
118  ;  the  appropriation  of  the  state  of 
N.  Y.,  for  the  celebration,  118,  site  of 
reviewing  stands  changed,  118  ;  date  of 
industrial  parade  changed,  118  ;  com- 
mittees on  press,  platform,  aisle  and 
reception  appointed,  120  ;  special  aides 
appointed  to  chairmen  of  sub-commit- 
tees. 120  ;  arrangements  of  committees 
of  army,  art,  entertainment,  navy  and 
railroads,  and  industrial  parade,  120  ; 
medals  worn  by  the  guests  and  mem- 
bers of  the  committees,  121  ;  plan 
of  religious  services,  122 ;  names  of 
the  clergy  of  N.  Y.  invited,  and  re- 
plies, 123  ;  meeting  of  clergy,  names 
of  those  present,  123  ;  address  of  the 


committee  of  clergymen  to  the  presi- 
dent of  U.  S.,  124  ;  proclamation  of 
the  president  of  U.  S.,  126  ;  official  pro- 
gramme of  the  celebration,  126. 
—  Loan  Exhibition.  April  17,  1889; 
views  of  picture  gallery  and  relics, 
facing  129,  131,  133,  134,  142,  144,  14°. 
149;  of  historical  portraits  and  relics, 
131  ;  fac-simile  of  tickets,  134,  142  ; 
catalogue  of  Washington  portraits  and 
of  distinguished  Americans,  143,  144; 
catalogue  of  sculpture,  145;  the  exhibi- 
tion of  relics,  147;  illustrations  of  relics, 
writing  desk  of  Alexander  Hamilton, 
77,  79;  gold  snuff-box  of  Mrs.  Ralph 
Izard,  73  ;  gold  watch,  snuff-box, 
sword  and  gold  headed  cane  of  John 
Jay,  97,  98,  152,  168;  bible  of  Thomas 
Jefferson,  186;  sword  of  Morgan  Lewis, 
310;  saber  of  general  Jacob  Morton, 
162;  dress  sword  of  governor  Benjamin 
Pierce,  158;  gold  watch  and  snuff-box 
of  Baron  Steuben,  69,  71;  George  Wash- 
ington's snuff-box,  75  ;  pencil  case  and 
gold  pen,  85;  acts  of  first  U.  S.  con- 
gress, 91;  surveying  instruments,  133; 
knee-buckles,  138  ;  sword,  vases  and 
locket  with  Washington's  hair,  facing 
149;  gold  ring,  with  his  hair,  155;  field- 
glass,  164;  breastpin,  166;  camp  trunk, 
182  ;  fan,  with  portrait,  256  ;  Martha 
Washington's  bible.  67;  gold  snuff-box, 
170;  Mary  B.  Washington's  bible,  146  ; 
portraits  at  exhibition,  see  portraits. 

 Commemorative    Banquet     of  the 

Society  of  the  Cincinnati,  April  27, 
1889,  list  of  subscribers,  149  ;  menu, 
152;  toasts,  152;  addresses,  153;  com- 
memorative services,  held  in  St.  Paul's 
chapel,  April  28,  1889,  169  ;  order  of 
services,  sermon  by  Bishop  Perry,  171. 

 Naval  Parade,  April  29,  1889,  pro- 
gramme, 126,  189,  191  ;  president 
Harrison  and  vice-president  Morton, 
embarking  at  Elizabethport,  N.  J., 
facing  184  ;  barge  containing  the  presi- 
dent and  vice-president,  facing  186;  the 
Despatch  under  way,  facing  186,  189, 
190;  fac-simile  of  tickets.  190,  191,  208; 
admiral  Porter,  grand  marshal,  and 
Charles  W.  Woolsey,  deputy  marshal, 
list  of  aides,  190;  steamers  for  guests 
and  presidential  party,  191,  201  ;  map 
of  line  of  formation  and  route,  192  ; 
views  of  U.  S.  vessels  Chicago  and 
Essex,  facing  193  ;  general  order  for 
parade,  193;  location  and  names  of 
U.  S.  vessels,  193,  201,  202  ;  view 
of  the  president  and  vice-president 
of  U.  S.  boarding  the  steamer 
Despatch,  193  ;  views  of  the  vessels 
Boston  and  Brooklyn,  facing  195; 
formation  and  route  of  merchant 
marine,  195;  portrait  group  of  president 
Harrison  and  admiral  Porter,  195;  order 
of  salutes,  196;  views  of  U.  S.  vessels, 
Jamestown,  Kearsagc,  Brooklyn, 
Juniata,  Yorktown  and  Yantic,  facing 
196,  197,  198,  199  ;  list  of  guests  on 
board  the  Despatch,  198,  200  president 


Harrison's  reception  on  the  Despatch, 
200;  view  of  steam  tugs  saluting  the 
presidential  party,  200  ;  the  president 
reviews  the  parade,  201  ;  view  of  the 
Despatch  in  the  East  River,  201  ;  the 
display  of  flags  on  vessels,  201  ;  the 
president  embarks  in  his  barge  for  the 
foot  of  Wall  street,  facing  199,  200,  202; 
number  of  vessels  in  parade,  202;  group 
of  portraits  of  the  crew  of  the  presi- 
dent's barge,  203  ;  landing  of  the  presi- 
dent, foot  of  Wall  street,  facing  204. 

  Reception  to  president  Harrison, 

April  29,  1889,  at  foot  of  Wall  street, 
203,  204,  218;  views  of  escort  to  presi- 
dent and  scenes  on  the  street,  210,  211, 
214,  215,  220;  the  military  and  societies 
in  the  escort  through  Wall  street,  219, 
220;  judges  of  the  city  courts  and  offi- 
cials of  the  city,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  225;  reception,  banquet  and 
collation  at  the  lawyers' club.  Equitable 
building,  April  29,  1889,  227;  fac-simile 
of  invitation  to  the  reception,  22S,  229, 
232,  233,  236,  237;  banquet  to  president 
Harrison,  233;  banquet  to  the  gover- 
nors, 235;  reception  to  president  Har- 
rison at  city  hall,  237;  viewof  Equitable 
building,  237 ;  list  of  guests  at  the 
reception,  lawyers'  club,  241,  244. 

 Centennial  Ball,  April  29,  1889,  list 

of  invited  guests,  256;  foreign  minis- 
ters, 257;  number  of  persons  present, 
257;  arrival  and  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  258;  opening  quadrille, names 
of  those  taking  part,  258;  order  of 
dancing,  258;  floor  committee,  259; 
names  of  persons  present,  259;  fac- 
simile of  ticket,  260;  list  of  subscribers 
to  the  ball,  262 ;  fac-simile  of  press  ticket. 
266;  menu  of  the  supper,  267. 

 Services  at  St.  Paul's  chapel,  April 

30,  1889,  president  Harrison,  vice-presi- 
dent Morton,  the  president's  cabinet, 
the  justices  of  U.  S.  supreme  court, 
and  others  present,  269,  270;  fac-simile 
of  ticket  to  the  services,  270;  the  Wash- 
ington and  Clinton  pews  occupied  by 
the  president  of  U.  S.  and  governor 
of  N.  Y.,  270;  the  musical  programme, 
271;  order  of  services,  271,  273;  dia- 
gram of  main  floor  of  the  chapel,  show- 
ing assignment  of  guests,  272;  officiat- 
ing bishops  and  clergy,  273;  discourse 
by  bishop  Potter,  277;  special  commit- 
tee in  charge  of  services,  281:  the  aisle 
committee,  281,  282;  Washington's 
prayer-book  used  in  the  service,  281, 
note. 

 Literary  exercises  April  30,  1889,  at 

the  sub-Treasury,  Wall  street,  lists  of 
guests  present,  285,  289;  fac  simile  of 
ticket  and  invitation,  286,  28S;  the  bible 
and  chair  used  by  Washington,  286; 
decorations  of  building,  286;  view  of 
building,  290;  addresses  by  Hamilton 
Fish,  and  Elbridge  T.  Gerry,  290; 
prayer  by  Rev.  Richard  S.  Storrs,  291; 
poem  entitled  "  The  Vow  of  Washing- 
ton," by  John  Greenleaf  Whittier,  read 


INDEX. 


629 


by  Clarence  W.  Boiven,  292;  oration  by 
Chauncey  M.  Depew,  293;  views  of  the 
street  during  the  exercises.  29-1,  297, 
300,  307;  address  by  president  Harrison, 
307;  benediction  by  archbishop  Corri- 
gan,  308. 

 Military    Parade,    April    30,  1889, 

route  of  march,  313;  number  of  troops 
in  the  parade,  314  ;  number  of  troops 
of  U.  S.  army,  the  marine  corps, 
sailors  of  the  U.  S.  navy,  cadets  of  the 
U.  S.  military  academy,  the  national 
guard,  state  troops,  volunteer  militia, 
Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  and  the 
Loyal  Legion  of  U.  S..  314;  view  of 
arch  near  grand  stand,  314;  fac-simile 
of  ticket  to  grand  stand,  315;  pres- 
ident Harrison  reviewing  the  pa- 
rade, 316;  the  guests  on  the  grand 
stand,  316  ;  general  Schofield,  grand 
marshal,  317;  views  of  the  cadets  of 
the  U.  S.  military  academy.  318,  319: 
roster  of  the  troops,  319;  chief  mar- 
shal and  aides,  319  ;  escort  to  chief 
marshal,  320;  brigade  of  U.  S.  army. 
320;  view  of  U.  S.  artillery,  facing  320; 
cadets  of  the  U.  S.  military  academy, 
320;  the  naval  brigade,  321;  view  of 
naval  brigade,  322;  Delaware  troops, 
322  ;  governor  Biggs,  of  Delaware,  and 
staff,  323;  Pa.  troops,  323;  governor 
Beaver,  of  Pa.,  and  staff,  324;  New  Jer- 
sey troops,  326;  governor  Green,  of 
N.  J.,  and  staff,  327;  Georgia  troops, 
governor  Gordon,  32S;  Conn,  troops, 
governor  Bulkeley,  and  staff,  32S;  Mass. 
troops,  governor  Ames,  329;  the  ancient 
and  honorable  artillery  company  of  Bos- 
ton, 330;  Md.  troops  330;  Edward  W. 
Le  Compte,  secretary  of  state,  Md.,  and 
governor's  staff,  331;  South  Carolina 
troops,  331 ;  governor  Richardson,  of 
S.  C,  and  staff,  332;  New  Hampshire 
troops,  332;  governor  Sawyer,  of  N.  H., 
and  staff,  333;  Virginia  troops,  333; 
governor  Lee,  of  Va.,  and  staff, 
334;  New  York  troops,  334;  governor 
Hill,  of  N.  Y.,  and  staff,  335  :  brig.- 
gen.  Louis  Fitzgerald  and  staff  first 
N.  Y.  brigade,  336;  view  of  sev- 
enth regiment  of  N.  Y.,  338;  governor 
Fowle,  of  N.  C,  339;  North  Carolina 
troops,  340;  Rhode  Island  troops,  gov- 
ernor Taft,  340;  Vermont  troops,  341  ; 
Kentucky  troops,  341;  Ohio  troops, 
341;  Louisiana  troops,  343;  Illinois 
troops,  343;  Missouri  troops,  343;  Mich- 
igan troops,  344;  Florida  troops,  344  ; 
Texas  troops,  344;  West  Virginia  troops, 
344;  District  of  Columbia  troops,  344; 
loyal  legion  of  U.  S.,  345  ,  first  N.  Y. 
mounted  rifles  and  fourth  N.  Y.  cav- 
alry, grand  army  of  the  republic,  345; 
total  of  officers  and  men,  346;  report 
of  the  chief  marshal,  347  ;  report  on 
the  condition  of  the  troops,  347. 

  The  Madison  Square  Concert,  April 

30,  18S9,  arranged  under  the  leadership 
of  Theodore  Thomas,  350;  list  of  Ger- 
man singing  societies,  350  ;  number  of 


singers,  350  ;  grand  march  from  Wag- 
ner's opera,  Tannhauser,  Reinhold 
Schmelz,  leader  of  orchestra,  350  ; 
jubilee  overture,  by  Lindpaintner,  350; 
Hail  Columbia  sung  by  the  chorus,  ar- 
ranged by  Max  Vogrich,  350;  Hallelu- 
jah Chorus,  from  Handel's  Messiah, 
350  ;  the  Lord's  Own  Day,  by  Kreut- 
zer,  sung  by  the  chorus,  350;  the  Invo- 
cation to  Battle,  from  Wagner's  opera, 
Rienzi,  351  ;  the  Star  spangled  Banner, 
sung  by  the  chorus,  351  ;  Meyerbeer's 
Torchlight  Dance,  351  ;  Beethoven's 
the  Heavens  are  Telling,  sung  by  the 
chorus,  351  :  jubilee  overture,  by  Carl 
Maria  von  Weber,  351;  national  hymn 
America,  sung  by  the  public,  351. 

  Fireworks  Display,  April  30,  1889, 

at  Bowling  Green  ;  Tompkins  Square  ; 
Abingdon  Square  ;  Madison  Square  ; 
Eighty-sixth  street  and  Avenue  A  ; 
Twenty- third  Ward  ;  Paradise  Park  ; 
Washington  Square;  Central  Park  Pla- 
za; Mount  Morris  Square;  Washington 
Heights;  Twenty-fourth  Ward;  Battery 
Park;  Union  Square;  Canal  street;  Ful- 
ton Avenue  Park,  and  East  River  Park, 
352,  353 

  Banquet  at  the  Metropolitan  Opera- 

House,  April  30,  18S9,  decorations  of 
the  tables  and  interior  of  building,  354; 
menu  of  the  banquet,  355  ;  number  of 
guests,  356;  names  of  guests.  356,  358, 
361;  fac-simile  of  diagram,  showing  the 
location  of  tables,  357  ;  list  of  toasts  and 
sentiments,  362  ;  address  of  mayor 
Grant,  363;  address  of  governor  Hill, 
364;  fac  simile  of  ticket  to  the  banquet, 
364;  address  of  Grover  Cleveland,  366; 
address  of  governor  Fitzhugh  Lee,  367; 
address  of  chief-justice  Fuller,  369  ;  ad- 
dress of  senator  Daniel,  371;  address 
of  Rutherford  B.  Hayes,  373:  address  of 
senator  Evarts,  374;  address  of  general 
Sherman,  375;  address  of  Charles  W. 
Eliot,  37S;  address  of  James  Russell 
Lowell,  379;  address  of  president  Har- 
rison, 381. 

  Civic  and  Industrial  Parade,  May 

1st,  18S9,  route  of  march,  3S3  ;  presen- 
tation of  address  to  president  Harrison 
from  the  civic,  industrial  and  commer- 
cial bodies  of  the  city,  383  ;  view  of 
president  Harrison  reviewing  the  pa- 
rade, 384  ;  grand-marshal  and  aides, 
384  ;  veterans  of  the  U.  S.  army  and 
navy,  385  ;  twenty-fifth  N.  Y.  volun- 
teers, 385  ;  tableau,  the  declaration  of 
independence,  3S5  ;  Star  Division,  Col- 
umbia college,  and  college  of  the  city 
of  N.  Y.,  385  ;  tableau,  Washington 
and  his  generals,  385  ;  Mayor  Grant 
delivering  address  to  president  Harri- 
son, 385  ;  scholars  of  public  schools  10 
and  15  of  Brooklyn;  Columbia  institute 
cadets,  3S6;  tableaux, Washington  cross- 
ing the  Delaware,  and  Washington  at 
Valley  Forge,  escorted  by  eight  bat- 
talions from  public  schools,  386  ;  Divi- 
sion   A,   Guard    Lafayette  ;  Liberty 


guards  ;  Irish  volunteers  ;  tableau, 
Washington's  farewell  to  his  officers  ; 
knights  of  temperance  ;  knights  of 
Pythias;  tableau,  Washington  resigning 
his  commission  ;  Lafayette  conclave  ; 
King's  Bridge  and  Spuyten  Duyvil 
cadets  ;  Yonkers  continental  guards  ; 
tableau,  inauguration  of  Washington  ; 
Phelps  guard  ;  Washington  continen- 
tal guards  ;  Excelsior  light  infantry  ; 
Washington  continentals  ;  tableau, 
state  of  Virginia  ;  sons  of  veterans  ; 
portrait  of  chief  marshal,  386;  tableaux, 
N.  Y.,  Mass.,  Delaware,  Md.,  Pa.  and 
Ga.,  386,  387;  United  Order  of  For- 
esters ;  staff  and  aides  of  chief  marshal; 
Caledonian  club,  N.  Y.,  387  ;  Rhein- 
ischer  schuetzen  bund  ;  centennial 
sharpshooters  ;  Swiss  centennial  com- 
mittee ;  tableau,  Switzerland  ;  Hungar- 
ian schuetzen  bund,  38S  ;  Division  B, 
volunteer  firemen,  in  nine  divisions, 
3S8;  view  of  students  of  Columbia  col- 
lege, 388  ;  view  of  volunteer  firemen, 
389  ;  Division  C,  view  of  Tammany  so- 
ciety, 390  ;  Division  D,  Brooklyn  po- 
lice ;  Manhattan  ship  joiners.  390  ; 
view  of  ship  joiners'  two  floats,  391  ; 
operative  plasterers'  society,  with 
floats,  391  ;  cloak  and  suit  industry  ; 
mutual  benefit  society  of  painters  , 
marble  cutters,  with  float  ;  Brooklyn 
plumbers'  and  gas-fitters'  union,  392  ; 
Division  E,  carpenters  of  Brooklyn  ; 
carpenters  and  joiners  of  America, 
392  ;  Division  F,  United  Italian  socie- 
ties, with  two  floats,  representing  Col- 
umbus and  Washington  ;  Italian  civic 
societies  ;  Scandinavian-American  so- 
cieties, 392  ;  Divisions  G  to  M,  German 
sharpshooters  and  singing  societies  ; 
thirty  floats,  showing  the  influence  of 
the  German  element,  and  third  N.  Y. 
cavalry,  393  ;  view  of  the  exhibit  of  the 
newspaper,  the  "World,"  394;  Divi- 
sions N  to  T,  Hibernians,  with  float  ; 
Irish-American  league,  with  floats, 
395  ;  ninth  ward  pioneer  corps  ; 
bricklayers'  union  of  Brooklyn  and 
Long  Island  city,  with  floats  ;  Loyal 
Orange  institution  ;  Order  of  Odd-Fel- 
lows, with  float  ;  U.  S.  Grant  hose 
company,  with  overland  coach  and 
pony  express;  Polish  societies;  Arling 
ton  league  club  ;  Bohemian  national 
association,  396  ;  views  of  tableaux, 
Washington's  farewell  to  his  officers, 
and  Federal  Hall,  396  ;  Colored  cen- 
tennial committee,  397  ;  fac  simile  of 
ticket  to  grand  stand,  397  ;  Divisions 
U  to  Z,  United  Irish-American  and 
Catholic  societies,  with  twelve  floats, 
representing  the  various  industries,  397. 

  Commemorative  Tablet;  erected  by 

the  aisle  committee,  282  ;  services  at 
the  unveiling  of  tablet,  December  7, 
1S90,  283. 

  Washington  Memorial  Arch,  views 

of,  407,  410,  415  ;  exercises  at  the  lay- 
ing of  the  corner-stone,  May  30,  1890, 


63o       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


407;  amount  of  money  subscribed,  408, 
412  ;  order  of  exercises,  409  ;  contents 
of  corner-stone,  409  ;  address  by  Henry 
G.  Marquand,  410  ;  address  by  George 
William  Curtis,  411  ;  names  of  sub- 
scribers, 413  ;  group  of  portraits  of  per- 
sons present  at  laying  of  corner-stone, 
4'3- 

New  York  and  Cuba  mail  steamship  com- 
pany's pier  at  the  foot  of  Wail  street 
decorated,  and  float  used  for  the  recep- 
tion of  president  Harrison,  197,  218  ; 
view  of  the  landing  of  president  Harri- 
son at  float,  204. 

New  York  Eye  and  Ear  Infirmary,  por- 
trait of  William  Few,  property  of,  fac 
ing  76,  445. 

New  York  Herald,  view  showing  reporter 
of  the,  interviewing  inspector  Williams, 
220  ;  building  decorated,  236  ;  report 
of  the  military  parade,  317. 

New  York  Historical  Society,  copies  of 
foreign  despatches  relating  to  Washing- 
ton's inauguration,  presented  to,  v  ; 
illustrations  from  the  collection  of,  15, 
131,  206  ;  the  first  president  of,  37  ; 
celebrate  the  semi-centennial  celebra- 
tion of  Washington's  inauguration,  95, 
98  ;  originates  the  centennial  celebra- 
tion, 101,  115  ;  committees,  105,  106, 
107  ;  committee  on  general  government 
of  the  centennial  celebration  organize 
in  the  rooms  of,  178. 

  portraits  in  the  art  gallery  of,  John 

Adams,  423,  424  ;  Egbert  Benson,  fac- 
ing 123,  428  ;  George  Clinton,  439  ; 
Alexander  Hamilton,  facing  26,  470; 
John  Jay,  facing  31,  479,  481  ;  Thomas 
Jefferson,  facing  21,  483,  485,  487  ;  La- 
fayette, 494  ;  John  Laurance,  facing 
123,  495  ;  chancellor  Livingston,  facing 
45,  500;  James  Madison,  facing  115, 
n6,  504,  506,  511  ;  Mrs.  Madison,  fac- 
ing 258,  508  ;  James  Monroe,  facing 
108,  510,  511  ;  Gouverneur  Morris,  513; 
Robert  Morris,  513,  514  ;  bishop  Pro- 
voost,  facing  45,  518  ;  John  Randolph, 
facing  160,  521,  522,  note  ;  Gilbert 
Stuart,  531 ;  Washington,  facing  10,  541. 

 sculpture,  of  Clinton,  440  ;  Franklin, 

461  ;  Hamilton,  472  ;  Jay,  483  ;  Jeffer- 
son, 489. 

New  York  Hospital,  portrait  of  Matthew 

Clarkson,  property  of,  438. 
New  York  Liedertafel,  at  Madison  square 

concert,  350. 
New    York    Maenncrchor,    at  Madison 

square  concert,  350  ;  at  civic  parade, 

393- 

New  York  Maritime  Exchange,  repre- 
sented at  reception  to  president  Harri- 
son, 231,  245. 

New  York  Press,  building  decorated,  236. 

New  York  Produce  Exchange,  repre- 
sented at  reception  to  president  Harri- 
son, 231,  245. 

New  York  Slate  National  Guard,  appro- 
priation made  by  the  state,  for  the 
parade,  1  iS  ;  number  at  military  parade, 
312,  314,  34°.  34". 


 Albany,  Third  Brigade,  1st,  2d  and 

3d  provisional  regiments,  337,  338  ;  loth 
battalion,  337  ;  6th  battery,  338. 

  lirooklyn,  Second    Brigade,  signal 

corps,  336;  13th,  14th,  23d,  32d,  47th 
regiments,  and  3d  battery,  337. 

  Buffalo,  Fourth  Brigade,  4th  provi- 
sional regiment,  338  ;  64th,  65th  regi- 
ments, and  5th  battery,  339. 

 New  York  City,  First  Brigade,  Troop 

"  A,"  241,  250,  334  ;  signal  corps,  334  ; 
7th,  8lh,  9th,  22d,  69th,  71st  regiments, 
and  1st  and  2d  battery,  335  ;  Old  Guard 
veteran  battalion,  339. 

 Veterans,  7th  regiment,  escort 

to  president  Harrison,  222,  223  ;  fac- 
simile of  medal  struck  by,  253  ;  sub- 
scribers to  the  memorial  arch,  413  ;  5th, 
9th,  nth,  13th,  22d,  69th  and  79th  regi- 
ments, escort  to  president  Harrison, 
223  ;  79th,  at  civic  parade,  387. 

New  York  Sun,  building  decorated,  236. 

New  York  Times,  building  decorated,  236. 

New  York  Tribune,  building  decorated, 
236  ;  fac-simile  of  press  ticket  to  ball, 
264. 

New  York  Turn  Bezirk,  at  civic  parade, 
393- 

New  York  World,  building  decorated.  236; 
view  of  exhibit  at  civic  parade,  394. 

Neyman,  W.  J.,  fifteenth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  325. 

Niagara  Falls,  N.  Y.,  forty-second  sepa- 
rate company,  at  military  parade  339. 

Niagara  Hose  Company,  at  civic  parade, 
389- 

Nicholas,  George  S.,  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  247. 

Nicholls,  Francis  T.,  governor  of  La.,  233; 
invited  to  centennial  ball,  257  ;  at  mili- 
tary parade,  343. 

Nichols,  F.  A.,  in  command  of  Weir  bat- 
talion, school  No.  10,  of  Brooklyn,  civic 
parade,  386. 

Nichols,  W.  G.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Nichols,  W.  S.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Nicholson,  Christie  F.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Nicholson,  James,  one  of  the  commis- 
sioners to  supervise  the  alterations 
of  federal  hall,  15,  note  ;  in  command 
of  president's  barge,  which  conveyed 
Washington  to  N.  Y. ,  28;  portrait,  facing 
42;  assistant  alderman,  17S9,  229; 
notes  on  the  portraits  of,  516. 

Nicol,  Samuel,  mentioned,  489. 

Nicoll,  De  Lancey,  member  of  general 
committee,  108,  115,  236  ;  secretary  of 
committee  on  finance,  109,  113,  236,  39S, 
400 ;  invited  to  meet  president  Har- 
rison, 244  ;  at  centennial  ball,  262  ;  sub- 
scriber to  ball,  266  ;  at  banquet,  361  ; 
subscriber  to  celebration,  401. 

Nicoll,  Henry  D.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Nicoll,  James  C,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  244. 

Niles,  Nathaniel,  member  of  committee, 


chamber  of  commerce,  ioi,.  102,  105  ; 

member  of  citizens' committee,  104,  105; 

invited  to  meet  president  Harrison,  245  ; 

at  banquet.  360. 
Nimms,  F.  O.,  second  N.  H.  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  332. 
Nineteenth    Ward    cavalry   veterans,  at 

civic  parade,  393. 
Nini,  Jean    B.,  sculptor,   medallion  of 

Franklin  by,  421,  460,  facing  484,  544. 
Ninth  Ward  pioneer  corps,  at  civic  pa- 
rade, 396. 

Nixon,  John,  represented  in  tableau  at 
civic  parade,  reading  the  declaration  of 
independence,  385. 

Nixon,  John  T.,  member  of  New  Jersey 
society  of  the  Cincinnati,  at  commem- 
orative banquet,  150;  his  death,  151. 

Nixon,  Miss,  portrait  of  Robert  Morris, 
property  of,  513. 

Nixon.  S,  Frederick,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  242. 

Noailles,  Vicomte  de,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  248. 

Noble,  John  W.,  secretary  of  interior, 
U.  S.,  portrait,  facing  190,  234  ;  at  naval 
parade,  200,  219;  at  reception  and  ban- 
quet to  president  Harrison,  225,  227, 
229,  234;  at  centennial  ball,  259;  at  liter- 
ary exercises,  2S5  ;  at  military  parade, 
317;  at  banquet,  metropolitan  opera- 
house,  359. 

Noble,  Mrs.  John  W.,  at  centennial  ball, 
259. 

Noonan,  Andrew  A.,  alderman,  243;  sub- 
scriber to  centennial  ball,  266. 

Nooney,  Robert  B.,  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  246 

Norden  Society,  at  civic  parade,  393. 

Normal  College,  students  at  reception  to 
president  Harrison,  city  hall,  237,  239. 

Norman,  J.,  engraver  of  portrait  of  Wash- 
ington, 145. 

Norman,  John  G.,  captain  Washington 
continental  guards,  at  civic  parade,  3S6. 

Norrie,  Gordon,  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Norris,  T.,  escort  to  president  Harrison, 
223. 

North,  Maj.  William,  aide-de-camp  to 
Baron  Steuben,  71,  443,  529. 

North,  William  A.  S.,  mentioned,  443. 

North  Carolina,  rejects  the  constitution, 
4,  12  ;  severed  from  the  union,  4  ;  rati- 
fies the  constitution,  number  of  votes 
cast,  4,  note  ;  packet,  decorated  on  the 
arrival  of  Washington  at  N.  Y.,  29,  note; 
nativity  of  representatives  in  federal 
congress,  62  ;  biographical  sketches  of 
senators  and  members  of  congress,  90  ; 
list  of  representatives  in  congress,  135; 
members  of  federal  convention,  1787, 
136  ;  governor  and  commissioners  at 
celebration,  214,  216,  233  ;  admitted 
into  the  union,  233  ;  first  regiment  at 
military  parade,  340,  346  ;  portrait  of 
Samuel  Johnston,  property  of  the  uni- 
versity of,  490. 

Northampton,  Mass.,  the  celebration  at, 
4°3- 


IXDEX. 


Northfie'd.  Vt..  company  F,  first  regi- 
ment, at  military-  parade,  341. 

Northrop,  Frank  F.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 

Norton.  Eckstein,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Norton,  Edward  L.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Norton,  Edward  N'.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 

Norton.  F.  Hammatt,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 

Norton,  George  L.,  member  of  marine 
society,  one  of  the  crew  of  the  presi- 
dent's barge,  202;  portrait,  203  :  escort 
to  president  Harrison.  225. 

Norton,  Michael,  district  court  justice, 
243- 

Norwegian  Societies,  at  civic  parade, 
392- 

Notman,  Peter,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Nowell.  Thomas  E..  at  banquet,  359. 

Noweil,  Thomas  S. ,  commissioner  from 
Alaska.  216. 

Noyes,  James  A.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Nugent.  Frederick  F.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 

Nugent,  Horace  D.,  vice-consul  of  Great 
Britain,  24S. 

Nugent.  Robert,  of  the  seventh  regiment 
war  veterans.  253. 

Nulton,  Joseph  A.,  second  Va.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  333. 

Nunan.  D.,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
266. 

Nurzey,  Walter  F.,  sixty-fifth  N.  Y.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  339. 

Nutt,  H.,  fourteenth  N.  Y.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  337. 

Oakes,  Theodore,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball.  266. 

Oakey,  Mrs.  William,  portrait  of  Alexan- 
der Hamilton,  property  of,  469. 

Oakley,  Henry  A.,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  103. 

Oakley,  Jesse,  lieutenant  of  militia,  1775, 
283. 

Oakley,  Patrick  N.,  alderman,  243. 

Oates,  A.  A.,  eighth  N.  Y.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  335. 

Oates.  William  C,  at  banquet,  359. 

Obarrio,  Melchor,  consul-general  of  Bo- 
livia, 24S. 

O'Beirne,  James  R..  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  247  ;  marshal  of  divi- 
sions N  to  T.  civic  parade,  395. 

O'Beirne,  Richard  F.,  U.  S.  army,  252. 

O'Brien.  Morgan  J.,  judge  supreme  court. 
243  ;  at  banquet,  359. 

O'Brien,  R.  A.,  fourth  battalion,  D.  C. 
at  military  parade,  344. 

O'Connell,  John,  Shields  post,  G.  A.  R., 
escort  to  president  Harrison,  221;  at 
military  parade,  346. 

O'Connor,  Eugene  F.,  state  senator, 
N.  Y.,  242. 


O'Connor,  James  W.,  invited   to  meet 

president  Harrison.  246. 
O'Connor,  John  A.,  escort  to  president 

Harrison,  223. 
O'Connor,  S.  C,  first  battalion,  Vt.,  at 

military  parade,  341. 
O'Connor,  Thomas  G.,  in  command  of 

Brooklyn  carpenters,  at  civic  parade, 

392. 

O'Connor,  W.  J.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

O'Conor,  Rev.  J.  F.  X.,  presents  presi- 
dent Harrison,  with  a  tribute  to  Wash- 
ington, in  behalf  of  the  faculty  of  St. 
Francis  Xavier's  college,  3S2. 

Odd-Fellows,  at  civic  parade,  396. 

Ode,  to  Washington,  26,  29,  110U,  229. 

Odell,  Thomas  B.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  221,  253. 

O'Donnell,  Columbus,  aide  to  grand  mar- 
shal, military  parade,  320. 

O'Donnell,  Frank  A.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball.  266. 

O'Donnell.  Michael,  Lowell  post,  G.  A.R., 
military  parade,  346. 

O'Donnell,  W.  H.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

O'Donoghue,  Hugh,  aide-de-camp  to  gov. 
Hill.  242;  at  banquet,  358. 

O'Donohue,  John,  Sons,  subscribers  to 
the  Wall  street  arch,  253. 

O'Donohue,  Joseph  J.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison.  245:  at  literary  ex- 
ercises, 2S9;  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

O'Donohue,  Thomas  J.,  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison.  223. 

Oelberman,  Emil,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Oelrichs,  Herman,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Oelrichs  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Oerter,  Rev.  John  H..  favors  holding  re- 
ligious services  April  30,  1SS9,  123. 

Oesterreich  Singing  Society,  at  Madison 
square  concert,  350;  at  civic  parade,  393. 

O'Farrell,  Michael,  in  command  Irish 
American  league,  civic  parade,  395. 

Ogden,  Charles  S.,  portrait  of  George 
Washington,  property  of,  54?. 

Ogden,  Francis  B.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison.  24S. 

Ogden,  Ludlow,  member  of  aisle  com- 
mittee, St.  Paul's  chapel,  272,  2S3:  an- 
cestry of,  283. 

Ogden,  Thomas  L.,  member  of  vestry, 
Trinity  church,  at  services  St.  Paul's 
chapel.  269;  at  banquet,  360. 

Ogden,  L'tah.  the  celebration  at,  406. 

Ogden,  William  H.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Ogdensburg,  N.  Y..  thirty-fifth  separate 
company,  at  military  parade,  33S. 

Ogier,  George,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 223. 

Ogilvie,  J.  S..  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Oglethorpe,  Gen.  James  E.,  represented 
in  tableau,  civic  parade,  3S7. 


O'Gorman,  Richard,  judge  superior  court, 
243;  at  banquet,  35S;  at  reception  to 
the  justices  U.  S.  supreme  court,  402. 

O'Hara,  James  O.,  U.  S.  army,  at  military 
parade,  320. 

Ohio,  governor  and  commissioners  at  cele- 
bration, 208,  214,  216,  233;  admitted 
into  the  union,  233;  first  troop,  cavalry, 
escort  to  president  Harrison,  241,  250; 
troops  at  military  parade.  341,  343,  346: 
sons  of  the  American  revolution  of, 
organize,  402. 

Oil  City,  Pa.,  sixteenth  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  325. 

Oil  Trade,  representatives  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  246. 

O'Keefe.  M.  E  ,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Olcott,  Frederick  P.,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  103;  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Olcott,  George  M.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Olcott.  J.  Van  Yechten,  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  224. 

Old  Colony  Historical  Society,  portrait  of 
Benjamin  Franklin,  property  of,  448. 

Old  Guard,  N.  Y.,  at  military  parade,  339. 

Olean,  N.  Y.,  forty-third  separate  com- 
pany, at  military  parade,  339. 

Olin,  Stephen  H.,  member  of  committee 
on  entertainment,  109,  113,  236,  256  ;  of 
general  committee,  115,  236  ;  ponraits 
of  judge  Livingston  and  wife,  propertv 
of,  facing  256  ;  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266  ;  at  banquet,  359  ;  subscriber 
to  celebration,  401  ;  at  reception  to 
justices  U.  S.  supreme  court,  402  ;  notes 
on  the  portraits  of  judge  R.  R.  Living- 
ston, and  Mrs.  Margaret  B.  Livingston, 
property  of,  501 

Oliver,  William  H.,  escort  to  grand  mar- 
shal. G.  A.  R.,  at  military  parade,  345. 

OlmsteaJ,  Dwight  H.,  at  reception,  jus- 
tices L\  S.  supreme  court,  402. 

Olmstead.  Laurel  L..  sixth  battery,  N.  Y., 
at  military  parade,  33S. 

Olney,  George  W.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Olney,  Peter  B..  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  244. 

Olyphant,  Robert,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  104  ;  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball.  266. 

Olyphant,  Robert  M.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  245. 

Olyphant.  Talbot,  member  of  New  York 
society  of  Cincinnati,  150. 

O'Mally,  P.  H..  first  N.  H.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  333. 

O'Neil.  Charles.  U.  S.  navy,  24S. 

O'Neil,  E.  M.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

O'Neil.  George,  member  of  assembly. 
N.  Y.,  243 

O'Neill,  C  fourth  Pa.  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade.  325. 

O'Neill,  Charles,  at  banquet,  359. 

O'Neill,  George  W.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  221. 


632        THIi  C i:\TENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGL 'RATION. 


O'Neill,  Hugh,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison.  246;  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Onconta,  N.  Y.,  third  separate  company, 

at  military  parade,  337. 
Oothout,  E.  A.,  eighth  X.  Y.  regiment, 

at  military  parade,  335. 
Oppenheim,  Frederick,  subscriber  to  ccn 

tennial  ball,  266. 
Orbcr  G^sangverein  Orlando,  at  Madison 

square  concert,  350. 
Orchard  Lake  military  academy,  Mich., 

cadets  at  military  parade,  344,  346. 
Ordway,  Alfred,  artist,  portrait  of  Frank- 
lin painted  by,  452. 
Oregon,  governor  and  commissioner  of, 

215,  216,  233;  admitted  into  the  union, 

233. 

O'Reilly,  Daniel,  police  justice,  243. 
O'Reilly,  George,  of  choir,  St.  Paul's 

chapel,  171. 
Orlando    Guards,    Florida,    at  military 

parade,  344. 
Orlando  Singing  Society,  at  civic  parade, 

393- 

Orme,  M.  W.  first  Pa.  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  324. 

Ormsby,  VV.  L.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Orpheus  Saengerbund,  at  Madison  square 

concert,  350. 
Orr,  Albert  W.,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  266. 

Orr,  Alexander  E.,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  104;  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245;  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266;  at  banquet,  359. 

Orvis,  Charles  E. ,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245;  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 

Osborn,  John,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  247. 

Osborn,  John,  Son  &  Co.,  subscribers  to 
memorial  arch,  414. 

Osborn,  Robert  A.,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Osborn,  William  H.,  mentioned,  493. 

Osgood,  C.  W. ,  second  corps  cadets,  Bos- 
ton, at  military  parade  329. 

Osgood,  Julia,  mentioned,  517. 

Osgood,  Martha  B.,  portrait  of  Samuel 
Osgood,  painted  for,  517. 

Osgood,  Samuel,  escort  to  Washington, 
28,  42;  fac-simile  of  his  receipt  for  rent 
of  house  occupied  by  Washington,  35; 
his  services,  36,  note;  calls  on  Washing- 
ton, 58;  commissioner  of  U.  S.  treasury, 
136;  portrait  at  loan  exhibition,  145; 
portrait,  painted  by  Trumbull,  facing 
156;  notes  on  the  portraits  of,  422,  516. 

Osgood,  Mrs.  Samuel,  portrait,  painted 
by  Trumbull,  facing  51;  portrait  at  loan 
exhibition,  145;  notes  on  the  portraits 
of,  422,  517. 

Osgood,  Samuel,  2d,  mentioned,  517. 

Osgood,  Susan,  mentioned,  517. 

Osmun,  William  C,  member  of  New 
Jersey  society  of  the  Cincinnati,  at 
commemorative  banquet,  150. 

Osterhaus,  Gen.  P.  J.,  represented  in 
tableau,  civic  parade,  393. 


O'Sullivan,  Eugene,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

O'Sullivan,  Eugene,  it  Co.,  subscribers  to 
the  Wall  street  arch,  253. 

Oswald,  Richard,  commissioner,  treaty 
of  peace,  1782,  Franklin  presents  his 
portrait  to,  451;  mentioned,  481. 

Oswego,  N.  Y.,  twenty-ninth  and  thirty- 
eighth  separate  companies,  at  military 
parade,  339. 

Otis,  Bass,  artist,  portrait  of  Jefferson, 
facing  25;  number  of  portraits  of  con- 
gressmen painted  by,  419,  420;  notes  on 
his  portraits  of  John  Adams,  425;  Will- 
iam B.  Giles,  421,  464,  465;  Thomas 
Jefferson,  421,  487  ;  James  Madison, 
507;  Charles  Thomson,  533,  534. 

Otis,  F.lita  P..  at  centennial  ball,  262; 
subscriber  to  ball,  266. 

Otis,  Harrison  Gray,  portraits  of  Samuel 
A.  Otis  and  wife,  property  of,  facing 
45,  172,  5 1 7- 

Otis,  Mrs.  James  W.,  mentioned,  517 

Otis,  Mrs.,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Otis,  Samuel  A.,  portrait,  painted  by 
Stuart,  facing  45;  secretary  of  U.  S. 
senate,  at  inauguration  of  Washington, 
51,  and  note;  holds  bible  while  the  oath 
of  office  is  administered  to  Washington, 
52;  notes  on  the  portrait  of,  422,  517. 

Otis,  Mrs.  Samuel  A.,  portrait,  painted 
by  Copley,  facing  172  ;  notes  on  the 
portraits  of,  421,  517. 

Otis  Bros.  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

O'Toole,  P., in  command  St. James  T.A.B. 
society,  civic  parade,  397. 

Ottendorfer,  Oswald,  member  of  general 
committee,  108,  115,  236;  of  committee 
on  navy,  109;  at  centennial,  262  ;  sub- 
scriber to  memorial  arch,  414. 

Ottman,  William,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Ottmann,  William,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to 
celebration,  401. 

Otto,  L.  W.,  C 'hargc 'd' Affaires  from  France 
at  N.  Y.,  1789,  32,  note  ;  residence  of, 
in  N.  Y.,  occupied  by  Washington,  36, 
note. 

Oito,  William  E.,  seventy-fourth  N.  Y. 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  339. 

Ourand,  Charles  A.,  first  battalion,  D.  C, 
at  military  parade,  344. 

Outcalt,  C.  B.,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 223. 

Ouihwaite,  Joseph  H.,  at  banquet,  359. 
Outwell,  A.,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
266. 

Overman,  W.  W.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Overton,  Mrs.  William,  portrait  of  Will- 
iam B.  Giles,  property  of,  facing  1 12, 465. 

Oviatt,  Henry,  at  laying  of  corner-stone, 
memorial  arch,  413. 

Owen,  James,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 224. 

Owen,  Samuel  V.,    escort  to  president 

I  larrison,  221. 
Owen,  Selwyn    N.,  commissioner  from 

Ohio,  216. 


Owen,  W»i  fifth  Md.  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  330. 

Owen,  Walter  S.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Packard,  D.  P.,  fifteenth  Pa,  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  325. 
Packard,  Edwin,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  266. 

Packard,  Silas  S.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  244. 

Paddock,  Rt.  Rev.  Benjamin  H.,  bishop 
of  Mass.,  273;  officiates  at  centennial 
celebration  services,  Boston,  403. 

Page,  Henry  A.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  24C. 

Page,  J.  Seaver,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  24O;  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Page,  John,  Sr.,  mentioned,  87. 

Page,  John,  member  of  congress  from 
Va.,  11,  136,  232,  biographical  sketch 
of,  87  ;  portraits,  painted  by  C.  W. 
Peale,  and  West,  facing  m;  notes  on 
the  portraits  of,  422,  423,  517. 

Page,  John,  engraver  of  portrait  of  Frank- 
lin, 459,  note. 

Page,  R.,  engraver  of  portrait  of  Frank- 
lin, 462. 

Page,  R.  C.  M.,  portrait  of  John  Page, 

property  of,  facing  m,  518;  subscriber 

to  centennial  ball,  266. 
Paige,  H.  L.,  first  regiment,  Delaware,  at 

military  parade,  322. 
Paine,  Willis  S.,  sup't  banking,  N.  Y., 

242. 

Paint  Trade,  representatives  invited  to 
meet  president  Harrison,  246. 

Painters,  mutual  benefit  society,  at  civic 
parade,  392. 

Pak  Chung  Yang,  minister  from  Corea, 
invited  to  centennial  ball,  257;  at  ban- 
quet, 361. 

Palen,  William,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  246 

Palfrey,  Francis  W. ,  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  248. 

Palitschek,  Anton  von,  consul  of  Austria- 
Hungary,  248. 

Palmer,  Rev.  A.  J.,  favors  holding  relig- 
ious services  April  30,  1889,  123. 

Palmer,  Albert  M.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  244;  at  banquet,  359. 

Palmer,  E,  D.,  sculptor,  bust  of  Alexan- 
der Hamilton,  473. 

Palmer,  Francis  A.,  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison.  245. 

Palmer,  Harry,  tenth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  325. 

Palmer,  John,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  247. 

Palmer,  Nicholas  F.,  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident 1  larrison,  246. 

Palmer,  Samuel  I).,  third  Ohio  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  342. 

Palmer,  William,  Rice  post.G.  A.  R.,  es- 
cort to  president  Harrison,  221;  at  mil- 
itary parade,  345. 

Palmer,  Mrs.  William  L.,  portrait  in  Tern- 


INDEX. 


633 


pie  family  group,  facing  46;  mentioned, 
532- 

Palmer.  William  P.,  the  Catlin  portrait  of 
Thomas  Jefferson,  486,  note. 

Palsgrave,  Maj.  John  Wyllis,  first  U.  S. 
infantry,  135. 

Pancoast,  Archer  V.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223  ;  invited  to  meet  the 
president,  247  ;  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Paneding,  C.  C,  subscriberto  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Paper  B^x  Industry,  represented,  civic 
parade,  396. 

Paper  Manufacturers,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  247. 

Paradise,  John,  artist,  his  portrait  of 
James  Monroe,  facing  10S  ;  notes  on 
his  portraits  of  William  Few,  419,  445; 
James  Monroe,  421,  422,  509. 

Paradise,  John  W.,  engraver  of  portrait 
of  Elias  Boudinot,  430. 

Paradise  Park,  N.  Y.  city,  display  of  fire- 
works, 352. 

Parder,  George  F.,  commissioner  from 
Ky.(  216. 

Paret,  H.,  ninth  N.  Y.  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  335. 

Paris,  France,  centennial  celebration  ser- 
vices, 406  ;  portraits  of  Franklin  at, 
458,  460,  facing  484. 

Paris,  Allen,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  me- 
morial arch,  414. 

Parish,  Henry,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  245;  at  banquet,  359. 

Park,  J.  C,  Arlington  League  club,  at 
civic  parade,  396. 

Park,  Joseph,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  246. 

Park  &  Tilford,  subscribers  to  celebra- 
tion, and  memorial  arch,  400,  414. 

Parke,  Edward,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Parke,  H.  C,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Parker,  Abraham  X . ,  member  of  congress 
from  N.  Y.,  242. 

Parker,  Alton  B..  associate  judge,  court 
of  appeals,  N.  Y.,  243. 

Parker,  Amasa  B.,  brigadier-general, third 
brigade,  N.  Y.,  at  military  parade,  337. 

Parker,  Anderson  K.,  portrait  of  Josiah 
Parker,  property  of,  facing  1 12,  518. 

Parker,  Cortlandt,  at  centennial  ball.  262; 
at  banquet,  360. 

Parker,  Cortlandt,  Jr.,  at  banquet,  359. 

Parker,  Daniel,  Jr.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Parker,  Forrest  H.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Parker,  George  B.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Parker,  George  D..  mentioned,  87,  note; 
portrait  of  Josiah  Parker,  property  of, 
518. 

Parker,  Grace  S.,  portrait  of  Theodore 
Sedgwick,  property  of,  facing  92,  524. 

Parker,  J.  H.,  at  banquet,  361. 

Parker,  James,  member  of  marine  soci- 
ety, one  of  the  crew  of  the  president's 
81 


barge,  202  ;  portrait,  203  ;  escort  to 
president  Harrison,  225. 

Parker,  James,  U.  S.  army,  at  centennial 
ball,  262;  escort  to  grand-marshal,  mil 
itary  parade,  320. 

Parker,  James,  in  command  Phelps 
guard,  civic  parade,  386. 

Parker,  James  V.,  at  banquet,  358. 

Parker,  John  A.,  assistant  adjutant-gen- 
eral, first  brigade,  N,  J.  troops,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  326. 

Parker,  Josiah,  member  of  congress  from 
Va.,  II,  136,  232  ;  biographical  sketch 
of,  87;  portraits,  painted  by  St.  Memin, 
and  Trumbull,  facing  112;  notes  on  the 
portraits  of,  422,  518. 

Parker,  Nicholas,  mentioned,  87. 

Parker,  R.  Wayne,  at  centennial  ball, 
262  ;  subscriber  to  ball,  266  ;  at  ban- 
quet, 359. 

Parker,  W.  C,  fifth  Mass.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  329. 

Parker,  Wilder,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  cel- 
ebration, 401. 

Parkes,  Joseph,  mentioned,  451. 

Parkes,  Joseph  F.,  commissioner  from 
Iowa,  215. 

Parkhurst,  Rev.  Charles  H.,  invited  to 
meet  president  Harrison,  244;  at  ban- 
quet, 358. 

Parkman,  Rev.  Francis,  mentioned,  99. 

Parks,  Peter,  one  of  the  crew  of  the  pres- 
ident's barge,  which  conveyed  Wash- 
ington to  N.  Y. ,  28,  note. 

Parmenter,  E.  H.,  second  N.  H.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  332. 

Parris,  Edward  L.,  tax  commissioner, 
243;  subscriber  to  centennial  ball,  266; 
at  literary  exercises,  289. 

Parson,  Frederick  H.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  246. 

Parsons,  Albert  R.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Parsons,  Charles,  member  of  art  com- 
mittee, 112,  113,  134,  142,  236;  of  gen- 
eral committee,  115,  236. 

Parsons,  John  E.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  244;  at  reception  to  jus- 
tices U.  S.  supreme  court,  402  ;  sub- 
scriber to  memorial  arch,  414. 

Parsons,  Philo,  commissioner  from 
Mich.,  216. 

Parsons,  Mrs.  William  B.,  portrait  of 
Walter  Livingston,  property  of,  facing 
156,  501. 

Parsons,   William    H.,  invited  to  meet 

president  Harrison,  246. 
Partridge  Academy,  Mass.,   portrait  of 

George  Partridge,  property  of,  518. 
Partridge,  Alden.  mentioned,  511. 
Partridge,  George,    Sr.,  mentioned,  76, 

note. 

Partridge,  George,  member  of  congress 
from  Mass.,  37,  135,  232  ;  biographical 
sketch  of,  76  ;  portraits,  painted  by 
Hathaway,  Trumbull,  and  unknown, 
facing  91  ;  notes  on  the  portraits  of, 
418,  421,  422,  423,  518. 

Partridge,  John  N.,  colonel  twenty-third 
N.  Y.  regiment,  at  military  parade,  337. 


Pastorius,  F.  D.,  represented  in  tableau, 
civic  parade,  393. 

Patchogue  Engine  Company,  at  civic 
parade,  389. 

Pate,  William  C,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Paterson,  Mrs.  A.  B.,  portrait  of  Wiliiam 
Paterson,  property  of,  518. 

Paterson,  X.  J.,  first  and  third  battalion, 
at  military  parade,  327. 

Paterson,  Richard,  mentioned,  70. 

Paterson,  William,  U.  S.  senator  from 
N.  J.,  9,  135,  232  ;  biographical  sketch 
of,  70  ;  portrait,  facing  72  ;  member  of 
federal  convention,  136  ;  his  services, 
282  ;  notes  on  the  portraits  of,  419,  423, 
518. 

Paterson,  Judge  William,  portrait  of  sen- 
ator Paterson,  property  of,  518. 

Paton,  John,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  245. 

Paton.  John,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  celebra- 
tion, and  memorial  arch,  401,  414. 

Patten,  William,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 223. 

Patten,  W  illiam  H.,  chairman  of  commit- 
tee of  the  fellowcraft  club,  138. 

Patterson,  Edward,  judge  supreme  court, 
N.  Y.,  243  ;  at  banquet,  359  ;  at  recep- 
tion to  justices  U.  S.  supreme  court, 
402. 

Patterson,  F.  S.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Patterson,  J.  Frank,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 

Patterson,  J.  M.,  colonel  third  N'.  H.  reg- 
iment, at  military  parade,  332. 

Patterson,  Jacob  M.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224;  police  justice,  243. 

Patterson.  Maud,  delegate  from  public 
school  Xo.  13,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

Patterson,  T.  A.,  ninth  separate  company, 
N.  Y.,  at  military  parade,  337. 

Patton,  Francis  S.,  at  banquet,  360. 

Patton,  Rev.  J.  Ferris,  favors  holding 
religious  services  April  30,  1889,  123. 

Paul,  Mrs.,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 

Paulding,  P.  Kemble,  mentioned,  504. 

Paulus,  Peter,  seventy-fourth  X  Y.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  339. 

Pauncefort,  Sir  Julian,  minister  from 
Great  Britian,  invited  to  centennial 
ball,  257. 

Pawtucket,  R.  I.,  company  H,  first  R.  I. 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  340. 

Paxson,  M.,  sixth  Pa.  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  324. 

Payne,  Catharine  C,  daughter  of  Isaac 
Coles,  464. 

Payne,  Roger,  bookbinder,  52,  note. 

Peabody,  Rev.  A.  P.,  officiates  at  centen- 
nial celebration  services,  Boston,  403. 

Peabody,  Alexander  M.,  commissioner 
from  Minn.,  216. 

Peabody.  Arthur  J.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245;  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 

Peabody,  Charles  A.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  244;  at  banquet, 


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35S;  at  reception  to  justices  U.  S.  su- 
preme court,  402. 
Peabody,  Charles  A.,  Jr.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  244 ;  at  banquet, 

360. 

Peabody,  Endicott,  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  244. 

I'cabody,  George  F.,  subscriber  to  me- 
morial arch,  414. 

Peabody.  George  L.,  M.  D..  invited  to 
meet  president  Harrison.  244. 

Peabody,  Stephen,  aide  to  chairman  of 
executive  committee,  120;  at  literary 
exercises,  289;  at  banquet.  359. 

Peake,  William,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 223. 

Peale,  Albert  C,  the  C.  W.  Peale  manu- 
script, property  of,  476,  vole,  501,  note. 

Peale,  Angelica,  places  a  wreath  of  laurel 
on  the  head  of  Washington,  23. 

Peale,  Charles  W.,  artist,  illustrations  of 
the  portraits  painted  by,  of  John  Adams, 
facing  iS;  Elias  Boudinot,  facing  63,  72; 
Mrs.  Boudinot,  facing  260  ;  Lambert 
Cadwalader,  facing  72;  Charles  Carroll, 
facing  97  ;  George  Clymer,  facing  71  ; 
James  Duane,  facing  36;  Mrs.  Duane, 
facing  262  ;  Benjamin  Franklin,  facing 
424,  444  ;  Alexander  Hamilton,  facing 
26  ;  William  Jackson,  facing  42  ;  John 
Jay,  facing  155  ;  Thomas  Jefferson, 
facing  21  ;  Rufus  King,  facing  121  ; 
Henry  Knox,  facing  28  ;  Arthur  Lee 
facing  155,  156;  Richard  H.  Lee,  facing 
In;  Thomas  Mifflin,  facing  33;  Andrew 
Moore,  facing  11 1  ;  Robert  Morris, 
facing  69  ;  Mrs.  Morris,  facing  59  ;  J. 
P.  G.  Muhlenberg,  facing  71  ;  John 
Page,  facing  III  ;  Arthur  St.  Clair, 
facing  33;  John  Sevier,  facing  115; 
William  Smith,  facing  99  ;  Baron 
Steuben,  facing  166;  Thomas  Sumter, 
facing  102  ;  Charles  Thomson,  facing 
33  ;  George  Washington,  frontispiece, 
6,  9,  10,  184  ;  Samuei  B.  Webb,  facing 
41 ;  notes  on  the  portraits  painted  by,  of 
Adams,  425;  Boudinot,  143,  430;  Mrs. 
Boudinot,  143,  430,  431  ;  .lEdanus 
Burke,  432;  Cadwalader,  433;  Charles 
Carroll,  436;  Clymer,  143,  440;  Isaac- 
Coles,  441;  Duane,  442;  Mrs.  Duane, 
443;  Franklin,  144,  448,  454;  de  Gar- 
doqui,  463  ;  Gilman,  467  ;  Hamilton, 
470  ;  Hiester,  475  ;  Jackson,  479;  Jay, 
482;  Jefferson,  487;  King,  490,  491; 
Knox,  144,  492  ;  Lafayette,  494  ; 
Laurens,  495  ;  Arthur  Lee,  496  ;  R.  H. 
Lee,  496,  497;  Chancellor  Livingston, 
500  ;  Madison,  507:  Mifflin,  508;  Moore, 
513  ;  Morris,  514 ;  Mrs.  Morris,  514; 
Muhlenberg,  516;  Page,  517;  St.  Clair, 
523;  Sevier,  418,  525,  526;  William 
Smith,  527;  Steuben,  529:  Stirling,  530; 
Sumter,  532;  Thomson,  533;  Washing- 
ton, 143,  541,  542,  543,  544  ;  Martha 
Washington,  548  ;  general  Webb,  145, 
549;  general  Williams,  527,  note ;  en- 
graver of  portrait  of  Washington,  543. 

Peale,  Franklin,  portrait  of  John  Jay, 
properly  of,  482;  mentioned,  509,  534. 


Peale,  James,  artist,  illustrations  of  por- 
traits painted  by,  of  Isaac  Coles,  facing 
111  ;  Alexander  Hamilton,  facing  25; 
Samuel  Johnston,  facing  125  ;  Mrs. 
Madison,  facing  258  ;  John  Steele, 
facing  125  ;  Washington,  facing  9,  10, 
81  ;  Martha  Washington,  facing  10; 
number  of  portraits  of  congressmen, 
painted  by,  419,  420;  notes  on  the  por- 
traits painted  by,  of  Coles,  440;  Ham- 
ilton, 470,  471  ,  Johnston,  490  ;  Mrs. 
Madison,  507;  Mrs.  Morris,  514;  Steele, 
529;  Washington,  143,  541,  542;  Mar- 
tha Washington,  546,  548. 

Peale,  Raphael,  see  Peale,  Rubens. 

Peale,  Rembrandt,  artist,  illustrations  of 
the  portraits  painted  by,  of  Charles 
Carroll,  facing  63;  David  Humphreys, 
facing  155  ;  Thomas  Jefferson,  facing 
21,  152  ;  Mrs.  Madison,  facing  258  ; 
Henry  Wynkoop,  facing  69  ;  number  of 
portraits  of  congressmen,  painted  by, 
419,  420  ;  notes  on  the  portraits 
painted  by,  of  Carroll,  435  ;  Hum- 
phreys, 476  ;  Jefferson,  487  ;  Mrs. 
Madison.  508  ;  Stuart,  531  ;  Wash- 
ington, 543;  Wynkoop,  551  ;  engraver 
of  portrait  of  Washington,  145. 

Peale,  Rubens,  artist,  his  portrait  of  Jef- 
ferson, facing  152  ;  notes  on  the  por- 
trait of  Jefferson,  420,  422,  481,  note, 
487.  489. 

Peale's  Museum,  425,  430,  435,  439,  454, 
463,  470,  476,  482,  487,  491,  492,  494, 
495,  496,  500,  508,  509,  512,  514,  518, 
523,  529,  53i.  533.  534.  543- 

Pearl  Street,  N.  Y.  city,  view  of  gov. 
Clinton's  residence,  29;  houses  illumi- 
nated on  the  arrival  of  Washington, 
31  :  parade  in  honor  of  Washington, 
marches  through,  35. 

Pearsall,  Edgar  A.,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  242. 

Pearsall,  Miss,  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Pearson,  Richmond,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 

Pearson,  William  E.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 

Pease,  Charles  G.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Pease,  George  L.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
idenl  Harrison,  246. 

Pease,  George  W.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Peaslee.  Edward,  at  banquet,  360. 

Peaslee,  Edward  H.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 

Peck,  Charles,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 223. 

Peck,  George,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 221. 

Peck,  George  R.,     commissioner  from 

Kansas,  215. 
Peck,  Henry  T.,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  266. 

Peck,  Joshua  S.,  invited  to  meet  president 

1  larrison,  247. 
Peck,  Rufus  T.,  member  of  assembly, 

N.  Y.,  242. 


Peck,  Theodore  S. ,  adjutant-general  and 
commissioner  of  Yt.,  208,  216  ;  sub- 
scriber to  centennial  ball,  266  ;  at  mili- 
tary parade,  341  ;  at  banquet,  361. 

Peck,  W.  F.,  second  corps  cadets,  Boston, 
at  military  parade,  329. 

Peckham,  Rufus  W.,  associate  judge, 
court  of  appeals,  N.  Y.,  243;  at  banquet, 
359- 

Peekskill,  N.  Y.,  firemen,  ai  civic  parade, 
3S9. 

Peet,  Charles  B.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Peet,  John  N.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 224. 

Peirce,  Thomas  A.,  member  of  Rhode 
Island  society  of  the  Cincinnati,  150. 

Peixotto,  George  M.,  at  centennial  ball, 
262. 

Pell,  Alfred,  invited  to  meet  president 

Harrison,  246. 
Pell,  Duncan  C,  mentioned,  470. 
Pell,  George,   subscriber   to  centennial 

ball,  266. 

Pell,  Howland,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 223  ;  invited  to  meet  the  presi- 
dent, 246  ;  secretary  aisle  commit- 
tee, St.  Paul's  chapel,  272,  282,  283 ; 
ancestry  of,  282  ;  at  unveiling  of  me- 
morial tablet,  2S3  ;  at  military  parade, 
336  ;  at  banquet,  358  ;  subscriber  to 
celebration,  401. 

Pell,  Mrs.  Howland,  at  centennial  ball, 
261. 

Pell,  John,  lord  of  the  manor  of  Pel- 
ham,  282. 

Pell,  Philip,  It. -col.  continental  army,  2S2. 
Pell,  Samuel  T.,  major  continental  army, 
282. 

Pelton,  C,  engraver  of  portrait  of  Mrs. 

John  Adams,  426. 
Pembrook,  William  A.,  invited  to  meet 

president  Harrison,  246. 
Pendleton,  Edmund,  member  of  Virginia 

convention,  3. 
Pendleton,  Edward  C,  U.  S.  navy,  225. 
Pendleton,  George  H.,  member  of  general 

committee,  114,  236;  at  banquet,  360. 
Pendleton,  Joseph  H.,  U.  S.  marines,  at 

military  parade,  321. 
Pendleton,  Nathaniel,  member  of  federal 

convention,  1787,  136. 
Pendleton,  William  S.,  portrait  of  Thomas 

Sumter,  lithographed  by,  532. 
Penfield,  W.  A.,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  266. 

Penfold,  William  H.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 

Penn,  William,  represented  in  tableau, 
civic  parade,  3S7. 

Penney,  J.  P.,  eighteenth  Pa.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  325. 

Penney,  William  N.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  247. 

Pennington,  H.  F.,  fifth  Md.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  330. 

Pennington,  John  B.,  at  banquet,  359. 

Pennington,  William,  governor  of  N.  J. 
at  celebration  of  the  semi  centennial  of 
Washington's  inauguration,  96. 


INDEX. 


635 


Pennover.  Sylvester,  governor  of  Oregon, 
215,  216,  233;  at  reception  to  president 
Harrison,  241. 

Pennsylvania,  ratifies  the  constitution,  2; 
represented  as  a  federal  pillar,  2;  sena- 
tors and  members  of  congress,  1789,  8, 
9,  11,  135,  136,  232;  nativity  of  dele- 
gation in  congress,  62  ;  biographical 
sketches  of  congressmen,  1789,  64; 
members  of  federal  convention,  1787, 
136  ;  members  of  society  of  the 
Cincinnati  of,  at  commemorative 
banquet,  and  centennial  celebration, 
151,  177;  commissioner  and  governor  at 
celebration,  212,  214,  216,  233  ;  admit- 
ted into  the  union,  233;  troops  at  mili- 
tary parade,  323,  326,  346;  represented 
in  tableau,  civic  parade,  387;  sons  of 
the  American  revolution  of,  organize, 
402;  portrait  of  Franklin,  property  of 
the  state,  461. 

Pennsylvania  Academy  of  fine  arts,  por- 
traits in  possession  of,  George  Clymer, 
440;  Samuel  Griffin,  468;  Mrs.  William 
Jackson,  facing  262,  479;  Robert  Mor- 
ris, facing  69,  514;  Baron  Steuben,  529; 
George  Washington,  facing  4,  542  ; 
sculpture,  busts  of  Franklin,  462  ; 
Hamilton,  472  ;  Lafayette,  494  ;  men- 
tioned, 512,  534. 

Pennsylvania  Historical  Society,  portraits 
in  possession  of,  William  Allen,  477; 
Abraham  Baldwin,  facing  76,  42S;  Ben- 
jamin Franklin,  facing  444,  459,  460, 
462,  facing  4S4;  Cyrus  Griffin,  facing 
156,  468  ;  Alexander  Hamilton,  470  ; 
William  Jackson,  facing  42,  479  ; 
Thomas  Jefferson,  facing  25,  4S9  ; 
Henry  Knox,  492  ;  Lafayette,  494; 
Thomas  Mifflin,  509;  Robert  Morris, 
513;  Arthur  St.  Clair,  523. 

Pennsylvania  Railroad,  journey  of  the 
presidential  party  from  Washington  to 
New  York,  and  return,  181,  182, 
184. 

Penny,  Charles,  one  of  the  crew  of  the 
president's  barge,  which  conveyed 
Washington  to  N  Y. ,  2S,  note. 

Penn  Yan,  N.  Y.,  first  separate  company, 
at  military  parade,  339. 

Perchment,  P.  D.,  colonel  fourteenth  Pa. 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  326. 

Percival,  C.  S.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Perine,  F.  L.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Perkins,  C.  Lawrence,  at  centennial  ball, 
262  ;  at  banquet,  358. 

Perkins,  Charles  E.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Perkins.  Gilman  H.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 

Perkins,  John  S.,  third  Mo.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  343. 

Perkins,  Samuel  C,  delivers  address 
Phila.,  404. 

Perkins,  Thomas  H.,  bust  of  Alexander 
Hamilton,  property  of,  472. 

Perry,  Amos,  acknowledgment  to,  in  pref- 
ace, vi. 


Perry,  J.  L.,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
266. 

Perry,  James  A.,  eighth  battalion,  D.  C, 

at  military  parade,  345. 
Perry,  Mrs.  James  D.  W.,  silhouette  of 

Benjamin  Bourne,  property  of,  facing 

126,  431. 

Perry,  John  H.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Perry,  O.  H.,  commander  of  fifth  divi- 
sion, volunteer  firemen,  at  civ  ic  parade, 
388. 

Perry,  Oliver  H.,  member  of  art  com- 
mittee, 112,  113,  134,  142,  236,  409  ;  of 
general  committee.  114,  236  ;  member 
of  memorial  arch  committee,  409. 

Perry,  Samuel  E.,  sixth  N.  J.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  326. 

Perry,  Rt.  Rev.  William  S. ,  bishop  of 
Iowa,  member  of  the  R.  I.  society  of 
Cincinnati,  150  ;  his  address  at  com- 
memorative banquet  of  the  society,  157  : 
chaplain-general  of  the  society  of  the 
Cincinnati,  his  sermon  before  that  body, 
171  ;  at  reception  to  president  Harrison, 
232,  248  ;  officiates  at  services,  St. 
Paul's  chapel,  273  ;  at  literary  exercises, 
2S9  ;  at  military  parade.  317  ;  at  ban- 
quet. 360. 

Peters,  George  A.,  M.  D.,  invited  to  meet 

president  Harrison,  244. 
Peters,  John  A.,  commissioner  from  Me., 

216. 

Peters,  Richard,  escort  to  Washington, 
22;  mentioned.  529. 

Peters,  Mrs.  Richard,  portrait  of,  men- 
tioned, 479. 

Petersen,  Christian  G.,  vice-consul  of 
Russia,  248. 

Petrie,  G.  D.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Petroleo,  M.,  marshal  of  Italian  military 
association,  civic  parade,  392. 

Petroleum  Exchange,  members  invited  to 
meet  president  Harrison,  245. 

Petticolas,  Edward  F.,  portrait  of  Wash- 
ington, painted  by,  543. 

Pettigrew,  W.  R.,  forty-seventh  N.  Y. 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  337. 

Peyton,  Jesse  E.,  organizes  the  citizens' 
committee  of  N.  Y.,  103,  104;  at  meet- 
ing in  Phila.,  18S8,  116. 

Pfeiffer,  J.  G.,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 221. 

Pfeiffer,  Susie,  of  choir,  St.  Paul's  chapel, 
271. 

Pfitzer,  George  P.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  221. 

Pfizer,  Charles,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  246. 

Phelan,  Maud, delegate  from  public  school 
No.  69,  reception  of  president  Harrison, 
city  hall.  ,238. 

Phelan,  Thomas  A.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 

Phelps  Guard,  at  civic  parade,  386. 

Philadelphia,  Pa.,  federal  convention  meet 
at,  1;  Martha  Washington  entertained, 
21,  note;  arrival  and  reception  to  Wash- 
ington, 22;  banquet  to  Washington  in 


the  city  tavern,  23;  continental  con- 
gress meet  at,  23;  centennial  of  the  dec- 
laration of  independence  held  at,  100; 
meeting  held  1888,  in  the  interest  of  the 
centennial  celebration  of  Washington's 
inauguration,  116;  first,  second,  third, 
and  sixth  regiments,  with  battalion  of 
state  fencibles,  and  Gray  invincibles, 
and  battery  A,  at  military  parade,  N.  Y., 
323,  324;  firemen,  at  civic  parade,  388, 
3S9;  the  celebration  at,  404. 

  Portraits  in  possession  of  the  city — 

John  Adams,  facing  17,  18,  425;  Fisher, 
Ames,  facing  89,  427;  Elias  Boudinot, 
facing  63,  430;  Charles  Carroll,  facing 
97;  George  Clymer,  440;  William  Floyd, 
447;  Benjamin  Franklin.  455;  Elbridge 
Gerry,  463;  Cyrus  Griffin,  468;  Alex- 
ander Hamilton,  facing  26,  470;  Will- 
iam Jackson,  facing  42,  479;  John  Jay, 
480;  Thomas  Jefferson,  facing  21,  487; 
Rufus  King,  facing  121,  491;  Henry- 
Knox,  492;  Lafayette,  494;  John  Lang- 
don,  494;  Henry  Laurens,  495;  Arthur 
Lee,  facing  156,  496;  Richard  Henry 
Lee,  facing  III,  496;  Samuel  Liver- 
more,  facing  65,  495,  499;  Chancellor 
Livingston,  facing  45;  James  Madison, 
506;  Mrs.  Madison,  facing  258,  508; 
Thomas  Mifflin,  facing  33,  508;  James 
Monroe,  facing  108,  512;  Gouverneur 
Morris,  513;  Robert  Morris,  514;  Mrs. 
Robert  Morris,  facing  59,  514;  J.  P.  G. 
Muhlenberg,  facing  71;  John  Page, 
facing  in,  518;  William  Paterson,  518; 
George  Read,  facing  67,  522;  Arthur 
St.  Clair,  facing  33,  523;  Philip  Schuy- 
ler, 524;  Roger  Sherman,  526;  Baron 
Steuben,  facing  166,  529;  Lord  Stirling, 
530;  Thomas  Sumter,  facing  102,  532; 
Charles  Thomson,  facing  33,  534; 
George  Washington,  facing  9,  541,  542; 
Otho  H.  Williams,  527,  note. 

Philadelphia  Library  Company,  portraits 
of  Franklin,  at  the,  455,  458  ;  the  Du 
Simitiere  manuscripts,  property  of ,  481, 
note. 

Philbrick,  John  H.,  U,  S.  army,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  320. 

Philes,  George  P.,  mentioned,  471. 

Phillips,  Abel,  portraits  of  the  first  five 
presidents  of  U.  S.,  property  of,  505. 

Phillips,  Henry,  marriage  of  Sophia  Chew 
to,  438. 

Phillips,  Henry,  the  C.  W.  Peale  portrait 
of  Franklin,  454,  note. 

Phillips,  Lewis  J.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Phillips,  R.  M.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Phillips.  Wendell  C,  escort  to  president 

Harrison,  224. 
Phipps,  E.  L.  E.,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  266. 

Phipps,  J.  L.,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  the 

Wall  street  arch,  253. 
Phcenix,  Daniel,  treasurer  of  N.  Y.  city 

17S9,  136. 

Phoenix,  Lloyd,  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 


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Phoenix,  Phillips,  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Photographers,  invited  to  meet  president 

I  larrison,  247. 
Physicians  and  Surgeons,  list  of,  invited 

to  meet  president  Harrison,  244. 
Piano  Manufacturers,  invited   to  meet 

president  Harrison,  247. 
Pick,  A.  D.,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 

266. 

Pickenbach,  Louise,  of  choir,  St.  Paul's 
chapel,  271. 

Pickering,  A.  C,  at  banquet,  360. 

Pickering.  John,  member  of  federal  con- 
vention, 1787,  136. 

Pickering,  Timothy,  mentioned,  6,  and 
note  ;  portrait  of,  mentioned,  503. 

Picket.  W.  A.,  commissioner  from  Wyo- 
ming Territory,  216. 

Pickett,  W.  D.,  at  banquet,  359. 

Pierce,  Benjamin,  governor  of  N.  H., 
view  of  dress  sword  worn  by,  158. 

Pierce,  Charles  D.,  consul  of  Orange 
Free  State,  South  Africa,  248. 

Pierce,  James  F.,  state  senator,  N.  Y., 
242  ;  at  banquet,  359. 

Pierce,  William,  member  of  federal  con- 
vention, 17S7,  136. 

Piercy,  I.  D.,  second  N.  H  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  332. 

Pierpont,  Rev.  James,  one  of  the  founders 
of  Yale  college,  540. 

Pierpont,  Mary,  mentioned,  540. 

Pierrepont,  Edwards,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  103;  at  reception  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  231  ;  at  centennial  ball, 
262  ;  at  literary  exercises,  289;  at  ban- 
quet, 361. 

Pierrepont,  Mrs.  Edwards,  gold  ring  pre- 
sented by  Washington  to  Mrs.  Madison, 
property  of,  155. 

Pierrepont,  Henry  E.,  portrait  of  Wash- 
ington, property  of,  facing  4  ;  member 
of  citizens'  committee,  104;  notes  on  the 
portrait  of  Washington,  property  of, 
144,  542,  543,  545- 

Pierrepont,  Mrs.  Henry  E.,  portraits  of 
Matthew  Clarkson  and  John  Jay,  prop- 
erty of,  438,  479. 

Pierrepont,  John  Jay,  member  of  com- 
mittee of  sons  of  the  revolution,  106  ; 
of  general  committee,  107,  114,  236; 
secretary  of  committee  on  navy,  109  ; 
member  of  committee  on  navy,  113, 
189,  190,  191,  236;  portrait,  facing  190; 
escort  to  president  Harrison,  199,  200, 
224  ;  subscriber  to  centennial  ball,  266  ; 
at  literary  exercises,  289  ;  subscriber  to 
celebration,  401. 

Pierson,  Abram,  first  president  of  Yale 
College,  229. 

Pierson,  Henry  L.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223;  at  reception  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  232,  248. 

Pierson,  Henry  L.,  Jr.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  246. 

Pierson,  J.  Frederick,  aide  to  chairman  of 
committee  on  states,  120,  217,  255  ;  at 
reception  to  president  Harrison,  232  ; 
subscriber  to  centennial  ball,  266  ;  at 


literary  exercises,  289  ;  aide  to  grand 
marshal,  military  parade,  319;  at  ban- 
quet, 358. 

Pierson,  Mrs.  J.  Frederick,  at  centennial 
ball,  261. 

Pierson,  Joseph, assistant  alderman,  N.Y., 
1789,  229. 

Pigott,  Robert,  engraver  of  portrait  of 

James  Monroe,  512. 
Pilgrim  Fathers,  represented  in  tableau, 

civic  parade,  386. 
Pirn,  artist,  portrait  of  Franklin,  painted 

by,  460. 

Pinard,  Charles,  at  centennial  ball,  262  ; 
subscriber  to  ball,  266. 

Pinard,  John  A.,  at  centennial  ball,  2C2  ; 
subscriber  to  ball,  266. 

Pinckney,  Charles,  member  of  federal 
convention,  1787,  136;  portrait  at  loan 
exhibition,  145. 

Pinckney,  Rev.  Charles  C,  president  of 
the  society  of  the  Cincinnati  of  S.  C, 
151  ;  chaplain-general  of  the  society  of 
the  Cincinnati,  officiates  at  commem- 
orative services  of  that  body,  171  ;  at 
reception  to  president  Harrison,  232, 
248  ;  at  literary  exercises,  289  ;  at  ban- 
quet, 360. 

Pinckney,  Charles  Cotesworth,  member 
of  federal  convention,  1787,  136. 

Pinckney,  Henry  L.,  portrait  of  Charles 
Pinckney,  property  of,  145 

Pinckney,  Thomas,  member  of  society  of 
the  Cincinnati  of  S.  C,  151. 

Pine,  John  B.,  member  of  committee  on 
states,  109,  113,  206,  207,  208,  209,  217, 
220,  228,  236,  249  ;  of  general  commit- 
tee, 114,  236  ;  aide  to  chairman  on  art 
and  exhibition,  120;  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  220  ;  at  banquet  to  the  pres- 
ident, 234  ;  at  centennial  ball,  262  ; 
subscriber  to  ball,  266  ;  at  banquet, 
metropolitan  opera-house,  360. 

Pine,  Robert  E. ,  artist,  illustrations  of  por- 
traits painted  by,  of  Leonard  Bleecker, 
facing  41  ;  Charles  Carroll,  facing  97  ; 
Mrs.  John  Jay,  facing  158  ;  William 
S.  Johnson,  facing  78  ;  Robert  Morris, 
facing  69  ;  George  Read,  facing  67  ; 
George  Washington,  facing  9  ;  number 
of  portraits  of  congressmen  painted 
by,  419,  420  ;  notes  on  portraits 
painted  by,  of  Leonard  Bleecker,  429  ; 
Charles  Carroll  and  family,  434  ;  Mrs. 
Charles  Carroll,  436  ;  Mrs.  Jay,  483  ; 
William  S.  Johnson,  489  ;  Robert  Mor- 
ris, 145,  514;  George  Read,  145,  418, 
522,  523;  Baron  Steuben,  529  ;  Thomas 
Stone,  145  ;  Mrs.  Stone,  145  ;  George 
Washington,  98,  541,  542,  543. 

Pinkney,  Frederick  H.,  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  223. 

Pinkus,  Frederick  S.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Pintard,  John,  mentioned,  481. 

Pinto,  Francis  E.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Pinto,  William  A.,  escort  to  president 
I  larrison,  224. 

Pippey,  Mrs.  A.,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 


Pippey,  Benjamin  Y.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 

Pitcher,  John,  U.  S.  army,  aide  to  grand 
marshal,  military  parade,  319. 

Pitkin,  J.  R.  G.,  address  at  New  Orleans, 
405. 

Pitkins,  P.  B.,  commissioner  from  Vt., 216. 

Pitman,  C.  H.,  second  N.  H.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  332. 

Pitshkc,  William  F. ,  judge  city  court,  243. 

Pittsburg,  Pa.,  fourteenth  and  eighteenth 
regiments,  with  battery  B,  at  military 
parade,  325,  326. 

Pittsfield,  Mass.,  the  celebration  at,  403. 

Pixley,  Frank  M.,  oration  at  San  Fran- 
cisco, 406. 

Plan  and  Scope,  committee,  see  commit- 
tees. 

Planten,  John  R.,  consul-general  of  Neth- 
erlands, 248. 

Plasterers'  Society,  at  civic  parade,  391. 

Platform,  committee,  see  committees. 

Piatt,  Charles  A.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  244. 

Piatt,  Charles  G.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Piatt,  James  N.,  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Piatt,  Orville  H.,  U.  S.  senator  from 
Conn.,  241. 

Piatt,  Thomas  C,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246;  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266;  at  banquet,  360;  sub- 
scriber to  memorial  arch,  414. 

Piatt  &  Bowers,  subscribers  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Plattdeutsche  Vereine,  at  civic  parade, 
395- 

Plum,  Miss  C.  F.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Plum,  James  R.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Plumb,  Mamie  W.,  of  choir,  St.  Paul's 
chapel,  271. 

Plumbers,  at  civic  parade,  392. 

Plume,  Joseph  W.,  major-general  N.  J. 
troops,  at  military  parade,  326. 

Plummer,  Mrs.  Albert  T.,  portrait  of 
Joshua  Seney,  property  of,  525. 

Plummer,  John  F. ,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  104;  of  finance  committee, 
112,  113,  236,  39S,  400;  of  general  com- 
mittee, 114,  236;  at  reception  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  231,  246;  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  266;  at  literary  exer- 
cises, 289;  at  banquet,  361. 

Plummer,  John  F.,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to 
celebration,  401. 

Pocock,  Edgar  J.,  colonel  seventeenth 
Ohio  regiment,  at  military  parade,  342. 

Podesta,  Antonio,  president  la  concordia, 
civic  parade,  392. 

Poe,  Samuel  K.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 223. 

Poetry,  represented  in  tableau,  civic  pa- 
rade, 395. 

Police  Department,  N.  Y.,  services  of, 
217,  218,  219,  220,  225,  226,  235,  236, 
241,  255,  269,  285,  315,  384. 

Polish  Societies,  at  civic  parade,  396. 


INDEX. 


637 


Polk,  Charles  P.,  artist,  portraits  of  Wash- 
ington, painted  by,  143,  543. 

Polk,  William  M.,  M.  D.,  member  of  gen- 
eral committee,  114,  236;  invited  to 
meet  president  Harrison,  244;  subscriber 
to  centennial  ball,  266  ;  at  banquet,  358. 

Pollard,  D.  A.,  seventh  N.  Y.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  334. 

Pollard,  Robert,  engraver  of  portrait  of 
Franklin,  457,  note. 

Pomares,  Marino,  consul  of  Salvador, 
248. 

Pomeroy,  George  E.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Pomeroy,  W.  H  ,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Pond,  Charles  H.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 224;  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
266. 

Pool,  Mrs.  Charles  A.,  at  centennial  ball, 
261. 

Poole,  William  F.,  biographical  note  of 

Edward  Coles,  504. 
Poor,  E.  A.,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 

266. 

Poor,  Edward  E.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Poor,  Henry  W.,  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Pooton,  James,  invited  to  meet  president 

Harrison,  247. 
Porter,  Albert   O.,  commissioner  from 

Ind.,  233. 

Porter,  Benjamin  C. ,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  244. 

Porter,  Clara  P.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Porter,  Admiral  David  D.,  grand  marshal 
of  the  naval,  and  merchant-marine  pa- 
rade, 127,  190,  192,  19S;  his  general 
order  of  the  parade,  193;  portrait,  195; 
at  reception  to  president  Harrison,  225, 
227,  231;  at  banquet  to  the  president, 
234;  at  centennial  ball,  259  ;  at  literary 
exercises,  285,  2S9  ;  at  military  parade, 
317  ;  at  banquet,  metropolitan  opera- 
house,  356,  358. 

Porter,  Mrs.  David  D.,  at  centennial  ball, 
259. 

Porter,  David  F  ,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Porter,  Fitz-John,  at  reception  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  232,  243. 

Porter,  Francis  D.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Porter,  Miss  H.,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Porter,  Henry  H.,  commissioner  of  char- 
ities and  corrections,  243;  at  banquet, 
358. 

Porter,  Horace,  member  of  citizens'  com- 
mittee, 103;  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  244  ;  at  banquet,  361  ;  sub- 
scriber to  celebration,  401. 

Porter,  J.  T.,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 222. 

Porter,  John  L.,  commissioner  from  New 

York,  208,  212. 
Porter,  Josiah,  adjutant-general  of  N.  Y., 

242;  at  military  parade,  334;  portrait, 

335;  at  banquet,  361. 


Porter,  Mrs.,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 

Porter,  Peter  A. ,  portraits  of  Madison  and 
Monroe,  properly  of,  506. 

Porter,  Pleasant,  commissioner  from  In- 
dian Territory, 216,  233  ;  at  banquet,  359. 

Porter,  Robert  P.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245  ;  at  literary  exer- 
cises, 289;  at  banquet,  360. 

Porter,  William  V.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  222. 

Port  Jervis,  N.  Y. ,  baptist  church  repre- 
sented at  meeting  of  clergymen,  N.  Y., 
123. 

Portland,  Oregon,  the  celebration  at, 406. 

Portraits,  Adams,  John,  facing  17,  18,  31, 
150;  Adams,  Mrs.  John,  facing  18,  260; 
Ames,  Fisher,  facing65,  89;  Ashe,  John 
B.,  facing  125;  Ashe,  Mrs.  John  B., 
facing  258  ;  Baldwin,  Abraham,  facing 
76;  Bassett,  Richard,  facing  67;  Beek- 
man,  Mrs.  James,  facing  59  ;  Benson, 
Egbert,  facing  65,  123;  Bleecker,  Leon- 
ard, facing  41;  Boudinot,  Elias,  facing 
°3.  65,  72;  Boudinot,  Mrs.  Elias,  facing 
260,  262  ;  Bourne,  Benjamin,  facing 
126;  Brown,  John,  facing  119;  Burke, 
vEdanus,  facing  100  ;  Butler,  Pierce, 
facing  100;  Cadwalader,  Lambert,  fac- 
ing 72;  Carroll,  Charles,  facing  63,  97, 
99  ;  Carroll,  Mrs.  Charles,  facing  99; 
Carroll,  Daniel,  facing  437;  Chew,  Har- 
riet, facing  264;  Chew,  Sophia,  facing 
264;  Chrystie,  James,  facing  42;  Clark- 
son,  Matthew,  facing  160  ;  Clinton, 
George,  7,  facing  34,  155,  206;  Clinton, 
Mrs.  George,  facing  34  ;  Clymer,George, 
facing  71;  Coles,  Isaac,  facing  11 1; 
Coles,  Mrs.  Isaac,  facing  59;  Contee, 
Benjamin,  facing  99;  Custis,  Eleanor 
P.,  facing  256,  264  ;  Custis,  Martha, 
facing  262  ;  Dalton,  Tristram,  facing 
89  ;  Dickinson,  Philemon,  facing  72; 
Duane,  James,  facing  36  ;  Duane, 
Mrs.  James,  facing  262;  Duer,  Kitty, 
facing  57  ;  Duer,  William,  facing 
57  ;  Edwards,  Pierrepont,  facing 
160  ;  Ellsworth,  Oliver,  facing  78  ; 
Ellsworth,  Mrs.  Oliver,  facing  78;  Few, 
William,  facing  76  ;  Few,  Mrs.  Will- 
iam, facing  59  ;  Fish,  Nicholas,  facing 
41  ;  Floyd,  William,  facing  123  ;  Foster, 
Abiel,  facing  105  ;  Foster,  Theodore, 
facing  126;  Franklin,  Benjamin,  facing 

31,  61,  424,  444.  464.  484.  524.  544; 
Franklin,  William  T.,  facing  31  ;  Gale, 
George,  facing  99  ;  Gardoqui,  Don  Di- 
ego, facing  46  ;  Gerry,  Elbridge,  facing 
92  ;  Gerry,  Mrs.  Elbridge.  facing  59  ; 
Giles,  William  B.,  facing  112  ;  Oilman, 
Nicholas,  facing  105  ;  Goodhue,  Benja- 
min, facing  91  ;  Griffin,  Cyrus,  facing 
156;  Griffin,  Samuel,  facing  in;  Grout, 
Jonathan,  facing  91  ;  Hamilton,  Alex- 
ander, facing  5,  25,  26,  95,  16S  ;  Ham- 
ilton, Mrs.  Alexander,  facing  57;  Haw- 
kins, Benjamin,  facing  125  ;  Hazard, 
Ebenezer,  facing  156;  Hazard,  Mrs. 
Ebenezer,  facing  51  ;  Henry,  Patrick, 
facing  166  ;  Hiester.  Daniel,  facing 
69;  Huger,  Daniel,  facing  102;  Hum- 


phreys, David,  facing  33,  155,  158; 
Huntington,  Benjamin,  facing  80  ; 
Izard,  Ralph,  facing  100,  180,  477  ; 
Izard,  Mrs.  Ralph  facing  59,  73, 
180,  262  ;  Jackson,  James,  facing  76; 
Jackson,  William,  facing  42;  Jackson, 
Mrs.  William,  facing  262  ;  Jay,  John, 
facing  31,  100,  152,  155,  156,  172; 
Jay,  Mrs.  John,  facing  158;  Jefferson, 
Thomas,  facing  21,  23,  25,  106,  131, 
150,  152  ;  Johnson,  William  S.,  fac- 
ing 78  ;  Johnston,  Samuel,  facing  125; 
King,  Rufus,  facing  121  ;  King,  Mrs. 
Rufus,  facing  260;  Knox,  Henry, 
facing  28,  156,  168  ;  Lafayette,  Mar- 
quis de,  facing  160,  189  ;  Langdon, 
John,  facing  105  ;  Laurance,  John, 
facing  65,  123;  Laurens,  Henry,  facing 
31  ;  Lear,  Tobias,  63 ;  Lee,  Arthur, 
facing  155,  156  ;  Lee,  Richard  Bland, 
facing  112;  Lee,  Richard  Henry,  fac- 
ing 65,  in  ;  Leonard.  George,  facing 
91;  Lewis,  Fielding,  facing  256;  Lewis, 
Mrs.  Fielding,  facing  256,  262  ;  Lewis, 
Mrs.  Lawrence,  facing  256  ;  Lewis, 
Morgan,  facing  39  ;  Linn,  Rev.  Will- 
iam, facing  45  ;  Livermore,  Samuel, 
facing  65,  105  ;  Livingston,  John  P.., 
facing  41,  168  ;  Livingston,  Margaret 
B.,  facing  172,  256;  Livingston,  Robert 
R.,  facing  45;  Livingston,  Judge  Robert 
R.,  facing  256  ;  Livingston,  Walter, 
facing  156  ;  Maclay,  William,  facing 
69;  Macomb,  Alexander,  facing  51; 
Macomb,  Mrs.  Alexander,  facing  51  ; 
Madison,  James,  facing  63,  115,  116, 
15°.  354  !  Madison,  Mrs.  James,  fac- 
ing 63,  258,  262  ;  Madison,  William, 
facing  116;  Malcom,  William,  facing 
42  ;  Maxwell,  James  H  ,  facing  51  ; 
Maxwell,  Mrs.  James  H.,  faring  41  ; 
Mifflin,  Thomas,  facing  33  ;  Monroe, 
James,  facing  63,  65,  106,  108,  150 ; 
Monroe,  Mrs.  James,  facing  258  ; 
Moore,  Andrew,  facing  in;  Morris, 
Gouverneur,  facing  160  ;  Morris,  Rob- 
ert, facing  69  ;  Morris,  Mrs.  Robert, 
facing  59  ;  Morton,  Jacob,  facing  42, 
155  ;  Moustier,  Comte  de,  facing  46  ; 
Muhlenberg,  Frederick  A.,  facing  71; 
Muhlenberg,  J.  P.  G  ,  facing  71;  Nich- 
olson, James,  facing  42;  Osgood,  Sam- 
uel, facing  156  ;  Osgood,  Mrs.  Samuel, 
facing  51  ;  Otis,  Samuel  A.,  facing  45  ; 
Otis,  Mrs.  Samuel  A.,  facing  172  ; 
Page,  John,  facing  in  ;  Parker,  Jo- 
siah, facing  112  ;  Partridge,  George, 
facing  91  ;  Paterson,  William,  facing 
72  ;  Provoost,  Bishop,  facing  45,  16S; 
Quincy,  Mrs.  Josiah,  facing  260,  262; 
Randolph,  Edmund,  facing  28,  168  ; 
Randolph,  John,  facing  160  :  Read, 
George,  facing  67  ;  St  Clair,  Arthur, 
facing  33  ;  Schureman,  James,  72  ; 
Schuyler,  Cornelia,  facing  264:  Schuy- 
ler, Philip,  facing  121  ;  Schuyler,  Mrs. 
Philip,  facing  260  ;  Scriba,  G.  L.  C, 
facing  42;  Sedgwick,  Catharine  M.,  fac- 
ing 258  ;  Sedgwick,  Theodore,  facing 
92  ;  Sedgwick,  Mrs.  Theodore,  lacing 


638       THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


25S;  Seney,  Joshua,  facing  99;  Sevier, 
John,  facing  125  ;  Seymour,  Mary  J., 
facing  266  ;  Sherman,  Roger,  facing 
80;  Silvester,  Peter,  facing  123;  Smith, 
William,  facing  99 ;  Smith,  William 
L.,  facing  102  ;  Smith,  William  S., 
facing  1 8,  41  ;  Smith,  Mrs.  William  S., 
facing  2(>o  ;  Steele,  John,  facing  125; 
Steuben,  Baron,  facing  166,  172;  Stir- 
ling, Lord,  facing  57;  Stirling,  Lady,  fac- 
ing 57;  Strong  Caleb,  facing  S9;  Stuart, 
Gilbert, 99;  Sumter, Thomas,  facing  102; 
Temple,  Sir  John,  facing  46  ;  Temple, 
Lady,  facing  46;  Thacher,  George,  fac- 
ing 91 ;  Thomson,  Charles,  facing  33, 
172  ;  Toppan,  Christopher,  facing  550; 
Trumbull,  Faith,  facing  82,  266;  Trum- 
bull, Jonathan,  facing  82  ;  Trumbull, 
Mrs.  Jonathan,  facing  82,  266;  Tucker, 
Thomas  T.,  facing  100;  Van  Cortlandt, 
Pierre,  facing  1C6;  Van  Home,  David, 
facing  42  ;  Varick,  Richard,  facing  36, 
168;  Vining,  John,  facing  67;  Vining, 
Mrs.  John,  facing  258  ;  Wadsworth, 
Catharine,  facing  266  ;  Wadsworth, 
Daniel,  facing  80  ;  Wadsworth,  Har- 
riet, facing  266;  Wadsworth,  Jeremiah, 
facing  80,  155;  Wadsworth,  Mrs.  Jere- 
miah, facing  262;  Washington,  George, 
frontispiece,  I,  facing  2,  4,  6,  9,  10,  12, 
14,  65,  81,  140,  149,  150,  160,  166,  178, 
184,  207,  228,  229,  417;  Washington, 
Martha,  facing  10,  12,  14,  65,  262,  264; 
Watts,  Mary,  facing  57;  Webb,  Samuel 
B.,  facing  41  ;  West,  Benjamin,  facing 
105  ;  Williams,  Robert  S.,  facing  99  ; 
Williamson,  Hugh,  facing  125;  Wyn- 
koop,  Henry,  facing  69;  notes  on,  417, 
550. 

Portsmouth,  Va.,  fourth  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  333. 

Post,  A.  J.,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  247. 

Post,  Charles  A.,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Post,  Edwin  A.,  dock  commissioner,  243. 

Post,  George  B.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  244. 

Post,  George  B.,  Jr.,  member  of  reception 
committee,  230. 

Post,  George  W.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Post,  Lina,  at  centennial  ball,  26r. 

Post,  Rev.  Richard  B.,  portraits  of 
Catharine  and  Jeremiah  Wadsworth, 
property  of,  facing  155,  539. 

Post,  Waldron  K.,  member  of  reception 
committee,  ancestry  of,  230. 

Post  William,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Potenja,  Lucarria,  at  civic  parade,  392. 

Potter,  Edward  E.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Potter,  Eliphalet  N.,  at  literary  exercises, 
289. 

Potter,  Frederick,  aide  to  chairman  of 
committee  on  railroads  and  transpor- 
tation, 120;  at  banquet,  360. 

Potter,  Rt.  Rev.  Henry  C,  bishop  of 
N.  Y.,  favors  holding  religious  services 
April  30,  1889,  123  ;  officiates  at  ser- 
vices in  St.  Paul's  chapel,  129;  addresses 


scholars  of  the  public  schools,  at  loan 
exhibition,  143  ;  authorizes  form  of 
commemorative  services  of  the  society 
of  the  Cincinnati.  169;  at  reception  to 
president  Harrison,  231,  244;  his  dis- 
course delivered  in  St.  Paul's  chapel, 
271.  273,  277,  281  ;  at  military  parade, 
317  ;  at  banquet,  metropolitan  opera- 
house,  355,  358;  officiates  at  laying  of 
corner-stone,  memorial  arch,  409;  por- 
trait, 413. 

Potter,  Henry  L.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 224. 

Potter,  Joseph,  associate  judge,  court  of 
appeals,  N.  Y.,  243. 

Potter,  Julian,  at  banquet,  358. 

Potter,  Mrs.  McNeill,  dress  sword  of 
governor  Benjamin  Pierce,  of  N.  H., 
property  of,  158. 

Potter,  Mark  W.,  aide  to  chairman  of 
committee  on  railroads  and  transporta- 
tion, 120. 

Potter,  Miss,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 

Potter,  Orlando  B.,  member  of  committee 
of  chamber  of  commerce,  102,  106  ;  of 
citizens'  committee,  104,  105  ;  general 
committee,  107,  114,  236  ;  executive 
committee,  108;  chairman  of  committee 
on  railroads  and  transportation,  109, 
113,  181,  182,  184,  200,  236;  his  aides, 
120;  escort  to  president  Harrison,  182, 
183,  224;  his  report  of  the  journey  of 
the  presidential  party  from  Washington 
to  N.  Y.  and  return,  184 ;  at  naval 
parade,  200;  at  banquet  to  president 
Harrison,  234  ;  at  centennial  ball,  260; 
subscriber  to  ball,  266;  at  literary  exer- 
cises, 289;  at  banquet,  metropolitan 
opera-house,  356,  360  ;  subscriber  to 
celebration,  400. 

Potter,  William  A.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Potter,  William  E.,  mentioned,  445. 

Potts,  George  H.,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  103. 

Potts,  J.  M.,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  246. 

Potts,  W.  Rockhill,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  104. 

Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y.,  convention  meets 
at,  opposition  to  the  adoption  of  the 
constitution,  3  ;  constitution  adopted, 
number  of  votes  cast,  3  ;  fifteenth  and 
nineteenth  separate  companies,  at 
military  parade,  338. 

Powel  Family,  portrait  of  Washington, 
property  of,  542. 

Powel,  Samuel,  the  shadow  profile  of 
Washington,  by,  543. 

Powell,  Max  L.,  first  battalion,  Vt.,  at 
military  parade,  341. 

Powell,  W.,  thirteenth  N.  Y.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  337. 

Power.  John  S.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  222. 

Power,  Maurice  J.,  police  justice,  243. 

Power,  William  L.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Powers,  Frederick  A.,  commissioner 
from  Me.,  216. 


Powers,  Orlando  W.,  oration  at  Ogden 
Utah,  406. 

Powers,  T.,  tenth  Pa.  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  325. 

Pownall,  Sir  George,  mentioned,  454. 

Pownall,  Thomas,  portrait  of  Franklin, 
p.-operty  of,  455. 

Poyson,  Rev.  M.  H.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  244. 

Praeger,  John  F.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Prall,  John  H.,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 224. 

Prall,  John  P.,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 224. 

Pratt,  Calvin  E.,  judge  supreme  court, 
N.  Y.,  243  ;  at  banquet,  359. 

Pratt,  Charles,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Pratt,  Charles,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to 
memorial  arch,  414. 

Pratt,  Charles  M.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Pratt,  Henry,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 224. 

Pratt,  John,  acting  quartermaster-general, 
1789.  135- 

Pratt,  Matthew,  artist,  portrait  of  Frank- 
lin, facing  484  ;  notes  on  the  portraits 
of  Franklin  and  chancellor  Livingston, 
painted  by,  420,  422,  456,  500. 

Pratt,  S.  S.,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
266. 

Preece,  William  E.,  twenty-second  N.  Y. 

regiment,  at  military  parade,  335. 
Prentice,  Robert  K.,  escort  to  president 

Harrison,  224  ;  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  266. 

Presbyterian  Churches,  N.  Y.  city,  in 
1789,  39,  note. 

Prescott,  Linzee,  member  of  reception 
committee,  ancestry  of,  230. 

Press  committee,  see  committees. 

Press  Club,  representatives  of,  invited  to 
meet  president  Harrison,  247. 

Pressey,  I.  N.,  eleventh  separate  com- 
pany, N.  Y.,  at  military  parade,  337. 

Preston,  Stephen,  at  banquet,  361. 

Preston,  Rt.  Rev.  Thomas  S.,  invited  to 
meet  president  Harrison,  244. 

Price,  Bruce,  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Price,  E.  W.,  mayor'sclerk,  Brooklyn,  243. 

Price,  George  A.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  222. 

Price,  Samuel  M.,  seventeenth  Ohio  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  343. 

Price,  Simon,  second  Ohio  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  342. 

Pride,  Andrew  H.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Priest,  J.  D.  C,  third  Mo.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  343. 

Prime,  Mrs.  Rufus,  mentioned,  532. 

Prime,  Rev.  Wendell,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  245. 

Prince  Carnival,  represented  in  tableau, 
civic  parade,  395. 

Prince,  James,  mentioned,  44,  note. 

Prince,  L.  Bradford,  governor  and  com- 
missioner of  New  Mexico,  216,  233. 


INDEX. 


639 


Prince,  Mrs.  L  Bradford,  at  centennial 
ball,  262. 

Prince,  Lieut.,  U.  S.  navy,  225. 

Princeton  College,  portrait  of  Washing- 
ton, property  of,  facing  4,  143,  541,  543. 

Princeton,  N.  J.,  Washington's  arrival 
and  reception,  26. 

Principe  di  Napoli,  at  civic  parade,  392. 

Printing-Press,  manufacturers  of  the,  in- 
vited to  meet  president  Harrison,  247  ; 
represented  in  tableau,  civic  parade, 
393- 

Proctor,  C.  S.,  second  corps  cadets,  Bos- 
ton, at  military  parade,  329. 

Proctor,  John  R.,  commissioner  from  Ky., 
216. 

Proctor,  Redfield,  secretary  of  war,  at 
naval  parade,  200,  219  ;  at  reception  to 
president  Harrison,  225,  227,  229  ;  at 
banquet  to  the  president,  234  ;  portrait, 
facing  234  ;  at  literary  exercises,  285  ; 
at  military  parade,  316;  at  banquet, 
metropolitan  opera-house,  358. 

Proctor,  T.  R.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Produce  Exchange,  members  invited  to 
meet  president  Harrison,  245. 

Protection  Engine  Company,  at  civic  pa- 
rade, 388,  389. 

Providence,  R.  I.,  first  and  second  regi- 
ments, with  first  machine-gun  battery, 
at  military  parade,  340. 

Provincial  Council,  temperance  societies, 
at  civic  parade,  397. 

Provoost,  Rt.  Rev.  Samuel,  bishop  of 
N.  Y.,  officiates  at  St.  Paul's  chapel, 
April  30,  17S9,  39,  45,  49,  54,  170; 
chaplain  of  congress,  39.  note,  54  ;  por- 
traits painted  by  Duche,  facing  45, 
168  ;  at  inauguration  of  Washington, 
46;  mentioned,  59,  note,  117,  136;  vig- 
nette portrait  of,  232  ;  notes  on  the 
portraits  of,  421,  518. 

Provoost,  Mrs.  Samuel,  attends  assembly 
ball,  1789,  59. 

Pruden,  W.  Edgar,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Prud'homme,  J.  F.  E.,  engraver  of  por- 
trait of  Alexander  Hamilton.  471. 

Pruyn,  J.  I.,  fourth  separate  company, 
N.  Y..  at  military  parade,  337. 

Pruyn,  Mrs.  John  V.  L..  portrait  of 
Washington,  property  of,  144  ;  at  cen- 
tennial ball,  259. 

Pruyn,  John  V.  S.  L  ,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Pryor,  Mrs.  Roger  A.,  Washington's 
snuff-box,  property  of,  75  ;  secures 
contributions  from  Va.  for  the  loan  ex- 
hibition, 148  ;  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Pryor,  W.  R..  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Pugh,  Charles  E.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Pulitzer,  Joseph,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245  ;  subscriber  to  me- 
morial arch,  413. 

Putnam,  E.  H.,  Fuller  light  battery,  Vt., 
at  military  parade,  341. 

Putnam,  George  H.,  invited  to  meet  pres- 


ident Harrison,  246  ;  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 
Putnam  Hose  Company,  at  civic  parade, 
388. 

Putnam,  Gen.  Israel,  represented  in  tab- 
leau, civic  parade,  385. 

Putnam,  W.  L.,  commissioner  from  Me., 
216. 

Putnam's    Sons,   G.   P.,  subscribers  to 

celebration,  401. 
Purroy,   Henry  D.,    fire  commissioner, 

243. 

Pyne,  Percy  R.,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  245. 

Quackenboss,  John,  asst.  alderman,  1789, 
229. 

Ouackenbush,  John  A.,  member  of  con- 
gress from  N.  Y.,  242. 

Quartet  Club  Eintracht,  at  Madison  square 
concert,  350. 

Queen  Street,  N.  Y.  city,  see  Pearl  St. 

Queralta,  F.  Lopes  de,  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  221. 

Quesada,  Vicente  G.,  minister  from  Ar- 
gentine Republic,  invited  to  centennial 
ball,  257. 

Quick,  H.  H  ,  forty- seventh  N.  Y.  reg  - 
ment,  at  military  parade,  337. 

Quick,  William  H.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
ident  Harrison,  247. 

Ouinby,  Ira,  U.  S.  army,  at  military  pa- 
rade, 321. 

Quincy,  Abby  P.,  mentioned,  520. 

Quincy,  Eliza  S.  M.,  biographical  sketch 
of,  35,  and  note. 

Quincy,  Henry  P.,  portraits  of  Mrs.  Jo- 
siah  Quincy,  property  of,  facing  260, 
262,  520. 

Quincy,    Josiah,    president  of  Harvard 

college,  his  marriage,  35,  note. 
Quincy,  Josiah,   the  Savage  portraits  of 

Washington,  544,  note. 
Quincy,   Mrs.  Josiah,  portraits,  painted 

by  Harding,  St.   Memin,  and  Stuart, 

facing  260,  262  ;  notes  on  the  portraits 

of,  422,  520. 
Quinn,  John,  member  of  congress  from 

N.  Y.,  242. 
Quinn,  L.  C,  sixty-ninth  N.  Y.  regiment, 

at  military  parade,  335. 
Quintard,  Rt.  Rev.  Charles  T.,  commis 

sioner  from  Tennessee,  216,  officiates 

at  services  in  St.  Paul's  chapel,  273; 

at  literary  exercises,  289;  at  banquet. 

359- 

Quintard,  George  W.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  246. 

Raborg,  H.  Mason,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Radley,  Frederick,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Radley,  John  J.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Raeburn,  Sir  Henry,  artist,  his  portrait 
of  James  Chrystie,  facing  42;  notes  on 
the  portrait,  418,  420,  422,  438. 


Raemer,  F.  T.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Raemer,  Lawrence,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Rahn,  R.,  eighth  Pa.  regiment,  at  military 
parade,  325. 

Railroads,  representatives  of,  invited  to 
meet  president  Harrison..  245. 

  committee  on,  see  committees. 

Raines,  John,  member  of  congress  from 
N.  Y.,  242;  state  senator,  N.  Y.,  242. 

Rainsford,  Rev.  William  S.,  favors  hold- 
ing religious  services  April  30,  1889, 
123;  invited  to  meet  president  Harri- 
son, 244. 

Raleigh,  Richard  L.,  in  command  of  Man- 
hattan ship  joiners,  at  civic  parade, 
390. 

Ramage,  John,  artist,  illustrations  of  the 
portraits  painted  by,  of  George  Clinton, 
facing  155  ;  Isaac  Coles,  facing  ill  ; 
Mrs.  Coles,  facing  59  ;  William  Few, 
facing  7S ;  Mrs.  Few,  facing  59;  Elbridge 
Gerry,  facing  92  ;  Alexander  Macomb, 
facing  51  ;  Mrs.  Macomb,  facing  51  ; 
George  Washington,  178;  number  of  por- 
traits painted  by,  417,  419,  420;  notes  on 
his  portraits  of  Clinton.  440;  Isaac  Coles, 
and  wife,  441;  William  Few,  and  wife, 
445;  Elbridge  Gerry,  and  wife,  441,  463; 
Alexander  Macomb,  and  wife,  502,  503; 
Washington,  143.  541,  542,  543;  bio- 
graphical sketch  of,  445,  note. 

Ramsay,  David,  mentioned,  32,  note,  81. 

Ramsay,  Emma  M.,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  46,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

Ramsay,  Francis  M.,  U.  S.  navy,  at  naval 
parade,  198;  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  248;  at  centennial  ball,  258  ; 
at  banquet,  361. 

Ramsdell,  Homer  E.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 

Rand,  A.  C,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
266. 

Rand,  George  P.,  fourth  machine-gun  pla- 
toon, Conn.,  at  military  parade,  329. 

Rand.  George  W.,  seventh  N.Y.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  334. 

Randall,  Samuel  H.,  subscriber  to  centen 
nial  ball,  266  ;  at  banquet,  358. 

Randall,  Thomas,  coxswain  of  the  presi- 
dent's barge,  which  conveyed  Washing- 
ton to  N.  Y.,  28,  33. 

Randel,  Baremore  &  Billings,  subscribers 
to  celebration,  401. 

Randolph,  Anson  D.  F.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  246. 

Randolph,  Benjamin  H.,  U.  S.  army,  at 
military  parade,  320. 

Randolph,  Miss  C.  R..  portrait  of  Jeffer- 
son, property  of,  484. 

Randolph,  Edmund,  portraits,  facing  2S. 
168;  attorney-general  U.  S.,  135,  232  ; 
member  of  federal  convention,  17S7, 
136;  portrait  at  loan  exhibition,  145  ; 
notes  on  the  portraits  of,  420,  520. 

Randolph,  Edmund  D.,  member  of  vestry. 
Trinity  church,  at  services  St.  Paul's 
chapel,  270. 


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Randolph,  John,  his  account  of  the  arrival 
of  John  Adams  at  N.  Y.,  18;  at  inaugu- 
ration of  Washington,  51,  note;  por- 
traits, painted  by  Harding,  Jarvis,  and 
Stuart,  facing  160  ;  notes  on  the  por- 
traits of,  421,  422,  521. 

Randolph,  Norman  V.,  aide  to  grand 
marshal,  military  parade,  320. 

Randolph,  Sarah  N.,  portrait  of  Jeffer- 
son, property  of,  facing  21,  484;  de- 
scribes medallion  portrait  of  Jefferson, 
4S5  ;  Jefferson's  diary,  property  of, 
386,  note. 

Randolph,  Thomas  J.,  mentioned,  484, 
489. 

Randolph,  Wallace  F.,  U.  S.  army,  248. 
Ranger,  J.  H.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Rankin,  John  M.(  county  clerk,  Brook- 
lyn, 243. 

Ransom,  Doctor,  of  choir,  St.  Paul's 
chapel,  271. 

Ransom,  Miss  C.  L.,  artist,  portrait  of 
Jefferson,  painted  by,  487. 

Ransom,  Paul  C. ,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Ransom,  Rastus  S.,  surrogate,  243  ;  at 
banquet,  359  ;  at  reception  to  justices 
U.  S.  supreme  court,  402. 

Rapallo,  Edward  S.,  at  reception,  justices 
U.  S.  supreme  court,  402. 

Rapp,  Edward  J.,  alderman,  243. 

Rascovcr,  James,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Rasquin,  H.  S.,  third  battery,  N.  Y.,  at 
military  parade,  337. 

Rathbone,  Robert  C,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  246. 

Rauch,  Chrislian  D.,  represented  in  tab- 
leau, civic  parade,  395. 

Ravn,  Christopher,  vice-consul  of  Nor- 
way and  Sweden.  248. 

Rawson,  J.  B.,  Jr.,  sixty-fifth  N.  Y.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  339. 

Ray,  Alfred,  member  of  citizens'  com- 
mittee, 104  ;  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Ray,  Felix,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 

266. 

Ray,  Jay,  escort  to  president  Harrison, 
223. 

Ray,  L.  L.,  sixteenth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  326. 

Rea,  George  W. ,  Pa.  state  Fencibies,  at 
military  parade,  324. 

Read,  C.  H.  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  cele- 
bration, 400. 

Read,  Emily,  portrait  of  George  Read, 
property  of,  facing  67,  522. 

Read,  George,  U.  S.  senator  from  Dela- 
ware, 38,  135,  232;  biographical  sketch 
of,  63;  portraits,  painted  by  Pine,  Sully, 
Trumbull,  and  unknown,  facing  67  ; 
member  of  federal  convention,  1787, 
136  ;  portrait  at  loan  exhibition,  145; 
notes  on  the  portraits  of,  418,  422,  423, 
522. 

Read,  George  R.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 
Read,  John,  mentioned,  63. 


Read,  John  Meredith,  acknowledgment 
to,  in  preface,  vi;  notes  on  the  por- 
traits of  George  Read,  522;  mentioned, 
523. 

Read,  William  A.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266;  at  banquet,  360. 

Read,  William  T.,  portrait  of  George 
Read,  property  of,  522. 

Reading,  Benjamin,  engraver  of  portraits 
of  John  Jay,  facing  172,  481  ;  Henry 
Laurens,  496;  Gouverneur  Morris,  513; 
Baron  Steuben,  and  Charles  Thomson, 
facing  172;  portraits  engraved  by,  481, 
note. 

Real-Estate  Exchange,  represented  at  re- 
ception to  president  Harrison,  231,  245. 

Reception  Committee,  see  committees. 

Recorder,  the,  newspaper,  subscriber  to 
memorial  arch,  414. 

Red  D  Line  of  Steamships,  subscriber  to 
memorial  arch,  414. 

Redding,  C.  H.  E.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Redfearn,  Frank,  third  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  324. 

Redman,  J.  H.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 222. 

Redmond,  Geraldyn,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 

Redmond,  Nellie,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 

Redmond,  Preston,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  248. 

Reduci  Patrie  Battaglie,  at  civic  parade, 
392. 

Redwood  Library,  Newport,  R.  I„  por- 
traits in  possession  of, — John  Adams, 
424,  425  ;  Benjamin  Franklin,  450 ; 
Alexander  Hamilton,  473  ;  Patrick 
Henry,  475;  Thomas  Jefferson,  485; 
Lafayette,  494  ;  James  Madison,  506; 
Gilbert  Stuart,  531. 

Reed,  Isaac  H.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Reed,  J.  Q.,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
266. 

Reed,  James  C,  aide  to  grand  marshal, 

military  parade,  320. 
Reed,  Joseph,   portrait  of,  mentioned, 

481,  note. 

Reed,  Latham  G.,  usher  at  commemora- 
tive services  of  society  of  the  Cincin- 
nati, in  St.  Paul's  chapel,  170. 

Reed,  Lloyd,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Reed,  Luman,  mentioned,  424. 

Reed,  Sylvanus  A.,  member  of  Rhode 
Island  society  of  the  Cincinnati,  at 
commemorative  banquet,  150  ;  sub- 
scriber to  centennial  ball,  266. 

Reed,  Theodore  F.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Reeder,  Frank,  aide  to  grand  marshal, 
military  parade,  320. 

Reel,  A.  H.,  commissioner  from  Wyo- 
ming Territory,  216. 

Reese,  Charles,  eighteenth  Pa.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  325. 

Reeves,  Annie  D.,  portrait  of  George 
Read,  property  of,  facing  67,  522. 

Reformed  Dutch  Church,  N.  Y.,  1789,  39, 


note;  portrait  of  Rev.  William  Linn, 
property  of,  facing  45,  498. 

Regiments,  see  military  parade. 

Reich,  John,  engraver  of  portraits  of 
Thomas  Jefferson,  and  James  Madison, 
489,  note,  507. 

Reid,  Edward  M.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Reid,  George  C,  U.  S.  marines,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  321. 

Reid,  James  D.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Reid,  James  J.,  fourth  N.  J.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  327. 

Reid,  Whitelaw,  at  banquet  to  president 
Harrison,  234,  245 ;  at  literary  exercises, 
289  ;  at  banquet,  metropolitan  opera- 
house,  361. 

Reilly,  Charles  Z.,  first  Ohio  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  342. 

Reilly,  Edward  F.,  county  clerk,  243  ;  at 
banquet,  359. 

Reilly,  Frank  R.,  fifth  N.  J.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  327. 

Reilly,  Thomas,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Reis,  Norman  I.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Remensnyder,  Rev.  Junius  B.,  favors 
holding  religious  services  April  30, 
1889,  123. 

Remsen,  the  Misses,  at  centennial  ball, 
261. 

Remsen,  Mrs.  Robert  G.,  at  centennial 
ball,  261. 

Rene,  Pierre,  portrait  of  Comte  de  Mous- 
tier,  property  of,  facing  46,  515. 

Renison,  Edward  J.,  thirty-second  N.  Y. 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  337. 

Renwick,  James,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  244;  subscriber  to  me- 
morial arch,  414. 

Renwick,  Aspinwall  &  Renwick,  sub- 
cribers  to  celebration,  414. 

Requa,  A.  B.,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Requa,  L.  Frederic,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 

Requa,  R.  Russell,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Reuleaux,  Jules,  consul-general  of  Bel- 
gium, 248. 

Revells,  F.  C,  eighth  battalion,  D.  C, 
at  military  parade,  345. 

Revere,  Augustus  L.  F.,  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  224. 

Reville,  Frederick  J.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 

Reynolds,  C.  E.,  sixteenth  Ohio  regiment 
at  military  parade,  342. 

Reynolds,  John  A.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  248. 

Reynolds,  Sir  Joshua,  artist,  portrait  of 
Charles  Carroll,  facing  97  ;  notes  on 
the  portrait,  418,  419,  422,  434,  435; 
mentioned,  477;  his  criticism  of  Trum- 
bull's work,  540. 

Reynolds,  L.  W.,  commissioner  from 
Iowa,  215. 

Reynolds,  Thomas  L.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 


IXDEX. 


641 


Rheinberger,  Joseph,  mentioned,  271. 

Rheingold  Singing  Society,  at  Madison 
square  concert,  350. 

Rheinischer  Saengerbund,  at  Madison 
square  concert,  350. 

Rheinischer  Scheutzenbund,  at  civic  pa- 
rade, 38S. 

Rheinpfaelzer  Maennerchor,  at  Madison 

square  concert,  350. 
Rhett.  A.  B.,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  266. 

Rhinehart,  Clark  D.,  sheriff,  Brooklyn. 
243. 

Rhinelander,  Frederick  W. ,  member  of 
general  committee,  114,  236  :  sub- 
scriber to  centennial  ball,  266  ;  at  ban- 
quet. 35S;  subscriber  to  celebration  and 
memorial  arch,  401,  414. 

Rhinelander,  Julia,  subscriber  to  memo- 
rial arch,  413. 

Rhinelander,  Philip,  member  of  recep- 
tion committee,  230;  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 

Rhinelander,  Philip  Jacob,  founder  of 
the  Rhinelander  family  in  America, 
283. 

Rhinelander,  Philip  M.,  member  of  re- 
ception committee,  230. 

Rhinelander.  Serena,  subscriber  to  me- 
morial arch,  413. 

Rhinelander,  T.  J.  Oakley,  escort  to  pres- 
ident Harrison.  223;  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266;  member  of  aisle  com- 
mittee, St.  Paul's  chapel.  272,  2S3  ; 
ancestry  of,  2S3  ;  at  banquet,  35S;  sub- 
scriber to  memorial  arch,  414. 

Rhoades,  J.  Harsen,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  245. 

Rhode  Island,  rejects  the  constitution,  4, 
12;  anti-federalism  in,  4;  chooses  dele- 
gates to  the  continental  congress,  4; 
sea  captains  sail  under  the  protection 
of  the  state,  4  ;  paper  money  of,  not 
receivable,  4,  note ;  sends  address  to 
congress  respecting  the  non-ratification 
of  the  constitution,  4,  note ;  packets 
decorated  on  the  arrival  of  Washington 
at  X.  Y.,  30 ;  one  representative  in 
congress,  62  ;  biographical  sketches  of 
representatives  in  first  U.  S.  congress, 
93  ;  senators  and  members  of  congress, 
135.  136;  members  of  the  society  of  the 
Cincinnati  of,  at  commemorative  ban- 
quet, and  celebration,  150,  177;  gov- 
ernor and  commissioners  at  celebration, 
208,  213,  214,  216,  233;  admitted  into 
the  union,  233  ;  troops  at  military 
parade,  340,  346. 

Rhode  Island  Historical  Society,  repre- 
sented at  celebration  of  the  semi-cen- 
tennial of  Washington's  inauguration, 
96. 

Rhodes,  Benjamin  T.,  Jr.,  subscriber  to 

centennial  ball,  266. 
Rhodes,  Bradford,  member  of  assembly, 

X.  Y.,  242  ;  at  banquet,  359. 
Rhodes,  E.  H.,  aide  to  grand  marshal, 

military  parade,  320. 
Rhodes,  G.  B.,  seventh  X.  Y.  regiment, 

at  militarv  parade,  334. 
82 


Rice,  A.  E.,  lieut.-gov.  and  commissioner 

of  Minn.,  233. 
Rice,  A.  T.  J.,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  266. 

Rice,  A.  Thorndike.  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  246  ;  at  banquet,  361. 

Rice,  Edward  C,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245  ;  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 

Rice,  George  S.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Rice,  H.  B.,  first  corps  cadets,  Boston,  at 

military  parade,  329. 
Rice,  Ignatius,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  266. 

Rice,  Jacob,  member  of  assembly,  X.  Y., 
243. 

Rice,  Thomas  B.,  captain  troop  B,  first 
cavalry,  Wilmington,  Delaware,  at  mil- 
itary parade,  322. 

Rice,  W.  W.,  engraver  of  portrait  of  gen. 
Philip  Schuyler,  524. 

Rice,  William  G.,  secretary  to  governor 
Hill,  242  ;  at  banquet.  359. 

Rice  &  Hart,  drawings  and  paintings  of 
the  national  portrait  gallery,  property 
of,  427. 

Rich,  Dora,  delegate  from  public  school 
Xo.  44,  reception  of  president  Harri- 
son, city  hall,  23S. 

Richards,  Charles  R.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 

Richards,  George,  at  banquet,  358. 

Richards,  R.  K.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball.  266. 

Richardson,  George  P.,  mentioned,  51S. 
Richardson,  J.  B.,  Washington  artillery, 

La.,  at  military  parade.  343. 
Richardson,  James  D..  at  banquet,  359. 
Richardson.  John  P..  governor  of  S.  C, 

214,    233  ;   at  reception  to  president 

Harrison,  241  ;  at  centennial  ball,  257  ; 

at  military  parade,  331  ;  portrait,  332  ; 

at  banquet,  360. 
Richardson,  Mrs.  John  S.,  Jr.,  portrait  of 

James  Monroe,  property  of,  facing  65, 

510. 

Richardson,  Lizzie,  delegate  from  public 
school  Xo.  38,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  23S. 

Richardson,  Parker  C,  mentioned,  76, 
note. 

Richardson,  Partridge  C,  portrait  of 
George  Partridge,  property  of,  facing 
91.  5i8. 

Richardson,  William,  London  publisher, 

481,  496,  513. 
Richbourg.  H.  X..  brigadier-general  of 

S.  C.  troops,  at  military  parade,  331. 
Richford,  Yt. ,  company  B,  first  battalion, 

at  military  parade,  341. 
Richland  Yolunteers,  S.  C,  at  military 

parade,  331. 
Richmond  Hill,  X.  Y.  city,  residence  of 

John  Adams  and  Aaron  Burr,  iS. 
Richmond,  Ya.,  first  regiment  and  troop 

A,  with  first  battalion  artillery,  and 
light  infantry  Blues,  at  military  parade, 
333  ;  portraits  in  the  capitol,  William 

B.  Giles,  466  ;  Thomas  Jefferson,  485, 


486;  John  Page,  518;  Edmund  Ran- 
dolph, 520  ;  statues  of  Lafayette  and 
Washington  at,  149,  1S9,  493,  542. 

Rickards,  G.  C,  sixteenth  Pa.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  326. 

Rickert,  Jacob  H.,  eighth  Ohio  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  342. 

RickofT,  William  M.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 

Riddle,  Alerandi,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Riddle,  John,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Rider,  John  P.,  at  literary  exercises,  289. 
Rider,  J.  V.,  at  banquet,  360. 
Ridgely,  Ann,  wife  of  Charles  I.  Du  Pont, 
538. 

Ridgeway,  George  E.,  sixteenth  Pa.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  326. 

Ridwell,  L.  S.,  first  X.  H.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  333. 

Riesenberg,  A.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Rigg,  L.  G.,  third  Ya.  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  333. 

Riggs.  Karrick,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Riggs,  L.,  fifth  Md.  regiment,  at  military 
parade,  330. 

Riker,  E.  Stanton,  subscriber  to  centen 
nial  ball,  266. 

Riker,  John  J.,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 224,  251. 

Riker,  John  L. ,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  246  :  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Riley,  Reuben,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 222. 

Rimbault,  E.  F.,  mentioned,  271. 

Rimembranza  Saati.  at  civic  parade, 
392. 

Rinaldo,  Emma,  delegate  from  public- 
school  Xo.  42,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  23S. 

Rinaldo,  Estelle,  delegate  from  public 
school  Xo.  59,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  23S. 

Ring,  Charles,  commander  united  order 
of  foresters,  at  civic  parade,  3S7. 

Rink,  Peter  A.,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 223. 

Rinkhoff,  William  P.,  alderman,  243. 

Ripley,  Edward  H.,  aide  to  grand  mar- 
shal, military  parade,  320. 

Ripley,  Robert  A.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  221. 

Ripley,  Mrs.  S.  B.,  the  Trumbull  portrait 
of  Mrs.  Jonathan  Trumbull,  536. 

Ripley,  Sidney  D.,  member  of  reception 
committee,  ancestry  of,  230. 

Ripley,  Mrs.  Sidney  D.,  at  centennial 
ball,  261. 

Ripple,  Ezra  Z.,  colonel  thirteenth  Pa. 

regiment,  at  military  parade,  325. 
Rison,  John,  second  Ohio  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  342. 
Ritchie,  A.  H.,  engraver  of  portraits  of 

Franklin,  460,  facing   4S4;  Benjamin 

Huntington,  476;  William  S.  Johnson, 

490. 

Ritchie,  Albert,  commissioner  from  Md., 
216;  at  banquet,  360. 


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Riva,  I.  I'.,  invited  in  meet  president 
Harrison,  248. 

Rives,  Francis  R.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Rives,  George  L.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  24S. 

Robb,  J.  Hampden,  member  of  general 
committee,  108,  114,  236;  of  executive 
committee,  108;  army  committee,  108, 
113,  236,  310;  at  centennial  ball,  260; 
subscriber  to  ball,  266;  treasurer  of 
army  committee,  310,  317  ;  receives 
president  Harrison  at  grand  stand,  317; 
at  banquet,  356,  361 ;  subscriber  to  me- 
morial arch,  414. 

Robb,  Mrs.  J.  Hampden,  at  centennial 
ball,  261. 

Robb,  L.  F.,  fourteenth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  326. 

Robbins,  A.  &  M.,  subscribers  to  celebra- 
tion, 401. 

Robbins,  Charles  F..  inspector  of  rifle 
practice,  N.  Y.,  242;  at  banquet,  358. 

Robbins,  Daniel  C,  member  of  commit- 
tee of  chamber  of  commerce,  101, 
102. 

Robbins,  George  A.,  member  of  vestry 
Trinity  church,  at  services  St.  Paul's 
chapel,  270. 

Robbins,  S.  Howland,  at  centennial  ball, 
262. 

Robert,  J.  Eugene,  vice-consul  of  Switzer- 
land, 248. 

Roberts,  A.  W.,  first  Vt.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  341. 

Roberts,  Benjamin  K.,  captain  fifth  U.S. 
artillery,  escort  to  president  Harrison, 
220;  at  military  parade,  320. 

Roberts,  Ellis  H.,  assistant  treasurer  U.S., 
receives  president  Harrison  at  sub- 
treasury  building,  285;  at  literary  ex- 
ercises, 289;  at  banquet,  359. 

Roberts,  George  B.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Roberts,  M.  J.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Robertson,  Andrew  J.,  the  Robertson 
miniature  of  Alexander  Hamilton,  472, 

note. 

Robertson,  Archibald,  artist,  illustrations 
of  portraits  painted  by,  of  Jonathan 
Trumbull,  facing  82  ;  George  Washing- 
ton, 65;  Martha  Washington,  65  ;  num 
ber  of  portraits  of  congressmen  painted 
by,  419,  420  ;  notes  on  his  portraits  of 
Alexander  Hamilton,  471  ;  James  Jack- 
son, 479 ;  Jonathan  Trumbull,  535  ; 
George  Washington,  143,  541,  542,  544; 
Martha  Washington,  144,  546  ;  bio- 
graphical sketch  of,  544. 

Robertson,  Henry  M.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Robertson,  J.  L. ,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Robertson,  Mrs.  J.  N..  at  centennial  ball, 
262. 

Robertson,  W.  H.,  U.  S.  vice-consul  at 
Paris,  449 

Robertson,  Walter,  artist,  portrait  of 
Washington,  facing  10  ;    notes  on  his 


portraits  of  Hamilton.  472  ;  Washing- 
ton, 144,  541,  542,  544  ;  biographical 
sketch  of,  544. 

Robertson,  William  H.,  member  of  special 
committee  of  chamber  of  commerce, 
ioi,  102  ;  of  general  committee,  107, 
1  14,  236  ;  of  committee  on  general  gov- 
ernment, 109,  113,178,  181,236;  escort 
to  president  Harrison,  181  ;  state  sena- 
tor, N.  Y.,  242  ;  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266  ;  at  literary  exercises,  289; 
at  banquet.  361. 

Robesen,  Andrew,  first  corps  cadets,  Bos- 
ton, at  military  parade,  329. 

Robeson,  John  T.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  221. 

Robie,  Frederick,  commissioner  from  Me., 
216. 

Robie,  John  E.,  sixty-fifth  N.  Y.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  339. 

Robinson,  A.  J  ,  fifth  battalion,  D.  C,  at 
military  parade,  344. 

Robinson,  Mrs.  Beverley,  mentioned, 
444- 

Robinson,  D.,  at  banquet,  358. 

Robinson,  Douglas,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266  ;  at  banquet,  358. 

Robinson,  Mrs.  Douglas,  owner  of  por- 
traits of  Franklin,  facing  444,  450  ; 
James  Monroe,  and  Mrs.  James  Mon- 
roe, 511. 

Robinson,  E.  Randolph, portrait  of  Edmund 
Randolph, property  of,  facing  28;  invited 
to  meet  president  Harrison,  244  ;  at 
centennial  ball,  260  ;  subscriber  to  ball, 
266  ;  notes  on  the  portraits  of  John 
Jay  and  Edmund  Randolph,  property 
of,  479,  521. 

Robinson,  Eraslus  R.,  U.  S.  marines,  at 
military  parade,  321. 

Robinson,  Faith,  wife  of  Jonathan  Trum- 
bull, 535. 

Robinson,  Frances  D.,  portrait  of  Lady 
Kitty  Duer,  property  of,  facing  57. 

Robinson,  George  H.,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  104. 

Robinson,  George  W.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 

Robinson  Hose  Company,  at  civic  parade, 
389. 

Robinson,  Jeremiah  P. ,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 

Robinson,  Jonathan,  agent  from  Vt.  to 
congress,  12,  note. 

Robinson,  John  D.,  in  command  of  pub- 
lic schools,  at  civic  parade,  386. 

Robinson,  Mrs.,  attends  assembly  ball, 
1789,  59. 

Robinson,  S.  R.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Robinson,  Mrs.  Samuel  A.,  portraits  of 
William  B.  Giles,  property  of,  465. 

Robinson,  W.  D.,  fifth  Md.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  330. 

Roby,  E.  Willard,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Rochambeau,  Count  de,  represented  in 

tableau,  civic  parade,  385. 
Rochambeau,  Marquis  de,  invited  to  meet 

president  Harrison,  248. 


Rochester,  N.  Y.,  eighth  separate  com- 
pany, and  O'Rourke  post,  G.  A.  R.,  at 
military  parade,  338,  346. 

Rock, M. .subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 266. 

Rockefeller,  John  D.,  subscriber  to  me- 
morial arch,  413. 

Rockwell,  Charles  H.,  commander  U.  S. 
navy,  253. 

Rockwell,  William  B.,  thirteenth  Pa.  reg- 
iment, at  military  parade,  325. 

Rodgcrs,  Harris  C,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Rodgcrs,  Rev.  John,  pastor  of  the  Pres- 
byterian church,  N.  Y.,  candidate  for 
chaplain  of  congress,  39,  note. 

Rodney,  Garry  C,  second  battalion,  D.C., 
at  military  parade,  344. 

Rodwell, Charles  W.,  subscriber  to  centen 
nial  ball,  266. 

Roe,  Charles  F.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 241,  250;  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266  ;  at  military  parade,  334  ; 
subscriber  to  memorial  arch,  414. 

Roe,  Isaac  F.,  at  literary  exercises,  289. 

Roe,  Josephine  A.,  subscriber  to  memo- 
rial arch,  414. 

Roebling,  John  A.,  represented  in  tableau, 
civic  parade,  394. 

Roebling,  Washington  A.,  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  266. 

Roeder,  William  F.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Roemer,  Jean,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  244. 

Roemer,  Paul,  U.  S.  army,  at  military 
parade,  320. 

Roenne,  Baron  de,  Charge" it' Affaires  from 
Prussia,  at  celebration  of  the  semi-cen- 
tennial of  Washington's  inauguration, 
96. 

Roesch,  George  F.,  member  of  assembly. 

N.  Y.,  242. 
Roessing,  Charles    H.,    eighteenth  Pa. 

regiment,  at  military  parade,  325. 
Rogers,  A.  R.,  sixteenth  Ohio  regiment, 

at  military  parade,  342. 
Rogers,  Andrew  J.,  district  court  justice, 

243. 

Rogers,  Archibald,  subscriber  to  celebra- 
tion, 401. 

Rogers,  Charles,  in  command  of  marble- 
cutters,  at  civic  parade,  392. 

Rogers,  Edmund  L.,  portraits  of  Wash- 
ington, property  of,  facing  2,  10;  notes 
on  the  portraits  of  John  Parke  Custis, 
George  Washington,  and  Martha  Wash- 
ington, property  of,  144,  541,  542,  544, 
545,  548,  549  ;  his  collection  of  Wash- 
ington relics,  148,  1C4,  170,  182;  at  ban- 
quet, 358. 

Rogers,  George,  of  choir,  St.  Paul's 
chapel,  271. 

Rogers,  H.  C,  twentieth  separate  com- 
pany, N.  Y.,  at  military  parade,  338. 

Rogers,  H.  L.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Rogers,  Henry,  mentioned,  271. 

Rogers,  Henry  A.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246;  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 


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643 


Rogers,  Mrs.  J.  Kearney,  mentioned,  550. 
Rogers,  John,  engraver  of  portraits  of 

Alexander  Hamilton,  and  Mrs.  William 

Jackson,  471,  479. 
Rogers,  Lloyd  X.,  Monroe  presents  his  . 

portrait  to,  510;  mentioned,  512. 
Rogers,  Noah  C,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  266. 

Rohling,    William,    escort   to  president 

Harrison,  221. 
Rollins,   Daniel  G.,  at  banquet,  360;  at 

reception  to  justices    U.   S.  supreme 

court,  402. 

Rollinson,  W. ,  engraver  of  portrait  of 

Alexander  Hamilton,  471. 
Rolston,   Rosewell  G.,  invited  to  meet 

president  Harrison,  245. 
Romaine,  Benjamin  F.,  Jr.,  subscriber  to 

centennial  ball,  266. 
Romann,  Norma,  delegate  from  public 

school  No.  30,  reception  of  president 

Harrison,  city  hall,  233. 
Rome,  Italy,  the  celebration  at,  406. 
Romero,  Matias,  minister  from  Mexico, 

invited  To  centennial  ball,  257;  at  ban- 
quet, 360. 

Ronalds,  P.  S.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Rondout,  N.  Y.,  firemen,  at  civic  parade, 
388. 

Roosa,  D.  B.  St.  John,  M.  D.,  invited  to 

meet  president  Harrison,  244. 
Roosevelt,  Elliott,  member  of  floor  com 

mittee,  centennial   ball,  259,   260 ;  at 

banquet,  356. 
Roosevelt,  Mrs.  Elliott,  at  centennial  ball, 

261. 

Roosevelt,  F.,  twelfth  N*.  Y.  regiment,  at 
military  parade.  336. 

Roosevelt,  J.  West,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Roosevelt,  James  A.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  247. 

Roosevelt,  Robert  B.,  member  of  com- 
mittee of  N.  Y.  historical  society,  105; 
of  general  committee,  107,  114,  236; 
invited  to  meet  president  Harrison,  245. 

Roosevelt,  S.  M.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Roosevelt,  Theodore,  member  of  general 
committee,  10S,  114,  236;  of  executive 
committee,  10S;  committee  on  states, 
log,  113,  206,  207,  208,  2og,  217,  220, 
228,  236,  249;  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 220;  at  banquet  to  the  president, 
234;  at  centennial  ball,  260;  subscriber 
to  ball,  266;  at  banquet,  metropolitan 
opera-house,  356,  359  ;  subscriber  to 
celebration,  401. 

Roosevelt,  Mrs.  Theodore,  at  centennial 
ball,  261. 

Roosevelt,  W.  E  ,  aide  to  grand  marshal, 

military  parade,  320. 
Roosevelt  &  Son,  subscribers  to  memorial 

arch,  414. 

Root,  Elihu,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  244  ;  at  banquet,  360  ;  at 
reception  to  justices  U,  S.  supreme 
court,  402  ;  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch.  414. 


Ropes,  Charles  H.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Ropes,  E.  H.,  colonel  third  N.  J.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  326. 

Ropes,  E.  W.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Ropes,  Ripley,  member  of  citizens'  com- 
mittee, 104. 

Rose,  Henry  B.,  first  R.  I.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  340. 

Rose  Hill,  N.  Y.  city,  residence  of 
general  Gates,  3,  note. 

Rose,  Sir  John,  portraits  of  Sir  John  and 
Lady  Temple,  property  of,  533. 

Rose,  Joseph  B.,  of  St.  John's  lodge, 
286;  at  literary  exercises,  289. 

Rose,  W.  W.,  commissioner  from  Arkan- 
sas, 215. 

Rose,  Sir  William,  mentioned,  533. 

Rosen,  Baron,  minister  from  Russia, 
248;  invited  to  centennial  ball,  257. 

Rosenbaum,  Albert  S.,  subscriber  to 
memorial  arch,  414. 

Rosenbaum,  Hattie,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  78,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

Rosenberg,  J.  H. ,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Rosenberg,  Joseph,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Rosenthal,  Albert,  Polk's  portrait  of 
Washington,  property  of,  143;  portraits 
of  Benjamin  Franklin,  Nicholas  Gil- 
man,  Robert  Morris,  and  George  Read, 
etched  by,  448,  note,  467,  513,  522. 

Rosenthal,  Max,  etching  of  C.  W.  Peak's 
portrait  of  Washington,  frontispiece  ; 
mentioned,  543. 

Ross,  Burton  R.,  first  battalion,  D.  C,  at 
military  parade,  344. 

Ross,  Edmund  G.,  governor  of  New 
Mexico,  233. 

Ross,  F.,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
266. 

Ross,  George,  mentioned,  522. 
Ross,  Major  John,  his  services,  177. 
Ross,  Lawrence  S.,  governor  of  Texas, 

233;  at  military  parade,  344. 
Ross,  Schuyler,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  266. 

Roth,  G.  B.,  fourth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  325. 

Rothermel,  Peter  F.,  artist,  portrait  of 
Patrick  Henry,  painted  by,  475. 

Rouse,  M.  R.,  sixteenth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  326. 

Rouss,  Charles  B.,  subscriber  to  memo- 
rial arch,  414. 

Roustan,  Theodore,  French  minister,  in- 
vited to  centennial  ball,  257. 

Rowan,  George  W.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Rowe,  William  H.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Rowland,  Alfred,  at  banquet,  359. 

Roy,  Robert  C. ,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Royal  Society,  London,  portraits  of 
Franklin,  property  of,  453,  462,  facing 
524. 


Royce,  Rev.  Albert  L.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 

Royer,  Furman  A.,  commissioner  from 
Mo.,  216. 

Royer,  George  W.,  sixth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  324. 

Rubbe,  Horace,  at  banquet,  359. 

Rubens,  Peter  P.,  represented  in  tableau, 
civic  parade,  395. 

Rubenstein,  Flora,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  42,  at  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

Rubinstein,  Anton,  represented  in  tab- 
leau, civic  parade,  394. 

Rublee,  Horace,  commissioner  from  Wis., 
216,  233. 

Ruck,  John  M.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Rucker,  John,  mentioned,  503. 

Ruger,  William  C,  chief  judge,  court  of 
appeals,  N.  Y.,  243. 

Ruggles,  William  B.,  deputy  supt.  of  in- 
surance, N.  Y.,  242. 

Ruiz,  Domingo  L..  consul-general  of 
Ecuador,  248. 

Rulins,  Jacob,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Runk,  Rev.  Edward  J.,  escort  to  president 

Harrison,  224. 
Runnells,  John  S.,  address  at  banquet, 

Chicago,  406. 
Rupper.er,  Daniel,  at  banquet,  359. 
Ruppert,  Jacob,  invited  to  meet  president 

Harrison,  247  ;  subscriber  to  memorial 

arch,  414. 

Rusk,  Jeremiah,  secretary  of  agriculture 
U.  S.,  portrait,  facing  190,  234  ;  at 
naval  parade,  200,  219  ;  at  reception  to 
president  Harrison,  225,  227,  229  ;  at 
banquet  to  president  Harrison,  234  ;  at 
literary  exercises,  285  ;  at  military  pa- 
rade, 317  ;  at  banquet,  metropolitan 
opera-house,  359. 

Rusler,  Zachariah,  one  of  the  crew  of  the 
president's  barge  which  conveyed  Wash- 
ington to  N.  Y.,  28,  note. 

Russ,  Horace  B.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Russak.  Benjamin,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Russell,  Mrs.  Archibald,  subscriber  to 
memorial  arch,  414. 

Russell,  Charles  A.,  member  of  congress 
from  N.  Y.,  242  ;  at  banquet,  359. 

Russell,  Charles  H.,  Jr.,  member  of  com- 
mittee of  N'.  Y.  historical  society,  105  ; 
of  general  committee,  107,  114,  236; 
secretary  of  committee  on  exhibition, 
109;  art  committee,  113,  134,  142,  236, 
409  ;  at  centennial  ball,  262  ;  subscriber 
to  ball,  266  ;  at  literary  exercises,  2S9  ; 
member  of  platform  committee,  30S, 
309  ;  at  banquet,  361  ;  subscriber  to 
celebration,  401  ;  member  of  memorial 
arch  committee,  409  ;  subscriber  to 
memorial  arch,  414. 

Russell,  E.,  twelfth  Pa.  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  325. 

Russell,  George  D.,  thirty-second  X.  Y. 
regiment,  at  military  parade.  337. 


644       THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION 


Russell,  Henry,  state  senator,  N.  Y.p 
242. 

Russell,  Henry  K..  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  104. 

Russell,  Horace,  at  banquet,  359;  sub- 
scriber to  celebration,  and  memorial 
arch,  401,  414. 

Russell,  Marcus  D.,  aide-de-camp  to  gov. 
Hill,  242  ;  at  banquet,  358. 

Russell,  Mchitabel,  wife  of  Jeremiah 
Wadsworth,  ancestry  of,  540. 

Russell,  Rev.  Noadiah,  mentioned,  540. 

Russell,  Mrs.  S.  H.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 

Russell,  Samuel  II.,  acknowledgment  to, 
in  preface,  v  ;  portrait  of  Franklin, 
property  of,  460  ;  sketch  of  the  artist, 
Doyle,  530,  note. 

Russell,  Rev.  William,  mentioned,  540. 

Russell,  William  H.,  member  of  aisle 
committee,  St.  Paul's  chapel,  272,  283  ; 
ancestry  of,  2S3  ;  at  unveiling  of  me- 
morial tablet,  283  ;  at  banquet,  358  ; 
subscriber  to  memorial  arch,  414. 

Russia,  represented  in  tableau,  civic  pa- 
rade, 396. 

Ruszits,  John,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  247  ;  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266;  subscriber  to  celebra- 
tion, 401. 

Rutan,  T.  B.,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 222. 

Ruth,  Melancthon  L.,  U.  S.  navy,  at  cen- 
tennial ball,  258  ;  member  of  floor  com- 
mittee, 259  ;  aide  to  grand  marshal, 
military  parade,  319  ;  at  banquet,  358. 

Rutherfurd,  Henry  L. ,  at  centennial  ball, 
262. 

Rutherfurd,  John,  vestryman  Trinity 
church,   1787,  283. 

Rutherfurd, John  A.,  memberof  New  York 
society  of  the  Cincinnati,  at  commemo- 
rative banquet,  150  ;  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 

Rutherfurd,  Robert  W.,  at  centennial 
ball,  262. 

Rutherfurd,  Winthrop,  member  of  aisle 
committee,  St.  Paul's  chapel,  272,  283  ; 
ancestry  of,  283. 

Rutland,  Vt. ,  company  A,  first  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  341. 

Rutledge,  John,  member  of  federal  con- 
vention, 1787,  136;  miniature  at  loan 
exhibition,  145. 

Rutter,  George,  artist,  portrait  of  Frank- 
lin, painted  by,  458. 

Rutter,  Horace  L.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Rutter,  Mrs.  N.  E.,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Rutter,  Robert,  member  of  general  com- 
mittee, 114,  236  ;  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247  ;  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266  ;  at  banquet,  360. 

Ryan,  James,  Jr.,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  242. 

Ryan,  Rt.  Rev.  Patrick  J.,  officiates  at 
centennial  celebration  services,  Phila., 
404. 

Ryan,  Richard  W.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 


Ryan,  S.  P.,  sixty-ninth  N.  Y.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  335. 

Ryan,  T.,  Jr.,  third  Pa.  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  324. 

Ryder,  Thomas,  engraver  of  portrait  of 
Franklin,  458. 

Ryley,  R.  A.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Sabin,  Charles  F.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Saburo,  Fujii,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  248. 

Sadd,  H.  S.,  engraver  of  portrait  of  Mrs. 
William  S.  Smith,  facing  260,  528. 

Sackett,  J.  W.,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 223. 

Saengerlust  Singing  Society,  at  Madison 
square  concert,  350. 

Saengerrunde  Singing  Society,  at  Madi- 
son square  concert,  350  ;  at  civic  pa- 
rade, 395. 

Safe-manufacturing  Industry,  represented, 
civic  parade,  397. 

Sage,  Russell,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  245. 

Sagendorf,  H.  W.,  second  N.  J.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  327. 

Sail  Manufacturers,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

St.  Albans,  Vt.,  company  B,  first  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  341. 

St.  Clair,  Gen.  Arthur,  at  reception  to 
Washington,  at  Phila.,  23  ;  calls  on  the 
Spanish  minister  at  N.  Y.,  32,  note; 
portrait,  painted  bv  C.  W.  Peale,  facing 
33  ;  at  inauguration  of  Washington,  50  ; 
notes  on  the  portraits  of,  422,  523. 

St.  Clair,  J.  W.,  commissioner  from  West 
Va.,  216. 

St.  Francis  Xavier's  College,  N.  Y.  city, 
present  president  Harrison,  with  a  trib- 
ute to  Washington,  written  in  twenty- 
seven  languages,  382. 

St.  Gaudens,  Augustus,  designs  centennial 
medal,  139,  141  ;  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  244  ;  at  banquet,  360. 

St.  Helens,  Lord,  mentioned,  481. 

St.  James's  Young  Men's  T.  A.  B.  So- 
ciety, at  civic  parade,  397. 

St.  John,  William  P.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  245  ;  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  266  ;  at  banquet,  358. 

St.  John's  Lodge,  N.  Y.  city,  bible  upon 
which  Washington  took  the  oath  of 
office,  as  president,  the  property  of,  45, 
51,  and  note,  52,  286. 

St.  Johnsbury,  Vt.,  company  D,  first  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  341. 

St.  Louis,  Mo.,  first  regiment,  at  military 
parade,  343  ;  the  celebration  at,  405, 

St.  Mark's  Church,  N.  Y.  city,  tablet  in 
memory  of  Colonel  Nicholas  Fish,  42, 
note. 

Saint  Martin,  Madame  la  Baronne  de 
Perron,  portrait  of  Lafayette,  property 
of,  494. 

St.  Memin,  Charles  B.  J.  F.,  artist,  illus- 
trations of  portraits  by,  of  Richard  Bas- 


sett,  facing  67  ;  Elias  Boudinot,  facing 
72;  John  Brown,  facing  119;  Charles 
Carroll,  facing  97  ;  George  Clinton,  fac- 
ing 34  ;  Mrs.  Clinton,  facing  34  ;  James 
a  Jackson,  facing  76  ;  Thomas  Jefferson, 
facing  2t  ;  chancellor  Livingston,  fac- 
ing 45  ;  Alexander  Macomb,  facing  51  ; 
Mrs.  Macomb,  facing  51  ;  James  Madi- 
son, facing  116;  William  Madison,  fac- 
ing 116;  Josiah  Parker,  facing  112; 
Mrs.  Josiah  yuincy,  facing  260  ;  Theo- 
dore Sedgwick,  facing  92  ;  Peter  Silves- 
ter, facing  123  ;  Thomas  Tudor  Tucker, 
facing  100  ;  George  Washington,  facing 
10,  160  ;  number  of  portraits  in  volume, 
417,  420  ;  notes  on  his  portraits  of  Mrs. 
Ashe,  427  ;  Richard  Bassett,  428  ;  Theo- 
dorick  Bland,  429  ;  Elias  Boudinot, 
430  ;  John  Brown,  431  ;  Charles  Carroll, 
435  ;  George  Clinton,  145,  438  ;  Mrs. 
Clinton,  145,  439;  Eleanor  P.  Custis, 
145  ;  James  Jackson,  419,  478  ;  Thomas 
Jefferson,  487  ;  chancellor  Livingston, 
500  ;  Alexander  Macomb,  502  ;  Mrs. 
Macomb,  503  ;  William  Madison,  506  ; 
John  Marshall,  145  ;  Josiah  Parker, 
518  ;  Mrs.  Josiah  Quincy,  520  ;  Cornelia 
Schuyler,  523  ;  Theodore  Sedgwick, 
524  ;  Peter  Silvester,  419,  527  ;  Thomas 
T.  Tucker,  536  ;  Pierre  Van  Cortlandt, 
537  ;  George  Washington,  542,  543,  546. 

St.  Nicholas  Club,  N.  Y.,  subscriber  to 
memorial  arch,  413. 

St.  Patrick's  Alliance,  at  civic  parade, 
397- 

St.  Patrick's  Benevolent  Association,  at 
civic  parade,  397. 

St.  Paul's  Chapel,  N.  Y.,  Columbia  college 
holds  commencement  in,  7;  architect  of, 
14;  mural  tablet  in  memory  of  Sir  John 
Temple,  31,  note;  Washington  and  con- 
gress attend  services  at,  April  30,  1789, 
45,  46,  49,  54  ;  views  of,  56,  232  ;  the 
Washington  pew,  57;  the  proposal  to 
hold  the  semi-centennial  celebration  of 
Washington's  inauguration  in,  declined 
by  the  vestry,  95;  selected  for  religious 
services  to  be  held,  April  30,  1889,  117; 
aisle  and  chapel  committees,  120,  121 ; 
society  of  the  Cincinnati,  holds  com- 
memorative services  in,  169;  services 
held  April  30,  1889,  president  Harrison, 
vice-president  Morton,  the  president's 
cabinet,  the  justices  of  the  U.  S.  su- 
preme court,  and  others  present,  269, 
270;  the  rector  and  vestry,  269;  fac-simile 
of  ticket  to  the  services,  270;  the  Wash- 
ington and  Clinton  pews  occupied  by 
the  president  of  U.  S.  and  the  governor 
of  N.  Y.,  270;  decorations  of  the  chapel, 
271;  musical  programme,  271;  the  choir, 
271;  order  of  the  services,  271,  273; 
diagram  of  main  floor,  showing  assign- 
ment of  guests,  272;  the  officiating  bish- 
ops and  clergy,  273;  discourse  by  bish- 
op Potter,  277;  special  committee  in 
charge  of  services,  281;  the  aisle  com- 
mittee, 281,  282;  Washington's  prayer- 
book,  used  in  the  service,  281,  note;  fac- 
simile of  bronze  tablet  erected  by  aisle 


INDEX. 


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committee,  282;  services  at  unveiling 
of  tablet,  283. 

St.  Paul's  League  of  the  cross,  at  civic 
parade,  397. 

St.  Paul's  United  Societies,  at  civic  pa- 
rade, 397. 

Salem,  Mass.,  second  corps  cadets,  at 
military  parade,  329. 

Salisbury,  John  L.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247 ;  at  literary  exercises, 
290. 

Salisbury,  R.  F.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 222. 

Salisbury,  Richard  L.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  225. 

Salomon,  Edward,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Salomon,  William,  member  of  floor  com- 
mittee, centennial  ball,  259;  at  banquet, 
360. 

Salt  Lake  City,  the  celebration  at,  406. 
Salter,  John  VV.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 223. 

Saltus,  Edgar  E.,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 
Salzer,  Leopold,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball.  266. 

Sammis,  \V.  C,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Sammons,  W.  C,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Sampers,  Henry  P..  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  246. 

Sampson.  Alden,  &  Sons,  subscribers  to 
celebration,  401. 

Sampson,  Charles  E.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 

Sampson,  Edward  C,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 

Sampson,  William  T.,  LT.  S.  navy,  at  cen- 
tennial ball,  258. 

Samuel  Dexter,  United  States  revenue 
cutter,  at  naval  parade,  202. 

Samuels,  H.  J.,  commissioner  from  West 
Va.,  216. 

Samuels,  J.,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
266. 

Sanders,  James  B.,  tenth  battalion,  N.  Y., 
at  military  parade,  337. 

Sandford,  Elliott,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 224. 

Sandford,  Harry  L.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Sandford,  Jared,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 224. 

Sands,  Louis  J.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 224;  at  reception  to  president 
Harrison,  232,  245;  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 

Sands,  Samuel  S.,  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Sandusky,  Ohio,  sixteenth  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  342. 

Sanford,  Carl,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 223. 

Sanford,  George  W.,  mentioned,  473. 
Sanford,  John,  member  of  congress  from 

N.  Y.,  242. 
San  Francisco,  Cal.,  the  celebration  at, 

406. 

Sanger,  William  C,  at  literary  exercises, 


289:  member  of  platform  committee, 
308,  309;  aide  to  grand-marshal,  mili- 
tary parade,  320;  at  banquet,  358. 

Sanger  &  Wells,  subscribers  to  the  Wall 
street  arch,  253. 

Santa  Claus,  represented  in  tableau,  civic 
parade,  395. 

Saratoga,  N.  Y.,  twenty-second  separate 
company,  at  military  parade,  337. 

Sargent,  George  H.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 

Sargent,  Mr.,  portrait  of  Franklin,  painted 
for,  454. 

Sargent  &  Co.,  signs  call  for  citizens' 

committee,  104. 
Sarget,  Mrs.  C.  B.,  portraits  of  John 

Adams  and  James  Madison,  property 

of,  425,  note. 
Sarony,  Napoleon,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 
Sartain,  John,   engraver  of   portrait  of 

George  Clvmer,  440. 
Sartain,  Samuel,  engraver  of  portraits  of 

John  Langdon  and  George  Read,  494, 

522. 

Satterlee,  Charles  B.,  U.  S.  army,  at 
military  parade,  320. 

Satterlee,  Douglas  R.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  225;  invited  to  meet  the  pres- 
ident, 245. 

Satterlee,  Edward  R.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  225. 

Satterlee,  F.  Le  Roy,  M.  D.,  escort  to 
president  Harrison,  224  ;  invited  to 
meet  the  president,  244  ;  portrait  of 
Lady  Stirling,  property  of,  530. 

Satterlee,  Frederick,  member  of  recep- 
tion committee,  ancestry  of,  230. 

Satterlee,  Rev.  Henry  Y.,  favors  holding 
religious  services  April  30,  1889,  I23; 
invited  to  meet  president  Harrison, 
244. 

Satterlee,  Madeline  L.,  at  centennial  ball, 
262. 

Satterlee,  Walter,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 224;  invited  to  meet  the  presi- 
dent, 244. 

Saunders,  A.  C,  twenty-third  N.  Y.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  337. 

Saunders,  Alvin,  at  banquet,  360. 

Saunders,  Charles  G.,  portrait  of  Samuel 
Livermore,  property  of,  facing  105.  495, 
499. 

Saunders,  Joseph  S.,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  242. 

Saunders,  Miss  Page,  portrait  of  John 
Page,  property  of,  518,  note. 

Savage,  Charles  H.,  portrait  of  Washing- 
ton, property  of,  544,  note. 

Savage,  Edward,  artist,  illustrations  of 
portraits  painted  by,  of  Thomas  Jeffer- 
son, facing  25;  Henry  Knox,  facing 
168;  John  Langdon,  facing  105;  George 
Washington,  facing  9,  14  ;  Martha 
Washington,  facing  14  ;  number  of 
portraits  of  congressmen  painted  by, 
419,  420;  notes  on  his  portraits  of, 
Charles  Carroll,  436:  George  Clymer, 
440;  Benjamin  Franklin,  455;  Elbridge 
Gerry,  464;   Thomas  Jefferson,  489; 


Henry  Knox,  493;  John  Langdon,  145, 
494;  Richard  H.  Lee,  496;  chancellor 
Livingston,  500;  Robert  Morris,  514; 
Mrs.  Morris,  514;  Roger  Sherman,  527; 
Charles  Thomson,  533,  534;  George 
Washington,  144,  541,  542,  544  ;  Martha 
Washington,  145,  546;  engraver  of  por- 
traits of  Franklin,  454;  Jefferson,  489; 
Knox,  493;  William  L.  Smith,  528; 
Washington,  145;  his  painting  of  the 
signers  of  the  declaration  of  independ 
ence,  426,  446,  455,  464,  489. 
Savage,  J.  T.,  commander  of  eighth  divi- 
sion, volunteer  firemen,  at  civic  parade, 
388. 

Savery,  John  E.,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  242. 

Sawyer,  Charles  H.,  governor  of  N'.  H., 
214,  216,  233;  at  reception  to  president 
Harrison,  241;  at  centennial  ball,  257; 
at  military  parade,  332;  portrait,  333; 
at  banquet,  360. 

Sawyer.  John  G.,  member  of  congress 
from  N.  Y.,  242. 

Sawyer,  John  M.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Saxton,  Charles  T.,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  242. 

Saxton,  S.  E.,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 221;  invited  to  meet  the  president, 
247;  at  military  parade,  346. 

Sayles,  Mrs.,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Sayles,  Solomon,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Sayre,  Julia  A.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Sayre,  Lewis  A.,  M.  D.,  invited  to  meet 

president  Harrison.  244. 
Sayre,  Lewis  H.,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  266. 

Sayre,  Mary  H.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Scandinavian  Societies,  at  civic  parade, 
392>  393- 

Schaaf,  Adam,  member  of  assembly,  N.Y., 
242. 

Schack,  Rudolph,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Schadow,  Johann  G.,  represented  in 
tableau,  civic  parade,  395. 

Schaefer,  Emil,  inspector-general,  N.  Y., 
242;  at  banquet,  358:  marshal  of  divi- 
sions G  to  M,  civic  parade,  393. 

Schaefer,  Laura,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  76,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

Schaffer,  W.  T.,  at  banquet,  359. 

Schall,  J.  W..  colonel  sixth  regiment  Pa., 
at  military  parade,  323. 

Schaus,  William,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  247;  subscriber  to  celebra- 
tion, 401. 

Scheffer,  Ary,  artist,  his  portrait  of  Lafay- 
ette, 494. 

Scheider,  Jacob,  Cameron  post,  G.  A.  R., 
escort  to  president  Harrison,  221;  at 
military  parade,  345. 

Schell,  Edward,  member  of  citizens'  com- 
mittee, 104;  of  general  committee,  114, 
236;  invited  to  meet  president  Harri- 
son, 245;  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 


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266;  at  banquet,  360;  subscriber  to  cele- 
bration anil  memorial  arch,  401,  414. 

Schcll.  Robert,  member  of  committee  of 
N.  Y.  historical  society,  105;  of  general 
committee,  107,  114,  236;  at  centennial 
ball,  262;  subscriber  to  ball,  266;  at 
banquet,  35S. 

Schcllingar,  R.  P.,  Pa.  state  fencibles,  at 
military  parade,  324. 

Schcnck,  Mrs.  Charles  N.,  at  centennial 
ball,  262. 

Schenck,  F.  H.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 222 

Schenck,  George,  first  N.  J.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  326. 

Schenck,  William  G.,  subscriber  to  cele- 
bration, 401. 

Schenectady,  N.Y.,  thirty-sixth  and  thirty- 
seventh  separate  companies,  at  military 
parade,  338. 

Schermerhorn,  A.  F.,  aide  to  grand  mar- 
shal, military  parade,  320. 

Schermerhorn,  Charles  A.,  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball.  266;  at  banquet,  360. 

Schermerhorn,  F.  Augustus,  member  of 
general  committee,  114,  236;  subscriber 
to  centennial  ball,  266;  at  banquet,  358; 
subscriber  to  celebration  and  memorial 
arch,  401,  414. 

Schermerhorn,  William  C,  at  centennial 
ball,  260,  261;  at  banquet,  356;  sub- 
scriber to  memorial  arch,  413. 

Schick,  Henry,  fourteenth  Ohio  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  342. 

Schieffelin,  Charles  M.,  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  266. 

Schieffclin,  Mary  F.,  portrait  of  Frederick 
A.  Muhlenberg,  property  of,  516. 

Schieffelin,  Miss,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 

Schieffelin,  Schuyler,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 

Schieffelin,  William  H.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  246. 

Schiff,  Jacob  H.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266;  at  banquet,  358;  member  of 
German-American  citizens'  committee, 
393,  note;  subscriber  to  memorial  arch, 
414. 

Schillerbund,  at  Madison  square  concert, 
and  civic  parade,  350,  393. 

Schmelz,  Reinhold,  at  Madison  square 
concert,  350. 

Schmidt,  Hache,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Schmidt,  H.,  fourteenth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  326. 

Schmidt,  Thomas,  vice-consul  of  Den- 
mark, 248. 

Schneider,  C.  J.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Schneider,  Jacob,  Cameron  post,  G.  A.  R. , 

escort  to  president  Harrison,  221;  at 

military  parade,  345. 
Schuetzen  Guilde,  at  civic  parade,  393. 
Schocneck,  Charles  C,  thirty-second  N.Y. 

regiment,  at  military  parade,  337. 
Schoffer,  Peter,  represented  in  tableau, 

civic  parade,  393. 
Schofield,  Charles  B.,  U.  S.  army,  aide 

to  grand  marshal,  military  parade,  319. 
Schofield,  Gen.  John  M.,  portrait,  facing 


190,  234,  317;  at  naval  parade,  198;  at 
reception  to  president  Harrison,  225, 
227,  248  ;  at  banquet  to  the  president, 
234  ;  at  centennial  ball,  257  ;  grand 
marshal,  military  parade,  311,  314,  315, 
3I7»  319.  321  ;his  report  on  the  parade, 
347  ;  at  banquet,  metropolitan  opera- 
house,  356,  358. 

Schools,  scholars  visit  the  loan  exhibition, 
143;  girls  of  the  public  schools,  welcome 
to  president  Harrison,  at  city  hall,  April 
29,  1889,  237;  representatives  of  private 
schools  invited  to  meet  president  Har- 
rison, 244;  number  of  scholars  at  civic 
parade,  386. 

Schotterner  Maennerchor,  at  Madison 
square  concert,  350. 

Schreyvogel,  Robert,  of  choir,  St.  Paul's 
chapel,  271. 

Schroeder,  Gilliat,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Schroeder,  J.  Langdon.at  centennial  ball, 
262;  subscriber  to  ball,  266. 

Schultz,  Jackson  S.,  member  of  commit- 
tee of  chamber  of  commerce,  102,  105, 
106  ;  of  general  committee,  107,  114, 
236;  committee  on  navy,  109,  113,  189, 
190,  191,  236;  portrait,  facing  190;  es- 
cort to  president  Harrison,  199,  200, 
202;  invited  to  meet  the  president,  246; 
at  banquet,  361  ;  subscriber  to  celebra- 
tion, 401. 

Schultze,  L.  H.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 223. 

Schumann,  Robert,  represented  in  tab- 
leau, civic  parade,  394. 

Schureman,  James,  member  of  congress 
from  N.  J.,  11,  135,  232  ;  biographical 
sketch  of,  70;  portrait,  facing  72;  notes 
on  the  portrait  of,  419,  423,  523. 

Schureman,  John,  mentioned,  70. 

Schurz,  Carl,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  247  ;  at  literary  exercises, 
290  ;  at  banquet,  361  ;  president  Ger- 
man-American citizens,  393,  note. 

Schiitzenbund,  at  civic  parade,  395. 

Schuyler,  Cornelia,  portrait,  painted  by 
Trumbull,  facing  264;  notes  on  the  por- 
traits of,  422,  523. 

Schuyler,  George  L.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  247  ;  at  banquet, 
356 ;  bust  of  Hamilton,  property  of, 
472;  mentioned,  524. 

Schuyler,  John,  father  of  general  Schuy- 
ler, 90. 

Schuyler,  John,  member  of  committee  on 
states,  109,  113,  206,  207,  208,  209,  217, 
220,  228,  236,  249;  of  general  commit- 
tee, 114,  236;  representative  of  society 
of  the  Cincinnati,  at  celebration,  177  ; 
escort  to  president  Harrison,  220;  at 
banquet  to  the  president,  234  ;  at  liter- 
ary exercises,  290  ;  at  banquet,  metro- 
politan opera-house,  360. 

Schuyler,  Louise  L.,  at  centennial  ball, 
258;  subscriber  to  ball,  266. 

Schuyler,  Gen.  Philip,  U.  S.  senator  from 
N.  Y.,  12.  13,  135;  biographical  sketch 
of,  90;  portraits,  painted  by  Trumbull, 
facing  121  ;  miniature  at  loan  exhibi- 


tion, 145  ;  his  services,  177  ;  repre- 
sented in  tableau,  civic  parade,  385  ; 
notes  on  the  portraits  of,  422,  523. 

Schuyler,  Philip,  portraits  of  Mrs.  Hamil- 
ton, general  Schuyler,  and  Mrs.  Schuy- 
ler, property  of,  facing  57,  121,  260; 
member  of  citizens'  committee,  105;  of 
general  committee,  107,  114,  236  ;  ex- 
ecutive committee,  108;  chairman  of 
army  committee,  109,  310;  applies  for 
appropriation  fur  the  celebration,  117  ; 
his  chief  aide,  120  ;  portraits  of  general 
Schuyler,  and  Philip  J.  Schuyler,  prop- 
erty of,  145  ;  fac-simile  of  his  ticket  to 
reception  at  lawyers'  club,  209  ;  re- 
signs from  army  committee,  311  ;  at 
banquet,  360;  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414;  note  on  the  portrait  of  Hamil- 
ton, 469;  notes  on  the  bust  of  Hamil- 
ton, portraits  of  Mrs.  Hamilton,  general 
Schuyler,  and  Mrs.  Schuyler,  property 
of,  472,  473,  524. 

Schuyler,  Mrs.  Philip,  portraits,  facing 
260 ;  notes  on  the  portrait  of,  423, 
524- 

Schuyler,  Philip  J.,  portrait  at  loan  ex- 
hibition, 145. 

Schuyler,  Mrs.  Roosevelt,  at  centennial 
ball,  261. 

Schuyler,  S.  D.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Schuyler,  W.  E.,  sixth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  323. 

Schwab,  Abraham,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Schwab,  Gustav,  member  of  committee 
of  chamber  of  commerce,  102;  of  citi- 
zens' committee,  103  ;  of  general  com- 
mittee, 107  ;  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  247. 

Schwaebischer  Saengerbund,  at  Madison 
square  concert,  and  civic  parade,  350, 
393- 

Schwartz,  Samuel,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Schwarzmann,  Adolph,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  245. 

Schwediaucr,  F.,  mentioned,  451. 

Science,  represented  in  tableau,  civic 
parade,  394. 

Scoles,  I.,  engraver  of  portrait  of  Frank- 
lin, 459,  note. 

Scotch  Highlanders,  escort  to  Washing- 
ton, 43. 

Scotch  Presbyterian  church,  N.  Y.  city, 
17S9,  39,  note. 

Scott,  Charles  S.,  member  of  New  Jersey 
society  of  the  Cincinnati,  at  commem- 
orative banquet,  150. 

Scott,  Francis  M.,  aqueduct  commis- 
sioner, 243. 

Scott,  George  D.,  colonel  eighth  N.  Y. 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  335. 

Scott,  George  H.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Scott,  John  F.,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  245. 

Scott,  M.  B.,  commissioner  from  W.  Va., 
216. 

Scott,  Thomas,  member  of  congress  from 


INDEX. 


647 


Pa.,  11,  136,  232;  biographical  sketch 
of,  68;  no  portrait  of,  418,  524. 
Scott,  Thomas,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Scott,  Thomas  R.,  aide  to  grand  marshal, 
military  parade,  320. 

Scott,  W.  H.,  first  Mo.  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  343. 

Scott,  Walter,  third  separate  company, 
N.  Y  ,  at  military  parade,  337. 

Scott,  Mrs.  William  T.,  portraits  of  John 
Brown,  property  of,  facing  1  in,  431 ,  432. 

Scott,  Willis  E.,  second  Ohio  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  342. 

Scott,  Gen.  Winfield,  at  celebration  of 
the  semi-centennial  of  Washington's 
inauguration,  96,  98,  99. 

Scranton,  Pa.,  thirteenth  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  325. 

Scriba,  A.  M.,  medallion  portrait  of 
George  L.  C.  Scriba,  property  of, 
facing  42,  524. 

Scriba,  George  L.  C,  his  house  illu- 
minated on  the  night  of  Washington's 
arrival,  31  ;  biographical  sketch  of,  31, 
note;  his  residences,  31,  note;  organizes 
German  grenadiers,  32,  note,  48  ;  in 
command  of  grenadiers  at  Washing- 
ton's inauguration,  32,  note,  43;  por- 
trait, facing  42;  notes  on  the  portrait 

of,  423,  524- 

Scribner,  Arthur  H.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  246. 

Scribner,  G.  Hilton,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Scriven,  John  H.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Scrymser,  James  A.,  at  reception  to  pres- 
ident Harrison,  232,  245. 

Scrymser,  Mary  C,  subscriber  to  memo- 
rial arch,  414. 

Scudder,  Hewlett,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Sculptors,  illustrations  of  works  executed 
by,  Ceracchi,  95,  100,  206,  354,  facing 
524;  Houdon,  I,  61,  131,  149,  189,  facing 
524  ;  Nini,  facing  484,  544  ;  unknown, 
facing  484,  524  ;  notes  on  the  works  of, 
Binion,  426  ;  Broone,  461  ;  Browere, 
531;  Cerrachi,  145,  417,419,420,421, 
426,  429,  440,  461,  472,  483,  489,  504, 
542,  543;  Champion,  145,  460;  Dixey, 
472  ;  Eckstein,  145;  Frazee,  483;  Gast, 
489  ;  Greenough,  461,  474  ;  Houdon, 
420,  421,  461,  462,  473,  483,  489,  493, 
507,  542,  543;  Kuntze,  482;  Nini,  421, 
460  ;  Palmer,  473  ;  St.  Gaudens,  140  ; 
Stone,  473,  489,  494. 

Seabury,  Rt.  Rev.  Samuel,  portrait  of, 
mentioned,  519. 

Seabury,  Samuel,  U.  S.  navy,  aide  to 
chairman  of  committee  on  navy,  120, 
190,  191;  at  naval  parade,  217. 

Seagrist,  F.  W.,  Jr.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Seaman,  C.  F.,  fourth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  325. 

Seaman  Carrie,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  3,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  237. 


Seamans,  C.  M.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Seamman,  R.  M.,  aide  to  grand  marshal, 
military  parade,  320. 

Searle,  John  M.,  aide  to  grand  marshal, 
military  parade,  320. 

Searles,  John  E.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Seasons,  the,  represented  in  tableau,  civic 
parade,  395. 

Seaton,  Anna  M.,  wife  of  John  Vining, 
538. 

Seay,  Thomas,  governor  of  Alabama, 
214,  233  ;  at  reception  to  president 
Harrison,  241. 

Sedgwick,  Arthur  G.,  portrait  of  Theo- 
dore Sedgwick,  property  of,  524. 

Sedgwick,  Benjamin,  mentioned,  76. 

Sedgwick,  C.  Swan,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 

Sedgwick,  Catharine  M.,  portrait,  painted 
by  Earle,  facing  258  ;  notes  on  the  por- 
trait of,  525,  and  note. 

Sedgwick,  Henry  D.,  portrait  of  Theo- 
dore Sedgwick  and  wife,  property  of, 
facing  92,  258,  524,  525. 

Sedgwick,  John,  judge  superior  court, 
243- 

Sedgwick,  Robert,  at  literary  exercises, 
289. 

Sedgwick,  Theodore,  member  of  con- 
gress, from  Mass.,  76,  135,  232  ;  bio- 
graphical sketch  of,  76  ;  portraits, 
painted  by  St.  Memin,  Stuart  and 
Trumbull,  facing  92  ;  notes  on  the 
portraits  of,  418,  422,  524. 

Sedgwick,  Mrs.  Theodore,  portrait,  paint- 
ed by  Earle,  facing  258  ;  notes  on  the 
portrait  of,  421,  525. 

Seely,  Henry  W.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  225. 

Seidler,  Charles,  mentioned,  460. 

Seixas,  Rev.  Gershom  M.,  pastor  of  Jew- 
ish synagogue,  N.  Y.,  1786,  39,  note. 

Selen,  Axel,  fourteenth  N.  Y.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  337. 

Seligman,  DeWitt  J.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  246. 

Seligman,  Isaac,  at  banquet,  358. 

Seligman,  Jesse,  member  of  general  com- 
mittee, 108,  114,  236  ;  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  245  ;  at  centennial 
ball,  262  ;  at  banquet,  360. 

Seligman,  J.  &  W.,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to 
memorial  arch,  413. 

Sellew,  Timothy  G.,  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  247  ;  subscriber  to 
celebration,  401. 

Selma,  Ala.,  the  celebration  at,  405. 

Sene,  artist,  his  portraits  of  James  Mon- 
roe and  Mrs.  Monroe,  419,  420,  422, 
512. 

Seney,  George  I.,  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  413  ;  portrait  of  Joshua  Seney, 
property  of,  525. 

Seney,  John,  mentioned,  79. 

Seney,  Joshua,  member  of  congress  from 
Md.,  37,  135,  232  ;  biographical  sketch 
of,  79  ;  portrait,  facing  99  ;  notes  on 
the  portraits  of,  418,  423,  516,  525. 


Sevier,  Daniel  V.,  portrait  of  John  Sevier, 
property  of,  facing  125,  526. 

Sevier,  George  W.,  mentioned,  526. 

Sevier,  John,  member  of  congress  from 
N.  C,  92,  135  ;  biographical  sketch  of, 
92  ;  portraits,  painted  by  C.  W.  Peale, 
and  unknown,  facing  125;  notes  on  the 
portraits  of,  418,  422,  423,  525. 

Sevier,  John  V.,  mentioned,  526. 

Sevier,  Valentine,  mentioned,  92. 

Sevres  Porcelain,  portraits  of  Franklin 
on,  459. 

Sewall,  Arthur,  commissioner  from  Me., 
216. 

Seward,  Clarence  A.,  member  of  general 
committee,  114,  236;  at  centennial 
ball,  260  ;  subscriber  to  ball,  266  ;  at 
banquet,  356,  360  ;  subscriber  to  cele- 
bration, 401. 

Seward,  William,  Jr.,  colonel  ninth  N.  Y. 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  335. 

Sewell.  George,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 221. 

Sewell,  William  J.,  brigadier-general, 
second  brigade,  N.  J.  troops,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  326. 

Sexton,  Josephine,  delegate  from  public- 
school  No.  76,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

Seymour,  E.  W.,  at  banquet,  358. 

Seymour,  Rt.  Rev.  George  F.,  bishop  of 
Springfield,  III.,  273. 

Seymour,  James  H.,  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  246. 

Seymour,  Mary  J.,  portrait,  painted  by 
Trumbull,  facing  266  ;  notes  on  the 
portrait  of,  422,  526. 

Seymour,  Thomas,  first  mayor  of  Hart- 
ford, Conn.,  526. 

Seymour,  Thomas  D.,  the  Trumbull  min- 
iature of  Mary  J.  Seymour,  526. 

Shackelford,  Rev.  John  W.,  favors  hold- 
ing religious  services  April  30,  1889, 
123. 

Shaffer,  W.  H.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Shaftoe,  William,  McQuade  post,  G.A.R., 

at  military  parade,  345. 
Shakespeare,  Colonel,  at  centennial  ball, 

260. 

Shamins,  Robert  H.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 

Shanahan,  James,  supt.  public  works, 
N.  Y.,  242. 

Shannon,  Richard  C,  subscriber  to  cele- 
bration, 401. 

Shannon,  Robert  H.,  member  of  general 
committee,  114,  236  ;  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266  ;  at  banquet,  360. 

Sharmon,  R.  C,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Sharp,  J.,  engraver  of  portrait  of  Frank- 
lin, and  bishop  Seabury,  459,  note,  519. 

Sharpless,  Elizabeth,  artist,  her  portraits 
of  Washington  and  Hamilton,  144,  472. 

Sharpless,  James,  artist,  illustrations  of 
portraits  painted  by,  of  John  Adams, 
facing  17;  Fisher  Ames,  facing  89; 
John  Brown,  facing  119  ;  Eleanor  Parke 
Custis,  facing  256  ;  Alexander  Hamil- 


648        THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASH  INC  TONS  INAUGURATION. 


ton,  facing  26,  168  ;  Thomas  Jefferson, 
facing  21  ;  John  Langdon,  facing  105  ; 
Samuel  Livermore,  facing  65,105  ;  Rob- 
ert R.  Livingston,  facing  45  ;  Mrs. 
James  Madison,  facing  258  ;  James 
Monroe,  facing  108  ;  Jeremiah  Wads- 
worth,  facing  80  ;  number  of  portraits 
by,  in  the  volume,  417,  419,  420  ;  notes 
on  his  portraits  of  John  Adams,  425  ; 
John  Brown,  431;  Eleanor  P.  Custis,  441 ; 
Benjamin  Goodhue,  467  ;  Alexander 
Hamilton,  144,  470  ;  Thomas  Jefferson, 
487  ;  John  Langdon,  144,  494  ;  John 
Laurance,  495  ;  Mrs.  Lawrence  Lewis, 
145  :  Samuel  Livermore,  499  .  Robert 
R.  Livingston,  145,  500  ;  James  Madi- 
son, 508  ;  James  Monroe,  512  ;  Sir  John 
Temple,  533  ;  Lady  Temple,  533  ;  Jere- 
miah Wadsworth,  540  ;  George  Wash- 
ington, 543  ;  Martha  Washington,  549  ; 
his  collection  of  crayons,  441,  note. 

Sharpshooters,  at  civic  parade,  393,  395. 

Shaughnessy,  Colonel,  aide  to  grand  mar- 
shal, military  parade,  320. 

Shaw,  Alexander  D.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  247  ;  at  centennial 
ball,  262. 

Shaw,  C.  A.,  escort  to  president  Harrison, 
221. 

Shaw,  Frederick  W.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Shayne,  Christopher  C,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  247  ;  at  literary  ex- 
ercises, 290. 

Shea,  D.  F.,  first  N.  H.  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  333. 

Shea.  George,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Sheehan,  John  P.,  in  command  Kerry- 
men's  association,  civic  parade,  397. 

Sheehan,  Thomas  F.,  veteran  zouaves, 
at  military  parade,  346. 

Sheehan,  William  F.,  member  of  assem- 
bly, N.  Y.,  242  ;  at  banquet,  359. 

Sheepshead,  N.  Y.,  firemen,  at  civic  pa- 
rade, 389 

Sheldon,  A.  J.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Sheldon,  Frederick,  at  banquet,  356. 

Sheldon,  Henry,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  245. 

Sheldon,  Henry,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  the 
Wall  street  arch,  253. 

Sheldon,  Henry  K.,  subscriber  to  memo- 
rial arch,  414. 

Sheldon,  Judson  F.,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  242. 

Sheldon,  William  C,  Jr.,  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  225  ;  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 

Shephard,  Augustus  D. ,  member  of  citi- 
zens' committee,  104  ;  at  literary  exer- 
cises, 290  ;  subscriber  to  memorial  arch, 
414. 

Shepard,  Edward  M.,  civil  service  com- 
missioner, Brooklyn,  243. 

Shepard,  Elliott  F. ,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  103,  104,  105  ;  invited  to 
meet  president  Harrison,  245  ;  at  cen- 
tennial ball.  262  ;  subscriber  to  ball, 


266  ;  at  literary  exercises,  289  ;  at  ban- 
quet, 360  ;  subscriber  to  memorial  arch, 
414. 

Shepard,  Mrs.  Elliott  F.,  entertains  the 
ladies  of  president  Harrison's  family, 
4°3- 

Shepard,  Louise,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 

Shepherd,  J.  S.,  twenty-third  N.  Y.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  337. 

Sheridan,  Lieut. -Gen.  Philip  H.,  appointed 
grand  marshal  of  military  parade,  311  ; 
his  death,  311. 

Sheridan,  James,  fourth  Conn,  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  329. 

Sheridan  Troop,  Tyrone,  Pa.,  at  military 
parade,  326. 

Sherman,  Frederick  T.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  245  ;  subscriber  to 
Wall  street  arch,  253. 

Sherman,  Gardiner,  member  of  general 
committee,  114,  236  ;  at  literary  exer- 
cises, 290  ;  member  of  platform  com- 
mittee, 308,  309;  at  banquet,  360;  sub- 
scriber to  celebration,  401. 

Sherman,  George,  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Sherman,  James  S.,  member  of  congress 
from  N.  Y.,  242. 

Sherman,  John,  U.  S.  senator  from  Ohio, 
241  ;  at  literary  exercises,  289. 

Sherman,  Roger,  member  of  congress 
from  Conn.,  11,  62,  135,  232  ;  in  favor 
of  title  for  the  president  of  U.  S.,  39, 
note;  at  inauguration  of  Washington,  50; 
biographical  sketch  of,  73  ;  portraits, 
painted  by  Earle,  Trumbull  and  un- 
known, facing  80  ;  member  of  federal 
convention,  1787,  136  ;  notes  on  the 
portraits  of,  418,  421,  422,  423,  526. 

Sherman,  William,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Sherman,  Gen.  William  T.,  portrait, 
facing  190,  234;  at  naval  parade,  198; 
escort  to  president  Harrison  225,  227; 
at  reception  and  banquet  to  the  presi- 
dent, 231,  234,  248;  at  centennial  ball, 
257  ;  at  literary  exercises,  285,  289 ; 
tendered  the  position  of  grand  marshal 
of  military  parade,  311  ;  at  military 
parade,  317  ;  at  banquet,  metropolitan 
opera-house,  356,  358  ;  his  address  at 
banquet,  363,  375. 

Sherrered,  James  H.,  portrait  of  Gilbert 
Stuart,  property  of,  531. 

Sherwood, -J.  P.,  tenth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  325. 

Shethar,  Prentise,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Shinn,  J.  I.,  sixth  N.  J.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  326. 

Shinn,  William  P.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 

Ship  Chandlers,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  247. 

Ship  Joiners,  at  civic  parade,  390;  view  of 
floats,  391. 

Shipman,  David  H.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 

Shipman,  Louis  L.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 


Shipman,  William  D.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  244. 

Shipp,  Mrs.  W.  M.,  portrait  of  Samuel 
Johnston,  property  of,  facing  125,  490. 

Shippen,  Edward,  mentioned,  549. 

Shippin,  William,  member  of  reception 
committee,  ancestry  of,  230. 

Shoe  Manufacturers,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  247. 

Short,  Edward  L.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Short,  J.  W.,  in  command  •  of  loyal 
orange  institution,  civic  parade,  396. 

Short,  William  H.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 

Shortland  Brothers  &  Co.,  subscribers  to 
the  Wall  street  arch,  253. 

Shott,  John  C,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 221. 

Shoup,  George  L.,  governor  of  Idaho, 
233. 

Shrady,  Jacob,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 224. 

Shrady,  William,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 224. 

Shriver,  Daniel  R.,  sixth  Ohio  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  342. 

Shute,  Henry  B.,  Jr.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 

Shute,  Rev.  Samuel  M.,  member  of  N.  J. 
society  of  the  Cincinnati,  150,  154;  his 
address  at  commemorative  banquet  of 
the  society,  152,  162  ;  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  248. 

Sicardi,  artist,  his  miniature  of  Louis 
XVI.,  at  loan  exhibition,  145. 

Sickels,  David  B.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 

Sickles,  Daniel  E.,  at  centennial  ball, 
257,  262;  subscriber  to  memorial  arch, 
414. 

Siegfried,  J.  M.,  sixteenth  Pa.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  326. 

Sigel,  Franz,  mentioned,  393. 

Silk  Manufacturers,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  247. 

Sillcock,  John  J.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 224. 

Sillcocks,  T.    W.,   twenty-third   N.  Y. 

regiment,  at  military  parade,  337. 
Silliman,  Benjamin,  portrait  of  Jonathan 

Trumbull,  property  of,  535. 
Silliman,  Mrs.  Benjamin,  mentioned,  534. 
Silliman,  Benjamin  D.,  invited  to  meet 

president  Harrison,  244. 
Silliman,  Charles  A.,  dock  commissioner, 

243. 

Silliman,  Faith  W.,  mentioned,  535. 
Silva,     Francisco    A.,     minister  from 

Venezuela,  invited  to  centennial  ball, 

257;  at  banquet,  361. 
Silverman,  R.  H.,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  266. 

Silvester,  Peter,  member  of  congress 
from  N.  Y.,  37,  135,  232;  biographical 
sketch  of,  90  ;  portrait,  by  St.  Memin, 
facing  123;  notes  on  the  portrait  of, 
419.  527- 

Simendinger,  A.  D.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 


INDEX. 


649 


Simmons,  Charles  E.,  commissioner  of 
charities  and  correction,  243:  at  ban- 
quet, 358. 

Simmons,  Daniel,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  222. 

Simmons,  J.  Edward,  member  of  finance 
committee,  112,  113,  236,  39s,  400;  of 
general  committee,  114,  236;  at  recep- 
tion to  president  Harrison,  lawyers' 
club  and  city  hall,  232,  237  ;  subscriber 
to  centennial  ball,  266  ;  at  literary 
exercises,  290;  at  banquet,  361  ;  sub- 
scriber to  celebration,  400  ;  member  of 
memorial  arch  committee,  409. 

Simmons,  R.  D.,  first  regiment,  Delaware, 
at  military  parade,  322. 

Simmons,  R.  W.  A.,  eighteenth  Pa.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  325. 

Simons,  James,  member  of  society  of 
the  Cincinnati  of  S.  C,  151;  his  ad- 
dress at  commemorative  banquet,  156  ; 
invited  to  meet  president  Harrison, 
248. 

Simons,  \V.  E.,  Va.  artillery,  at  military 

parade,  333. 
Simonson,  A.  C,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  266. 

Simonson,  Isaac,  one  of  the  crew  of  the 
president's  barge,  which  conveyed 
Washington  to  X.  Y.,  23,  note. 

Simonson,  William,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Simpson,  Alexander,  Ringold  post,  G.  A. 
R.,  escort  to  president  Harrison,  222  ; 
at  military  parade,  346. 

Simpson,  John  B.,  Jr.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Simpson,  Joseph  H.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Simpson,  W.,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 223. 

Sims,  A.  J.,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
266. 

Sims,  Clifford  S.,  member  of  committee 
of  sons  of  the  revolution,  106  ;  of 
general  committee,  107,  114,  236  ;  of 
committee  on  railroads  and  transporta- 
tion, 112,  113,  181,  182,  188,  236  ;  at 
banquet  of  the  society  of  the  Cincinnati, 
150  ;  representative  of  the  society  at 
celebration.  177  ;  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  1S2,  225  ;  at  reception  to  the 
president,  232  ;  at  banquet,  metropoli- 
tan opera-house,  361. 

Sims,  H.  Marion,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Sinclair,  C.  A.,  first  Mo.   regiment,  at 

military  parade,  343. 
Sinclair,  George  T.,  escort  to  president 

Harrison,  224. 
Sinclair,  Miss,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 
Sinclair,  Robert,  mentioned,  98. 
Singer  Manufacturing  Co.,  signs  call  for 

citizens'  committee,  104. 
Singing  Societies,  at  civic  parade,  393. 
Singleton,  Cuthbert,  vice-consul  of  Hayti, 

248. 

Sinnickson,  C.  H.,  mentioned,  527. 
Sinnickson,  Thomas,  member  of  congress 
from  X.  J.,  37,  135,  232;  biographical 
83 


sketch  of,  70  ;  no  portrait  of,  418,  527  ; 
fac-simile  of  his  signature,  527. 
Sirius,  steamer  for  guests  and  navy  com- 
mittee, at  naval  parade,  127,  191,  192, 
202. 

Skinner,  E.  V.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Skirm,  W.  H.,  seventh  N.  J.  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  326. 
Skylight    Industry,     represented,  civic 

parade.  397. 
Slack,  C.  A.,  seventh  N'.  J.  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  326. 
Slack,  W.  H.,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  266. 

Slade,  Francis  L.,  at  literary  exercises, 
290. 

Slade,  Henry  L.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Slade,  Marshall  P.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Sladen,  Douglas,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Slater,  James,  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Slayback,  John  D.,  subscriber  to  memo- 
rial arch,  414. 

Sleffel,  Charles  C,  fourteenth  Ohio  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  342. 

Slendon,  A.  J.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Slevin,   Hugh,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  266. 
Slevin,  J.  A.,  at  banquet,  359. 
Slevin,  James  J.,  register,  243. 
Sloan,  Benson  J.,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  266. 

Sloan,  George  B.,  state  senator.  X.  Y., 

242;  at  banquet,  359. 
Sloan,  Samuel,  invited  to  meet  president 

Harrison,  245  :  subscriber  to  memorial 

arch,  414. 

Sloan,  Samuel,  Jr.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Sloan,  Thomas  A.,  old  guard,  X.  Y.,  at 
military  parade,  340. 

Sloan,  William  J.,  seventy-fourth  X.  Y. 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  339. 

Sloane,  James  P.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Sloane,  John,  member  of  committee  of 
chamber  of  commerce,  102;  of  general 
committee,  107,  114.  236;  of  finance 
committee,  109,  113,  236,  3g3;  invited 
to  meet  president  Harrison*,  246;  at 
centennial  ball,  262;  at  literary  exer- 
cises, 290;  at  banquet,  361;  subscriber 
to  memorial  arch,  414. 

Sloane,  Thomas  M.,  sixteenth  Ohio  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  342. 

Sloane,  William  D..  member  of  general 
committee,  114,  236;  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  246;  at  centennial 
ball,  260;  subscriber  to  ball,  266;  at 
banquet,  356;  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Sloane,  Mrs.  William  D.,  at  centennial 
ball,  261. 

Sloane,  W.  &  J.,  subscribers  to  celebra- 
tion, 400. 


Slocum,  Joseph  J.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  221. 

Slocum,  William  H.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  245. 

Slote,  Henry  L. ,  member  of  general 
committee,  114,  236;  at  banquet,  360; 
subscriber  to  celebration,  401. 

Small,  Thomas  L.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 

Smedley,  Edmund  X.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 

Smith,  A.  D.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Smith,  A.  H.,  at  banquet,  360. 

Smith,  Albert,  at  celebration  of  the  semi- 
centennial of  Washington's  inaugura- 
tion, 96. 

Smith,  Albert  E.,  commander  of  ninth 
division,  volunteer  firemen,  at  civic 
parade,  388. 

Smith,  Alfred  E. ,  at  banquet  of  the  society 
of  the  Cincinnati,  149. 

Smith,  Augustine,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Smith,  B.  H.,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  cele- 
bration, 401. 

Smith,  Benjamin,  mentioned,  81. 

Smith,  Charles,  member  of  assembly, 
X.  Y.,  242. 

Smith,  Charles  E.,  at  reception  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  232. 

Smith,  Charles  S.,  member  of  committee 
of  chamber  of  commerce,  101;  sub- 
scriber to  centennial  ball,  266;  at 
banquet,  358;  member  of  memorial 
arch  committee,  409;  subscriber  to  arch, 
413- 

Smith,  Mrs.  Cooper,  portrait  of  Washing 
ton,  property  of,  160,  542,  546. 

Smith.  D.  Lowber,  commissioner  of 
public  works,  243;  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Smith,  Daniel  E.  H.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  248. 

Smith,  E.  C,  thirteenth  Pa  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  325. 

Smith,  E.  D.,  fourth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  325 

Smith,  Elijah,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  245. 

Smith,  Ernest  D.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Smith,  Mrs.  Eugene,  portrait  of  Jeremiah 
Wadsworth,  property  of,  540. 

Smith,  F.  Hopkinson,  member  of  art 
committee,  109,  113,  134,  142,  236,  409; 
of  general  committee,  114,  236;  at  cen- 
tennial ball,  262;  subscriber  to  ball,  266, 
at  banquet,  360;  member  of  memorial 
arch  committee,  40S,  409. 

Smith,  George  W. ,  invited  to  meet  presi 
dent  Harrison,  245,  246;  at  banquet. 
358. 

Smith,  Gerrit,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Smith,  H.  Wright,  engraver  of  portraits 
of  Franklin,  William  Jackson  and 
Henry  Knox,  453,  479,  493. 

Smith,  Harlan  P.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 


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Smith,  Henry,  thirteenth  separate  com- 
pany, N.  Y.,  at  military  parade,  339. 

Smith,  Henry  C,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Smith,  Henry  E.,  ancient  and  honorable 
artillery,  Boston,  at  military  parade, 
329.  330. 

Smith,  Henry  M.,  &  Son,  subscribers  to 

celebration,  400. 
Smith,  Mrs.  Henry  W.,  at  centennial  ball, 

260. 

Smith,  Isaac  T.,  consul-general  of  Siam, 
24S;  at  literary  exercises.  290. 

Smith,  Isabel,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Smith,  Mrs.  J.  E.,  at  centennial  ball, 
262. 

Smith,  J.  Gregory,  commissioner  from 
Vt.,  216,  233;  at  banquet,  360. 

Smith,  J.  M.,  tenth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  325. 

Smith,  James  B.,  Louisville  legion,  at 
military  parade,  341. 

Smith,  James  D.,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  103  ;  of  finance  committee, 
109,  113,  236,  398,400;  of  general  com- 
mittee, 114,  236;  at  reception  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  231,  245;  at  banquet, 
361;  subscriber  to  celebration,  400. 

Smith,  James  M.,  Gilsa  post,  G.  A.  R., 
escort  to  president  Harrison,  221  ;  at 
military  parade,  345. 

Smith,  Capt.  John,  represented  in  tableau, 
civic  parade,  386. 

Smith,  John  D.,  note  on  the  portrait  of 
William  Smith,  527. 

Smith,  John  R.,  engraver  of  portraits  of 
El  bridge  Gerry,  and  Theodore  Sedg- 
wick, 463,  524. 

Smith,  Lenox,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  246. 

Smith,  Lewis,  U.  S.  army,  at  military 
parade,  320. 

Smith,  Martin  A.,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  242. 

Smith,  Mary  A.  B.,  portrait  of  William 
S.  Smith,  property  of,  facing  41,  528. 

Smith,  Mrs.  Mary  G,  at  centennial  ball, 
262. 

Smith,  May  C,  of  choir,  St.  Paul's  chapel, 
271. 

Smith,  Mildred  G.,  delegate  from  Normal 
college,  reception  of  president  Harri- 
son, city  hall,  237. 

Smith,  Norman  M.,  colonel  eighteenth 
Pa.  regiment,  at  military  parade,  325. 

Smith,  Oliver  D.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Smith,  Peter,  commissioner  from  Texas, 
216. 

Smith,  R.  B.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Smith,  Robert  G.,  fourth  N.  J.  regiment, 

at  military  parade,  327. 
Smith,  Robert  L.,  fifth  N.  J.  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  327. 
Smith,  Roswcll,  invited  to  meet  president 

Harrison,  246;  subscriber  to  celebration 

and  memorial  arc  h,  401,  414. 
Smith,  Samuel,  citizens  and  committee  of 

congress,  received  by  Washington,  at 


the  public    house    of,  Elizabethtown, 

N.  J.,  27. 

Smith,  Samuel  W.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Smith,  Solon  B.f  police  justice,  243. 

Smith,  Stephen  C,  at  banquet  of  the 
society  of  the  Cincinnati,  151. 

Smith,  Thomas,  of  choir,  St.  Paul's 
chapel,  271. 

Smith,  Thomas,  Jr.,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  242. 

Smith,  Thomas  E.  V.,  the  Duvivier  por- 
traits of  Ebenezer  Hazard,  and  wife, 
474,  note. 

Smith,  Thomas  J.,  seventeenth  Ohio  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  342. 

Smith,  Thomas  M.,  portrait  of  chief-jus- 
tice Marshall,  property  of,  145. 

Smith,  Thomas  W.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Smith,  Thomas  W.,  fourth  Va.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  333. 

Smith,  W.  Tracey,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Smith,  William,  member  of  congress  from 
Md.,  11,  135,  232  ;  biographical  sketch 
of,  79;  portrait,  painted  by  C.  W.  Peale, 
facing  99;  notes  on  the  portrait  of,  422, 
527- 

Smith,  William  A.,  subscriber  to  celebra- 
tion, 401. 

Smith,  William  B.,  twenty-second  N.  Y. 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  335. 

Smith,  William  C,  member  of  general 
committee,  114,  236;  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266;  at  banquet,  360. 

Smith,  William  Loughton,  member  of 
congress  from  S.  C,  37,  136,  232;  bio- 
graphical sketch  of ,  8 1 ;  portraits,  painted 
by  Stuart,  and  Trumbull,  facing  102; 
portrait  at  loan  exhibition,  145;  notes 
on  the  portraits  of,  422,  527. 

Smith,  William  Stephens,  portraits,  paint- 
ed by  Brown,  Stuart,  and  Trumbull, 
facing  18,  41;  escort  to  Washington,  41; 
his  services,  41,  note\  attends  assembly 
ball,  1789,  59;  at  inauguration  of  Wash- 
ington, 285,  note;  notes  on  the  portraits 
of,  421,  422,  528. 

Smith,  Mrs.  William  Stephens,  guest  of 
John  Jay,  describes  the  company  pres- 
ent, 32,  note;  attends  assembly  ball, 
1789,  59;  portraits  painted  by  Brown, 
and  Copley,  facing  260;  notes  on  the 
portraits  of,  421,  528. 

Smith,  Z.,  at  banquet,  359. 

Smith,  Hogg  &  Gardner,  subscribers  to 
memorial  arch,  414. 

Smith  &  Schipper,  subscribers  to  the  Wall 
street  arch,  253. 

Smithnight,  Louis,  colonel  first  artillery, 
Ohio,  at  military  parade,  343. 

Smyth,  Frederick,  recorder,  N.  Y.,  243; 
at  banquet,  359. 

Smyth,  Rev.  George  H.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  244. 

Snelling,  Mrs.  Edward,  at  centennial  ball, 
261. 

Snelling,  Grace,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 
Snilla,  Nicola,  at  civic  parade,  392. 


Snow,  Alfred  I).,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Snow,  Ambrose,  president  of  marine  so- 
ciety, coxswain  of  the  president's  barge, 
127,  202;  portrait,  203;  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  225;  invited  to  meet  the 
president,  246;  at  literary  exercises,  289; 
at  banquet,  358. 

Snow,  E.  G,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
206. 

Snovvden,  George  R.,  brigadier-general, 
first  brigade,  Pa.  troops,  military  parade, 

323- 

Snowden,  Matilda  C,  portrait  of  Gen. 
William  Malcom,  property  of,  facing  42, 
508. 

Snyder,  artist,  his  portrait  of  Benjamin 
Franklin,  459. 

Snyder,  Edward  H.,  third  battalion,  N.  J., 
at  military  parade,  327. 

Societa  Carous,  at  civic  parade,  392. 

Societa  Fraterna,  at  civic  parade,  392. 

Societa  Opcraia,  at  civic  parade,  392. 

Societies,  represented  at  the  centennial 
celebration  of  Washington's  inaugura- 
tion— Bohemian,  396  ;  Catholic,  397  ; 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  101,  102,  103, 
105,  106,  107,  115,  231,  244  ;  society  of 
the  Cincinnati,  115,  127,  149,  191,  225, 
231,  248,  255,  270;  Colored,  397;  Dan- 
ish, 392;  Firemen,  388;  German,  247, 
350,  388,  393,  395;  Grand  Army  of  the 
Republic,  11S,  127,  219,  221,  236,  240, 
247,  250,  255,  313,  314,  316,  345,  346; 
Holland,  247;  Irish,  386,  395,  397;  Irish- 
American,  395;  Italian,  392;  Knights 
of  Pythias,  386;  Loyal  Legion,  127,  170, 
219,  220,  236,  250,  252,  255,  313,  314, 
345,  346;  Marine,  127,  202,  203,  225, 
255;  Mechanics  and  Tradesmen,  247; 
N.  Y.  Historical  Society,  101,  105,  106, 
107,  115;  Norwegian,  392;  Odd-Fellows, 
396;  Polish,  396;  Scandinavian,  392, 
393;  Scotch,  389;  Singing,  350,  393,  395; 
Sons  of  the  Revolution,  101,  105,  106, 
107,  115,  170,  219,  224,  231,  236,  251, 
255;  Southern,  247;  Swedish,  392,  393; 
Swiss,  392;  Tammany,  390;  Temper- 
ance, 386,  397;  Trades,  390,  391,  392, 
396>  397- 

Society  of  Amateur  Photographers,  sub- 
scriber to  memorial  arch,  413. 

Society  of  American  Artists,  subscriber 
to  memorial  arch,  414. 

Society  of  the  Cincinnati,  badge  designed 
for,  14,  note  ;  commemorative  banquet, 
April  27,  1889,  list  of  guests,  149  ;  toasts 
and  addresses,  149  ;  attend  services  St. 
Paul's  chapel,  169,  270  ;  representatives 
at  celebration,  177  ;  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  186,  225,  236;  at  naval  pa- 
rade, 191  ;  at  reception  to  the  president, 
231,  248. 

Society  of  Sons  of  the  American  Revolu- 
tion, organize,  402. 

Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution, 
proceedings  relative  to  the  centennial 
celebration  of  Washington's  inaugura- 
tion, IOI,  115  ;  committee  appointed, 
106  ;  attend  services  St.  Paul's  chapel, 


INDEX. 


651 


170;  escort  to  president  Harrison,  186, 
219,  224,  251  ;  fac-simile  of  the  seal  of, 
224;  at  reception  10  president  Harrison, 
231. 

Sohan,  J.  M.,  Louisville  legion,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  341. 

Sohn,  Henry  S.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Soldatenbund,  at  civic  parade,  395. 

Sonderstrom,  Richard,  Swedish  consul,  at 
N.  Y.,  1789,  describes  inauguration  of 
Washington,  50. 

Song,  represented  in  tableau,  civic  parade, 
395- 

Sons  of  Veterans,  at  civic  parade, 
386. 

Soper,  S.  W.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Sorenson,  Edward,  in  command  of  Scan- 
dinavian societies,  civic  parade,  392. 

South  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  rifle  club  and 
sharpshooters,  at  civic  parade,  393. 

South  Carolina,  ratifies  the  constitution, 
2  ;  represented  as  a  federal  pillar,  2  , 
representatives  in  first  U.  S.  congress, 
9.  '35.  232  '<  nativity  of  delegation  in 
congress,  62  ;  biographical  sketches  of 
senators  and  members  of  congress,  80  ; 
members  of  federal  convention,  1787, 
136  ;  members  of  the  society  of  the  Cin- 
cinnati attend  banquet  at  N.  Y.,  151  ; 
governor  and  commissioner  at  celebra- 
tion, 214,  233  ;  admitted  into  the  union, 
233  ;  troops  at  military  parade,  331,  346; 
sons  of  the  American  revolution  of, 
organize,  402. 

Southard,  George  H.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 

Southard,  Samuel  L.,  U.  S.  senator  from 
N.  J.,  at  celebration  of  the  semi-cen- 
tennial of  Washington's  inauguration, 
96,  99. 

Southern  Society  of  N.  Y.,  representatives 

of,  invited  to  meet  president  Harrison, 

247  ;  banquet  of,  402. 
Spaight,  Richard  D.,  member  of  federal 

convention,  1787,  136. 
Spalding,  Mrs.  J.  W.,  at  centennial  ball, 

262. 

Spalding,  Rt.  Rev.  John  L.,  address  at 
banquet,  Chicago,  406. 

Spanish  -  American  Commercial  Union, 
N.  Y.,  banquet,  402. 

Sparks,  Jared,  at  celebration  of  the  semi- 
centennial of  Washington's  inaugura- 
tion, 96  ;  notes  on  the  portraits  of 
Franklin,  450,  457. 

Spartanburg,  S.  C,  Morgan  rifles,  at  mil- 
itary parade,  331. 

Spaulding,  Henry  F.,  invited  .  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  245  ;  subscriber  to 
memorial  arch,  414. 

Speaight,  William  A.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Speaks,  John  C,  fourteenth  Ohio  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  342. 

Spear,  Charles  A.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Spedden,  Frederick  O.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 


Speir,  Gilbert  M.,  at  reception,  justices 
U.  S.  supreme  court,  402. 

Spencer,  Albert,  member  of  marine  soci- 
ety, one  of  the  crew  of  the  president's 
barge,  202  ;  portrait,  203  ;  escort  to 
president  Harrison,  225. 

Spencer,  Harris  S.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Spencer,  J.  Clinton,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Spencer,  James  C,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  103,  104,  105. 

Spencer,  William  C,  member  of  New 
Jersey  society  of  the  Cincinnati,  at 
commemorative  banquet,  150;  invited 
to  meet  president  Harrison,  248. 

Sperry,  Frank,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  242. 

Sperry,  Watson  R.,  the  portraits  of  John 
Vining  and  wife,  538. 

Speyer  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  celebration, 
and  memorial  arch,  400,  414. 

Spies,  Francis,  vice-consul  of  Honduras, 
248. 

Spinola,  Francis  B.,  member  of  congress 
from  N.  Y.,  242. 

Spofford,  Ainsworth  R.,  the  Copley  por- 
trait of  Henry  Laurens.  495,  note. 

Sponneck,  Count  de,  minister  from  Den- 
mark, invited  to  centennial  ball,  257. 

Spooner,  F.  C,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Spooner,  Henry  J.,  at  banquet,  359. 
Sprague,  Charles  E.,  escort  to  president 

Harrison,  224;  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  266. 

Sprague,  Henry  L.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  244. 

Sprague,  Henry  M.,aide  to  grand  marshal, 
military  parade,  320;  at  banquet,  358. 

Sprague,  Waldo,  aide  to  grand  marshal, 
military  parade,  320. 

Spreyer,  James,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Springer,  C.  W.,  second  battalion,  N.  J., 

at  military  parade,  327. 
Springfield,   Mass.,   the  celebration  in, 

403- 

Springs,  Le  Roy,  aide  to  grand  marshal, 

military  parade,  320. 
Sprigg,  Joseph,  commissioner  from  West 

Va.,  216. 

Sproull,  Henry  S.,  of  army  veterans,  at 

military  parade,  346. 
Spurgeon,  W.  P.,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  266. 

Spuyten  Duyvil,  N.  Y.,  cadets,  at  civic 

parade,  386. 
Squier ,  Albert  C. ,  subscriber  to  center  nial 

ball,  266. 

Squier,  Frank,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 224. 

Squire,  Watson  C,  commissioner  from 
Washington  Territory,  216. 

Stacpole,  H.  P.,  tenth  battalion,  N.  Y., 
at  military  parade,  337. 

Stadler,  Charles  A.,  state  senator,  N.  Y., 
242;  at  banquet,  359. 

Stafford,  M.  C,  battery  A,  Pa.,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  324. 


Stafford,  Martin  H.,  escort  to  president 

Harrison,  224. 
Stafford,  William  F.,  escort  to  president 

Harrison,  225. 
Stafford,  Samuel  B.,  note  on  the  portrait 

of  general  Knox,  493. 
Stafford,  Sarah  S.,  portrait  of  gen.  Henry 

Knox,  493. 
Stahel,  Gen.  Julius,  represented  in  tableau, 

civic  parade,  393. 
Stahlnecker,  William  G.,  member  of  con- 
gress from  N.  Y.,  242. 
Stakes,  Capt.  John,  escort  to  Washington, 

42. 

Stamp  Act,  protest  against  the,  in  N.  Y., 
1765.  13- 

Stamps,  E.  R.,  commissioner  from  N.  C, 
216. 

Stanard,  Mrs.  Martha,  portrait  of  James 
Monroe,  property  of,  facing  108,  509. 

Stanard,  Robert,  mentioned,  509. 

Standish,  Myles,  member  of  general  com- 
mittee, 114,  236;  aide  to  chairman  on 
art  and  exhibition,  120;  at  centennial 
ball,  262;  subscriber  to  ball,  266;  at 
literary  exercises,  289;  aide  to  grand 
marshal,  military  parade,  320;  at 
banquet,  360;  at  civic  parade,  385. 

Stanford,  Leland,  U.  S.  senator,  and 
commissioner  from  California,  215,  241. 

Stanhope,  Earl,  portrait  of  Benjamin 
Franklin,  property  of,  454,  462. 

Stanley,  artist,  his  portrait  of  Edmund 
Randolph,  521. 

Stannard,  E.  O.,  commissioner  of  Mo., 
216;  at  banquet,  360. 

Stanton,  Edmund  C,  aide  to  chairman 
of  executive  committee,  120;  director 
of  centennial  ball,  258;  chairman  of 
floor  committee,  259;  at  military  parade, 
334;  at  banquet,  359. 

Stanton,  George  D.,  mentioned,  529. 

Stanton,  John,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  245. 

Stanton,  John  R.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  222,  224. 

Stanton,  Joseph,  mentioned,  94. 

Stanton,  Joseph,  Jr.,  U.  S.  senator  from 
Rhode  Island.  94,  135  ;  biographical 
sketch  of,  94  ;  no  portrait  of,  41S,  529  ; 
fac-simile  of  his  signature,  529. 

Stanton,  Louis  L.,  at  centennial  ball, 
262. 

Stanton,  Walter,  member  of  committee 
on  finance,  109,  113,  236,  398;  of  gen- 
eral committee,  114,  236;  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  266  ;  at  literary  exer- 
cises, 289;  at  banquet,  361;  subscriber 
to  celebration,  401. 

Stanton,  William  C,  mentioned,  529. 

Staples,  Walter  R.,  commissioner  from 
Va.,  216. 

Starbuck,  William  H.,  member  of  citi- 
zens' committee,  104  ;  subscriber  to 
memorial  arch,  414. 

Starin,  John  H.,  at  banquet,  360. 

Stark,  C.  F.  M.,  portrait  of  Robert 
Morris,  property  of,  facing  69,  513. 

Stark,  Lucius  J.  N.,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  103. 


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Starkey,  Clinton  \V.,  member  of  citizens' 

committee,  103. 
Starkey,  Rt.  Rev.  Thomas  A.,  bishop  of 

Newark,  N.  J.,  248,  273. 
Starr,  M.  Allen,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  266. 

Starr,    Theodore   R.,    invited   to  meet 

president  Harrison,  247. 
State  Fencibles  of  Pa.,  at  military  parade, 

324. 

Staten  Island,  N.  Y.,  ferry  company- 
tenders  use  of  the  boat  Erastus  Wiman 
to  the  committee,  191  ;  Richmond  post, 
grand  army  of  the  republic,  at  military 
parade,  346  ;  'firemen,  at  civic  parade, 
389. 

States,  list  of,  represented  at  celebration, 
214,  215,  233;  governors  of,  at  recep- 
tion to  president  Harrison,  241. 

 committee  on,  see  committees. 

Stauffer,  David  McN.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  221. 

Steamship  Agents,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Stearns,  F.  J.,  thirty-eighth  separate  com- 
pany, N.  Y.,  at  military  parade,  339. 

Stebbins,  Charles  J.,  at  centennial  ball, 
262;  subscriber  to  ball,  266. 

Stebbins,  William,  at  civic  parade,  391. 

Steckler,  Alfred,  district  court  justice,  243. 

Stedingk,  Count  von,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  248. 

Stedman,  Arthur,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Stedman,  Charles  M.,  commissioner  from 
N.  C,  216. 

Stedman,  Charles  S.,  at  banquet,  358. 

Stedman,  Edmund  C,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  244. 

Stedman,  George  E.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 

Steele,  Dudley  S.,  brigadier-general  first 
brigade,  N.  J.  troops,  at  military  pa- 
rade, 326. 

Steele,  John,  member  of  congress  from 
N.  C,  62,  135  ;  biographical  sketch  of, 
93;  portrait,  painted  by  James  Peale, 
facing  125  ;  notes  on  the  portrait  of, 
422,  529. 

Steele,  William,  mentioned,  93. 

Steen,  B.  S.,  fourteenth  N.  Y.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  337. 

Steers,  Abraham,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 223. 

Steers,  Henry  V.,  inspector  of  police, 
N.  Y.,  217,  226,  236,  255. 

Steever,  Mrs.  M.  B.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 

Steigcr,  Annie  E.,  delegate  from  Normal 
college,  reception  of  president  Harri- 
son, city  hall,  237. 

Stein,  H.,  in  command  Yonkers  conti- 
nental guards,  civic  parade,  386. 

Stein,  S.  Hethune,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Steinway  Hose  Company,  at  civic  parade, 
388. 

Steinway,  William,  member  of  general 
committee,  114,  236;  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  247  ;  at  banquet, 


360 ;  member  of  committee,  German- 
American  citizens,  393,  note. 
Steinway  &  Sons,  subscribers  to  celebra- 
tion, 400. 

Steinwender,  Stoffregens  &  Co.,  subscrib- 
ers to  the  Wall  street  arch,  253. 

Stella  A'ltalia,  at  civic  parade,  392. 

Stella,  Gertrude,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  266. 

Stephenson,  Ernest  P.,  of  choir,  St.  Paul's 
chapel,  271. 

Stephenson,  George  S.,  mentioned,  428. 

Stephenson,  Ida,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  21,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

Sterling,  P.  C,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 223. 

Stern  Brothers,  subscribers  to  celebra- 
tion, and  memorial  arch,  400,  414. 

Stern,  Isaac,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  246. 

Stern,  Louis,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  246. 

Sternbach,  Charles,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Sternbach,  Maurice  C,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266. 

Sternbach,  Morris,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Sternbach,  Philip,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Sternfeld,  Adolph,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  266. 

Stetson,  C.  A.,  mentioned,  449. 

Stetson,  Francis  L.,  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  244;  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  266;  at  banquet,  360;  at 
reception  to  justices  U.  S.  supreme 
court,  402. 

Stetson,  N.,  at  banquet,  359. 

Stettiner,  Henri,  mentioned,  453. 

Steuben,  Baron,  at  inauguration  of  Wash- 
ington, 50;  one  of  the  founders  of  the 
society  of  the  Cincinnati,  50,  note  ;  at- 
tends assembly  ball,  1789,  58;  views  of 
his  gold  watch  and  snuff-box,  69,  71; 
presented  with  the  freedom  of  the  city 
of  N.  Y.,  71;  portraits,  painted  by  Du 
Simitiere,  Earle,  C.  W.  Peale,  and 
Trumbull,  facing  166,  172;  represented 
in  tableau,  civic  parade,  385,  386,  393  ; 
notes  on  the  portraits  of,  420,  421,  422, 
481,  note,  529. 

Stevens,  Mrs.  B.  A.,  portrait  of  Eleanor 
P.  Custis,  property  of,  441. 

Stevens,  Benjamin  F.,  acknowledgment 
to,  in  preface,  vi;  portrait  and  statuette 
of  Franklin,  property  of,  451,  462,  fac- 
ing 484  ;  notes  on  the  portraits  of 
Franklin,  Ralph  Izard,  John  Jay,  and 
the  U.  S.  commissioners  of  1782,  453, 
note,  477,  note,  481,  482. 

Stevens,  Byam  K.,  at  centennial  ball,  260; 
at  banquet,  356. 

Stevens,  Miss  E.,  at  centennial  ball, 
262. 

Stevens,  Eben  S.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

Stevens,  Edward,  Hamilton  presents  his 
portrait  to,  470. 


Stevens,  Edwin  A.,  colonel  second  N.  J. 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  327. 

Stevens,  H.  S.,  second  N.  H.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  332. 

Stevens,  Henry,  mentioned,  450. 

Stevens,  John  Austin,  biographical  note 
of  general  Malcom,  35  ;  member  of 
committee  of  sons  of  the  revolution, 
106;  of  general  committee,  107,  114, 
236;  at  centennial  ball,  262;  subscriber 
to  ball,  267;  at  literary  exercises,  289; 
at  banquet,  360 

Stevens,  Josephine,  portrait  of  James 
Nicholson,  property  of,  facing  42,  516. 

Stevens,  the  Misses,  at  centennial  ball, 
261. 

Stevens,  Mrs.  Paran,  at  centennial  ball, 
and  banquet,  260,  356. 

Stevens,  Theodore  F.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  267. 

Stevens,  William  C,  member  of  assem- 
bly, N.  Y.,  242. 

Stevenson,  C.  C,  governor  of  Nevada, 
233- 

Stevenson,  J.  F.,  second  Pa.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  323. 

Steward,  Campbell,  member  of  floor  com 
mittee,  centennial  ball,  259  ;    at  ban- 
quet, 358. 

Stewart,  Anita,  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Stewart  Building,  N.  ,Y.  city,  general 
committee  headquarters  at,  118. 

Stewart,  Lady  Christiana,  wife  of  Cyrus 
Griffin,  59,  note. 

Stewart,  Clinton,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Stewart,  David,  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Stewart,  Emma  M.  C,  mentioned,  468. 
Stewart,  F.  Campbell,    mentioned,  86, 

note. 

Stewart,  Ferdinand  C,  portraits  of  Sam- 
uel Griffin,  property  of,  facing  III,  468. 

Stewart,  John,  Earl  of  Traquair,  Scot- 
land, 59,  note. 

Stewart,  John  A.,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  103;  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245  ;  at  banquet,  358; 
subscriber  to  celebration,  401. 

Stewart,  Lispenard,  member  of  general 
committee,  108,  114,  236;  of  committee 
on  exhibition,  109  ;  art  committee,  113, 
134,  142,  236,  409;  at  centennial  ball, 
260;  subscriber  to  ball,  267;  at  literary 
exercises,  2S9  ;  member  of  platform 
committee,  308,  309;  at  banquet,  356, 
361  ;  subscriber  to  celebration,  400; 
member  of  memorial  arch  committee, 
409;  portrait,  413;  subscriber  to  arch. 
414- 

Stewart,  Mrs.  Lispenard,  at  centennial 
ball,  261;  subscriber  to  memorial  arch, 
413- 

Stewart,  R.  P.,  mentioned,  271. 
Stewart,  T.  J.,  sixth  Pa.  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  323. 
Stewart,  William   R.,  at  banquet,   359  ; 

projector  of  Washington  memorial  arch, 

407;  treasurer  of  arch  committee,  408, 

409;  subscriber  to  arch,  413. 


IXDEX. 


653 


Stewart,  Mrs.  William  R.,  subscriber  to 

memorial  arch,  414. 
Stewart,  William  R.,  Jr.,  subscriber  to 

memorial  arch,  414. 
Stickney,  Harriet  C,  portrait  of  Jonathan 

Trumbull,  property  of,  facing  82,  535. 
Stickney,  Joseph,  subscriber  to  memorial 

arch,  414. 

Stikeman,  J.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Stiles,  Ezra,  president  of  Yale  college,  es- 
cort to  John  Adams,  18  ;  Franklin's 
letter  to,  relative  to  the  latter's  portrait, 
460. 

Stillings,  J.  J.,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 223. 

Stillman,  Thomas  B.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  224. 

Stimson,  Daniel  M.,  M.  D.,  invited  to 
meet  president  Harrison,  244;  sub- 
scriber to  centennial  ball,  267. 

Stiner,  Joseph  H.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

Stirling,  Lady,  portraits  painted  by  West 
and  unknown,  facing  57  ;  attends  as- 
sembly ball,  1789,  59;  notes  on  the  por- 
traits of,  422,  423,  530. 

Stirling,  Lord,  portrait  painted  by  West, 
facing  57;  notes  on  the  portraits  of, 
420,  423,  530;  mentioned,  443,  444. 

Stivers,  Moses  D.,  member  of  congress 
from  N.  Y.,  242. 

Stock  Exchange,  members  invited  to 
meet  president  Harrison,  245. 

Stockdale,  John,  London  publisher,  men- 
tioned, 423. 

Stocker,  Anthony  E.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  24S. 

Stockton,  Mrs.  Annie,  at  reception  to 
George  Washington.  Trenton,  N'.  J.,  26. 

Stockton,  Frank,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  244. 

Stockton,  Robert,  member  of  reception 
committee,  ancestry  of,  230. 

Stoddard,  Frederick  N.  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball  267. 

Stoddard,  J.  M  ,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Stoddard,  Lorimer,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

Stoddard,  Richard  H.,  member  of  general 
committee,  114,  236;  at  banquet,  360; 
extract  from  poem  by,  363,  379. 

Stokeley,  John  B.,  commissioner  from 
Tenn.,  216. 

Stokes,  Anson  P.,  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Stokes,  Caroline  P.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

Stokes,  Charles  S.,  member  of  floor  com- 
mittee, centennial  ball,  259. 

Stokes,  Edward  S..  subscriber  to  me- 
morial arch,  414. 

Stokes,  George  C,  mentioned,  79,  note. 

Stokes,  James,  at  centennial  ball,  262; 
subscriber  to  ball,  267;  at  banquet,  360. 

Stokes,  the  Misses,  at  centennial  ball, 
261. 

Stokes,  Thomas,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  24S;  at  banquet,  360. 


Stokes,  Walter  C,  paymaster-gen'l,  N.  Y., 
242;  at  banquet,  358. 

Stokes,  William  E.  D.,  member  of  gen- 
eral committee,  108,  114,  236;  secretary 
of  committee  on  entertainment,  109; 
member  of  committee  on  entertainment, 
113,  236,  256;  at  centennial  ball,  260; 
subscriber  to  ball,  267;  member  of  com- 
mittee of  St.  John's  lodge,  285;  at  liter- 
ary exercises,  289;  member  of  platform 
committee,  308,  309;  at  banquet,  356, 
359;  subscriber  to  celebration,  400. 

Stoll,  artist,  his  portrait  of  Thomas  Sum- 
ter, 532. 

Stone,  Charles  F.,  Columbia  institute 
cadets,  at  civic  parade,  386. 

Stone,  David,  mentioned,  80. 

Stone,  Dexter  L.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

Stone,  Frederick,  mentioned,  530. 

Stone,  Frederick  D.,  acknowledgment  to, 
in  preface,  v;  notes  on  the  portraits  of 
Franklin,  456,  458,  459,  note;  the  Peale 
portrait  of  major  Hamilton,  471. 

Stone,  Horatio,  sculptor,  his  busts  of 
Hamilton  and  Jefferson,  473,  4S9. 

Stone,  Margaret,  mentioned,  530. 

Stone,  Mason  A.,  invited  to  meet  presi 
dent  Harrison,  246. 

Stone,  Michael  Jenifer,  member  of  con- 
gress from  Md.,  80,  135,  232;  biograph- 
ical sketch  of,  80 ;  no  portrait  of, 
S30. 

Stone,  Miss  Romaine,  at  centennial  ball, 
262. 

Stone,  Samuel  H.,  commissioner  from 
Ky.,  216. 

Stone,  Thomas,  member  of  federal  con- 
vention, 1787,  136:  portrait  at  loan  ex- 
hibition, 145;  mentioned,  4S7,  note. 

Stone,  Mrs.  Thomas,  portrait  at  loan  ex- 
hibition, 145. 

Stone,  W.  B.,  commissioner  from  Kan- 
sas, 215;  aide  to  grand  marshal,  mili- 
tary parade,  320;  at  banquet,  359. 

Stone,  William,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 224. 

Stone,  William  J.,  at  banquet,  359. 

Stoneback,  William,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  247. 

Storch,  Henry,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 223. 

Storm  Engine  Company,  at  civic  parade, 
389- 

Storm,  G.  F.,  engraver  of  portrait  of 
Franklin,  459,  note. 

Storm,  George,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  247. 

Storm,  Thomas,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 224. 

Storm,  Walton,  alderman,  243;  at  ban- 
quet, 359. 

Storrs,  Rev.  Richard  S.,  member  of  citi- 
zens' committee,  104;  officiates  at  liter- 
ary exercises,  117,  129,  286,  28S,  291, 
297;  invited  to  meet  president  Harrison, 
244;  portrait,  297;  at  military  parade, 
317;  at  banquet,  360. 

Story,  Joseph,  associate-justice  of  the 
U.  S  supreme  court,  at  celebration  of 


the  semi-centennial  of  Washington's 
inauguration,  96. 

Stott,  Charles  E.,  aide  to  grand  marshal, 
military  parade,  320. 

Stowell,  Ira,  second  N.  II.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  332. 

Strahan,  James  S.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

Strahan,  John,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Stranahan,  James  S.  T.,  at  meeting  of 
chamber  of  commerce,  102. 

Strenburg,  N.,  ninth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  324. 

Strassburg,  August,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  243. 

Strauss,  Augusta,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  62,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

Strauss,  Frank  Y.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

Street,  H.  S. ,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son ,  222. 

Street,  William  A.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245;  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  267. 

Strenger,  Mary,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  24,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

Strine.  E.  Z.,  eighth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  324. 

Strong,  Caleb,  member  of  Mass.  conven 
tion,  2  ;  U.  S.  senator  from  Mass.,  6, 
iS,  135,  232  ;  escort  to  John  Adams,  iS  ; 
biographical  sketch  of,  76  ;  portraits, 
painted  by  Doyle,  Marston.  and  Stuart, 
facing  89  ;  member  of  federal  conven- 
tion, 1787,  136  ;  notes  on  the  portraits 
of,  418,  421,  422,  530. 

Strong,  Charles  E  ,  subscriber  to  memo- 
rial arch,  414. 

Strong,  F.,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
267. 

Strong,  J.  H.  W. ,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Strong,  James  R.,  escort    to  president 

Harrison,  225. 
Strong,  Murray  H.,  escort  to  president 

Harrison,  224  ;  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  267. 

Strong,  Richard  P.,  U.  S.  army,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  320. 

Strong.  Theodore,  mentioned,  530. 

Strong,  William,  ex  associate-justice  of 
United  States  supreme  court,  at  naval 
parade,  200,  219  ;  at  banquet,  359. 

Strong,  William  L.,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  104  ;  of  general  committee, 
114,  236  ;  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  246  ;  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267  ;  at  literary  exercises,  290  ;  at 
banquet,  360  ;  member  of  finance  com- 
mittee, 398  ;  subscriber  to  celebration, 
401  ;  member  of  memorial  arch  com- 
mittee, 409  ;  subscriber  to  arch,  413. 

Strong,  Wilson  B.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

Strouse,  Nathan,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Strutt,  Edward,  mentioned,  4S2. 


654       THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


Strutt,  Joseph,  the  painting,  U.  S.  com- 
missioners of  1782,  property  of,  482. 

Stryker,  William  S.,  adjutant-general  of 
N.  J.,  acknowledgment  to,  in  preface, 
vi  ;  at  commemorative  banquet  of  the 
society  of  the  Cincinnati,  150  ;  commis- 
sioner of  New  Jersey  to  the  celebration, 
208,  212,  213,  2l6,  233  ;  at  military 
parade,  326  ;  portrait,  327  ;  at  banquet, 
361  ;  note  on  the  portrait  of  general 
Knox,  493. 

Stuart,  Alexander  H.  H.,  mentioned,  489. 

Stuart,  Gilbert,  artist,  illustrations  of  por- 
traits painted  by,  of  John  Adams,  facing 
18,  150  ;  Mrs.  John  Adams,  facing  260  ; 
Fisher  Ames,  facing  65,  89  ;  Egbert 
Benson,  facing  65,  123  ;  Lambert  Cad- 
walader,  facing  72  ;  Matthew  Clarkson, 
facing  160;  Eleanor  Parke  Custis,  facing 
256  ;  William  B.  Giles,  facing  112  ; 
Samuel  Griffin,  facing  11 1;  David  Hum- 
phreys, facing  35;  Mrs.  William  Jack- 
son, facing  262  ;  John  Jay,  facing  31, 
155,  156;  Thomas  Jefferson,  facing  21, 
23.  25>  'SOI  William  S.  Johnson,  facing 
78;  Rufus  King,  facing  121  ;  Henry 
Knox,  facing  28;  chancellor  Livingston, 
facing  45  ;  Margaret  B,  Livingston, 
facing  172,  256  ;  James  Madison,  facing 
f>3,  US.  I5°!  Mrs.  James  Madison,  facing 
258  ;  Thomas  Mifflin,  facing  33  ;  James 
Monroe,  facing  106,  150;  Robert  Mor- 
ris, facing  69  ;  Mrs.  Robert  Morris, 
facing  59  ;  Samuel  A.  Otis,  facing  45  ; 
Mrs.  Josi;ih  Quincy,  facing  260  ;  John 
Randolph,  facing  160  ;  Theodore  Sedg- 
wick, facing  92  ;  William  L.  Smith, 
facing  102  ;  William  S.  Smith,  facing 
41  ;  Caleb  Strong,  facing  89  ;  Sir  John 
Temple,  facing  46;  Lady  Temple,  facing 
46  ;  George  Washington,  facing  4,  12, 
150  ;  Martha  Washington,  facing  12  ; 
his  portrait  painted  by  Sarah  Good- 
ridge,  99  ;  his  portraits  of  the  first  five 
presidents  of  U.  S.  exhibited,  1839,  98, 
99;  portraits  by,  at  loan  exhibition,  145; 
notes  on  his  portraits  of,  John  Adams, 
145,  424  ;  Mrs.  John  Adams,  423,  426  ; 
Fisher  Ames,  426;  Egbert  Benson,  145, 
428,  429  ;  Mrs.  William  Bingham,  479  ; 
Lambert  Cadwalader,  144,  433;  Harriet 
Chew,  437  ;  Matthew  Clarkson,  438  ; 
David  Cobb,  145;  Eleanor  P.  Custis,  441; 
Theodore  Foster,  447,  448  ;  William  B. 
Giles,  465  ;  Samuel  Griffin,  468  ;  David 
I  lumphreys,  475 ;  Mrs.  William  Jackson, 
479;  John  Jay,  145,  419,  479,  480; 
Thomas  Jefferson,  419,  424,  483,  485, 
note  ;  William  S.  Johnson,  489  ;  Rufus 
King,  145,  490;  Mrs.  Rufus  King,  491  ; 
Henry  Knox,  492;  Mrs.  Lawrence  Lewis, 
145,  441  ;  chancellor  Livingston,  145, 
500;  Mrs.  Margaret  B.  Livingston,  419, 
501  ;  James  Madison,  504  ;  Mrs.  James 
Madison,  419,  507;  Thomas  Mifflin,  508; 
James  Monroe,  419,  510,  511  ;  Robert 
Morris.  513  ;  Mrs.  Robert  Morris,  514  ; 
Samuel  A.  Otis,  517  ;  Mrs.  Richard 
Peters,  479  ;  Mrs.  Josiah  Quincy,  520  ; 
John  Randolph,  522;  George  Read,  522, 


523  ;  Philip  J.  Schuyler,  145;  Theodore 
Sedgwick,  524  ;  William  L.  Smith,  527  ; 
William  S.  Smith,  528  ;  Caleb  Strong, 
530  ;  Gilbert  Stuart,  531  ;  Sir  John 
Temple,  420,  532  ;  Lady  Temple,  533  ; 
Stephen  Van  Rensselaer,  145,  480;  John 
V'ining,  538  ;  Mrs.  John  Vining,  538  ; 
George  Washington,  542,  543,  544,  545; 
Martha  Washington,  546  ;  notes  on  the 
portraits  of  the  artist,  421,  531. 

Stuart,  Jane,  artist,  her  portraits  of  Rufus 
King,  and  Gilbert  Stuart,  491,  531. 

Stuart,  Mrs.  Robert  L.,  subscriber  to  me- 
morial arch,  414. 

Stuart,  W. ,  artist,  portrait  of  Mrs.  Theo- 
dore Sedgwick,  attributed  to,  525. 

Sturges,  Henry  C,  commissioner  from 
Conn.,  215. 

Sturges,  Arthur  P.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

Sturges,  Frederick,  mentioned,  531. 

Sturges,  Jonathan,  member  of  congress 
from  Conn.,  11,  135,  232;  biographical 
sketch  of,  73;  no  portrait  of,  418,  531. 

Sturges,  William  C,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  245. 

Sturgis,  Russell,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  244  ;  member  of  me- 
morial arch  committee,  408,  409. 

Stutzer,  Herman,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Stuyvesant  Institute,  rooms  of  N.  Y.  his- 
torical society  at,  96. 

Stuyvesant,  Peter  G.,  presides  at  celebra- 
tion of  the  semi-centennial  of  Washing- 
ton's inauguration,  96,  97;  reception  to 
guests,  96. 

Stuyvesant,  Rutherfurd,  member  of  gen- 
eral committee,  108,  114,  236;  of  ex- 
ecutive committee,  10S  ;  of  exhibition, 
109;  art  committee,  113,  134,  142,  236, 
409;  at  centennial  ball,  262;  subscriber 
to  ball,  267;  at  banquet,  360;  subscriber 
to  celebration,  401;  member  of  memo- 
rial arch  committee,  409;  subscriber  to 
arch,  413. 

Subscribers  to  Wall  street  arch,  253;  ball, 
262;  celebration,  400;  Washington  me- 
morial arch,  413. 

Sudbury,  Mass.,  reception  of  John  Adams 
at,  17. 

Sugar  Refiners,  representatives  invited  to 
meet  president  Harrison,  246. 

Sullivan,  Algernon  S.,  member  of  citi- 
zens' committee,  103,  104 

Sullivan,  Arthur  T.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267;  at  banquet,  358. 

Sullivan,  George,  mentioned,  533. 

Sullivan,  George  W.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  267. 

Sullivan,  Richard  J.,  alderman,  243. 

Sullivan,  Timothy  D. ,  member  of  assem- 
bly, N.  Y.,  242. 

Sullivan,  William,  mentioned,  469. 

Sullivan,  Vail  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  cele- 
bration, 401. 

Sully,  Blanche,  note  on  the  Sully  por- 
trait of  Elias  Boudinot,  429;  journal  of 
Thomas  Sully,  property  of,  435,  436, 
485.  493.  506,  510,  535. 


Sully,  Lawrence,  artist,  his  portrait  of 
Cyrus  Griffin,  facing  156;  notes  on  his 
portraits  of  Cyrus  Griffin,  420,  422,468; 
of  Patrick  Henry,  474. 

Sully,  Thomas,  artist,  illustrations  of 
portraits  painted  by,  of  Elias  Boudinot, 
facing  72  ;  Charles  Carroll,  facing  97, 
99;  Patrick  Henry,  facing  166;  Thomas 
Jefferson,  facing  21,  23  ;  James  Madi- 
son, facing  63;  James  Monroe,  facing 
65,  106  ;  Gouverneur  Morris,  facing 
160;  George  Read,  facing  67  ;  Thomas 
Sumter,  facing  102  ;  Jonathan  Trum- 
bull, facing  82;  Mrs.  Jeremiah  Wads- 
worth,  facing  262  ;  number  of  portraits 
in  volume,  417,  419,  420;  notes  on  his 
portraits  of  Elias  Boudinot,  145,  429, 
430;  Lambert  Cadwalader,  433;  Charles 
Carroll,  435,  436  ;  Mrs.  James  Fairlie, 
145  ;  Benjamin  Franklin,  461  ;  Patrick 
Henry,  474  ;  Thomas  Jefferson,  485, 
486;  Henry  Knox,  493;  Lafayette,  494; 
James  Madison,  506;  James  Monroe, 
510;  Gouverneur  Morris,  145,  513; 
George  Read,  522,  523;  Thomas  Sum- 
ter, 531  ;  Jonathan  Trumbull,  535  ; 
Catharine  Wadsworth,  538,  539  ;  Mrs. 
Jeremiah  Wadsworth,  540. 

Sully,  Wilberforce,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

Sumner,  Charles,  mentioned,  451,  482. 

Sumner,  Miss,  portrait  of  Franklin,  prop- 
erty of,  459. 

Sumner,  Thomas  W.,  portrait  of  Benja- 
min Franklin,  property  of,  457  ;  men- 
tioned, 459. 

Sumter,  Thomas,  member  of  congress 
from  S.  C,  81,  136,  232  ;  biographical 
sketch  of,  81  ;  portraits,  painted  by 
Mitchell,  C.  W.  Peale,  and  Sully,  fac- 
ing 102;  notes  on  the  portraits  of,  418, 
421,  531- 

Sunderland,  Rev.  Byron,  officiates  at 
centennial  celebration  services,  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  404. 

Supple,  J.  F.,  fifth  Md.  regiment,  at  mil- 
itary parade,  330. 

Supplee,  J.  Frank,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

Surget,  Mrs.  C.  B.,  the  Catlin  portraits 
of  James  Madison,  503. 

Sutherland,  Charles,  U.  S.  army,  248. 

Sutton,  J.  Holden,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

Suydam,  Samuel  A.,  at  literary  exercises. 
290. 

Swaine,  John,  printer  of  the  acts  of  con- 
gress, 1789,  91. 

Swan,  Mrs.  Benjamin  L. ,  Jr.,  subscriber 
to  memorial  arch,  414. 

Swan,  Charles,  one  of  the  crew  of  the 
president's  barge,  which  conveyed 
Washington  to  N.  Y.,  28,  note. 

Swan,  Frederick  G.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  225. 

Swan,  W.  J  ,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Swann,  James,  member  of  citizens'  com- 
mittee, 104 
Swann,  Thomas,  mentioned,  435. 


INDEX. 


655 


Swanson,  J.  H.,  sixty-fifth  N.  Y.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  339. 

Swanston,  Lieutenant,  first  Mo.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  343. 

Swartwout,  John  H.,  escort  to  president 
I  larrison,  224. 

Swartwout,  Satterlee,  escort  to  president 
I  larrison,  224. 

Swasey,  G  H.,  fifth  Mass.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  329. 

Swasey,  John  II.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

Swayne,  Wager,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267  ;  at  banquet,  360. 

Swazey,  F.  I3.,  forty-seventh  N.  Y.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  337. 

Swediaur,  F.,  mentioned,  451. 

Swedish  Societies,  at  civic  parade,  facing 
392.  393- 

Sweelv,  William,  twelfth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  325. 

Sweeney,  F.  G.,  sixth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  323. 

Sweet,  Edward,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  cel- 
ebration, 401. 

Sweet,  William  L.,  state  senator,  N.  Y. ,  242. 

Sweet,  Z.,  engraver  of  portrait  of  Frank- 
lin, 458. 

Sweetser,  Edward  R.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  267. 

Sweetser,  Howard  P.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  267. 

Sweetser,  Pembrook  &  Co.,  signs  call  for 
citizens'  committee,  104  ;  subscribers 
to  memorial  arch,  414. 

Swezey,  Christopher,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  267. 

Swift,  Charles  N.,  of  the  loyal  legion, 
252  ;  aide  to  grand  marshal,  military 
parade,  320. 

Swift,  Edwin  E.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 225  ;  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Swift,  M.  R.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Swineford,  Alfred  P.,  commissioner  from 

Alaska,  233. 
Swiss  Centennial    Committee,    at  civic 

parade,  388. 
Su  ithiod  Singing  Society,  at  civic  parade, 

393- 

Switzer  Council,  at  civic  parade,  392. 
Switzerland,  represented  in  tableau,  civic 

parade,  388. 
Sword,  James  B.,  artist,  his  portraits  of 

Henry  Knox  and  Arthur  St.  Clair,  492, 

523- 

Sykes,  William,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Syme,  J.  N.,  assistant  adjutant-general, 
G.  A.  R.,  at  military  parade,  345. 

Symington,  James,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  244. 

Symons,  J.  W.,  first  Vt.  regiment,  at  mil- 
itary parade,  341. 

Sypher  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  celebration, 
401. 

Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  fortieth  and  forty-first 
separate  companies,  with  fifth  battery, 
at  military  parade,  339. 


Taber,  E.  W.,  Iluntting  post,  G.  A.  R., 
at  military  parade,  346. 

Tableaux  at  the  civic  and  industrial  pa 
rade,  May  1,  1889,  the  declaration  of 
independence.  Washington  and  his  gen- 
erals, 3S5  ;  Washington  crossing  (he 
Delaware,  Washington  at  Valley  Forge, 
386  ;  Washington's  farewell  to  his  offi- 
cers, 386,  396  ;  Washington  resigning 
his  commission,  386  ;  inauguration  of 
Washington,  386,  396  ;  States  of  N.  Y., 
Va.,  Mass.,  Delaware,  Md.,  Pa.,  and 
Ga.,  386,  387  ;  Switzerland,  388  ;  brig- 
antine  Liberty,  Columbus,  and  Wash- 
ington, 392  ;  representations  of  the  in- 
fluence of  the  German  element  in  the 
development  of  the  nation's  progress, 
393-395  ;  the  World  moves  on,  South- 
ern negro  home,  395  ;  Russian  scene, 
manufacturing  industries,  396,  397. 

Tabor,  Charles  F.,  attorney-general,  N.Y., 
242  ;  at  banquet,  359. 

Tafft,  Moses,  at  civic  parade,  391. 

Taft,  Charles  H.,  portrait  of  Joshua 
Seney,  property  of,  525. 

Taft,  Joseph,  his  diagram  of  the  interior 
of  metropolitan  opera-house,  showing 
location  of  guests  at  banquet,  357  ;  at 
banquet,  360. 

Taft,  Royal  C,  governor  of  R.  I.,  214 
216,  233  ;  at  reception  to  president 
Harrison,  241  ;  at  centennial  ball,  257  ; 
at  military  parade,  340  ;  portrait,  340  ; 
at  banquet,  360. 

Taggart.  Henry  L.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

Tailer,  Edward  N.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  267;  at  literary  exercises, 
290;  at  banquet,  358;  subscriber  to 
memorial  arch,  414. 

Tailer,  Fanny,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 

Tailer,  E.  N.  &  W.  H.,  &  Co.,  subscribers 
to  celebration,  401. 

Tailof,  Ivan,  escort  to  president  Harrison, 
221. 

Taintor,  Giles  E.,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  267;  at  banquet,  360. 
Tait,  William,  alderman,  243;  at  banquet, 

359- 

Talbot,  Theodore  B.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  225. 

Talcott,  J.  B.,  at  banquet,  358. 

Talcott,  James,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267;  at  literary  exercises,  290;  at 
banquet,  358. 

Talcott,  Miss,  mentioned,  526. 

Tallmadge,  Frederick  S.,  acknowledg- 
ment to,  in  preface,  vii;  chairman  of 
committee,  sons  of  the  revolution,  106; 
member  of  general  committee,  107, 
114,  236;  of  executive  committee,  108; 
plan  and  scope  committee,  108,  109, 
112,  236;  committee  on  states,  109, 
113;  his  address  at  banquet  of  the 
society  of  the  Cincinnati,  151,  158;  at 
services  St.  Paul's  chapel,  170;  escort 
to  president  Harrison,  224,  225;  at  re- 
ception and  banquet  to  the  president, 
232,  234;  at  centennial  ball,  261;  sub- 
scriber to  ball,  267;  at  military  parade, 


317;  at  banquet,  metropolitan  opera- 
house,  356,  360;  subscriber  '.0  celebra- 
tion, 401. 

Tallmadge,  Mrs.  Frederick  S.,  at  cen- 
tennial ball,  261. 

Tallmadge,  George  C,  mentioned,  439. 

Tallmadge,  Henry  O.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  225. 

Talmage,  Daniel,  Sons,  subscribers  to  the 
Wall  street  arch,  253. 

Talmage,  John  F.,  at  literary  exercises, 
290. 

Talmage,  Rev.  T,  DeWitt,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  244. 

Tammany  Society,  N.  Y.,  at  civic  parade, 
390;  view  of,  390;  subscriber  to  me- 
morial arch,  413. 

Tarns,  J.  F.,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
267. 

Tandy,  Charles  W.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Taney,  Roger  B.,  chief  justice  U.  S. 
supreme  court,  at  celebration  of  semi- 
centennial of  Washington's  inaugura- 
tion, 96. 

Tanney,  J.  B.,  commissioner  from  W.  Va., 
216. 

Tapp,  Edward  W.,  at  banquet  of  society 
of  the  Cincinnati,  150;  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  225. 

Tappan,  James  C,  commissioner  from 
Arkansas,  215,  233. 

Tappan,  Winthrop,  portraits  of  Sir  John 
and  Lady  Temple,  property  of,  facing 
46,  532. 

Tappen,  Frederick  D.,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  103;  of  general  committee, 
108,  114,  236;  of  army  committee,  112, 
113,  236,  311,  317,  385;  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  267;  receives  president 
Harrison  at  grand  stand,  military 
parade,  317;  at  banquet,  metropolitan 
opera-house,  361  ;  at  civic  parade, 
385. 

Tappin,  James  W.,  at  banquet,  359. 

Tarleton,  Col.  Banastre,  mentioned,  427. 

Tate,  Margaret,  at  reception  to  George 
Washington,  Trenton,  N.  J.,  26,  note. 

Tavera,  Chevalier  Schmit  von,  minister 
from  Austria-Hungary,  invited  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  257. 

Taylor,  Daniel  M.,  U.  S.  army,  at  ban- 
quet of  society  of  the  Cincinnati,  151; 
his  report  on  the  condition  of  the 
troops,  at  military  parade,  347. 

Taylor,  Douglas,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Taylor,  Francis  B. ,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  225. 

Taylor,  G.  R.,  fourteenth  Pa.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  326. 

Taylor,  George  W.,  fourth  Va.  regiment, 
at  milit  iry  parade,  333. 

Taylor,  H.  A.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Taylor,  H.  A.  C,  at  banquet,  356. 

Taylor,  Henry  C,  at  banquet  society  of 
the  Cincinnati,  151. 

Taylor,  Henry  J.,  third  Mo.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  343. 


656        THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


Taylor.  I.  Monroe,  subscriber  lo  the  Wall 
street  arch,  253. 

Taylor,  James  H.,  &  Co.,  subscribers  10 
the  Wall  street  arch,  253. 

Taylor,  James  W.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  222. 

Taylor,  Joseph  D.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Taylor,  Miss  L.  B.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

Taylor,  Mabel,  delegate  from  Normal 
college,  reception  of  president  Harri- 
son, city  hall,  237. 

Taylor,  P.  B.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Taylor,  Robert  L.,  governor  of  Tenn., 
233- 

Taylor,  Sutherland  G.,  escort  to  president 
I  larrison,  225. 

Taylor,  Sydney  W.,  U.  S.  army,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  320. 

Taylor,  W.  A.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Taylor,  Walter  H.,  commissioner  from 
Va  ,  208,  212,  216. 

Taylor,  Rev.  William  M.,  one  of  the 
committee  of  clergymen  on  religious 
services,  124,  125  ;  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  244. 

Taylor  &  Taube,  subscribers  to  the  Wall 
street  arch,  253. 

Teall,  Oliver  S. ,  aide  to  grand  marshal, 
military  parade,  320. 

Tefft,  William  E.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  24C. 

Tefft,  William  H.,  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.(  242. 

Tefft,  Weller  &  Co.,  signs  call  for  citi- 
zens' committee,  104 ;  subscribers  to 
celebration  and  memorial  arch,  400, 
414. 

Telegraph,  representatives  of,  invited  to 
meet  president  Harrison,  245. 

Temperance  Societies,  at  civic  parade, 
386,  397. 

Temple,  Augusta,  notes  on  the  portrait 

of.  532,  533- 

Temple,  Grenville,  portrait,  painted  by 
Trumbull,  facing  46  ;  notes  on  the  por- 
trait of,  532,  533. 

Temple,  Sir  John,  British  consul-general 
at  N.  Y.,  his  residence  illuminated  on 
the  arrival  of  Washington,  31  ;  family 
of,  31,  note;  mural  tablet  to  his  memory 
in  St.  Paul's  chapel,  31,  note  ;  informs 
his  government  of  the  inauguration  of 
Washington  and  Adams,  31,  note;  guest 
of  John  Jay,  32,  note;  portraits,  painted 
by  Copley,  Stuart  and  Trumbull,  facing 
46  ;  attends  assembly  ball,  1789,  59  ; 
notes  on  the  portraits  of,  420,  421,  422, 
532. 

Temple,  Lady,  portraits,  painted  by  Cop- 
ley, Stuart  and  Trumbull,  facing  46  ; 
attends  assembly  ball,  1789,  59;  notes 
on  the  portraits  of,  421,  422,  532. 

Temple-Bowdoin,  James,  portraits  of 
Sir  John  and  Lady  Temple,  property 
of,  533- 

Tennessee,  action  of  the  legislature  re- 


specting the  celebration,  103  ;  gover- 
nor and  commissioner  of,  216,  233  ; 
admitted  into  the  union,  233. 

Tennessee  Historical  Society,  portraits  of 
John  Sevier,  property  of,  525,  526. 

Tcnnev,  Charles  H.,  subscriber  to  me- 
morial arch,  414. 

Terrace  Bowling  Club,  subscribes  to  me- 
morial arch,  414. 

Terrill,  Edward,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Territories,  governors  and  commissioners 
of,  233;  governors  at  reception  to  pres- 
ident Harrison,  241. 

Terry,  Gen.  Alfred  IL,  commissioner 
from  Conn.,  215. 

Terry,  Edmund,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Terry,  Edmund  R.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

Terry,  Frank,  at  civic  parade,  390. 

Terry,  John  T.,  subscriber  to  celebration 
and  memorial  arch,  401,  414. 

Terry,  Gen.   Nathaniel,  mentioned,  538. 

Terry,  Mrs.  Nathaniel,  see  Wadsworth, 
Catharine. 

Terry,  Mrs.  Nathaniel,  portraits  of  Jere- 
miah and  Daniel  Wadsworth,  property 
of,  540. 

Terry,  Rev.  Roderick,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  244. 

Tetuan,  Duke  of,  minister  of  state,  Spain, 
his  letter  respecting  the  miniature  of 
Don  Diego  de  Gardoqui,  463,  note. 

Texas,  governor  and  commissioner,  216, 
233  ;  admitted  into  the  union,  233 ; 
troops,  at  military  parade,  344,  346. 

Thacher,  George,  member  of  congress 
from  Mass.,  8,  135,  232  ;  biographical 
sketch  of,  76  ;  portrait,  painted  by 
Williams,  facing  91  ;  notes  on  the 
portraits  of,  423,  533. 

Thacher,  J.  H.,  portrait  of  George 
Thacher,   property   of,  533. 

Thacher,  James,  portrait  of  George 
Thacher,   property  of,  533. 

Thacher,  Miss,  portrait  of  George  Thacher, 
property  of,  533. 

Thacher,  Peter,  mentioned,  76  ;  portrait 
of  George  Thacher,  property  of,  533. 

Thackera  &  Wallace,  engravers  of  por- 
trait of  Franklin,  462,  note. 

Thatcher,  Henry  K.,  portrait  of  gen. 
Knox,  property  of,  492. 

Thatcher,  Lucy  F.,  portrait  of  gen.  Knox, 
property  of,  492. 

Thayer,  Mrs.  C.  Van  Rensselaer,  portrait 
of  John  Jay,  property  of,  facing  155,  480. 

Thayer,  John  M.,  governor  of  Nebraska, 
21 5.  233,  at  reception  to  president 
Harrison,  241. 

Thayer,  Maj.  Sylvanus,  mentioned,  511. 

Thebaud,  P.  G.,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Thebaud,  Paul  L.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  2C7. 

Theodor  Koerner  Liedertafel,  at  Madison 
square  concert,  350. 

Thoman,  L.  D.,  address  at  banquet, 
Chicago,  40C. 

Thomas,  David  P.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  248. 


Thomas,  Isaiah,  portrait  of,  mentioned, 
533,  note. 

Thomas,  Mrs.  M.  Louise,  at  centennial 
ball,  262. 

'Thomas,  Ransom  H.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  245. 

Thomas,  Samuel,  subscriber  to  celebra- 
tion and  memorial  arch,  401,  414. 

Thomas,  Seth  E.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

Thomas,  T.  Gaillard,  M.  D.,  invited  to 
meet  president  Harrison,  244. 

Thomas,  Theodore,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247  ;  director  of  Madi- 
son square  concert,  350  ;  proceeds  of 
concert  to  memorial  arch,  413. 

Thomas,  Thomas  W.,  first  Ohio  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  342. 

Thomas,  W.  H.,  commissioner  from  Ky.. 
216. 

Thomas,    William   G.,   invited  to  meet 

president  Harrison,  246. 
Thomas,  Rev.  William  R.,  officiates  at 

St.  Paul's  chapel,  273. 
Thomas,    William    W.,    at   banquet  of 

society  of  the  Cincinnati,  150. 
Thompson,  Alexander  R.,  Jr.,  escort  to 

president  Harrison,  225. 
Thompson,  Amanda,  delegate  from  public 

school,  No.  44,  reception  of  president 

Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 
Thompson,  Ann,  wife  of  Elbridge  Gerry, 

441,  note. 

Thompson,  Augustus  C,  portrait  of  Caleb 

Strong,  property  of,  facing  89,  530. 
Thompson,    Catharine,    wife  of  Isaac 

Coles,  441,  note. 
Thompson,  Charles,  one  of  the  crew  of 

the  brigantine  Liberty,  at  civic  parade, 

391. 

Thompson,  E.  O.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

Thompson,  Frank,  third  battalion,  D.  C, 
at  military  parade,  344  ;  at  banquet, 

360. 

Thompson,    Frederick    D.,   member  of 

reception  committee,  ancestry  of,  230  ; 

subscriber  to  centennial  ball,  267  ;  at 

banquet,  360. 
Thompson,  H.  C,  portrait  of  Franklin, 

property  of,  459,  facing  484. 
Thompson,  Henry  L.,  artist,  his  portrait 

of  Jonathan  Trumbull,  535. 
Thompson,  J.  C  ,  third  Pa.  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  324. 
Thompson,  J.  R.,  escort   to  president 

Harrison,  222. 
Thompson,  James,  family  of,  441,  note. 
Thomson,  Mrs.  James,  attends  assembly 

ball,  1789,  59. 
Thompson,  John,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  267. 

Thompson,  John  E  ,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  246. 

Thompson,  Launt,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  244. 

Thompson,  R.  M.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Thompson,  S.  L.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  222. 


IXDEX. 


657 


Thompson,  Smith,  associate-justice  of  the 
supreme  court  of  U.  S.,  at  celebration 
of  the  semi-centennial  of  Washington's 
inauguration,  96. 

Thompson,  Thomas  L.,  commissioner 
from  Cal.,  215. 

Thompson,  Von  Beverhout,  escort  to 
president  Harrison,  225  ;  at  centennial 
ball,  262. 

Thompson,  W.  E.,  fourteenth  Pa.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  326. 

Thompson,  W.  F.,  commissioner  from 
West  Va..  216. 

Thompson,  W.  S.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  222. 

Thompson,  William  G.,  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  267. 

Thompson,  William  R.,  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  225. 

Thomsen,  Baron  C.  de,  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  264. 

Thomsen  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  the  Wall 
street  arch,  253. 

Thomson.  Charles,  appointed  by  congress, 
to  inform  Washington  of  his  election  to 
the  office  of  president  of  U.  S.,  13  ; 
sketch  and  services  of,  18,  404  ;  his 
journey  to  Mount  Vernon,  19  ;  his 
interview  with  Washington,  19 ;  his 
wife,  19,  note;  congress  presents  silver 
urn  to,  19,  note;  accompanies  Washing- 
ton to  X.  Y.,  21,  22;  portraits,  painted 
by  Du  Simitiere,  C.  W.  Peale.  and 
Trumbull,  facing  33,  172;  secretary  of 
continental  congress,  136;  notes  on  the 
portraits  of,  420,  422,  481,  note,  533. 

Thomson,  Frank,  vice-president  Pa.  rail- 
way, president  Harrison's  letter  to,  187; 
invited  to  meet  the  president,  245. 

Thomson,  J.,  engraver  of  portrait  of 
Franklin,  450. 

Thomson,  James,  extract  from  his  poem, 
the  seasons,  431. 

Thomson,  James,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Thorn,  B.  C,  twenty-third  X.  V.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  337. 

Thorn,  Conde  R.,  at  centennial  ball,  262, 
subscriber  to  ball,  267. 

Thornall,  Clarence  E.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison.  225. 

Thornall,  Edward  V.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  225. 

Thorne,  L.  Mortimer,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Thorne,  Robert,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 225. 

Thornton,  William,  his  portraits  of 
Thomas  Jefferson,  4S5,  and  note. 

Thornton,  William  H.,  colonel  provisional 
regiment,  R.  I.,  at  military  parade.  340. 

Thouron,  artist,  his  portrait  of  Franklin, 
420,  422,  459,  facing  484,  544. 

Throckmorton,  Charles  B.,  U.  S.  army, 
at  military  parade,  320. 

Throop,  George  E.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

Thule  Society,  at  civic  parade,  393. 

Thurber,  Francis  B.,  member  of  commit- 
tee, chamber  of  commerce  102. 
84 


Thurber,   Horace    K.,  invited    to  meet 

president  Harrison,  246. 
Thurber,    Rev.,  officiates  at  centennial 

celebration  services,  Paris,  France,  406. 
Thurston,    G.    P.,   commissioner  from 

Tenn.,  216. 
Thurston,  John  M.,  address  at  banquet, 

Chicago,  406. 
Thurston,  Xathaniel  B.,  twenty-second 

regiment,  X.  Y.,  at  military  parade.  335. 
Thyng,  Culver  G.,  forty-third  separate 

company.  X.  Y.,  at  military  parade,  339. 
Tichnor,  Isaac,  agent  from  Vt.  to  con- 
gress, 1789,  12,  note. 
Tiebout,  Cornelius,  engraver  of  portraits 

of  Jay,  and  Jefferson,  480,  4S7,  4S9. 
Tiebout,  C.  &  W.,  mentioned,  439. 
Tieman,  H.  X.,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  267. 

Tiemann.  Daniel  F.,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  105;  of  general  committee, 
107,  114,  236. 

Tiemann,  William  F.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  246. 

Tiernay,  Ella  B..  delegate  from  public 
school  Xo.  66,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  23S. 

Tiffany,  Belmont,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

Tiffany.  Charles  L.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247  ;  at  banquet,  360; 
subscriber  to  celebration,  400. 

Tiffany,  Louis  C,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  244. 

Tiffany,  Rev.  Otis  H.,  favors  holding 
religious  services  April  30,  18S9,  123. 

Tiffany  &  Co.,  signs  call  for  citizens' 
committee,  104;  badges  of  committees 
prepared  by,  139  ;  subscribers  to  me- 
morial arch,  413. 

Tiger  Hose  Company,  at  civic  parade, 
388 

Tilden,  P.  S.,  seventy-first  X.  Y.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  335. 

Tilford,  Frank,  at  centennial  ball.  262; 
subscriber  to  ball,  267. 

Tilford,  Mrs.  Frank,  at  centennial  ball, 
262. 

Tilghman,  Oswald,  portrait  of  genera! 
Knox,  property  of,  facing  23,  145,  492; 
at  banquet  of  society  of  the  Cincinnati, 
151;  commissioner  from  Md.,  216  ;  at 
reception  to  president  Harrison,  232, 
248. 

Tillinghast,  James,  portrait  of  Theodore 
Foster,  property  of,  facing  126,  447. 

Tillinghast.  William  H..  member  of  citi- 
zens' committee,  104  ;  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison.  225  ;  at  centennial  ball, 
262;  subscriber  to  ball,  267. 

Tillinghast,  Mrs.  William  H.,  at  centen- 
nial ball,  261. 

Tillotson,  Thomas,  surgeon-general  U.  S. 
army,  283. 

Tillotson,  Margaret,  mentioned,  501. 

Tillotson,  the  Misses,  portrait  of  Mrs. 
Margaret  B.  Livingston,  property  of, 
facing  256,  501. 

Tim,  A.  G.,  fourteenth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  326. 


Timpson,  A.  T.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 223. 

Tintner,  Rev.  Moritz,  favors  holding 
religious  services  April  30,  1889,  123. 

Tisdale,  Elkanah,  artist,  his  portrait  of 
Faith  Trumbull,  534. 

Toasts,  at  dinner  to  colonel  Hartley, 
York,  Pa.,  1789,  9,  note ;  dinner  to 
Washington,  Alexandria,  Va.,  and 
Philadelphia,  1789,  21,  24  ;  at  semi- 
centennial celebration  of  Washington's 
inauguration,  9S  ;  at  commemorative 
banquet  of  society  of  the  Cincinnati, 
1889,  152;  at  banquet  to  president  Har- 
rison, 235;  banquet  metropolitan  opera- 
house,  362  ;  banquet  of  union  league 
club,  Chicago,  405. 

Tobacco  Industry,  represented,  civic  pa- 
rade, 395. 

Tobacco  Trade,  representatives  invited 
to  meet  president  Harrison,  247. 

Tobias,  Joseph  F.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

Tod,  J.  Kennedy,  at  banquet,  360. 

Tod,  J.  Kennedy,  &  Co. ,  subscribers  to 
celebration  and  memorial  arch,  401 ,  414. 

Todd,  John  Payne,  mentioned,  4SS,  504, 
507,  508. 

Todd,  Louis  L.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Todd,  Thomas  H.  P.,  first  Pa.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  324. 

Toedt,  Theodore  J.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  267. 

Toler,  Devereau,  member  of  reception 
committee,  ancestry  of,  230. 

Toler,  J.  W.  de  Peyster,  member  of 
reception  committee,  230. 

Tolman,  S.  T.,  fifth  Mass.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  329. 

Tomlinson,  John  C,  member  of  com- 
mittee of  sons  of  the  revolution,  106  ; 
of  general  committee,  107,  114,  236; 
secretary  of  army  committee,  109,  113, 
20S,  211,  236,  310,  311,  317,  397;  escort 
to  president  Harrison,  225  ;  subscriber 
to  centennial  ball,  267  ;  receives  the 
president  at  grand  stand,  military  pa- 
rade, 317  ;  at  banquet.  361. 

Tomlinson,  Theodore  E.,  Jr.,  escort  to 
president  Harrison,  225. 

Tompkins,  Charles  H.,  U.  S.  army,  248. 

Tompkins  Square,  X.  Y.  city,  display  of 
fireworks,  352. 

Tongueto  Tasso,  at  civic  parade,  392. 

Toppan,  Christopher,  notes  on  the  por- 
trait of,  423,  551  ;  portrait,  550. 

Torrey,  Herbert  G..  at  banquet  society  of 
the  Cincinnati,  150. 

Torrey,  R.  A.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Toucey,  J.  M.,  at  banquet.  359. 

Tower,  VV.  A.,  commissioner  from  Mass., 
216,  233  ;  at  banquet,  360. 

Tower,  Gen.  Z.  B.,  at  reception  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  232. 

Towle,  Stevenson,  park  commissioner, 
243. 

Towne,  George  E.,  member  of  assembly, 
X.  Y.,  242. 


658       THE  CENTENNIAL  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


Tonnes,  F.lizabclh  F.,  portrait  of  William 
B.  Giles,  property  of,  facing  112,  465. 

Townes,  Francis  T.,  mentioned,  85,  note; 
portrait  of  William  B.  Giles,  property 
of,  facing  112.  464. 

Townsend,  C.  H.,  assistant  adjutant-gen- 
eral first  brigade  Pa.  troops,  military 
parade,  323. 

Townsend.  C.  J.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 223. 

Townsend,  Charles  A.,  member  of  citi- 
zens' committee,  104. 

Townsend,  E.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Townsend,  E.  D.,  portraits  of  Elbridge 
Gerry  and  wife,  property  of,  facing  59, 
463,  464. 

Townsend,  Edward  M.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  246. 

Townsend,  George  M.,  fifth  N.  J.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  327. 

Townsend,  George  W. ,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  267. 

Townsend,  John  J.,  member  of  floor  com- 
mittee, centennial  ball,  259. 

Townsend,  John  P.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  245. 

Townsend,  Robert,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  225. 

Townsend,  Solomon  S.,  member  of  as- 
sembly, N.  Y.,  242. 

Townsley,  Clarence  P.,  U.  S.  army,  at 
military  parade,  320. 

Tracey,  Charles,  member  of  congress 
from  N.  Y.,  242. 

Tracy,  Benjamin  F.,  secretary  of  U.  S. 
navy,  orders  vessels  to  take  part  in  the 
naval  parade,  190  ;  at  naval  parade, 
198,  219;  at  reception  to  president  Har- 
rison, 225,  227,  229,  244;  at  banquet  to 
the  president,  234;  portrait,  facing  234; 
at  centennial  ball,  259;  at  literary  exer- 
cises, 285;  at  military  parade,  316;  at 
banquet,  metropolitan  opera-house,  359. 

Tracy,  Mrs.  Benjamin  F.,  at  centennial 
ball,  259. 

Tracy,  J.  Evarts,  portrait  of  Roger  Sher- 
man, property  of,  facing  80,  526. 

Trade  and  Transportation,  representa- 
tives of  the  board  of,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  246. 

Trask,  Gustavus  D.  S.,  member  of  marine 
society,  one  of  the  crew  of  the  presi- 
dent's barge,  202;  portrait,  203;  escort 
to  president  Harrison,  225. 

Trask,  Spencer,  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Traveler's  Rest,  country-seat  of  general 
Gates,  3,  note, 

Travers,  John,  mentioned,  519. 

Travis,  J.  Coleridge,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  267. 

Travis,  Pierce  M.  B.,  U.  S.  army,  at 
military  parade,  320. 

Treadway,  Thomas  J.,  member  of  assem- 
bly, N.  Y.,  242. 

Treadwell,  George  H.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  247. 

Treadwell,  John  D.,  commissioner  from 
Florida,  215;  at  banquet,  359. 


Treat,  Charles  G.,  U.  S.  army,  aide  to 
grand  marshal,  military  parade,  319. 

Tregcllas,  S.  R.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

T  remain,  Henry  E.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  222,  241,  251,  253;  at  recep- 
tion of  justices  U.  S.  supreme  court,  402. 

Trenary,  R.  E.,  second  Va.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  333. 

Trench,  Richard  C,  mentioned,  457. 

Trcnchard,  Edward,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223,  225. 

Trenton,  N.  J.,  reception  to  Washington, 
ode  sung  on  his  arrival,  24,  26;  view  of 
arch  erected,  26;  Washington's  letter  to 
the  ladies  of,  27;  board  of  trade  escort 
to  president  Harrison,  186  ;  seventh 
regiment,  and  gatling  gun,  at  military 
parade,  326. 

Trevor,  Mrs.  Henry  G.,  subscriber  to 
memorial  arch,  414. 

Trevor,  John  B.,  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Trevot,  H.  G.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Triana,  S.  Perez,  vice-consul  of  Salvador, 
248. 

Trinity  Church,  N.  Y.,  ministers  of,  1789, 
39,  note  ;  vestry  decline  application  to 
hold  semi-centennial  celebration  of 
Washington's  inauguration  in  St.  Paul's 
chapel,  96;  portrait  of  bishop  Provoost, 
property  of,  facing  168,  519;  choir  of, 
at  reception  to  president  Harrison,  227; 
thanks  to  rector  and  vestry  from  com- 
mittee on  states,  255;  rector  and  vestry 
receive  president  Harrison  and  vice- 
president  Morton  at  St.  Paul's  chapel, 
269;  vestry  committee  escort  the  presi- 
dent and  vice-president,  269,  270;  rector 
and  vestry  at  services,  St.  Paul's  chapel, 
April  30,  1SS9,  269;  view  of  Hamilton's 
tomb  in  churchyard  of,  312. 

Trinity  College,  Hartford,  Conn.,  por- 
traits of  William  S.  Johnson  and  bishop 
Seabury,  property  of,  489,  519. 

Trist,  N.  P.,  mentioned,  485. 

Trist,  Thomas  J  ,  portrait  of  Thomas 
Jefferson,  property  of,  486. 

Troncoso,  Lieut.  Don  Adrian,  commander 
of  Spanish  man-of-war  Galveston,  sa- 
lutes Washington  on  his  arrival  at  N.  Y. , 
33;  salutes  inauguration  of  Washing- 
ton, 46. 

Troops,  see  military  parade. 

Trott,  Benjamin,  artist,  his  portraits  of 
George  Clymer  and  George  Washing- 
ton, 440,  543. 

Trotter,  W.  A.,  in  command  of  carpen- 
ters, civic  parade,  392. 

Troy,  N.  Y.,  sixth,  twelfth  and  twenty- 
first  separate  companies,  at  military 
parade,  337. 

Truax,  Charles  H.,  judge  superior  court, 
243;  at  centennial  ball,  267;  at  banquet, 
358. 

Trueman,  Benjamin,  commissioner  from 
Mo.,  216. 

Truesdell,  Samuel,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  221. 


Trumbull,  Charles  P..  at  banquet  of  soci- 
ety of  the  Cincinnati,  149. 

Trumbull,  Mrs.  Daniel  L.,  portrait  of  Mrs. 
Alexander  Macomb,  property  of,  facing 
151.  5°3- 

Trumbull,  David,  mentioned,  536. 
Trumbull,   Faith,  portraits,  painted  by 

Trumbull,  facing  82,  266;  notes  on  the 

portraits  of,  422,  534,  535. 
Trumbull,  Harriet,  portrait  of,  mentioned, 

534- 

Trumbull,  John,  artist,  illustrations  of  the 
portraits  painted  by,  of  John  Adams, 
facing  17;  Fisher  Ames,  facing  89; 
Egbert  Benson,  facing  65,  123;  John 
Brown,  facing  119:  Charles  Carroll, 
facing  97;  Harriet  Chew,  facing  264; 
Sophia  Chew,  facing  264  ;  George  Clin- 
ton, 7  ;  Eleanor  Parke  Custis,  facing 
264;  Tristram  Dalton,  facing  89;  Phil- 
emon Dickinson,  facing  72 ;  Oliver  Ells- 
worth, facing  78  ;  Nicholas  Fish,  facing 
41  ;  William  Floyd,  facing  123  ;  Abiel 
Foster,  facing  105;  Benjamin  Franklin, 
facing  424  ;  Elbridge  Gerry,  facing  92  ; 
Alexander  Hamilton,  5,  facing  25,  26  ; 
David  Humphreys,  facing  15S;  Ralph 
Izard,  facing  100  ;  William  Jackson, 
facing  42  ;  John  Jay,  facing  31;  Thomas 
Jefferson,  facing  21,  23;  Rufus  King, 
facing  121  ;  Mrs.  Rufus  King,  facing 
260;  Henry  Knox,  facing  28,  156  ;  John 
Langdon,  facing  105  ;  John  Laurance, 
facing  123  ;  Arthur  Lee,  facing  156  ; 
Richard  H.  Lee,  facing  III;  Morgan 
Lewis,  facing  39  ;  Samuel  Livermore, 
facing  65,  105  ;  chancellor  Livingston, 
facing  45  ;  Thomas  Mifflin,  facing  33  ; 
James  Monroe,  facing  10S  ;  Robert 
Morris,  facing  69  ;  Mrs.  Robert  Morris, 
facing  59  ;  J.  P.  G.  Muhlenberg,  facing 
71  ;  Samuel  Osgood,  facing  156;  Mrs. 
Samuel  Osgood,  facing  51  ;  Josiah 
Parker,  facing  1 12  ;  George  Partridge, 
facing  91  ;  George  Read,  facing  67  ; 
Cornelia  Schuyler,  facing  264  ;  Philip 
Schuyler,  facing  121  ;  Theodore  Sedg- 
wick, facing  92  ;  Mary  J.  Seymour, 
facing  266  ;  Roger  Sherman,  facing  80; 
William  L.  Smith,  facing  102  ;  William 
S.  Smith,  facing  41  ;  Baron  Steuben, 
facing  166;  Sir  John  Temple,  facing 
46  ;  Lady  Temple,  facing  46  ;  Charles 
Thomson,  facing  33  ;  Faith  Trumbull, 
facing  33,  266  ;  Jonathan  Trumbull, 
facing  82  ;  Mrs.  Jonathan  Trumbull, 
facing  82,  266;  Catharine  Wadsvvorth, 
facing  266  ;  Daniel  Trumbull,  facing 
80  ;  Harriet  Wadsworth,  facing  266  ; 
Jeremiah  Wadsworth, facing  80;  George 
Washington,  facing  2,  10  ;  Martha 
Washington,  facing  264  ;  Hugh  Will- 
iamson, facing  125;  at  semi-centennial 
celebration  of  Washington's  inaugura- 
tion, 96,  99  ;  notes  on  his  portraits  of 
John  Adams,  425  ;  Fisher  Ames,  427  ; 
Egbert  Benson  429  ;  John  Brown,  431; 
Charles  Carroll,  and  daughters,  434, 
note,  436  ;  Harriet  and  Sophia  Chew, 
437  ;  Matthew  Clarkson,  438  ;  George 


INDEX. 


659 


Clinton,  144,  438  :  George  Clymer,  440; 
Eleanor  P.  Custis,  441 ;  Tristram  Dalton, 
442  ;  Philemon  Dickinson,  442  ;  Oliver 
Ellsworth,  445  ;  Nicholas  Fish,  446  ; 
William  Floyd,  446  ;  Abiel  Foster,  447; 
Benjamin  Franklin,455;  Elbridge  Gerry, 
464 ;  Alexander  Hamilton,  144,  469,  472 ; 
Benjamin  Huntington, 476;  Ralph  Izard, 
478  ;  William  Jackson,  479;  John  Jay, 
480 ;  Thomas  Jefferson,  486 ;  Rufus 
King,  145,490;  Mrs.  Rufus  King,  491; 
Henry  Knox,  492;  Lafayette,  493  ;  John 
Langdon,  145,  495  ;  John  Laurance, 
495  ;  Henry  Laurens,  496  ;  Arthur  Lee, 
496;  Richard  H.  Lee,  496;  Morgan 
Lewis,  498  ;  Samuel  Livermore,  498  ; 
chancellor  Livingston,  500;  James  Mad- 
ison, 506  ;  Thomas  Mifflin,  50S  ;  James 
Monroe,  512;  Robert  Morris,  145,  514  ; 
Mrs.  Robert  Morris,  145  ;  J.  P.  G. 
Muhlenberg,  516;  Samuel  Osgood,  145, 
516;  Mrs.  Samuel  Osgood  516;  Josiah 
Parker,  518  ;  George  Partridge,  518  ; 
John  Randolph,  522,  523  ;  John  Rut- 
ledge,  145  ;  Arthur  St. Clair,  523  ;  Philip 
Schuyler,  145,  523,  524;  Theodore  Sedg- 
wick. 525;  Mary  J.  Seymour,  526;  Roger 
Sherman,  526;  William  L.  Smith,  527; 
William  S.  Smith,  528  ;  Baron  Steuben, 
529;  Sir  John  Temple,  532;  Lady  Tem- 
ple, 533;  Charles  Thomson,  533,  534; 
Faith  Trumbull,  534;  Jonathan  Trum- 
bull, 535;  Mrs.  Jonathan  Trumbull, 
535;  Catharine  Wadsworth,  538;  Daniel 
Wadsworth.  539  ;  Harriet  Wadsworth, 
540;  Jeremiah  Wadsworth,  540  ;  George 
Washington,  542,  545;  Martha  Wash- 
ington, 546,  549;  Otho  H.Williams. 527, 
note  ;  Hugh  Williamson,  145,  549,  550. 

Trumbull,  Jonathan,  Sr.,  mentioned,  73. 

Trumbull,  Jonathan,  member  of  congress 
from  Conn.,  9,  135,  232;  Washington's 
letter  to,  respecting  the  presidency',  20, 
note;  biographical  sketch  of,  73;  por- 
traits, painted  by  A.  Robertson,  Sully, 
and  Trumbull,  facing  82;  notes  on  the 
portraits  of,  422,  423.  534,  535. 

Trumbull,  Mrs.  Jonathan,  portraits,  paint- 
ed by  Trumbull,  facing  82,  266;  notes 
on  the  portraits  of,  420,  423,  534,  535. 

Trumbull,  Jonathan,  commissioner  from 
Conn.,  215;  at  literary  exercises,  290. 

Trumbull,  Jonathan,  Jr.,  mentioned,  534, 
note,  535. 

Trumbull,  Ramsey,  member  of  reception 

committee,  ancestry  of,  231. 
Trusdell,  F.  H.,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  267. 

Trust  Companies,  presidents  of,  invited 
to  meet  president  Harrison,  245. 

Truy,  Maurice,  consul  of  France,  248. 

Tryon,  Mrs.  Robert,  at  centennial  ball, 
262. 

Tschanen,  Frank,  second  Ohio  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  342. 

Tucker,  Bessie,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Tucker,  Cummings  H . ,  Jr. ,  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  225. 

Tucker,  Edwin  B.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  225. 


Tucker,  Francis  C,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  225. 

Tucker,  Henry,  mentioned,  81. 

Tucker,  J.  Randolph,  mentioned,  81,  note; 
commissioner  from  Va. ,  216;  portrait 
of  John  Randolph,  property  of,  521. 

Tucker.  John  J.,  member  of  general  com- 
mittee, 114,  236;  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  243,  247;  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  267;  at  banquet,  360. 

Tucker,  Payson,  commissioner  from  Me., 
216. 

Tucker,  Preble,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Tucker,  Samuel  A.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267;  member  of  aisle  com- 
mittee, St.  Paul's  chapel,  272,  283;  an- 
cestry of,  283. 

Tucker,  Thomas  Tudor,  member  of  con- 
gress from  S.  C,  9,  136,  232;  escort  to 
Washington,  2S;  biographical  sketch  of, 
81;  portraits,  by  St.  Memin,  facing  100; 
notes  on  the  portraits  of,  422,  521,  536. 

Tucker,  William  A.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  225. 

Tuckerman,  Bayard,  engravings  of  Hamil- 
ton, property  of,  472,  note. 

Tuckerman,  Fleming,  portrait  of  Frank- 
lin, property  of,  456. 

Tuckerman,  Lucius,  estate  of,  subscriber 
to  memorial  arch,  414. 

Tucson,  Arizona,  the  celebration  at,  406. 

Tufts  College,  portrait  of  Franklin,  prop- 
erty of,  461. 

Tulane  University,  portraits  of  John 
Adams,  and  James  Madison,  property 
of,  facing  116,  425,  503. 

Tullidge,  Mrs.  Edward  K.,  portrait  of 
Frederick  A.  Muhlenberg,  property  of, 
facing  71,  516. 

Turnbull,  John  G.,  U.  S.  army,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  321. 

Turnbull,  William,  at  banquet,  360. 

Turner,  C,  engraver  of  portrait  of  Frank- 
lin, 458. 

Turner,  Charles  Y.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  244. 

Turner,  H.  B.,  aide  to  grand  marshal, 
military  parade,  320. 

Turner.  Henry  E. ,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  248. 

Turner,  J.  Spencer,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Turner,  John  M.,  commissioner  from 
Miss.,  216;  at  banquet,  359. 

Turner.  M.  T.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Turner,  O.  B. ,  commissioner  from  Mich., 
216. 

Turner,  W.  H.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Turnery,  Southerland,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  267. 

Turnure,  Lawrence,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball  and  memorial  arch,  267,  414. 

Turnure,  Lawrence,  Jr.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  267;  at  banquet,  360. 

Tuthill,  George,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 223. 

Tuttle,  Edith,  of  choir,  St.  Paul's  chapel, 
271. 


Tuttle,  Ezra  B.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 225. 

Tuttle,  William,  at  banquet.  358. 

Tweedale,  J.  S.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 222. 

Twining,  K.,  at  banquet,  360. 

Twomey,  Francis  J.,  clerk  board  of  al- 
dermen, N.  Y.,  243;  extracts  from  the 
records  of  the  common  council,  i$n,note. 

Tyler,  John,  member  of  Virginia  conven- 
tion, opposes  the  adoption  of  the  con- 
stitution, 3. 

Tyler,  John,  portrait  of  Patrick  Henry, 
property  of,  475. 

Tymerson,  P.  G. ,  seventh  separate  com- 
pany, X.  Y. ,  at  military  parade,  337. 

Tyrone,  Pa.,  Sheridan  troop,  at  military 
parade,  326. 

Tyson,  Charles  M.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  267. 

Tyson,  George  I.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

Uhl,  Carrie,  delegate  from  public  school 
No.  7,  reception  of  president  Harrison, 
city  hall,  238. 

Uhlan  Bund,  at  Madison  square  concert, 
350. 

Ulrich,  Charles  F. ,  ot  the  loyal  legion,  252. 
Umbesto  Primo,  at  civic  parade,  392. 
Underhill,  Andrew  M. ,  invited  to  meet 

president  Harrison,  246. 
Underhill,  E.  B.,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  267. 

Underhill,  E.  M.,  Washington  artillery, 

La.,  at  military  parade,  343. 
Union  Club,  represented  at  reception  to 

president  Harrison,  231. 
Union  League  Club,  Chicago,  banquet, 

4°5- 

Union,  N.  J.,  firemen,  at  civic  parade, 389. 

Union  Square,  N.  Y.  city,  display  of  fire- 
works, 352. 

Union,  West  Va. ,  Monroe  guards,  at 
military  parade,  344. 

United  Order  of  Foresters,  at  civic  pa- 
rade, 387. 

U.  S.  Grant,  revenue  cutter,  at  naval  pa- 
rade, 202. 

U.  S.  Grant  Hose  Company,  at  civic  pa- 
rade, 396. 

United  States,  the  president,  cabinet, 
judiciary  and  congress,  invited  to  attend 
celebration,  116;  extract  of  the  presi- 
dent's message  to  congress,  respecting 
the  centennial  celebration,  11S;  address 
of  clergymen  to  the  president,  124;  ad- 
dress of  clergymen  to  the  ministers  and 
churches  of  the,  124;  proclamation  by 
the  president,  126;  programme  for  the 
reception  of  the  officials  of  the  govern 
ment,  126,  127;  journey  of  the  presi- 
dential party  from  Washington  to  New 
York  and  return,  181,  182,  184;  the 
president,  vice-president,  justices  of 
supreme  court,  and  members  of  cabinet 
and  congress,  guests  of  the  general 
committee,  199,  200,  219,  225,  229,  269; 
list  of  states  and  territories,  232,  233; 


66o       Tllli  CHNTHNNIAI  OF  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


area  and  population,  1869,  233;  the 
celebration  in  the  various  states,  402; 
reception  to  the  justices  of  the  supreme 
court,  402. 

United  States  Army,  fifth  artillery,  escort 
to  president  Harrison,  220,  235,  241, 
250;  number  of  artillery,  cavalry  and 
infantry  at  military  parade,  314,  321, 
346;  view  of  artillery,  facing  320;  bat- 
talion of  the  second,  third,  fourth  and 
fifth  artillery,  eleventh  infantry  and 
light  batteries,  at  military  parade,  320, 
321;  society  of  veterans  of  the,  at  civic 
parade,  385. 

United  States  Army  and  Navy  Associa- 
tion, at  military  parade,  346. 

United  States  Commissioners,  1782,  paint- 
ing by  West,  facing  31. 

United  States  Congress,  1789,  no  quorum 
on  the  day  appointed  for  the  meeting  of, 
5;  members,  5,  8,  9,  II,  135;  absent 
members  requested  to  attend,  9;  quorum 
secured,  10,  11;  count  the  electoral 
votes  for  president,  and  vice-president 
of  U.  S.,  12;  declares  George  Washing- 
ton the  unanimous  choice  for  president, 
and  John  Adams,  vice-president,  12; 
list  of  states  voting,  12,  note;  Vermont's 
agent  to,  12,  note;  appoints  messengers 
to  inform  Washington  and  Adams  of 
their  election,  13;  federal  hall  occupied 
''>"•  !3,  15;  vice-president  Adams 
delivers  his  inaugural  address,  18; 
Washington's  letter  of  acceptance  of 
the  office  of  president  of  U.  S.,  19; 
fac-similes  of  Washington's  letters  to, 
20,  25;  committee  wait  upon  Wash- 
ington, at  Elizabethtown  N.  J.,  and 
escort  him  to  N.  Y.,  28-36  ;  prepare 
rules  and  orders,  discuss  the  tariff,  36; 
organize  the  judiciary,  37;  secures 
residence  for  Washington,  37;  new 
members,  37;  debate  on  proposed  title 
for  the  president  of  U.  S.,  38;  arrange 
for  the  inauguration  of  Washington,  39; 
the  proposal  to  have  religious  services 
after  the  inauguration,  discussed,  39; 
chaplains  of,  39,  note;  wait  upon  Wash- 
ington in  a  body,  40;  committee  escort 
Washington  to  federal  hall,  42,  43,  47, 
48;  debate  upon  the  mode  of  receiving 
the  president  of  U.  S.,  43;  committee 
introduce  Washington,  and  conduct  him 
to  the  chair,  44,  46;  attend  Washington 
in  a  body,  to  take  the  oath  of  office,  44, 
46;  Washington's  inaugural  address,  45, 
46,  49,  50;  attend  services  at  St.  Paul's 
chapel,  47,  49,  54;  biographical  sketches 
of,  61-94,  number  of  members  and 
their  services  before  election,  61;  nativ- 
ity of  the  members,  62;  fac-simile  of 
title  page  of  the  acts  of  the  first  session, 
91;  senators  and  representatives,  with 
their  addresses  in  N.  Y.  city,  232; 
number  of  portraits  of  members,  in  the 
volume,  418;  names  of  members  of 
whom  no  portraits  were  found,  418. 

  1888,  bills  introduced  to  change  the 

date  of  inauguration  of  president  of 
U.  S.,  and  to  hold  the  centennial  cele- 


bration in  Washington,  D,  C,  178; 
action  on  the  N.  Y.  celebration,  179, 
180;  accept  invitation  of  centennial 
committee,  1S0;  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  225;  guests  of  centennial 
committee,  227,  241. 
United  States  Constitution,  submitted  to 
congress,  1;  opposed  in  congress,  1,  2; 
Delaware,  Pa.,  N.  J.,  Ga.,Conn.,  Mass., 
Md.,  and  S.  C,  ratifies,  2;  importance 
of  vote  of  Va.  and  N.  Y.,  2;  opposition 
to,  in  Va.,  led  by  Patrick  Henry,  and 
in  N.  Y.,  led  by  governor  George 
Clinton,  3;  Va.,  N.  Y.,  and  R.  I., 
ratifies,  3,  4;  celebrated  at  N.  Y.,  4,  5; 
a  sheet  anchor  of  commerce,  and  prop 
of  freedom,  5;  centennial  of  the  adop- 
tion, 100. 

United  States  Marine  Corps,  number  at 
military  parade,  314,  321  ;  battalion, 
with  list  of  officers,  321. 

United  States  Military  Academy,  portrait 
of  James  Monroe  at,  facing  23;  number 
of  cadets  at  military  parade,  314,  320, 
321;  views  of  the  corps  of  cadets,  318, 
319;  notes  on  the  portraits  of  Jefferson, 
and  Monroe,  at,  486,  510. 

United  States  Mint,  bust  of  John  Adams, 
portrait  of  Elias  Boudinot,  medal  of 
Franklin,  and  portrait  of  Madison,  at 
the,  426,  430,  462,  507. 

United  States  Navy,  order  of  arrangement 
of  the  vessels  in  the  naval  parade,  127, 
193,  201,  202  ;  views  of  the  vessels 
Boston,  Brooklyn,  Chicago,  Despatch, 
Essex,  Jamestown,  Juniata,  Kearsage, 
Yantic  and  Yorktown,  facing  186,  189, 
190,  193,  195,  196,  197,  198,  199;  number 
of  marine  corps  and  sailors  at  military 
parade,  314,  321,  346;  naval  brigade  at 
military  parade,  321;  view  of  naval 
parade,  322;  society  of  veterans  of  the, 
at  civic  parade,  385. 

Untermyer,  Samuel,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  244. 

Updegraff,  B.  H.,  twelfth  Pa.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  325. 

Upshur,  George  H.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  267. 

Upson,  James  W..  member  of  assembly, 
N.  Y.,  242. 

Upton,  Harriet  T.,  mentioned,  513. 

Urquhardt,  W.  W.,  member  of  marine 
society,  one  of  the  crew  of  the  presi- 
dent's barge,  202;  portrait,  203;  escort 
to  president  Harrison,  225. 

Utah,  commissioner  from.  216,  233;  gov- 
ernor, 233. 

Utica,  N.  Y.,  twenty-eighth  and  forty- 
fourth  separate  companies,  and  John 
F.  McQuade  post,  grand  army  of  the 
republic,  at  military  parade,  338,  345. 

V.  W.,  portrait  of  Washington,  painted 
by,  facing  10,  420,  541,  545. 

Vail,  Charles  M.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 225. 

Vail,  David  D.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 


Vail,  Theodore  F.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

Valasco,  F.  Perez  de,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  248. 

Valdenuit,  artist,  his  portraits  of  Robert 
R.  Livingston  and  Alexander  Macomb, 
500,  502. 

Valentine,  A.  B.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Valentine,  Benjamin  E.,  Washington 
punch  bowl,  property  of,  facing  146. 

Valentine,  S.  H.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

Valentine,  Mrs.  S.  H.,  at  centennial  ball, 
262. 

Vallean,  Miss,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Vallee,  F.,  india-ink  silhouette  of  Wash- 
ington by,  at  loan  exhibition,  144. 

Valley  Forge,  Pa.,  Washington  at,  repre- 
sented in  tableau,  civic  parade,  386. 

Van  Allen,  Lucas  L.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  247. 

Van  Amringe,  J.  H.,  at  banquet,  359. 

Van  Amringo,  F.,  subscriber  to  centen 
nial  ball,  267. 

Van  Antwerp,  John  H.,  member  of  citi- 
zens' committee,  104. 

Van  Bell,  John,  Downing  post,  G.  A.  R., 
at  military  parade,  346. 

Van  Benschoten,  E.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Van  Benschoten,  M.  A.,  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  223. 

Van  Berckel,  Francis  Peter,  minister 
from  the  United  Netherlands,  at  N. 
Y.,  attends  Washington's  levee,  49, 
note. 

Van  Berckel,  Peter  John,  minister  from 
the  United  Netherlands,  at  N.  Y.,  his 
recall,  49,  note. 

Van  Beuren,  Mary  S.,  subscriber  to  me- 
morial arch,  413. 

Van  Boskerck,  George  W.,  invited  to 
meet  president  Harrison,  245. 

Van  Brunt,  Charles  H.,  judge  supreme 
court,  243  ;  at  banquet,  359. 

Van  Buren,  Mr.,  commissioner  from  Ar- 
kansas, 215. 

Van  Buren,  Martin,  mentioned,  505. 

Van  Buren,  Travis  C,  member  of  gen- 
eral committee,  114,  236  ;  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  267  ;  at  banquet,  360  ; 
subscriber  to  celebration,  401. 

Van  Buskirk,  W.,  first  N.  J.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  326. 

Vance,  Samuel  B.  H.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  247. 

Van  Cortlandt,  Augustus,  vestryman 
Trinity  church,  1784,  283. 

Van  Cortlandt,  Augustus,  Jr.,  member  of 
aisle  committee,  St.  Paul's  chapel,  272, 
283. 

Van  Cortlandt,  James  S.,  member  of 
general  committee,  114,  236;  at  banquet 
of  society  of  the  Cincinnati,  150  ;  por- 
traits of  George  Clinton  and  Pierre 
Van  Cortlandt,  property  of,  facing  155, 
166;  at  centennial  ball,  262;  subscriber 
to  ball,  267;  at  banquet,  358;  notes  on 
the  portraits  of  George  Clinton,  Mrs. 


INDEX. 


Clinton  and  Pierre  Van  Cortlandt, 
property  of,  439,  440,  536. 

Van  Cortlandt,  Pierre,  lieutenant  gover- 
nor, N.  Y.,  at  inauguration  of  Washing- 
ton, 46  ;  mentioned,  136  ;  portrait, 
painted  by  Jarvis,  facing  166;  notes  on 
the  portraits  of,  421,  536. 

Van  Cott,  Cornelius,  state  senator,  N.  Y., 
242. 

Vandenheuvel,  I.  C,  mentioned,  550. 

Van  Den  Heuvel,  J.  C,  portraits  of 
Robert  Morris  and  wife,  property  of, 
facing  59,  69,  514. 

Vanderbilt,  Aaron,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  220,  250. 

Vanderbilt,  Cornelius,  member  of  com- 
mittee of  N.  Y.  historical  society,  105 ;  of 
general  committee,  107,  114,  236;  exe- 
cutive committee,  108  ;  committee  on 
general  government,  109,  113,  178,  236; 
invited  to  meet  president  Harrison,  245; 
subscriber  to  centennial  ball,  267  ;  at 
banquet,  358 ;  subscriber  to  celebra- 
tion, and  memorial  arch,  400,  413. 

Vanderbilt,  George  W.,  subscriber  to 
memorial  arch,  413. 

Vanderbilt,  Mrs.  William  H.,  subscriber 
to  memorial  arch,  413. 

Vanderbilt,  William  K.,  member  of  com- 
mittee on  entertainment,  112,  113,  236, 
256;  of  general  committee,  114,  236. 

Van  der  Clute,  William,  Jr.,  thirty-second 
N.  Y.  regiment,  at  military  parade,  337. 

Vanderlyn,  John,  artist,  illustrations  of 
portraits  painted  by,  of  Elbridge  Gerry, 
facing  92;  Chancellor  Livingston,  facing 
45  ,  John  R.  Livingston,  facing  41  ; 
James  Madison,  facing  115  ;  James 
Monroe,  facing  106,  108  ;  number  of 
portraits  of  congressmen,  painted  by, 
419,  420  ;  notes  on  his  portraits  of 
Elbridge  Gerry,  463;  Thomas  Jefferson, 
489;  John  R.  Livingston,  499  ;  Robert 
R.  Livingston,  500  ;  James  Madison, 
145,  506  ;  Mrs.  Madison,  508  ;  James 
Monroe,  145,  511;  Mrs.  Monroe,  511. 

Vanderpoel,  S.  Oakley,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  267. 

Vandervoort,  Mrs.,  boarding  house,  N.Y., 
1789,  41. 

Vandervoort,  William  L. ,  subscriber  to 

centennial  ball,  267. 
Vandever,  William,  commissioner  from 

Cal.,  215. 

Van  de  Weyer,  Victor,  portrait  of  Franklin , 
property  of,  facing  444,  457. 

Van  Dorsten,  Rudolph,  secretary  of  lega- 
tion of  the  United  Netherlands  at  N.  Y. 
describes  the  election  of  Washington 
and  Adams,  12,  note;  his  account  of  the 
reception  and  inauguration  of  Washing- 
ton, 49,  50. 

Van  Drill,  William,  one  of  the  crew  of  the 
president's  barge  which  conveyed  Wash- 
ington to  N.  Y.,  28,  note. 

Van  Duren,  Mrs.  M.  D.,  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  267. 

Van  Dyk,  Capt.  John,  his  account  of  the 
salute  of  artillery  fired  after  the  inaugu- 
ration of  Washington,  52,  note. 


Van  Dyke,  Rev.  Henry  J.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  244  ;  at  banquet, 
359- 

Van  Elten.  Kruseman,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  244. 

Van  Etten,  J.  G.,  fourteenth  separate  com- 
pany N.  V'.,  at  military  parade,  338. 

Van  Gelder,  Abraham,  ass't  alderman,  229. 

Van  Gorder,  Greenleaf  S.,  member  of 
assembly,  N.  Y.,  242. 

Van  Hoesen,  George  M.,  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  220,  250;  invited  to  meet 
the  president,  243,  247;  at  military 
parade,  345;  at  banquet,  359. 

Van  Home,  Maj.  David,  portrait,  painted 
by  Dunlap,  facing  42;  escort  to  Wash- 
ington, 42;  notes  on  the  portrait  of,  421, 
537- 

Van  Home,  L.  V.  A.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  267. 

Van  Ingen,  E.  H.,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to 
celebration,  401. 

Van  Keuren,  N.,  fourth  Conn,  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  329. 

Van  Kleeck,  Rev.  F.  B.,  officiates  at  St. 
Paul's  chapel,  273. 

Van  Lennep,  Frederic,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  225;  member  of  floor  com- 
mittee, centennial  ball,  259;  at  banquet, 
360. 

Vanloo,  Louis  M.,  artist,  his  portrait  of 

Benjamin  Franklin,  448. 
Vann,  Irving  G.,  associate  judge,  court  of 

appeals,  N.  Y.,  243. 
Van  Ness,  E. .  escort  to  president  Harrison, 

223. 

Van  Ness,  Edward,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

Van  Nest,  Abraham  R.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  247. 

Van  Nest,  G.  W.,  at  banquet,  359. 

Van  Nostrand,  Mrs.  John,  entertains  the 
ladies  of   president  Harrison's  family, 

4°3- 

Van  Raalti,  E.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Van  Rensselaer,  Mrs.  Alexander,  at  cen- 
tennial ball,  258. 

Van  Rensselaer.  Catharine,  portraits  of 
Jeremiah  and  John  J.  Van  Rensselaer, 
property  of,  537. 

Van  Rensselaer,  Charles  A.,  member  of 
reception  committee,  ancestry  of,  230; 
member  of  aisle  committee,  St.  Paul's 
chapel,  272,  281,  283. 

Van  Rensselaer,  Charles  H.,  aide  to  chair- 
man of  committee  on  general  govern- 
ment, 120. 

Van  Rensselaer,  Cortlandt  S.,  mentioned, 
90,  note. 

Van  Rensselaer,  Gratz,  mentioned,  90, 
note. 

Van  Rensselaer,  Hendrick,  mentioned,  90. 

Van  Rensselaer,  J.  Tallmadge,  member  of 
general  committee,  108,  114,  236;  of 
executive  committee,  108  ;  committee 
on  states,  109,  113,  206,  207,  208,  209, 
217,  220,  228,  236,  249;  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  220;  at  banquet  to  the 
president,  234;  subscriber  to  centennial 


ball,  267;  at  banquet,  metropolitan  opera- 
house,  359;  subscriber  to  celebration, 
401. 

Van  Rensselaer,  Jeremiah,  member  of 
congress  from  N.  Y.,  90,  135;  bio- 
graphical sketch  of,  90;  no  portrait  of, 
418,  537- 

Van  Rensselaer,  John  J.,  notes  on  the 
portraits  of,  537. 

Van  Rensselaer,  Kiliaen,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  247. 

Van  Rensselaer,  Stephen,  the  patroon, 
portrait  at  loan  exhibition,  145;  men- 
tioned, 283,  513;  exchanges  portraits 
with  chief-justice  Jay,  480. 

Van  Santvoord,  Abraham,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  247. 

Van  Santvoord,  Alfred,  at  centennial  ball, 
262-  subscriber  to  ball  and  celebration, 
267,  401. 

Van  Schaick,  Henry,  subscriber  to  me- 
morial arch,  414. 

Van  Schaick,  Jenkins,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  245  ;  member  of 
memorial  arch  committee,  409  ;  sub- 
scriber to  arch,  414. 

Van  Sciver,  C.  H.  VV.,  seventh  N.  J.  reg- 
iment, at  military  parade,  326. 

Van  Siclen,  George  W.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  247;  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  267. 

Van  Sinderen,  Adrian,  at  literary  exer- 
cises, 290. 

Van  Sinderen,  Howard,  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  267. 

Vantine,  Ashley  A.,  at  centennial  ball, 
262;  subscriber  to  ball,  267. 

Vantine,  A.  A.,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  cele- 
bration, 401. 

Van  Vechten,  A.  Van  Wyck,  escort  to 
president  Harrison  225. 

Van  Vorst,  Hooper  C,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  244,  247. 

Van  Winkle,  A.  S.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

Van  Winkle,  Edgar  B.,  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  221. 

Van  Winkle,  J.  Albert,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  267. 

Van  Wyck,  William  E.,  aide  to  grand 
marshal,  military  parade,  320. 

Van  Zandt,  Catharine,  wife  of  James  H. 
Maxwell,  59,  note ;  portrait  of,  men- 
tioned, 508. 

Van  Zandt,  Jacobus,  his  services,  59,  note. 

Van  Zandt,  Miss,  attends  assembly  ball, 
1789,  59. 

Van  Zandt,  Tobias,  assistant  alderman, 

N.  Y.,  1789,  229. 
Van  Zandt,  Wynant,  assistant  alderman. 

N.  Y.,  1789,  229. 
Van  Zandt,  Wynant.  Jr..  alderman,  1804, 

481,  note. 

Varas,  Emilio  C,  minister  from  Chili, 
invited  to  centennial  ball,  257;  at  ban- 
quet, 361. 

Varian,  Joshua  M-,  commissary  general, 

N.  Y.,  242;  at  banquet,  35S. 
Varick,  John  A.,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 
Varick.  John  B.,  member  of  general  com- 


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mittee,  114,  236:  portrait  of  Richard 
Varick,  property  of,  facing  168,  358. 

Varick,  Julia  C,  portrait  of  Richard  Var- 
ick, property  of,  538. 

Varick,  Maria  A.,  portrait  of  Richard 
Varick,  property  of,  538. 

Varick,  Richard,  recorder  of  N.  Y.,  1789, 
28,  136,  229;  escort  to  Washington,  28; 
portraits,  painted  by  Earle,  Inman.and 
unknown,  facing  36,  168  ;  portraits  at 
loan  exhibition,  145;  notes  on  the  por- 
traits of,  421,  423,  537,  538. 

Varnum,  James  M .,  acknowledgment  to, 
in  preface,  vii;  member  of  committee, 
sons  of  the  revolution,  107;  of  general 
committee,  107,  114,  236;  of  executive 
committee,  108  ;  plan  and  scope  com- 
mittee, 108,  109,  m,  218,  219,  236, 
317;  member  of  committee  on  banquet 
and  religious  services  of  the  society  of 
the  Cincinnati,  149;  member  of  R.  I. 
society  of  the  Cincinnali,  150;  his  ad- 
dress at  commemorative  banquet  of 
the  society,  159;  at  naval  parade,  198; 
escort  to  president  Harrison,  225  ;  at 
banquet  to  the  president,  234;  at  cen- 
tennial ball,  258,  261  ;  subscriber  to 
ball,  267  ;  at  literary  exercises,  290  ;  at 
military  parade,  317;  at  banquet,  met- 
ropolitan opera-house,  356,  359  ;  sub 
scriber  to  celebration,  401  ;  at  recep- 
tion of  justices  U.  S.  supreme  court, 
402. 

Varnum,  Robert  T.,  usher  at  commemo- 
rative services,  society  of  the  Cincin- 
nati, St.  Paul's  chapel,  170;  member  of 
aisle  committee,  St.  Paul's  chapel,  272, 
283. 

Vaughan,  Samuel,  portrait  of  George 
Washington,  property  of,  545. 

Vedder,  Commodore  P.,  state  senator, 
N.  Y.,  242;  at  banquet,  359. 

Vedder,  Harmon  A.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  225. 

Veillard,  Louis  de,  Franklin  presents  his 
portrait  to,  449. 

Venable,  Richard,  portrait  of  William  B. 
Giles,  property  of,  466. 

Verdery,  Marion  J.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

Veritzan,  F.  J.,  forty-seventh  N.  Y.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  337. 

Vermeule,  John  D.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Vcrmilye,  Jacob  D.,  member  of  ciiizens' 
committee,  103;  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent I  larrison,  245. 

Vcrmilye,  Rev.  Thomas  E.,  portraits  of 
Ebenezer  Hazard  and  wife,  property  of, 
facing  51,  156,  474. 

Vermilye  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  celebra- 
tion and  memorial  arch,  400,  414. 

Vermont,  appoints  agents  to  represent 
the  state  in  congress,  1789,  12,  note ; 
governor  and  commissioner  at  celebra- 
tion, 208,  213,  214,  216,  233  ;  admitted 
into  the  union,  233;  troops  at  military 
parade,  341,  346. 

Vernal,  O.  W.,  sixth  N.  J.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  326. 


Verplanck,  Daniel  C,  portrait  of  William 
S.  Johnson,  painted  for,  489. 

Verplanck,  Mary  N.,  wife  of  Samuel  W. 
Johnson,  4S9. 

Ver  Planck,  William  G.,  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  225  ;  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  267. 

Verri,  Abb6,  portrait  of  Franklin,  painted 
for,  452. 

Versailles  Gallery,  France,  portrait  of 
Franklin  at,  452. 

Vcstncr,  George  J.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  267. 

Vicat,  Frank  C,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 223. 

Victor  Emanuel  Guard,  at  civic  parade, 
392- 

Viele,  Egbert  L.,  at  reception  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  232;  at  banquet,  360. 

Victor,  George  F.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Vigar  Hose  Company,  at  civic  parade, 
389. 

Vignaud,  Henry,  acknowledgment  to,  in 
preface,  vi  ;  notes  on  the  portraits  of 
Franklin  and  Jefferson,  448,  453,  4S6; 
the  artist  Sene,  512,  note;  the  Moustier 
family,  515. 

Vilas,  William  F.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  248. 

Villard,  Henry,  member  of  citizens'  com- 
mittee, 104  ;  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  247  ;  member  of  German- 
American  citizens'  committee,  393,  note; 
subscriber  to  memorial  arch,  414. 

Vincent,  Rev.  Marvin  R.,  at  reception, 
justices  U.  S.  supreme  court,  402. 

Vincent,  Thomas  M.,  U.  S.  army,  at  cen- 
tennial ball,  257,  258  ;  aide  to  grand 
marshal,  military  parade,  319  ;  at  ban- 
quet, 361. 

Vincent,  Mrs.  William,  at  centennial 
ball,  262. 

Vincent,  William  E.  D.,  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  267. 

Vingut,  George  F.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

Vining,  John,  Sr.,  mentioned,  64. 

Vining,  John,  member  of  congress  from 
Delaware,  64,  135,  232  ;  biographical 
sketch  of,  64;  portrait,  facing  67;  notes 
on  the  portraits  of,  419,  423,  538. 

Vining,  Mrs.  John,  portrait,  facing  258; 
notes  on  the  portrait  of,  423,  538. 

Virgin,  Rev.  Samuel  H.,  favors  holding 
religious  services  April  30,  1889,  123. 

Virginia,  represented  as  a  federal  pillar, 

2  ;  convention  meets,  3  ;  opposition  to 
the  constitution,  led  by  Patrick  Henry, 

3  ;  adopts  the  constitution,  number  of 
votes  cast,  3  ;  senators  and  members 
of  the  first  U.  S.  congress,  9,  10,  11, 
62.  1 35,  136,  232  ;  portrait  of  Edmund 
Randolph,  property  of  the  state,  facing 
28;  nativity  of  representatives  in  con- 
gress, 62  ;  biographical  sketches  of 
senators  and  members  of  first  U.  S. 
congress,  83;  members  of  federal  con- 
vention, 1787,  136;  Houdon's  statue  of 
Washington,  and    bust  of  Lafayelte, 


property  of  the  state,  149,  189,  542; 
governor  and  commissioners  at  cele- 
bration, 208,  212,  214,  233  ;  admitted 
into  the  union,  233  ;  troops  at  military 
parade,  333,  346  ;  represented  in  tab- 
leau, civic  parade,  386  ;  portrait  of 
William  B,  Giles,  property  of  the  state, 
466. 

Virginia  City,  Nevada,  the  celebration 
at,  406. 

Virginia  Historical  Society,  portraits  in 
possession  of  the — Benjamin  Frank- 
lin, 44S  ;  William  B.  Giles,  facing  112, 
464 ;  Patrick  Henry,  474  ;  Thomas 
Jefferson,  485,  488  ;  Henry  Knox,  fac- 
ing 28,  492;  Lafayette,  494  ;  Arthur 
Lee,  facing  155,  496;  James  Madison, 
506;  James  Monroe,  510;  Edmund 
Randolph,  520  ;  John  Randolph,  522. 

Virginia  University,  portrait  and  statue 
of  Jefferson  at,  facing  23,  489. 

Vischer,  Peter,  represented  in  tableau, 
civic  parade,  395. 

Vogrich,  Max,  at  Madison  square  con- 
cert, 350. 

Vollrath,  Edward,  eighth  Ohio  regiment, 

at  military  parade,  342. 
Von  Glahn,  John,  excise  commissioner, 

243- 

Von  Hoffmann,  L.,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to 

celebration,  401. 
Von  Hoffmann,  Louis  A.,  invited  to  meet 

president  Harrison,  245. 
Von  Kappf,  Anne,  portrait  of  William 

Smith,  property  of,  facing  99,  527. 
Voorhees,  Charles  H.,  escort  to  president 

Harrison,  223. 
Voorhees,  Daniel  W.,  U.  S.  senator  from 

Ind.,  241. 

Voorhees,  judah  B.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Voorhis,  John  R.,  police  commissioner, 
243;  at  banquet,  358. 

Vosburgh,  F.  W.,  in  charge  of  division  of 
the  merchant-marine  parade,  202. 

Vow  of  Washington  (the),  poem  by  John 
Greenlcaf  Whittier,  read  at  literary  ex- 
ercises, 292. 

Vrooman,  John  W.,  at  laying  of  corner- 
stone, memorial  arch,  409;  portrait, 413. 

Vunk,  D.  E.,  forty-sixth  separate  com- 
pany, N.  Y.,  at  military  parade,  338. 

Waage,  Charles,  thirty-second  N.  Y.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  337. 

Waddington,  George,  at  banquet,  360. 

Wade,  Daniel  T.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Wade,  J.  H.,  Jr. ,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Wade,  James  R.,  sixteenth  Ohio  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  342. 

Wadsworth,  Catharine,  portrait,  painted 
by  Trumbull,  facing  266;  notes  on  the 
portraits  of,  423,  558;  mentioned,  526. 

Wadsworth,  Rev.  Daniel,  mentioned,  74. 

Wadsworth,  Daniel,  portrait,  painted  by 
Trumbull,  facing  80;  notes  on  the  por- 
traits of,  539,  540. 


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Wadsworth,  Mrs.  Daniel,  see  Trumbull, 
Faith. 

Wadsworth  Gallery,  Hartford,  Conn., 
portraits  in  the  possession  of — David 
Humphreys,  475;  Faith  and  Jonathan 
Trumbull,  535;  Catharine,  Harriet, 
Jeremiah,  and  Mrs.  Jeremiah  Wads- 
worth, 538,  539,  540. 

Wadsworth,  Harriet,  portrait,  painted  by 
Trumbull,  facing  266;  notes  on  the  por- 
traits of,  423,  539;  mentioned,  526. 

Wadsworth,  Jeremiah,  member  of  con- 
gress from  Conn.,  9,  135,  232;  biograph- 
ical sketch  of.  74:  portraits,  painted  by 
Sharpless,  Trumbull  and  unknown, 
facing  80,  155;  notes  on  the  portraits 
of.  41S,  422,  423,  540. 

Wadsworth,  Mrs.  Jeremiah,  portrait, 
painted  by  Sully,  facing  262;  notes  on 
the  portrait  of,  422,  540;  her  ancestry, 
540. 

Wager,  Charles  E.,  third  Mo.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  343. 

Wagstaff,  Alfred,  member  of  floor  com- 
mittee, centennial  ball,  259;  at  banquet, 
358. 

Wagstaff,  Mrs.  Alfred,  at  centennial  ball, 
262. 

Wagner,  Richard,  the  composer,  351; 
represented  in  tableau,  civic  parade, 394. 

Wagner,  William,  thirteenth  Ohio  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  342. 

Wainwright,  John  T  ,  member  of  aisle 
committee,  St.  Paul's  chapel,  272,  2S3; 
ancestry  of,  283. 

Wainwright,  Rev.  Jonathan  M.,  officiates 
at  celebration  of  the  semi-centennial  of 
Washington's  inauguration,  97,  98. 

Wait,  Frederick  S.,  at  reception  justices 
U  S.  supreme  court.  402. 

Wakeman,  Abram,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  225. 

Walcott,  Benjamin  S.,  member  of  citi- 
zens' committee,  103. 

Waldo,  Samuel  L.,  artist,  his  portraits  of 
Alexander  Macomb,  facing  51;  notes 
on  his  portraits  of  Matthew  Clarkson, 
438;  William  S.  Johnson,  490;  Alex- 
ander Macomb,  502. 

Waldo  &  Jewett,  artists,  portrait  of  Elias 
Boudinot,  facing  65;  notes  on  the  por- 
trait of  Elias  Boudinot,  painted  by, 
419.  420,  429,  430. 

Walker,  Amos  J.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Walker,  C.  L.,  assistant  adjutant-general 
first  brigade,  La., at  military  parade,  343. 

Walker,  Deane,  mentioned,  454. 

Walker,  Edward  C,  stale  senator,  N.  Y., 
242. 

Walker,  Francis  A.,  at  banquet,  360. 
Walker,  Henry  S.,   commissioner  from 

West  Va.,  216,  233;  at  banquet,  359. 
Walker,  J.  Albert,  commissioner  from 

N.  H.,  216. 
Walker,  John,  U.  S.  senator  from  Va. , 

88,  135;  biographical  sketch  of,  88  ;  no 

portrait  of,  418,  540. 
Walker,  John  B.,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  267. 


Walker,  John  C,  of  St.  John's  lodge, 
286;  at  literary  exercises,  290. 

Walker,  Myron  P.,  at  centennial  ball, 
262;  subscriber  to  ball.  267. 

Walker,  Samuel,  publisher,  mentioned, 
472,  note. 

Walker,  Stephen  A.,  at  banquet,  359;  at 
reception  of  justices,  U.  S.  supreme 
court,  402. 

Walker,  Thomas,  mentioned,  88. 

Walker,  William  H.,  alderman,  243. 

Wall  Street,  N.  Y.  city,  1789,  Washing- 
ton's arrival,  and  reception  at  the  foot 
of,  28,  29,  30,  33  ;  escorted  by  the  light 
infantry,  artillery,  grenadiers,  governor 
Clinton,  state  officers,  mayor  Duane, 
the  corporation  of  the  city,  the  French 
and  Spanish  diplomatic  representatives, 
and  citizens,  31,  33,  34,  35  ;  houses 
decorated,  31. 

  1S89,  arrival  and  reception  10  presi- 
dent Harrison,  at  the  foot  of,  204,  218; 
views  of  the  escort  to  the  president,  the 
arch,  and  scenes  on  the  street,  210,  211, 
214,  215,  220;  the  military  and  societies 
in  the  escort,  219,  220  ;  the  merchants' 
arch,  226;  decorations  of  the  custom 
house,  sub-treasury,  and  buildings,  226; 
the  literary  exercises  at  sub-treasury, 
285  ;  views  of  the  street  during  the 
exercises,  290,  294,  297,  300,  307. 

Wall's,  William,  Sons,  subscribers  to  Wall 
street  arch,  253. 

Wallace,  C.  S.,  adjutant  D.  C.  troops,  at 
military  parade,  344. 

Wallace,  Eleanor,  daughter  of  William 
Maclay,  502. 

Wallace,  George,  Jr.,  ninth  Pa.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  324. 

Wallace,  George  W.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

Wallace,  Mrs.  George  W.,  at  centennial 
ball,  262.  , 

Wallace,  John  William,  mentioned,  470. 

Wallace,  Lewis,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  248. 

Wallace,  William,  mentioned,  502. 

Wallace,  Sir  William,  mentioned,  544. 

Wallace,  William  C,  member  of  congress 
from  N.  Y.,  242;  at  centennial  ball,  262; 
subscriber  to  ball,  267;  at  banquet.  360. 

Wallenhaupt,  Minnie,  delegate  from  pub- 
lic school  No.  38,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

Waller,  Josiah  A.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Walling,  George  W.,  at  literary  exercises, 
290. 

Walsh,  J.  E.,  seventh  N.  J.  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  326. 
Walsh,  John  C,  commissioner  from  Md. , 

216. 

Walsh,  Thomas  J.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

Walter,  E.  C,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 222. 

Walter,  Emily,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  57,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

Walter,  Ida  A., delegate  from  public  school 


No.  48,  reception  of  president  Harrison, 

city  hall,  238. 
Walters,  Annie  [,,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 
Walters,  Mrs.  Charles  F. ,  at  centennial 

ball,  262. 

Walters,  Francis  G.,  member  of  assembly, 

N.  Y.,  242. 
Walters,  Mrs.  Richard  M.,  at  centennial 

ball,  262. 

Walters,  T.  L.  R.,  sixth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  324. 

Walters,  Thomas  J.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  267. 

Walton,  Catharine,  wife  of  James  Thomp- 
son, 441,  note. 

Walton,  D.  S.,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  me- 
morial arch,  414. 

Walton.  Edward  A.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  24b. 

Walton,  George,  member  of  federal  con- 
vention, 1787,  136. 

Walton,  J.  D.,  ninth  X.  Y.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  335. 

Walton,  N.  Y.,  thirty-third  separate  com- 
pany, at  military  parade,  338. 

Walton,  William  P  ,  escort  to  president 
Harrison.  221,  227,  250  ;  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  267  ;  grand  marshal, 
grand  army  of  the  republic,  at  military 
parade,  345. 

Waltz,  Millard  F.,  aide  to  committee  on 
navy,  120,  190. 

Walworth,  Reuben  H.,  chancellor  N.  Y. 
state,  at  celebration  of  the  semi-centen- 
nial of  Washington's  inauguration  96. 

Walz,  Charles  S.,  sixth  N.  J.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  326. 

Wanamaker,  John,  postmaster-general, 
U.  S.,  at  naval  parade,  200,  219;  at  re- 
ception to  president  Harrison,  225,  227, 
229;  at  banquet  to  the  president,  234; 
portrait,  facing  234;  at  literary  exer- 
cises, 285;  at  military  parade,  317;  at 
banquet,  metropolitan  opera-house,  359. 

Wandowannack  Hook  and  Ladder  Com 
pany,  at  civic  parade,  389. 

Wanser,  R.  Farmer,  colonel  fourth  N.  J. 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  327. 

Ward,  Gen.  Artemas,  represented  in  tab- 
leau, civic  parade,  385. 

Ward,  Barclay,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Ward,  Charles  H.,  at  banquet  society  of 
the  Cincinnati,  150. 

Ward,  D.  W.  C,  escort  to  president  Har 
rison,  223;  aide  to  grand  marshal,  mili- 
tary parade,  320. 

Ward,  E.  L.,  commissioner  from  W.  Va., 
216. 

Ward,  George  G.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Ward,  Henry  M.,  usher  at  commemorative 
services  of  society  of  the  Cincinnati,  in 
St.  Paul's  chapel,  170. 

Ward,  J.  H.,  Jr.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Ward,  J.  Langdon,  of  the  loyal  legion, 
252;  subscriber  to  centennial  ball.  267. 

Ward,  J.  Q.  A.,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  244:  at  banquet,  360. 


664       THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


Ward,  lames  B.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball  267. 

Ward,  James  E.,  &  Co.,  creel  float,  and 
decorate  their  pier  for  reception  of 
president  Harrison,  and  guests,  197, 
218,  255;  subscribers  to  Wall  street 
arch,  and  memorial  arch,  253,  414. 

Ward,  John,  aide  to  grand  marshal,  mili- 
tary parade,  320. 

Ward,  John  H.,  commissioner  from  Ky., 
216. 

Ward,  Raymond  L.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

Ward,  Mrs.  Raymond  L.,  at  centennial 
ball,  262. 

Ward,  S.  S.  H.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 222. 

Ward,  Sylvester  L.  H.,  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  225. 

Ward,  Thomas  W.,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Ward,  Walter  E.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Ward,  William  G.,  at  banquet  of  society 
of  the  Cincinnati,  150;  at  reception  to 
president  Harrison,  231;  guest  of  the 
seventh  regiment  veterans,  253;  at  lit- 
erary exercises,  290;  aide  to  grand  mar- 
shal, military  parade,  320. 

Ward,  Rev.  William  H.,  acknowledgment 
to,  in  preface,  vi;  member  of  committee 
of  clergymen,  123,  124,  125;  at  literary 
exercises,  290;  at  banquet,  360. 

Ward,  Willard  P.,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Ware,  Eugene  F.,  commissioner  from 
Kansas,  215,  233;  at  banquet,  359. 

Ware,  R.  C,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Ware,  R.  F.,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 222;  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
267. 

Ware,  William  R.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  244. 

Warfield,  Arthur  V.,  provisional  regiment, 
R.  I.,  at  military  parade,  340. 

Warfield,  Elizabeth  B.,  portraits  of  Leon- 
ard Bleecker,  property  of,  facing  41, 
429. 

Wark-y,  Felix,  at  banquet  society  of  the 
Cincinnati,  151. 

Warner,  Alexander,  commissioner  from 
Conn.,  215;  at  literary  exercises,  290. 

Warner,  Andrew,  member  of  committee 
N.  Y.  historical  society,  105;  of  general 
committee,  107,  114,  236;  invited  to 
meet  president  Harrison,  245. 

Warner,  Charles  D.,  at  literary  exercises, 
290;  at  banquet,  359. 

Warner,  John  C,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Warner,  William,  at  banquet,  361. 

Warner,  William,  third  N.  J.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  326. 

Warren,  Asa  C,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 225. 

Warre.i,  Rev.  E.  Walpole,  favors  holding 
religious  services  April  30,  1889,  123. 

Warren,  Edward  A.,  first  Mo.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  343. 

Warren,  Francis  E. ,  governor  of  Wyo- 
ming, 233. 


Warren,  George  H.,  at  centennial  ball, 
261. 

Warren,  Mrs.  George  H.,  Jr.,  at  centen- 
nial ball,  261. 

Warren,  J.  Hobart,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

Warren,  Mrs.  J.  Hobart,  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  267. 

Warren,  John  C,  portrait  of  Franklin, 
property  of,  457. 

Warren,  Lena,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Warren,  Lange  &  Co,  subscribers  to 
celebration,  401. 

Warrington,  G.,  eighth  Fa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  324. 

Warts,  Alexander  B. ,  captain  of  police, 
237. 

Washburn,  John  H.,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  103;  at  banquet,  360. 

Washing-machine,  manufacture,  repre- 
sented, civic  parade,  397. 

Washington,  United  States  revenue  cutter, 
at  naval  parade,  202. 

Washington  Artillery,  New  Orleans,  La., 
at  military  parade,  343. 

Washington  Association,  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  186. 

Washington,  Bushrod,  mentioned,  75. 

Washington,  Bushrod  C,  Washington's 
knee  buckles,  property  of,  138;  com- 
missioner from  West  Va.,  216;  at  ban- 
quet, 360. 

Washington  Chemical  Engine  Company, 

at  civic  parade,  389. 
Washington  Continental  Guards,  at  civic 

parade,  386. 
Washington  Continentals,  at  civic  parade, 

386. 

Washington,  D.  C,  the  city  planned  by 
major  L'Enfant,  15;  bill  before  congress 
to  hold  the  celebration  in,  178;  com- 
missioner from,  216,233;  troops  at  mili- 
tary and  civic  parade,  344,  386  ;  the 
celebration  at,  404  ;  portraits  in  the 
capitol — Charles  Carroll,  436  ;  Oliver 
Ellsworth,  444  ;  Alexander  Hamilton, 
472;  John  Jay,  479,  483;  Thomas  Jef- 
ferson, 483  ;  Lafayette,  494  ;  Henry 
Laurens,  495  ;  James  Madison,  504  ; 
Frederick  A.  Muhlenberg,  516  ;  Ed- 
mund Randolph,  521  ;  Theodore  Sedg- 
wick, 525  ;  Jonathan  Trumbull,  535  ; 
George  Washington,  542  ;  Martha 
Washington,  549;  Trumbull's  paintings 
at  the  capitol — the  declaration  of  inde- 
pendence, 440,  446,  455,  486,  497,  500, 
514,  522,  527,  534;  capture  of  the  Hes- 
sians, 492,  518,  52S;  surrender  of  Bur- 
goyne,  438;  surrender  of  Cornwallis, 
492,  493.  529;  Washington  resigning 
his  commission,  447,  474,  475,  512,  517, 
518,  55o. 

Washington,  Elizabeth,  sister  of  George 
Washington,  441;  notes  on  the  portraits 

of,  497. 

Washington,  Elizabeth  L.,  portrait  of 
Richard  Bland  Lee,  properly  of,  496. 

Washington,  Ella  B.,  mentioned,  547,  note. 

Washington  Engine  Company,  at  civic 
parade,  389. 


Washington,  George,  commissioner  from 
Ky.,  216. 

Washington,  George,  inauguration  of,  as 
first  president  of  the  United  States, 
April  30,  1789,  chosen  president  of 
U.  S..  12;  congress  appoints  messenger 
to  inform  him  of  his  election,  13;  por- 
trait of,  in  federal  hall,  N.  Y. ;  men- 
tioned, 13,  note;  views  of  desk  and 
table  used  by,  in  federal  hall,  16;  re- 
ceives certificate  of  election,  his  reply, 
19;  reluctant  to  accept  the  office  of  pres- 
ident, 19  ;  extracts  of  letters,  relative 
to  his  election  as  president,  19,  20,  21; 
fac-simile  of  his  letters  to  congress, 
April  14  and  20,  accepting  the  office  of 
president,  20,  25;  farewell  visit  to  his 
mother,  borrows  money  to  pay  debts 
and  defray  his  expenses  to  N.  Y.,  21; 
leaves  for  N.  Y.,  entertained  at  Alex- 
andria, 21;  meets  Mrs.  Washington  at 
Elizabethport,  N.  J.,  21,  note  ;  reply  to 
the  citizens  of  Alexandria,  22  ;  his  re- 
ception at  Georgetown  and  Baltimore, 
22;  arrives  at  Wilmington,  address  of 
the  burgesses  and  common  council 
presented  to,  22;  his  reception  at  Phila- 
delphia and  Chester,  22,  23;  at  Gray's 
Ferry,  crowned  with  a  laurel  wreath, 
23;  view  of  the  triumphal  arches  erected 
at  Gray's  Ferry,  23;  banquet  to,  in  the 
city  tavern,  Phila. ,  23;  reception  at 
Trenton,  24,  26;  guest  of  Robert  Mor- 
ris, offers  the  treasury  portfolio  to  the 
latter,  24,  note  ;  view  of  triumphal  arch 
at  Trenton,  N.  J.,  26  ;  ode  to,  sung  by 
ladies  of  Trenton,  N.  J.,  26;  arrives  at 
Princeton,  N.  J.,  26;  fac  simile  of  his 
letter  of  thanks  to  the  ladies  of  Tren- 
ton, 27;  reception  at  Brunswick,  Wood- 
bridge  and  Bridgetown,  N.  J.,  27;  sa- 
luted on  his  approach  to  Elizabethtown, 
N.  J.,  27;  arrives  at  Elizabethtown  and 
receives  the  citizens  and  committee  of 
congress,  28,  50;  escorted  to  Elizabeth- 
town  Point,  embarks  in  a  barge  for 
N.  Y.,  28  ;  arrival  and  reception  at 
N.  Y.,  28-36,  49,  50;  ode  to,  sung  on 
the  arrival  of,  at  N.  Y.,  29,  note  ;  dines 
with  governor  Clinton,  29,  30,  36,  50; 
views  of  his  residence  in  N.  Y.,  34,  36  ; 
personal  appearance  and  dress  of,  34; 
extract  from  the  diary  of,  respecting  his 
reception  at  N.  Y.,  and  renting  of  a 
house  for  his  residence,  36,  and  note  , 
debate  in  congress  on  the  title  of,  38; 
arrangements  for  the  inauguration,  39; 
caricature  of  his  arrival  at  N.  Y.,  39, 
note ;  receives  congress  and  chamber 
of  commerce,  40;  visits  senator  Maclay, 
40,  note  ;  his  favorite  drive  about  N.  Y., 
40,  note ;  escorted  to  federal  hall  by 
the  military,  committee  of  congress 
and  citizens,  42,  46  ;  arrives  at  federal 
hall,  introduced  to  congress,  escorted  to 
the  chair,  44,  46;  congress  escort  him 
to  take  oath  of  office,  44;  chair  used  by, 
at  his  inauguration,  44;  ceremonies  at 
the  inauguration  of,  41,  note  ;  his  dress, 
44,  note,  50,  51;  takes  the  oath  of  office, 


INDEX. 


665 


45,  46,  48.  50,  52;  declared  president  of 
U.  S.,  45,  46,  48,  52;  delivers  inaugural 
address,  45,  46,  49,  50,  54;  attends  ser- 
vice at  St.  Paul's  chapel,  45,  47,  49,  54; 
his  portrait  in  fireworks,  47,  58;  Feder- 
alists propose  title  for,  48;  visits  chan- 
cellor Livingston,  49;  views  the  fire- 
works at  French  minister's  house,  49, 
57;  gives  reception  to  citizens,  49,  50, 
58;  declines  invitations  to  banquets,  50; 
escorted  to  his  residence,  56;  view  of 
pew  used  by,  in  St.  Paul's  chapel,  N.  Y., 
57;  his  hours  for  receiving  company, 
58,  and  note  ;  attends  assembly  ball,  58, 
59;  gives  his  first  UvA,  58,  note;  his 
dress  at  reception  of  visitors,  58,  note  ; 
his  conviction  of  duty,  cares  and  labors 
of  the  president,  60,  and  note  ;  his  copy 
of  the  acts  of  the  first  session  of  the 
first  congress,  and  book-plate,  91. 

 Semi-Centennial  of  the  inauguration 

of,  April  30,  1839,  by  the  N.  Y.  histori- 
cal society,  95;  oration  by  John  Quincy 
Adams,  95,  97;  held  in  the  middle 
Dutch  church,  N.  Y.,  96,  names  of 
guests  present,  96;  order  of  exercises, 
97;  ode  by  William  Cullen  Bryant,  97; 
banquet  at  the  city  hotel,  97,  9S ; 
address  by  John  Quincy  Adams,  98; 
guests  present,  9S;  extracts  from  diaries 
of  Hone  and  Adams,  describing  the 
celebration,  gg;  transparency  represent- 
ing the  inauguration,  I78g,  displayed, 
gg. 

 Centennial  Celebration  of  the  inau- 
guration of,  preliminary  work  of  the 
celebration,  100;  action  of  N.  Y.  his- 
torical society,  sons  of  the  revolution 
and  chamber  of  commerce,  101 ;  citizens' 
committee,  103;  general  committee,  107, 
10S;  list  of  sub-committees,  10S,  109, 
112;  plan  and  scope  of  the  celebration, 
no;  names  of  general  committee,  114; 
fac  simile  of  invitations,  116,  119;  out- 
line of  the  sub-committees,  117;  amount 
of  appropriations  asked  for  the  cele- 
bration, 117;  the  president  of  U.  S. 
announces  the  centennial  celebration, 
in  his  message  to  congress.  Dec,  188S, 
118;  amount  of  money  appropriated  by 
the  state  of  N.  Y.,  118;  location  of  re- 
viewing stands  changed,  118;  date  of 
industrial  parade  changed,  118;  com- 
mittees on  press,  platform,  aisle,  and 
reception  appointed,  120;  special  aides 
appointed  to  the  chairman  of  sub-com- 
mittees, 120;  arrangements  of  commit- 
tees of  army,  art,  entertainment,  navy 
and  railroads,  and  industrial  parade, 
120;  medals  worn  by  the  guests  and 
members  of  the  committees,  121;  the 
work  of  the  various  committees,  121, 
122;  plan  of  religious  services,  122; 
names  of  the  clergy  of  N.  Y.  invited, 
and  replies,  123;  meeting  of  clergy, 
names  of  those  present,  123;  address 
of  the  committee  of  clergymen  to  the 
president  of  U.  S.,  124;  proclamation 
of  the  president  of  U.  S.,  126;  official 
programme  of  the  celebration,  126. 
85 


  Loan  Exhibition,   April   17,  1889, 

views  of  picture  gallery  and  relics, 
facing  129,  131,  133,  134,  142,  144,  146, 
I4g;  of  historical  portraits  and  relics, 
131,  142;  fac-simile  of  tickets,  134,  142; 
catalogue  of  Washington  portraits,  143; 
catalogue  of  portraits  of  distinguished 
Americans,  144;  catalogue  of  busts. 
145;  the  exhibition  of  relics,  147. 

  Commemorative    Banquet  of  the 

Society  of  the  Cincinnati,  April  27, 
l8Sg,  list  of  subscribers,  I4g;  menu, 
152;  toasts,  152;  addresses,  153;  com- 
memorative services  held  in  St.  Paul's 
chapel,  N.  Y.,  April  28,  i88g,  i6g; 
order  of  services,  sermon  by  bishop 
Perry,  171. 

 Naval  Parade,  April  30,  iS8g,  pro- 
gramme, 126,  iSg,  igi;  president  Har- 
rison and  vice-president  Morton,  em- 
barking at  Elizabethport,  X.  J.,  facing 
184;  barge  containing  the  president 
and  vice-president,  facing  186;  the 
U.  S.  vessel  Despatch  under  way,  1S6, 
iSg,  igo;  fac-simile  of  tickets,  190,  191, 
20S;  admiral  Porter,  grand  marshal,  and 
Charles  W.  Woolsey,  deputy  marshal, 
list  of  aides,  190;  steamers  for  guests 
and  presidential  party,  191,  201;  map  of 
line  of  formation  and  route,  192;  views 
of  U.  S.  vessels,  Chicago  and  Essex, 
facing  193:  general  order  of  parade, 
193;  location  and  names  of  United 
States  vessels,  ig3,  201,  202;  view  of 
the  president  and  vice-president  of 
U.  S.  boarding  the  U.  S.  steamer 
Despatch,  ig3;  formation  route  of 
merchant  marine,  195;  portrait  group 
of  president  Harrison  and  admiral  Por- 
ter on  board  the  Despatch,  195;  order 
of  salutes,  ig6;  views  of  U.  S.  vessels, 
Boston,  Brooklyn,  Jamestown,  Juniata, 
Kearsage,  Yantic  and  Yorktown,  facing 
ig5,  ig6,  ig7,  19S,  199;  listof  guests  on 
board  the  Despatch,  19S,  200;  president 
Harrison's  reception  on  the  Despatch, 
200;  view  of  steam  tugs  saluting  the 
presidential  party,  200;  view  of  De- 
spatch in  the  East  River,  201;  the 
display  of  flags  on  vessels,  201 ;  presi- 
dent Harrison  embarks  in  his  barge  for 
the  foot  of  Wall  street,  facing  igg,  200, 
202;  landing  of  the  president  at  Wall 
street,  facing  204;  number  of  vessels  in 
parade,  202;  group  of  portraits  of  ship- 
masters from  the  marine  society,  crew 
of  president's  barge,  203. 

  Reception  to  President  Harrison  at 

foot  of  Wall  street,  April  29,  1889,  203, 
204,  21S;  views  of  escort  to  the  presi- 
dent and  scenes  on  the  street,  210,  211, 
214,  215,  220;  the  military  and  societies 
in  the  escort  through  Wall  street,  2ig, 
220;  reception,  banquet  and  collation 
at  Equitable  building,  226;  fac-simile 
of  invitation  to  reception,  22S,  22g, 
232,  236,  237;  reception  at  city  hall, 
237;  list  of  guests  at  reception,  lawyers' 
club,  241,  244. 

  Centennial    Ball,    April    2g,  l88g. 


list  of  invited  guests,  256;  foreign 
ministers,  257;  number  of  persons 
present,  257;  arrival  and  reception  of 
president  Harrison,  258;  opening  quad- 
rille, names  of  those  taking  part,  258; 
order  of  dancing,  258;  floor  committee, 
259;  names  of  persons  present,  259; 
fac-simile  of  ticket,  260;  list  of  sub- 
scribers to  the  ball,  262;  fac-simile  of 
press  ticket,  264;  menu  of  the  supper, 
267. 

 Services  at  St.  Paul's  chapel,  April 

30,  1889,  president  Harrison,  vice- 
president  Morton,  the  president's  cab- 
inet, the  justices  of  U.  S.  supreme 
court,  and  others  present,  269,  270 ; 
fac-simile  of  ticket  to  services,  270 ; 
the  Washington  and  Clinton  pews, 
occupied  by  the  president  of  U.  S. 
and  the  governor  of  N.  Y.,  270  ;  mu- 
sical programme,  271  ;  order  of  ser- 
vices, 271,  273  ;  diagram  of  main  floors 
showing  the  assignment  of  guests,  272; 
officiating  bishops  and  clergy,  273;  dis- 
course by  bishop  Potter,  277  ;  special 
committee  in  charge  of  services,  281  ; 
the  aisle  committee,  281,  282  ;  Wash- 
ington's prayer-book,  used  in  the  ser- 
vice, 2S1,  note. 

 Literary  Exercises,  at  the  sub-treas- 
ury Wall  street,  April  30,  1889,  list 
of  guests  present,  285,  289  ;  fac-simile 
of  ticket  and  invitation,  2S6,  288  ;  the 
bible  and  chair  used  by  Washington, 
286 ;  decorations  of  building,  286  ; 
view  of  building,  2go ;  addresses  by 
Hamilton  Fish  and  Elbridge  T.  Gerry, 
2go;  prayer  by  Rev.  Richard  S.  Storrs, 
2gi  ;  poem,  entitled  "The  Vow  of 
Washington,"  by  John  Greenleaf  Whit 
tier,  read  by  Clarence  W.  Bowen,  292; 
oration  by  Chauncey  M.  Depew,  293; 
views  of  the  street  during  the  exer- 
cises, 2g4,  2g7,  300,  307  ;  address  by- 
president  Harrison,  307  ;  benediction 
by  archbishop  Corrigan.  30S. 

  Military    Parade.    April    30,  iSSg, 

route  of  march.  313;  number  of  persons 
in  the  parade,  314;  number  of  troops  of 
U.  S.  army,  the  marine  corps,  sailors 
of  the  U.  S.  navy,  cadets  of  the  U.  S. 
military  academy,  the  national  guard, 
state  troops,  volunteer  militia,  grand 
army  of  the  republic  and  the  loyal 
legion  of  U.  S.,  314 ;  view  of  arch 
near  the  grand  stand,  314  ;  fac-simile 
of  ticket  to  grand  stand,  315;  president 
Harrison  reviewing  the  parade,  316  ; 
the  guests  on  the  grand  stand,  316 ; 
gen.  Schofield,  grand  marshal,  317  ; 
views  of  the  cadets  of  the  U.  S.  mili- 
tary academy,  318,  319  ;  roster  of  the 
troops,  319;  chief  marshal  and  aides, 
319;  escort  to  chief  marshal,  320;  view 
of  U.  S.  artillery,  facing  320  ;  brigade 
of  U.  S.  army,  320 ;  cadets  of  U.  S. 
military  academy,  320  ;  the  navai  bri- 
gade, 321  ;  view  of  naval  brigade,  322  ; 
Delaware  troops,  322;  governor  Biggs, 
of  Delaware,  and  staff,  323;  Pa.  troops, 


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323;  governor  Heaver,  of  Pa.,  and  staff, 
324;  New  Jersey  troops,  326  ;  gover- 
nor Green,  of  N.  J.,  and  staff,  327  ; 
Georgia  troops,  governor  Gordon,  of 
Ga.,  32S;  Conn,  troops,  governor  Bulke- 
ley,  of  Conn.,  and  staff,  328:  Mass. 
troops,  governor  Ames,  of  Mass.,  329; 
the  ancient  and  honorable  artillery 
company  of  Boston,  330;  Maryland 
troops,  330 ;  Edward  W.  Le  Compte, 
secretary  of  state,  Md.,  and  gover- 
nor's staff,  331  ;  South  Carolina  troops, 
331  ;  governor  Richardson,  of  S.  C, 
and  staff,  332;  New  Hampshire  troops, 
332;  governor  Sawyer,  of  N.  H.,  and 
staff,  333  ;  Virginia  troops,  333  ;  gov- 
ernor Lee,  of  Va.,  and  staff,  334; 
New  York  troops,  334;  governor  Hill, 
of  N.  Y.,  and  staff,  335  ;  brigadier- 
general  Louis  Fitzgerald,  and  staff, 
336  ;  view  of  the  seventh  regiment  of 
N.  Y.,  338  ;  governor  Fowle,  of 
N.  C,  339;  North  Carolina  troops,  340; 
Rhode  Island  troops,  governor  Taft, 
340  ;  Vermont  troops,  341 ;  Kentucky 
troops,  341  ;  Ohio  troops,  341  ;  Louis- 
iana troops,  343;  Illinois  troops,  343  ; 
Missouri  troops,  343  ;  Michigan  troops, 
344;  Florida  troops,  344;  Texas  troops, 

344  ;  West  Virginia  troops,  344  ;  Dis- 
trict of  Columbia  troops,  344 ;  loyal 
legion  of  U.  S.,  345;  first  N.  Y. 
mounted  rifles,  and  fourth  N.  Y.  cav- 
alry,   grand    army  of    the  republic, 

345  ;  total  of  officers  and  men,  346  ; 
report  of  the  chief  marshal,  347  ;  re- 
port on  the  condition  of  the  troops,  347. 

 The  Madison  Square  Concert,  April 

30.  1889,  arranged  under  the  leadership 
of  Theodore  Thomas,  350;  list  of  Ger- 
man singing  societies,  350;  number  of 
singers,  350;  grand  march  from  Wag- 
ner's opera,  Tannhauser,  Reinhold 
Schmelz,  leader  of  orchestra,  350; 
jubilee  overture,  by  Lindpaintner,  350; 
Hail  Columbia,  sung  by  the  chorus, 
arranged  by  Max  Vogrich,  350;  Halle- 
lujah Chorus,  from  Handel's  Messiah, 
350;  the  Lord's  Own  Day,  by  Kreut- 
zer,  sung  by  the  chorus,  350  ;  the 
Invocation  to  Battle,  from  Wagner's 
opera  Rienzi,  351;  the  Star-spangled 
Banner,  sung  by  the  chorus,  351; 
Meyerbeer's  Torchlight  Dance,  351; 
Beethoven's  the  Heavens  are  Telling, 
sung  by  the  chorus,  351;  jubilee  over- 
ture, by  Carl  Maria  von  Weber,  351; 
national  hymn  America,  sung  by  the 
public,  351. 

  Fireworks  Display,  April  30,  1889, 

at  Bowling  Green;  Tompkins  Square; 
Abingdon  Square;  Madison  Square, 
Fighty-sixth  Street,  and  Avenue  A; 
Twenty-third  Ward;  Paradise  Park; 
Washington  Square;Central  Park  Plaza; 
Mount  Morris  Square,  Washington 
Heights;  Twenty-fourth  Ward;  Battery 
Park;  Union  Square;  Canal  Street, 
Fulton  Avenue  Park;  and  East  River 
Park,  352,  353 


  Banquet  at  the  Metropolitan  Opera- 
house,  April  30,  18S9,  decorations  of 
the  tables  and  interior  of  building,  354; 
menu  of  the  banquet,  355;  number  of 
guests,  356;  names  of  guests,  356,  35?, 
361;  fac-simile  of  diagram  showing  the 
location  of  tables,  357;  list  of  toasts  and 
sentiments,  362;  address  of  mayor 
Grant,  363;  address  of  governor  Hill, 
364;  fac-simile  of  ticket  to  the  banquet, 
364;  address  of  Grover  Cleveland,  366; 
address  of  governor  Fitzhugh  Lee,  367; 
address  of  chief-justice  Fuller,  369; 
address  of  senator  Daniel,  371;  address 
of  Rutherford  R.  Hayes,  373;  address  of 
senator  Evarts,  374;  address  of  general 
Sherman,  375;  address  of  Charles  W. 
Eliot,  378;  address  of  James  Russell 
Lowell,  379;  address  of  president  Har- 
rison, 381. 

  Civic  and  Industrial  Parade,  May 

1st,  1889,  route  of  march,  383;  presen- 
tation of  address,  to  president  Harri- 
son, from  the  civic,  industrial  and  com- 
mercial bodies  of  N.  Y.  city,  383;  view 
of  president  Harrison,  reviewing  the 
parade,  384;  grand  marshal  and  aides, 
384;  veterans  of  U.  S.  army  and  navy, 
385;  twenty-fifth  N.  Y.  volunteers,  385; 
tableau,  the  declaration  of  independ- 
ence, 385.  Star  Division — Columbia 
college,  and  college  of  the  city  of 
N.  Y.,  385:  tableau,  Washington  and 
his  generals,  385;  mayor  Grant  deliv- 
ering address  to  president  Harrison, 
385;  scholars  of  public  schools,  10  and 
15,  of  Brooklyn  ;  Columbia  institute 
cadets,  386  ;  tableaux,  Washington 
crossing  the  Delaware,  and  Washing- 
ton at  Valley  Forge,  escorted  by  eight 
battalions  from  public  schools,  386. 
Division  A — Guard  Lafayette;  Liberty 
guards  ;  Irish  volunteers  ;  tableau, 
Washington's  farewell  to  his  officers; 
knights  of  temperance;  knights  of 
Pythias  ;  tableau,  Washington  resign- 
ing his  commission  ;  Lafayette  con- 
clave ;  King's  Bridge  and  Spuyten 
Duyvil  cadets  ;  Yonkers  continental 
guards;  tableau,  inauguration  of  Wash- 
ington; Phelps  guard;  Washington  con- 
tinental guards;  Excelsior  light  in- 
fantry; Washington  continentals  ;  tab- 
leau, state  of  Virginia  ;  sons  of  vet- 
erans, portrait  of  chief  marshal,  3S6; 
tableaux,  New  York,  Mass.,  Delaware, 
Md.,  Pa.  and  Ga.,  386,  387  ;  united 
order  of  Foresters  ;  staff  and  aides  of 
chief  marshal  ;  Caledonian  club,  N.  Y., 
387  ;  Rheinischer  schuetzen  bund  ; 
centennial  sharpshooters;  Swiss  cen- 
tennial committee  ;  tableau,  Switzer- 
land ;  Hungarian  schuetzen  bund,  388. 
Division  B — Volunteer  firemen,  in  nine 
divisions,  388  ;  view  of  students  of 
Columbia  college,  388  ;  view  of  the 
volunteer  firemen,  389.  Division  C — 
View  of  Tammany  society,  390.  Divi- 
sion D — Brooklyn  police  ;  Manhattan 
ship  joiners,  390  ;  view  of  ship  joiners' 


two  floats,  391  ;  operative  plasterers' 
society,  with  floats,  391;  cloak  and 
suit  industry  ;  mutual  benefit  society 
of  painters;  marble  cutters,  with  float; 
Brooklyn  plumbers'  and  gas-fitters' 
union,  392.  Division  E — Carpenters 
of  Brooklyn  ;  carpenters  and  joiners 
of  America,  392.  Division  F — United 
Italian  societies,  with  two  floats,  repre- 
senting Columbus  and  Washington  ; 
Italian  civic  societies  ;  Scandinavian- 
American  societies,  392.  Divisions  G 
to  M — German  sharpshooters,  and  sing- 
ing societies  ;  thirty  floats,  showing  the 
influence  of  the  German  element,  393; 
view  of  the  exhibit  of  the  newspaper, 
the  "  World,"  394.  Divisions  N  to  T — 
Hibernians  with  float:  Irish-American 
league,  with  floats,  395  ;  ninth  ward 
pioneer  corps  ;  bricklayers'  union,  of 
Brooklyn  and  Long  Isand  city,  with 
floats;  Loyal  Orange  institution ;  order 
of  Odd-Fellows,  with  float;  U.  S.  Grant 
hose  company,  with  overland  coach, 
and  pony  express  ;  Polish  societies  ; 
Arlington  league  club  ;  Bohemian 
national  association,  396  ;  views  of 
tableaux,  Washington's  farewell  to  his 
officers,  and  Federal  Hall,  396;  Colored 
centennial  committee,  397  ;  fac-simile 
of  ticket  to  grand  stand,  397.  Divisions 
U  to  Z — United  Irish-American  and 
Catholic  societies,  with  twelve  floats, 
representing  the  various  industries, 
397- 

 Portraits  of  Washington,  painted  by 

C.  W.  Peale,  frontispiece,  facing  6,  9, 
10,  184;  James  Peale,  9,  10,  81;  Pine, 

9,  Ramage,  178;  Archibald  Robertson, 
65;  Walter  Robertson,  10;  St.  Memin, 
160;  Savage,  9,  14;  Stuart,  4,  12,  150; 
Trumbull,  2,  10;  W.  V.,  10;  Wright, 

10,  14;  notes  on  the  portraits,  541. 
  Relics   of  Washington,  snuff-box, 

75;  pencil  case  and  gold  pen,  85  ;  sur- 
veying instruments,  133;  knee-buckles, 
138;  punch  bowl,  facing  146  ;  sword, 
locket  with  hair,  and  vases,  facing  149; 
gold  ring,  with  his  hair,  155  ;  field- 
glass,  164;  breast  pin,  166;  camp  trunk, 
182;  fan,  with  portrait,  256. 

  Sculpture,    busts   of  Washington, 

by  Ceracchi,  417  ;  Houdon,  1  ;  statue, 
149 ;  St.  Gaudens,  centennial  medal, 
140  ;  medal  of  statue  in  Wall  street, 
207. 

Washington  Grays,  Phila.,  portrait  of 
Washington,  property  of,  81,  143,  541, 
544- 

Washington,  Harriet,  portrait  of  Wash- 
ington, property  of,  543. 

Washington  Heights  Liedertafel,  at  Mad- 
ison square  concert,  350. 

Washington  Heights,  N.  Y.  city,  display 
of  fireworks,  352. 

Washington  H~se  Company,  at  civic  pa- 
rade, 389. 

Washington,  Lawrence,  note  on  the  por- 
traits of  Martha  Washington  and  Mrs. 
Fielding  Lewis,  547. 


INDEX. 


667 


Washington,  Mrs  Lewis,  mentioned.  75  ; 
the  Washington  family  bible,  property 
of,  146. 

Washington,  Lewis  W.,  portraits  of  Field- 
ing Lewis,  and  Mrs.  Lewis,  property 
of,  497,  546,  note  ;  claims  the  Woolaston 
portrait  of  Martha  Washington  to  be 
the  portrait  of  Mrs.  Fielding  Lewis,  546, 
note,  548,  note. 

Washington  and  Lee  University,  portrait 
of  James  Madison,  property  of,  facing 
63.  507  ;  the  centennial  celebration  ser- 
vices at,  405  ;  former  name  of  the, 
405. 

Washington  Light  Infantry,  at  military 
parade,  331,  345. 

Washington  Lodge,  Alexandria,  Va.,  por- 
trait of  Washington,  property  of,  542. 

Washington,  Martha,  leaves  Mount  Ver- 
non for  N.  Y.,  entertained  at  Baltimore, 
Gray's  Ferry,  and  Philadelphia,  21, 
note ;  meets  Washington  at  Elizabeth- 
port,  21,  note  ;  entertained  at  dinner, 
N.  Y.,  32,  note  ;  her  family  bible,  67  ; 
portraits  at  loan  exhibition,  144  ;  her 
gold  snuff-box,  170;  presents  Tobias 
Lear  with  Washington's  portrait.  543  ; 
extract  from  her  will,  545  ;  her  portrait 
by  Woolaston,  claimed  to  be  the  portrait 
of  Mrs.  Fielding  Lewis,  497,  546,  note, 
548,  note. 

  portraits,  painted  by  James  Peale, 

facing  10  ;  A.  Robertson,  65  ;  Savage, 
facing  14  ;  Stuart,  12  ;  Trumbull,  264  ; 
Woolaston,  262;  Wright,  14  ;  notes  on 
the  portraits,  546. 

Washington,  Mary  Ball,  fac-simile  page 
of  her  family  bible,  showing  date  of 
Washington's  birth,  146. 

Washington  Memorial  Arch,  views  of, 
407,  410,  415  ;  exercises  at  laying  of 
the  corner-stone,  May  30,  1890,  407  ; 
amount  of  money  subscribed,  408,  412  ; 
order  of  exercises,  409 ;  contents  of 
corner-stone,  409  ;  address  by  Henry 
G.  Marquand,  410;  address  by  George 
William  Curtis,  411  ;  names  of  sub- 
scribers, 413  ;  group  of  portraits  of  per- 
sons present  at  laying  of  corner-stone, 
413- 

Washington,  Pa.,  tenth  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  325. 

Washington,  Rev.  S.,  favors  holding  relig- 
ious services  April  30,  1889,  123. 

Washington,  Samuel,  brother  of  George 
Washington,  543. 

Washington  Square,  N.  Y.  city,  display  of 
fireworks,  352. 

Washington  Territory,  governor  and  com- 
missioners, 215,  216,  233. 

Washington,  William  H.,  at  banquet,  358. 

Wasson,  J.  B.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Waterbury,  James  M.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  247;  at  banquet, 
360;  subscriber  to  memorial  arch,  414. 

Waterbury,  L. ,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  the 
Wall  street  arch,  253. 

Waterbury,  Nelson  J.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  267. 


Waterbury  &  Force,  subscribers  to  Wall 

street  arch,  253. 
Waterhouse,   Mrs.,   portrait   of  Gilbert 

Stuart,  property  of,  531. 
Waterman,  James  S.,  commissioner  from 

California,  215,  233  ;  at  banquet,  359. 
Waterman,  R.  W.,  governor  of  Cal.,  233. 
Waters,  T.  J.,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  267. 

Watertown,  Mass.,  reception  of  John 
Adams  at,  17. 

Watertown,  N'.  Y.,  thirty-ninth  separate 
company,  at  military  parade,  338. 

Watkins,  Effie  M.,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  63,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

Watkins,  Frank,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 223. 

Watkins,  O.  W.,  commissioner  from  Ar- 
kansas, 215. 

Watrous,  Charles,  member  of  committee, 
chamber  of  commerce,  102. 

Watson,  Bella  L.,  of  choir,  St.  Paul's 
chapel,  271. 

Watson,  J.  H.,  first  Vt.  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  341. 

Watson,  John  F.,  the  West  portrait  of 
Franklin,  455;  medallion  of  Franklin, 
459,  and  note. 

Watson,  Thomas  L.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  245. 

Watson,  Thomas  L.,  colonel  fourth  Conn, 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  329. 

Watson,  W.  L.,  thirteenth  N.  Y.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  337. 

Watson,  William  A.,  at  banquet  society 
of  the  Cincinnati,  150;  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  267;  at  literary  exer- 
cises, 290. 

Watterson,  Henry,  at  banquet,  360. 

Wattles,  G.  C,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Watts,  E.  B.,  eighth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  324. 

Watts.  George  B.,  Jr.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  267. 

Watts,  George  M„  at  centennial  ball, 
262. 

Watts,  John,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
267. 

Watts,  Lady   Mary,  portrait,  facing  57; 

attends  assembly  ball,  1789,  59;  notes 

on  the  portrait  of,  423,  549. 
Watts,  Robert,  commissioner  to  supervise 

the  alteration  of  federal  hall,  1789,  15 

note. 

Watts,  Robert,  M.D.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  221;  portraits  of  Lord  and 
Lady  Stirling  and  Lady  Mary  Watts, 
property  of,  facing  57,  530,  549. 

Way,  Mrs.  Charlton  H.,  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  267. 

Wayne,  Gen.  Anthony,  his  services,  155, 
177- 

Wayne,  William,  at  banquet  of  society 
of  the  Cincinnati,  151;  representative 
of  society  of  the  Cincinnati  at  cele- 
bration, 177;  at  reception  to  president 
Harrison,  232,  248;  at  banquet,  metro- 
politan opera-house,  360. 


Weaver,  artist,  his  portrait  of  Alexander 
Hamilton,  472. 

Webb,  Alexander  S.,  member  of  general 
committee,  114,  236;  of  N.  Y.  society 
of  the  Cincinnati,  150;  his  address  at 
banquet  of  the  society  of  the  Cincinnati, 
163;  at  reception  to  president  Harrison, 
232,  244;  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
267;  at  banquet,  360. 

Webb,  Mrs.  Alexander  S.,  at  centennial 
ball,  258. 

Webb,  Alexander  S..  Jr.,  member  of 
reception  committee,  ancestry  of,  230. 

Webb,  Francis  P.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  225. 

Webb,  G.  Creighton,  member  of  general 
committee,  114,  236;  aide  to  chairman 
of  executive  committee,  120;  at  centen 
nial  ball,  258;  subscriber  to  ball,  267; 
at  literary  exercises,  2S5;  member  of 
platform  committee,  308,  309;  aide  to 
grand  marshal,  military  parade,  320; 
at  banquet,  359;  subscriber  to  celebra- 
tion, 401. 

Webb,  H.  Walter,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  104;  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Webb,  J.  Louis,  member  of  aisle  com- 
mittee, St.  Paul's  chapel,  272,  283; 
ancestry  of,  283. 

Webb,  J.  Watson,  mentioned,  42,  note. 

Webb,  the  Misses,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 

Webb,  Robert  S  ,  at  banquet  of  society  of 
the  Cincinnati,  150. 

Webb,  Gen.  Samuel  B.,  portrait  painted 
by  C.  W.  Peale,  facing  41;  escort  to 
Washington,  41,  285,  note;  portrait  at 
loan  exhibition,  136,  145;  notes  on  the 
portrait  of,  422,  549. 

Webb,  W.  Seward,  at  centennial  ball, 
261;  subscriber  to  ball,  267;  at  banquet, 
356;  subscriber  to  celebration,  and  me- 
morial arch,  400,  414. 

Webb,  William  B.,  member  of  Md.  soci- 
ety of  the  Cincinnati,  151  ;  his  address 
at  banquet,  society  of  the  Cincinnati, 
166 ;  commissioner  from  District  of 
Columbia,  216,  233  ;  at  reception  to 
president  Harrison,  232. 

Webb,  William  H.,  at  banquet,  359;  sub- 
scriber to  celebration,  and  memorial 
arch,  401,  414. 

Weber,  Carl  M.  von,  jubilee  overture  by, 
35i- 

Weber,  George  A.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Weber,  John  B.,  member  of  congress 
from  N.  Y.,  242. 

Weber,  Gen.  Max,  represented  in  tab- 
leau, civic  parade,  393. 

Webster,  A.  T.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Webster,  Charles  B.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  246. 

Webster,  Charles  L. ,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  246. 

Webster,  John  L.,  commissioner  from 
Nebraska,  208,  212,  216,  233;  at  ban- 
quet, 359. 

Webster,  Willoughby,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  267. 


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Wcckherlin,  G.  dc,  minister  from  the 
Netherlands,  invited  to  centennial  ball, 
257- 

Wedgewood,  Josiah,  medallion  of  Frank- 
lin by,  460. 

Weed,  Harriet  A.,  subscriber  to  memo- 
rial arch,  414. 

Weekes,  F.  Delano,  member  of  reception 
committee,  230;  at  banquet,  358. 

Weekes,  John  A.,  member  of  committee 
of  N.  Y.  historical  society,  105,  106; 
of  general  committee,  107,  114,  236; 
subscriber  to  centennial  ball,  267  ;  at 
literary  exercises,  290;  at  banquet,  360. 

Weeks,  Barton,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Weeks,  Bartow  S.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  225. 

Weeks,  Francis  H.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  267. 

Weeks,  Grenville  M.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  267. 

Weeks,  Stephen  B.,  mentioned,  92,  note. 

Weidman,  Grant,  member  of  Pa.  society 
of  the  Cincinnati,  151  ;  his  address  at 
banquet  society  of  the  Cincinnati,  167; 
invited  to  meet  president  Harrison,  248; 
subscriber  to  centennial  ball,  267. 

Weier.  Jacob  M.,  sixteenth  Ohio  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  342. 

Weigand,  H.  S.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Weir  Battalion,  school  No.  10,  Brooklyn, 

at  civic  parade,  386. 
Weir,  J.  F.,  at  banquet,  3O0. 
Weir,  Robert  F.,  M.  D.,  invited  to  meet 

president  Harrison,  244;  at  banquet,  358. 
Weir,  Mrs.  Robert  F.,  at  centennial  ball, 

258. 

Weisman,  Augusta,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  60,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

Welch,  Samuel  M.,  Jr.,  colonel  sixty-fifth 
N.  Y.  regiment,  in  command  of  fourth 
provisional  regiment,  military  parade, 
338. 

Welch,  Thomas  B.,  engraver  of  portraits 
of  Franklin,  Madison  and  Robert  Mor- 
ris, 454,  507,  514. 

Weld,  George  W.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

Welde,  Charles,  police  justice,  243. 

Weller,  Augustus  N.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  248. 

Weller,  C,  Garfield  post,  G.  A.  R.,  at 
military  parade,  346. 

Welling,  R.  W  ,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Welling,  R.  W.  G.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

Wellington,  Arthur  M.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  245. 

Wellman,  F.  L.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Wellman.  J.  P.,  second  N.  H.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  332. 

Wellmore,  E.,  engraver  of  portrait  of 
Thomas  Mifflin,  509 

Wells,  B.  H.,  first  Vt.  regiment,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  341. 


Wells,  Charles  K.,  commissioner  from 
Kansas,  215. 

Wells,  Henderson,  member  of  reception 
committee,  ancestry  of,  230. 

Wells,  Mrs.  Kirk  B..  a  descendant  of 
Mrs.  Ralph  Izard,  477. 

Wells,  T.  Tillston,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

Wells,  William,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Wells,  William  S.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267  ;  at  banquet,  361. 

Welsh,  Herbert,  portrait  of  Lafayette, 
property  of,  494. 

Wemple,  A.  E.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Wemple,  Edward,  comptroller  state  of 
N.  Y.,  242;  at  banquet,  359. 

Wenberger,  David  M.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  267. 

Wendell.  Evart  J.,  member  of  reception 
committee,  ancestry  of,  229;  at  ban- 
quet, 359. 

Wendell,  Jacob,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  245;  at  banquet,  359;  sub- 
scriber to  celebration,  401. 

Wendell,  Louis,  first  battery,  N.  Y.,  at 
military  parade,  336. 

Wendell,  Fay  &  Co.,  subscribers  to  cele- 
bration, 401. 

Wenman,  James  F.,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  103;  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245;  marshal  of  firemen, 
civic  parade,  388,  389. 

Went,  Ross  W.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Wentworth,  G.  L.,  eighth  N.  Y.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  335. 

Werner,  John  W.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  222. 

Wernig,  C.  W.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 223 

Wertmuller,  Adolph  U.,  artist,  his  por- 
traits of  Fielding  Lewis,  Mrs.  Lewis 
and  George  Washington,  497,  note,  542. 

Wesendonck,  Hugo,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

West,  Benjamin,  artist,  illustrations  of 
the  portraits  painted  by,  of  John  Adams, 
facing  31;  Benjamin  Franklin,  facing 
31;  William  T.  Franklin,  facing  31; 
Ralph  Izard  and  friends,  facing  180; 
John  Jay,  facing  31;  Henry  Laurens, 
facing  31;  Mrs.  James  Monroe,  facing 
258;  John  Page,  facing  in;  Lady  Stir 
ling,  facing  57;  Lord  Stirling,  facing 
57;  notes  on  his  portraits  of  John 
Adams,  426;  Benjamin  Franklin,  455, 
456;  Ralph  Izard,  476,  477;  John  Jay, 
481;  Henry  Laurens,  495;  Mrs.  Mon- 
roe, 513;  John  Page,  517;  bishop  Pro- 
voost,  519;  Lord  Stirling,  530;  Lady 
Stirling,  530;  U.  S.  commissioners  of 
1782,  482. 

West,  Benjamin,  elected  to  the  first  U.  S. 
congress,  from  N.  H.,  biographical 
sketch  of,  83;  portrait,  facing  105;  mem- 
ber of  federal  convention,  1787,  136; 
notes  on  the  portraits  of,  418,  419,  423, 
549- 


West,  Caleb  W.,  governor  of  Utah, 
233. 

West,  Mrs.  Charles  H.,  portrait  of  Benja- 
min West,  of  N.H.,  property  of,  facing 
105,  549- 

West,  George,  member  of  congress  from 

N.  Y.,  242. 
West,  George  N.,  member  of  assembly, 

N.  Y.,  242. 
West,  Lewis  I.,  Claflin  post,  G.  A.  R., 
escort  to  president  Harrison,  221;  at 
military  parade,  345. 

West  Point  Cadets,  number  at  military 
parade,  314,  320,  321;  views  of  the 
corps  of,  318,  319. 

West,  Rev.  Thomas,  mentioned,  83. 

West  Virginia,  governor  and  commis- 
sioner of,  215,  216,  233;  admitted  into 
the  union,  233;  troops  at  military  pa- 
rade, 344,  346. 

West,  William  L.,  seventeenth  Ohio  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  343. 

Westchester  County,  N.  Y.,  light  horse 
escort  John  Adams,  1789,  18,  army 
veterans,  at  military  parade,  1889,  346. 

Westcolt,  C.  S.,  at  banquet,  358. 

Westcott,  Pauline  M.,  delegate  from  nor- 
mal college,  reception  of  president  Har- 
rison, city  hall,  237. 

Westervelt,  John  C,  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  245. 

Westfall,  W.  C,  fifth  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  325. 

Westinghouse,  George,  at  centennial  ball, 
262. 

Weston,  Rev.  Daniel  C,  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  225;  invited  to  meet 
the  president,  244;  the  Copley  por- 
trait of  James  Duane,  443. 

Wetherbee  &  Fuller,  subscribers  to  cele- 
bration, 401. 

Wetmore,  Charles  W.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  267. 

Wetmore,  Mrs.  Samuel,  subscriber  to 
memorial  arch,  414. 

Wetzlar,  Gustave  J.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223;  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Whalen,  Michael  H.,  Cooper  post, G.  A.  R., 
escort  to  president  Harrison,  221;  at 
military  parade,  345. 

Wheaton,  Henry,  mentioned,  459. 

Wheeler,  Arthur  M.,  at  banquet,  360. 

Wheeler,  C.  B.,  U.  S.  army,  at  military 
parade,  320. 

Wheeler,  Jerome  B. ,  subscriber  to  memo- 
rial arch,  414. 

Wheeler,  Maria  B.,  subscriber  to  memo- 
rial arch,  414. 

Wheeler,  the  Misses,  subscribers  to  me- 
morial arch,  414. 

Wheeler,  Obed,  aide  to  grand  marshal, 
military  parade,  320. 

Wheeler,  Richard  A.,  mentioned,  94,  note. 

Wheeler,  T.  M„  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 223. 

Wheeler,  W.  B.,  Louisville  legion,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  341. 

Wheeler,  W.  B.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 


INDEX. 


669 


Wheeler,  W.  Griswold,  at  centennial  ball, 
262. 

Wheelright,    Samuel    A.,  commissioner 

from  Washington  Territory,  233. 
Wheelwright,  William  D. ,  subscribers  to 

the  Wall  street  arch,  253. 
Whelen,  Henry,  Jr.,  portrait  of  William 

L.  Smith,  property  of,  528. 
Whicher,  L.  E.,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  267. 

Whipple,  H.  S.,  U.S.  army,  aide  to  grand 

marshal,  military  parade,  319. 
Whipple,  James  S.,  member  of  assembly, 

N.  Y.,  242. 
Whipple,  William  D. ,  U.  S.  army,  248. 
Whistler,  Garland  N.,  U.  S.  army,  at 

military  parade,  320. 
Whitaker,  Rt.  Rev.  Ozi  W.,  bishop  of  Pa., 

273- 

Whitaker,  H.  P.,  second  N.  H.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  332. 

White,  Alexander,  member  of  congress 
from  Va.,  9,  136,  232;  letters  of,  April, 
1789,  mentioned,  17,  19;  biographical 
sketch  of,  8S;  his  portrait  destroyed  by 
fire,  549. 

White,  Alexander  M.,  portraits  of  John 
Adams,  and  George  Clinton,  property 
of,  facing  17,  34,  144,  425,  439- 

White,  Andrew  J.,  police  justice,  243. 

White,  Benjamin  F.,  governor  of  Mon- 
tana, 233. 

White,  D.  M.,  brigadier-general  first 
brigade,  N.  H.,  at  military  parade, 
332- 

White,  Fannie  M.,  the  Malbone  portrait 
of  William  Malcorn,  508. 

White,  Frederic  C,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  267. 

White,  Gaylord  B.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

White,  George  A.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

White,  H.  K.,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 223. 

White,  Horace,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  245. 

White,  Mrs.  J.  M.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

White,  James  M.,  fourteenth  N.  Y.  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  337. 

White,  Joseph  B.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

White,  Loomis  L. ,  &  Co.,  subscribers  to 
celebration,  401. 

White,  Margaret  E.,  the  Harding  portraits 
of  Madison,  Monroe,  and  John  Ran- 
dolph, 507,  512,  521. 

White,  Robert,  mentioned,  88. 

White,  Roger  S.,  portrait  of  Roger  Sher- 
man, property  of,  facing  80,  526. 

White,  Stanford,  acknowledgment  to,  in 
preface,  vi;  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  244  ;  at  banquet,  360;  archi- 
tect of  memorial  arch,  407,  415  ;  por- 
trait, 413. 

White  Star  Line,  of  steamships, subscribers 

to  memorial  arch,  414. 
White,  Stephen  V.,  member  of  citizens' 

committee,  104  ;  member  of  congress 


from  N.  Y.,  242  ;  subscriber  to  me- 
morial arch,  414. 
White,  Rt.  Rev.  William,  mentioned,  519. 
White,  William  E„  Meade  post,  G.  A.  R., 

escort  to  president  Harrison,  221  ;  at 

military  parade,  345. 
White,  William  J.,  colonel  thirteenth  Ohio 

regiment,  at  military  parade,  342. 
Whitefoord,  Caleb,  secretary  of  the  British 

peace  commissioners,  1782,  453,  481, 

482. 

Whitehall,  N.  Y.,  ninth  separate  company, 

at  military  parade,  337. 
Whitehead,  Rt.  Rev.  Cortlandt,  bishop  of 

Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  273. 
Whitehead,  Miss  L.,  at  centennial  ball, 

262. 

Whitehouse,  James  H.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  244;  committee  on 
states  tender  lhanks  to,  255;  at  banquet, 
358. 

Whitehouse,  Worthington,  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  267. 

Whitely,  Benjamin,  aide  to  grand  mar- 
shal, military  parade,  320. 

Whiteside,  Addie  J.,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  54,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

Whitestone  Engine  Company,  at  civic  pa- 
rade, 389. 

Whiting  Manufacturing  Company,  sub- 
scribers to  celebration,  401. 

Whiting,  Justin  R.,  at  banquet,  359. 

Whiting,  William  H.,  U.  S.  navy,  248. 

Whitlock,  B.  M.,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 223. 

Whitlock,  James  A.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Whitlock,  William,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246. 

Whitman,  Stephen,  member  of  marine  so- 
ciety, one  of  the  crew  of  the  president's 
barge,  202;  portrait,  203 ;  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  225. 

Whitmore,  F.  V. ,  commissioner  from  Iowa, 
215- 

Whitney,  Alfred  R.,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  104;  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246;  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  and  memorial  arch,  267, 
414. 

Whitney,  E.  M.,  fifth  Ohio  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  342. 

Whitney,  G.  H.,  thirteenth  Pa.  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  325. 

Whitney,  W.  K.,  fifth  Md.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  330. 

Whitney,  William  C,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  248;  subscriber  to 
memorial  arch,  416. 

Whitney,  William  E.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  246. 

Whittaker,  Carroll,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

Whittier,  John  G.,  his  poem  "The  Vow 
of  Washington,"  read  at  literary  exer- 
cises, 288,  292. 

Whittle,  Mary  C,  portrait  of  Mrs.  Isaac 
Coles,  property  of,  facing  59,  441. 

Whittlesey,  Elisha,  at  celebration  of  the 


semi-centennial  of  Washington's  inau- 
guration, 96. 

Wickersham,  I.  P.,  first  regiment,  Dela- 
ware, at  military  parade,  322. 

Wickham,  J.  A.,  adjutant-general  of  Mo., 
at  military  parade,  343. 

Wickham,  William  H.,  member  of  citi- 
zens' committee,  105;  of  general  com- 
mittee, 107,  115,  236  ;  of  committee  on 
general  government,  109,  113,  178,  236; 
at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Wiedener,  Baron  de,  at  centennial  ball, 
262. 

Wieland,  William  F.,  fourteenth  Ohio 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  342. 

Wilber,  David,  member  of  congress  from 
N.  Y.,  242. 

Wilcox,  James  J.,  engraver  of  portraits  of 
Franklin,  448,  note,  451. 

Wilcox,  P.  A.,  Marion  rifles,  S.  C,  at 
military  parade,  331. 

Wilcox,  Reynold  W.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  225. 

Wild  &  Co.,  Joseph,  subscribers  to  cele- 
bration ,  401. 

Wilde,  George  C,  portrait  of  David  Cobb, 
property  of,  144. 

Wilder,  Marshall  P.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

Wildrick,  Abram  C,  U.  S.  army,  at  mili- 
tary parade,  321. 

Wiley,  I.  D.,  fifth  U.  S.  artillery,  escort 
to  president  Harrison,  220. 

Wiley,  John  A.,  brigadier-general  second 
brigade,  Pa.  troops,  at  military  parade, 
325- 

Wiley,  John  M.,  member  of  congress 

from  N.  Y.,  242. 
Wiley,  William  H.,  escort  to  president 

Harrison,  221. 
Wilkesbarre,  Pa.,  ninth  regiment,  at  mili 

tary  parade,  324. 
Wilkie,  Edward,  one  of  the  crew  of  the 

president's    barge,    which  conveyed 

Washington  to  N.  Y.,  28,  note. 
Wilkins,  M.  G.,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  267. 

Wilkins,  Morris,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Wilkins,  Sophie  R.,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  48,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

Wilkinson,  John  B.,  portrait  of  Hamil- 
ton, property  of,  facing  25,  470. 

Wilks,  M.  A.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Will,  J.  M.,  engraver  of  portrait  of  Ben- 
jamin Franklin,  460. 

Willard,  Lieut. Jonathan,  his  services,  177. 

Willard,  Ensign  Reuben,  his  services,  177. 

Willcocks,  W.,  ninth  N.  Y.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  335. 

Willets,  J.  T.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Willets,  Maria,  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  416. 

Willett,  Capt.  Marinus,  mentioned,  42, 

note. 

William  E.  Chandler.  United  States  rev- 
enue cutter,  at  naval  parade,  202. 


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Williams,  A.,  first  N.  J.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  326. 

Williams,  A.  L.,  first  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  324. 

Williams,  Alexander,  at  banquet  of  so- 
ciety of  the  Cincinnati,  149. 

Williams,  Alexander  S.,  inspector  of 
police,  N.  Y.,  217,  235,  236,  241,  255; 
portrait,  220. 

Williams,  Hessie  H.,  delegate  from  pub- 
lic school  No.  56,  reception  of  presi- 
dent Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

Williams,  Mrs.  C.  R.,  at  centennial  ball, 
261. 

Williams,  Cecilia  C,  mentioned,  506,  note. 

Williams,  Charles,  commissioner  from 
N.  H.,  20S,  213. 

Williams,  Charles  F.,  U.  S.  marines,  at 
military  parade,  321. 

Williams,  Charles  P.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  267. 

Williams,  Mrs.  Coleman,  portraits  of 
Fielding  Lewis  and  wife,  property  of, 
497- 

Williams,  Edgar,  escort  to  president  Har- 
rison, 222. 

Williams,  Fannie,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Williams,  Frank  S.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

Williams,  G.  H.  C,  subscriber  to  centen- 
n;al  ball,  267. 

Williams,  George  F.,  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  247. 

Williams,  George  G.,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  104 ;  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison.  245  ;  at  banquet,  360. 

Williams,  George  H.,  address  at  Port- 
land, Oregon,  406. 

Williams,  Henry,  artist,  portrait  of  George 
Thacher,  facing  91;  notes  on  the  por- 
traits painted  by,  of  Nicholas  Gilman, 
418,  467;  Fielding  Lewis,  547,  note;  Mrs. 
Lewis,  547,  note;  James  Madison,  506; 
Theodore  Sedgwick,  524  ;  George 
Thacher,  423,  533;  Isaiah  Thomas,  533, 
note;  George  Washington,  542;  extract 
from  his  will,  506,  note. 

Williams,  Henry  J.,  the  Martin  portrait  of 
Franklin,  453. 

Williams,  J.  Francis,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  267. 

Williams,  J.  W.  F.,  sixth  battalion,  D.  C, 
at  military  parade,  345. 

Williams,  John  R.,  U.  S.  army,  at  military 
parade,  320. 

Williams,  Gen.  Jonathan,  portrait  of 
Franklin,  property  of,  453,  461,  note. 

Williams,  Gen.  Otho  H.,  note  on  the  por- 
traits of,  527. 

Williams,  Otho  H..  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  24S. 

Williams,  Ramon  V'.,  chancellor  of  Mex- 
ico, 248. 

Williams,  Roberts.,  portrait,  painted  by 
C.  W.  Peale,  facing  99;  note  on  the  por- 
trait of,  527. 

Williams,  Roger,  portrait  of,  represented 
as  a  portrait  of  Franklin,  456. 

Williams,  Rufus  K.,  address  at  Salt  Lake 
city,  406. 


Williams,  Samuel  W.,  fifth  Ohio  regiment, 
at  military  parade,  342. 

Williams,  Rev.  Theodore  C,  favors  hold- 
ing religious  services  April  30,  1889,  123. 

Williams,  W.  C,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Williams,  W.  P.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Williams,  William  C,  thirteenth  Ohio 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  342. 

Williams,  William  H.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  267:  at  banquet,  360. 

Williamson,  G.  N.,  escort  to  president 
I  larrison,  223. 

Williamson,  George,  lieutenant  continen- 
tal army,  283. 

Williamson,  George,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

Williamson,  Huyh,  member  of  congress 
from  N.  C,  93,  135;  biographical  sketch 
of,  93;  portraits,  painted  by  Trumbull, 
facing  125;  member  of  federal  conven- 
tion, 1787,  136;  portrait  at  loan  exhibi- 
tion, 145;  notes  on  the  portraits  of,  423, 
549- 

Williamson,  John,  mentioned,  93. 

Williamson,  John  C,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  267. 

Williamson,  Thomas  B.,  escort  to  presi- 
dent Harrison,  223. 

Williamson,  William  M.,  colonel  third 
Ohio  regiment,  at  military  parade,  342. 

Williamsport,  Pa.,  twelfth  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  325. 

Willing,  Charles,  mentioned,  66. 

Willing,  Elizabeth,  wife  of  William  Jack- 
son, 479. 

Willis,  Theodore  B.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

Willis,  Mrs.  Theodore  B. ,  at  centennial 
ball,  262. 

Willis,  William,  at  celebration  of  the  semi- 
centennial of  Washington's  inaugura- 
tion, 96,  98. 

Wilmer,  Charles,  portrait  of  James  Mon- 
roe, and  wife,  property  of,  facing  258, 
512. 

Wilmer,  D.  Edwin,  engraver  of  portrait 
of  James  Madison,  505. 

Wilmer,  W.  A.,  engraver  of  portrait  of 
James  Madison,  505. 

Wilmerding,  Mrs.  Ferdinand,  at  centen- 
nial ball,  259. 

Wilmerding,  John  C,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  267. 

Wilmington,  Del  ,  reception  of  George 
Washington  at,  22  ;  troop  B,  first 
cavalry,  at  military  parade,  322. 

Wilson,  B.  N.,  first  N.  II.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  333. 

Wilson,  Benjamin,  artist,  his  portrait  of 
Franklin,  456  ;  biographical  sketch  of, 
456,  note. 

Wilson,  Charles  G.,  member  of  citizens' 
committee,  103  ;  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Wilson,  David,  second  battery,  N.  Y.,  at 
military  parade,  336. 

Wilson,  Dee  Laroo,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  267. 


Wilson,  E.  Willis,  governor  of  W.  Va., 
215,  216,  233  ;  at  reception  to  president 
Harrison,  241  ;  at  centennial  ball,  257  ; 
at  military  parade,  344  ;  at  banquet, 

359- 

Wilson,  G.  L.,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 222. 

Wilson,  George,  member  of  entertain- 
ment committee,  109  ;  of  general  com- 
mittee, 115,  236;  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267;  at  literary  exercises,  290; 
at  banquet,  360. 

Wilson,  Grace,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 

Wilson,  Henry  A.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  225. 

Wilson,  James,  member  of  federal  con- 
vention, 1787.  136. 

Wilson,  James  Grant,  member  of  general 
committee,  115,  236;  engraved  portraits 
of  John  Jay,  Baron  Steuben  and  Charles 
Thomson,  property  of,  facing  172  ; 
subscriber  to  centennial  ball,  267  ;  at 
banquet,  360  ;  mentioned,  481  ;  the 
West  portrait  of  bishop  Provoost,  519, 
note. 

Wilson,  M.  Orme,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 
Wilson,    Mrs.   M.  Orme,  at  centennial 
ball,  261. 

Wilson.  Richard  T.,  member  of  committee 
on  finance,  112,  113,  236,  398  ;  of 
general  committee,  115,  236;  at  centen- 
nial ball,  261,  262  ;  subscriber  to  ball, 
267;  at  banquet,  356,  361;  subscriber  to 
celebration  and  memorial  arch,  400, 
416. 

Wilson,  Mrs.  Richard  T.,  at  centennial 
ball,  261. 

Wilson,  William,  thirty-fourth  separate 
company,  N.  Y.,  at  military  parade, 
339- 

Wilson,  William,  Jr.,  Farnsworth  post, 

G.  A.  R.,  escort  to  president  Harrison, 

222;  at  military  parade,  346. 
Wilson,  William  J.,  escort  to  president 

Harrison,  223. 
Wilson,  William  L. ,  at  banquet,  359. 
Wilure,   Miss,  subscriber  to  centennial 

ball,  267. 

Wiman,  Erastus,  member  of  committee 
of  chamber  of  commerce,  102,  106 ; 
of  general  committee,  107,  114,  236  ; 
of  committee  on  railroads  and  trans- 
portation, 109,  113,  236  ;  places  steam- 
boat at  disposal  of  committee  on  states, 
126,  127,  191,  192,  208,  217,  255:  at  cen- 
tennial ball,  262  ;  subscriber  to  ball, 
267  ;  at  literary  exercises,  290  ;  at  ban- 
quet. 361  ;  subscriber  to  celebration, 
401. 

Winchell,  M.  R.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Winchester,  Locke  W.,  member  of 
general  committee,  108,  114,  236  ;  of 
army  committee,  109,  113,  236,  310, 
316  ;  invited  to  meet  president  Harri- 
son, 246  ;  address  at  entertainment  of 
the  seventh  regiment  veterans,  253  ; 
at  centennial  ball,  262  ;  subscriber  to 
ball,  267  ;  at  literary  exercises,  290  ;  at 
banquet,  361. 


INDEX. 


671 


Winchester,  Va.,  second  Va.  regiment,  at 

military  parade,  333. 
Winder,   Nathaniel  J.,   mentioned,  441, 

note. 

Winder,  Levin  Y.,  mentioned,  441,  note. 

Winder,  R.  B.,  portrait  of  Mrs.  Lawrence- 
Lewis,  property  of,  145,  facing  256  ; 
owner  of  the  Sharpless  crayons,  441, 
note. 

Windmiiller,  Louis,  his  report  on  the 
Madison  square  concert,  350  ;  descrip- 
tion of  floats,  civic  parade,  393;  mem- 
ber of  German-American  citizens'  com- 
mittee, 393,  note. 

Windom,  William,  secretary  of  U.  S. 
treasury,  at  naval  parade,  200,  219; 
commissioner  of  Minn.,  216;  at  recep- 
tion to  president  Harrison,  225,  227, 
229;  at  banquet  to  the  president,  234; 
portrait,  facing  234  ;  at  literary  exer- 
cises, 2S5;  at  military  parade,  316;  at 
civic  parade,  385. 

Wing,  A.  J.,  tenth  battalion,  N.  Y.,  at 
military  parade,  337. 

Wingatc,  Paine,  U.  S.  senator  from  X.  H., 

5.  135,  232;  last  survivpr  of  the  first 
U.  S.  senate,  6  ;  dines  with  Washington, 

6,  note ;  his  wife,  6,  note  ;  biographical 
sketch  of,  83  ;  no  portrait  of,  550;  pen- 
portrait  of,  551 . 

Wingate,  J.  C.  A.,  mentioned,  550. 

Wingate,  Joshua,  mentioned,  550. 

Winnie,  Allen  G.,  sixteenth  Ohio  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  342. 

Winslow,  Edward  F. ,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  245;  at  centennial 
ball,  262  ;  subscriber  to  memorial  arch, 
416. 

Winslow,  Rev.  W.  C,  officiates  at  cen- 
tennial celebration  services,  Boston, 
403. 

Winslow,  Lanier  &  Co.,  subscribers  to 
memorial  arch,  413. 

Winsor,  Justin,  acknowledgment  to,  in 
preface,  vi;  delivers  address  at  Harvard 
university,  403;  the  Baricolo  portrait  of 
Franklin,  453. 

Winstanley,  William,  artist,  portrait  of 
John  Adams,  facing  18;  notes  on  his 
portraits  of,  John  Adams,  420,  423,  425. 

Winter,  William,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  244. 

Winthrop,  Buchanan,  member  of  com- 
mittee on  navy,  112,  113,  189,  190,  191, 
236;  of  general  committee,  115,  236; 
portrait,  facing  190;  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  199,  200;  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  267;  at  banquet,  360;  sub- 
scriber to  celebration,  401. 

Winthrop,  Mrs.  Buchanan,  at  centennial 
ball,  261. 

Winthrop,  Egerton  L.,  member  of  general 
committee,  108,  114,  236;  of  committee 
on  entertainment,  109,  113,  236,  256:  at 
centennial  ball,  261;  subscriber  to  ball, 
267;  at  banquet,  356. 

Winthrop,  Egerton  L.,  Jr.,  at  banquet, 
359- 

Winthrop,  Grenville,  member  of  reception 
committee,  ancestry  of,  230. 


Winthrop,  Harriet  R.,  fan,  with  portrait 
of  Washington,  property  of,  256. 

Winthrop,  Miss,  at  centennial  ball,  261. 

Winthrop,  Robert,  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Winthrop,  Mrs.  Robert,  at  centennial 
ball,  2C1. 

Winthrop,  Robert  C,  acknowledgment  to, 
in  preface,  vi;  his  visit  to  Paine  Win- 
gate, 6,  note ;  ancestry  of,  31,  note; 
portrait  of  Sir  John  Temple,  property 
of,  facing  46  ;  at  centennial  ball,  261; 
at  banquet,  356,  360;  extract  from  ad- 
dress of,  362,  371;  his  poem,  to  George 
Washington,  404 ;  notes  on  the  portraits 
of  Franklin,  448,  449,  453,  455,  457; 
notes  on  the  portraits  of  Hamilton, 
Jefferson,  Lafayette,  Sir  John  Temple, 
and  Lady  Temple,  property  of,  469, 
487,  note.  494,  532,  533. 

Winthrop.  Robert  C,  Jr.,  notes  on  the 
portraits  of  Sir  John  and  Lady  Temple, 
532. 

Winthrop,  Thomas  L.,  governor  of  Mass., 
31,  note. 

Winthrop,  Thomas  L.,  portraits  of  Frank- 
lin, facing  444  ;  Sir  John  Temple,  and 
Lady  Temple,  property  of,  452,  532, 
533- 

Wirt,  William,  mentioned,  520. 

Wisconsin,  governor  and  commissioners 
of,  215,  216,  233  ;  admitted  into  the 
union,  233. 

Wisconsin  Historical  Society,  portrait  of 
James  Madison,  property  of,  503. 

Wise,  Washington  entertained  at  the  tav- 
ern of,  Alexandria,  Va.,  21. 

Wise,  John  S.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Wisner,  Rev.  Benjamin  B.,  portrait  of, 
mentioned,  506,  note. 

Wissman,  Charles  A.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  267. 

Wistar,  Caspar,  portrait  of  George  Cly- 
mer,  property  of,  440. 

Wistar,  Sarah  B..  portraits  of  Pierce  But- 
ler, properly  of,  facing  100,  432. 

Wiswell,  E.  C,  first  regiment,  Delaware, 
at  military  parade,  322. 

Witherbee,  Frank  S.,  aide  to  chairman  of 
committee  on  entertainment,  120,  181, 
182;  at  centennial  ball,  262;  subscriber 
to  ball,  267  ;  at  literary  exercises,  290  ; 
secretary  of  platform  committee,  308, 
309;  at  banquet,  35S  ;  portrait,  413; 
subscriber  to  memorial  arch,  414. 

Witherbee,  Mrs.  Frank  S.,  portrait,  413  ; 
subscriber  to  memorial  arch,  414. 

Witherell,  John  W.,  Newport  artillery, 
at  military  parade,  340. 

Witherspoon,  Rev.  John,  Washington 
the  guest  of,  27. 

Witherup,  William  A.,  Pa.  state  fencibles, 
at  military  parade,  324. 

Woerishoffer,  Mrs.  C.  F.,  subscriber  to 
memorial  arch,  416. 

Wolcott,  Abigail,  wife  of  Oliver  Ellsworth, 
444- 

Wolcott,  E.  C,  commissioner  from  Colo- 
rado, 215,  233 


Wolcott,  William,  gov.  of  Conn.,  at  cele- 
bration of  the  semi-centennial  of  Wash- 
ington's inauguration,  96. 

Wolfe,  Christopher,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  223. 

Wolfe,  J.  S.,  subscriber  to  centennial  ball. 
267. 

Wolfe,  John,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  and  memorial  arch,  267,  416. 

VVolfley,  Lewis,  governor  of  Arizona,  233. 

Wood,  Benjamin,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

Wood,  Mrs.  Benjamin,  at  centennial  ball, 
262. 

Wood,  C.  B..  twenty-fourth  separate  com- 
pany, N.  Y.,  at  military  parade,  338. 

Wood,  E.  L.,  adjutant-general  of  West 
Va. ,  at  military  parade,  344. 

Wood.  E.  S.,  at  banquet,  358. 

Wood,  Edward,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  245. 

Wood,  Emma,  at  centennial  ball,  262. 

Wood,  Joseph,  artist,  notes  on  his  por- 
traits of,  Peter  A.  Jay,  144 ;  Rufus 
King,  490,  491  ;  Mrs.  James  Madison, 
508  :  John  Randolph,  522. 

Wood,  O.  E.,  lieut.  fifth  U.  S.  artillery, 
escort  to  president  Harrison.  220. 

Wood,  S.  W.,  at  banquet,  359. 

Wood,  Samuel  S.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  225. 

Wood,  Thomas  C,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

Wood,  Thomas  J.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  221. 

Wood,  Thomas  W.,  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  244. 

Wood, William  T., Hamilton  post.G.A.R., 
escort  to  president  Harrison,  221  ;  at 
military  parade,  346. 

Woodbridge,  X.  J..  Washington  at,  27. 

Woodbury,  Theodore  C,  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  267. 

Woodbury, Urban  A.,  lieutenant-governor 
and  commissioner  of  Vt.,  216. 

Woodford,  Stewart  L  ,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  267  ;  at  banquet,  360. 

Woodhouse,  Lorenzo  G.,  subscriber  to 
memorial  arch,  416. 

Woodhull,  Mrs.  J.  C,  at  centennial  ball, 
262. 

Woodhull,  Maxwell  V.  Z.,  portrait  of  Mrs. 
James  H.  Maxwell,  property  of,  facing 
51,  508  ;  subscriber  to  centennial  ball, 
267. 

Woodman,  Charles  H.,  excise  commis- 
sioner, 243. 

Woodruff,  Franklin,  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  245. 

Woodruff,  Morris,  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  245. 

Woods,  J.  J-,  commissioner  of  West  Va., 
216. 

Woodside,  John  W.,  commissioner  of  Pa., 
212,  216,  233  ;  at  banquet,  359. 

Woodward,  Prof.,  the  Catlin  portraits  of 
James  Madison,  504. 

Woodward,  Francis  M.,  mentioned,  489. 

Woodward,  J.  O.,  aide  to  grand  marshal, 
military  parade,  320. 


672        THE  CENTENNIAL  OE  WASHINGTON'S  INAUGURATION. 


Woodward,  James  F.,  subscriber  to  me- 
morial arch,  416. 

Woodward,  John  B. ,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  245. 

Woodward,  William,  Jr.,  member  of  cit- 
izens' committee,  104. 

Woodworth,  James  P.,  fifth  Ohio  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  342. 

Woodworth,  N.  B.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

Woohfarth.  Julia,  delegate  from  public 
school  No.  64,  reception  of  president 
Harrison,  city  hall,  238. 

Wool,  Jeremiah,  alderman,  N.  Y.  city, 
1789,  136,  229. 

Woolaston,  John,  artist,  illustrations  of 
the  portraits  painted  by,  of  Martha 
Custis,  facing  262  ;  Fielding  Lewis, 
facing  256  ;  Mrs.  Fielding  Lewis,  256, 
262  ;  notes  on  his  portraits  of  Daniel 
P.  Custis,  548,  note;  Martha  Custis, 
423,  546,  note;  Fielding  Lewis,  145, 
497;  Mrs.  Fielding  Lewis,  145,  498, 
note. 

Woolley,  W.,  artist,  engraver  of  portrait 
of  Washington,  145;  notes  on  his  por- 
trait of  Martha  Washington,  549. 

Woolsey,  Captain,  mariner,  30. 

Woolsey,  Charles  W.,  deputy  grand  mar- 
shal of  merchant-marine  parade,  190, 
202;  his  general  order  of  formation  and 
route,  195. 

Woolsey,  Mrs.  Edward  J.,  Jr.,  at  centen- 
nial ball,  261. 

Woolsey,  Theodorus  B.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  245  ;  subscriber  to 
centennial  ball,  267. 

Woonsocket,  R.  I.,  company  D,  second 
regiment,  at  military  parade,  340. 

Worcester,  Edwin  D.,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  245. 

Worcester,  Mass.,  reception  of  John 
Adams,  17;  the  celebration  at,  403. 

Worden,  Daniel  T.,  member  of  floor 
committee,  centennial  ball,  259  ;  at 
banquet,  361. 

Work,  J.  Henry,  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  416. 

Work,  Mrs.  John  C,  subscriber  to  me- 
morial arch,  414. 

Worman,  C.  H.,  second  Pa.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  323. 

Wormley,  Mr.,  portrait  in  the  painting 
of  Ralph  Izard,  and  fellow  students, 
facing  180;  mentioned,  476,  477. 

Wormser,  Isidor,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Worth,  Jacob,  state  senator,  N.  Y., 
242. 

Worthen,  William  E.,  invited  to  meet 

president  Harrison,  244. 
Worthington,   Henry   R.,  subscriber  to 

memorial  arch,  41O. 
Woxsen,  Charles,  minister  from  Norway 

and  Sweden,  invited  to  centennial  ball, 

257- 

Wragg,  Miss,  miniature  of  John  Rut- 
ledge,  property  of,  145. 

Wright,  C.  W.,  fourth  Va.  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  333. 


Wright,  Charles  N.,  engraver  of  portrait 
of  Franklin,  459,  note. 

Wright,  Daniel  I).,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  247. 

Wright,  Eben  K.,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  245. 

Wright,  George  F.,  artist,  his  portrait  of 
Jonathan  Trumbull,  535. 

Wright,  Mrs.  Herbert  A.,  at  centennial 
ball,  262. 

Wright,  J.  Hood,  at  centennial  ball,  262; 
subscriber  to  ball,  267. 

Wright,  J.  R.,  ninth  Pa.  regiment,  at  mil- 
itary parade,  324. 

Wright,  Joseph,  artist,  illustrations  of 
portraits  painted  by,  of  George  Clinton, 
facing  34;  Benjamin  Goodhue,  facing 
91;  John  Jay,  facing  31;  F.  A.  Muhlen- 
berg, facing  71;  George  Washington, 
facing  10,  14  ;  Martha  Washington, 
facing  14  ;  notes  on  his  portraits  of 
George  Clinton,  144,  439;  Benjamin 
Goodhue,  467  ;  John  Jay,  480  ;  James 
Madison,  507;  F.  A.  Muhlenberg,  467, 
516;  George  Washington,  144,  145,  541, 
542,  543,  545  ;  Martha  Washington, 
144.  547- 

Wright,  Luke  E.,  commissioner  from 
Tenn.,  216. 

Wright,  Stephen  M.,  member  of  general 
committee,  115,  236  ;  at  banquet,  360. 

Wright,  William  F.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

Wright,  William  R.,  notes  on  the  portrait 
of  Henry  Wynkoop,  551. 

Wrightsville,  Pa.,  eighth  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  324. 

Wrought-iron  Work,  represented,  civic 
parade,  397. 

Wunderlich,  Herman,  invited  to  meet 
president  Harrison,  247. 

Wyall,  James  E.,  Jefferson  guards,  West 
Va.,  at  military  parade,  344. 

Wyandotte  Hook  and  Ladder  Company, 
at  civic  parade,  389. 

Wyandotte  Hose  Company,  at  civic  pa- 
rade, 389. 

Wyckhoff,  W.  O.,  subscriber  to  centen- 
nial ball,  267. 

Wyckoff,  Seamans  &  Benedict,  sub- 
scribers to  memorial  arch,  416. 

Wyley,  John,  alderman,  N.  Y.  city,  1789, 
136,  229. 

Wylie,  Daniel  D.,  aide  to  grand  marshal, 

military  parade,  320. 
Wylie,  Edmund  W.,  escort  to  president 

Harrison,  225. 
Wylie,  George  S.,   escort  to  president 

Harrison,  225. 
Wylie,  W.  Gill,  M.  D.,  invited  to  meet 

president  Harrison,  244. 
Wyman,  John  H.,  subscriber  to  memorial 

arch,  414. 

Wynkoop,  Gerardus  H.,  M.  D.,  invited  to 
meet  president  Harrison,  244. 

Wynkoop,  Henry,  member  of  congress 
from  Pa.,  n,  136,  232;  biographical 
sketch  of,  68;  portrait,  painted  by  R. 
Peale,  facing  69;  notes  on  the  portrait 
of,  422,  551. 


Wynkoop,  Nicholas,  mentioned,  68. 
Wynkoop,   Richard,  mentioned,  68,  70, 

note;    portrait   of   James  Schureman, 

property  of,  facing  72,  523. 
Wyoming,  governor  and  commissioner, 

216,  233. 

Wysong,  John  J.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Wythe,  George,  member  of  federal  con- 
vention, 1787,  136. 

Yalden,  Louis,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Yale  University,  faculty  escort  to  John 
Adams,  18;  request  Franklin  to  sit  for 
his  portrait,  459;  portraits  in  possession 
of — John  Adams,  facing  17,  425;  Fisher 
Ames,  facing  89,  427;  Egbert  Benson, 
facing  123,  429;  John  Brown,  facing 
119;  Charles  Carroll,  facing  97;  Harriet 
Chew,  facing  264,  437;  Sophia  Chew, 
facing  264,  437;  George  Clymer,  facing 
71;  Eleanor  Parke  Custis,  facing  264, 
441;  Tristram  Dalton,  facing  89,  442; 
Philemon  Dickinson,  facing  72;  Oliver 
Ellsworth,  facing  78,  445;  Nicholas 
Fish,  facing  41;  William  Floyd,  facing 
123;  Abiel  Foster,  facing  105;  Ben- 
jamin Franklin,  facing  424;  Elbridge 
Gerry,  facing 92;  Alexander  Hamilton, 
facing  26;  Benjamin  Hawkins,  facing 
125;  David  Humphreys,  facing  33, 
158,  475;  Ralph  Izard,  facing  100,  478; 
John  Jay,  facing  31,  480;  Thomas 
Jefferson,  facing  23;  Rufus  King, 
facing  121,  490;  Henry  Knox,  facing 
28,  156;  John  Langdon,  facing  105, 
495;  Henry  Laurens,  496;  Arthur  Lee, 
facing  156,  496;  Richard  Henry  Lee, 
facing  in;  Samuel  Livermore,  facing 
65,  499;  chancellor  Livingston,  facing 
45;  Thomas  Mifflin,  facing  33,  508; 
James  Monroe,  facing  108;  Robert 
Morris,  facing  69;  J.  P.  G.  Muhlen- 
berg, facing  71;  Josiah  Parker,  facing 
112;  George  Partridge,  facing  91; 
George  Read,  facing  67;  Cornelia 
Schuyler,  facing  264,  523;  Philip 
Schuyler,  facing  121,  523,  524;  Theo- 
dore Sedgwick,  facing  92,  525;  Mary  J. 
Seymour,  facing  266,  526;  Roger  Sher- 
man, facing  80;  William  Loughton 
Smith,  facing  102,  528;  William 
Stephens  Smith,  facing  41;  Baron 
Steuben,  facing  166;  Charles  Thom- 
son, facing  33;  Faith  Trumbull,  facing 
266,  534;  Jonathan  Trumbull,  facing 
82,  535;  Mrs.  Jonathan  Trumbull, 
facing  266,  536;  Catharine  Wadsworth, 
facing  266,  538;  Harriet  Wadsworth, 
facing  266,  539;  George  Washing- 
ton, facing  10,  542;  Martha  Wash- 
ington, facing  264,  546;  Otho  H.  Will- 
iams, 527;  Hugh  Williamson,  facing 
125;  Trumbull's  paintings,  capture  of 
the  Hessians,  declaration  of  independ- 
ence, surrender  of  Burgoyne,  and 
Cornwallis,  and  Washington  resigning 
his  commission,  property  of,  425,  434, 


INDEX. 


673 


438,  440,  442,  446.  447,  455-  4°4.  474- 

486.  492,  493,  497,  5°o.  512-  ;M.  517. 

518,  522,  528,  52q.  549. 
Yantic,  United  States  vessel,  at  naval 

parade,  193,  199.  201. 
Vardly.    Sir    George,    mentioned,  442, 

nolt. 

Yates,  A.  A.,  thirty-sixth  separate  com- 
pany. N'.  Y.,  at  military  parade,  33S. 

Yates,  Austin  A.,  member  of  assembly, 
N".  Y..  242. 

Yates,  Joseph  W..  consul  of  Liberia, 
248. 

Yates,  Robert,  candidate  for  U.  S.  senator, 
12;  chief  justice,  X.  Y.,  attends  assem- 
bly ball,  J7S9,  58;  member  of  federal 
convention,  17S7,  136. 

Yeamans,  Charles  >>'.,  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  267. 

Yeaton,  Albert  S.,  escort  to  president 
Harrison,  225. 

Yee  Shau  How,  consul  of  China,  248. 

Yereance,  James,  invited  to  meet  presi- 
dent Harrison,  246;  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  267. 

Yetman,  Hubbard  R.,  member  of  assem- 
bly, X.  Y.,  243. 

Yonge,  Elbert  J.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Yonkers.  X.  Y..  fourth  separate  company. 


at  military  parade,  337  ;  continental 
guards,  at  civic  parade,  386. 

York,  Pa.,  dinner  to  Thomas  Hartley, 
l7Sg,  list  of  toasts,  9,  note. 

Yorktoum,  United  States  vessel,  at  naval 
parade,  193,  196,  201. 

Yorkville  Maennerchor.  at  Madison  square 
concert,  350. 

Yost,  \Y.  H.,  commissioner  from  Ky.,  216. 

Youmans,  Daniel  D.,  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  247 ;  subscriber  to  cen- 
tennial ball,  267. 

Youmans,  E.  B.,  invited  to  meet  president 
Harrison,  248. 

Young,  Daniel  \\\,  thirteenth  Ohio  regi- 
ment, at  military  parade,  342. 

Young,  E.  L.,  escort  to  president  Harri- 
son, 222. 

Young,  I.  Edward,  member  of  assembly, 
X.  Y.,  242. 

Young,  Thomas  M.,  eighth  X.  Y.  reg- 
iment, at  military  parade,  335. 

Youngman,  Yreeland  H.,  member  of  as- 
sembly, X.  Y.,  242. 

Zabriskie,  Guilliam  A.,  M.  D..  invited  to 
meet  president  Harrison,  244. 

Zalinski,  Edmund  L.,  U.  S.  army,  aide  to 
grand  marshal,  military  parade,  319. 


Zebley,  John  F.,  subscriber  to  centennial 
ball,  267. 

Zegarra,  Felix  C.  C,  minister  from  Peru, 
invited  to  centennial  ball,  257. 

Zeisberger,  David,  represented  in  tableau, 
civic  parade,  393. 

Zeledon,  Pedro  P.,  minister  from  Costa 
Rica,  invited  to  centennial  ball,  257. 

Ziegenfuss,  Rev.  Henry  L.,  officiates  at 
St.  Paul's  chapel,  273. 

Ziegler,  Capt.  David,  represented  in  tab- 
leau, civic  parade,  393. 

Ziegler,  William,  subscriber  to  memorial 
arch,  414. 

Zimmerman,  C.  eighth  Ohio  regiment,  at 
military  parade,  342. 

Zimmermann,  \Y.  R.,  thirty-ninth  separate 
company,  N.  Y.,  at  military  parade,  338. 

Zinzendorf,  Count,  represented  in  tab- 
leau, civic  parade,  393. 

Zittel,  Frederick  B  ,  invited  to  meet  pres- 
ident Harrison,  245. 

Zoellner  Maennerchor,  at  Madison  square 
concert,  350. 

Zoffany,  John,  artist,  his  portrait  of  Ralph 
Izard,  facing  100;  notes  on  the  portrait, 
418,  419,  423,  476  :  biographical  sketch 
of,  476,  note. 

Zouaves,  at  military  parade,  327,  343, 
346. 


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